A new U.S.government report says more than two million Americans fall ill each year with drug—resistant bacterial infections(感染),and 23,000 of them are dying as a result.The head of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[CDC]said that the number probably will grow.Officials warn that steps must be taken now to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotic(抗生素)drugs.
Without urgent action to stop that trend,warned Tom Frieden whose agency wrote the report,the miracle drugs to fight them won’t be available in the future.
“If we are not careful,the medicine chest will be empty when we go there to look for a lifesaving antibiotic for someone with a deadly infection.But if we act now,we can preserve these medications while we continue to work on development of new medicines.”
The report names a drug—resistant abuse of gonorrhea(淋病),which causes about one quarter of a million hospitalizations in the United States annually.Of the number at least 1 4,000 result in death.
Drug resistance develops through the overuse and inappropriate use of anti—bacterial agents.These can be:doctors prescribing(开药) them to patients who have viral infections that are not affected by medicine meant to fight bacteria;patients not taking all of their medicine as prescribed,so the bacteria making them sick are only weakened,not killed;antibiotic use in healthy farm animals to prevent illness and promote growth.Antibiotic remainders left in meat and animal products can then lead to drug resistance in humans.
To limit the spread of resistant infections,experts recommend wider use of routine immunizations(预防),as well as hand—washing in hospitals and other health care facilities.Also, the report urges hand—washing by food handlers.?
Michael Bell,deputy director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC,said Patients also can play a role in preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics by asking health care providers a few simple questions.
1.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.Drug Resistance Developing Quickly in the US
B.Drug—Resistant Bacterial Infections Growing in the US
C.Actions for Preserving Anti-Bacterial Medications in the US
D.Preventions of Drug-resistant Bacterial Infections in the US
2.According to Frieden,we must take measures without delay to preserve effectiveness of antibiotics,or_____.
A.we will have to develop better medicines in place of antibiotics
B.there may be no effective anti-bacterial drugs for use in the future
C.we can’t find other medicines to cure serious illnesses in the future
D.more and more Americans will suffer from bacterial infections each year
3.Of those patients admitted to the hospital because of a drug-resistant abuse of gonorrhea annually,deaths add up to_____.
A.at least 5.6% B.about 25% C.about 1.4% D.at least 2.5%
4.One of the approaches through which drug resistance develops is that_____.
A.people eat the meat with Antibiotic remainder in animals
B.doctors prescribe less antibiotics than needed for patients
C.doctors prescribe much more antibiotic than needed for patients
D.patients don’t take their ant-bacterial agents that doctors prescribe
有人曾说 “Man is the maker of his own happiness”,你是如何理解这句话的?请按下面的要求用英文写一篇短文。
内容要求:
你对这句话的理解;
你认为什么是happiness;
如何获得你自己的happiness;
注意:
词数120左右;
文中不能出现考生的具体信息。
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阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,并将该词完整的写在答题卷上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
Dear Miguel,
I’m writing this letter to you because I really want you to hear how strongly I believe you have the ability to go far in life, and ____________ I believe staying in school will help you get there.
I was _________(失望) to hear that you wanted to leave school. You and I both know that, when you put your mind __________ it, school work is pretty easy for you. ___________, for some reason, you often decide you just don’t want to do it. G_____________ from high school is going to open a lot of d___________ for you in life – for work and for f____________ schooling or training. I hope you make a _____________ (决定) to finish this school year strong and approach next year with a positive attitude.
You are very smart. It would be sad–both for you and for o_______ in your life, like your parents and me – if you ___________ (选择) not to use all the “smarts” that you do have.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ferlazzo
根据课文内容,在空格内填入正确的英语单词,并将该词完整的写在答题卷上。所填单词要求与课文一致,每空一词。
1.Throughout the city, smartly dressed business people _________ __________ their offices or the nearest department stores, mobile phones ________ to their ears and visitors can only watch and imagine the deals and fortunes _________ _________ at that very second.
2.Travellers of the 1920s remember it mainly as a city of busy lanes with homes built around courtyards, but these have _________ _________ _________ the high-rise apartment blocks of the 21st century.
3.The mobile, _________ __________ a toy for the rich, has today __________ social and geographical __________ to find its way into the hands of the young, the old, the rich and the poor, even in communities largely untouched by new technologies.
4.This time I managed to hit one of the balls in the mid-air so that it bounced and rolled off the stage. The audience _________ __________ __________ and I __________ __________ the stage to get the ball, I _________ my ankle.
5.Good health is everyone’s ___________ ___________ of wealth.
Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. ‘‘Father!” Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room.
“Father! What’s that sound?” Hassan screamed, his hands outstretched toward Ali. Ali wrapped his arms around us. A white light flashed and lit the sky in silver. It flashed again and was followed by rapid sharp sounds of gunfire.
“They’re hunting ducks, ” Ali said in a hoarse voice. “They hunt ducks at night, you know. Don't be afraid.”
A siren(汽笛)went off in the distance. Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted. I heard people on the street, woken up from sleep. Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close and held him with tenderness.
We stayed huddled (蜷缩)that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generations of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of the bombs and gunfire were not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any idea that a way of life had ended. The end came when Russian tanks were rolling into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.
Just before the sunrise, Baba’s car pulled into the driveway. His door slammed shut and his running footsteps pounded the stairs. Then he appeared in the doorway and I saw something on his face. Something I didn’t recognize right away because I’d never seen it before: fear. “Amir! Hassan!” He cried as he ran to us, opening his arms wide. “They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn’t work. I was so worried!”
We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night.
1.Who is the author of this passage?
A. Amir. B. Ali. C. Baba. D. Hassan.
2.By saying “They’re hunting ducks”, Ali _______.
A. told the children the truth B. played a joke on the children
C. tried to calm the children D. cheered the children up
3.We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. there were thunderstorms that night
B. Afghan children were used to the war
C. people on the street shouted and broke the windows
D. that night was the end of people's peaceful life
4.From the last sentence of the passage, we know _______.
A. Baba's arms gave the author temporary comfort and joy
B. there was a chance that a world in peace was to come
C. what happened that night seemed nothing to the author
D. the author was glad to see his father come home safe
Men and women are still treated unequally in the workplace. Women continue to earn less, on average, for the same performance. Research has shown that both conscious(有意识的) and subconscious biases (偏见) contribute to this problem. But we’ve discovered another source of inequality: Women often don’t get what they want and deserve because they don’t ask for it. In three separate studies, we found that men are more likely than women to negotiate for what they want.
The first study found that the starting salaries of male MBAs who had recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon were 7.6%, or almost $4,000, higher on average than those of female MBAs from the same program. That’s because most of the women had simply accepted the employer’s salary offer; in fact, only 7% had attempted to negotiate. But 57% of their male counterparts--or eight times as many men as women—had asked for more.
Another study tested this gender difference in the lab. Subjects were told that they would be observed playing a word game and that they would be paid between $3 and $10 for playing. After each subject completed the task, an experimenter thanked the participant and said, “Here’s $3. Is $3 OK?” For the men, it was not OK, and they said so. Their requests for more money are nine times as many as the women’s.
The largest of the three studies surveyed several hundred people over the Internet, asking them about the most recent negotiations they’d attempted or started and when they expected to negotiate next. The study showed that men place themselves in negotiation situations much more often than women do.
There are several reasons accounting for the phenomenon. First, women often are taught from an early age not to promote their own interests and to focus instead on the needs of others. The messages girls receive—from parents, teachers, other children, the media, and society in general—can be so powerful that when they grow up they may not realize that they’ve made this behavior part of them, or they may realize it but not understand how it affects their willingness to negotiate. Women tend to think that they will be recognized and rewarded for working hard and doing a good job. Unlike men, they haven’t been taught that they can ask for more.
1.According to this passage, what causes the inequality in the workplace?
A. social bias
B. women’s poorer working ability
C. women’s worse academic background
D. women’s less negotiating
2.Which can be the result of the following survey, according to Para 4?
When do you expect to negotiate next?
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Women are more likely to accept the employer’s salary offer.
B. Men tend to ask for more money than woman.
C. Women care more about other’s interest instead of themselves’.
D. Men believe that the better they work, the better they’re paid.
4.What will be discussed in the following paragraph?
A. The suggestions given to women.
B. The warnings to men.
C. Another reason for women’s not asking.
D. Another reason for men’s asking.