【正文】 ______(20) held at senior day care centers.【17】Meg Haufe studied business at a munity college and worked as a dataentry clerk _______(1) deciding to try to turn an obsession of her youth _______(2) a career.The 30yearold is working toward a bachelor’s degree _______(3) videogame design at the Art Institute of California.“I’ve always wanted to get into the videogame industry. I _______(4) up with them. I play them constantly.” Said Miss Haufe, who specializes in developing characters.Colleges and universities across the nation have developed specialized degree programs to ______(5) new students and exploit changes in the job market. Sinclair Community College this fall began offering a twoyear program in aircraft maintenance to go _______(6) with an existing fli。 second, knowledge of the field in which he or she will ________(4). The skills and experience for translation include the ability to write _______(5) in the target language, the ability to read and understand the ________(6) language material thoroughly, and the ability to work with the latest ________(7) and munication hardware and software.Dose a born and bred bilingual ________(8) a better translator than someone who learned language B later in ______(9)? There is no definite answer, but the following issues are important. ________(10), a born and bred bilingual often suffers from not truly knowing ________(11) language well enough to translate, with some even suffering from what ________(12) known as a lingualism, a state in which a person lacks ________(13) full, fluent mand of any language. Second, born and bred bilinguals _______(14) don?t know the culture of the target language well enough to ________(15) topquality translations, or cannot recognize what aspects of the source language _________(16) its culture need to be treated with particular care, as they _________(17) in a sense too close to the language. And last, they often _________(18) the analytical linguistic skills to work through a sticky text.On ________(19) other hand, the acquired bilingual may not have the same indepth _________(20) of colloquialisms, slang, and dialect that the born bilingual has. Also, the acquired bilingual will not be able to translate as readily in both directions (from B to language A and A to language B). Finally, born bilinguals often have a greater appreciation of the subtleties and nuances of both their languages than someone who learns their B language later in life can ever hope to have.【4】Statistics from China ________(1) be mind boggling: billion _________(2), trillion cigarettes smoked in a year, 7,000 different ________(3) of woody plants. But amid all of these staggering sums, one factoid stands ________(4) for both its audacious size and for what it says about China?s future: there are 630 million Chinese under the age of 24. That?s a lot of ________(5) energy to burn. Materialism may be the ________(6) preoccupation among China?s young people these days, but just beneath the surface lies a feeling ________(7) wounded nationalist pride and an everdeepening spiritual hunger. It isn?t clear where China?s young people are headed. But this is a generation that, by its ________(8) size and certain talents, will ________(9) the world?s destiny.Here?s another sobering statistic: this is Terry McCarthy?s 22nd, and fina, cover _________(10) for TIME Asiahe?s leaving the region _________(11) three years to bee TIME?s Los Angeles _________(12) chief. McCarthy, who has indefatigably crisscrossed Asia out of his twin bases of Hong Kong and Shanghai, was the main driver _______(13) this week?s superb special report on young China. He developed the story list, guided much ________(14) the reporting and wrote some of the articles. All __________(15) planning a swank blacktie masked ball last weekend in Shanghai. ? I was _________(16) by the willingness of individual Chinese to write for us or talk about their ________(17),? McCarthy says about the special ________(18). ? These are the guys ________(19) are going to be running the country in 20 ________(20).? If we?re lucky, McCarthy will be back in the region long before then.【5】Ageing is a demned nuisance. Just _______(1) you think you have the experience, ________(2) style, the wisdom, the confidence to _______(3) gorgeous, it turns out your body _______(4) are descending without the aid of ________(5) parachute and going up a ________(6) of stairs without gasping is a major ________(7) challenge. Where is the justice in ________(8)?Red wine was invented as the consolation ________(9) now one man wants to take the ________(10) to nature. If the radical dream of Ed Moses _______(11) true, we will no longer think ________(12) 48 as middle age. It will be the beginning of life, bounding and brimming with youthful ________(13) and potential. One of the greatest track athletes of ________(14) time, the 1976 and 1984 Olympic champion ________(15) the 400 metres hurdles, is back in ________(16).Oh, don?t be daft, Edwin, all his friends and colleagues have been _______(17). Michael Johnson, SebCoe, Daley Thompson have all looked him _________(18) the earnest eye and forewarned _________(19) of terrible injuries and humiliation. __________(20) is a tide that no man may turn back, not even one who went unbeaten in his event for nine years, nine months and nine days, winning 122 consecutive races and driving despair into the hearts of his miserably training rivals.【6】60,000 volunteers from around the world will be trained _______(1) the Olympic and Paralympic _______(2) in Athens in 2004. Without the volunteers, ________(3) Olympic Games as we know them _______(4) would not exits. The volunteers, who are_______(5) all ages, cultures and backgrounds, all ________(6) the same passion for sport and the Olympic Ideal, _______(7) the athletes, these are the people who _______(8) personify Olympism.In Athens, the volunteers will work _______(9) the m