[单项选择](Thirteen hundred) medical professionals, (all of which) have been trained to treat drug dependency, (attended) the annual convention (sponsored) by a society.
A. Thirteen hundred
B. all of which
C. attended
D. sponsored

[单项选择](Thirteen hundred) medical professionals, (all of which) have been trained to treat drug dependency, (attended) the annual convention (sponsored) by a society.
A. Thirteen hundred
B. all of which
C. attended
D. sponsored

[单项选择]The selection of medical professionals are currently based on ______.

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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]Even the best medical treatment can not cure all the disease that ______ men and women.
A. beseech
B. beset
C. bewitch
D. bestow

[单项选择]Current estimates put thirteen percent of global flora at risk of extinction, but this number does not include ------- plants from tropical regions, where the majority of the world's plants grow.
A. (A) apocryphal
B. (B) deciduous
C. (C) rare
D. (D) innumerable
E. (E) vanished

[单项选择]Connecticut was the fifth of the original thirteen states ........ the Constitution of the United States.
A. ( ratified
B. ( ratify
C. ( to ratify
D. ( have ratified

[单项选择]The output value in the third season was thirteen percent over the same period of the last year.
A. 第三季度的产品售价是去年同期的百分之十三。
B. 第三季度生产出来的价值比去年同期增长了百分之十三。
C. 第三季度产值比去年同期高百分之十三。
D. 第三季度的产值是去年同期的百分之十三。

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Professionals involving in such development should have a unique sense of innovation, the ability to assimilate new information, outstanding development skills and a striving sense of international cooperation.（）

A. involved to
B. involved as
C. involving as
D. involved in

[单项选择]Medical scientists believe that
A. tests have been designed to settle the cholesterol dispute
B. drugs have been tested to reduce the amount of the substance in blood
C. low cholesterol foods or anti-cholesterol drugs or both can reduce the chance of a heart attack
D. none of the statements mentioned above is correct

[单项选择]Five hundred critically iii patients were investigated with the main purpose of ______.
A. observing how they reacted to the crisis of death
B. helping them and their families overcome the fear of death
C. finding out their attitude towards the approach of death
D. learning how to best help them and their families

[单项选择]Many discussions are written by professionals who have been trained to put client interests first and whose arguments tend to reflect that ______.
A. overview
B. inspiration
C. speculation
D. perspective

[单项选择]Five hundred critically-ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of _____________.
A. observing how they reacted to the crisis of death
B. learning how to hest help themselves and their families
C. finding out their attitude towards the approach of death
D. helping themselves and their families overcome the fear of death

[单项选择]The restaurant owner bought two hundred pounds of potatoes which contain 99% water content. The potatoes are left in the sun for 4 hours. Now the total water content of the potatoes is slightly reduced to 96%. What is the total weight of the potatoes now
A. 194.06 pounds.
B. 192.08 pounds.
C. 150 pounds.
D. 50 pounds.

[单项选择]"Even exercise professionals concede half a point here" (Line 3, Para. 2) means "They ______."