问答题 Free to soar
(91)One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.
(92)Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind. (93)As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of (受……支配) an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last” free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.
How much like kites we sometimes are. (94)The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. (95)Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.
问答题Youmustorganizeatwo-daydebatingcontestwhichwilltakeplaceonMay1-2.Writeane-mailin120wordstoyourclassmateTom:
问答题Translate the following sentences into English by using the word or words given in brackets. Remember to write your answers on the answers sheet.
问答题司机一动不动地坐在那儿,他明白这场交通事故有多么严重。(be aware of)
问答题Write an article of no fewer than 120 words telling other students how you control stress about your courses. Take My Advice on How to Control Stress You should write the article on the Answer Sheet.
问答题On October 2nd, Ashoka Mukpo left his father a voice mail from Monrovia, saying he had "unwelcome but not unexpected news." Mukpo, an American freelance camera-man for NBC News, had tested positive for Ebola virus. Mukpo"s father, Mitchell Levy, a pulmonologist who heads critical care at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, immediately helped arrange his son"s transfer to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, one of the four specialized Ebola centres in the United States.
The big question then was how to treat the patient.
The medical team, which included Levy, planned to intensively monitor Mukpo and give him intravenous replacement of fluids and electrolytes, antibiotics to combat also had three unproven treatments available. TKM-Ebola, which inhibits viral RNA, has worked beautifully in monkeys, the best animal model. Kent Brantly, a missionary doctor in Liberia who developed Ebola and recovered, offered to donate plasma removed from his blood, which contained antibodies that might help. And there was brincidofovir, a drug being developed for other viral infections that has been shown to stop Ebola virus in test tubes. The most famous drug candidate, ZMapp, was not available at the time. After careful consideration, Mukpo and his doctors opted to use the serum—a proven intervention with other viruses—and brincidofovir, which has a substantial safety record. But they decided to forgo TKM-Ebola, despite its promise, because of worries that it could trigger overproduction of cytokines, a dangerous inflammatory response also caused by the Ebola virus, and scant data from human trials. "I was not quite on my deathbed and didn"t need to take any huge risks," Mukpo says. His doctor father had reached a similar conclusion. "I didn"t have a high degree of confidence that brincidofovir was going to work, but I was loath to try an investigational agent with no data," Levy says.
Mukpo survived, but no one has any idea whether the experimental treatments helped him, did nothing, or even slowed his recovery. The same is true for Brandy and 17 other Ebola patients who received experimental interventions in the United States and Europe. (One other Ebola patient was treated in Germany without any experimental interventions.) Many, like Mukpo, were given several treatments at the same time, making it hard to unravel the impact of anyone of them. The fact that they were taken care of in modern, well-staffed hospitals may also help explain why 75 % have survived. "Probably the best we can say is that the experimental treatments are not killing anyone," says Michael Kurllla, who heads the Office of Biodefense Research Resources and Translational Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Roekville, Maryland.
Now, that"s about to change. As early as next month, researchers will begin trials in West Africa to find a solid answer to the key question: Do the treatments work? Carried out in makeshift emergency hospitals by researchers wearing full protective gear in the middle of a deadly epidemic, these will be some of the most unusual drug trials ever done. And they also raise major ethical and practical questions, some of which were intensely debated at a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 11th and 12th. Perhaps the most important one: Is it right to do randomized controlled trials (RCTs), in which some people don"t get the novel intervention? Doctors without Borders (MSF), which has led the medical response to the outbreak, says no—not with a disease as deadly as Ebola. Instead, on November 13th MSF said it will take part in three trials that will use an alternative design in which everyone who enrolls receives the untested treatment. But others argue that such setups may not give clear answers and squander a precious scientific opportunity.
It"s an uncomfortable and complex debate held under extreme time pressure. "Everyone has stepped outside of their comfort zone in a big way," says Peter Horby of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who is leading one of the upcoming trials and attended the WHO meeting.
Answer the following questions with the information given in the passage.
问答题If FRTZZ is the code for ESSAY ,what is the code for PAPER?
问答题给我留下印象最深的是她决心为达到自己的目标而努力。(what,主语从句)
问答题目前,已有300多万美儿童在享受着医疗保险,700多万美国人已经脱离了贫困线。(lift out of)
问答题ThevaluesofgridsAandBaregiven.WhatisthevalueofthegridC?
问答题她还启动了一项计划,承诺给在她家乡的每个高中毕业学生发放大学奖学金。(promise)
问答题Which two numbers should replace the question marks below?
19, 20, 21, ?, ?, 26, 28, 32, 33, 40
问答题商业上的成功就在于该出手时就出手。 (a matter of)
问答题Task Ⅰ Directions:
You have decided to enter a short story competition. The rules say that the
story must begin with the following sentence:
I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the front
door. Write your story in 120 words.
问答题Write about the following topic.
Success is something most people try to achieve. What does success mean to different people, and what is your view or success?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience.
Write your article in about 140 words in an appropriate style on the answer sheet.
问答题在制定预算时候,他们忘记考虑价格上涨因素,因此才导致目前资金紧张。(account)
问答题文化是一切。文化是我们着装的方式,是我们走路的方式,是我们系领带的方式。
问答题所有情绪都是心理状态,所以能够自我控制。(be subject to)
问答题Two men, starting at the same point, walk in opposite directions for 4 meters, turn left and walk another 3 meters. What is the distance between them?
问答题What word goes in the brackets?
Kilt (Look) Polo
Log ( ) Coca
