[填空题]We become less ______ as the technology gets ever more sophisticated.

[填空题]We become less ______ as the technology gets ever more sophisticated.

[单项选择]Rainforests may store much less carbon than we thought. It could be time to dramatically revise our estimates following the discovery that apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts of the stuff. The finding is important because there are plans for governments worldwide to compensate tropical countries for protecting their forests as "carbon sinks" to curb global warming. If carbon cannot be counted, then dollars cannot be disbursed (支付).
Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, and colleagues say they used satellite mapping, laser probing of forest undergrowth from aircraft and local ground surveys across a large area of Peruvian rainforest to crack the problem of estimating how much carbon is locked up in forests. But the new technique has revealed a large, previously unknown variability in the density of carbon stored in apparently similar forests.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that there should be about
A. Forests can’t be used as "carbon sinks".
B. Carbon can’t be stored in rainforest.
C. Compensation can’t be distributed.
D. Global warming can’t be curbed.

[单项选择]A. They are less healthy than we expected. B. They are not as natural as we believed.
C. They are not as expensive as before. D. They are more nutritious and delicious.

[单项选择]Surveys show that（）less sleep than we think,（）too much sleep could even harm our health
A. not only do we need,but that
B. not only we need,but also
C. not only we need, but that
D. not only do we need,but also

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Information technology will become more and more important for hospitals to ______.

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Television piracy gets less attention than film or music piracy, but it is no less widespread. One of the big (1) that had stood in its way--the large file sizes required to transmit video--is shrinking (2) computers get faster and bandwidth costs (3) . More and more people are buying televisions that can connect (4) the internet.
TV piracy (5) for two reasons. It can bring shows to foreign (6) faster, and it is free. The first (7) matters for only a very few shows, most of them American dramas. And media firms have reduced this advantage further by releasing TV shows almost (8) in different countries. The second advantage is not as big as it appears either (9) music and film, nearly all television is free at the margin: (10) a household has paid its subscription, it costs (11) to watch another show.
The real threat (12) by piracy is not that it threatens tele
A. cultivated
B. advanced
C. recognized
D. posed