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The US president’s helicopter flew over the path of the deadly storm in the state of Alabama, where eight teenagers were killed Thursday in the collapse of a high school in the town of Enterprise.
The storm killed two other people in Alabama, nine in the neighboring state of Georgia, and a young girl in Missouri. Fourteen teams of experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are evaluating the damage to assess what federal assistance might be needed in situations that overwhelm state and local capabilities.
That agency and President Bush were widely criticized for their poor response to Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people along the Gulf Coast. Asked if the president’s decision to visit the tornado-stricken areas Saturday was influenced by the political fall-out from Hurricane Katrina, White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said that was never part of the discussion.
Traveling with the president, FEMA Di
A. in Georgia
B. in New York
C. along the Nile
D. along the Gulf Coast

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The US president’ s helicopter flew over the path of the deadly storm in the state of Alabama, where eight teenagers were killed Thursday in the collapse of a high school in the town of Enterprise.
The storm killed two other people in Alabama, nine in the neighboring state of Georgia, and a young girl in Missouri. Fourteen teams of experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are evahiating the damage to assess what federal ass/stance might be needed in situations that overwhelm state and local capabilities.
That agency and President Bush were widely criticized for their poor response to Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people along the Gulf Coast. Asked if the president’ s decision to visit the tornado- stricken areas Saturday was influenced by the political fall-out from Hurricane Katrina, White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said that was never part of the discussion.
Traveling with the president, FEMA
A. To find out the lost people and animals.
B. To criticize the authority’ s poor response.
C. To assess the federal assistance needed.
D. To make clear the investment in agriculture.

[单项选择]He noticed the helicopter hovering over the field. Then to his astonishment, he saw a rope ladder ______ out and three men climbing down it.

[单项选择]B Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they the sky for hours. It was calculated that when it populationzxxk reached its highest point ,they were more than 3billlionpassenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati. Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands,Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds
A. To seek pleasure.
B. To save other birds.
C. To make money.
D. To protect crops.

[填空题]They flew to the US reluctantly, which means they went there (willing) ______.

[简答题]helicopter parent

[单项选择]If you find yourself repeatedly reading over the same paragraph and （　） it in, that’s a sign you’ve reached the top for the day and should stop.
A. not take
B. not to take
C. did not take
D. not taking

[单项选择]US officials are concerned over this radar issue because ______.
A. they feel that this technology could post as a potential threat to the US
B. they are worried the new technology might be used against Taiwan
C. they fear that it might spark tension in the Taiwan Straits
D. this deal could trigger a new round of arms race around the world

[单项选择]（　）a declining birth rate, there will be an over-supply of 35 000 primary school places by 2010, （　） leaving 35 schools idle.
A. Coupled with, equals to
B. Coupling with, equivalent to
C. Coupled with, equivalent to
D. Coupling with, equals to

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Every body gets sick. Disease and injury make us suffer throughout our lives, until finally, some attack on the body brings our existence to an end. Fortunately, most of us in modem industrialized societies can take relatively good health for granted most of the time. In fact, we tend to fully realize the importance of good health only when we or those close to us become seriously ill. At such times we keenly appreciate the ancient truth that health is our most precious asset, one for which we might readily give up such rewards as power, wealth, or fame.
Because iii health is universal problem, affecting the individual and society, the human response to sickness is always socially organized. No society leaves the responsibility for maintaining health and treating iii health entirely to the individual. Each society develops its own concepts of health and sickness and authorizes certain people to decide who is sick and how the sick should be treated. Around this focus there
A. a system whose purpose is to treat disease and keep people healthy
B. a universal problem that affects every society
C. a social responsibility to treat ill health
D. a science that focuses on the treatment of disease