[单项选择](Despite of) the pills (which) are available, many people (still) have trouble (sleeping).
A. Despite of
B. which
C. still
D. sleeping

[单项选择]I can prescribe some pills which will relieve the pain, but you'd be well advised not to overwork yourself.
A. 我会开些止痛的药给你，你就不要再担心了。
B. 我可以给你开些止痛药，不过你最好不要过于劳累。
C. 我会开些治脑的药给你，不过我建议你最好不要给自己太多工作。
D. 我可以给你开些治头痛的药， 只是你不应给自己吃太多的药。

[单项选择]Tim is dubious about diet pills which advertise quick weight less.
A. anxious
B. pessimistic
C. doubtful
D. ignorant

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Text 4 Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without completely denying the existence either of a deity (the God) or of irrational matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or Ameri
A. The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible.
B. Humanity can scarcely account for humans and the world.
C. Self-knowledge stems partly from the perception of the universe.
D. The structure of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.

[单项选择]Smoking is a very bad habit, which many people find difficult to ______.
A. break
B. beat
C. breathe
D. cough