[填空题]In spite of safety considerations, the death rate on interstate highways is still higher than that of other American roads.

[填空题]In spite of safety considerations, the death rate on interstate highways is still higher than that of other American roads.

[填空题]Even with antibiotic treatment, death rate of cutaneous is still extremely high.

[填空题]The death rate from cigarette smoking in Asia will someday ______.

[单项选择]

The death rate from influenza rose markedly in the 1990’s, federal scientists reported. The explanation, they said, is that a greater proportion of the population is elderly and thus particularly susceptible to flu. There was an average of 36,000 flu deaths a year in the 1990’s as compared to 20,000 a year in previous decades, the investigators, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ninety percent of influenza deaths were in people 65 and older, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the principal researcher for the study. But Dr. Fukuda and his colleagues reported that the virus was especially deadly in people over 85, who might be up to 32 times more likely than those 65 to 69 to die from a flu infection.
The researchers also concluded that there were large numbers of deaths among the elderly from another virus, respiratory syncytial virus, known as R. S. V. As many as 78 percent of the 11,000 peopl
A. 20,000
B. 26,000
C. 30,000
D. 36,000

[单项选择](Alcoholics) have a death rate nearly three times more than (the general population); they are (seven times) more likely than non-alcoholics to (suffer) fatal accidents.
A. Alcoholics
B. the general population
C. seven times
D. suffer

[单项选择]According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ______.
A) their frequent driving at night
C) their lack of driving experience
B) their improper way of driving
D) their driving with passengers


A. According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ______.
B. their frequent driving at night
C. their improper way of driving
D. their lack of driving experience
E. their driving with passengers

[填空题]A survey was conducted on the death rate of new born babies, ____________________(其结果令人震惊)

[多项选择]Bad aspects of smoking:
· A higher death rate
· Causing cancer
· Lung diseases
· Death of non-smokers
· Risk of deforming babies
· Teenagers’ smoking
· Bad for environment
· Waste of money

[单项选择]A survey was carried out on the death rate of new-born babies in that region, ______ were surprising.
A. as results
B. which results
C. the result of it
D. the results of which