单选题The mountains look glorious at sunrise.

单选题 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 {{B}}What Should I Say to the Person Who Has Cancer?{{/B}} It is normal to feel that you don't know what to say to someone who has cancer. You might only know the person casually, or you may have worked______(51) or lived near each other for many years and have a closer relationship. The most important ______(52) you can do is to acknowledge the situation in some way — whatever is most comfortable for you. You can show interest and concern, you can express encouragement, or you______(53) offer support. Sometimes the simplest expressions of concern are the______(54) meaningful. While it is good to be encouraging, it is also important______(55) to show false optimism or to tell the person with cancer to always have a positive attitude. Doing ______(56) things may discount their fears, concerns, or sad feelings. It is also tempting to say that you know______(57) the person feels. While you may know this is a difficult time, no one can know exactly how the person with______(56) feels. Humor can be an important way______(59) coping. It is also another source of support and encouragement. Let the person with cancer______(60) the lead; it is healthy if they find something funny about a side effect, like hair loss or increased appetite, and you can certainly join______(61) in a good laugh. This can be a great way to relieve stress and to take a break from the______(62) serious natdre of the situation. When the person with cancer looks good, let them know? Refrain (忍住) ______(63) comments when their appearance isn't as good, such as "You're' looking pale," or "You've lost weight." Cancer and its treatment can be very unpredictable. Be prepared for good days and bad______(64). Refrain from telling the person with cancer stories about family members or friends who have had cancer. Everyone is different, and these stories may not be helpful. Instead, it is better simply to tell them you know______(65) about cancer because you've been through it with someone else.

单选题Be suspicious about water from other sources, such as ponds, streams, wells, tanks, water trucks or public standpipes.A. braveB. doubtfulC. quietD. careful

单选题We derive knowledge mainly from books. A. deprive B. obtain C. descend D. trace

单选题"I didn"t mean to upset you," he said mildly .

单选题According to the article, happiness depends mainly upon

单选题As a writer, he {{U}}turned out{{/U}} three novels that year. A. refused B. read C. produced D. accepted

单选题Tom {{U}}dropped off{{/U}} in front of fire.

单选题Although extreme cases of Internet and video--game addiction have not been widely publicized in the U. S.. it's a different story in Europe and in East Asia, where game - playing has even been linked to player death. In 2006 an in - patient addiction facility for Internet and video. game abuse was opened in Amsterdam, and there are several similar programs operating in China. Cash visited one such facili - run out of a military hospital - last November. " It was half boot. camp and half - psychotherapy, "she says, theorizing that the wider recognition of the problem overseas may stem from the more public nature of gaming there, as people often rely on Internet cat, s to play. In the U. S. , however, most people use the Interact or have a game console (游戏机操纵台) in their own home, so problems of abuse may be going unnoticed. It can be inferred from the paragraph that most game players in the United States playA. in Internet cafes.B. at home.C. at military camps.D. in their workplaces.

单选题1. After - birth Depression Blamed for Woman's Suicide A new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th--floor ledge of a Chicago hotel, eluding the lunging grasp of firemen called to help. The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that the mother of a 3 - month - old daughter, Melanie Stokes, 41, was said to be suffering from a severe form of after- birth depression called postpartum psychosis, an extremely rare biological response to rapidly changing hormonal levels that can result in hallucinations (幻觉), delusions (妄想), severe insomnia (失眠) and a drastic departure from reality. "That was a monster in my daughter' s brain. " said Stokes' mother, Carol Blocker. "The medicine took no effect at all. while her grief was so strong that nothing could make up for it. I'm just glad she didn't take her daughter with her. " Virtually all new mothers get postpartum blues, also called the "baby blues", which are brief episodes of irritability, moodiness and weepiness. About 20 percent of birthing women experience postpartum depression, which can be triggered by hormonal changes, sleeplessness and the pressures of being a new mother. It is often temporary and highly treatable. But The Tribune said what scientists suspect Stokes was battling, postpartum psychosis, is even more extreme and is considered a psychiatric emergency. "During postpartum psychosis--a very real disorder that affects less than 1 percent of women, according to the National Institute of Mental Health--a mother might hear voices, have visions, feel extremely agitated and be at risk of harming the child or herself. Often the consequences are tragic. In 1987, Sheryl Masip of California told a judge that postpartum psychosis made her drive a Volvo over her 6 - week - old son. Latrena Pixley of Washington, D. C. , said the disorder was why she smothered her 6 -week -old daughter in 1992. And last year, Judy Kirby, a 31 - year - old Indianapolis mother allegedly suffering from postpartum psychosis, sped into oncoming traffic and plowed into a minivan, killing seven youngsters, including three of her own.

单选题The sailor found it rather difficult to {{U}}adjust{{/U}} himself to the life on land.

单选题Why did the author almost fall on the floor?

单选题Drug Resistance Fades Quickly in Key AIDS Drug One of the main weapons to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus during birth is the drug nevirapine. But when nevirapine is used alone just once, HIV starts becoming resistant to it. Research in Botswana shows that the resistance is not long lasting and that this affordable drug does not have to be abandoned forever by infected mothers who have already taken it. International medical guidelines call for pregnant women with advanced HIV to get a combination of AIDS drugs including nevirapine to prevent passing their infection on to their newborns during delivery. But in poor countries, combinations have been expensive and nevirapine has often been used alone, since studies have shown that a single dose can cut the transmission rate in half. The problem is that HIV resistance builds against it quickly when used alone just once because other drugs are not present to kill the virus particles that survive nevirapine. This renders the drug less effective in later combinations for treating women after their baby is born. But the new study from Botswana shows that nevirapine can make a comeback for these women if they wait until the resistance subsides. "The further out you get from that exposure to single dose nevirapine, the less detectable nevirapine resistance is, " said Shahin Lockman of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. She says waiting period for women who get the single dose of nevirapine at delivery can be as short as six months. "If they started nevirapine-based treatment six or more months after nevirapine exposure, their treatment response was just as good, and really quite high, compared to women who did not have the single dose of nevirapine, " she added. "However, the women who started nevirapine-based treatment within six months of that nevirapine exposure were much more likely to experience treatment failure. " The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that waiting at least six months means that HIV-positive women are 70 percent more likely to benefit from nevirapine-based drug combinations again than women who get them sooner. An official with the U. S. government health agency that helped fund the study calls it very important. Lynne Mofenson is chief of research on child, adolescent, and maternal AIDS at the U. S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She says the finding supports a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation restricting a single dose of nevirapine only to pregnant HIV-infected women who are healthy enough to wait six months after childbirth for more nevirapine-based therapy. Otherwise, they should get other drugs during labor. "It shows the importance of screening women for treatment while they are pregnant and putting them on appropriate therapy while they are pregnant to avoid having to start them too soon after they received preventive therapy, " she explained. Shahin Lockman in Boston says the problem of nevirapine resistance should diminish now that more and more people are receiving combinations of AIDS drugs under expanded U. S. and international programs to deliver them to Africa and other regions hard hit by the virus.

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} {{B}} After-birth Depression Blamed for Woman's Suicide{{/B}} A new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th-floor ledge of a Chicago hotel, eluding the lunging grasp of firemen called to help. The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that the mother of a 3-month-old daughter, Melanie Stokes, 41, was said to be suffering from3 a severe form of after-birth depression called postpartum psychosis, an extremely rare biological response to rapidly changing hormonal levels that can result in4 hallucinations, delusions, severe insomnia and a drastic departure from reality. "That was a monster in my daughter's brain," said Stokes' mother, Carol Blocker. "The medicine took no effect at all, while her grief was so strong that nothing could make up for it. I'm just glad she didn't take her daughter with her." Virtually all new mothers get postpartum blues, also called the "baby blues", which are brief episodes of irritability, moodiness and weepiness. About 20 per cent of birthing women experience postpartum depression, which can be triggered by hormonal changes, sleeplessness and the' pressures of being a new mother. It is often temporary and highly treatable. But The Tribune said what scientists suspect Stokes was battling, postpartum psychosis, is even more extreme and is considered a psychiatric emergency. During postpartum psychosis -- a very real disorder that affects less than 1 percent of women, according to the National Institute of Mental Health-- a mother .might hear voices, have visions, feel extremely agitated and be at risk of harming the child or herself. Often the consequences are tragic. In 1987, Sheryl Masip of California told a judge that postpartum psychosis made her drive a Volvo over her 6-week-old son. Latrena Pixley of Washington, D. C. o, said the disorder was why she smothered her 6-week-old daughter in 1992. And last year, Judy Kirby, a 31-year-old Indianapolis mother allegedly suffering from postpartum psychosis, sped into oncoming traffic and plowed into a minivan, killing seven youngsters, including three of her own.

单选题 Double Effect The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubier, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death." George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like surgery," he says. "We don't call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide." On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. "Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering," to the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse." He says medical licensing boards "must make it clear that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension."

单选题Companies whose profits do not exceed $ 1500 in any one year may {{U}}opt{{/U}} to pay income tax at the rate of 20%.

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}} A Long and Expensive War{{/B}} By the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the war with the French and the Indians, England gained possession of Canada and all the territory east of the Mississippi River. French influence on this continent thus came to an end; England now controlled most of North America. But the war had been long and expensive. England had many debts. George Ⅲ, King of England, after consulting with his advisers, decided that the American colonists (殖民者) should help pay some of the expenses of this war. A standing English army of 10,000 men had been left in the colonies(殖民地)for protection against the Indians. The English government also felt that the colonists should share in the expenses of maintaining this army. The result was a series of measure, the Grenville Program, passed by Parliament and designed to raise money in the colonies. Some of these measures were accepted by The colonists, but one in particular, the Stamp Act, was met with great protest. The Stamp Act required that’s tamps, ranging in price from a few cents to almost a dollar, be placed on all newspapers, advertisements, bills of sale, wills, legal papers, etc. the Stamp Act was one of the causes of the American Revolution. It affected everyone, rich and poor alike. Some businessmen felt that the act would surely ruin their businesses. Of all the voices raised in protest to the Stamp Act, none had greater effect than that of a young layer from Virginia-Patrick Henry. Henry had only recently been elected to the Virginia Assembly. Yet when the Stamp Act came up for discussion, he opposed it almost single handedly. He also expressed, for the first time, certain ideas that were held by many Americans of the time but that never before had been stated so openly. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty(万能的) God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

单选题The old lady let her flat to an English couple. A. offered B. rented C. provided D. sold

单选题Since 2000, the number of college students dieting, vomiting, or taking laxatives to lose weight has jumped from about 28 to 38 percent, according to the American College Health Association's annual surveys. Well - balanced caloric intake, with regular meals and physical activity - not dieting -is the best way to avoid obesity, says Kreipe, a professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center. That's why, in his view, calorie information doesn't benefit students. "Nutrition is not a simple thing that can be distilled (提炼) down into a label, "he says. "There's a tendency for people to overinterpret what a specific number means. " According to Prof Kreipe, the best way to avoid obesity is composed of all the following factors exceptA. well - balanced caloric intake.B. regular meals.C. physical activity.D. dietin