___________ the Internet is bridging th...

 The world Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World because it ________ be very slow.

 Mary was often told that she __________ her elder sister Ellen.

1.Generally speaking. new things __________________ young people.

2.Many species are ________________ due to climate changes and human activities.

3.The old computers in our school _______________ new laptops months ago.

4.She _______________ after her sleep and continued to work.

5.Many houses ________________ by the flood.

6.The beautiful scenery of the sea ___________________. It was really unbelievable.

7.It is difficult to find a house _________________ our price.

8.A growing number of students are taking the driving course _____________ future careers.

9.Alice _______________ working in Spain. That’s why she has been learning Spanish.

10.______________________, Tom is the most suitable person for the position.

1.In c___________ society, the Internet is used all over the world.

2.The poem c_________ the poet’s sadness at being far from his home and family.

3.My father r__________ himself to smoking two cigarettes a day.

4.When Mary saw her favorite singer in person, it gave her a big t____________.

5.It is e_____________ to us all that he has no experience in this job.

6.The bear was _____________ (诱捕) by the hunter for its fur.

7.We tried in ____________(白费心机) to make him change his mind.

8.Did he really see a ghost or was it only a(n) ______________(主观的) impression?

9.When I was aboard, I felt _______________ (思乡的) for my hometown.

10.Nowadays, what __________(标准) do we use to judge beauty?

The word “conservation” has a thrifty（节俭）meaning. To conserve is to save and to protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials; most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were “limitless” and “inexhaustible”. Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.

Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.

For the interests of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone’s daily life. To know about the water table（水位）in the ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic arithmetic formulas. We need to know why all watersheds（上游源头森林地带集水区）need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to yield ( produce ) their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big nature trees, because living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic volume（容积量）above the earth. In brief, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.

1. According to the author the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that   _______.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that earlier generations didn’t realize _______.

3.With a view to correcting the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that ______.

4.. What does the author imply（express indirectly）by saying “living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic volume（容积量）above the earth.”?

5. The underlined word “restore” probably is closest to the meaning of “_________”.