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[填空题]A tour to the giant bird cage will be guided by ______.
[填空题]The only sounds are bird calls and the soft noise ______ (当水缓缓推动草时草所发出的).
[单项选择]The word bird used to mean "young bird"; today it means "any kind of bird". This is called ______ in terms of semantic change.
A. broadening B. narrowing C. meaning shift D. class shift
[单项选择]Protect Your Nest
It’s never too early to protect your family’s financial well-being. Yet because most of us are so busy juggling work and family commitments, we tend to neglect the things that don’t require immediate attention. Some day, we think, we’ll take care of the three essentials-retirement savings, insurance coverage and estate planning. Unfortunately, emergencies can strike and then it’s too late. "Failure to plan is a huge mistake," Barbara Raasch, managing director at Wealth and Tax Advisory Services, Inc. , told us.
How can you avoid the "should have, could have, would have" scenario By putting these three items at the top of your "to do" list-protect your future, protect your family and protect your legacy (遗产).
Protect Your Future
The national savings rate averaged around 0.4% for the first half of this year, according to the U. S. Department of Commerce, meaning Americans spent a shopping 99.6% of their after-tax earnings. Even mor
A. feed the ATMs around our neighborhood regularly
B. pay for the utility and grocery bills
C. cope with sudden and serious situations
D. prove we have the ability to pay for necessities
[填空题]What caused the giant tsunami
[单项选择] THE PARTY GENE
Steven Benner jokingly calls himself a dilettante (业余艺术爱好者). A biochemist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Benner learns a wide range of disciplines, from bioinformatics to astrobiology. His aim is to gain insight into the basic chemical rules that govern how life works — both here and, ultimately, on other planets. But although science drew his gaze to the skies, it was alcohol that brought him back down to Earth. Or, to be more exact, the enzymes that can both make and consume it.
Alcohol dehydrogenase (脱氢酶) is best known as the enzyme (酶) that breaks down alcohol in the body, and as such it has been studied exhaustively. But Benner and other researchers in the field have now turned to its evolution, and their work is providing fresh insight into the puzzle of why some creatures, such as yeast, came to make alcohol and why so many others, including ourselves, can tolerate it.
Alcohol dehydrogenase — ADH for short —
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
[单项选择]Why did Sam mention Nest’s failure in Africa
A. Because he wanted to prove the importance of a thorough feasibility investigation before taking any of the recommended options.
B. Because the main problem in Central and South American markets is poor health conditions.
C. Because he wanted to arrange another longer visit to Brazil or Chile early next year.
[填空题]Sally occasionally calls her grandmother.
Sally_________ calls her grandmother.
[单项选择] Bird Flu: Communicating the Risk
The recommendations listed below are grounded in two convictions(信念): that motivating people to start taking bird flu seriously should be a top priority for government health departments, and that risk communication principles provide the best guidance on how to do so.
Start where your audience starts.
Telling people who believe X that they ought to believe Y naturally provokes resistance. You can’’t ignore X and just say YY-Y-Y-Y. You can’’t simply tell people they’’re wrong. You’’ve got to start where they are, with X, and empathically explain why X seems logical, why it’’s widely believed, why you used to believe it too...and why, surprisingly, Y turns out to be closer to the truth.
The biggest barrier to sounding the alarm about bird flu is that it’’s flu usually seen as a ho-hum(漠不关心的) disease. It would help if people stopped calling every minor respiratory infection "a touch of the flu" but that’’s n
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
[单项选择]In England, the first calls to restrict advertising came in 1963 from the Royal College of Physicians, who highlighted the health problems associated with smoking and recommended that stricter laws (150) imposed on the Sale and advertising of tobacco products. In 1971, the government and the tobacco industry reached an agreement that included the health warnings on all cigarette packets. All television commercials for cigarettes were banned starting from August 1, 1965, (151) commercials for loose tobacco and cigars continued until 1991.
Non-television advertising campaigns were still allowed in the UK but came under stricter guidelines in 1986, which in particular, prevented advertisements (152) a person smoking.
A. so
B. but
C. also
D. when
[单项选择]Mary calls Robert to （）
A. invite him to join in the theatre group
B. invite him to watch their rehearsal
C. ask for his help
D. ask for his opinion about their theatre group
[填空题]
Sleeping Giant
Right now, an eruption is brewing in Yellowstone National Park. Sometime during the next two hours, the park’s most famous geyser, Old Faithful, will begin gurgling boiling water and steam.
(46) Old Faithful is not only a spectacular sight; it’s also a constant reminder that Yellowstone sits on one of the largest volcanoes in the world. If you’ve never heard of Yellowstone’s volcano, you’re not alone.
(47) Yet it has erupted three times during the last 2 million years. And one of those eruptions spewed enough volcanic ash and other debris to blanket half the United States.
Yellowstone’s volcano is sometimes called a "supervolcano", or extremely large and explosive caldera volcano.
(48) This supervolcano formed over a hot spot, an extremely hot area in Earth’s mantle. John Valley, a volcano professor, said that as the crust moves across a hot spot, the hot spot melts a section
