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a suitable word in each blank on the ANSWER SHEET.
When Donald arrived for his first group-therapy session he
was in a wheelchair, suffering from malignant melanoma and severely depressed.
But after he spent six months sharing stories and good times with other
cancer{{U}} (51) {{/U}}and learning relaxation techniques, his mood had
improves considerably and{{U}} (52) {{/U}}had his condition.{{U}}
(53) {{/U}}his attitude brightened, an important change took{{U}}
(54) {{/U}}inside his body: an increase in the activity of his
"natural killer cells," a crucial link in the immune{{U}} (55) {{/U}}.
By year's end, though he still had cancer, Donald was able to dance for his
group. {{U}} (56) {{/U}}role, if any, does emotions play
in{{U}} (57) {{/U}}or curing illness? The question is older{{U}}
(58) {{/U}}western medicine, but it has been given new importance by
modern science's discovery of innovative{{U}} (59) {{/U}}to measure the
mind's impact{{U}} (60) {{/U}}the body's health. Scientists are studying
whether, and to what{{U}} (61) {{/U}}, disease can be affected by the
use of{{U}} (62) {{/U}}mind-body techniques as meditation, yoga, group
therapy, guided imagery (visualizing the desired effect){{U}} (63)
{{/U}}relaxation. There is little question that we can alter the course of
disease{{U}} (64) {{/U}}manipulating psychological factors.{{U}}
(65) {{/U}}to make this knowledge useful to physicians, we need to
understand the mechanisms. When researchers can pin{{U}} (66) {{/U}}the
appropriate clinical uses for mind-body therapies, the result will be a
revolution in medical{{U}} (67) {{/U}}. For many
patients, the{{U}} (68) {{/U}}has already begun. Increasingly, people
are using mind-body therapies on their own, even{{U}} (69) {{/U}}seeking
conventional medical treatment. Stories of seemingly miraculous recoveries may
grab the public's attention but the real work is being{{U}} (70)
{{/U}}quietly and out of sight. In laboratories around the world, medical
researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from
reality, intuition from fact, belief from science.
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"Use it or lose it" is the new approach to back pain. In the last few years, there has been a
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change in the way doctors treat this most common disease. Weeks or months of rest in bed—the
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method of treatment for so long—are now thought to be surely harmful. Muscles become soft, joints become
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and what started out as a
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acute condition quickly turns into a continuing disability. Far better, according to current thinking, is to put up with a little pain and get moving.
The change has not happened overnight. For years, some specialists have had an
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feeling that bed rest was not the answer. But what finally put an end to
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bed rest was a study of more than 200 patients who were treated for back pain in a clinic in Taxes. Not only did patients who had two days" bed rest do totally as well as those given seven days, they
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only half as much time altogether
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work.
As a result of the study, experts now recommend that
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anyone with acute back pain should spend more than a few days
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down. After that should come a program of gradually
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exercise, probably accompanied by some
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treatments such as massage, heat or ultrasound.
Because of hospital waiting lists, most people have to wait several weeks before receiving the treatment they need. Unfortunately this wait is often spent in bed or inactive for
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of doing further damage to the back. It has been estimated that for every day an injured muscle is rested it loses at least one per cent of its
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. Stay in bed for two or three weeks and it will be far
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to rebuild a damaged muscle.
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填空题The supervisor (was advised) to give the assignment to (whomever) (he believed) had a strong sense of responsibility, and the courage (of) his conviction.
A. was advised B. whomever C. he believed D. of
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填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} For each numbered bracket in the following passage, fill
in a suitable word in the blank on the ANSWER SHEET.
The development of writing was one of
the great human inventions. It is difficult {{U}}(36) {{/U}} many
people to imagine language without writing; the spoken word seems intricately
tied to the written {{U}}(37) {{/U}}. But children speak {{U}}(38)
{{/U}} they learn to write. And millions of people in the world speak
languages with {{U}}(39) {{/U}} written form. Among these people
oral literature abounds, and crucial knowledge {{U}}(40) {{/U}}
memorized and passed {{U}}(41) {{/U}} generations. But human memory is
short-lived, and the brain's storage capacity is finite. {{U}}(42)
{{/U}} overcame such problems and allowed communication across the miles
{{U}}(43) {{/U}} through the years and centuries. Writing permits a
society {{U}}(44) {{/U}} permanently record its poetry, its history and
its technology. It might be argued {{U}}(45) {{/U}}
today we have electronic means of recording sound and {{U}}(46) {{/U}}
to produce films and television, and thus writing is becoming obsolete.
{{U}}(47) {{/U}} writing became extinct, there would be no knowledge of
electronics {{U}}(48) {{/U}} TV technicians to study; there would be, in
fact, little technology in years to {{U}}(49) {{/U}} There would be no
film or TV scripts, no literature, no books, no mail, no newspapers, no science.
There would be {{U}}(50) {{/U}} advantages: no bad novels, junk mail,
poison-pen letters, or "unreadable" income-tax forms, but the losses would
outweigh the {{U}}(51) {{/U}}. There are almost as
{{U}}(52) {{/U}} legends and stories on the invention of writing as
there are {{U}}(53) {{/U}} the origin of language. Legend has it
that Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia and founder of the city of Thebes,
{{U}}(54) {{/U}} the alphabet and brought it with him to Greece.
In one Chinese fable the four-eyed dragon-god T'sang Chien invented
writing. In {{U}}(55) {{/U}} myths, the Babylonian god Nebo and
the Egyptian god Thoth gave humans writing as well as
speech.
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A. more likely B. if C. rather than D. coarse
填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} For each numbered blank in the following passage, fill in
a suitable word in each blank on the ANSWER SHEET.
Student life at American universities is chaotic during the
first week of each quarter or semester. Registering for classes, becoming
familiar {{U}}(51) {{/U}} the buildings {{U}}(52) {{/U}} campus,
{{U}}(53) {{/U}} books, adding and dropping classes, and {{U}}(54)
{{/U}} fees are confusing for everyone. During this busy period there is
little time for students to anticipate {{U}}(55) {{/U}} they will later
encounter in the classroom. International students,
{{U}}(56) {{/U}} to their countries' educational expectations, must
adapt {{U}}(57) {{/U}} new classroom norms in a foreign college or
university. Whereas in one country prayer may be acceptable in a
classroom, in another it may be {{U}}(58) {{/U}}. In some classrooms
around the world students must humbly obey their teacher's commands and remain
absolutely silent during a class period. In {{U}}(59) {{/U}}, students
may talk, eat and smoke during lectures as {{U}}(60) {{/U}} as criticize
a teacher's methods or contradict his or her statements. It is not always easy
to understand a new educational system. There is considerable
variety in university classrooms in the United States. Because of diverse
teaching methods and non-standardized curricula, no two courses are
{{U}}(61) {{/U}}. Undergraduate courses are considerably different from
graduate courses. The classroom atmosphere in expensive, private universities
may differ from {{U}}(62) {{/U}} in community college s {{U}}(63)
{{/U}} are free and open to everyone. State-funded universities have
different requirements and expectations than {{U}}(64) {{/U}} parochial
colleges. {{U}}(65) {{/U}}, there are shared features in American
college and university classrooms {{U}}(66) {{/U}} the diversity of
educational institutions of higher learning. Participation
{{U}}(67) {{/U}} the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of
the student in many courses. Some professors base part of the final grade
{{U}}(68) {{/U}} the student's oral participation. Although there are
formal lectures during {{U}}(69) {{/U}} the student has a passive
role(i, e. , listening and taking notes), many courses are organized around
classroom discussions, student questions, and informal lectures. In graduate
seminars the professor has a "managerial" role and the students {{U}}(70)
{{/U}} presentations and lead discussions. The students do the actual
teaching in these seminars.
填空题A teacher is someone who communicates information or skill so that someone else may learn. Parents are the (41) teachers. Just by living with their child and (42) their everyday activities with him, they teach him their language, their values and their manners. Information and skills difficult or teach (43) family living are taught in a school by a person (44) special occupation is teaching. Before 1900 it (45) widely assumed that a man was qualified to teach if he could read and write-and (46) qualified if he knew arithmetic. With modest (47) like these, it is no (48) that teachers had low salaries and little prestige. Literature and history frequently portray teacher (49) fools and ignoramuses. By the late 19th century, there were (50) that the starts of teachers was slowly (51) Great educators such as Mann and Henry Barnard, and innovative thinkers such as Dewey and Parker began to command a (52) that in a few decades had to some (53) permeated classrooms in the United States. Progress was more glacial than meteoric, however, (54) the last half of the century. In the 20th century the starts of teachers rose as the standards (55) their education rose. By 1950 the average teacher had an education that greatly exceeded that of the average citizen.
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Superstition is a difficult question. We cannot quite
say that superstition in Britain is dead. Its history is both {{U}}(76)
{{/U}} long and too recent for that, and indeed you will find many relics of
it in modern Britain. But they are only relics connected chiefly with
vague notions of good luck and {{U}}(77) {{/U}} luck. It is
unlucky, for instance, to walk under a ladder, or to spill salt, or break a
mirror, or to have {{U}}(78) {{/U}} to do with number 13; whereas a
horseshoe brings good {{U}}(79) {{/U}}, and people jokingly "touch wood"
{{U}}(80) {{/U}} prevent the return of a past misfortune. There
are still many strange country remedies against sickness {{U}}(81)
{{/U}} are obviously superstitious. But the real measure of
superstition is fear. In this {{U}}(82) {{/U}} there is no
superstition in Britain. British people as a whole do {{U}}(83)
{{/U}} believe in evil influences or evil spirits. Sickness and misfortune
are not the {{U}}(84) {{/U}} of witchcraft, but of dirt or chance or
foolishness or inefficiency Witches belong {{U}}(85) {{/U}} to history
books.
填空题As children we start (51) a natural curiosity about everything around us, and during the maturation process this curiosity can be stimulated, buffered or severely attenuated by our environment and experience. The future success of research in science and engineering depends (52) our society recognizing the crucial role played by stimulation of mental processes early in life. Pattern recognition, analytical thinking and similar abilities need to be stimulated from birth onward. To destroy this natural curiosity or to attenuate the joy of discovery is the greatest disservice we do (53) to the developing person. For those who reach maturity with their natural curiosity intact and enhanced by education, the joy of discovery is a strong driver of success. But why are so (54) of our capable students pursuing the level of education required for a successful research career? Is it (55) we have dampened their curiosity? Have we failed to let them experience the joy of discovery? Is it because too many of us currently involved (56) the research enterprise has become disenchanted with our circumstances and therefore paint a bleak future for potential scientists and engineers? Perhaps entirely different factors are (57) play in the decision to not become scientists and engineers. We have too frequently portrayed science and engineering as professions that are all-encompassing. We have portrayed research as a profession that requires long and grueling hours in the laboratory to achieve success. We have (58) to promote the excitement and exhilaration of discovery. We have not promoted the fact that it is not only very common (59) (60) very reasonable to have a successful research career and an exciting and normal personal life.
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GNP becomes an obsolete measure of progress in a society
striving to meet people's needs as efficiently as possible and with the least
damage to the environment. What counts is not growth in output, but the
quality of services rendered. (1) {{U}}Bicycles and light rail, for instance, are
less resources--intensive forms of transportation as automobiles are, and
contribute less to GNR. (2) But shift to mass transit and cycling for most
passenger trips would enhance urban life by eliminating traffic jams, reducing
smog, and make cities safer for pedestrians. (3) GNP would go up, but overall
wellbeing would increase{{/U}}--underscoring the need for new indicators of
progress. Likewise, investing in water-efficient appliances and
irrigation systems instead of building more dams and diversion canals would meet
water needs with less harm to the environment. (4) {{U}}Since massive water
projects consume resources them efficiency in vestments do,{{/U}} GNP would tend
to decline. But quality of life would improve. (5) {{U}}It becomes clearly
that striving to boost GNP is often inappropriate and counterproductive.{{/U}} As
ecologist and philosopher Garrett Hardin puts it. (6) {{U}}"For a statesman to try
to maximize the GNP is about as sensible as for a composer of music to try to
maximize the number of note in a symphony."{{/U}} Abandoning
growth as an overriding goal does not mean forsaking the poor. (7) {{U}}Rising
incomes and material consumption are essential to improving well-being in many
of the Third World. (8) But contrary to that political leaders imply, global
economic growth as currently pursued is not the solution to poverty.{{/U}} Despite
the fivefold rise in world economic output since 1951, 1.2 billion people more
than ever--live in absolute poverty today. More growth of the sort engineered in
recent decades will not save the poor, only a new set of priorities
can. Formidable barriers stand in the way of shifting from
growth to real progress as the central goal of economic policy. (9) {{U}}Vision
that growth conjures up of an expanding pie of riches is a powerful and
convenient political too!{{/U}} Because it allows the tough issues of income
inequality and skewed wealth distribution to be avoid. (10) People assume
that as far as there is growth, there is hope that the lives of the poor
can be bettered without sacrifices from the rich.{{/U}} The reality,
however, is that achieving an environmentally sustainable global economy
is not possible without the rich limiting their consumption in order to leave
room for the poor to increase theirs.
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an introduction about the life of Chester L. Migden. While you listen, fill out
the table with the information you've heard. Some of the information has been
given to you in the table. Write only one word or number in each numbered box.
You will hear the recording only once.{{/I}}
Name
Chester L. Migden
Profession
______
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Main Contribution
Helped to establish the ______ of paying actors for repeat showings of the
television programs, feature films and commercials they appear in.
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Place of Birth
New York
Place of Death
Los Angeles
Year of Birth
______
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Age of Death
______
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Graduate School
Columbia Law School
Work Experience
Staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board
Joining the Screen Actors Guild
______ director of the Association of Talent Agents
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