[填空题]Music will not cause hearing loss.

[单项选择]Can Loud Music Cause Hearing Impairment(损伤) Have You ever gone to a concert and realized that your seats were right next to the booming speakers Are you guilty__________ (51)．turning up the volume on your portable cassette or CD player to drown out the whining(哭哭啼啼)of your little brother Sometimes it’s difficult to avoid loud music or noises，but they can be bad news because loud noises can__________ (52)temporary or permanent hearing loss． Extremely loud music and noises that go on for long periods of __________ (53) are common causes of deafness．If a noise is so loud that you have to shout to make yourself__________ (54)，there is a __________ (55)that the mechanism inside your ear can be injured Temporary hearing loss can happen after you’ve been __________ (56)to loud noise for only 15 minutes．If you have temporary hearing loss．you won’t be able to hear as __________ (57) as you normally can，and you may have tinnitus (耳鸣)，which is a fancy word for ringing in the ears．Your ears
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[填空题]Music will not cause hearing loss.

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The leading cause of lung cancer among women in the city was cooking oil fumes while men are more likely to develop the disease from smoking, said medical experts after a five-year research study.
Doctors announced the results yesterday with analysis on some new tendencies in lung cancer. They said patients are younger, especially women.
According to the Shanghai Tumor research Institute, more local residents die of lung cancer in the city than anything else. Following breast cancer, it has the second-highest incidence rate.
"An unhealthy lifestyle is a very important reason for lung cancer, " said Dr. He Yumin from Shanghai Minshen Traditional Chinese Medicine Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment Center.
He followed 2,276 lung cancer patients for five years. Among them, 1,483 were male.
Smoking causes 70 percent of cases among men while only 18 percent of female patients developed cancer fr
A. Family cancer history.
B. Unhealthy dietary habits.
C. Weak immune systems.
D. Personal health and physiical condition.

[单项选择]Marriage guidance counsellors never stop hearing it. "He (or she) never listens," warring couples complain, again and again, as if they were chanting a mantra(吟颂祷文) . And it is the same at work. Bosses say it of executives they are displeased with, and the executives return the compliment with interest when complaining about their bosses. Customers say it about suppliers who have cocked up, and suppliers—having patiently explained why on this occasion they cannot provide exactly what is wanted—say the same about their customers. Like married couples, we all shout the accusation at others, pretending that we ourselves are faultless.
Yet in our hearts we know many of the mistakes we make come about because we haven’t listened sufficiently carefully. We get things wrong because we haven’t quite understood what was wanted, or haven’t sussed out(推断出) the implications of what we were told. Anyone who has ever written the minutes of a long meeting will know how hard it is to remember—eve
A. take control over the speaker’s remarks
B. understand the speaker’s situation and feelings
C. take over the speaker’s job and do it well
D. say something that never embarrasses the speaker