He had an increasingly uneasy feeling about his answer to the question.A.difficultB.worrie
He had an increasingly uneasy feeling about his answer to the question.
A.difficult
B.worried
C.anxious
D.unhappy
He had an increasingly uneasy feeling about his answer to the question.
A.difficult
B.worried
C.anxious
D.unhappy
第1题
According to the passage, Hitler had attempted to
A.biologically change the pilots to win the war.
B.develop genetic farming for increasing the food supply.
C.kill the people he thought of as being inferior.
D.encourage the development of genetic weapons for the war.
第2题
What did Richard Causey claim?
A.He had nothing to do with the increasing price of Euron stock.
B.He was maneuvered by even higher-ranking officials.
C.He just meant to save Euron from going bankrupt.
D.He is innocent because he did everything according to the regulations.
第3题
A family doctor charged the Night Home Service (NHS) more than £ 500,000 in seven years for night visits that his patients did not need, a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing was told yesterday.
Jagdeep Gossain charged for up to 540 emergency call-outs a month, increasing his annual salary to close to £200,000 a year and using almost a third of the local health authority's out-of-hours GP budget.
Dr Gossain, 46, had a target list of about 100 patients in his practice at Fulham, southwest London, whom he used repeatedly on claim forms to Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority.
Nearly all emergency visits conducted by the doctor, who often made up to 40 calls a night, were "clinically inappropriate". He had also duped the GMC into postponing his hearing, before the professional conduct committee, four times by claiming that his bad back made him unfit to attend, Sarah Plaschkes, for the GMC, said.
But that injury had not prevented him enjoying his favourite sport — weightlifting — at an exclusive gym in Heston.
Ms Plaschkes added: "The council submits that Dr Gossain deliberately, dishonestly deceived this professional body by pretending he was too ill to attend the heating when, in fact, he was at a leisure centre."
Between May 1990 and April 1998 he claimed an "inordinate and extraordinary number" of night visits, she said. The average GP makes 50 emergency night calls a year. In September 1997 alone Dr Gossain put in 542 claims.
Ms Plaschkes alleged that it was unjustifiable reward in the sum of about £500,000 from the public purse. Dr Gossain's claims escalated over the years. In 1991 he claimed£1,000; by 1995 the sum had risen to more than £75,000, peaking in 1996 at almost£160,000. Over the seven-year period he allegedly fleeced the NHS of £514,593.
In 1998 he claimed ~ 124,591, when the average GP in his health authority claimed£670. Dr Gossain is accused of doing so many night visits that he "could not have provided adequate care and attention" for the patients he visited. It is also said that his ability to provide competent daytime services "was compromised".
Dr Gossain denies serious professional misconduct but, if found guilty, could be struck off the medical register.
A BBC Panorama investigation found that his three children went to private school and he drove a Mercedes with private number plates. His wife, Shashi, a pharmacist, has said that his only crime was to have been a workaholic. The hearing continues.
For what was the doctor in the passage charged?
A.For his incompetence.
B.For his unnecessary services to the patients.
C.For unusually large number of night visits.
D.All the above.
第4题
Alan Greenspan: the Most Powerful Guy
With the American's Midterm Elections over, and a new Commander-in-Chief about to step in, some Americans are a little nervous about the nation's future. But others feel secure, knowing that the man they consider the most powerful person in the world isn't going anywhere.
Just who is this behind-the-scenes guy they think has more power than George W. Bush ever will? He's Alan Greenspan, a 74-year-old expert economist who heads the Federal Reserve, commonly known as the Fed.
Unlike the president, who has to please the voters and compromise with Congress, Greenspan doesn't have to answer to anyone.
But that doesn't mean his job is easy.
Basically, Greenspan is in charge of keeping the nation's economy stable. The economy is sort of like a balloon: blow in too much air, and it pops. But with too little air, it falls to the floor. Greenspan helps decide when to blow more air into the economy. In this case, the air in a balloon is. the amount of money in the economy. Greenspan can make the economy grow by increasing the money supply, or keep the economy from inflating too much by decreasing the money supply. His goal is for the economy to grow and contract gradually. Rapid changes can harm businesses and consumers.
Translating "Greenspan—Speak"
In a speech lately, Greenspan hinted the Fed was concerned the economy might be slowing down too fast. What Greenspan actually said was that the Fed should "remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate(促成) an excessive softening in household and business spending. "But what investors heard was: "I may lower interest rates which will make it easier for the companies you are investing in to borrow money. That means they'll expand and their stock will be worth more in the future."
Within hours of Greenspan's remarks, so many investors bought stocks that the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ rose by three percent and ten percent that day. The value of some companies went up by millions of dollars, just because investors had confidence in Greenspan's words.
Increasing Influence
But Greenspan doesn't just work magic by talking. He was educated at New York University and Columbia and appointed to his job in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. And he's credited with steering the country through some difficult times since then, including a serious stock market crash just after he took the job.
Another reason Greenspan has become almost a celebrity in America, is that more people are paying attention to the stock market than ever before. It used to be that only rich people and powerful corporations had the extra money to invest in stocks. But the U.S. economy has done so well in recent years, that more and more ordinary people are investing in stocks.
Who is Greenspan?
He's a native New Yorker. His first focus was music: He attended New York's Julliard School and toured the country for a year in the early 1940s, playing in the Henry Jerome swing band(摇摆乐队). If nothing else, friends believe, this experience of US travel gave him the ability to connect dispassionate(不带感情的) economic theories with the individuals they affect.
"The most outstanding thing about his is he knows the American economy…," says friend Herbert Stein, an economist.
A swing into economics carried him straight into moderate Republican politics. He advised Richard Nixon in his 1968 campaign, and served briefly in the Bureau of the Budget.
Seven years later, he returned to government service, replacing Mr. Stein as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the final days of Nixon presidency. He agreed only after being assured that Vice President Ford would keep him.
In that
A.business
B.money
C.the Fed
D.government
第5题
A.They had enough money to do it.
B.They had succeeded in their business.
C.They wanted to make others believe that they were successful.
D.They wished to meet the increasing demand of customers.
第6题
Marriage Advertisements in India
Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them quickly to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian-the-columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives. This is relatively modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in "the wifely arts", information about her earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.
Divorce, which used to be almost unheard of in India, is sometimes now mentioned in the advertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in New Delhi newspaper explained that had been "the innocent party" when her marriage broke up.
Because the custom of the dowry (marriage payment) is now illegal, some advertisements say "no dowry" or "simple marriage", which means the same thing. However, the fathers of many bridegrooms still require it. In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferable, many also require that a woman have a "wheat-color" complexion or that a man be "tall, fair and handsome". Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes, mostly in cities. Many of them receive dozens of answers. "There's nothing embarrassing about it," explained a Calcutta businessman advertising a son-in-law. "It's just another way of broadening the contacts and increasing the possibility of doing the contacts and increasing the possibilities of doing the best one for one's daughter. "
Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here, one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad, especially in Canada or the United States. A person who has one can get what he wants. One recent Sunday in Madras, for example, a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for a "beautiful slim bride with lovely features knowing music and dance". And a man whose advertisement said that he held an American immigration permit was able to say, only girls from rich, well-connected families need apply.
In Marriage advertisements in India women are only introduced in terms of appearance or their skill in being a good wife.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第7题
A.what
B.that
C.when
D.if
第8题
Historically, the amount of space an employee had was【C6】______ related to his or her position. The higher an individual was in an organization,【C7】______ the office he or she typically got. That,【C8】______, no longer seems to be true. As organizations seek to develop more equality, the trends have been toward reducing space【C9】______ to specific employees, and making more space【C10】______ for groups or teams to meet in.
According to recent【C11】______, the amount of personal office space organizations give to administrative employees has【C12】______by 25 to 50 percent over the past decade. This change is【C13】______ in part to economies. Space costs money【C14】______ reducing space cuts costs. But a lot of this reduction can be【C15】______ to changes in the organizations. As jobs have been redesigned and traditional hierarchies(等级制度)replaced【C16】______ teamwork, the need for large offices has lessened. Today, an increasing number of organizations are changing closed offices to cubicles (小隔间) which are【C17】______ in size.
Research has shown that people are more likely to【C18】______ with those individuals who are physically close to them. Employees' work location,【C19】______, are likely to influence the information【C20】______ they are exposed.
【C1】
A.modern
B.advanced
C.small
D.beneficial
第9题
U. S. Life Expectancy Hits New High
Life expectancy rates in the United States are at an all- time high, with people born in 2005 projected to live for nearly 78 years, a new federal study finds.
The finding reflects a continuing trend of increasing life expectancy that began in 1955, when the average American lived to be 69.6 years old. By 1995, life expectancy was 75.8 years, and by 2005, it had risen to 77.9 years, according to the report released Wednesday.
"This is good news," said report co - author Donna Hoyert, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics. "It's even better news that it is a continuation of trends, so it is a long period of continuing improvement. "
Despite the upward trend, the United States still has a lower life expectancy than some 40 other countries, according to the U. S. Census (人口普查) Bureau. The country with the longest life expectancy is Andorra at 83.5 years, followed by Japan, Macau, San Marino and Singapore.
Much of the increase owes to declining death rates from the three leading causes of death in the country - heart disease, cancer and stroke.
In addition, in 2005, the U. S. death rate dropped to an all -time low of less than 800 deaths per 100,000.
Dr. David Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, said, "News that life expectancy is increasing is, of course, good. But the evidence we have suggests that there is more chronic disease than ever in the U. S."
Adding years to life is a good thing, Katz said. "But adding vital life to years is at least equally important. If we care about living well, and not just longer, we still have our work cut out for us," he said.
Since 1955, life expectancy rates in the U. S. have
A.moved up and down.
B.been declining.
C.remained steady.
D.been on the rise.
第10题
根据下列材料请回答 37~41 题:U.S.Life Expectancy Hits New High
Life expectancy rates in the United States are at an all—time high,with people born in 2005 projected to live for nearly 78 years,a new federal study finds.
The finding reflects a continuing trend of increasing life expectancy that began in1955.when the average American lived to be 59.6 years old.By 1995,life expectancy was 75.8 years,and by 2005,it had risen to 77.9 years,according to the report released Wednesday.
“This is good news,”said report co—author Donna Hoyert,a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics.“It's even better news that it is a continuation of trends,so it is a long period of continuing improvement.”
Despite the upward trend,the United States still has a lower life expectancy than some 40 other countries,according to the U.S.Census(人口普查)Bureau.the country with the longest life expectancy is Andorra at 83.5 years,followed by Japan,Macau,San Marino and Singapore.
Much of the increase owes to declining death rates from the three leading causes of death in the country—heart disease.6an'ceF arid stroke.
In addition,in 2005,the U.S.death rate dropped to an all—time low of less than 800 deaths per 1 00,000.
Dr.David Katz,director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine,said,“News that life expectancy is increasing is,of course,good.But the evidence we have suggests that there is more chronic disease than ever in the U.S.”
Adding years to life is a good thing,Katz said.“But adding vital life to years is at least equally important.If we care about living well,and not just longer,we still have our work cut out for U.S.” he said.
第37题:Since 1955,life expectancy rates in the U.S.have
A.moved up and down.
B.been declining.
C.been on the rise.
D.remained steady.