The smaller the imperfections are, the higher the quality of the pearls.
The smaller the imperfections are, the higher the quality of the pearls.
She magnifies the smallest imperfections in her body and imagines them as glaring flaws the whole world will notice and ridicule.
She magnifies the smallest imperfections in her body and imagines them as glaring flaws the whole world will notice and ridicule.
Due to imperfections in manufacturing or application of the load, a column will ( ) suddenly buckle, instead it begins to ( ).? never,;stretch|never,;shorten|never, bend|ever, bend
Due to imperfections in manufacturing or application of the load, a column will ( ) suddenly buckle, instead it begins to ( ).? never,;stretch|never,;shorten|never, bend|ever, bend
According to the author, critics usually ______. A: ignore minor imperfections B: overemphasize flaws C: see both sides of a coin D: pin their hopes on improvements
According to the author, critics usually ______. A: ignore minor imperfections B: overemphasize flaws C: see both sides of a coin D: pin their hopes on improvements
Due to imperfections in manufacturing or application of the load, a column will ( ) suddenly buckle, instead it begins to ( ). A: never, bend B: never, stretch C: never, shorten D: ever, bend
Due to imperfections in manufacturing or application of the load, a column will ( ) suddenly buckle, instead it begins to ( ). A: never, bend B: never, stretch C: never, shorten D: ever, bend
Every chart is liable to be incomplete（）. A: the final judge of the reliance the mariner can place on the information given B: its immediate importance cannot always be verified before promulgation C: through imperfections in the survey on which it is based，or subsequent alterations to the topography or sea floor D: deferring the promulgation of certain less important informatio
Every chart is liable to be incomplete（）. A: the final judge of the reliance the mariner can place on the information given B: its immediate importance cannot always be verified before promulgation C: through imperfections in the survey on which it is based，or subsequent alterations to the topography or sea floor D: deferring the promulgation of certain less important informatio
Every chart is liable to be incomplete ___. A: the final judge of the reliance the mariner can place on the information given B: its immediate importance cannot always be verified before promulgation C: through imperfections in the survey on which it is based,or subsequent alterations to the topography or sea floo D: deferring the promulgation of certain less important information
Every chart is liable to be incomplete ___. A: the final judge of the reliance the mariner can place on the information given B: its immediate importance cannot always be verified before promulgation C: through imperfections in the survey on which it is based,or subsequent alterations to the topography or sea floo D: deferring the promulgation of certain less important information
When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very difficult for him to ___________ the right answer. Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They ________ an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t __________________ to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would _______ the smallest imperfections in their bodies. The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex ____________ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical measurements are _________ for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are weird-looking. Second, beauty industry exerts different influences on them. Women are _________ that they must buy the newest beauty products and _____ them carefully, whereas men are not influenced; they don’t face the societal _____ purely on physical beauty. Men and women also have differences in care for details in women’s appearance. Men _________________ the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to _______ themselves to criticisms by other women. Anyway, to get back to my _______ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.
When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very difficult for him to ___________ the right answer. Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They ________ an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t __________________ to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would _______ the smallest imperfections in their bodies. The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex ____________ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical measurements are _________ for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are weird-looking. Second, beauty industry exerts different influences on them. Women are _________ that they must buy the newest beauty products and _____ them carefully, whereas men are not influenced; they don’t face the societal _____ purely on physical beauty. Men and women also have differences in care for details in women’s appearance. Men _________________ the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to _______ themselves to criticisms by other women. Anyway, to get back to my _______ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.
Book IV Unit 2 pre-reading dictation Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty, and fill in the missing information. One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too 1)______ of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, diet products, fashion, and plastic 2)_______. Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it 3)_______. Because beauty is powerful. Because even when we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still moved by beauty. No matter how much we 4)_________ it or pretend to be immune, beauty 5)______ its power over us. There is simply no escape. Our 6)_________ to physical beauty is not something we can control 7)_______ . We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langlois showed that even small infants prefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they have watched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, they are drawn to the same faces which adults have 8)______ to be attractive. There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Etcoff says, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be 9)________ by it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t mean that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There’s no reason to 10)_________ being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.
Book IV Unit 2 pre-reading dictation Listen to a short passage concerning the power of beauty, and fill in the missing information. One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too 1)______ of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, diet products, fashion, and plastic 2)_______. Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it 3)_______. Because beauty is powerful. Because even when we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still moved by beauty. No matter how much we 4)_________ it or pretend to be immune, beauty 5)______ its power over us. There is simply no escape. Our 6)_________ to physical beauty is not something we can control 7)_______ . We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langlois showed that even small infants prefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they have watched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, they are drawn to the same faces which adults have 8)______ to be attractive. There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Etcoff says, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be 9)________ by it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t mean that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There’s no reason to 10)_________ being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.