单选题______ that he wasn"t happy with the arrangements, I tried to book a different hotel.

单选题I do not know where (could he have) (gone) (so early) (in the) morning.

单选题The white people ______ the overwhelming majority of the government in U.S.

单选题I know it has gone past but I just can't help______ about it.

单选题Before we leave, make sure________ there is some paper in your bag

单选题You ___  John in the street this morning ，He's been dead for ages. 

单选题 Patients Struck off by GPs A. Thousands of patients are being arbitrarily struck off by GPs (普通开业医生) who say they can no longer cope with spiralling numbers. Doctors warned last night that a recruitment crisis has left surgeries with too few staff. This means they are being forced to 'deregister' patients—many of whom are elderly and have been with the same practice all their lives. B. Yesterday the Daily Mail highlighted the case of 95-year-old Lily Dove, one of 1,500 patients randomly struck off by a surgery in Watton, Norfolk, which is under pressure from rising immigration and retirees. The widow, who has lived in the area since 1919 and remembers when the doctor would visit her family in a horse and trap, has a number of health problems. C. But senior GPs say her case is far from isolated and illustrates a national problem. They say other practices in England have been forced to deregister up to 100 patients at a time. Doctors' leaders argue that they have no choice but to remove patients because the lack of GPs means they cannot provide care that is safe and of high quality. D. But relatives and patients fear vulnerable patients are being deliberately removed from lists because they take up the most time and require such dedicated care. Other patients furious to have been kicked off their doctor's books yesterday included an 80 year-old widow, a blind child and a mother of 11 children. In another example, a practice deregistered a nursing home of 59 residents, many of whom have Alzheimer's, because of a 'big change in workload'. E. GPs say the profession is facing a recruitment crisis as their colleagues opt for early retirement or a move abroad. They are not being replaced by younger staff, who are often opting for hospital-based careers. In the case of Watton, which is about 20 miles west of Norwich, surgeries are under pressure from a sudden rise in retirees and immigrants moving to the area. F. Last night health minister Earl Howe intervened in the case of Mrs Dove, who lives alone, and urged NHS England to 'urgently' look into the circumstances of her being struck off. He told GPs to ensure they provided 'excellent care' for all their patients, particularly the over-75s and those with longterm health conditions. G. But it has since emerged that Mrs Dove's surgery, Watton Medical Practice, has also removed other vulnerable patients including a 47-year-old former soldier who has lost both legs due to severe diabetes. Dave Pendry, who is wheelchair-bound, now faces a 14-mile round trip to see his new GP in the village of East Harling. Kirsty Hutchinson, a mother to 11 children, will have to travel 16 miles every time one of them is ill or needs an injection. And two elderly widows said they now faced difficult journeys down dangerous country roads to see their doctor. H. Other GPs warned that more surgeries would follow suit. Referring to the case in Watton, one GP partner wrote anonymously on the Pulse magazine website: 'Just wait for the domino effect.' The practice which has deregistered a nursing home of 59 elderly residents is the Bellevue Medical Centre in Edgbaston, Birmingham—the practice of Professor Steve Field, the chief inspector of GPs. I. It says it has been forced to remove a total of 75 patients who live the furthest away since a doctor retired. The decision has upset some relatives who fear the surgery has deliberately targeted the nursing home because the residents require so many visits. One said: 'I think the real reason is that nursing home residents are often difficult to manage, lots of health problems, on a lot of medication. I'm sure that if they were 'easier' patients, the surgery would keep them on.' J. The surgery's executive partner Dr Sukdev Singh insisted the reason was because there had been a 'big increase in workload' following the retirement of a doctor. He said about 75 patients were being removed from the list as they lived outside the practice's boundary. He added: 'It's a national problem. We are struggling to recruit doctors and we do not have the necessary funding.' K. There are no national figures for the numbers of patients who have been removed from surgery lists because of GPs' workload. But Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP Committee, said it was important that surgeries did not 'discriminate' against certain patients who may require more time and care. 'It would not be appropriate for practices to pick and choose,' he said. He added: 'I do not know the circumstances here but these decisions must not be taken lightly and practices must ensure they do not discriminate against certain patients. If there are boundary issues, the practice needs to make sure all patients outside the boundary are taken off the list, not just one cared home.' L. In Watton, parish council leader Richard Leighton said: 'There's immigration, because people are coming to work in the slaughterhouse and food factories around here.' British people are also moving here because there's work about, and there are retired people who sell up in London and buy a cheaper home here. 'They keep building homes here because the Government says the area can take more people, but the infrastructure can't cope.' M. Gillian Childerhouse, 80, who is being struck off after being on the surgery's register for almost 50 years, said: 'I've never been much trouble to them as I'm pretty fit but I've been dumped along with the rest of them. Older people are not very important in this country. They don't want us. We're just a damned trouble.' N. Referring to the case of Mrs Dove, Earl Howe said: 'We have asked NHS England to urgently look into the case. We expect practices to work with their patients and NHS England to make sure that residents get the excellent care they need from local GPs, particularly those over 75 or with long-term conditions.' O. Cancer specialist Dr Clive Peedell, coleader of National Health Action Party, said: 'I've certainly heard that up and down the country patients are being removed from practice lists because they can't deal with the workload. The pressures are enormous at the moment. There are real staffing issues and we are extremely worried about the lack of funding. The Royal College of GPs says they are short of 8,000 GPs.'

单选题Patients" bills of rights require that they ______ informed about their condition and about alternatives for treatment.

单选题NASA"s new Mars probe, a $2.5 billion, nuclear-powered rover the size of a small car, is at the Florida launch site being prepared for its nine-month journey to the red planet, with one key issue still unresolved—where to land. The Mars Science Laboratory, nicknamed Curiosity, will delve deeper than any previous science mission to answer the age-old question about whether there is life beyond Earth. The goal of the project is to determine if the region where Curiosity lands has or ever had the fight conditions to support microbial life. Scientists spent years poring over pictures and analyzing chemical data collected by a fleet of robotic spacecraft circling Mars before narrowing down the options to four finalists: Eberswalde Crater, Mawrth Vallis, Holden Crater and Gale Crater. "Each site has things that make it good and things that make it not quite so good," said planetary scientist Matt Golombek. "It"s kind of hard to select because it boils down to which kind of science is important to you, and that"s almost personal." The rover will touch down within a 12.4-by-15.5 mile targeted area. a relatively small patch of real estate for interplanetary travel. Being able to make a precision touchdown hasn"t made things easy for scientists tapped to choose Curiosity"s landing spot. In the past, lots of scientifically interesting sites were eliminated because of concerns the spacecraft wouldn"t be able to make a safe landing. Eberswalde Crater stands out among the four contenders because of a single, stunning geologic feature—a delta, believed to be a buildup of sediment left by flowing water. "If you want a site that probably has the highest chance of preserving organics and biosignatures that might have existed, this is the place," Golombek said. "It"s just a spectacular example where water came and built up a sediment." The attractive Eberswalde site, however; has a serious drawback as well. If its deposits turn out to be nothing more than clay-dusted rocks, the mission would be largely a bust. The next candidate site, Mawrth Vallis, is an open book of Martian history, with exposed valley walls that date back about 3.7 billion years, nearly as old as the planet itself. Its clays, known as phyllosilicates, form in the presence of water, believed to be a necessary ingredient for life. Mawrth"s short-coming is that scientists don"t understand how it formed. Water that once flowed in the valley could have been far too acidic for life to flourish.

单选题We all love a hero, and rescue dogs are some of the biggest heroes of all. You will often find them going above and beyond duty to save someone, risking--and at times losing--their lives in the proces

单选题He was told he could join the army when he ______ old enough.

单选题 Old stereotypes die hard. Picture a video-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammering away at a game involving rayguns and aliens that splatter when blasted. Today a gamer is as likely to be a middle-aged commuter playing 'Angry Birds' on her smartphone. In America, the biggest market, the average game-player is 37 years old. Two-fifths are female. Even teenagers with imaginary rayguns are more likely to be playing 'Halo' with their friends than playing alone Over the past ten years the video-game industry has grown from a small niche business to a huge, mainstream one. With global sales of $56 billion in 2010, it is more than twice the size of the recorded-music industry. Despite the downturn, it is growing by almost 9% a year. Is this success due to luck or skill? The answer matters, because the rest of the entertainment industry has tended to treat gaming as being a lucky beneficiary of broader technological changes. Video gaming, unlike music, film or television, had the luck to be born digital: it never faced the struggle to convert from analogue. In fact, there is plenty for old media to learn. Video games have certainly been swept along by two forces: demography and technology. The first gaming generation—the children of the 1970s and early 1980s—is now over 30. Many still love gaming, and can afford to spend far more on it now. As gaming establishes itself as a pastime for adults, the social stigma and the worries about moral corruption that have historically greeted all new media, from novels to pop music, have dissipated. Meanwhile rapid improvements in computing power have allowed game designers to offer experiences that are now often more cinematic than the cinema. The industry has excelled in two particular areas: pricing and piracy. In an era when people are disinclined to pay for content on the web, games publishers were quick to develop 'freemium' models, where you rely on non-paying customers to build an audience and then extract cash only from a fanatical few. In China, where piracy is rampant, many games can be played online for nothing. Finns instead make money by selling in-game perks and 'virtual goods' to dedicated players. China is now the second-biggest gaming market, but does not even rank in the top 20 markets for the music business. As gaming comes to be seen as just another medium, its tech-savvy approach could provide a welcome shot in the arm for existing media groups. Time Warner and Disney have bought games firms; big-budget games, meanwhile, now have Hollywood-style launches.

单选题Your mother must be at home, ______she?

单选题This question is so difficult that only ______ students can answer it.

单选题The girl could not ______ the temptation of the piece of chocolate and told a lie.

单选题He ______ that he could create live fish out of chemicals. A. demanded B. asserted C. argued D. announced

单选题 Let's face it—there are lots of reasons to hate McDonald's: calories, cholesterol and, for me at least, that sickening feeling after munching (大口咀嚼) on McNuggets. Then there's always that kid at the drive-through who forgets the ketchup (番茄酱). Well, add one more reason to spite McDonald's: as the global economy spirals downward, McDonald's is minting money. 'In the worst of times for the restaurant industry, it's the best of times for McDonald's,' says Butt Flickinger Ⅲ, managing director of the Strategic Resources Group, a retail-consulting company. In fact, the company's sales have increased for 55 straight months. Profits grew 11%, to $1.2 billion. The pricing of McDonald's, highlighted by dollar-menu items like apple pies, side salads and yogurt, plus cheap combo meals is a key strength during the recession. In particular, consumers are fleeing casual, family chain restaurants for the convenience and savings of fast food. The economy is not the only reason people are drawn to McDonald's. The company's management also deserves credit for its success. Back seven years ago, America's obesity (肥胖) epidemic was a hot topic, and McDonald's suffered from the strong negative reaction. Stale food and tired stores also kept people away. 'McDonald's was actively persuading customers from coming back,' says John Glass, a Morgan Stanley analyst. Since that time, McDonald's have remodeled 11,000 stores. At a neat and clean restaurant in the Bronx one weekday evening, Brian Waters, a mailman, sat with his 9-year-old son in a booth. The bright dining area featured abstract paintings of New York City's bridges and the Statue of Liberty. 'It used to be dark and dull in here,' Waters says. 'Now it's nice and clean. I don't mind sitting here anymore.' Stores have also extended hours: 34% of the company's 14,000 U.S. restaurants are now open 24/7. The menu got an upgrade too. Obscene 'super-size' choices were phased out, and healthier options like apples and salads were added. The company changed its coffee blend; coffee sales have soared 70% over the past two years. Chicken McNuggets now consist solely of white meat, which has less fat and fewer calories than the darker-meat mix of old. Like any other business in this environment, McDonald's faces some potential roadblocks. As the recession wears on, fast-food-service growth may flatten out; plus, McDonald's can expect more price competition. For example, Steak'n Shake, the diner-style burger chain in 21 states throughout the Midwest and South, is promoting four different meal combos for less than $4. 'In Los Angeles, every other billboard is a 99-cent food price,' says Glass. The battle for bargain-hunting eaters is on. But given its recent winning ways, McDonald's might just add a few more billion served.