[单项选择]Researchers say at least four patients have died after liposuction in New York and one in another US city, raising questions about the safety of the nation’s most popular type of cosmetic surgery. Until now, there have been occasional news stories of patients dying after liposuction, in which unwanted body fat is vacuumed out. But a report in yesterday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is the first detailed account in a medical journal. Doctors reviewing six years of autopsy records in New York City found four patients who had died after liposuction.
At least how many patients have died after liposuction in the US
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Nine

[简答题]Illustrate at least four major linguistic views and their significance in language learning and teaching.

[简答题]List at least four components of a communicative syllabus.

[单项选择]Many people in the region have died from the epidemic disease.（　）
A. infectious
B. inferior
C. infinite
D. inevitable

[填空题]Far more languages have died out in modem times than ever before.

[单项选择]He ______ with Smith at least four times in the past three years.
A. has been seen to meet
B. was seen to meet
C. had been seen meeting
D. is seen meeting

[单项选择]Sixty people have died in 84 crashes since 2000. This is more than double the number of crashes during the previous five years.（）
A. 2000年以来，84次飞机失事，60人遇难——是前两年死亡人数的两倍多。
B. 2000年以来，84架飞机坠毁，60人死亡——是5年前死亡人数的两倍多。
C. 2000年以来，60人死于84次事故——使得死亡人数比5年前多好几倍。
D. 2000年以来，发生84次空难，60人死亡——是5年前死亡人数的好几倍。
E. 2000年以来，飞机失事84次，死亡60人——失事次数为前5年的两倍多。

[填空题] Two more people have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in China, making the death toll five out of eight human cases (36)________ so far in the country. The Ministry of Health has announced Wednesday the two (37)________, first reported last month, were a 10-year-old girl in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and a 35-year-old man in eastern Jiangxi Province. They had died on December 16th and 30th (38)________ after all medical treatment measures failed. A (39)________ for the Ministry says the current bird flu situation is "not optimistic", and is calling on people to remain (40)________. "Although there hasn’’t been any human-to-human case of bird flu reported so far, as the danger of bird flu not only exists in China but also threatens other countries, (41)________ to prevent and control the epidemic must be (42)________ . " Among the eight human cases of bird flu in China, the (43)________victim is a six-year-old boy from Central China’’s Hunan Province, who

[单项选择]Many people who fly at least occasionally have come down with a cold or the flu shortly after disembarking. Is the air in airborne commercial jets (21) The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), (22) which 42000 flight attendants with 27 airlines are represented, evidently thinks so. The organization claims that the incidence of air-quality-related diseases has (23) among its members and demands that prompt actions be (24) to improve the conditions in the airplane cabin.
A study the AFA (25) in 1997 uncovered about 1000 self-reported incidents of headaches, dizziness and memory loss (26) flight attendants and passengers. Some flight attendants were too ill to (27) their safety duties, while others have been permanently disabled.
Because of airlines’ efforts to (28) their expenses, cabin-air filters are not cleaned (29) . The complaints of flight attendants do not always gi
A. concerning
B. including
C. relating
D. attaching