When I was young, my parents ran a snack bar in our small town.One evening in early April, my mother told me to fill in at the snack bar (1) a worker who had the flu. I told her I would mess it up, (2) I had never worked at the bar before. I (3) that instead of making money, I would end up owing it."You can do it," said my mother," (4) , you won’t get much business until lunch. ""But I’ll never remember the orders, and I’m no good (5) money. Please, Mom, don’t (6) me."Then I’ll help you", she said.I shrugged my shoulders. I thought my mother’s (7) was a bad one, but I (8) .When I got to the bar the next day, I found my mother was (9) . Because the weather that day was rainy and cold, people wanted hot snacks and drinks. (10) , I was really slow at taking the orders and making change. The line of people grew, and everybody seemed (11) , I was so nervous that my hands shook, and I (12) a cup into pieces. What a mess! Then my mother came to (13) me, and she also showed me how to make (14) . If someone gave me $ 5 for something that cost $ 3.25, I handed over (15) quarters and a dollar and said, "75 cents makes four dollars, plus one dollar makes five. " Things went more (16) after that.By the end of the day, I could remember orders, (17) the bill, and make change quickly with a smile. I was even a little (18) when the sun came out and dried up business. My mother said she was proud of me, and when she (19) that I work at the snack bar again next year, I did not even shrug. I was too busy (20) the restaurant I would open one day.
 

第（20）空应选择（）

A:imagining B:preparing C:examining D:describing

Rarely has there been as neat a fit between a book’s subject and its author’s biography as in "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" by Nayan Chanda. It’s easy to see why the subject fascinates Chanda; he’s a self-proclaimed Francophile(崇拜法国的人) of South Asian origin, who studied French in Calcutta, then took courses on China in Paris, ran a magazine in Hong Kong and ended up launching an online journal devoted to globalization at a venerable Ivy League institution. And in this engaging analysis, he answers such intriguing questions as" How did the coffee bean, first grown only in Ethiopia, end up in our coffee cups after a journey through Java and Colombia"
In examining these specific questions -- and larger ones about how the world is interconnected m Chanda does not emphasize his own experiences. But when appropriate, he effectively uses small, personal details to cut very big social, economic, cultural and sometimes biological processes down to size. He shows how close scrutiny of the iPod he gave his son as a birthday present can reveal much about the multinational origins of such objects. It was officially touted as" designed" by an American company and "assembled in China"; he found that it actually contained component parts and software with ties to India, Japan, South Korea and Scotland. And he marvels at the speed with which it traveled from Shanghai to New haven via Alaska and Indiana, as well as at his ability to track its progress thanks to bar codes.
The debate over globalization has grown so polarized that many readers are probably itching to know whether Chanda belongs in the" pro" or" anti" camp. One theme of "Bound Together" is that thinking in these terms doesn’t make sense. Those who gather at what are somewhat misleadingly called" anti- globalization" rallies, after all, don’t oppose all the ways the world is shrinking. And their campaigns make use of many technologies (notably the Internet) that are crucial to 21st-century-style globalization.
Indeed, Chanda’s stand on the subject might be called that of a cautiously optimistic fatalist. He asserts that the only reasonable response to globalization is twofold: accept that the world is not going to stop shrinking and figure out ways to maximize the positive and minimize the negative effects. He acknowledges the downsides of globalization (social inequities, the spread of new diseases and so on), yet argues that in many ways being "bound together" ever more tightly can ultimately be a good thing, benefiting more and more individuals and groups.
This is a book filled with fascinating information. Even readers who disagree with his claims will come away with a host of new facts to draw upon. They will also learn a lot about the history and deployment of the term globalization, to which Chanda devotes an excellent chapter. In addition, many will never look at an iPod in quite the same way again.
By the close scrutiny of the coffee bean and the iPod, Chanda wants to tell us ______.

A:how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization. B:how globalization has grown so quickly and widely around the world. C:how the world is interconnected by examining these specific questions. D:how small details reflect the big social, economic, cultural globalization.

Rarely has there been as neat a fit between a book’s subject and its author’s biography as in "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" by Nayan Chanda. It’s easy to see why the subject fascinates Chanda; he’s a self-proclaimed Francophile(崇拜法国的人) of South Asian origin, who studied French in Calcutta, then took courses on China in Paris, ran a magazine in Hong Kong and ended up launching an online journal devoted to globalization at a venerable Ivy League institution. And in this engaging analysis, he answers such intriguing questions as" How did the coffee bean, first grown only in Ethiopia, end up in our coffee cups after a journey through Java and Colombia"
In examining these specific questions -- and larger ones about how the world is interconnected m Chanda does not emphasize his own experiences. But when appropriate, he effectively uses small, personal details to cut very big social, economic, cultural and sometimes biological processes down to size. He shows how close scrutiny of the iPod he gave his son as a birthday present can reveal much about the multinational origins of such objects. It was officially touted as" designed" by an American company and "assembled in China"; he found that it actually contained component parts and software with ties to India, Japan, South Korea and Scotland. And he marvels at the speed with which it traveled from Shanghai to New haven via Alaska and Indiana, as well as at his ability to track its progress thanks to bar codes.
The debate over globalization has grown so polarized that many readers are probably itching to know whether Chanda belongs in the" pro" or" anti" camp. One theme of "Bound Together" is that thinking in these terms doesn’t make sense. Those who gather at what are somewhat misleadingly called" anti- globalization" rallies, after all, don’t oppose all the ways the world is shrinking. And their campaigns make use of many technologies (notably the Internet) that are crucial to 21st-century-style globalization.
Indeed, Chanda’s stand on the subject might be called that of a cautiously optimistic fatalist. He asserts that the only reasonable response to globalization is twofold: accept that the world is not going to stop shrinking and figure out ways to maximize the positive and minimize the negative effects. He acknowledges the downsides of globalization (social inequities, the spread of new diseases and so on), yet argues that in many ways being "bound together" ever more tightly can ultimately be a good thing, benefiting more and more individuals and groups.
This is a book filled with fascinating information. Even readers who disagree with his claims will come away with a host of new facts to draw upon. They will also learn a lot about the history and deployment of the term globalization, to which Chanda devotes an excellent chapter. In addition, many will never look at an iPod in quite the same way again.

By the close scrutiny of the coffee bean and the iPod, Chanda wants to tell us （）

A:how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization. B:how globalization has grown so quickly and widely around the world. C:how the world is interconnected by examining these specific questions. D:how small details reflect the big social, economic, cultural globalization.

The inhabitants of the earth are divided not only by race, nation, religion or ideology, but also, in a sense, by their position in time. Examining-the present population of I he globe, we find a tiny group who still live, hunting and food-foraging, as men did millennia ago.
Others, the vast majority of mankind, depend no I on bear-hunting or berry-picking, but on agriculture. They live, in many respects, as their ancestors did centuries ago. These two groups taken together compose perhaps 70 percent of all living human beings. They are people of the past.
By contrast, somewhat more than 25 percent of the earth’s population can be found in the industrialized societies. They lead modern lives. They are products of the first half of the twentieth century, molded by mechanization and mass education, brought up with lingering memories of their own country’s agricultural past. They are, in effect, the people of the present.
The remaining 2 or 3 percent of the world’s population, however, are no longer people of either the past or the present. For within the main canters of technological and cultural change, in Santa Monica, California and Can-, bridge, Massachusetts, in New York and London, and Tokyo, are millions of men and women who can already be said to be living the way of life of I he future. Trend makers often without being aware of it, they live today as millions will live tomorrow. And while they account for only a few percent of I lie global population today, they already form an international nation of the future in our midst. They are the advance agents of man, the earliest citizens of the world-wide super-industrial society now in the throes of birth.
What makes them different from the rest of mankind Certainly, they are richer, better educated, more mobile than the majority of I he human race. They also live longer. But what specifically marks the people of the future is the fact that they are already caught up in a new, stepped-up pace of life. They "live faster" than the people around them.

The "people of (he present", in I he writer’s u6e of the words, are I hose who （　）

A:rely on their country’s agricultural past B:spend their time examining different races C:have been shaped by industrialization and mass education D:are constantly trying to change life as they see it

Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. The work of few other scientists changed our understanding of 【51】 suddenly. He made his most important discoveries in the 1920s. Today, other scientists continue the work he began back then. Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He 【52】 his early years in the state of Kentucky. Then he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago, taking mathematics and astronomy 【53】 his specialty. As a student, Hubble was also a member of the University’’s basketball team and an excellent boxer. Several people urged him 【54】 for the world heavy weight boxing championship after college. Instead he decided to continue his 【55】 . In his first observations from Mount Wilson, California, Hubble used a telescope with one-hundred fifty-two and began 【56】 more and more distant objects. His first great discovery was made 【57】 he recognized a Cepheid variable star. Cepheid variable stars are stars whose brightness changes at regular periods. Hubble then began to observe more details about galaxies. He studied their shapes and brightness. By 1925, he had made enough observations to say that the universe is organized into many shapes and sizes. As stars differ from one another, he said, 【58】 galaxies. According to his observations, the galaxies have a center, and arms of matter that seem to the center like a pinwheel. Other are shaped 【59】 baseballs or eggs. A few have no special 【60】 Hubble proposed a system to describe galaxies by their shape. His system is still used today. He also showed that 【61】 are similar in the kinds of bright objects they contain. All galaxies, 【62】 , are related to each other much as members of a family are related to each other. In the late 1920s, Hubble studied the movement of galaxies through space. His investigation led to the most important 【63】 discovery of the 20th century—the expanding universe. Hubbies discovery 【64】 a major change in our ideas of the universe. The universe had not been quiet and unchanging since the beginning of time, as many people had thought. It was expanding. The expanding often is 【65】 the Big Bang.

A:examine B:to examining C:examining D:having examined

Between the nerves, the unfamiliarity and the urge to impress, few people do themselves justice on the first day of a new job. When it comes to doctors starting out in emergency medicine, though, are patients’ lives being put at risk According to research from Imperial College London, the death rate among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August -the day, traditionally, that newly graduated doctors take up their posts--was, on average, 6% higher than for those admitted the last Wednesday in July. An influx of new medical staff, in other words, just might be very, very bad for your health.
In the university’ s study (the biggest of its kind so far), published Sept. 23 in PLoS One, the online scientific journal of the U. S. Public Library of Science, scientists analyzed close to 300,000 patients admitted to state - run hospitals across England on those two Wednesdays from 2000 to 2008. The health of the patients, who were split evenly between the July and August admission days, was tracked for a week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven -day period, when researchers controlled for the patients’ age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems, the odds of dying was found to be 6% higher for those admired on the Wednesday in August. Among so - called medical achnissions - all those not suffering from cancer or requiring surgery -the odds were 8% higher. Should patients be nervous Scientists have for years been examining the patient risk associated with a change over of medical staff Smaller studies conducted over the past two decades in Britain and the U. S. -where researchers label it the "July phenomenon," after the month in which medical students usually begin training--have often proved inconelusive.
Even the "small but significant" discrepancy highlighted by Imperial’ s study doesn’t point to a particular cause. It’ s possible that patients admitted on the days junior doctors began work were simply in worse health than those taken in the week earlier. Some hospitals may have been more reluctant to admit patients with less - serious problems on the days new staff started work, limiting the number of cases young medics had to deal with but increasing the concentration of acutely ill patients in the process. "So it may not necessarily be directly related to the quality of care, "says Paul Aylin, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London and senior author of the study.
Which of the following is not true according to the passage

A:There was a big difference of death rates among the patients admitted to hospitals on the two Wednesdays. B:Scientists have been examining the patient risk associated with medical changeover for many years. C:There was a difference of death rates among the patients admitted to hospitals on the two Wednesdays, but not big. D:Scientists are not sure yet whether there does exist a link between patient death rates and medial changeover.

Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. The work of few other scientists changed our understanding of 【51】 suddenly. He made his most important discoveries in the 1920s. Today, other scientists continue the work he began back then. Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He 【52】 his early years in the state of Kentucky. Then he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago, taking mathematics and astronomy 【53】 his specialty. As a student, Hubble was also a member of the University’’s basketball team and an excellent boxer. Several people urged him 【54】 for the world heavy weight boxing championship after college. Instead he decided to continue his 【55】 . In his first observations from Mount Wilson, California, Hubble used a telescope with one-hundred fifty-two and began 【56】 more and more distant objects. His first great discovery was made 【57】 he recognized a Cepheid variable star. Cepheid variable stars are stars whose brightness changes at regular periods. Hubble then began to observe more details about galaxies. He studied their shapes and brightness. By 1925, he had made enough observations to say that the universe is organized into many shapes and sizes. As stars differ from one another, he said, 【58】 galaxies. According to his observations, the galaxies have a center, and arms of matter that seem to the center like a pinwheel. Other are shaped 【59】 baseballs or eggs. A few have no special 【60】 Hubble proposed a system to describe galaxies by their shape. His system is still used today. He also showed that 【61】 are similar in the kinds of bright objects they contain. All galaxies, 【62】 , are related to each other much as members of a family are related to each other. In the late 1920s, Hubble studied the movement of galaxies through space. His investigation led to the most important 【63】 discovery of the 20th century—the expanding universe. Hubbies discovery 【64】 a major change in our ideas of the universe. The universe had not been quiet and unchanging since the beginning of time, as many people had thought. It was expanding. The expanding often is 【65】 the Big Bang.

A:examine B:to examining C:examining D:having examined