【推荐1】Over the past few decades, more and more countries have opened up their markets, increasingly____the world economy into one free-flowing global market. The question is: Is economic globalization   ____ for all?

According to the World Bank, one of its chief supporters, economic globalization has helped reduce ______ in a large number of developing countries. It quotes one study that shows increased wealth   ____   to improved education and longer life in twenty-four developing countries as a result of integration (融合）of local economies into the world economy. Home to   ____ three billion people, these twenty-four countries have seen incomes ______ at an average rate of five percent   ____   to two percent in developed countries.

Those who _____   globalization claim that economies in developing countries will benefit from new opportunities for small and home-based businesses. ______ , small farmers in Brazil who produce nuts that would originally have sold only in ____   open-air markets can now promote their goods worldwide by the Internet.

Critics take a different view, believing that economic globalization is actually   ____   gap between the rich and poor. A study ____ by the U.N.-sponsored World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization shows that only a few developing countries have actually ____ from integration（融合）into the world economy and that the poor, the uneducated, unskilled workers, and native peoples have been left behind. _____   , they maintain that globalization may eventually threaten emerging businesses. For example, Indian craftsmen who currently seem to benefit from globalization because they are able to   __ their products may soon face fierce competition that could put them out of   ____ When large-scale manufacturers start to produce the same goods, or when superstores like Wal-Mart   ____ , these small businesses will not be able to _____   and will be crowded out.

One thing is certain about Globalization—there is no ______ . Advances in technology combined with more open policies have already created an interconnected world. The ______ now is finding a way to create a kind of globalization that works for the benefit of all.

【推荐3】The Canadian people are made up of different national races.The first _______ settlers of the country were the Indians.

It was said that the Indians entered this continent _______the Bering Strait(白令海峡) and Sea from eastern Asia at most 10,000 years_______. When Europeans first_______the country, Indians were living in most of areas_______forests.There were only_______Indians in the provinces, near the Atlantic Ocean.

The second group of people to enter Canada _______ the Eskimos.They _______ the Bering Strait from Asia less than 3,000 years ago.There are few_______of their early movements.The first white settlers in Canada were the________.They came in greatest________to Quebec,but also to Nova Scotia,________they cleared farms on the southern side of the Bay of Fundy.The French built their castles at Quebec City, and cleared farms out of the forests in the area.   ________the time of the British conquest(征服) in 1763,there had been about 60,000 Frenchmen in Canada, ________chiefly between Quebec and Montreal.There were not many British in Canada________American Revolution drove large numbers northward.

Throughout the 19th century,________British people came to Canada.The descendants(后代) of these people ________ England, Scotland and Ireland now make________about half of the population.Around the ________of the century people came in increasing numbers from Europe and the largest numbers came ________Central and Eastern Europe—Germans, Czechs, Poles,Rumanians and Ukrainians.

【推荐1】Gumah, growing up in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

He is the first Black writer to ________ the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his ________ as a long delayed corrective(矫正) after years of European and American Nobel laureates(获得者). In his 10 novels, Gurnah has often explored the ________ of exile(流放), identity and belonging. They ________ “Memory of Departure” “Pilgrims Way” and “Dottie”, which all deal with the immigrant experience in Britain.

Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, but he ________ English as his literary language. He drew on the imagery and stories from the Quran, ________ from Arabic and Persian poetry, particularly “The Arabian Nights”. The news of Gumah’s Nobel ________ by fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his ________ deserve a wider audience.

Gumah was born in Zanzibar, which is now ________ of Tanzania, in 1948. Then, in 1964, he fled to England. ________, poor; homesick, he began to write scraps(片段) in his diary, then ________ entries, then stories about other people. In his 20s, he started ________ fiction. Then he finished his first novel, “Memory of Departure”, about a young man who flees a failed uprising, at the same time he was writing his Ph. D. dissertation(论文). ________, he became a professor of English.

Though Gurnah hasn’t lived in Tanzania since he was a ________, his homeland always inspires him of his imagination, ________, he said “my homeland always asserts myself in my imagination, even when I deliberately try to set my stories elsewhere”.

【推荐2】Everybody has heard of Jimmy Carter. As president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, he oversaw a particularly _________ time in American history. Americans taken hostage in the Middle East, major gasoline shortages around the _______, and a poor relationship with a potential enemy – the Soviet Union – are hardly the stuff of pleasant memories.

Yet even though Carter held America’s most powerful office, he will probably be _______ more for the work he has done since he left the White House. His _______ on humanitarian issues around the world sets him apart as a caring, dedicated person who wants to see those of low economic or social status _______ from the great wealth, power, and generosity of this country.

One of the major _______ Carter has focused on throughout his career is peace in the Middle East. He _______ a national energy policy designed to reduce American dependence on foreign oil long before it was popular to do so and negotiated peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. _________, he was among the first to insist publicly on basic human rights for everyone around the world, and he founded a non-profit organization, The Carter Center, to work towards that end. In his opinion, this includes _______ modern health care to developing nations in order to contain disease and improve quality of life around the world.

However, Carter does not focus all his efforts abroad. He works actively to improve the standard of living __________ as well. He and his wife Roslyn are enthusiastic supporters of Habitat for Humanity. This volunteer-based organization devotes itself to building affordable but quality housing for those who ________ might not be able to buy a home. Voluntary workers come together in their own free time to construct, paint, and landscape simple homes, working side-by-side with the families that will ________ the residences. Habitat does more than build houses; it builds ________.

For all these reasons, Carter deserves respect for dedicating his career to public ________. Everyone can agree with his impressive charity and acknowledge his obvious __________ to all of humanity.