【正文】 On another level, many in the medical munity acknowledge that the assistedsuicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modem medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Court39。t succeed, give up or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 41. To make your humor work, you should [A] take advantage of different kinds of audience. [B] make fun of the disanized people. [C] address different problems to different people. [D] show sympathy for your listeners. 42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are [A] impolite to new arrivals. [B] very conscious of their godlike role. [C] entitled to some privileges. [D] very busy even during lunch hours. 43. It can be inferred from the text that public services [A] have benefited many people. [B] are thefocus of public attention. [C] are an inappropriate subject for humor. [D] have often been the laughing stock. 44. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered [A] in wellworded language. [B] as awkwardly as possible. [C] in exaggerated statement. [D] as casually as possible. 45. The best title for the text may be [A] Use Humor Effectively. [B] Various Kinds of Humor. [C] Add Humor to Speech. [D] Different Humor Strategies. The Supreme Court39。 alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to ment on their disanized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses39。s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial petitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign petition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea39。s a doctor. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are mon to all of you and it39。s like surgery, he says, We don39。 death. [B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery. [C] The Court ruled that highdosage painrelieving medication can be prescribed. [D] A doctor39。s book is intended to ________. (A) remend the views of the evolutionists (B) expose the true features of creationists (C) curse bitterly at his opponents (D) launcha surprise attack on creationists 19. From the passage we can infer that ________. (A) reasoning has played a decisive role in the debate (B) creationists do not base their argument on reasoning (C) evolutionary theory is too difficult for nonspecialists (D) creationism is supported by scientific findings 20. This passage appears to be a digest of ________. (A) a book review (B) a scientific paper (C) a magazine feature (D) a newspaper editorial Passage 3 Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some sort of medicine or an illegal chemical taken by drug addicts. They don39。s attitude toward Richard Lamm39。 we are geically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions. We all understand that at some level, yet as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved. Shielded by thirdparty payers from the cost of our care, we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it39。s Evolution [C] the Evolutionary Future of Nature [D] Human Evolution Going Nowhere 考研文章的難點(diǎn) 1. 單詞量不大，但是句型結(jié)構(gòu)復(fù)雜 2. 作者的態(tài)度導(dǎo)出具有隱蔽性 第四課時(shí) 3. 選項(xiàng)的設(shè)計(jì)具有迷惑性 微觀閱讀技巧之一：標(biāo)點(diǎn)的運(yùn)用 Unit 1 Passage 1 The American economic system is anized around a basically privateenterprise, marketoriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen. striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in petition with other businessmen。s suicide as long as you don39。s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a lighthearted remark. Look for the humor. It often es from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote If at first you don39。s Kennedy School of Government. It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as a golden age of business management in the United States. 新東方在線(xiàn) [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 2 1. The . achieved its predominance after World War II because ________. [A] it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal 中國(guó)最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 2 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) [B] its domestic market was eight times larger than before [C] the war had destroyed the economies of most potential petitors [D] the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy 2. The loss of . predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fact that the American ________. [A] TV in