单选题Online Cancer Chat with A Safety Net Cancer Research UK has launched an online chat forum for cancer patients to swap stories and share experiences on how to cope with such a devastating disease. But Cancer Chat is a forum with a difference: it has an information safety net. This means that a Cancer Research UK team will keep a watching brief to ensure that patients are not subjected to rogue "cancer cures" or scientifically unsound information. Anyone can have access to the messages posted on Cancer Chat but if people wish to post a message they will need to register. And Rebekah Gibbs, cancer patient and star of TV"s Casualty has pledged her support for the new project. "I think Cancer Chat is a brilliant idea," she said. "I have written a public diary about what I went through with breast cancer and I have had such a heart-warming response from other people going through the same thing." "The idea of a Cancer Chat forum means you can share information about treatment and side effects and you can really open up about your feelings online in a way that can be difficult when talking to close friends and family. And with Cancer Research UK monitoring the forum people can be reassured about the quality of information being exchanged." Cancer Chat will also encourage its users to check out any cancer questions on its CancerHelp UK website which is specially designed to give patients and their families 6,000 pages of up-to-date information that is easy to understand and explains a wide range of treatments for different types of cancer and gives details of clinical trials. There is also a UK database of cancer clinical trials. The award-winning website attracts around one million visitors a month and Cancer Research UK hopes that some of these visitors will also want to post comments on the Cancer Chat forum. For those who do not have access to computers and have questions about cancer, the charity"s team of cancer information nurses are available during office hours to talk over patients" concerns on the phone.

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单选题This book gives a brief outline of the history of the castle and details of the art collection in the main hall.

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单选题Once upon a time there was a great Greek hero, Hercules. He was taller and stronger than anyone you have ever seen. On his shoulder he carried a club and in his hand he held a bow. He was known as the hero of a hundred adventures. Hercules was the tallest man in the world.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} {{B}} Controlling the Growing TB Crisis in China{{/B}} China needs to take urgent action to address a "vicious cycle" of poverty and tuberculosis (TB) affecting a considerable number of Chinese people, especially in underdeveloped areas, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The Chinese government needs to take "immediate necessary action" to control the spread of TB, which is "threatening the future of its 1.3 billion people", WHO said in a report released at the start of a three-day meeting to discuss TB in the Western Pacific region. Poor living conditions and health care in rural China mean the TB infection rate is nearly three times higher than in urban areas, the report said. There are some factors that make the rural TB burden heavier such as insufficient funds for local health programs and increased charges for medical care, it said. "This has uniformly produced a negative impact on TB diagnosis and treatment, especially in areas without specific funding targeted towards TB-related services," it said. The report, which is meant to foreshadow the seriousness of the TB crisis in China, suggests that China adopt a two-year program to control the disease. The government should fund free TB drugs and diagnosis, health promotion and training, and supervised treatment programs at all levels, it said. "TB control should be considered as a key development issue and poverty reduction strategy," WHO Western Pacific regional director Dr. Shigeru Omi said at the opening of the meeting in Beijing. A World Bank-funded project in 13 of China's 31 provinces produced "astonishing" results, reducing the incidence of TB by 38 per cent in less than 10 years, WHO said. "This tremendous achievement tells us that the regional target of reducing the prevalence of TB by half in 10 years, though ambitious, is achievable," Omi said. But TB "remains a relentless killer in the Western Pacific region", claiming around 1,000 lives daily in the region -- more than half of them in China, a WHO press statement said. "The worsening burden of TB has resulted in a great human tragedy and has had a profound impact on economic development in several countries in the region," the statement said.

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单选题A New Cause of Suffering A conference on obesity (肥胖症) was recently held in Vienna. Two thousand experts from more than fifty countries attended the conference. According to statistics, 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are too fat. Obesity is rapidly becoming a new cause of suffering. Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said: "We are living in the new age but with the metabolism (新陈代谢) of a stone-age man. I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza (比萨饼) shop is appearing on every corner. We have been occupied by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization. " Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said: "Eighty percent of all diabetics (糖尿病人) are too fat, also fifty percent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty percent with fatty tissue complaints. Ten percent more weight means thirteen percent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one"s weight by ten percent leads to thirteen percent lower blood pressure. " Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs. "The health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index (身体质量指数) is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.60 meters. One should start earlier. " Toplak said that prevention should begin in school. "Child obesity has a close relation with the time which children spend in front of TV sets. "

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