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[填空题]Identifying potential hazards ahead of time can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthquake.
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Florence Nightingale was a woman ahead of time. Before the nineteenth century, the profession of nursing was largely untrained. Midwives were the only practitioners who had any training at all. For the most part, sick people were looked after by the women of the house in their own homes.
Florence Nightingale began a school in London, England to set the standards for nursing. She was able to do this because she had already established a reputation for her work with soldiers during the Crimean War. She carried a lamp above her head as she walked among the wounded men, thereby earning the nickname "the lady with the lamp. " It was this great lady who lit the way for nursing to become the respected profession it is today.
The passage is mainly about （）
A. the impact of nursing on the soldiers of the Crimean War
B. Florence Nightingale and her influence on the profession of nursing
C. the difference between nurses and midwives
D. How Florence Nightingale earned the nickname "the lady with the lamp"
[填空题] Vacation (休假) time can be as simple as just time away from work. You may just want to (41) home and do nothing. There is nothing wrong (42) being a hermit (独居者) for a week. (43) you do like being a hermit, make sure you let people (44) that you want to be a hermit. They may not understand (45) could think you are just doing it without thinking of (46) family or friends. Tell them that you are (47) to decide what you want to do. It is your vacation and you need (48) it in your own way. I (49) think of vacation as a time of rest (50) work.
A. A．stay
B．arrive
C．keep
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The New Science of Siblings
For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes us—or what, at least, shapes us most. And over the years, they’ve had a lot of eureka moments (突发灵感的时刻). First it was our parents, particularly our mothers. Then it was our genes. Next it was our peers, who show up last but hold great sway. And all those ideas were good ones—but only as far as they went. Somewhere, there was a sort of temperamental(捉摸不定的)dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own. More and more, scientists are concluding that this unexplained force is our siblings.
From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters are our scolds, protectors, tormentors, playmates, counselors, sources of envy, objects of pride. Our spouses arrive comparatively late in our lives; our parents eventually leave us. Our siblings may be the only people we’ll ever know who truly qualify as partners for life. Siblings are with us for th
