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听力原文：W: Seldom did I go to dancing balls when I was at college. I was indulged in books day after day.

I know some respectable people who don&39;t consider themselves at liberty to indulge in friendship for any individual who has not a certain competency, or place in society. (并列分句)

In the 19th century, there was a hydraulic model of how to be a good person. There are all these torrents of passion flowing through you. Your job, as captain of your soul, is to erect dams to keep these passions in check. Your job is to just say no to laziness, temptation, greed, drug use and the other sins. Praying could really help. They could help you identify sin. Preachers could persuade you to exercise the willpower you need to guard against temptation. These days that model is out of fashion. You usually cant change your behavior. by simply resolving to do something. If that were true, New Years resolutions would actually work. Your willpower is not like a dam that can block the torrent of self-indulgence. Its more like a muscle, which tires easily. People can change their lives, but ordering change is not simple because many things, even within ourselves, are beyond our direct control.

Directions: For this part, you are to write a composition of no less than 100 words on “、Health and Sports”. Please write it on the ANSWER SHEET. The following are the key words for reference: Health, important, healthy, enjoy, sports, exercise, increase, appetite, mind, sound, relaxed, and indulge.

Todays low gasoline prices make consumers willing to indulge their preference for larger cars, which consume greater amounts of gasoline as fuel. So United States automakers are unwilling to pursue the development of new fuel-efficient technologies aggressively. The particular reluctance of the United States automobile industry to do so, however, could threaten the industrys future. Which of the following, if true, would provide the most support for the claim above about the future of the United States automobile industry？

v. indulge

And so it came _____ that in the United States, the most self-indulgent of nations, the tensest and most departmentalized, vacations have come to take a predominant place in domestic conversation（）