---- Did you have ________ fun at the party?
---- Yes. It’s ________ shame that you missed it.
A. a; a B. /; / C. /; a D. a; /
It was my sister first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from ______ it began to where it ends.
A. who; which B. who; where C. that; which D. that; what
In fifteen terrible seconds a large city .
A. lied in ruin B. lay in ruin C. lied in ruins D. lay in ruins
假设你是李华，请你根据以下提示用英语给魔术师(magician)刘谦(Lu Chen)写一封信。
从小就对魔术着迷，梦想成为一名魔术师；2. 评价春节晚会上他的节目；
3. 买了刘谦魔术表演的DVD，非常喜欢；4. 请刘谦教一个简单的魔术，以便在圣诞晚会上表演。
注意：1.词数：120左右；2. 信的开关和结尾已写好，但不计入总词数；3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Lu Chen,
My name is Li Hua…
Sincerely yours
Li Hua
短文填词（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Nowadays taking on a part-time job is popular with us students, and
we can_______(获益) a lot from it. For example, a part-time job 1.______
can offer us the chance to put _______ we have learned into practice 2.______
and show our ability. And we can become more _______(独立的). 3.________
B_______, it can also enrich our school life and the experience 4.______
may be _______ great help to our future careers. However, doing a 5._______
part-time job has some _______(缺点). If we have one, we may 6._______
_______(减少) our time for rest and other activities. And sometimes 7.______
we may find ______ hard to keep up with others in our studies. 8._______
So it is advisable to k_______ a balance. As students, we should 9.______
spend most of the time in l________. A part-time job is acceptable only 10.______
(NEW YORK)---Scientists have discovered small signs of awareness in some vegetative(植物人的) brain injury patients and have even communicated with one of them---findings that are beneficial to how to assess and care for such people.
The new research suggests that standard tests may ignore patients who have some consciousness, and that someday some kind of communication may be possible.
In the strongest example, a 29-year-old patient was able to answer yes-or-no questions by picturing specific scenes the doctors asked him to imagine.
“We were stunned when this happened,” said one study author, Martin Monti of the Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. “I find it really amazing. This was a patient who was believed to be vegetative for five years.”
Ever since a research paper four years ago described obvious signs of awareness in a vegetative patient, families of patients have been demanding brain scans, said Dr. James Bernat, a spokesman for the American Academy for Neurology.
But experts said more study is needed before the specialized brain scans could be used in medical treatment. “It’s still a research tool,” Bernat said.
Experts also pointed out that only a few tested patients showed evidence of awareness. And they said it is not clear what degree of consciousness and mental abilities the signs imply.
They also noted that the positive signals appeared only in people with traumatic(外伤的) brain injury---not in patients whose brains had been lacking in oxygen, as can happen when the heart stops.
The new study used brain scanning called functional MRI, for 23 patients in a vegetative state and 31 that are minimally(极微地) conscious.
Patients are said to be in a vegetative state if they are tested and found unable to do such things as move on command or follow a moving object with their eyes. Minimally conscious patients show signs of awareness, but they are minimal and discontinuous.
1. What is the practical use of the research?
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A．It leads to studying how to cure vegetative patients. |
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B．It attracts society to pay more attention to vegetative patients. |
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C．It helps doctors know whether patients are vegetative or not. |
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D．It drives the government to care about vegetative patients. |
2.What does the underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
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A．Relaxed |
B．Amazed |
C．Excited |
D．Worried |
3.One is considered vegetative if _______________.
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A．his eyes can’t follow a moving thing |
B．his brain only has a little oxygen |
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C．he has a traumatic brain injury |
D．his heart stops beating |
4.The passage mainly deals with ________________.
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A．how to recognize a vegetative patient |
B．the significance of a new scientific finding |
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C．how family members look after a vegetative patient |
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D．the latest findings on awareness in some vegetative patients |
