【推荐1】A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,____my teacher said again and again that it was important.

One day, I happened to_____an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to____. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was______, I thought, perhaps this is not a_____topic. Well, I’d _____change the topic. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?______the way, have you ever_____there?”

“Certainly, everyone back home will_____me if I leave China without seeing______. It was great.” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of______.” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “______!” I couldn’t______asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do_______”, he answered, gently surprised.

I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”

Hearing this, the Englishman_____into laughing. He began to explain , “‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really?’. It is an expression of surprise.

【推荐3】Body language is quiet and secret and it is the most powerful language of all! It speaks louder than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more _________ than we realize. In fact, nonverbal communication takes up about 50% of what we really _________. And body language is particularly _________ when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so _________ a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. _________, different societies treat the distance between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having _________ contact (接触) even with friends, and certainly not with _________. People from Latin American countries, _________, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in _________, it may look like a Latino (拉丁美洲人) is __________ a Norwegian (挪威人) all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving closer. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep __________—which the Latino will in return regard as __________.

Clearly, a great deal is going on when people __________. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from different cultures, there's a strong possibility of __________. But whatever the situation, the best __________ is to obey the golden rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.

【推荐1】Bridging the gap

How does a principal investigator make communication among deaf and hearing colleagues easier? Moreover, how are the large number of field-specific technical terms_______— and communicated in sign language? These_______differences are not remarkably challenging to work around.

Blumberg taught himself American Sign Language and has interpreters_______in the lab during the day. For lab meetings, journal clubs and research seminars, he has two interpreters present to tag-team signing. Costs for the interpreters are_______by the NIH's Office of Research Services. The only learning curve that he experienced, Blumberg says, was realizing he needed_______interpreters, Before, when he had one deaf student, he could_______the interpreting. As more deaf fellows joined, Blumberg_______full-time interpreters for help.

Having interpreters around all day is not necessary though. "_______. interpreters are only needed during the day if we're having lab meeting, classes, important functions or events, or_______-poster presentations, student presentations, guest presentations from________________scientists, Lundberg says. "The rest of the day, I do not need an interpreter,________________I'm in lab and it's independent work.”

During his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Lundberg used online chat platforms to________________with his adviser and colleagues. Or he wrote________________a whiteboard, scratch paper, or paper towels. His adviser later________________that he keep the scraps of paper, which “was really good advice," Lundberg says, "because they were really good notes."

The best way to arrange the most suitable accommodations for deaf individuals is to ask them________________they need, says Derek Braun, a former postdoctoral fellow with Blumberg and currently a professor of biology at Gallaudet University. One of his ongoing projects is a collaboration with Blumberg and Lundberg to investigate the role of Ras guanyl nucleotide(鸟苷核苷酸)—releasing proteins in cancer.________________deaf people sign, Braun says. "Some are oral. Really, we come in every flavor imaginable. The best judge of what that person needs is usually the person?

Signing scientific terms is not unusually challenging either. While no standardized set of signs for technical words exists, colleagues working in the same lab develop their own signs for the terms they frequently use. If each lab develops signs________________, what happens when members of different labs meet?

Larry Pearce, a technician in Blumberg’s lab________________is deaf, explains to me, “ It's really not that difficult, because when an individual does not understand a sign we use, they'll ask for clarifications(说明) and I'll finger-spell. I’ll spell________________out. They will tell me what their sign is, and I'll tell them what our sign is. If I like their sign better, I might adopt it and use it every day, or vice-versa (反之亦然), and eventually it becomes more________________

【推荐2】The Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. It is celebrated ________ the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (阴历). It’s also ________ the Double Ninth Festival.

The festival started as early as the Warring States Period. It has a ________ of more than 1,700 years. Among the numbers from zero to nine, ________ is the highest odd number (奇数). People believe that two “ninths” meeting together stand for a ________ life. So it is a special holiday for Chinese people to ________ love and respect (尊重) for their elders. They hold many kinds of activities in ________ of old people to wish them good health and a long life.

The festival comes during the golden time of ________. On the day, people traditionally drink chrysanthemum (菊花) wine, eat Double-Ninth Cakes and ________ mountains. They also carry a kind of plant, dogwood (茱萸). People in ancient times believed that the plant could drive away evil (邪恶的) spirits and ________ them from catching an illness in winter.

【推荐3】What would you do if you had $5, but were limited to two hours to make as much money as possible? Buy a lottery ticket (彩票). While this is the most _________ suggestions from people, it means a significant risk in return for a _________ chance.

Tina Selling, who invented the _________ for her students at Stanford University, has a _________ story to tell.

Selling gave each of the fourteen teams a sealed envelope that contains five dollars of “seed funding”. They were _________ to spend as much time planning, but once they had _________ the envelope they then had two hours to make as much money as possible. The next week, each team were to _________ their project in a three-minute presentation.

It _________ that most of the 14 teams didn’t use the five dollars _________. They realized that focusing on the __________ actually limited the problem too tightly. They understood that five dollars is __________ and decided to consider the problem more __________: what can be done if they are __________ with nothing?

The average __________ on the five-dollar investment was 4000 percent! So what did they __________ do?

One team started a stand on campus to check bike tire __________ for free and charged $1 to refill tires. Another team made __________ at busy restaurants and then sold each of them for up to twenty dollars to customers who didn’t want to __________ in line. The team who made the greatest __________ sold their presentation time to a company that wanted to employ them to advertise. They __________ a good business for that company in the three minutes’ presentation and brought in $650000.