出自:英语（专升本）
It wasn’t heroic; it was easier than to die going to the train cars. And that people _______ (1) participated in the ghetto uprising were actually, in a sense, lucky. They had arms; they could do something about what was going on while those hundreds of thousands who were just led to the train cars were equally heroic, but their death _______ (2) much more difficult. (Special Fighters in Warsaw During World War II)
Let us assume, that a man and a woman in the same company _______ (3) their jobs on the same day: he, because he is ill; she, because she’s about to have a child. And they return on the same day, but under the California law she gets her job back and he _____ (4) not. Is that fair? (Maternity Leave and Job Guarantee)
Today, Governor Thompson declared a number of additional community state disaster areas, setting up the first step for Federal help. The rainy _______ (5) forecast is not of much comfort, and some weary workers and homeowners say the only thing left to do now is wait _______ (6) the flooding passes and put everything back together again. (Flooding in Illinois and Wisconsin)
The combination of horror stories about people coming over the borders and editorials about congressional inability to act made members of Congress decide the time had ________ (7) to enact immigration reform. But supporters of reform warn the end is not here yet. The conference report must still pass both ________ (8) of Congress, and a Senate filibuster is always a possibility. (An Immigration Reform in US)
Those are the memories that should be preserved, to be remembered and relied upon when harder times take hold. Those times ________ (9) a photographer like me will catch you at a party with a loneliness on your face that you didn’t think would show or bitterness tugging at your lips during a conversation you didn’t intend to be overheard. Well, we all slip up like this sometimes, and sooner or later we get caught with our guards ________ (10). (Photographs vs. Reality)
Too _____ (11) secrets, too ____ (12) access to secrets, too many spies, too little accountability for securing our national secrets, and too little effort given to combating the very real threat which spies represent to our national security. (US Counter-Intelligence Efforts)
The timing of Kalb’s action today is likely to add to the controversy _______ (13) government deception. And it comes at an awkward moment for the Reagan _______ (14), just days before an important pre-summit meeting with the Soviets in Iceland and in the wake of official denials about a downed guerrilla resupply plane in Nicaragua. (Bernard Kalb and Disinformation Program)
We noted favorable trends in the ___ (15) East, not just the longing for peace by the Israeli and Arab peoples, but constructive actions taken by leaders in the region to breathe new life into the peace process. No one has done ________ (16) than Prime Minister Peres to that end. His vision, his statesmanship, and his tenacity are greatly appreciated here. (Israeli Prime Minister’s Last Visit to US)