单选题Hundreds of buildings were wrecked by the earthquake. A. damaged B. shaken C. fallen D. jumped

单选题They have accomplished their mission successfully.

单选题There was something （peculiar） in the way he smiles.

单选题It was clear that they regarded him with affection, as well as with respect.A. appealB. angerC. anxietyD. love

单选题The poet William Carlos was a New Jersey physician.

单选题He tended his grandmother in the hospital.

单选题 An Observation and an Explanation It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning requite little comment, but the position in which she holds the baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful studies have shown the fact that 80 percent of mothers hold their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If asked to explain the significance of this preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case. True, there is a slight difference between right-handed and left-handed females; but not enough to provide adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 percent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but so do 78 percent of left-handed mothers. In other words, only 22 percent of the left-handed mothers have their dominant hands free for actions. Clearly there must be some other, less obvious explanation. The only other clue comes from the fact that the heart is on the side of the mother's body. Could it be that the sound of her heartbeat is the vital factor? And in what way? Thinking along these lines it was argued that perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother the unborn baby get used to the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a claiming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been born into a strange and frighteningly new world; if this is so, then the mother would, somehow, soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart than on the right.

单选题The department deferred the Udecision/U for six months.

单选题He was kept in appalling conditions in prison.

单选题Sleeplessness Insomnia or sleeplessness is a common complaint of women as they enter into menopause. Insomnia means having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep or the feeling that your sleep was not adequate for you. For women who are having night sweats, their sleep is broken by frequent awakening and therefore not refreshing. Generally once the night sweats are controlled a normal sleep pattern returns. If it doesn't it may be, or have become chronic insomnia. How do you know? If you suffer from insomnia every night or most nights for a period of one month then you have chronic insomnia. If you're not having night sweats then it's time to look for other causes of sleeplessness. Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common causes of chronic insomnia. If you feel depressed you need to be checked by a qualified health care provider. Movement disorders such as restless leg syndrome are second on the list of insomnia for them, there are new medicines that may help. Other common causes are shift working, and pain. In up to 30% of people with chronic insomnia no cause can be identified. Medical treatment of these people has generally been with sleeping pills. It is estimated that 25% of the adult population in America took some type of medicines for sleep last year. It is generally agreed that sleeping pills should only be in the lowest dose and for the shortest possible time. Sleep hygiene is directed at changing bad sleep habits. The recommendations are: —Go to bed only when sleepy.—Do not wait up to a specilized time.—Avoid caffeine and alcohol in the evening, etc.

单选题Crystal Ear One day a friend asked my wife Jill if I wanted a hearing aid. "He certainly does, " replied Jill. After hearing about a remarkable new product, Jill finally got up me nerve to ask me if I' dever thought about getting a hearing aid. "No way. "I said. "It would make me look 20 years older. " "No, no, "she replied. "This is entirely different. It's Crystal Ear!" Jill was right. Crystal Ear is different--not the old-styled body worn or over--the—ear aid, but an advanced personal sound system so small that it' s like contacts(隐形眼镜)for your ears. And Crystal Ear is super. sensitive and powerful, too. You will hear sounds your ears have been missing for years. Crystal Ear will make speech louder and the sound is pure and natural. I couldn't believe how tiny it is. It is smaller than the tip of my little finger and it' s almost invisible when worn. There are no wires, no behind—the-ear device. Put it in your ear and Its ready—to wear mold(形状)fits comfortably. Since it's not too loud or too fight, you may even forget that you're wearing it! Use it at work or at play. And if your hearing problem IS worse in certain situations, use Crystal Ear only when you need it. Hearing loss, which occurs typically prior to teenage years, progresses throughout one's lifetime. Although hearing loss is now the world's number one health problem, nearly 90 percent of people suffering hearing loss choose to leave the problem untreated. For many millions, treating hearing loss in a conventional way can involve numerous office visits, expensive testing and adjustments to fit your ear. Thanks to Crystal Ear, the "sound solution"is now convenient. Almost 90 percent of people with mild hearing loss and millions more with just a little hearing drop. off(下降), can be dramatically helped with Crystal Ear. Moreover, its superior design is energy. efficient, so batteries can last months. Crystal Ear is now available to help these people treat their hearing loss with a small. hearing amplifier(放大器).

单选题On Friday, a sociologist from the University of New Hampshire, Murray Straus, presented a paper at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, in San Diego, suggesting that corporal (身体的) punishment does leave a long -lasting mark -in the form of lower IQ. Straus, who is 83 and has been studying corporal punishment since 1969, found that kids who were physically punished had up to a five - point lower IQ score than kids who weren't - the more children were spanked, the lower their IQ--and that the effect could be seen not only in individual children, but across entire nations. Among 32 countries Straus studied, in those where spanking was accepted, the average IQ of the survey population was lower than in nations where spanking was rare, the researcher says. According to Straus, physical punishment leaves a permanent mark on the childA. in the form of a lasting scar on the body.B. in the form of lower IQ.C. in the form of mental disorder.D. in the form of violence inclination.

单选题Many students today display a {{U}}disturbing{{/U}} willingness to choose institutions and careers on the basis of earning potential. A. offensive B. depressive C. troublesome D. tiresome

单选题The expedition reached the {{U}}summit{{/U}} at 10.30 that morning. A.top of the mountain B.bottom of the mountain C.starting point D.site

单选题The works of Walt Whitman had a lasting effect on the development of modern American poetry.

单选题Freud believed in all of the following statements about the wish-fulfilling dream EXCEPT

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单选题It can be concluded from the passage that more vocational education has to be provided in the future.

单选题Academic records cannot be {{U}}duplicated{{/U}}. A. borrowed B. purchased C. rewritten D. copied

单选题The Spanish Flu Epidemic If you"re worried about the possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic, you can take comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past. Starting its rounds at the end of World War I, the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million people. Popularly known as the Spanish Flu, this type of influenza was far worse than your common cold. Normally, influenza only kills those who are more vulnerable to disease, such as newborns, the old or the sick. However, the Spanish Flu was prone to killing the young and healthy. Often it would disable its victims in hours; within a day, they would be dead, typically from extreme cases of pneumonia(肺炎). The Spanish Flu was quite nasty-fast-spreading and deadly. It managed to spread across the globe, devastating the world. Then suddenly, after two years ravaging(蹂躏)the Earth, it disappeared as quickly as it bad arisen. Despite its nickname, the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain. Its true origins are unknown. Some believe it started in US forts and then spread to Europe as America joined the war; others think that it populated the trenches of the English and the French and eventually broke out in 1918. Regardless of where it started, eventually a fifth of the world population suffered the disease, with a global mortality rate(死亡率) estimated at 2.5% of the population. Modernity was partly to blame for the quick spread of the disease. It passed throughout the world on trade routes and shipping lines. It hit Northern America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the South Pacific. The war did not help at all—the movement of supplies and troops aided the spread of the Spanish Flu, as well as the trench warfare. Imagine the speed at which a virus can spread in a crowded ditch. The fast emergence of the virus in the trenches caused some soldiers to believe that the Spanish Flu was a new form of biological warfare. Luckily, the Spanish Flu simply vanished by 1920. It is believed the flu simply ran out of fuel to spread.