出自:兰州工业学院大学英语3
Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once.
A. contact B. obedience C. presumption D. intellect E. tumble F. hardy G. confer H. bounce I. cradle J. automatic K. handy L. charge M. dispense N. disposal O. attached
Laughter is a(n) 1)_______response to being touched by a tickle (搔痒) – a natural response from the child. This puts the tickler in 2)_______ of how much or how long the child laughs. We adults don.t read children.s minds, but we often have a(n) 3)_______ that we can. So we usually think we.re aware of what.s too much tickling and when to stop. But it is possible to trap our children without knowing it. We parents become 4)_______ to tickling because it seems to be a(n) 5)_______ shortcut to laughter. We wish that our children are happy and love us, and tickling becomes our shortcut to get assured.
Rather than forcing laughter in this way, we can 6)_______ upon them inner confidence if we will get down on the floor and invite them to be in playful physical 7)_______ with us. If we find ways to give them much of the power, our children will laugh and laugh. Games like "I have a hundred hugs for you!" or "Where.s Jared? I know he.s around here somewhere." or "Oh, no! I can.t get this horsy rider off my back!" let children laugh and laugh as we try to catch them, or try to find them, or try to 8)_______ them off our backs, and fail over and over.
The physical contact that requires more creativity than tickling allows us to 9)_______ around, to press our heads against their stomachs here and there for a second, and to manage an embrace before they make another daring escape. We get our affection across without trapping our children. And we give them a chance to be inventive as they use their 10)_______ to figure out a hundred ways to outsmart us.
nds of mortgages defaulted (违约), leaving investors and financial institutions to face the terrible consequences.
Ironic, isn.t it? Yes, it is true that credit got us into this mess, but it is also true that our economy is 3)______ unstable right now, and being that it is built on credit, it needs an inflow of cash or it could come 4)_______ down. This is something no one wants to see as it would 5) _______ through our economy and into the world markets in a matter of hours, potentially causing a worldwide recession.
Credit in and of itself is not a bad thing. Credit 6)_______ growth and jobs. Poor use of credit, however, can be 7)_______, which is what we are on the 8)_______ of seeing now. So long as the rescue plan comes with changes to lending regulations and more 9)_______ of the industry, there is potential to 10)_______ the market, which is what everyone wants. Whether or not it works is to be seen, but as it has already been voted on and passed, we should all hope it does.