[单项选择]"An artist’s heart is his head, "replied Trevor, "and besides, our business is to show the world as we see it, not to make it better. "（　）
A. ...the artist’s duty is to reflect the reality, not to improve it.
B. ...the artist’s job is to make drawings of the earth instead of other planets.
C. ...the artist’s business is to paint anything real, not to use his imagination.
D. ...the artist’s responsibility is to create images rather than reflecting the reality.

[单项选择]He raised his eyebrows and stuck his head forward and ______ it in a single nod, a gesture boys used then for OK when they were pleased.
A. jerked
B. twisted
C. shrugged
D. tugged

[填空题]His brother shook his head, but gave no（）(explain).

[单项选择]How did the man hurt his head（）
A. He fell down from a ladder.
B. A can of paint dropped on his head.
C. He knocked his head against a window.

[填空题]The heroic fighter would rather die with his head high ____________________(也不愿跪着求生).

[单项选择]The child with rheumatic fever must have his heart rate measured while awake and while sleeping. Why are two readings necessary（）
A. To obtain a heart rate that isn’t affected by medication.
B. To eliminate interference from the jerky movements of chorea.
C. To ensure that the child can’t consciously raise or lower the heart rate.
D. To compensate for the effects of activity on the heart rate.

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My friend Mike was shaking his head in disbelief. "That young woman who just waited on me," he said, pointing to an employee of the fast food restaurant where we were eating, "had to call someone over to help her count the change. The cash register (出纳机) showed her I need 99 cents, but she couldn’t figure out how to count out the coins." I understood Mike’s concern. What we have done in this country, although unintentionally, is to create several generations of individuals most of whom have no idea how to reason, how to do simple math, how to do research, or finally how to be creative. The reason for this is our overuse of information technology: video games, television, digital watches, calculators, and computers. Information technology feeds us information without requiring us to think about it and let us perform operations without understanding them.
It is time for us to take a hard look at an educational system that only teaches our chi
A. Give them freedom of enjoying themselves.
B. Teach them how to learn reasoning from video games.
C. Get them off TV and computer games.
D. Turn off all the power in the schools.

[单项选择]After striking his head on a tree while falling from a ladder, a young man is admitted to the emergency department. He’s unconscious and his pupils are nonreactive. Which intervention would be the most dangerous for the client（）
A. Give him a barbiturate.
B. Place him on mechanical ventilation.
C. Perform a lumbar puncture.
D. Elevate the head of his bed.

[单项选择]A. He got a younger heart.
B. His recovery from the heart surgery was faster than Anthony’s.
C. His exercise program was better than Anthony’s.
D. His heart transplant surgery was more successful than Anthony’s.

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Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose (安息); their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they
A. most painters do not express themselves well
B. a painter uses unusual words and phrases
C. a painter uses shapes and colors instead of words
D. many painters do not say anything