单选题 Danish research shows that the increase in obese people in Denmark is roughly ______ to the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

单选题 When patients spend extended periods in hospital, they tend to become overly dependent and lose interest in taking care of themselves.

单选题 In 1912, German doctors attempted to treat children who had underactive thyroids with normal thyroid cells, but to little avail.

单选题 Rheumatologist advises that those with ongoing aches and pains first seek medical help to ______ the problem.

完形填空 Humans are the only species known to have consciousness, awareness that we have brains and bodies 51 adaptability that we can affect the course our lives take, that we can make choices 52 that vastly affect the quality of our lives—biologically, intellectually, environmentally, and spiritually. As humans, we have the ability to mold our 53 beings to become what or who we wish to become. While some of us may, 54 , have genetic and biological imperatives that may require medication or training to overcome, or at least to modulate, the vast majority of us do, in fact, hold our emotional 55 in our hands. All that 56 , until the last decade, scientists believed that the human brain and its connections were formed during gestation and infancy and remained 57 unchanged through childhood. They believed that humans had a given number of neurons in a specific brain structure, and 58 the number might vary among people, once you were done with childhood development, you were set in this 59 . Your connections were already made, and the learning and growing period of your brain was over. In the last decade, however, researchers have found 60 evidence that this is not so, and that something called neuroplasticity continues throughout our lives.

完形填空 In Mr. Allen's high school class, all the students have to 'get married'. However, the wedding ceremonies are not real ones but 51 . These mock ceremonies sometimes become so 52 that the loud laughter drowns out the voice of the 'minister'. Even the two students getting married often begin to giggle. The teacher, Mr. Allen, believes that marriage is a difficult and serious business. He wants young people to understand that there are many changes that 53 take place after marriage. He believes that the need for these psychological and financial 54 should be understood before people marry. Mr. Allen doesn't only introduce his students to major problems 55 in marriage such as illness or unemployment. He also exposes them to nitty-gritty problems they will face every day. He wants to introduce young people to all the trials and 56 that can strain a marriage to the breaking points. He even 57 his students with the problems of divorce and the fact that divorced men must pay child support money for their children and sometimes pay monthly alimony to their wives. It has been upsetting for some of the students to see the problems that a married couple often faces. 58 they took the course, they had not worried much about the problems of marriage. However, both students and parents feel that Mr. Allen's course is valuable and have 59 the course publicly. Their statements and letters supporting the class have 60 the school to offer the course again.

完形填空 It was the kind of research that gave insight into how flu strains could mutate so quickly. The same branch of research concluded in 2005 that the 1918 flu started in birds before passing to humans. Parsing this animal-human 51 could provide clues to 52 the next potential superflu, which already has a name: H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu. This potential killer also has a number: 59%. According to the WHO, nearly three-fifths of the people who 53 H5N1 since 2003 died from the virus, which was first reported 54 humans in Hong Kong in 1997 before a more serious 55 occurred in Southeast Asia between 2003 and 2004. (It has since spread to Africa and Europe.) Some researchers argue that those mortality numbers are exaggerated because WHO only 56 cases in which victims are sick enough to go to the hospitals for treatment. 57 , compare that to the worldwide mortality rate of the 1918 pandemic; it may have killed roughly 50 million people, but that was only 10% of the number of people infected, according to a 2006 estimate. H5N1's saving grace—and the only reason we're not running around masked up in public right now—is that the strain doesn't jump from birds to humans, or from humans to humans, easily. There have been just over 600 cases (and 359 deaths) since 2003. But 58 its lethality, and the chance it could turn into something far more transmissible, one might expect H5N1 research to be exploding, with labs 59 the virus's molecular components to understand how it spreads between animals and 60 to humans, and hoping to discover a vaccine that could head off a pandemic.

完形填空 Every day, over a million people log onto different Internet-based games. There is truly something for everyone in the gaming world. Games provide a quick escape from 51 . Game developers are the new breed of storytellers, creating alternative 52 . Games represent the ultimate interactive movie, allowing the user to control the direction of the plot. And now the newest technologies allow you to play games no matter where you are. At home, we have PC or video game consoles. 53 , a desktop or laptop computer can be loaded with OS-bundled games or Web-based freebies. Even while traveling, there are many wireless computers, portable devices, wireless phones and PDAs 54 . Games are now pushing back all the 55 once placed upon them by technology, category, realism, location and time. These advances are helping to push games into the 56 of virtual reality. Thus, the stuff of science fiction novels is gradually emerging, the graphic aspects of the game quickly 57 . Initially, electronic games involved 58 moving blocks across a TV or computer screen. 59 the vast increases in processing power, games are quickly approaching three-dimensional realism. This power allows a developer to create a 60 world where a gamer can look around in full 360-degree vision.

完形填空 It was the kind of research that gave insight into how flu strains could mutate so quickly. The same branch of research concluded in 2005 that the 1918 flu started in birds before passing to humans. Parsing this animal-human 51 could provide clues to 52 the next potential superflu, which already has a name: H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu. This potential killer also has a number: 59%. According to the WHO, nearly three-fifths of the people who 53 H5N1 since 2003 died from the virus, which was first reported 54 humans in Hong Kong in 1997 before a more serious 55 occurred in Southeast Asia between 2003 and 2004. (It has since spread to Africa and Europe.) Some researchers argue that those mortality numbers are exaggerated because WHO only 56 cases in which victims are sick enough to go to the hospitals for treatment. 57 , compare that to the worldwide mortality rate of the 1918 pandemic; it may have killed roughly 50 million people, but that was only 10% of the number of people infected, according to a 2006 estimate. H5N1's saving grace—and the only reason we're not running around masked up in public right now—is that the strain doesn't jump from birds to humans, or from humans to humans, easily. There have been just over 600 cases (and 359 deaths) since 2003. But 58 its lethality, and the chance it could turn into something far more transmissible, one might expect H5N1 research to be exploding, with labs 59 the virus's molecular components to understand how it spreads between animals and 60 to humans, and hoping to discover a vaccine that could head off a pandemic.

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语法与词汇When PH.D. candidates______their impending professorships, they consider housing benefits offeredby the prospective university.

语法与词汇This will make art groups more directly and effectively______to audiences, and more responsive totheir criticisms and wishes.

语法与词汇Although this book claims to be a biography of writer, many of the incidents are______.

语法与词汇Brazilian music is thoroughly imbued with African themes, and______composers have long foundinspiration in the black musical heritage.

语法与词汇As the silent film______sound, so did the sound film______color.

语法与词汇These actors failed to carry out some of the provisions of the contract, and now they have to______theconsequences.

语法与词汇If you never review your stage lines, you will only have yourself to______if you fail in yourperformance.

语法与词汇The singer used to play badminton with you,______?