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While the negative socializing forces of drugs, guns, gangs, and the media have become more threatening the positive socializing forces of family, school, religion, and neighborhood have grown relatively weak and ineffective. Increasingly children arebeing raised in homes disrupted by divorce and economic stress; too many children emerge undersocialized and undersupervised.

The worsening c of raising children.

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Experts agree that health and safety requirements, developmentally appropriate activities, limited group size, adequate staff training in child development and early childhood education, warm staff-child interactions, adequate staff salaries, and adequate indoor and outdoor space are key components of quality child care. Child-care giver ratios, group sizes, and teacher qualifications are probably the most critical.
Agreement about what c quality child care.

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The challenge for the future, therefore, is how best to deal with youth violence. Unfortunately, we are obsessed with quick and easy solutions that will not work, such as the wholesale transfer of juveniles to the jurisdiction of the adult court, parental responsibility laws, midnight curfews, the V-chip, boot camps, threes strikes, even caning and capital punishment, at the expense of long-term and difficult solutions that will work, such as providing young children with strong, positive role models, quality schools, and recreation programs.
The c to dealing with future youth violence.

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I'm not opposed to punishment (except capital punishment). However, we cannot deal effectively with teen violence through the threat of the criminal justice system. The threat of punishment, no matter how harsh, cannot deter kids who face the threat of violence every day in their classrooms and their neighborhoods. As far as they are concerned, the criminal justice system can just take a number and wait its turn in line. Often these are juveniles who care little about the future, who don't expect to live past their 21st birthday. The prospect of a long-term prison sentence or even the death penalty will not dissuade them in the least.

The f of the threat of the criminal justice system. 

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I prefer that personal opinion or voice (for example, "I this," or "I that" ) appears throughout. I like the first person. No"the author feels" or "this author found that," please! Who is the author? Hey, it's you!

Use of f person in writing.

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In order to achieve anything worthwhile, it is important to slay focused and to avoid being sidetracked by the many distractions which inevitably come your way. And yet it is also important to stay flexible, so you can adjust, adapt to and take advantage of the changing situations.

The importance of （） and flexibility.

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However, the enemies from nature itself may prove fearsome. For example, earthquakes, eruption of volcanoes, storms or tornadoes destroy life and property, but the dangers from them are being minimized because of sophisticated apparatus that man has at his command.
Man could （） natural disasters.

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Predators are usually bigger and fewer in number than the animals they prey upon. The reverse is true of parasites. These organisms live on or in other living things-their hosts, often spending an entire lifetime with them. In parasitism the parasite gets food and sometimes shelter, while the host gains nothing and may even suffer in some way from the relationship.
Predators live on the （） body.

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Doctors should refrain from adding patients as friends on Facebook, they should not hug or allow patients to call them by their first names, regulators have warned. Blurring the lines between social and professional relationships can impact on the level of care offered and prevent patients from being honest about important side effects.
（）relationships may hinder objective care. 

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The U.S. government has published sweeping new rules requiring chain restaurants and large vending machine operators to disclose calorie counts on menus to make people more aware of the risks of obesity posed by fatty, sugary foods. Under the rules, calories must be displayed on all menus and menu boards.
Calorie counts to be（）

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Of course a scale of styles exists in all our use of English. Each of us works not just with one English but with many Englishes, and the wider the range of our life and the more various the contacts we have, the wider and suppler must be our command over a range of English styles, each of which we know how to use consistently. A haphazard knowledge of several styles may be worse than useless if we do not know the type of occasion on which each is appropriate, or if we do not know when we are sliding from one to another. 

There exist a range of （）in the use of English.

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Without saying a word, the vicious outlaw drew his gun and cut the policeman down with a shower of lead. As the dying officer fell, he leaped out of the car, grabbed the officer’s revolver, and fired another bullet into the prostrate body.
The outlaw （） at the policeman.

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     He has never hurt me or been vicious towards me but, at times, I have hated him and it is only since I have started to mature that I have learned to accept him for who he is. 

Learn to （） a person.

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All those who have set foot in Antarctica agree that its main and most cruel characteristic is wind. When we wintered in Adelie Land the wind on 5th July blew nonstop for eight hours at an average speed of 170 mph; gusts were recorded of over 150 mph, and the average wind speed for the month was 63. 3. In these conditions it was impossible to stand for more than a few seconds. 

The biggest （） to life in Antarctica is wind. 

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A long time ago man believed that evil spirits caused diseases. But now thanks to the advance of science and the invention of scientific instruments man knows that diseases are caused by bacteria and virus and knows also how to prevent and cure these diseases.
Science and technology help us understand（）

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In the U.S. today, it is common to pay one fourth to one third of family’s income on the place to live. Big houses are more expensive than smaller ones. And houses closer to the center of big cities are more expensive than the ones in the suburbs or in small towns.
The （） of housing in the U.S. today is very high.

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Beijing's army recruitment efforts have been increasingly hampered in recent years by a decline in the physical fitness of candidates, with many being ruled unsuitable due to common complaints such as being overweight or shortsighted. Around 60 percent of college students who apply for military service cannot pass the physical fitness exam.
Students' （） to meet army fitness standards.

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To tell someone that they should lose a few lbs—even if you are just trying to help—could actually cause them to gain weight instead, according to new research. The study showed that women who receive more "acceptence message" are more successful at maintaining and even losing weight overall, compared to those who receive more negative message.

Negative message are not helpful for weight（）

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Mark Twain remarked that he could live for two months on one good compliment. How true! Haven’t we all repeated someone’s admiring words over and over in our minds, without losing the inspiration they give? There are people everywhere in need of a good word, that is, an inspiring compliment to fire their hopes and dreams.
The power of （）

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In the Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet is a character who contains many inconsistent traits. He is indecisive, but he is also a man of action; his motives are generally lofty, but sometimes they seem wholly selfish. Though basically gentle, he is also ruthless. All these make Hamlet human.
The （） of Hamlet.