问答题The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one"s way across the battlefield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon. A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle"s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground visitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes. While the battle ended two centuries ago, however, hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here, and not everyone here shares Britain"s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon"s defeat. Every year, in districts of Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are fetes to honor Napoleon, according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for restoring Hougoumont. "Napoleon, for these people, was very popular," Jacobs, 73, said over coffee. "That is why, still today, there are some enemies of the project." Belgium, of course, did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers, Jacobs said, Napoleon had a "huge influence—the administration, the Code Napoleon," or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington, French speakers fought with Napoleon. That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in resistance to a British proposal that, as part of the restoration of Hougoumont, a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18, 1815, when Wellington carried the day. "Every discussion in the committee was filled with high sensitivity," Jacobs recalled. "I said, "This is a condition for the help of the British," so the North Gate won the battle, and we got the monument." If Belgium was reluctant to get involved, France was at first totally uninterested. "They told us, "We don"t want to take part in this British triumphalism," " said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria, a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.

问答题科学是关于自然的知识总体，它代表了人类的共同努力、洞察力、研究成果和智慧。科学并不是什么新东西，在有文字记载的历史以前，当人们最初发现了在他们周围反复出现的各种关系时，就有了科学的开端。通过对这些关系的仔细观察，人们开始了解自然，而由于自然的可靠性，人们还发现他们能够做出预测，从而在某种程度上控制他们周围的环境。 科学家是一群努力洞悉自然，在表面杂乱无序中寻求规律的人。他们具有一种特殊的思考与分析能力，具有无限的耐心进行观察和收集数据。但是，并不能把一切科学发现都归因于能力和耐心，科学发现常常与创造性的想象力紧密相关。的确，想象里的飞跃往往是通向发现的第一步。另外，科学家也以其诚实而著称。他们非常重视城实，主要是因为诚实对他们至关重要。他们提出的每一个理论都要受到进一步的检验。每一个错误或谎言必将被发现，因此，如果发现了与他们的想法相矛盾的证据，科学家不是隐瞒证据，而是修改甚至放弃他们的想法。这样他们积累了极其大量的知识，这些知识帮助我们更好地了解自己及周围的世界。

问答题40年前，黄河入海口曾经是鸟类的乐园。后来，随着黄河三角洲地区河水水量的减少以及人为的开垦，这里的湿地面积减少了，来访鸟儿的数量也减少了。 近年来，黄河三角洲湿地生态系统明显改善。现在，每年都有近百万只鸟到这里越冬栖息，它们中有许多是世界珍稀种类。黄河三角洲湿地保护只是中国在保护湿地方面的一个成功例子。它反映中国在保护湿地方面取得了很大成效。 中国现已建立353个湿地自然保护区。湿地自然保护区的建立还保护了中国大江大河的源头，主要河流入海口，以及候鸟繁殖和越冬栖息地。 目前，湿地保护仍然是中国生态建设中的一个薄弱环节。中国政府将采取有力措施制止掠夺性开发湿地资源的行为，以保证湿地资源的可持续利用。

问答题It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Love My Children, I Hate My Life," is arousing much chatter—-nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight. " The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single-morn Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity morn, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands. In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives. Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake. It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress -free, happiness -enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

问答题中华民族历来尊重人的尊严和价值。还在遥远的古代，我们的先人就已提出“民为贵”的思想，认为“天生万物，唯人为贵”，一切社会的发展和进步，都取决于人的发展和进步，取决于人的尊严的维护和价值的发挥。中国共产党领导人民进行革命、建设和改革，就是要实现全中国人民广泛的自由、民主和人权。今天中国所焕发出来的巨人活力，是中国人民拥有广泛自由、民主的生动写照。中的发展中大国，仍然必须首先保障最广大人民的生存权和发展权，不然一切其他权利都无从谈起。中国确保十二亿多人的生存权和发展权，这是对世界人权进步事业的重大贡献。

问答题Passage 2 钟馗的脸谱 著名的京剧人物钟馗的脸谱像是一只蝙蝠，因汉语中“蝙蝠”的“蝠”与“幸福”的“福”字发音相同，所以成了幸福的形象表意符号。 钟馗的故事有不同版本。流传最广的说法是，他在科举考试中高中榜首，但是因为相貌丑陋被取消了状元资格，一怒之下撞柱而死。玉帝怜其不幸，封他为捉恶鬼之神。与钟馗一同赴试的杜平出资安葬了他。钟馗感其恩德，将妹妹嫁给了杜平。钟馗既是法官又是执行者，他惩恶扬善。尽管钟馗的形象极为丑陋，但他仍是最受欢迎的神明之一。 钟馗脸谱中的蝙蝠造型意味着他给人们带来的福气，额头上红色元宝形，既表明他的忠正，也暗示他头撞柱而亡。黑白二色的图纹，强化他执法公正的涵义，而似带笑形的化妆手法，又反映了钟馗特有的幽默。

问答题{{U}}艾滋病{{/U}} {{U}}艾滋病是一种威胁生命的疾病，它侵袭人体内的自然免疫系统，破坏人体的自卫能力。{{/U}} {{U}}艾滋病本身并不致命，但是，由于人体的免疫系统遭到破坏，病人几乎没有能力来抵御其他许多疾病的侵袭，例如，肺炎、癌症、致盲性疾病和精神错乱。{{/U}} {{U}}艾滋病病毒存在于人的体液中。这种病毒可以通过性生活或共用静脉注射器传播，也可以通过血制品传播，并且可以从患爱滋病的孕妇身上传播给她的妊娠婴儿。{{/U}} {{U}}有关艾滋病传播的许多说法是错误的。与爱滋病患者一起工作或上学不会传染上艾滋病，触摸他们用过的饮水杯或其他东西也不会传染上艾滋病。专家们说：没有人因为与艾滋病患者一起生适、照料艾滋病患者或触摸艾滋病患者而染上艾滋病。{{/U}}

问答题文明是多彩的，人类文明因多样才有交流互鉴的价值。阳光有七种颜色，世界也是多彩的。一个国家和民族的文明是一个国家和民族的集体记忆。人类在漫长的历史长河中，创造和发展了多姿多彩的文明。从茹毛饮血到田园农耕，从工业革命到信息社会，构成了波澜壮阔的文明图谱，书写了激荡人心的文明华章。“一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。”如果世界上只有一种花朵，就算这种花朵再美，那也是单调的。不论是中华文明，还是世界上存在的其他文明，都是人类文明创造的成果。 我参观过法国卢浮宫，也参观过中国故宫博物院，它们珍藏着千万件艺术珍品，吸引人们眼球的正是其展现的多样文明成果。文明交流互鉴不应该以独尊某一种文明或者贬损某一种文明为前提。中国人在2000多年前就认识到了“物之不齐，物之情也”的道理。推动文明交流互鉴，可以丰富人类文明的色彩，让各国人民享受更富内涵的精神生活，开创更有选择的未来。

问答题2000多年来，佛教、伊斯兰教、基督教等先后传入中国，中国音乐、绘画、文学等也不断吸纳外来文明的优长。中国传统画法同西方油画融合创新，形成了独具魅力的中国写意油画，徐悲鸿等大师的作品受到广泛赞赏。中国的造纸术、火药、印刷术、指南针四大发明带动了世界变革，推动了欧洲文艺复兴。中国哲学、文学、医药、丝绸、瓷器、茶叶等传入西方，渗入西方民众日常生活之中。《马可·波罗游记》令无数人对中国心向往之。当今世界，人类生活在不同文化、种族、肤色、宗教和不同社会制度所组成的世界里，各国人民形成了你中有我、我中有你的命运共同体。世界上有200多个国家和地区，2500多个民族和多种宗教。如果只有一种生活方式，只有一种语言，只有一种音乐，只有一种服饰，那是不可想象的。

问答题能源是人类社会赖以生存和发展的重要物质基础。纵观人类社会发展的历史，人类文明的每一次重大进步都伴随着能源的改进和更替。能源的开发利用极大地推进了世界经济和人类社会的发展。 过去100多年里，发达国家先后完成了工业化，消耗了地球上大量的自然资源，特别是能源资源。当前，一些发展中国家正在步入工业化阶段，能源消费增加是经济社会发展的客观必然。 中国是当今世界上最大的发展中国家，发展经济，摆脱贫困，是中国政府和中国人民在相当长一段时期内的主要任务。20世纪70年代末以来，中国作为世界上发展最快的发展中国家，经济社会发展取得了举世瞩目的辉煌成就，成功地开辟了中国特色社会主义道路，为世界的发展和繁荣做出了重大贡献。 中国是目前世界上第二位能源生产国和消费国。能源供应持续增长，为经济社会发展提供了重要的支撑。能源消费的快速增长，为世界能源市场创造了广阔的发展空间。中国已经成为世界能源市场不可或缺的重要组成部分，对维护全球能源安全，正在发挥着越来越重要的积极作用。

问答题PARIS-WhenFrancewonitssecondNobelPrizeinlessthanaweekonMonday,thistimeforeconomics,PrimeMinisterManuelVallsquicklytooktoTwitter,insistingwithnoshortageofpridethattheaccomplishmentwasaloudrebukeforthosewhosaythatFranceisanationindecline."AfterPatrickModiano,anotherFrenchmaninthefirmament:CongratulationstoJeanTirole!"Mr.Vallswrote."Whatawaytothumbone"snoseatFrenchbashing!ProudofFrance."SomeinthecountrywerealreadygiddyafterMr.Modiano,abelovedauthor,whoseconciseandmoodynovelsareoftensetinFranceduringtheNazioccupation,wontheNobelPrizeforliteraturelastweek.TheawardhelpedtoraisetheglobalstatureofMr.Modiano,whosethreebookspublishedintheUnitedStates—twonovelsandachildren"sbook—beforetheNobelhadcollectivelysoldfewerthan8,000copies.Joininginthechorus,LeMondesuggestedinaneditorialthatatatimeoframpantFrench-bashing,Mr.Modiano"sachievementwassomethingofavindicationforacountrywhereNobelPrizesinliteratureflowmoreliberallythanoil.Mr.Modianowasthe15thFrenchwriter,includingSartreandCamus,towintheaward.YetthisbeingFrance,acountrywheredissatisfactioncanbewornlikeanaccessory,someintellectuals,economistsandcriticsgreetedtheawardswithlittlemorethanashrugatatimewhentheeconomyhasbeenfaltering,ParishaslostinfluencetoBerlinandBrussels,thefar-rightNationalFronthasbeensurging,andFrancoisHollandehasbecomeoneofthemostunpopularFrenchpresidentsinrecenthistory.OtherssniffedhaughtilythatwhileFrancewasgreatatculture,itremainedeconomicallyandpoliticallyprostrate.EvenMr.Modianomayhaveunintentionallycapturedthenationalmoodwhen,informedofhisprizebyhiseditor,hesaidhefoundit"strange"andwantedtoknowwhytheNobelcommitteehadselectedhim.EvenMr.Modianomayhaveunintentionallycapturedthenationalmoodwhen,informedofhisprizebyhiseditor,hesaidhefoundit"strange"andwantedtoknowwhytheNobelcommitteehadselectedhim.AlainFinkielkraut,aprofessorofphilosophyattheelitePolytechnique,whorecentlypublishedabookcriticizingwhathecharacterizedasFrance"sdescentintoconformityandmulticulturalism,saidthatratherthanshowingthatFrancewasontheascent,thefetishizingoftheNobelPrizesbytheFrenchpoliticaleliterevealedthecountry"sdesperation."IfindtheideathattheNobelsarebeingusedasaripostetoFrench-bashingidiotic,"hesaid."Oureducationsystemistotallybroken,andtheNobelPrizedoesn"tchangeanything.IhavealotofaffectionforMr.Modiano,butIthinkPhilipRothdeserveditmuchmore.TotalkthatallinFranceisgoingwellandthatthepessimismisgoneisabsurd.Franceisdoingextremelybadly.Thereisaneconomiccrisis.Thereisacrisisofintegration.Iamnotgoingtobeconsoledbythesemedalsmadeofchocolate."RobertFrank,ahistoryprofessoremeritusattheUniversityofParis1—Sorbonne,andtheauthorofTheFearofDecline,FranceFrom1914to2014,echoedthattheself-aggrandizementthathadgreetedtheprizesamongtheFrenchestablishmentreflectedacountrylackinginself-confidence.Inearliercenturies,henoted,theprizehadbeengreetedassomethingobvious.WhenFrenchwritersorintellectualswonNobelsinthemid-20thcentury,"therewasnojoltatthattime,becauseFrancestillsawitselfasimportant,sotherewasn"tmuchtoaddtothat,"hesaid."Today,itmayhelpsomepeopletoshowthatFrancestillcountsincertainplacesintheworld.Thisdoesn"tfixthecrisisofunemployment,however,thatissappingthissociety."Inacademiceconomiccircles,Mr.Tirole"swinningthe2014Nobelineconomicscienceforhisworkonthebestwaytoregulatelarge,powerfulfirms,wasgreetedasafittingtributetoamanwhoseworkhadexertedprofoundinfluence.ItaddedtoanalreadyprominentyearforFrencheconomists,asseenfromThomasPiketty"sbook,CapitalintheTwenty-FirstCentury,whichbecameanimmediatebest-sellerwhentranslatedintoEnglishsixmonthsago.Mr.Tirole"sworkgainedparticularattentionafterthe2008financialcrisis,whichrevealedproblemsintheregulationoffinancialfirmsintheUnitedStatesandEurope.Butsomenotedtheparadoxoftheawardgoingtoaneconomistfromanationwheretheeconomywaslessthanshimmering,andwheremanybusinessesandcriticsbemoanacultureofexcessiveredtape.OtherslikeSeanSafford,anassociateprofessorofeconomicsociologyatInstitutPolitiquesdeParis,theeliteinstituteforpoliticalstudiesknownasSciencesPo,saidMr.Tirole,aprofessorofeconomicsattheUniversityofToulouseinFrance,wasnotableforcomingatatimeofeconomicmalaiseandbraindrain,whensomanyofthecountry"sbrightestareemigratingelsewhereinEuropeortotheUnitedStates."TheaverageFrenchperson,whoisstrugglingtopaythebills,isnotgoingtorejoice,"hesaid.AtatimewhenFranceistryingtooverhaulitssocialmodelamidwitheringresistancetochange,otherssaidtheawardhadlaidbarethecountry"sabidingstratificationbetweenasmall,hyper-educatedeliteandtherestofthecountry.PeterGumbel,aBritishjournalistlivinginFrancewhomostrecentlywroteabookonFrenchelitism,saidthatwhiletheprizewouldprovidesomesenseofnationalvalidation,thetwomendidnotreflectthecountryasawhole."UndoubtedlytheFrenchecosystemproducesincrediblysmartpeopleattheverytopend,whoarecapableofwinningprizes,andwhofallintoagrandtradition,andthatiswhattheFrenchschoolsystemisgearedtoProduce,"hesaid.

问答题从19世纪40年代之后的鸦片战争、甲午战争，到庚子之乱乃至20世纪30年代的日本侵华战争，中国惨遭东西方列强的屠戮和极其野蛮的经济掠夺；再加上封建腐败和连年内乱，中国主权沦丧、生灵涂炭、国力衰弱、民不聊生。深重的灾难、惨痛的事实使中华民族深知和平之珍贵、发展之重要。这样的历史实践形成了中国人民渴望和平、企求安定的心理，坚定了中国人民走和平发展道路的信念。1949年新中国成立后，我们在发展道路上艰辛探索，既经历过成功的喜悦，也经受过失败的挫折。从1978年开始，中国开启了新的征程，从计划转向市场，从封闭转向开放，从自成一体转向融入经济全球化，走独立自主地建设中国特色社会主义的道路，取得了举世瞩目的辉煌成就。实践充分证明，坚持走和平发展的道路是正确的，既符合中国国情，又顺应时代潮流。中国将沿着这条和平发展的道路，坚定不移地走下去。

问答题Matter Look at all the things around us: chairs, desks, cupboards, papers and pens in our classroom; motor cars, bicycles and buses in the streets; trees, plants and animals in the countryside; birds, aeroplanes and clouds in the sky; fishes, seaweeds and corals in the sea; stars, the moon and the sun in outer space. These and all other things including the human body, are examples of matter. Matter is anything that takes up space and has weight. What Is Matter Made of ? Since ancient times, learned men or philosophers have thought about matter and what it is made up of. One group of philosophers thought that matter was made .up of a substance called "hyle" (实质). Another group of philosophers said that matter was made up of four substances, namely earth, water, air and fire. A third group believed that matter was made up of very tiny particles which were too small to be seen. These particles were so small that they could never be further divided into smaller particles. They gave the particles the name atoms which means "those which cannot be divided". The difference between the various kinds of atoms and the ways in which they were joined were supposed to result in the different kinds of matter. All these ideas arose purely from the mind and were not based on investigation. For many years, people believed in the second idea. But actually it is the third idea that is nearer to our present concept of matter. Dalton's Atomic Theory In the early nineteenth century, Dalton, an English school teacher, stated in this atomic theory that matter was made up of tiny, indivisible particles, which he also called atoms. His laboratory work showed him that atoms could neither be divided into smaller parts nor could they be destroyed. He pictured matter as being made up of tiny solid spherical atoms. Today the idea of the atoms has been accepted. But further work has shown that contrary to Dalton's findings, atoms are made up of even smaller particles.

问答题As a leader of a least developed country, I speak from experience when I say that poverty is too complex a phenomenon, and the strategies for fighting it too diverse and dependent on local circumstances, for there is no single silver bullet in the war on poverty. We have learned the hard way over the years. We have experimented with all kinds of ideas. Yet a report recently released by the World Economic Forum shows that barely a third of what should have been done by now to ensure the world meets its goals to fight poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 is done. I am now convinced that the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 can only be attained through a global compact, anchored in national policies that take into account local circumstances. Aid and trade are both necessary, but they are not enough on their own. Neither is good governance enough in itself. Above all, nothing can move without the direct participation of local communities. I fear that we lecture too much. This is not the best way. I will give an example of how such a compact worked in Tanzania to achieve universal basic schooling. In the mid-1990s, almost all indicators for basic education were in free fall. The gross enrollment rate had fallen from 98 percent in the early 1980s to 77.6 percent in 2000. The net enrollment rate had likewise fallen, from over 80 percent to only 58.8 percent. Then several things happened. We decided at the top political level that basic education would be a top priority, and adopted a five-year Primary Education Development Plan to achieve universal basic education by 2006—nine years ahead of the global target. Good governance produced more government revenues, which quadrupled over the last eight years. In 2001, we received debt relief under the World Bank's enhanced H1PC (heavily indebted poor countries) Initiative. Subsequently, more donors put aid money directly into our budget or into a pooled fund for the Primary Education Development Program (PEDP). The government's political will was evidenced by the fact that over the last five years the share of the national budget going to poverty reduction interventions rose by 130 percent. We abolished school fees in primary schools. Then we ensured that all PEDP projects are locally determined, planned, owned, implemented and evaluated. This gave the people pride and dignity in what they were doing. After only two years of implementing PEDP, tremendous successes have been achieved.

问答题It was one of those days that the peasant fishermen on this tributary of the Amazon River dream about. With water levels falling rapidly at the peak of the dry season, a giant school of bass, a tasty fish that fetches a good price at markets, was swimming right into the nets being cast from a dozen small canoes here. "With a bit of luck, you can make $350 on a day like this," Lauro Souza Almeida, a leader of the local fishermen's cooperative, exulted as he moved into position. "That is a fortune for people like us," he said, the equivalent of four months at the minimum wage earned by those fortunate enough to find work. But hovering nearby was a large commercial fishing vessel, a "mother boat" equipped with large ice chests for storage and hauling more than a dozen smaller craft. The crew on board was just waiting for the remainder of the fish to move into the river' s main channel, where they intended to scoop up as many as they could with their efficient gill nets. A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing. As stocks of the most popular species diminish to worrisome levels, tensions are growing between subsistence fishermen and their commercial rivals, who are eager to enrich their bottom line and satisfy the growing appetite for fish of city-dwellers in Brazil and abroad. In response, peasants up and down the Amazon, here in Brazil and in neighboring countries like Peru, are forming cooperatives to control fish catches and restock their rivers and lakes. But that effort, increasingly successful, has only encouraged the commercial fishing operations, as well as some of the peasants' less disciplined neighbors, to step up their depredations. "The industrial fishing boats, the big 20-to 30-ton vessels, they have a different mentality than us artisanal fishermen, who have learned to take the protection of the environment into account," said the president of the local fishermen's union. "They want to sweep everything up with their dragnets and then move on, benefiting from our work and sacrifice and leaving us with nothing./

问答题A 17-year U. S. study has finally answered one of the most pressing questions about diabetes: Can tight control of blood sugar prevent heart attacks and strokes? The answer, reported Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, is yes. Intense control can reduce the risk by nearly half. And, the study found, the effect occurred even though the patients had only had a relatively brief period of intense blood sugar control when they were young adults. None the less, more than a decade later, when they reached middle age, when heart disease and strokes normally start to appear, they were protected. The study involved those with Type 1 diabetes, which usually arises early in life and involves the death of insulin-secreting cells. The question of whether rigid blood sugar control protects against heart disease and strokes has divided the field for decades, diabetes researchers said. "It's really a major question that has been around for a long time," said Dr. Judith Fradkin, who directs diabetes research at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Researchers knew that diabetes was linked to heart disease — at least two-thirds of diabetics die of heart disease. But although studies showed that controlling blood sugar protects against damage to the eyes, kidneys and nerves, there was no conclusive evidence that it would have the same effect on heart disease and strokes. "In that sense, this is a landmark study," said Fradkin. But the result also gives rise to questions: Does the same effect occur in people with Type 2 diabetes, which usually occurs later in life and involves an inability to respond to insulin? And why would tight control of blood sugar for one brief period have such a pronounced effect later? Fradkin said she expected the results would hold for Type 2 diabetes. Another large U. S. federal study is addressing that question, she notes, but it is already known that tight control of blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes protects against nerve, kidney and eye damage, just as it does with Type 1 diabetes. In addition, a study in Britain hinted — although it did not demonstrate — that Type 2 diabetics who keep their blood sugar low have less heart disease and strokes. Fradkin said she hoped the emerging evidence and improving therapies would make a difference.

问答题In its plans to develop Greece as a year-round tourist destination, the Ministry of Tourism is focusing on alternative forms of tourism, beyond the sun, sea and sand classical summer holiday. Among other sectors, these include health and beauty tourism. Apart from stunning natural beauties, nature has endowed Greece with hot springs whose therapeutic properties were already known in ancient times. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was the first to discover their virtues some 25 centuries ago. The geographical location of these springs is not accidental as it is related either to tectonic events or volcanic activities. Their waters are therapeutic for ailments such as rheumatism, arthritis and complaints related to lungs, kidneys, blood circulation and dermatology, among others. Of more than 750 natural springs, around 80 operate professionally as natural spas, many with accommodation and other facilities. In consultations with tourism associations, hoteliers and tourism investment consultants, the government is drafting a new law to define the rules for health tourism. Expected to be approved by Parliament early next year, the law will establish the legal framework and the prerequisites for health tourism centers, including provisions for handicapped guests. One condition will be that such centers will have to operate all year, not just in summer. Another is that hotels providing health facilities should be near a hospital or an airport. The Development Law, which came into force in December 2004, provides attractive incentives, such as subsidies or tax breaks for health tourism center investments. The government is encouraging regional development in areas in northwestern Greece. Doctors and investors from Sweden, Britain and Germany have already shown interest in establishing health tourism centers in Greece, to take advantage of the country's mild climate, low humidity and year-round sunshine. In addition to hydrotherapy, some centers will deal with illnesses of the psyche — depression, psychological problems and addictions. The serenity of many parts of Greece's countryside is seen as therapeutic for people from northern countries where cold, dreary climates can lead sufferers to depression and suicide. Spread throughout Greece, many natural mineral springs are owned by the National Tourism Organization of Greece and managed by the Tourism Development Co. The latter is gradually divesting itself of its. large and diverse portfolio through long-term leasing of its holdings, including mineral springs and spas.

问答题Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: when will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed, love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeat in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and worst of all without pity, or compassion. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. Until he relearns these things he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure; that when the last ding-dong of doom has changed and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

问答题在战地，我们的生活特别快乐。虽然我们睡的是潮湿的地铺，喝的是泥沟里的污水，吃的是硬饭冷菜，穿的是单薄的衣裤，盖着从上海妇女慰劳会(Shanghai Women's Armed Forces Relief Association)捐赠的薄被，睡在朔风凛冽的堂屋里，但我们这一群平时过惯了舒服生活的小姐，一点也不感觉到辛苦。病了时，反正有的是看护；冷起来时，七八个人挤作一堆；缸里没有水了，自己去挑；灶里没有柴，自己去砍；至于洗衣、扫地、烧饭，更是我们每天必做的勤务。我们当中，有两个会理发的，三个会缝衣的，五个会做拿手好菜的；还有喜欢写新诗的、写旧诗的、写小说的、演剧的、唱歌的，各种各样的人才都有。

问答题中国等发展中国家向美国提供了大量价廉物美的商品，使美国传统制造业腾出财力物力用于发展高新技术。这加快了美国工业的升级换代，推进了美国产业结构的优化，使美国及时摆脱传统工业的束缚，保持了它在世界经济中的领先地位。因此，中国的出口不会威胁美国的经济。 在中国扩大出口的同时，进口也在快速增长。实际上，美国产品早已进入中国百姓的日常生活。现在，不少中国人乘坐的是波音飞机，开的是别克轿车，看的是美国电影，穿的是苹果牌牛仔裤，喝的是可口可乐，用的是摩托罗拉手机和IBM电脑，而电脑里运行的是微软软件。 中国进出口能力的不断提高为包括美国经济在内的世界经济做出了积极贡献。