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It is implied in the passage that ______.
A.America's health system has its strengths and weaknesses
B.the US government pays medical bills for the poor and the elderly
C.some 46 million Americans do not have medical insurance
D.Europeans benefit a lot from America's medical research
The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that ________.
A) it’s extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in problem
B) success in medical research has its negative effects
C) scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race
D) it’s unwise to be totally absorbed in research in scientific medicine
Which of the following statements is true?
A. The physician has been able to make wonders alone in the world of medicine.
B. The cooperation between research workers in medicine and in the related sciences will bring about a "golden age of healing".
C. The X-ray and the microscope have been of little help in uncovering truth.
D. Medical workers fully understand electrical body measurements.
To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, "all
that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that
good people do nothing." One such cause now seeks to end
biomedical research because the theory that animals have rights 【M1】__________
ruling out their usage in research. Leaders of the animal rights 【M2】__________
movement targets biomedical research because it depends on 【M3】__________
public funding, and a few people understand the process of health 【M4】 __________
care research.
Scientists must communicate their message to public in a 【M5】__________
compassionate, understandable way—on human terms, not in the 【M6】__________
language of molecular biology. We need to make it clear the 【M7】__________
connection between animal research and a grandmother's
hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's
vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. Scientists could "adopt"
middle school classes and present their own research. They
should be quick to respond to letters of the editor, lest animal 【M8】__________
rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive
appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to
tours, to show that laboratory animals receive human care. Finally, 【M9】__________
because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health
research community should actively recruit to its cause not
only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who
has made courageous statements about the value of animal
research, and all who receive medical treatment. If good people do 【M10】__________
nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will
extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.
【M1】
The wonders which medical workers have already brought
up in the diagnosis and treatment of disease suggest that a time 【M1】______
may come the physician will be able to analyze most illnesses as 【M2】______
soon as they start, and cure them before damage results. How
soon this "golden age of healing" arrive will depend greatly on 【M3】______
how close is the collaboration between research workers in
medicine and those who work in the sciences which medicine 【M4】______
depends. The physician has long relied on the chemist for
curative drugs, and on the physicist for diagnostic instruments
and healing rays. In the one field new materials and in the other 【M5】______
new devices are being produced in increasing numbers, helps to
make imminent new miracles of medicine. 【M6】______
The X-ray and the microscope has extended the vision of
the medical observer until he can see through ten inches of
living flesh or into a single tissue cell, yet similar but much 【M7】______
more powerful tools still wait development. Modem electrical
devices enable him to listen to faint murmurings of the life 【M8】______
processes, or measure feeble currents arising from heart and 【M9】______
brain and nerve; so electrical body measurements are but little 【M10】______
understood. Now new discovered atomic rays are being brought
to help him destroy malignant invaders of the human system,
and there is every reason to believe that even more curative rays
await discovery.
【M1】
Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
If you own a car, you are probably considering buying some kind of car insurance (保险). However, when you are actually purchasing car insurance, it can be difficult for you to decide which is your best choice. The ideal buying process is to first research and decide, then purchase. Research first
Before buying car insurance, you should find out the purpose of your purchase and how the insurance meets your needs.
Decide on suitable Car Insurance Policies (保单)
A neglected part of car insurance is the part which covers medical bills. Medical payments can add up very quickly in an accident situation, and the insurance should cover the bills incurred(招致) both by you and by the passengers in your car. Make sure you know the full value that your insurance covers.
Purchase the best Car Insurance for your needs
You have a number of choices when it comes to the actual purchase of the car insurance. Each has advantages and disadvantages, and these may be influenced by your individual taste and previous buying experience. Insurance companies may offer you goodadvice, but prices on the Internet are often better.
According to the first paragraph, when buying car insurance, one should first______.
A.decide on the number of policies to purchase
B.do careful research on the different choices
C.choose the best insurance company
D.look for the lowest insurance rate
For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animals — no meat, no fur, no medicines. Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then I would have to say yes." Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don't worry, scientists will find some way of using computers." Such well-meaning people just don't understand.
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way — in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as mew treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing, there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.
The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to ______.
A.call on scientists to take some actions
B.criticize the misguided cause of animal rights
C.warn of the doom of biomedical research
D.show the triumph of the animal rights movement
. However, when you are actually purchasing car insurance, it can be difficult for you to decide which is your best choice. The ideal buying process is to first research and decide, then purchase.
Research first
Before buying car insurance, you should find out the purpose of your purchase and how the insurance meets your needs.
Decide on suitable Car Insurance Policies(保单)
A neglected part of car insurance is the part which covers medical bills. Medical payments can add up very quickly in an accident situation, and the insurance should cover the bills incurred (招致) both by you and by the passengers in your car. Make sure you know the full value that your insurance covers.
Purchase the best Car Insurance for your needs
You have a number of choices when it comes to the actual purchase of the car insurance. Each has advantages and disadvantages, and these may be influenced by your individual taste and previous buying experience. Insurance companies may offer you good advice, but prices on the Internet are often better.
1. According to the first paragraph, when buying car insurance, one should first ___________.
A. decide on the number of policies to purchase
B. do careful research on the different choices
C. choose the best insurance company
D. look for the lowest insurance rate
2. The purpose of research is to find out whether the car insurance _____________ .
A. includes all the advantages
B. best meets your needs
C. offers the best rate
D. is easy to purchase
3. When buying car insurance, people often neglect________________ .
A. the damage to the car
B. the bills paid by the passengers
C. the part covering the medical bills
D. the background of the insurance company
4. According to the last paragraph, your choice of car insurance may also be influenced by _________________.
A. your driving habits
B. the kind of car to be insured
C. the attitude of your family members
D. your own taste and buying experience
5. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Medical Bills Covered in Car Insurance
B. Importance of Buying Car Insurance
C. Advice on Buying Car Insurance
D. Advantages of Car Insurance
How to live to 100
A growing body of research suggests that chronic illness is not an inevitable consequence of aging, but more often the result of lifestyle. choices. "People used to say, 'who would want to be 100?" says Dr. Thomas Perls, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of the New England Centenarian Study. "Now they’re realizing it's an opportunity." High-tech medicine isn't likely to change the outlook dramatically; drugs and surgery can do only so much to sustain a body once it starts to fail. But there is no question we can lengthen our lives while shortening our deaths. The tools already exist, and they're within virtually everyone's reach.
Life expectancy in the United States has nearly doubled since a century ago—from 47 years to 76 years. And though centenarians are still rare, they now constitute the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Their ranks have increased 16-fold over the past six decades from 3,700 in 1940 to roughly 61,000 today. The Census Bureau projects that 1 in 9 baby boomers (9 million of the 80 million people born between 1946 and 1964) will survive into their late 90s, and that 1 in 26 (or 3 million) will reach 100. "A century ago, the odds of living that long were about one in 500," says Lynn Adler, founder of the National Centenarian Awareness Project and the author of "Centenarians: The Bonus Years." "That's how, far we've come."
If decrepitude were an inevitable part of aging, these burgeoning numbers would spell trouble. But the evidence suggests that Americans are living better, as well as longer. The disability rate among people older than 65 has fallen steadily since the early 1980s, according to Duke University demographer Kenneth Manton, and a shrinking percentage of seniors are plagued by hypertension, arteriosclerosis and dementia. Moreover, researchers have found that the oldest of the old often enjoy better health than people in their 70s. The 79 centenarians in Perls's New England study have all lived independently through their early 90s, taking an average of just one medication. And when the time comes for these hearty souls to die, they don't linger. In a 1995 study, James Lubitz of the Health Care Financing Administration calculated that medical expenditures for the last two years of life— statistically the most expensive—average $ 22,600 for people who die at 70, but just $ 8,300 for those who make it past 100.
These insights have spawned a revolution in the science of aging. "Until recently, there was so much preoccupation with diseases that little work was done on the characteristics that permit people to do well," says Dr. John Rowe, the New York geriatrician who heads the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Successful Aging. Research confirms the old saying that it pays to choose your parents well. But the way we age depends less on who we are than on how we live what we eat, how much we exercise and how we employ our minds.
The author seems to suggest that ______.
A.the aged should not go to the nursing home
B.we can lengthen our lives through high-tech medicine
C.centenarians die faster than those who are younger
D.the ever-growing Segment of centenarians has caused concern
第三篇
The wonders which medical workers have already brought about in the diagnosis(诊断) and treatment of disease suggest that a time may come when the physician will be able to analyze most illnesses as soon as they start, and cure them before damage results. How soon this "golden age of healing" arrives will depend greatly on how close is the collaboration between research workers in medicine and those who work in the sciences on which medicine depends. The physician has long relied on the chemist for curative drugs, and on the physicist for diagnostic instruments and healing rays. In the one field new materials and in the other new devices are being produced in increasing numbers, helping to make imminent new miracles of medicine.
The X-ray and the microscope have extended the vision of the medical observer until he can see through ten inches of living flesh or into a single tissue cell, yet similar but much more powerful tools still await development. Modern electrical devices enable him to listen to faint murmurings of the life processes, or to measure feeble currents arising from heart and brain and nerve; yet electrical body measurements are but little understood. Now newly discovered atomic rays are being brought to help him destroy malignant invaders of the human system, and there is every reason to believe that even more curative rays await discovery.
It can be inferred from the opening sentence of the first paragraph that medical workers ______.
A. have contributed little to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
B. Have set their expectations too high
C. Have made remarkable progress in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
D. Have developed their potential to the full