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Why do some young patients run away from doctors

[单项选择]Why do some young patients run away from doctors
A. They have no trust in doctors.
B. They cannot afford the medical fee.
C. They fear things like injections.

[单项选择]Why were Thorpe’s medals taken away from him
A. Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs.
B. Because it was found out that Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete.
C. Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games.
D. Because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlete.

[填空题]Why do some young people dislike living with their parents Because they think the old parents are ( )to them.

[简答题]Some young adults want to be independent from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefer to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situations do you think is better Write an essay with specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

[填空题]Why is Brendan so different from other young people of his age
Because he ______.

[单项选择] For years, doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivitamins does is give them expensive urine (尿). After all, true vitamin deficiencies are practically unheard of in industrialized countries. Now it seems those doctors may have been wrong. The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health. Although proof of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain, the few dollars you spend on them is probably a good investment. Or at least that’’s the argument put forward in the New England Journal of Medicine. Ideally, say Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard, all vitamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials. But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they answer. At some point, while researchers work on figuring out where the truth lies, it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost
A. could not easily be absorbed by the human body
B. were potentially harmful to people’’s health
C. were too expensive for daily consumption:
D. could not provide any cure for vitamin deficiencies

[单项选择]For years, doctors have given cancer patients three main treatments: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Now researchers are developing a fourth weapon: the patient’s own immune system. New vaccines and drugs can stimulate the production of an army of cells and antibodies that kill cancer cells.
Drug-vaccine therapy may lie lifesaver for Deerfield man. Few people survive advanced melanoma, but immune therapy is giving Deerfield resident Douglas Parker a fighting chance. The 46-year-old salesman noticed a mole on his chest three and a half years ago that was found to be cancerous. Doctors removed the mole but didn’t get all of the cancer. The cancer spread to other parts of his body, including his liver, where a tumor grew as large as a baseball. Parker took interferon and interleukin-2 to boost his immune system’s ability to fight the cancer. The tumor shrank but didn’t disappear. In August, 1997, surgeons removed it, along with two thirds of his liver. Last January, doctors disc
A. replacing cancerous cells
B. boosting the immune system
C. killing cancer cells directly
D. quickening the reproduction of cells