单选题While we don"t agree, we continue to be friends.

单选题The once {{U}}barren{{/U}} hillsides are now good farmland.

单选题They have been tightening their belts for months, Uadapting/U themselves to a war economy.

单选题下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文巾没有提及，请选择C。 Breast Cancer Deaths Record Low The number of women dying from breast cancer has fallen to a record low by dropping under 12,000 a year for the first time since records began. The Cancer Research UK data showed that 11,990 women died in the UK in 2007. The previous lowest figure had been recorded in 1971 -- the year records began -- after which it rose steadily year by year until the late 1980s. Professor Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: "It's incredibly encouraging to see fewer women dying from breast cancer now than at any time in the last 40 years, despite breast cancer being diagnosed more often. " "Research has played a crucial role in this progress leading to improved treatments and better management for women with the disease. " "The introduction of the NHS (国民保健制度) breast screening program has also contributed as women are more likely to survive the earlier cancer is diagnosed. " Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK with 45,500 women every year diagnosed with the disease- a 500% rise in 25 years. The number of deaths peaked in 1989, when 15,625 women died. It then fell by between 200 and 400 deaths each year until 2004. There was a slight rise in 2005 and then two years of falls. Dr. Sarah Cant, policy manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "It is great news that fewer women are dying from breast cancer and highlights the impact of improved treatments, breast screening and awareness of the disease. " "However, this is still too many women and incidence of the disease is increasing year by year. " The rising rate of breast cancer diagnosis has been put down to a variety of factors including obesity (肥胖) and alcohol consumption.

单选题Why a Healthy Weight Is Important If your BMI or waist circumference is above the healthy range you' re at increased risk of diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and certain cancers such as colon, prostate and breast cancer. You're also more likely to experience joint problems and back pain, and may find you become breathless and have difficulty sleeping. The more weight you gain, the more severe these problems may become. Losing weight depends on energy balance. If you consume more energy from food and drink than you burn through maintaining your body' s functions and physical activity, you'll gain weight. Cutting calories by reducing how much you eat and drink, and increasing how much physicalactivity you do will make you lose weight. If you reduce your daily energy intake to around 500 calories (kcal) below your energy requirements ,you'll lose about 0.5kg a week. This is a sensiblerate of weight loss. Before you start making changes to your lifestyle, it' s important to ask yourself if this is the right time. The reasons you decide to lose weight will be personal to you. You might find you' re more successful if you choose a relatively calm time in your life to start. Whatever you decide, make sure you' re feeling positive and ready for the challenge. Set achievable goals. Aim to lose about five to ten percent of your initial body weight over a few months. Research shows this kind of weight loss is achievable and will improve your health. Once you' ve reached your goal, congratulate yourself and set another five per cent weight loss target. This way, you'll feel good about achieving small steps, rather than getting clown because it' s taking you so long to lose a large amount of weight. You may lose more weight in some weeks than in others, but as long as your weight continues to decrease overall there' s no need to worry. If your weight stays the same for a week or two, don' t aband on all you' ve achieved. Instead, focus on the amount and type of food you' re eating andtry to be a little more active.

单选题Common -cold Sense You can't beat it, but you don't have to join it. Maybe it got the name "common cold" because it' s more common in winter. The fact is, though, being cold doesn' t have anything to do with getting one. Colds are caused by the spread of rhinoviruses, and, at least SO far, medical science is better at telling you how to avoid getting one than how to get rid of one. Children are the most common way cold viruses are spread to adults, because they have more colds than adults - an average of about eight per year. Why do kids seem so much more easily to get colds than their parents? Simple. They haven' t had the opportunity to become immune to many cold viruses. There are more than 150 different cold viruses, and you never have the same one twice. Being infected by one makes you immune to it- but only it. Colds are usually spread by direct contact, not sneezing or coughing. From another person' s hand to your hand and then to your nose or eyes is the most common route. The highest concentration of cold viruses anywhere is found under the thumbnails of a boy, although the viruses can survive for hours on skin or other smooth surfaces. Hygiene is your best defense. Wash your hands frequently, preferably with a disinfectant soap, especially when children in your household have colds. But even careful hygiene won' t ward off every cold. So, what works when a coughing, sneezing, runny nose strikes? The old prescription of two aspirins, lots of water, and bed rest is a good place to start. But you'll also find some of the folk remedies worth trying. Hot mixtures of sugar( or honey), lemon, and water have real benefits.

单选题Major product categories encompass electronic test and measuring instruments, solid-state components, electronic calculations.A. roundB. includeC. aroundD. and

单选题The army should have operated in conjunction with the fleet to raid the enemy's coast. A. together B. in succession C. in alliance D. in connection

单选题If I made a mistake, I will try to remedy it.

单选题Which of the following is NOT true of Crystal Ear?

单选题Intellect Americans today don"t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren"t difficult to find. "Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch"s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms , traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society." "Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and Professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-intellectualism in American life , a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." Mark Twain"s Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country"s educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise."

单选题In studying social groups, sociologists often gain insight through the use of such devices as questionnaires.

单选题There is (an abundant) supply of cheap labor in this country.

单选题It is much easier to talk about social change than it is to make it happen.A. acknowledge itB. predict itC. bring it aboutD. adapt to it

单选题Everything {{U}}cooperated{{/U}} to make our journey a success.

单选题Although he was slight in Ustature/U, he was strong and respected by all who know him.

单选题The {{U}}consumption{{/U}} of beer did not go down when the tax was raised.

单选题Florence Nightingale In 1837, to the age of seventeen, Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse, (51) horrified her dear mother. In (52) days, nurses were little more than doormen, and hospitals were places of dirtiness and (53) . Nightingale pressed on and in 1853 she became president (54) a small London hospital. She went on to the Crimea when war (55) there between Britain and Russia. She (56) the first of what we now know (57) war hospitals: sanitary. safe, and stocked with supplies. Her tireless ministrations (照料) to the (58) soldiers made her famous all (59) the world. Following the War, Nightingale (60) fame and continued to train nurse, ever battling (61) what she herself declared "a commonly received idea...that it requires nothing (62) a disappointment in love, or incapacity in other things, to turn a woman (63) a good nurse." Since 1921, her birthday (64) the centerpiece of National Hospital Week, (65) in British and American hospitals with special exhibitions, workshops, and publicity drives.

单选题 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题。{{B}}第一篇{{/B}} {{B}} Benefits of Educating Girl{{/B}} The benefits of educating girls are numerous—to individual girls both when they are young and when they become adult women, to their future families, and to society as whole. Education enables women to contribute more fully to the social and economic development of their societies. A girl's education is also an investment in future generations. The more educated a mother is, the more likely are her children—particularly her daughters—to roll and stay in school. The higher level of education attained by women is strongly associated with lower child death. Experts believe more educated women practice better hygiene and nutrition(营养),use health services more frequently, and survive better. Woman with more schooling tend to be healthier themselves. Perhaps reflecting their improved ability to avoid frequent childbearing (分娩)and to take advantage of available health services during pregnancy(怀孕). The educational level achieved by women, like family planning services, has the most powerful influence on family size. The impact of education on family size is strongest and most consistent for women who have completed some secondary schooling. Educating girls is three times more likely to lower family size than educating boys. Education appears to affect family size in many ways. More educated women not only want fewer children than their less educated husbands, but also are more likely to use effective contraception(避孕) successfully and to limit their families to the number of children, which contribute to smaller family size. Family size is ideal and child death rates are lowest, therefore, in countries that combine strong family planning and health programs with high levels of education for women.

单选题I have been trying to quit smoking.