[单项选择]Betty was ______ all sorts of terrible things that might happen to her if she were left alone in the mountain.

[单项选择]Betty was ______ all sorts of terrible things that might happen to her if she were left alone in the mountain.

[单项选择]By saying that "Facts are terrible things if left spreading and unattended", the author aims to ________.
A. point out that the abundance of facts may be harmful to human intellect
B. illustrate the necessity of always attending to facts
C. show the importance of using human judgment in the computerized age
D. tell that facts are always irrelevant and needed to be connected

[单项选择]Facts will be terrible things if ______ spreading and unexamined.
A. leaving
B. left
C. being left
D. to leave

[单项选择]This is one of the most important things （） all.
A. among
B. in
C. of

[单项选择]It's quite ______ me why such things have been allowed to happen.
A. for
B. behind
C. against
D. beyond

[单项选择]When a college tries to be" all things to all people" ( Line 1, Para. l), it aims to______.
A. satisfy the needs of all kinds of students simultaneously
B. focus on training students in various skills
C. encourage students to take as many courses as possible
D. make learning serve academic rather than productive ends

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Medical consumerism -- like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly -- is designed to be unsatisfying. The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. 　
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources -- not least medical ones, like illegal steroids -- are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes wit
A. medicine and life.
B. resources and energies.
C. predicaments and solutions.
D. athletics and longevism.

[单项选择]—Must I take all these terrible medicines for a week —No, you______. Just take the yellow pills after your fever goes down.

[单项选择]The message "all drugs are terrible for you" is not influential because ______
A. it ignores the fact that drugs vary greatly in danger
B. it gives a false account of the risks of drag use
C. some drugs are good for health
D. it does not appear in underground papers

[单项选择]All flights ______ because of the terrible weather, they had to go there by train.
A. having been canceled
B. had been canceled
C. having canceled
D. were canceled

[单项选择]Why does the author assert that all things American are fascinating to foreigners