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Eating fruits and vegetables has proved helpful in preventing various chronic(慢性的)illnesses. Does that mean the more the better? The data from 16 studies were analyzed,【C1】______ more than 833,234 adults. The span of the studies【C2】______ from 5 to 26 years. 56,423 adults participating in the studies died. Overall, the more fruits and vegetables people【C3】______ , the less likely they were to have died during the study period. For every【C4】______ serving eaten, up to four a day, the chance of dying for any reason decreased by 5 percent. Those who ate four servings a day were 24 percent less【C5】______ to have died than those who ate none at all. However, eating five or more daily servings indicated no added【C6】______ . Higher consumption of fruits and vegetables also showed【C7】______ no effect on the probability of dying from cancer. Although the recommendation of the【C8】______ serving varies with age, health status and other factors, most adults are called for to fill half their plate with fruits and vegetables. The food pyramid(金字塔)model【C9】______ that adults eat three to five servings of vegetables and two to four servings of fruits daily. However, the study did not determine whether certain fruits or vegetables were more or less beneficial than others. It indeed inferred that there's a(n) 【C10】______ to how much fruit and vegetables are good for you.A)additional I)investingB)annual J)involvingC)benefit K)likelyD)boundary L)limitE)consumed M)probableF)daily N)rangedG)essentially O)suggested H)financially

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我国将继续推进行政管理(administrative management)、金融部门和物价的改革。

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Topic On Outdoor Exercise in Modern Life For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Outdoor Exercise in Modern Life following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1．现代生活中人们普遍缺乏户外运动 2．造成这一现象的原因 3．改变这种现状的方法

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People in the US can now carry an artificial intelligence (AT) around in their pocket, where it waits patiently to be told what to do. Siri, an iPhone application that understands spoken commands and uses the web to carry them out, is a byproduct from a US military project to develop an artificially intelligent assistant.Many people's experience of a "virtual assistant" may be limited to Microsoft's annoying classic Mr. Clippy. But in the week we spent together, my AI assistant has performed admirably in finding me restaurants, or the location of the nearest coffee shop. It wasn't even stumped when I asked "do I need my umbrella today?" coming straight back with the local weather forecast. A typical command might be: "Reserve a table for two at a good French restaurant in San Francisco." Siri responds by presenting a list of top-rated restaurants that can be booked on OpenTable.com. If you say which time you want, it can book you a table without your lifting a finger. In some ways Siri is just a fancy front-end to the 35 sites it can connect to, from taxi booking sites to movie review databases. But what's new is the way it can interpret the intentions of its master or mistress and use those sites to put them into action. Doing that requires the ability to actually understand the meaning of words you use, not just passing on keywords blindly, says Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer. "Book a four-star restaurant in Boston seems pretty straightforward," says Cheyer, "until you realise that Book is a city in the US, and Star is also a city in the US, and there are 13 Bostons, and Star is also the name of a restaurant." To cut through what Cheyer calls the "combined explosion of interpretations", Siri uses your location, and the history of the commands you've given. It knows that "book" is most likely a command verb, unless you happen to be near the city of Book. Siri attaches probabilities to the interpretation of each word and cross-reference (参照) with your location and other data, some of which you must provide yourself.

Researchers have identified 1.4 million animal species so far—and millions remain to be discovered, named, and scientifically described. So how much would it actually cost to【C1】______every animal on Earth? A pair of Brazilian scientists has crunched(详细计算)the numbers and【C2】______up with an answer: $ 263 billion. That's way more than the $ 5 billion that famed Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson estimated back in 2000—and that was for every species on Earth, not just animals. But even $ 263 billion would be a【C3】______price to pay to understand the creatures that【C4】______such essentials as agriculture, fisheries, new drugs, and energy sources, says ornithologist(鸟类专家)Joel Cracraft of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "Literally, the world economy runs on biodiversity," he says. "People don't understand really, deeply how much we depend on biodiversity." Most biologists agree that with extinction rates【C5】______and climate change looming, the【C6】______to document the planet's biodiversity—or biota(生物区)—is urgent,【C7】______considering the essential role these life forms play in crop pollination, clean air, and other aspects of human【C8】______"We are losing species by extinction faster than we are describing new species" according to some estimates, says biologist Antonio Marques, who【C9】______the new paper with Fernando Carbayo, both at the University of St. Paulo in Brazil. "We have to know the biota to preserve and conserve the biota," he says. Besides the money, another huge【C10】______to a complete understanding of the animal kingdom is a global shortage of taxonomists(分类学家), experts say. A)attempt F)effort K)obstacle B)cheaper G)enable L)small C)classify H)especially M)soaring D)coauthored I)exactly N)well-being E)come J)identify O)yet

Identity theftA)Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person' s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.B)The numbers associated with identity theft are beginning to add up fast these days. A recent General Accounting Office report estimates that as many as 750,000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year. And that number may be low, as many people choose not to report the crime even if they know they have been victimized.C)Identity theft is "an absolute epidemic", states Robert Ellis Smith, a respected author and advocate of privacy, "It's certainly picked up in the last four or five years. It's worldwide. It affects everybody, and there' s very little you can do to prevent it and, worst of all, you can' t detect it until it' s probably too late."D)Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data, especially your social security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data, can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense. In the United States and Canada, for example, many people have reported that unauthorized persons have taken funds out of their bank or financial accounts, or, in the worst cases, taken over their identities altogether, running up vast debts and committing crimes while using the victims' names. In many cases, a victim's losses may include not only out-of-pocket financial losses, but substantial additional financial costs associated with trying to restore his reputation in the community and correcting erroneous information for which the criminal is responsible.E)According to the FBI, identity theft is the number one fraud committed on the Internet. So how do job seekers protect themselves while continuing to circulate their resumes online? The key to a successful online job search is learning to manage the risks. Here are some tips for staying safe while conducting a job search on the Internet.F)Check for a privacy policy. If you are considering posting your resume online, make sure the job search site you are considering has a privacy policy, like CareerBuilder.com. The policy should spell out how your information will be used, stored and whether or not it will be shared. You may want to think twice about posting your resume on a site that automatically shares your information with others. You could be opening yourself up to unwanted calls from solicitors(推销员). When reviewing the site's privacy policy, you'll be able to delete your resume just as easily as you posted it. You won't necessarily want your resume to remain out there on the Internet once you land a job. Remember, the longer your resume remains posted on a job board, the more exposure, both positive and not-so-positive, it will receive.G)Take advantages of site features. Lawful job search sites offer levels of privacy protection. Before posting your resume, carefully consider your job search objectives and the level of risk you are willing to assume. CareerBuilder.com, for example, offers three levels of privacy from which job seekers can choose. The first is standard posting. This option gives job seekers who post their resumes the most visibility to the broadest employer audience possible. The second is anonymous(匿名的)posting. This allows job seekers the same visibility as those in the standard posting category without any of their contact information being displayed. Job seekers who wish to remain anonymous but want to share some other information may choose which pieces of contact information to display. The third is private posting. This option allows a job seeker to post a resume without having it searched by employers. Private posting allows job seekers to quickly and easily apply for jobs that appear on CareerBuilder.com without retyping their information.H)Safeguard your identity. Career experts say that one of the ways job seekers can stay safe while using the Internet to search out jobs is to conceal their identities. Replace your name on your resume with a generic(泛指的)identifier, such as "Intranet Developer Candidate", or "Experienced Marketing Representative". You should also consider eliminating the name and location of your current employer. Depending on your title, it may not be all that difficult to determine who you are once the name of your company is provided. Use a general description of the company such as "Major auto manufacturer," or "International packaged goods supplier." If your job title is unique, consider using the generic equivalent instead of the exact title assigned by your employer.I)Establish an email address for your search. Another way to protect your privacy while seeking employment online is to open up an email account specifically for your online job search. This will safeguard your existing email box in the event someone you don't know gets hold of your email address and shares it with others. Using an email address specifically for your job search also eliminates the possibility that you will receive unwelcome emails in your primary mailbox. When naming your new email address, be sure that it doesn 't contain references to your name or other information that will give away your identity. The best solution is an email address that is relevant to the job you are seeking such as salesmgr2QQ4@provider.com.J)Protect your references. If your resume contains a section with the names and contact information of your references, take it out. There' s no sense in safeguarding your information while sharing private contact information of your references.K)Keep confidential(机密的)information confidential. Do not, under any circumstances, share your social security, driver's license, and bank account numbers or other personal information, such as race or eye color. Honest employers do not need this information with an initial application. Don't provide this even if they say they need it in order to conduct a background check. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book—don't fall for it.

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The Mona Lisa is showing her age, museum curators (馆长) in Paris said while announcing a scientific study of the 500-year-old masterpiece. The thin poplar wood【C1】______around Leonardo da Vinci's painting is showing signs of warping, causing curators at the Louvre "some worry". The museum has【C2】______a study to evaluate the Mona Lisa's vulnerability (易受攻击) to climate changes. The painting will remain on【C3】______during the testing, the Louvre said. "Its state of preservation is【C4】______the source of some concern," a statement issued by the museum said. Deterioration (变坏) in its wood panel was "greater than that which has been【C5】______observed," it added. The study, to be conducted by the Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France, will better【C6】______what materials the painting is made of. The painting, whose【C7】______smile attracts millions of visitors to the Louvre, is displayed behind glass to protect it from【C8】______changes and camera flashes. It will be put in a specially【C9】______room in the Louvre early next year. The Mona Lisa was painted between 1503-1506 and was thought to be named after the sitter, most likely the Florentine wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It moved to France with da Vinci in the early 16th Century, where it has【C10】______except for a short spell when it was stolen in 1911. The painting was discovered two years later in a Florence hotel. A. mysterious B. previously C. dose D. commissioned E. charity F. climatic G. intentionally H. redecorated I. interfere J. display K. determine L. currently M. panel N. suspicious O. remained

扇子的用途很广泛，除了能使人凉快之外，还可用于舞蹈、装饰等。

中国的老龄人口在快速增长。预计到2050年，全国将有三分之一的人口超过60岁。然而，在中国的大多数城市，养老院(nursing home)数量很少且针对性的服务远远落后。这就是为什么大多数中国人在他们变老时，更愿意留在自己的子女或配偶身边。一些政协委员(CPPCC member)建议增加保障老龄人口权益的国家财政预算，给养老院提供更多的基础设施(infrastructure)并提高其服务质量。

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