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UFOs
Sixty years ago, a man named Kenneth Arnold saw something that we can still __________ (1)today-- something that changed popular culture for ever.
Flying his plane over mountains in the US state of Washington, he saw a line of strange objects, either crescent-shaped (月牙形的) or disc-like, flying__________ (2) the motion of a saucer (碟) skimming (飞速掠过) on water.
The media soon picked up on the story--the Flying Saucers were here! Was the earth being__________ (3) by creatures from another planet? Soon, So many sightings were made that the US military began to __________ (4). It called these strange objects UFOs- Unidentified Flying Objects, and that is how they are__________ (5) today.
Military investigations found no evidence of visitors from outer space. But that did not stop the true__________ (6). The military were__________ (7) up, they said. Or maybe it was because the travelers from space were of such superior intelligence __________(8) they could hide from military analysts ( 分析家) .
People have always seen strange lights in the sky. In the past these were explained in __________ (9)ways. In a world where religion was less influential and science fiction was popular, signs from God were replaced by visitors from other__________ (10).
The date of the first UFO sightings was also significant. In 1947, World War II had just ended and the __________(11) War was just beginning. Humanity seemed locked in endless conflicts.
Like generations before them, people looked__________ (12) the skies for help. But instead of seeking God, they looked for help from super-intelligent aliens (外星人) with __________(13)technology. Belief in UFOs became the first religion of science.
However, even people who believe in UFOs are not quite sure why they visit the earth. The universe is a big place and it is __________(14) to assume that there is life somewhere out there. It is possible that aliens have worked out how to travel through space. Yet some people report that they have been taken by aliens and have had experiments __________(15) on them. Why would anyone travel across half the universe to conduct medical experiments on people living in small towns in the United States?
{TS}________

A.look
B.see
C.seek
D.feel
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请根据短文的内容,回答{TSE}题。Passive Smoking Is Workplace KillerPressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on ___________ (51) smoking with new research showing second-hand smoke ___________(52) about one worker each week in the hospitality industry (服务行业) . Professor Knorad Jamrozik, of Imperial (帝国的 ) College in London, told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand ___________(53) kills 49 employees in pubs, bars,restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer, heart ___________(54)and stroke across the total national work force. Exposure in the hospitality ___________ (55) at work outweighs (超过) the consequences of exposure of living ___________(56) a smoker for those staff, Jamrozik said in an interview. Other ___________(57) have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths. His findings are ___________(58) on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in Britain, their exposure to second-hand smoke and their ___________(59) of dying from it. Jamrozik said the findings would apply to ___________ (60) countries in Europe because, to a greater or ___________(61) extent, levels of smoking in the community are similar. Professor Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians, which sponsored the meeting, said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in ___________ (62) places. Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs, bars, restaurants and other public places is ___________(63)damaging to the health of employees as well as the general public, she said in a statement. Making these places smoke-free not only protects vulnerable ( 易受伤害的) staff and the public, it will ___________(64) help over 300,000 people in Britain to stop smoking completely, she added. Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in public___________ (65). New York and pubs of Australia have taken similar measures. {TS}_______
A.passive
B.natural
C.positive
D.whole