【正文】 and Austria, were mildly unhappy. But the toughest criticism _______(17) from Poland, not even a member yet, with the other central Europeans _______(18) behind. “Nobody can limit our right to defend our position,” said Poland’s foreign minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. The new members, and some smaller countries already ________(19) the EU, think that the draft constitution favours the Union’s biggest countries, mainly France and Germany. To correct that, they want every country, ________(20) small, to go on nominationg a full voting member to the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, even when the EU has 25 members and more.【15】Some men teach because they feel they make a contribution to society that way. Other love a certain ______(1). A third group finds _______(2) rewarding to be around children.Judging from how few men pick teaching _______(3) their profession, however, many men can’t find a good reason to teach.If school systems are going to be successful in attracting male teachers, they _______(4) to give men more and better reasons to pick the profession, local male teachers say.“Higher salaries would definitely make a _______(5),” says Michael Calderon, 40, a social studies teacher at Rockville High School. “Men want to be able to provide _______(6) their families.”Locally, salaries range from about 35,000dollar in entry salary _______(7) about 80,000dollar for teachers with a lot of experience, education and years in the job.So, while not in the doctor or lawyer range, ______(8) money might not be as bad as some think,says Randy McGinnis, who has a doctorate in science education and is a professor of education at the University of Maryland’s College of Education in College Park.When Mr. McGinnis taught high school in the Bronx in the late 1980s, his students, for _______(9), had a biased perception of what teachers make, he says.“They said they would never go into _______(10) because basically they could make more recycling bottles than _______(11) a teacher,” he says. “It’s not quite that bad.”His current college students acknowledge that the starting salary is pretty good but ________(12) know that salary increases are fairly flat, Mr. McGinnis says.“When they see senior teachers who are having a _______(13) time paying for college for their own kids, it’s discouraging for them,” he says.Yet being fulfilled in one’s profession is not _______(14)about money. It’s also a matter of having status and receiving respect.Mr. Calderon says, “The school system _______(15) perpetuates the notion that the classroom is a dumping ground. That works against attracting males.”Its often assumed that men will want to _______(16) administrative positions after just a few years of classroom teaching, he says.Mr. Calderon suggests that ________(17) a certain number of years in the profession, a teacher should receive an elevated rank, title and ine level.“Maybe after 20 years you?d bee a ?master teacher,’ “he says.Providing a good and friendly environment might help _______(18) new teachers from leaving the profession prematurely, says Anthony R. Stanley, a fourthgrade teacher at Patterson Elementary School in Southeast.“I think it’s important that we embrace new teachers,” Mr. Stanley says, “It’s overwhelming in the beginning, and you don?t bee a good teacher ________(19). It took me 10 years to figure certain things _________(20).【16】The gendered nature of elder abuse is still a contested topic. ______(1) it is usually reported that women are more likely to be abused than men, some of the date ______(2) which such pronouncements are based – including, most notably, the 2001 Ntional Elder Abuse Incidence Study – do not weight the data to account ______(3) the higher rate of abuse among the oldest cohorts, _______(4) are overwhelmingly female.Be that as it _______(5), it is clear that there are male victims of elder abuse, although some may argue they are given _______(6) attention than are female victims. That’s one of the _______(7) why Jacki Pritchard, a United Kingdom researcher, chose to follow _______(8) a study she did of female elder abuse victims with one devoted solely _______(9) male victims. The slim volume Male Victims of Elder Abuse reports ________(10) her findings._______(11) with many elder abuse research projects, Pritchard’s sample is appallingly small. She analyzes the reports of 39 males elder abuse victims _______(12) three UK jurisdictions, and interviews _______(13) length 12male victims, aged 6080. Despite this limited sample, the depth of Pritchard’s interviews and her analyses _______(14) to some very interesting observations.To ________(15) with, Pritchard was startled by the men’s eagerness to talk about the abuse that had happened to them: ? It is generally thought that men ________(16) it difficult to admit that they have been abused. I was particularly struck by the _______(17) in which all the men talked openly about their lives and the abuse they had experienced”. Indeed, the study _______(18) grew out of men’s requests to be included in _______(19) was originally designed as womenonly focus groups on adult abuse that _________(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