A. watch B. information C. withPhrases: A. associated【T1】 1a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancyB. lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn't【T2】 2any televisionC. when they collected TV viewing【T3】 3 Sitting in front of the television may be relaxing, but spending too much time in front of the TV may take years off your life. That's what Australian researchers found,【T4】 4from more than 11,000 people older than 25 years. The study found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day【T5】 5Also, every hour of TV that participants watched after age 25 was【T6】 6The more TV you watch, the less physically active you are. And the less exercise you get, the more likely you are to develop diseases such as diabetes or heart problems. 【T1】

The use of penicillin is limited by its tendency to induce allergic reactions.

A. I still haven't finished all of my projects.B. You look so concerned!C. I didn't sleep a wink last night. Sydney: Steve, you look pale. What happened?Steve:【D4】______Sydney: Did you have something on your mind?【D5】______Maybe I can help you.Steve: Well, I'm under a lot of pressure. My boss is very pushy. He assigned me three projects. Now the deadlines are near and【D6】______Sydney: Is there anything I can do to help you?Steve: Well, I guess no one can help me but myself. For the moment, I just need someone to talk to so that I can relieve my stress.

Professor Johnson's retirement ______ from next January.

Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it's round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthusiasts even travel to international stone-skimming competitions, like world champion Jerdone Coleman-McGhee, who made a stone bounce 38 times on Blanco River, Texas, in 1992. Intuitively, a flat stone works best because a relatively large part of its surface strikes the water, so there's more bounce. Inspired by his eight-year-old son, physicist Lyderic Bocquet wanted to find out more. He tinkered with some simple equations describing a stone bouncing on water in terms of its radius, speed and spin, and taking account of gravity and the water's drag. The equations showed that the faster a spinning stone is travelling, the more times it will bounce. To bounce at least once without sinking, Bocquet found the stone needs to be travelling at a minimum speed of about 1 kilometre per hour. The equations also backed his hunch(直觉)that spin is important because it keeps the stone fairly flat from one bounce to the next. The spin has a gyroscopic(陀螺的)effect, preventing the stone from tipping and falling sideways into the water. To match the world record of 38 bounces using a 10-centimetre-wide stone, Bocquet predicts it would have to be travelling at about 40 kilometres per hour and spinning at 14 revolutions a second. He adds that drilling lots of small pits in the stone would probably help, by reducing water drag in the same way that dim pies on a golf ball reduce air drag.

The receding prices of these stocks sent many investors panicking and despairing.

When I was still an architecture student, a teacher told me, "We learn more from buildings that fall down than from buildings that stand up. " What he meant was that construction is as much the result of experience as of theory. Although structural design follows established formulas, the actual performance of a building is complicated by the passing of time, the behavior of users, the natural elements and unnatural events. All are difficult to simulate. Buildings, unlike cars, can't be crash-tested. The most important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is that tall buildings can withstand the impact of a large jetliner. The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side. Although about 30 of these columns, extending from four to six floors, were destroyed in each building by the impact, initially both towers remained standing. Even so, the death toll(代价)was appalling—2,245 people lost their lives. I was once asked, how tall buildings should be designed given what we'd learned from the World Trade Center collapse. My answer was, "Lower. " The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer. Common aerial fire-fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach to about the 10th floor, so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be fought from the exterior(外部). Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above that height depend on fire stairs. The taller the building is, the longer it will take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire. So the simple answer to the safety question is "Lower than 10 stories ". Then why don't cities impose lower height limits? A 60-story office building does not have six times as much rentable space as a 10-story building. However, all things are equal. Such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more in property taxes. So cutting building heights would mean cutting city budgets. The most important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings but that we have misjudged their cost. We did the same thing when we underestimated the cost of hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour. It took many years before seat belts, air bags, radial tires, and antilock brakes became common place. At first, cars simply were too slow to warrant concern. Later, manufacturers resisted these expensive devices, arguing that consumers would not pay for safety. Now we do willingly.

Being sociable looks like a good way to add years to your life. Relationships with family, friends, neighbours, even pets, will all do the trick, but the biggest longevity(长寿)boost seems to come from marriage or an equivalent relationship. The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers(鳏夫)were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers. Studies since then suggest that marriage could add as much as seven years to a man's life and two to a woman's. The effect holds for all causes of death whether illness, accident or self-harm. Even if the odds are stacked against you, marriage can more than compensate. Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart. Likewise, a married man who smokes more than a pack a day is likely to live as long as a divorced man who doesn't smoke. There's a flip side, however, as partners are more likely to become ill or die in the couple of years following their spouse's death, and caring for a spouse with mental disorder can leave you with some of the same severe problems. Even so, the odds favour marriage. In a 30-year study of more than 10, 000 people, Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School describes how all kinds of social networks have similar effects. So how does it work? The effects are complex, affected by socio-economic factors, health-service provision, emotional support and other more physiological(生理的)mechanisms. For example, social contact can boost development of the brain and immune system, leading to better health and less chance of depression later in life. People in supportive relationships may handle stress better. Then there are the psychological benefits of a supportive partner. A life partner, children and good friends are all recommended if you aim to live to 100. The ultimate social network is still being mapped out, but Christakis says: " People are interconnected, so their health is interconnected. "

______the rain, the air quality would not be so good.

A. I want to go into e-commerceB. That dependsC. you can make a living out of thatD. we could talk to each client individuallyWilliam: I have this great ambition to start my own small business, as soon as I can.Steven: That's great. What sort of business are you planning?William: It's the Internet.【D7】______and specialize in teaching Chinese to foreigners.Steven: That's a newbie. I haven't heard of anyone making a business out of that.William: My mate and I are developing the software for a program that will teach people an easier way to learn.Steven: And you reckon【D8】______?William: Yes. We have a good marketing plan to target the right people who need to learn Chinese.Steven: How do you plan to set up this business?William: The idea, once we have the software finished, is to offer progressive lessons over the Internet.Steven: What? A sort of one on one system?William: That's right. With modern technology, using web camera and voice communication,【D9】______Steven: How many people will you need for teaching the lessons?William:【D10】______To begin with, we estimate, between the two of us, we could handle about 40 clients a week.

Write at least 150 words about the topic: A Better University or a Better Major?You should write according to the outline given below.1．你认为在研究生学习阶段是选择一个好的学校重要还是选择一个好的专业重要?2．你的理由是…

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A. whole B. get C. fromPhrases: A. India as a【T1】 1adds almost 20 million people a yearB. keep Kerala【T2】 2putting added pressureC. Kerala help girls and boys【T3】 3equally good schooling Should that happen, it won't be the fault of the enlightened women of Kerala in southern Indi-a. While【T4】 4, Kerala's population is virtually stable. The reason is no mystery: nearly two-thirds of Kerala women practice birth control, compared with about 40% in the entire nation. The difference lies in the emphasis on health programs, including birth control, by the state authorities, which in 1957 became India's first elected Communist government. And an educational tradition and matrilineal(母系的)customs in parts of【T5】 5 While one in three Indian women is literate, 90% of those in Kerala can read and write. Higher literacy rates foster family planning. "Unlike our parents, we know that we can do more for our children if we have fewer of them," says Laial Cherian, 33, who lives in the village of Kudamaloor. She has limited herself to three children—one below the national average of four. That kind of restraint(抑制，克制)will【T6】 6on world food supplies. 【T1】

A. there's just not enough time to see them allB. they would have to give me the money to attend the games as wellC. From all accountsD. You're a hard person to pleaseSue: Have you ever been to any of the Olympic games?Alice: No. I've never been in a country at the time they were held.Sue: Would you have gone if someone had paid your ticket to get there?Alice: That would've been nice, but【D7】______Sue: The tickets are getting a bit expensive these days. That's true.Alice: My problem with the Olympics is: there are too many sports I want to see and【D8】______Sue: All the sports are on TV these days. You need to check the program and record the ones you can't get to.Alice: That's one way I could do it, but it probably means I would have to stay awake half the night to see the things I'd missed.Sue:【D9】______!Alice: Are you going to go to the next Olympics in Beijing?Sue: I'd love to.【D10】______, it's going to be a spectacular show!

Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 years ago.

A. of course, my home at Rainbow Bay.B. The first time I went surfing I fell in love.C. but can you tell us something about your family?D. it's such a refreshing place to be. Interviewer: We all know you are an excellent surfer,【D7】______Interviewee: I was born in January 1988 in Murwillumbah Hospital. My parents are very laid back. They enjoy life and tend to be satisfied with situations. This has rubbed off on me and helps me to always see the bright side of life. Interviewer: When did you begin to love surfing?Interviewee: I've always loved the ocean. Its beauty and the way it's always changing captivates me...also,【D8】______Interviewer: Why?Interviewee: Because I think the best feeling in the world is riding through a glassy, barreling wave in a bikini with a bunch of friends out in the water with you.【D9】______I remember following my dad and sisters around in the lineup and standing up on my boogie board. Interviewer: What did you feel when you won the world title for the first time? Interviewee: When I won the world title for the first time I felt so light and happy! It happened very quickly.Interviewer: Where are your favorite surfing locations? Interviewee: My favorite surfing locations include a few spots in West Sumatra, Mexico and, 【D10】______Interviewer: Thank you for the interview.

A. at which B. take up C. positivePhrases: A. never to【T7】 1smoking to begin withB. which is a【T8】 2signC.【T9】 3the person begins to smoke Quitting smoking is more of a matter of willpower than of individual choice, for smoking is widely recognized as a hard habit that takes great determination and efforts to get rid of once picked up. Despite the chance that a smoker can quit permanently through medication or doctors'counseling, the best way to avoid the trouble is【T10】 4 The hard-to-stop effects of cigarette smoking vary in intensity and are related both to the amount and length of exposure and the age【T11】 5Cigarette smoking is presently blamed for one-third of all cancer deaths in the United States. The sad fact is that more people take up smoking than give it up and that the demonstration of the potential risks caused by smoking can fail, particularly among the young and in face of the vigorous marketing of cigarette manufacturers. Smoking is banned in public places in some big cities,【T12】 6that the awareness of the harm of cigarette smoking has been strengthened. 【T7】

On his barren place on Aikhanom Hill, overlooking fields peppered with land mines, soldiers come to lay a stone or say a prayer for friends lost in years of war.

The government's attempt to inhibit the present speed of inflation is highly appreciated.