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For years and years people have been saying that the railways are dead. "We can do without railways," people say, as if motorcars and planes have made the railways unnecessary. We all keep heating that trains are slow, that they lose money, and that they are dying. But this is far from the troth. In those days of expensive oil, the railways have become highly competitive with motorcars and planes. If you want to carry people or goods from place to place, they are cheaper than planes. And they have much in common with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and so does a railway. ,What is more, it takes from the heart of a city into the heart of another. It doesn’t leave you as a plane does, miles and miles from the city center. It doesn’t hold you up as a car . does, in endless traffic jams. And a single train can carry goods which a plane or motorcar could never do.
Far from being dead, the railways are very much alive. Modem railway lines give you
A. we can do without railways
B. trains have much in common with motorcars and planes
C. motorcars and planes are not as good as trains
D. trains are as good as motorcars and planes
[单项选择]Robert Spring spent 15 years
A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia
B. writing letters to Miss Fanny Jackson
C. as a forger
D. as a respectable seller
[单项选择]Sarah ()for 3 years
A. marries
B. will marry
C. married
D. has been married
[单项选择]The years after 1812 were relatively unproductive because ______.
A. he felt good in his romantic relationships
B. he realized that his hearing was compromised
C. he felt inadequate to create more musical pieces
D. he was very low in spirits
[单项选择]Not until many years later()
A. the whole truth became known
B. did the whole truth become known
C. the whole truth has become known
D. has the truth become known
[单项选择]The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as unwieldy as some of the older editions.
A. complete
B. tiresome
C. reliable
D. cumbersome
[填空题]For more than five thousand years Chinese doctors have used needles to fight illness. This kind of medicine is called acupuncture. The doctor studies the sick person carefully. Then he puts needles into that person’s body at the right places for his illness. Chinese doctors believe that they can control the body’s natural forces in this way. At first, doctors in the West thought that this was just another kind of magic. Recently, however, they have found out that it is possible to cure many illnesses like this because the needles help the body to produce its own "medicines". In this way the body cures itself.
Nowadays doctors can do a lot of wonderful things. They can use thousands of medicines. They can give you pills and injections. They can even give you mechanical legs or a new heart. Sometimes modem medicine works like magic. But there are still a lot of illnesses that drags and machines cannot cure completely. Medicine is not only a science; it is an art, too. And in the art
[单项选择]Medical experts have suspected for many years that there is a strong link between what a person eats and cancer. They say a new study provides the first evidence that vitamins could reduce a person' s chance of developing cancer. A team of Chinese and American scientists did the study. They are from American National Cancer Institute and the Cancer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of the study.
There are more Chinese scientists than Americans in the team.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
[单项选择]The project required ten years of diligent research.
A. hardworking
B. basic
C. social
D. scientific