单选题{{U}}Merge{{/U}} the following two short sentences into one new sentence.

单选题As an assistant in a shop, she tries to be Ucourteous/U at all times, even when she is very tired.

单选题He talks tough but has a tender heart.

单选题He confesses that he has done it.

单选题Many cities have restricted smoking in public places.

单选题The game requires us to find out two simple but effective ways to solve this problem.A. efficientB. cleverC. stupidD. easy

单选题Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to remedy headaches.

单选题The two banks have announced plans to merge next year. A. combine B. close C. break D. sell

单选题She {{U}}exhibited{{/U}} great powers of endurance during the climb.

单选题He spoke in such a pleasant manner that I felt at ease with him at once.

单选题While serving in the Senate in the early l970's, Barbara Jordan supported legislation to ban discrimination and to deal with environmental problems. A. list B. forbid C. handle D. investigate

单选题The clothes a person wears may express his standing or social position.

单选题About End-of-life Care Dying patients are happier, less depressed, have less pain and survive longer when their end-of-life care wishes are known and followed, researchers report. This type of patient-centered care can also help to keep costs down 1 patients who don"t want aggressive treatments and those with advanced cancer"s and other diseases that can"t be effectively treated, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) research team said. "We can improve care while 2 costs by making sure that everything we do is centered on what the patient wants and what his or her specific goals are, and then tailoring a treatment plan to ensure we 3 the specific care he or she wants," Dr. Jonathan Bergman, a clinical scholar and fellow in the urology department, said in a university news release. 4 many cases, dying patients are given aggressive treatments that don"t help them and 5 higher costs. Patients who want 6 care should, of course, receive it, Bergman said. But many don"t want such treatments and simply have not been 7 about their needs and desires, according to Bergman and colleagues, who are testing patient-centered care 8 cancer patients. To change this situation, doctors need to be educated about patient-centered care, the researchers said. They also 9 that changes to Medicare should be considered. But this is a highly controversial topic that has been sidelined after recent suggested changes were characterized as creating "death panels". "Given the disproportionate cost of care at the very 10 of life, the issue should be revisited," Bergman and colleagues wrote. "We should address goals of care, not to 11 aggressive care to those who want it, but to ensure that we deliver aggressive care only to those who 12 . This reduces costs and improves outcomes." Medical care during the final stages of life is often poorly coordinated and fails to take into account a patient"s preferences, the UCLA researchers say. It also consumes the lion"s share of health care dollars. A 2004 study found that 30 percent of Medicare resources are 13 on the 5 percent of beneficiaries who die each year, and one-third in the final year of life 14 during the final month. Yet research has shown that by instituting patient-centered care, costs in the last week of a patient"s life can be reduced 15 36 percent, and death, when it comes, is less likely to occur in an intensive care unit.

单选题The local government decided to merge the two firms into a big one.

单选题Medical Education In 18th-century colonial America, those who wanted to become physicians either learned as personal students from established professionals or went abroad to study in the traditional schools of London, Paris and Edinburgh. Medicine was first taught formally by specialists at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning in 1765, and in 1767 at King's College(now Columbia University), the first institution in the colonies to give the degree of doctor of medicine. Following the American Revolution, the Columbia medical faculty(formerly of King's College) was combined with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, chartered in 1809, which survives as a division of Columbia University. In 1893 the Johns Hopkins Medical School required all applicants to have a college degree and was the first to afford its students the opportunity to further their training in an attached teaching hospital. The growth of medical schools attached with established institutions of learning went together with the development of proprietary (私营的) schools of medicine run for personal profit, most of which had 10W standards and poor facilities. In 1910 Abraham Flexner, the American education reformer, wrote Medical Education in the United States and Canada, exposing the poor conditions of most proprietary schools. Subsequently, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) laid down standards for course content, qualifications of teachers, laboratory facilities, connection with teaching hospitals and licensing of medical practitioners (开业医师) that survive to this day. By the late 1980s the U.S. and Canada had 142 4-year medical colleges recognized by the Liaison (联络) Committee on Medical Education to offer the M. D. degree; during the 1987-88 academic year, 47,262 men and 25,686 women entered these colleges and an estimated 11,752 men and 5,958 women were graduated. Graduates, after a year of internship (实习期), receive licenses to practice if they pass an examination given either by a state board or by the National Board of Medical Examiners.

单选题Fortunately, the new H1N1 virus has been mild so far. Though it has infected a million Americans, only 556 deaths have been reported to date, versus 36,000 a year for the normal seasonal flu. But H1N1 also arrived very late in the last flu season and did not spread through the whole country. This year the vulnerable population will be much larger. The CDC produced a video last year called Why Flu Vaccination Matters. It features interviews with parents. who have lost healthy children to the seasonal flu. Officials plan to update it this year with information on swine flu. Compared with the normal seasonal flu, H1N1 virus so far has beenA. more dangerousB. mildC. fatalD. spreading more fast.

单选题Men Too May Suffer from Domestic Violence Nearly three in 10 men have experienced violence at the hands of an intimate partner during their lifetimes, according to one of the few studies to look (1) domestic violence and health among men. "Many men actually do experience domestic violence, although we don't hear about it (2) , " Dr. Robert J. Reid of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health. "They often don't tell (3) we don't ask. We want to get the message out to men who (4) experience domestic violence that they are not alone and there are resources available to (5) . " The researchers asked study participants about physical abuse and non-physical (6) , such as threats that made them (7) for their safety, controlling behavior (for example, being told who they could associate with and where they could go), and constant name-calling. Among men 18 to 54 years old, 14.2 percent said they had experienced intimate partner (8) in the past five years, while 6.1 percent reported domestic violence in the previous year. Rates were lower for men 55 and (9) , with 5.3 percent reporting violence in the past five years and 2.4 percent having experienced it in the past 12 months. Overall, 30.5 percent of men younger than 55 and 26.5 percent of older men said they had been victims of (10) violence at some point in their lives. About half of the violence the men (11) was physical. However, the physical violence men reported wasn't as harsh as (12) suffered by women in a previous study; 20 percent to 40 percent of the men rated it as severe, compared to 61 percent of (13) . Men who reported experiencing domestic violence had more emotional and mental health problems (14) those who had not, especially older men, the (15) found.

单选题Literary historians believe Emily Dickinson had a lonely existence, finding joy only in her poetry.A. friendshipB. happinessC. expressionD. interest

单选题FDA has approved the plan of using HIV to cure cancer in humans.

单选题I quivered with fear at the strange sound. A. shook B. escaped C. stung D. suffered