[单项选择]Don’t apply ice or butter or any other type of grease to burns. Also, don’t cover a bum with a towel or blanket, because loose fibers might stick to the skin. When dealing with a serious burn, be careful not to break any blisters or pull off clothing stuck to the skin.
Do wash and apply antibiotic (抗生素) ointment (软膏) to mild burns. Head to the hospital for any bums to the eyes, mouth, or genital (生殖器的) areas, even if mild; any burn that covers an area larger than your hand; and any bum that causes blisters or is followed by a fever.
The paragraph centers on
A. when to go to hospital.
B. how to deal with bums.
C. when antibiotic ointment is needed.
D. how to use lee or butter to burns.

[单项选择]Reingold and other epidemiologists don’t discount hand--washing as an important tool in public health: there is plenty of evidence that it prevents other nasty bugs, including the common cold, many respiratory (呼吸道的) infections, and viruses that cause diarrhea (腹泻). But Reingold is bothered by the lack of science supporting the CDC’s message, and he worries that the emphasis on a simple measure like hand -washing creates a false sense of security from H1N1 and tamps down the discussion of more difficult preventive measures. He said as much in an e - mail to the CDC this May. "I wouldn’t care so much that we might be getting folks to improve hand - washing... with what is likely to be incorrect information about its ability to prevent influenza" if the media and the court of public opinion weren’t so quick to embrace it as the only solution at the expense of things like surgical masks, wrote Reingold in his letter to the CDC. While Reingold admits he doesn’t know if masks would reduce t
A. the comnlon cold.
B. respiratory infections.
C. viruses causing diarrhea.
D. HI N1 viruses.

[单项选择]The real problem is （）we don’t love each other anymore
A. that   
B. if
C. whether  
D. when

[填空题]better than any other

[填空题]Don will not have any class until

[单项选择]Why don’t all ice crystals in clouds immediately fall to Earth（　）.
A. They are balanced by the pressure of rain droplets.
B. The effect of gravity at high altitude is random.
C. They are kept in the sky by air current.
D. They are moving about with fixed direction.

[单项选择]How is the quartz heater different from other types of heaters
A. It heats only the objects in a room.
B. It is lighter in weight.
C. It heats the room quicker.
D. It is more common.

[填空题]No other advertisements in any form is permitted ______ (未经董事会书面同 意).

[填空题]Any frozen treat can be called ice cream.

[单项选择]I don’t think it is any use （　）this matter any further.
A. discussing
B. to discuss
C. to discussing
D. to be discussed

[填空题]Wetlands don’t have any recreational, historical, scientific, and cultural values at all.

[单项选择]Unlike any other scientific topics, consciousness—the first-person awareness of the world around—is truly in the eye of beholder. I know I am conscious. But how do I know that you are
Through logical analogy—I am a conscious human being, and therefore you as a human being are also likely to be conscious—I conclude I am probably not the only conscious being in a world of biological puppets. Extend it to other creatures, and uncertainty grows. Is a dog conscious An elm A rock
"We don’t have the mythical consciousness meter," said Dr. Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. "All we have directly to go on is behavior." So without even an elementary understanding of what consciousness is, the idea of instilling it into a machine—or understanding how a machine might evolve consciousness—becomes almost unfathomable.
The field of artificial intelligence started out with dreams of making thin
A. the principle of how to build a conscious machine
B. whether robot has ’consciousness or not
C. what consciousness really means
D. human beings are superior to artificial intelligence