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In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, 1 those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker.

A young man can 2 a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to 3 the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

4, a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen.

5 a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying 6 a good family.

The traditional wedding is a long and colorful affair. Formerly it lasted three days, 7 by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half.

Buddhist priests offer a short sermon and 8 prayers of blessing.

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, 9 cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and 10 a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the 11.

Newlyweds traditionally move in with the wife's parents and may 12 with them up to a year, 13 they can build a new house nearby.

Divorce is legal and easy to 14, but not common.

Divorced persons are 15 with some disapproval.

Each spouse retains 16 property he or she 17 into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is 18 equally.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice 19 up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry 20 the woman must wait ten months.

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cyber-crime that has 1 across the Web.

Can privacy be preserved 2 bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly 3 ?

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a 4 to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech 5 of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled 6 one.

The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential 7 to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

The idea is to 8 a federation of private online identity systems.

Users could 9 which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems.

The approach contrasts with one that would require an Internet driver's license 10 by the government.

Many companies have already had these "single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to 11 just one but use many different services.

12 , the approach would create a "walled garden" in cyberspace, with safe "neighborhoods" and bright "streetlights" to establish a sense of a 13 community.

Mr. Schmidt described it as a "voluntary ecosystem" in which "individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with 14 , trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure 15 which the transaction runs."

Still, the administration's plan has 16 privacy rights activists.

It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would 17 be a compulsory Internet "driver's license" mentality.

The plan has also been greeted with 18 by some computer security experts, who worry that the "voluntary ecosystem" envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet 19 .

They argue that all Internet users should be 20 to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads.

In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a 1 on a subway.

It's a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—because there's 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you.

But you wouldn't know it, 3 into your phone.

This universal protection sends the 4: "Please don't approach me."

What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?

One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, an executive mental coach. We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as "weird."

We fear we'll be 7. We fear we'll be disruptive.

Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances.

To avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our phones. "Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says.

"They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11."

But once we rip off the Band-Aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn't 12 so bad.

In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13.

They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14.

"When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," The New York Times summarizes.

Though the participants didn't expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, "not a single person reported having been embarrassed."

18, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thrive off of social connections.

It's that 20: Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.

And new research suggests that happiness might influence 1 firms work, too.

Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper. 2, firms in happy places spend more on R&D (research and development).

That's because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking 3 for making investments for the future.

The researchers wanted to know if the 4 and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would 5 the way companies invested.

So they compared U.S. cities' average happiness 6 by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.

7 enough, firms' investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were 8.

But is it really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities 9 why firms there spend more on R&D?

To find out, the researchers controlled for various 10 that might make firms more likely to invest—like size, industry, and sales—and for indicators that a place was 11 to live in, like growth in wages or population.

The link between happiness and investment generally 12 even after accounting for these things.

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors 13 to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less 14 managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment."

The relationship was 15 stronger in places where happiness was spread more 16.

17 this doesn't prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term view, the authors believe it at least 18 at that possibility.

It's not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help 19 how executives think about the future.

"It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and 20 R&D more than the average," said one researcher.

The court cannot 1 its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law 2 justices behave like politicians.

Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that 3 the court's reputation for being independent and impartial.

That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be 4 as impartial judgments.

Part of the problem is that the justices are not 5 by an ethics code.

At the very least, the court should make itself 6 to the code of conduct that 7 to the rest of the federal judiciary.

This and other similar cases 8 the question of whether there is still a 9 between the court and politics.

The framers of the Constitution envisioned law 10 having authority apart from politics.

They gave justices permanent positions 11 they would be free to 12 those in power and have no need to 13 political support.

Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely 14.

Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social 15 like liberty and property.

When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it 16 is inescapably political—which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily 17 as unjust.

The justices must 18 doubts about the court's legitimacy by making themselves 19 to the code of conduct.

That would make rulings more likely to be seen as separate from politics and, 20 , convincing as law.

But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very ___ , particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting.

A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, ___, a younger sibling.

___, there's another sort of parent that's a bit easier to train: a patient parent.

Fortunately, there's another sort of parent that's a bit easier to ___ : a patient parent.

Still, ___ every parent would like to be patient, this is no easy task.

Still, while every parent would like to be patient, this is no easy ___.

Sometimes parents get exhausted and frustrated and are unable to maintain a ___ and composed style with their kids.

You're only human, and sometimes your kids can ___ you just a little too far.

And then the ___ happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too harsh and does nobody any good.

And then the inevitable happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too ___ and does nobody any good.

You wish that you could ___ the clock and start over.

___, even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may regret for a long time.

However, even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may ___ for a long time.

This may not only do damage to your relationship with your child but also ___ your child's self-esteem.

If you consistently lose your ___ with your kids, then you are inadvertently modeling a lack of emotional control for your kids.

We are all becoming increasingly aware of the ___ of modeling tolerance and patience for the younger generation.

In fact, the ability to maintain emotional control when ___ by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.

Certainly, it's incredibly ___ to maintain patience at all times with your children.

A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with ___ situations involving your children.

As a result of working toward this goal, you and your children will benefit and ___ from stressful moments feeling better physically and emotionally.

The world of AI is buzzing with exciting potential to improve and enrich our lives. 1 , AI also has the potential hazard of 2 our experiences in ways we might find difficult to control. AI领域充满改善和丰富我们生活的巨大潜力。___，AI也存在潜在风险，会以我们难以控制的方式___我们的体验。 1. [A] Still 然而 ★正确 [B] Therefore 因此 [C] Afterward 之后 [D] Instead 相反 ★正确 2. [A] reviewing 回顾 [B] narrating 叙述 [C] ignoring 忽视 [D] dominating 主导 ★正确 3. One such 3 is how we understand and experience beauty. 其中一个___是我们如何理解和体验美。 [A] reason 原因 [B] area 领域 ★正确 [C] clue 线索 [D] belief 信念 4. 4 human creativity and AI algorithms can lead to unique artistic 5 that are beautiful to the human eye. 人类创造力与AI算法，能够产生符合人类审美的独特艺术。 4. [A] Balancing 平衡 [B] Distinguishing 区分 [C] Combining 结合 ★正确 [D] Introducing 介绍 5. [A] prospect 前景 [B] outcomes 成果 ★正确 [C] ambitions 野心 [D] sentiments 情绪 4. These collaborations are likely to become increasingly common. 6 , AI enables virtual try-on experiences where you can 7 makeup, hairstyles, clothing, and even cosmetic procedures 8 making any physical changes. 这类合作会越来越普遍。___，AI支持虚拟试穿体验，你可以___妆容、发型、服装，甚至医美项目，___做出任何实际改变。 6. [A] At first 起初 [B] By comparison 相比之下 [C] For instance 例如 ★正确 [D] In general 总体来说 7. [A] test 试用 ★正确 [B] copy 复制 [C] link 连接 [D] save 保存 8. [A] upon 在...之上 [B] beyond 超越 [C] through 通过 [D] before 在...之前 ★正确 5. Individuals can now experiment with different looks and 9 their preferences, potentially expanding the range of beauty ideals. 人们现在可以尝试不同造型，___自己的偏好，有望拓宽审美标准的范围。 [A] explore 探索 ★正确 [B] recall 回忆 [C] simplify 简化 [D] cherish 珍惜 6. AI algorithms can 10 facial features and skin conditions to provide personalized beauty recommendations. This 11 approach aims to cater to individual preferences. AI算法可以___面部特征和皮肤状况，提供个性化美容推荐。这种___方法旨在满足个人偏好。 10. [A] recover 恢复 [B] arrange 安排 [C] reserve 预留 [D] analyze 分析 ★正确 11. [A] localized 本地化的 [B] normalized 标准化的 [C] randomized 随机的 [D] customized 定制化的 ★正确 7. 12 , AI can be a fun vehicle for self-discovery. While AI offers exciting possibilities, it also raises ethical 13 . 12，AI可以成为自我探索的有趣工具。尽管AI带来了令人兴奋的可能，它也引发了伦理。 12. [A] To the contrary 相反 [B] By definition 从定义上来说 [C] In this way 通过这种方式 ★正确 13. [A] divisions 分歧 [B] expectations 期待 [C] concerns 担忧 ★正确 [D] values 价值 8. There is a risk of deepening societal beauty 14 and perpetuating unattainable beauty standards. 15 , AI-powered beauty filters can lead to distorted self-perception and 16 body dissatisfaction. 存在加深社会审美___、固化难以企及的审美标准的风险。___，AI美颜滤镜会导致自我认知扭曲，___身材焦虑。 14. [A] pressures 压力 ★正确 [B] mysteries 谜团 [C] understandings 理解 [D] suspicions 怀疑 15. [A] Approximately 大约 [B] Additionally 此外 ★正确 [C] Alternatively 或者 [D] Accidentally 意外地 16. [A] deal with 处理 [B] result from 源于 [C] contribute to 导致 ★正确 [D] focus on 聚焦 9. 17 on this technology for social presentation can cause harm, 18 body image issues, lower self-esteem, and social anxiety. ___这项技术进行社交展示会造成伤害，___身材形象问题、低自尊和社交焦虑。 17. [A] starting 开始 [B] checking 检查 [C] relying 依赖 ★正确 [D] working 工作 18. [A] apart from 除了 [B] such as 例如 ★正确 [C] regardless of 不管 [D] prior to 在...之前 10. It's important to note that while AI can enhance our 19 of beauty, it should not 20 the genuine human experience. 需要注意的是，尽管AI能提升我们对美的___，它不应该___真实的人类体验。 19. [A] imitation 模仿 [B] appreciation 欣赏 ★正确 [C] preservation 保存 [D] consumption 消费 20. [A] replace 取代 ★正确 [B] seize 抓住 [C] share 分享 [D] reflect 反映

But the 8 is that your boss might view you very highly. 但\__是，你的老板可能非常看重你。

It's just you made some 9 in the report and she wanted to point these out so that you do better next time. 只是你在报告里犯了一些\__，她指出来是为了让你下次做得更好。

10 , in the case of your friends cancelling, perhaps the both felt unwell that weekend or they just 11 their minds. \__，你的朋友取消聚会，可能是他们周末不舒服，或者只是\__主意了。

In both 12 —and others that we all experience— there's another 13 at work that psychologists call mind reading. 在这两个\__中 —— 以及我们都经历过的其他情况中 —— 还有另一种心理学家称之为“读心”的\__在起作用。

This is when you assume to know what other people are thinking about you, when you can't really know without 14 them directly. 这是指你自以为知道别人怎么看你，但不直接\__他们，你根本不可能知道。

One simple way to avoid 15 personalisation and mind reading is to challenge your negative assumptions of what's 16 . 避免\__个人化和读心思维的一个简单方法，是质疑你对已经\__事情的负面假设。

When you find yourself taking a situation personally, try to think of other interpretations that are less focused on you— especially in the sense of saying anything deep or 17 about you. 当你觉得事情针对自己时，试着想其他不那么针对自己的解释 —— 尤其是不要认为这件事说明了关于你的什么深刻或\__的问题。

The fact your boss took the time to give you 18 at all means they care enough to want to help you 19 . 你的老板花时间给你\__，说明他们足够关心你，想要帮你\__。

When it comes to your friends — maybe it's because your friendship is so 20 that they felt able to cancel at late notice. 至于你的朋友 —— 可能是因为你们的友谊足够\__，他们才敢临时取消聚会。

When you find yourself taking a situation personally, try to think of other interpretations that are less focused on you— especially in the sense of saying anything deep or 17 about you. 当你觉得事情针对自己时，试着想其他不那么针对自己的解释 —— 尤其是不要认为这件事说明了关于你的什么深刻或\__的问题。

The fact your boss took the time to give you 18 at all means they care enough to want to help you 19 . 你的老板花时间给你\__，说明他们足够关心你，想要帮你\__。

When it comes to your friends — maybe it's because your friendship is so 20 that they felt able to cancel at late notice. 至于你的朋友 —— 可能是因为你们的友谊足够\__，他们才敢临时取消聚会。

According to Paragraph 1, the author's posts on Twitter

What does the author say about the Victorian portraits he has collected?

What might have kept the Victorians from smiling for pictures in the 1890s?

Mark Twain is quoted to show that the disapproval of smiles in pictures was

Which of the following questions does the text answer?

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is mentioned because it ______ .

In David Eagleman's opinion, our current knowledge of consciousness ______.

The solution to the ethical issues brought by autonomous vehicles ______ .

The author's attitude toward Google's pledges is one of ______ .

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

According to the first paragraph, what would happen in France?

The phrase "impinging on" (Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ______.

Which of the following is true of the fashion industry?

A designer is most likely to be rejected by CFW for ______.

Which of the following may be the best title of the text?

According to Paragraph 1, one motive in imposing the new rule is to ______.

Alfred Marshall is quoted to indicate ______.

It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can be ______.

The US and France examples are used to illustrate ______.

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

The underlined sentence (Para.1) most probably shows that the court ______.

According to Paragraph 4, an official act is deemed corruptive only if it involves ______.

The court's ruling is based on the assumption that public officials are ______.

Well-enforced laws in government transparency are needed to ______.

The author's attitude toward the court's ruling is ______.

There has long been concern that broadband providers would ______.

Faced with the demand for net neutrality rules, the FCC ______.

What can be learned about AT&T from Paragraph 3?

Judge Patricia Millett argues that the appeals court's decision ______.

What does the author argue in the last paragraph?

Scientific publishing is seen as "a licence to print money" partly because ____.

According to Paragraphs 2 and 3, scientific publishers like Elsevier have ____.

How does the author feel about the success of Sci-Hub?

It can be learned from Paragraphs 5 and 6 that open access terms ____.

Which of the following characterizes the scientific publishing model?