【正文】 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 maintenance of venues, the supervision _______(10) events, hospitality and orientation of visitors _______(11) athletes, transport, logistics, etc. From wele _______(12) the airports and train stations, ________(13) security at venues, catering, administration, ticketing and transport for athletes and officials, _______(14) one of their many talents is invaluable.Applications ________(15) are available to any individual, of _______(16) nationality, who wishes to participate. The only _______(17) is being at least 18 years old _______(18) the time of the Games. The candidates _______(19) profiles best fit the required posts will be ________(20) a place in the Organising Committee. They must then follow a training course. Finally, the volunteers will receive their accreditation, uniform and any necessary equipment.【7】Video games have taken a lot of _______(1) lately, blamed by some for _______(2) violence and fostering sedentariness (sitting for a long time). Now the results of a new study suggest that all those hours _______(3) playing actionpacked games might have some _______(4) effects. Researchers writing today in the journal Nature report that the activity _______(5) attentionrelated visual skills.Through a series of experiments, C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester determined that habitual videogame players were ______(6) able than nonplayers to focus on visually plex situations, to keep _______(7) of multiple items at once and to process fastchanging information. To rule _______(8) the possibility that their results _______(9) reflected a tendency for gamers to be people _______(10) inherently superior visual skills, the team subjected nongamers to actionvideogame training, _______(11) which they played Medal of Honor for an hour _______(12) day, 10 days in a _______(13). Meanwhile a control group was trained on Tetris, which, ________(14) Medal of Honor, requires focusing on only a single object at a ________(15). After that short training period, the Medal of Honor group exhibited _______(16) visual skills. ?_______(17) forcing players to simultaneously juggle a number of _______(18) tasks (detect new enemies, track existing enemies and avoid getting hurt, among others), actionvideogame playing pushes the limits of three _______(19) different aspects of visual attention,? the authors conclude. ?Although videogame playing may seem rather mindless,? they add, ? it is _______(20) of radically altering visual attention processing.?【8】People who learn to play an instrument may reap benefits that aren?t musical in ________(1), according to a new study. Findings _______(2) this month in the journal Neuropsychology indicate that children with training _______(3) music have better verbal memory skills than _______(4) their peers who haven?t received musical instruction.Agnes S. Chan of Chinese University in HK and her colleagues tested 90 boys ________(5) the ages of six and 15. Half of the students ________(6) to a school orchestra and had received additional musical training, ________(7) the other half and not been taught how to play _______(8) instrument. The researchers pared the students? verba