【推荐1】Manufacturers choose different ways to present their goods for sale. The three main ways of selling goods are direct sales, retail sales, and wholesaling.

Direct sales take place______a store. Direct sales usually take place in the customer's home, although sometimes it's in a business______. Direct sales include the activities of______salespeople and real estate agents. Other______are catalog shopping, telemarketing, and at-home Internet shopping.

The second type of sales-retail sales-take place in______. Department stores, discount chains, supermarkets, hardware stores, car dealerships, drugstores, convenience stores-all of these are retail stores, where consumers______ purchase small quantities of goods. Most manufacturers______to sell their products through retail stores because they're a convenient way for consumers to buy. Consumers can______products and take their purchases with them. They can______or return things easily. They can ask sales clerks for______about products, or about how something works.

The third type of sales is wholesaling-where goods are sold______the retail or direct-sale price. Wholesale prices are lower because customers are buying in large______or in a low overhead setting. Wholesalers______in a variety of ways. Some have their own outlet stores where they sell directly to consumers. Others send sales______to retail stores that buy goods at wholesale prices and then______them up for resale. Because it's difficult for a manufacturer to contact every buyer directly, wholesaling is the most practical method for the widespread distribution of goods.

Canadian smart－phone maker Research In Motion(RIM), which makes the BlackBerry, says it's back. The company is _______ to reclaim a market it once dominated by _______ two new devices. The last few years have been a painful time for the company as customers deserted its platform in _______ of newer and more _______ devices. This may be the company's last chance to _______ a vital player in an increasingly crowded market place.

Two brand new devices are perhaps a fresh _______ for a company that has seen its global market share _______ from 20 percent three years ago to just over 3 percent today.

For BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, it's another chance to remake a faded _______. “We have _______ been on a journey of transformation, not only a journey to transform our business and our brand, ________ one that I truly ________ transforms mobile communications into true mobile computing，” he said.

The company promises the same ________ level of network security the BlackBerry is known for, ________ a fast new browser and a more intuitive operating system. The Z10 ________ much like the touch－screen phones popularized by its competitors(竞争者), but the Q10 maintains the “qwerty” keyboard that has become BlackBerry's trademark.

Besides the technical and cosmetic(外观上的) updates, Heins says the company will no longer be called RIM or Research In Motion.

“Our customers use a BlackBerry, our ________ work for BlackBerry and our shareholders are owners of BlackBerry. From today on, we are BlackBerry ________ in the world，” he said.

Shareholders will be watching if customers ________ the new devices. The company's stock has dropped as much as 90 percent in the last four years as it lost ________ to competitors. But company shares have doubled in the last four months as anticipation(预期) ________ for the new models.

Analysts say the new devices could make or ________ a company, which many people praise for starting the technological revolution in smart－phones.

【推荐1】"Deep reading"—as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web—is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art. Its________would jeopardize（危及）the intellectual and emotional development of generations growing up online, as well as the perpetuation of a critical part of our________: the novels, poems and other kinds of literature that can be________only by readers whose brains, quite literally, have been trained to apprehend them.

Recent research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that deep reading—slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity—is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words. Although deep reading does not, strictly speaking,________a conventional book, the built-in limits of the printed page are uniquely conducive to the deep reading experience. A book's lack of hyperlinks, for example,________the reader from making decisions—Should I click on this link or not?—allowing her to remain fully immersed（使沉浸于）in the narrative.

That immersion is supported by the way the brain handles language rich in detail, allusion and metaphor: by creating a mental representation that draws on the same brain regions that would be________if the scene were unfolding in real life. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas that are the stuff of literature are also________exercise for the brain, propelling us inside the heads of________characters and even, studies suggest, increasing our real-life capacity for empathy（认同）.

None of this is likely to happen when we're________through website. Although we call the activity by the same name, the deep reading of books and the________-driven reading we do on the Web are very different, both in the ________they produce and in the capacities they develop. A growing body of evidence suggests that online reading may be less________and less satisfying, even for the "digital________" for whom it is so familiar. Last month, for example, Britain's National Literacy Trust________the results of a study of 34,910 young people aged 8 to 16. Researchers reported that 39% of children and teens read daily using electronic devices, but only 28% read________materials every day. Those who read only on screen were three times less likely to say they enjoy reading very much and a third less likely to have a favorite book. The study also found that young people who read daily only on screen were nearly two times less likely to be above-average readers than those who read daily in print or both in print and on screen.

【推荐2】Antarctica (南极洲) is like no other place in the world.It is _______. It is very big. It is like the United States and Australia together. Antarctica is the _______ place in the world. The temperature is sometimes -1250F (-87℃). August and September are the coldest months because there is no _______.

Antarctica is the highest continent, about 10,000 feet high. Antarctica also has very strong winds. The wind sometimes _______ as fast as two hundred miles an hour. It is also the driest place in the world.

Antarctica is also _______. There are huge glaciers (冰川) and ice everywhere. A glacier is an area of ice that _______ slowly. The ice and glaciers are beautiful. But most plants and land animals cannot _______ on the ice. There are no trees, no rivers, and no cities in Antarctica.Only penguins and other sea birds live there.

Antarctica does not _______ any one country._______, every country owns Antarctica. More than twenty countries have stations in Antarctica. A station is a place where scientists do experiments. The ________ are the only people who live in Antarctica.

Life on an Antarctica station is ________. It is like life on a space station. The sun shines for six months, and then it is ________ for six months. People usually have problems with sleeping and eating. They eat more ________ they are not busy.In an emergency, it is hard to get ________. Once, an American doctor Nielsen realized she was ________. She had cancer. It was winter, and airplanes could not ________ in Antarctica. Dr. Nielsen had no choice but to ________. An airplane dropped medicine to her, and she ________ herself. Several months later, Dr. Nielsen ________ to the United States to get special medical help.

Today, ships go to Antarctica during the summer months from November to February.People want to ________ this unusual place，but they don’ t want to live there!