【正文】 n wealth and poverty is disappearing 8. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? [A] Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution [B] Ways of Continuing Man39。re a physician, you can risk your patient39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 3 making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if 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 3 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。s industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing petition from overseas. How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self doubt has yielded to blind pride. American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick witted, according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard39。s machinetool industry was on theropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new puter age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their ines would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America39。s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn39。t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you39。s report, one of the problems in endoflife care is [A] prolonged medical procedures. [B] inadequate treatment of pain. [C] systematic drug abuse. [D] insufficient hospital care. 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 5 59. Which of the following best defines the word aggressive (line 4, paragraph 7)? [A] Bold. [B] Harmful. 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 5 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) [C] Careless. [D] Desperate. 60. Gee Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they [A] manage their patients inpetently. [B] give patients more medicine than needed. [C] reduce drug dosages for their patients. [D] prolong the needless suffering of the patients. 第三課時(shí) Passage 2 Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70yearolds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby (particularly a boy baby) surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone. There is another way to mit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious munities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has bee average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today — everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring — means that natural selection has lost 81% of its power in upermiddleclass India pared to the tribes. For us, this means that evolution is over。s state of consciousness. 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 9 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) 9. Substances abuse (Line 4, Paragraph 1) is preferable to drug abuse in that ________. [A] substances can alter our bodily or mental functioning if illegally used [B] drug abuse is only related to a limited number of drug takers [C] alcohol andtobacco are as fatal as heroin and cocaine [D] many substances other than heroin or cocaine can also be poisonous 10. The word pervasive (Line 1, Paragraph 2) might mean ________. [A] widespread [B] overwhelming [C] piercing [D] fashionable 11. Physical dependence on certain substances results from ________. [A] uncontrolled consumption of them over long periods of time. [B] exclusive use of them for social purposes [C] quantitative application of them to the treatment of diseases [D] careless employment of them for unpleasant symptoms 12. From the last paragraph we can infer that ________. [A] stimulants function positively on the mind [B] hallucinogens are in themselves harmful to health [C] depressants are the worst type of psychoactive substances [D] the three types of psychoactive substances are monly used in groups Text 4 It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans39。s lives. [B] life beyond a certain limit is not worth living. 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 11 [C] death should be