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[简答题]Medical consumerism-like all sorts of consumerism, only more menadngly is designed to be unsatisfying. (51) The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to comer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. (52) Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of besowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources-not least medical ones, like illegal steroids-are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes witho
[单项选择] Medical consumerism ― like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly ― is designed to be unsatisfying. The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over- stretched and politics turn mean.
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meagre increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources ― not least medical ones, like illegal steroids ― are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes without saying, th
A. mobility.
B. deprivation.
C. autonomy.
D. awareness.
[判断题]All sorts of shares offer annual dividends if the company makes a profit.
[单项选择]Using a full range of colors and all sorts of painting styles, Mahatir has shown there is no end to the ______ of methods he uses to grasp our attention.
A. knowledge
B. creation
C. diversity
D. universe
[单项选择]Betty was ______ all sorts of terrible things that might happen to her if she were left alone in the mountain.
[A]imagining [B]guessing [C]supposing
[填空题]Engineers can perfect the mechanism to all sorts of complicated real-world problems.
[填空题]
Recycling
The concept of green consumerism has gained momentum over the last decade, and the public has been influenced and become more aware of recycling. However, three essential keys are needed to power this movement.
Ⅰ. The first step: raise public awareness about
A. recycling process
—a creative act to (1)______the life and usefulness of the used (1)______
B. kinds of materials that can be recycled
—plastic containers, glass bottles, and newspapers
C. ways on how to properly (2)______rubbish (2)______
—sort reusable materials from those that can’t be recycled very easily
—establish a (3)______of collecting the sorted materials (3)______
D. (4)______of the traditional waste disposal method (4)______
—expanding the rubbish dumps into agricultural land or gree