The teacher as well as her students _________ to visit the Mother Company tomorrow.
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A．go |
B．are to go |
C．is to go |
D．is about to go |
Towards ________ evening, ________ heavy rain began to fall.
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A．the; a |
B．/; a |
C．/; the |
D．the; / |
He left ________any of his friends _________ him _________.
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A．with; seeing; of |
B．without; seeing; off |
C．without; see; / |
D．with; see; out |
COLUMBUS, Ohio—The heart operation taking place in the pale-green operating room at the Ohio State University Medical Center was unusual. The patient, a 62-year-old man, was made to sleep, tied with blue drapes（消毒帷帘）and lying face up on a narrow table. But no one was touching him.
Instead, the operation was being performed by a robot, whose three metal arms went through pencil-sized holes in the man’s chest. At the ends of the robot’s arms were tiny metal fingers, with turning wrists, which held a tiny instrument, a light and a camera. The robot’s arms and fingers were controlled by Dr. Randall K. Wolf, sitting at a computer in a corner of the operating room about 20 feet away.
This sort of operation, heart surgeons say, is the start of what may be the biggest change in their profession since heart bypass surgery（心脏搭桥手术）began nearly 30 years ago. “The reason we make cuts is that we have big hands,” said Dr. Wolf, the director of the surgery at Ohio State. The robot’s dainty fingers, no longer than a nail on the small finger, at the end of the long sticks could work better.
Eventually, surgeons believe, most heart surgery will be done by robots whose arms are put in through pencil-sized holes punched in patients’ chests. Instead of directly staring into a patient’s body, surgeons will view magnified images of the operation on computer screens. In theory, the doctor would not have to be in the same room, or even the same country, as the patient.
1.In this passage, the underlined word “dainty” means ______.
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A．weak |
B．small |
C．fat |
D．quick |
2.According to the passage, the reason that most operations require large cuts is that ______.
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A．patients have large organs |
B．surgeons have large hands |
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C．large cuts take less time |
D．large cuts cost less money |
3.The main idea of this passage is that heart surgery by robots ______.
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A．is quicker than surgery done by doctors |
B．may replace surgery done by doctors |
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C．is a new and risky procedure |
D．was developed at Ohio State University |
4.Based on the information in this passage, all of the following conclusions are true EXCEPT ______.
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A．Robot surgery is being developed at Ohio State |
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B．Robot surgery will be used on many patients in the near future |
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C．All doctors at Ohio Sate develop new surgical techniques |
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D．Many hospitals will eventually offer robot surgery to patients |
Recently a group of children in America poured some gasoline on a sleeping man and set him on fire. When caught, the children said they had done what they’d seen on TV.
The incidents make people angry who believe that American children are harmed by watching too much TV. They claim children can’t tell between the fiction of TV and reality, and TV distracts them from learning and makes them violent.
To estimate the impact of TV on young people, “Life” magazine hires a company to interview hundreds of school children in Nora Springs, Iowa and in Dallas, Texas. Although the two cities are very different, the company finds children in each city watch the same TV shows.
Many Iowa children, who watch an average of three hours of TV a day, recognizing that life on TV is rosier than what they experience. Their favourite shows are situation comedies about American families in trouble. Many boys like violent shows about police detectives or heroes, girls particularly soap operas-stories about families and friends.
On the whole, children find real violence on news programs hard to take. “If you see a bus crash on the news, it’s frightening,” one fifth grader says. By and large, the Iowa children agree that the best thing about TV is it makes you laugh.
Children in Dallas are savvier about programs of drug use on TV. “They don’t really show them doing it right. On TV they are not real.” A fifth grader says.
“Life” agrees with a 1988 study by the U. S Department of education that finds children are none the worse for watching TV. The study finds TV doesn’t have lasting effect on children. On the contrary, kids show good judgment about what they watch. “There are very few good shows on TV anymore,” a 10-year-old boy says.
While the debate about TV is so heated, the “Life” survey gives hope that American kids aren’t wasting three or four hours a day (what is worse, by the time young people enter college today, they will have devoted more time to watching television than they will spend in college). However, a child watching TV isn’t reading a good book or joining in healthful sports.
1.The main idea of the passage is .
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A．children who watch more TV are smarter than those who watch only one hour a day |
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B．children learn about drugs from watching TV |
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C．watching too much TV can cause children to go out and kill people |
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D．children learn from TV and can tell reality from what they see on it |
2.Children who see real violence on TV news programs .
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A．change the channel to watch other programs |
B．live in Iowa or Texas |
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C．are sometimes upset and scared |
D．think TV gives a very positive image of friendship |
3.Children who enter college today .
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A．usually cause the satisfaction of the society |
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B．think life on TV is happier than their life at home |
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C．have spent more time watching TV than they will spend in college |
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D．watch most the same TV shows as children in Dallas |
4.The “Life” survey of children’s TV habits .
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A．concludes that watching up to seven hours a day of TV is good for children |
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B．agrees with the U.S. Department of Education study that finds few negative effects from watching TV |
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C．concludes that there aren’t any good shows on TV any more |
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D．concludes that children shouldn’t pour gasoline on sleeping man |
This year some twenty-three hundred teenagers (young people aged from 13-19) from all over the world will spend about ten months in U. S. homes. They will attend U.S. schools, meet U.S. teenagers, and form impressions of the real America. At the same time, about thirteen hundred American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new languages and gain a new understanding of the rest of the world.
Here is a two-way student exchange in action. Fred, nineteen, spent last year in Germany with George’s family. In turn, George’s son Mike spent a year in Fred’s home in America.
Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived, but after two months’ study, the language began to come to him. School was completely different from what he had expected-much harder. Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room. They took fourteen subjects instead of the six that are usual in the United States. There were almost no outside activities.
Family life, too, was different. The father’s word was law, and all activities were around the family rather than the individual(个人). Fred found the food too simple at first. Also, he missed having a car. “Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out and have a good time. In Germany, you walk, but you soon learn to like it.”
At the same time, in America, Mike, a friendly German boy, was also forming his idea. “I suppose I should criticize (批评) American schools”, he says. “It is far too easy by our level. But I have to say that I like it very much. In Germany we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many outside activities. I think that maybe you schools are better in training for citizens. There ought to be some middle ground between the two.”
1.This year _____ teenagers will take part in the exchange programme between America and other countries.
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A．over three thousand |
B．thirteen hundred |
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C．twenty three hundred |
D．less than two thousand |
2.The whole exchange programme is mainly to _____.
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A．have teen-agers learn new languages |
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B．send students in America to travel in Germany |
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C．help teen-agers in other countries know the real America |
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D．let students learn something about other countries |
3.Fred and Mike agreed that _____.
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A．American food tasted better than German food |
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B．Americans and Germans were both friendly |
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C．German schools were harder than American schools |
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D．There were more cars on the streets in America |
4.What is particular in American schools is that _____.
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A．students go outside to enjoy themselves in a car |
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B．there are a lot of after-school activities |
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C．students usually take fourteen subjects in all |
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D．there is some middle ground between the two teaching buildings |
5.After experiencing the American school life, Mike thought _____.
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A．German schools trained students to be better citizens |
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B．a better education should include something good from both America and Germany |
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C．American schools were not as good as German schools |
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D．the easy life in the American school was more helpful to students |
