单选题Today, I firmly (believe), they (deliver) the new television, and if they (do), I (shall) help you set up the cable stations.

单选题Last year, Sean Martinovich, from Whitianga, had life-saving surgery when a golf-sized tumor was removed from his brain stem. But the operation left half his face paralysed. He talked with a slur, sometimes dribbled out of the side of his mouth and could. not close his eye properly. Although he could run around with the other boys in the playground, when they laughed he could not laugh with them. Without a smile, he would suffer psychologically and emotionally. Last week, 6-year-old Sean had seven hours of microsurgery that should give him back his smile. Doctor Bartlett removed a nerve from the back of one of Sean's legs and transplanted it into his face, On the normal side of his face the nerve divides into lots of little branches. "We'll cut those nerve branches and then we'll take a nerve graft from one leg and tunnel it across his face from one side to the other end join that on to the nerve that's been cut on the good side of his face," Doctor Bartlett said, before the operation. "If this was not fixed, he could face physical and emotional problems as he got older," Doctor Bartlett said. "Socially, people can become quite withdrawn because of face paralysis. It's easy for people, especially children, to become rather emotionless because they prefer the flatness of no movement on either side to the weirdness of an asymmetry of smiling off one side and having this twisted face." Sean is not smiling yet. Over the next six months the nerves will grow across the face to the damaged side and after that movement will hopefully come back. Sean's parents, Steve and Wendy Martinovich, said they had been through a year of hell. But their son was a determined boy who just got on with it, said Mrs. Marfinovich. They are amazed at the technology that they hope will restore the cheeky smile they love so much. For Doctor Bartlett the microsurgery is almost routine. For Sean's parents, it is a miracle.

单选题They are experimenting with "phytotherapy," or plant--and herb-based______, to ameliorate hot flashes, sleeplessness, and more. A. remedies B. renovates C. embellishes D. modifies

单选题In Paragraph 4, second line, "yakking away" most probably means ______.

单选题Physical therapy is the treatment of people of all ages with injured or diseased muscles, arms, or legs. Physical therapists, or PTs as they are often called, treat patients with exercise and massage. PTs do not use medicine to treat patients. Sometimes water or heat therapies are used for treatment as well. Physical therapy helps an injured or sick person move with less pain and stress. PTs are not medical doctors, but doctors often refer patients to physical therapists to help patients recover from injuries or deal with diseases. A PT studies the patient"s medical records. Then he or she develops a treatment plan to improve the patient"s ability to move the injured limb. PTs work with patients to strengthen damaged or weakened muscles. PTs may teach the patient how to use crutches, wheelchairs, or an artificial limb. Therapists want patients to be able to do as many daily activities as they possibly can. The PT keeps a record of the patient"s progress. Treatments are changed according to the patient"s needs and rate of progress. Physical therapists must graduate from a physical therapy program at a college or university. A four year baccalaureate degree is required. In addition, a master"s degree requires two to two and one-half more years. A doctorate degree requires three years. Physical therapists must pass a national and/or state exam to get a license. Some PTs work in hospitals, nursing homes, or doctors" offices. Some PTs travel to patients" homes to work with patients who are homebound. Some PTs work in schools, health clubs, or with sports teams. PTs may specialize in a certain field, such as sports medicine, working with athletes. They might choose cardiology, working, with patients with heart disease or defects. They might choose the field of pediatrics if they like working with children. If you are a person who likes people and wants to help them improve their lives, you might like to be a physical therapist. If so, you should have strong communication and interpersonal skills. Above all, compassion is a required character trait for a PT.

单选题He has just ______ to a letter from a friend of his in Japan.

单选题Rescue teams from all over the world ______ on the earthquake-stricken area after the news spread that the quake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale, had claimed a toll of 15,000 lives.

单选题Australia began to assume its modem {{U}}configuration{{/U}} by the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago, when Antarctica broke away and drifted southward.

单选题His birthday was ______ in a big hotel and attended by about 200 people.

单选题Henry Tanner received widespread Urecognition/U for his naturalistic paintings of plantation life.

单选题 Water will evaporate from any wetted surface. A .significantly large fraction of the rainfall that falls on land is returned to the atmosphere in this fashion. In addition water is assimilated by root systems of growing plants and is later transpired from the leaf surfaces by a process essentially identical to evaporation. The two effects, evaporation and transpiration, cannot be individually discriminated for their effectiveness in returning rainfall to the atmosphere, but their sum contribution can be evaluated and is usually called the evapotranspiration factor. The fraction of rain falling on the United States that is returned to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration, for example, is 70 percent; for the world as a whole, approximately 62 percent. In arid countries such as Australia the fraction is larger, and in less arid areas such as the United Kingdom it is lower. Water returned to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration is unavailable to man, except in, the sense that useful plants may be grown in the place of useless ones. It cannot be trapped and redistributed for industrial or other purposes. In regions of low rainfall, plant cover will develop to a point where all precipitation is used in evapotranspiration and none remains for stream now. Seasonal rainfalls provide a qualifier for this statement because streams will flow even in the most arid areas during periods of maximum rainfall. In general, if the potential evapotranspiration—that which would result from the maximum plant cover a region could support under ideal circumstances—should exceed the precipitation, overland stream flow ceases. Conversely, if evapotranspiration is less than precipitation, runoff is generated. The amount by which precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration is the perennial yield of stream flow water, and this is the usable fraction of rain and snowfall. Across the entire United States the water yield amounts to 30 percent of the total rainfall, or approximately 1.77×1015 liters per year. But when we consider the distribution of water deficiencies and surpluses we find that essentially the entire eastern half of the United States, together with a small region in the Pacific northwest, enjoys water surplus, while most of the country to west of the Mississippi is water- deficient and arid.

单选题The driver stopped his car so {{U}}abruptly{{/U}} that he was hit by the cab behind him.

单选题An area of rich forests was ______ to life.

单选题We must______on our reputation to expand the business.

单选题The Federal Government ______ farmers by buying their surplus crops at prices above the market value.

单选题I didn't listen to Mom and I was not surprised at the look of ______ on her face. A. take up B. compliment C. negligence D. reproach

单选题It is our______policy that we will achieve unity through peaceful means.(2002年上海交通大学考博试题)