People today expect to be examined when they enter a doctor's office. At least they expect - 试题答案网问答

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听力原文：In this country, the total number of people over 65 years old is 23 million today

, but it will swell to 45 million by the year 2020.

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A．Aging population is expected to double within decades.

B．By 2020, 45% of the people in the country will be over sixty-five.

C．Old people in this country can expect to live a longer life.

D．In less than 20 years, 23 million more people will have to retire.

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第2题

BPeople today expect to be examined when. they enter a doctor's office. At least they expe

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People today expect to be examined when. they enter a doctor's office. At least they expect

their blood pressure and temperature to be measured. However, as recently as two hundred years ago, a doctor's treatment depended on talking with patients. In general, the communication be-tween doctors and their patients was the most important part of medical methods. The modern age of medicine began with the stethoscope, an instrument for listening to patients' heartbeat and breathing. Before that, a doctor did not touch a patient. In fact, there was no such thing as a med ical examination.

The stethoscope-with all other medical instruments-has a serious effect on the practice of

medicine. Doctors become better at finding the medical problems. More lives are saved. At the

same time, doctors give less importance to the communication between patients and doctors. Some doctors actually stop talking to their patients. It is easy to understand why some sick people thought themselves as broken machines.

61. A stethoscope can be used to _________

[A] check health conditions

[B] cure some illnesses

[C]measure temperature

[D] treat heart disease

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第3题

听力原文：Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It n

听力原文： Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationships with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term--quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life？ One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900；you could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75 or be older.

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A．Different interpretations of the term “health.”

B．Improving the quality of life

C．The importance of health to quality living.

D．People's expectations of a long and healthy life.

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第4题

听力原文：A good marriage means growing as a couple but also growing as individuals. This i

听力原文： A good marriage means growing as a couple but also growing as individuals. This isn't easy; marriage has always been difficult. Why then are we seeing so many divorces at this time？ Yes, our modern social fabric is thin, and yes, the permissiveness of society has created unrealistic expectations and threw the family into disorder. But divorce is so common because people today are unwilling to exercise the self-discipline that marriage requires. They expect easy joy, like the entertainment on TV, the thrill of a good party.

Marriage takes some kind of sacrifice, not dreadful self-sacrifice of the soul, but some level of compromise. Some of one's fantasies, some of one's legitimate desires, have to be given up for the value of the marriage itself. "While all marital partners feel shacked at times, it is they who really choose to make the martial ties into confining chains or supporting bonds, says Dr. Walter. Marriage requires sexual, financial and emotional discipline. A man and a woman cannot follow every impulse, cannot allow them to stop growing or changing.

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A．Because it is difficult to maintain a marriage.

B．Because people like watching TV programs.

C．Because people prefer freedom to self-discipline.

D．Because our society is permissive towards divorces.

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第5题

听力原文：There have been many great inventions, things that changed the way we live. The f

听力原文： There have been many great inventions, things that changed the way we live. The first great invention was one that is still very important today -- the wheel. This is used in cars, trucks, and tractors, etc., and has made it easier to carry heavy things and travel long distances.

For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800's the world started to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much anymore. They began to work instead to make life better.

In the second half of the 19th century, many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These all became a big pan of our life today.

The first part of the 20th century saw mom great inventions: the helicopter in 1909, movies with sound in 1926, the computer in 1928, and the jet plane in 1930. This was also a time when a new kind of material was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear.

The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people get over diseases, They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live longer. By the 1960's most people could expect to live to be at least 60.

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A．The tractor.

B．The ear.

C．The wheel.

D．The steam engine.

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第6题

听力原文： There have been many great inventions, things that change the way we live. The f

irst great invention was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easier to carry heavy things and to travel long distances.

For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800s the world started to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. They began to work instead to make life better.

In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.

The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help get over diseases. They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live longer lives. By the 1960s most people could expect to live to be at least 60.

By this time most people had a very good life. Of course new inventions continued to be made. But man now had a desire to explore again. The world was known to man, but the stars were not. Man began looking for ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took a step. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, have made their steps into space.

When did people stop exploring a lot？

A．In the second half of the 19th century.

B．In the 1960s.

C．In the first half of the 20th century.

D．In the early 1800s.

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第7题

For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A. D. Chinese children play

ed with a fan-like toy that spun upwards and fell back to the earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceived the first mechanical apparatus, called a "Helix", which could carry a man straight up, but this was only a design and was never tested.

The ancient dream was finally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet above the ground, went sideways and backwards, and then settled back to the earth. That vehicle was called a helicopter.

Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. People anticipated that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Such fantastic expectations were not fulfilled. The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine. It excels in military missions, carrying troops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying; and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons.

According to the passage, people expect that______.

A．helicopters could eventually replace the airliners of today

B．their imaginations fired by the Russian engineer's invention would be realized in the future

C．their fantastic expectations about helicopters could be fulfilled by airliners of today

D．helicopters would someday be able to carry millions of people from place to place as airliners are now doing

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第8题

The age of gilded youth （纨绔子弟) is over. Today' s under-thirties are the first generati

The age of gilded youth (纨绔子弟) is over. Today' s under-thirties are the first generation for a century who can expect a lower living standard than their parents. Research into the lifestyle. and prospects of people born since 1970 shows that they are likely to face a lifetime of longer working hours, lower job security and higher taxes than the previous generation. When they leave work late in the evening they will be more likely to return to a small rented flat than to a house of their own. When eventually they retire, it will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears (祖先，祖宗).

The findings are revealed in a study of the way the aging of Britain's population is affecting different generations. Anthea Tinker, professor of social gerontology at King's College London, who carried out much of the work, said the growth of the proportion of people over 50 had reversed the traditional flow of wealth from older to younger generations. "Today's older middle-aged and elderly are becoming the new winners," she said. "They made relatively small contributions in tax but now make relatively big claims on the welfare system. Generations born in the last three to four decades face the prospect of handing over more than a third of their lifetime's earnings to care for them".

The surging(激增) number of older people, many living alone, has also increased demand for property and pushed up house prices. While previous generations found it easy to raise a mortgage (抵押), today's under-thirties have to live with their parents or rent. If they can afford to buy a home it is more likely to be a flat than a house. Laura Lenox-Conyngham, 28, grew up in a large house and her mother did not need to work. Unlike her wealthy parents, she graduated with student and postgraduate loan debts of ￡ 13, 000. She now earns about ￡ 20,000 a year, preparing food to be photographed for magazines. Her home is a one-bedroom flat in central London and she sublets the lounge sofa bed to her brother. "My father took pity and paid off my student debts," she said. "But I still have no pension and no chance of buying a property for at least a couple of year—and then it will be something small in a bad area. My only hope is the traditional one of meeting a rich man." Tinker's research reveals Lenox-Conyngham is representative of many young professionals, especially in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol.

By saying "the growth of the proportion of people over 50 had reversed the traditional flow of wealth from older to younger generations" (Lines 3 ～ 4, Para. 2), Anthea Tinker really means that ______.

A．currently wealth flows from old generation to younger generation

B．traditionally wealth flows from younger generation to old generation

C．with the increasingly big population of over 50, the trend arises that wealth flows from younger generation to old generation

D．with more and more people of over 50, traditions have been reversed

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第9题

Prehistoric men and women enjoyed a more varied diet than people do now, since they ate

species of plant and several hundreds thousands types of living things. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have hastened a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and the tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of weighting tomatoes to a kilo. Siri von Reis asks: "Only the three major cereals （谷物类食物） and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the world's human population and a handful of drug plants has served Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises: Are we missing something？" After all, there are 800 000 species of plant on earth.

1.In prehistoric times people（）.

A、ate much more than we do today

B、lived mainly on plant food

C、had a wide-ranging diet

D、were more fussy about what they ate

2.The specialization of food was started by（）.

A、the emergence of supermarkets

B、the rise of agriculture

C、the rich countries

D、the modern shops

3.According to the passage, people in the West today survive on（）.

A、carrots and tomatoes

B、several thousand types of plants and cereals

C、a very small number of cultivated foods

D、special species planted one thousand years ago

4.The conclusion seems to be that we（）.

A、could make use of more natural species

B、don't cultivate the right kind of food

C、produce more food than we need

D、cultivate too many different species

5.Most of us have come to expect（）.

A、no variation in our diet

B、a reduction in food supplies

C、a specialist diet

D、food conforming to a set standard

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第10题

听力原文：M: I didn't expect to see you here.W: Francis was sick and asked me to work today

听力原文：M: I didn't expect to see you here.

W: Francis was sick and asked me to work today instead.

Q: What can be concluded from this conversation？

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A．The woman is taking Francis'place at work.

B．Francis and the woman are working together today.

C．The woman is expecting to take today off.

D．Francis asked if the woman was sick.

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