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While ATMs have added some convenience to our lives, a few risks have also popped up (发生). To stay out of trouble, you should follow these steps:
Look Around Before You Approach
Take a quick look at your surroundings. See if anybody or anything looks suspicious. Is anybody watching you or standing too close
Use ATMs That You’re Familiar With
If you know an area well and have used an ATM before, you can expect similar results. In other words, your chances of getting robbed at a "familiar" ATM are less than your chances of getting robbed at a "new" ATM.
Have Your Card Ready While Approaching the ATM
If you’re quick, your chances are better. On the other hand, you’re exposing yourself unnecessarily if you stand around the ATM digging through your wallet or purse for that special card. Get it out before you leave your car or as you’re

[单项选择]Some of our clients have complained that the time it takes to get a ______ from a service representative is enough to make them not want to use our services again.
A. response
B. responding
C. responded
D. respond

[单项选择]All of us have hair on our heads. There’s some hair over our eyes and in our noses.
The hair on our heads can help us in cold days. It can help keep the cold off. It’s like a cap to keep the heat in. In hot days it keeps the heat off like a cap, too.
The hair over our eyes can keep the rain and the dirt out of our eyes in windy and rainy days. We call them eyelashes.
When we breathe, the hair in our noses can clean the air and keep the dirt out before it goes into our bodies.

The hair on our heads are useful ______.
A. in winter
B. in summer
C. all the time

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Without regular supplies of some hormones our capacity to behave would be seriously impaired; without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify our moods and our action, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more than influence adult behavior; early in life they help to determine the development of bodily form and may even determine an individual’s behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the body’s changing sensitivity to some hormones are essential aspects of the phenomena of aging.
Communication within the body and the consequent integration of behavior were considered the exclusive province of the nervous system up to the beginning of the present century. The emergence of endocrinology as a separate discipline can probable be traced to the experiments of Bayliss and Starling on the hormone secre
A. To explain the specific functions of various hormones.
B. To provide general information about hormones.
C. To explain how the term "hormone" evolved.
D. To report on experiments in endocrinology.

[填空题]Our real American foods have come from our. soil and have been used by
many groups. The Native Americans already had developed an interested (1)______
cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent.
The influence that the English had in our national eating habits is (2)______
easy to see. They were a tough lot and they ate in a tough manner. They
wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and
they ate before you would expect them to burst. European travelers to (3)______
this country in those days were most often shocked by American drinking (4)______
habits, which included too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has
changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it
marked them Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the (5)______
European dinner table until about the time of the Civil War. (6)____