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Given the current recessive real estate market,the Central Government has recently issued stimulus policies,in hopes of boosting the market demand.
（ ） is known to the world, Mark Twain is a great American writer.
The bullet hit him on his chest and he（ ）down to the floor.
Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 percent of every human population that has ever lived appears to have been right-handed. Professor Bryan Turner at Deakin University has studied the research literature on left-handedness and found that handedness goes with sidedness. So nine out of ten people are right-handedness and eight are right-footed. He noted that this distinctive asymmetry in the human population is itself systematic. Humans think in categories: black and white up and down, left and right. It’s a system of signs that enable us to categories phenomena that are essentially ambiguous.Research has shown that there is a genetic or inherited element to handedness. But while left-handedness tends to run in families, neither left nor right hinders will automatically produce off-spring with the same handedness; in fact about 6percent of children with two right-handed parents will be left-handed. However, among two left-handed parents, perhaps 40 percent of the children will also to left-handed. With one right and one left-handed parent, 15 to 20 percent of the off-spring will be left-handed. Even among identical twins who have exactly the same genes, one in six pairs will differ in their handedness. What then makes people left-handed if it is not simply genetic? Other factors must be at work and researchers have turned to the brain for clues. In the 1860s the French surgeon and anthropologist. Dr. Paul Breea, made the remarkable finding that patients who had lost their powers of speech as a result of a stroke (a blood clot in the brain) had paralysis of the right half of their body. He noted that since the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right half of the body, and vice versa, the brain damage must have been in the brain’s left hemisphere. Psychologists now believe that among right-handed people, probably 95 percent have their language center in the left hemisphere, while 5 percent have right-sided language. Left-handler s, however, do not show the reverse pattern but instead a majority also have their language in the left hemisphere. Some 30 percent have right hemisphere language.Dr. Brinkman, a brain researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, has suggested that evolution of speech went with right handed preference. According to Brinkman as the brain evolved, one side became specialized for fine control of movement (necessary for producing speech) and also with this evolution came right-hand preference. According to Brinkman, most left-handlers have left hemisphere dominance but also some capacity in the right hemisphere. She has observed that if a left-handed person is brain damaged in the left hemisphere, the recovery of speech is quite often better and this is explained by the fact that left-handlers have more bilateral speech function.In her studies of macaque monkeys, Brinkman has noticed that primates (monkey) seem to learn a hand preference from the mother in the first year of life but this could be one hand or the other. In humans, however, the specialization in function of the two hemispheres results in anatomical differences: areas that are involved with the production of speech are usually larger on the left side than on the right. Since monkeys have not acquired the art of speech one would not expect to see such variation but Brinkman claims to have discovered a trend in monkeys towards the asymmetry that is evident in the human brain.1.According to the passage, what is Professor Bryan Turner’s opinion?2.Which of the following opinions is proposed by Dr. Brinkman?3.A study of monkeys has shown that（ ）.4.According to the writer, left-handed people（ ）.5.In a family with one parent left-handed and one parent right-handed, what is the percentage of children being left-handed?
He had a clear picture of a sad and lonely man, deeply concerned about his health which seemed to promise only a fairly rapid decline into （ ）.
Military orders are（ ） and cannot be disobeyed.
His heart（ ）with excitement as he was waiting for the reception by the leaders.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philoso¬phies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harm¬ful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values that we unquestionably accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd； Brave New World ridicules the preten¬sions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satire method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opin¬ions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous com¬bination, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because the readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Sat¬ire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to re¬mind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is hypocritical, sentimental, and only par¬tially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but lend lo forget them when they do not hear them expressed.1.What does the passage mainly discuss?2.Why does the author mention Don Quixote, Brave New World and A Modest proposal in the first paragraph?3.Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?4.According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be（ ）
Brenda Farmer and Willie Blanscet have sat across from each other on the Butterball bagging line for 17 years, 102 cold, raw turkeys sliding by in front of them every minute. “Me and Willie look at each other and say, ‘How in the world can anybody eat this much turkey? ’” The odds are good that yours may be one. 1. The women, along with workers at another Butterball plant a 90-minute drive away, help produce about a third of the 43 million turkeys the nation will eat today, according to the National Turkey Federation.This comer of northwest Arkansas is not the land of free-running heritage birds that command $16 a pound. A leisurely morning browsing the farmers, market is not how most people spend a Saturday.2. In this community of 3,000 on the Arkansas River, where everyone is cheering on the Hillbillies, the high school football team that made it to the state playoffs, turkey is an industry. And a job at the Butterball plant is one of the most reliable in town.The median income in Franklin County is just over $30, 000 a year. Unemployment is at 7. 3 percent. Every week, a dozen or so people show up at the plant looking for work. Maybe two get hired, plant managers said.It is not easy work. Turkeys need to be stunned and dispatched and gutted. Someone has to cut the oil gland out of the tail. Necks and gizzards and livers have to be cleaned and stuffed into a cavity. 3. During a six-week period that begins in October, the line runs seven days a week to process fresh turkey. It is a period people in town simply refer to as “fresh”, and it is grueling.“It’s a long battle when we’re working fresh, but I at least got some bills paid and Christmas money,” Mrs. Farmer said. “I just sit there and hum and sing and talk to my friend Willie. We get through it together.”
Mr. Smith became very（ ）when it was suggested that he had made a mistake.
In some cases, different（ ） to the same scientific problem lead to conflicting theories.
One of the requirements for a fire is that the material（ ）to its burning temperature.
New research from Australia supports the belief that many pet owners have — it shows that pets are good for your health. The（1）of this new study suggest that people who have pets are（2）less risk from heart disease than （3）who do not.Ironically this（4 ） study on pets was intended to （5） the myth that pets are good for your health. Earlier research（6）the benefits of owning pets received a lot of （7）, but the results were not good enough to（8） the more skeptical doctors. The new research was carried（9）over three years and examined 6000 people, the largest group yet involved in（10）a study. They took tests that measured a（11） of different factors known to b（12）in heart disease —（13 ）and blood levels of cholesterol （胆固醇）and triglyceride （甘油三酸酯）. （14）, people were askedabout their lifestyles.The 800 people who owned pets had（15） levels on each of the factors（16） than those who did not own pets. The differences were even greater than those found in similar studies on people who（17）to vegetarian diets or took （18）exercise. The study also showed that it did not matter （19）kind of pet was owned 一 a cat was as good as a dog 一 so the benefits could not be attributed （20）the exercise involved in walking a dog.
As a lawyer （ ）for his good judgment and eloquence, he is often invited to those grand banquets and meets those distinguished people from all circles.
The future of this company is （ ） : many of its talented employees are flowing into more profitable net-based businesses.
Who won the World Cup 2002 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? （1）an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets（2）the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to（3） the news.Newspapers have one basic（4）, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to（5） it. Radio, telegraph, television, the Internet and（6）inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication （7）, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the（8）and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are（9）and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers（10）of the latest news, today's newspapers（11）and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices （12）advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very（13）Newspapers are sold at a price that（14） to cover even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main（15）of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The（16） in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This（17）in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends（18）on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment（19）in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as a source of information（20）the community, city, country, slate, nation, and world—and even outer space.
The patient’s unusual symptoms confounded even the most experienced doctor of the hospital.
For years, doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivitamins does is give them extensive urine (尿).After all, true vitamin deficiencies are practically unheard of in industrialized countries. Now it seems that those doctors may have been wrong. The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health. Although proof of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain, the few dollars you spend on them is probably a good investment.Or at least that’s the argument put forward in the New England Journal of Medicine. Ideally, said Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard, all vitamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials. But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they answer. At some point, while researchers work on figuring out where the truth lies, it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost. The best evidence to date concerns folate （叶酸）,one of the B vitamins. It’s been proved to limit the number of defects in embryos （胚胎）,and a recent trial found that folate in combination with vitamin B12 and a form of B6 also decreases the re-blockage of arteries after surgical repair.The news on vitamin E has been more mixed. Healthy folks who take 400 international units daily for at least two years appear somewhat less likely to develop heart disease. But when doctors give vitamin E to patients who already have heart disease, the vitamin doesn’t seem to help. It may turn out that vitamin E plays a role in prevention but cannot undo serious damage.Despite vitamin C’s great popularity, consuming large amounts of it still has not been positively linked to any great benefit. The body quickly becomes saturated with C and simply excretes （排泄）any excess.The multivitamins question boils down to this： Do you need to wait until all the evidence is in before you take them, or are you willing to accept that there’s enough evidence that they don’t hurt and could help?If the latter, there’s no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse pills or the most expensive bottles. Large doses can cause trouble, including excessive bleeding and nervous system problems.Multivitamins are no substitute for exercise and a balanced diet, of course. As long as you understand that any potential benefit is modest and subject to further refinement, taking a daily multivitamin makes a lot of sense.
1.At one time doctors discouraged taking multivitamins because they believed that multivitamins2.According to the author, clinical trials of vitamin supplements （ ）3.It has been found that vitamin E（ ） .4.It can be seen that large doses of multivitamins （ ）.5.The author concludes the passage with the advice that（ ） .
A.could not easily be absorbed by the human body B.were potentially harmful to people’s health C.were too expensive for daily consumption D.could not provide any cure for vitamin deficiencies问题2： A.often result in misleading conclusions B.take time and will not produce conclusive results C.should be conducted by scientists on a larger scale D.appear to be a sheer waste of time and resources问题3： A.should be taken by patients regularly and persistently B.can effectively reduce the recurrence of heart disease C.has a preventive but not curative effect on heart disease D.should be given to patients with heart disease as early as possible问题4： A.may bring about serious side effects B.may help prevent excessive bleeding C.are likely to induce the blockage of arteries D.are advisable for those with vitamin deficiencies问题5： A.the benefit of daily multivitamin intake outweighs that of exercise and a balanced diet B.it’s risky to take multivitamins without knowing their specific function C.the potential benefit of multivitamins can never be overestimated D.it’s reasonable to take a rational dose of multivitamins daily（ ）choose to live in or near metropolitan areas simply because they like the rapid pace of city life.
If you （ ）someone, you feel great admiration and love for them.