We were told during our_____briefing that these warehouses were abandoned.

A.insolent

B.indefinite

C.intimate

D.initial

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An education blog that asked readers to send reports of violence in schools tied to the election has been inundated with more than 375 reports.

A.crowded

B.exerted

C.invaded

D.Submerged

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The office, laboratory, and museum are situated at the top of the hill in which they command a fine view.

A.where it commands

B.which it commands

C.where they command

D.which they command

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Embracing failure is a cliche of the business world. But as Matthew Syed, a journalist at The Times, shows in a new book, Black Box Thinkings in practice a "stigmatizing" attitude toward error” pervades everyday life. This has big implications.
Success brings its own rewards, but the world comes down hard on those who are deemed failures. The desire to avoid such opprobrium prompts people to cover up mistakes, argues Mr. Syed. Police fail to drop cases against people accused of committing a crime, even after clear evidence emerges of their innocence. Politicians plough on with policies even when it is obvious they are not working. All are psychological strategies to avoid admitting fault.
Fear of failure can have devastating consequences, as Mr. Syed shows in a story about United Airlines. In 1978, as a plane approached its destination, the pilot worried that the landing gear had not come down. Desperate, he tried to establish what was wrong, becoming blinded to the planed dwindling fuel reserves. Eventually the tank was empty, and the plane crashed. The worry of making a mistake — subjecting the passengers to a bumpy landing 一 blinded him to bigger problems.
The story is a metaphor. Investors hold on to losing stocks longer than they should. Unable to face the shame of a bad return, they end up with a much bigger loss. Fred Goodwin of RBS, a bank, fretted about the color of the carpets at head office while his firm collapsed under the weight of the financial crisis. The medical profession is especially intolerant of mishaps, says Mr. Syed. This means that mistakes are not scrutinized and people do not learn from them. Small wonder that blunders are pervasive. According to one study of acute care in hospitals, one in 10 patients “is killed or injured as a consequence of medical error or institutional shortcomings”.
What to do? One solution is making it easy for people to own up or speak up, as the airline industry has learned to do better than any other. Mr. Syed"s more novel suggestion, though, is the rigorous testing of business strategies. This forces people to make improvements. The gold standard is the “randomized control trial”（RCT)，in which a treatment group is compared with a control group. Capital One, a credit-card company, has used RCTs obsessively 一 over the fonts it uses, for example, and the scripts at its call- centers —to assess which initiatives fail and which do not. James Dyson, a technology entrepreneur, and Google are other cheerleaders for this hyperrational school of management.
This approach may also hold benefits for governments. David Halpem is the boss of the British government’s Behavioral Insights Team (BIT)，known as the “nudge unit，” which uses RCTs to improve policy.
Identifying points of failure and making small changes，he argues，reaps disproportionate gains. By including a message on a car-tax form appealing to people’s sense of humanity, the BIT sharply boosted organ donations.
Much still needs to be done. Between 2010 and 2012 the BIT saved the British government only £300 million ($457 million), a negligible proportion of GDP. Few businesses incorporate RCTs as extensively as Capital One. Much more could be done. Hospitals could subject doctors to RCTs, identify the mistake-prone and then help them. Civil servants could randomly test the economic impact of policies, such as changes to income tax, before rolling them out. It sounds extreme, but confronting failure rationally would bring huge rewards.

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China is the top source country of international students in the world. Recent statistics have shown a_____(91) trend for Chinese students to study abroad at a younger age.The___(92) of Chinese students studying abroad has rapidly increased in recent years.According to statistics___(93) by the Ministry of Education in the academic year of 2010, about 285,000 people were educated abroad, up 24 percent from the previous year.The majority of overseas students were undergraduates and postgraduates, but the number of_____(94) students has been growing dramatically. Among the total number of students who went abroad last year, more than 20 percent were under 18 years old.
Zhang Chao, general manager of EIC Group, an international education service company，explains,“Among our____(95) in the past two or three years, the____(96) rate of students going abroad was about 20 percent，while the rate of those under 18 was about 20 to 25 percent, which is higher than the average growth. Most of them go to study in high schools，and there are a few primary school students as well.” 
A recent survey____ (97) by MyCOS, HR Digital Information Corporation and Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, _____(98) a large number of high school students are planning to study abroad. Zhang Jingxiu, Vice President of MyCOS Corporation, elaborates:
“From last September to this March，we have received more than 2,900 online___(99) to questionnaires. The target interviewees were high school students. We found that 70 percent of the students plan to study abroad after graduating from high school. Twenty-four percent plan to study in_____(100) high schools. Only 6 percent plan to study in domestic universities and then______(101) postgraduate studies overseas.”
In the survey, more than 60 percent of students say they want to receive a better education, while 19 percent go abroad to______(102) the stress of taking China"s university entrance examinations. Due to high living___(103) and tuition fees, most young overseas students come from well-off families. Brought up in fairly good conditions, many of them face various______(104) living on their own in a strange country. Due to Language _____(105) they also face difficulties communicating with others.
Shi Yiru, consultant from Shanghai Huashen International Education Corporation, raises some suggestions. “Young overseas students should be more _____(106) about making new friends. Although schools help_____(107) their study habits, they should be more independent. Students with strong communication skills are easier at_____(108) to new circumstances.”
For children studying abroad, parents make the_____(109) decision. But experts suggest parents communicate with their children and_____(110) their willingness when it comes to making the choice between staying at home and studying abroad on their own at a tender age.

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