[单项选择]Whereas sudden great disasters are instantaneous, others, such as droughts, are ______.
A. cumulative
B. formidable
C. eternal
D. prospective

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Text 3 The costs associated with natural disasters are increasing rapidly. As a result, officials in government and industry have focused more attention on disasters and their effects. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has estimated that disasters cost the country, about 1 billion per week. Hurricane Andrew, the Midwest flood of 1993, and the Hanshin earthquake have shown that individual disasters can cost tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. This increasing cost has resulted in greater funding from government and industry for the development of technologies related to disaster prediction, and has led to more research into the effective use of predictive information. The insurance industry has long been aware of the dangers of natural disasters; the 1906 earth-quake in San Francisco, California, bankrupted scores of insurance companies. But the industry has focused particular attention on disaster prediction in recent years, as spiraling costs
A. Scientists are afraid of making mistakes.
B. We will never predict disasters with certainty.
C. There are a lot of things that human beings don’t know.
D. Disaster prediction is a tough task.

[单项选择]The most serious potential natural disasters in New Zealand are ______.
A. storms and earthquakes.
B. volcanoes and floods.
C. earthquakes and volcanoes.
D. floods and storms.

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With the sudden onset of severe psychotic symptoms, the individual is said to be experiencing acute schizophrenia. "Psychotic" means out of touch with reality, or unable to separate real from unreal experiences. Some people have only one such psychotic episode. Others have many episodes during a lifetime but lead relatively normal lives during interim periods. The individual with chronic (continuous or recurring) schizophrenia often does not fully recover normal functioning and typically requires long-term treatment, generally including medication, to control the symptoms. These symptoms may include hallucinations , incoherence, delusions, lack of judgment, deterioration of the abilities to reason and feel emotion, and a lack of interaction between the patient and his environment. The hallucinations may be a visual, auditory, or tactile. Some chronic schizophrenic patients may never he able to function without assistance of one sort or another.

Which of the followi
A. Hallucinations.
B. Delusions.
C. Incoherence.
D. Vertigo.

[单项选择]Sudden disastrous external stress such as in severe automobile accidents, airplane crashes, and underwater explosions may cause death through rupture of the major arteries.
A. impairment
B. severity
C. fracture
D. contraction

[单项选择]The sentence" From costing nothing children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive" (Para. 2) implies that ______.
A. food and clothing for babies are becoming incredibly expensive
B. prices are going up dramatically all the time
C. to raise children women have to give up interesting and well-paid jobs
D. social development has made child-raising inexpensive

[单项选择]The sudden change of weather made the temperature ______ a lot.
A. fall
B. sink
C. drop
D. lower

[单项选择]Though we ______ serious natural disasters, we are sure to overcome all difficulties.
A. undergo from
B. suffer from
C. experience with
D. put up with

[单项选择]After several nuclear disasters, a ______ has raged over the safety of nuclear energy.
A. quarrel
B. suspicion
C. verdict
D. controversy