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epare healthy food can change their life.41. One foodasmedicine program not only prescribes food for treatment but teaches patients howCalifornia has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system. The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand. New research has found deep water reserves under the state which could help solve their drought crisis. Previous drilling of wells could only reach depths of 1,000 feet, but due to new pumping practices, water deeper than this can now be extracted (抽取). The team at Stanford investigated the aquifers(地下蓄水層)below this depth and found that reserves may be triple what was previously thought.It is profitable to drill to depths more than 1,000 feet for oil and gas extraction, but only recently in California has it bee profitable to pump water from this depth. The aquifers range from 1,000 to 3,000 feet below the ground, which means that pumping will be expensive and there are other concerns. The biggest concern of pumping out water from this deep in the gradual settling down of the land surface. As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is pacted by the weight of the earth above.Even though pumping from these depths is expensive, it is still cheaper than desalinating(脫鹽)the ocean water in the largely coastal state. Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs. Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.One problem with these sources is that the deep water also has a higher level of salt than shallower aquifers. This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost. Research from the exhaustive study of groundwater from over 950 drilling logs has just been published. New estimates但調(diào)查顯示,盡管能手機閱讀市場穩(wěn)步增長,超半數(shù)成年人仍喜歡讀紙質(zhì)書。in the real world. The unpredictability of the real world may bring to the surface a troubling software problem.Eric Schmidt is one of the bosses of Google, which own AlphoGo. He thinks AI will be positive for humans. He said people will be the winner, whatever the oute. Advances in AI will make human beings smarter, more able and “just better human beings.” does the author want to show with the example of AlphaGo’s victory?A)Computers will prevail over human beings.B)Computers have unmatched potential.C)Computers are man’s potential rivals.D)Computers can bee highly intelligent. does the author mean by AI machines acting ethically?A)They are capable of predicting possible risks.B)They weigh the gains and losses before reaching a decision.C)They make sensiblebut also how to prepare them at home.[I] Many people don’t know how to cook, Rea says, and they only know how to heat things up. That means depending on packaged food with high salt and sugar content. So teaching people about which foods are healthy and how to prepare them, she says, can actually transform a patient’s life. And beyond that, it might“I’m not sure they’d eat it. They just won’t eat it.”[D] Nadeau says sugar and processed foods are big contributors to the rising diabetes rates among children.J)innovatedC)consciously I)exclusivelyB)associated to the developing world. Thousands die prematurely in the . as a result of related illnesses. In many European countries, where diesel(柴油) nearly 1% of GDP. Around 9 in 10 people in lowand middleine countries live in places where they it as an “urgent call to action.”“One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little like home heating and cooking, has remained Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice inThen mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D). Ⅲword bank following the passage.occurring in the developing world.The figures include a number of costs L)relatesE)control “So I’d have to make it?”she asks, her enthusiasm fading at the thought of how long that might take, just to have her kids reject it.of how to treat disease,” says Dr. Brenda Rea, who helps run the family and preventive medicine residency program at Loma Linda University School of