Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Weekend “catch-up” sleep is a lie

The negative health effects of skimping on sleep during the week can’t be reversed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to sobering new study.

【小题1】 complete freedom to sleep in and nap during a weekend recovery period, participants in a sleep laboratory who were limited to five hours of sleep on weekdays 【小题2】 (gain) nearly three pounds over two weeks and experienced metabolic disorder 【小题3】 would increase their risk for diabetes over the long term. 【小题4】 weekend recovery sleep had some benefits after a single week of insufficient sleep, those gains 【小题5】 (wipe) out when people plunged right back into the same schedule 【小题6】 (rob) of sleep the next Monday.

“If there are benefits of catch-up sleep, 【小题7】 are gone when you go back to your routine. It’s very short-lived.” said Kenneth Wright, director of the sleep and chronobiology laboratory at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who oversaw the work.
Wright said that the study suggests people should prioritize sleep, 【小题8】 (cut) out the optional “sleep stealers”. such as watching television shows or spending time on electronic devices. 【小题9】people don’t have a choice about losing sleep due to child-care responsibilities or job schedules, they should take into consideration prioritizing sleep 【小题10】 they would a healthy diet or exercise.

Translation
【小题1】我们所取得的一切只能说明我们的过去。 (define)
【小题2】碰巧所有在场的嘉宾都穿着西装打着领带。 (happen)
【小题3】很少有人考虑到因沉湎于长相而导致的饮食紊乱的危险。(Seldom)
【小题4】不可否认一日一笑是治愈抑郁的一种有效的疗方。( There)

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【小题1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.

Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【小题2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【小题3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【小题4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【小题5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【小题6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【小题7】 of all resources.

And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【小题8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【小题9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【小题10】 human being.