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Our son doesn’t know what to （ ）at the university: he can’t make up his mind about his future.
This week in Japan, some 10, 000（1） from across the globe will meet to examine what, for many of the world’s poorest people, are issues of life and death. At sessions in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka, the 3rd World Water Forum will （2）a crisis that currently forces more than one billion people to （3） sources contaminated with human waste, and leaves countless millions more with insufficient supplies to （4） their crops, or to spur industrial development. The meeting is the culmination of the International Year of Freshwater 2003, declared by the United Nations to （5） awareness of the worsening state of the world’s water resources.（6）that goal, the forum could hardly have been held at a less opportune moment. Events in Iraq may limit media（7） of the 3rd World Water Forum to mere footnote status. “Our discussions will have far more effect on humankind in the twenty-first century than the current crisis in the Middle East,” claims William Cosgrove, vice-president of the World Water Council, a think-tank dedicated to （8） water resources. But the forum’s organizers must know that there is little hope of gaining firm（9） from nations that are （10） war.
On our cycling tour we managed to cover an average （1）of about 25 kilometers（2） day.
The new secretary has written a remarkably（ ）report only in a few pages but with all the details included.
There are already drugs that brighten moods, like Prozac, and other antidepressants that control levels of a brain chemical called serotonin. While originally meant to treat depression, these drugs have been used for other psychological conditions like shyness and anxiety and even by otherwise healthy people to feel better about themselves.But is putting people in a better mood really making them happy? People can also drown their sorrows in alcohol or get a euphoric feeling using narcotics, but few people who do so would be called truly happy.The President’s Council on Bioethics said in a recent report that while antidepressants might make some people happier, they can also substitute for what can truly bring happiness： a sense of satisfaction with one’s identity, accomplishments and relationships.“In the pursuit of happiness human beings have always worried about falling for the appearance of happiness and missing its reality, ” the council wrote. It added, “Yet a fraudulent happiness is just what the pharmacological management of our mental lives threatens to confer upon us. ”Now the race is on to develop pills to make people smarter. These drugs aim at memory loss that occurs in people with Alzheimer’s disease or a precursor called mild cognitive impairment.But it is lost on no one that if a memory drug works and is safe, it may one day be used by healthy people to learn faster and remember longer.Studies have already shown that animals can be made to do both when the activity of certain genes is increased or decreased. Dr. Tom Tully，a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, created genetically engineered fruit flies that he said had “photographic memory. ” They could, in one session, learn something that took normal flies 10 sessions.“It immediately convinced everyone that memory was going to be just another biological process，”Dr. Tully said. “There’s nothing special about it. That meant that it was going to be treatable and manipulable. ”But experts say that improving memory will not necessarily make one smarter, in the sense of IQ, let alone in wisdom. “It would be a mistake to think that drugs that have an impact on memory necessarily will have an effect on intelligence，” said Dr. Daniel L. Schacher，chairman of psychology at Harvard.“Is it a good thing to remember everything?” Dr. Tully asked. Could a brain too crammed with information suffer some sort of overload?1.Talking of antidepressants, the author expresses dissatisfaction with（ ）.2.The word “euphoric” (boldfaced in Paragraph 2) can be replaced by the word “（ ）”.3.According to the Council’s report, for those who seek contentment with their lives, antidepressants can （ ）. 4.The example of fruit flies is given to show that（ ）.5.The author thinks that, to one, remembering everything could be（ ） .6.From the passage we can infer that medicines have little power in （ ）.
Agreement made by the President with other countries（ ） the approval of the senate.
She was afraid that unless the train speeded up she would lose her（ ） to Scotland.
The captain of the ship entered the details in the（ ）.
You will find the scenery is so beautiful if you view from the（ ） of the hill.
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects --- a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen --- is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.”George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death, “It’s like surgery，’’ he says, “We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide.”On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide 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 Court’s ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the under treatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying” as the twin problems of end-of-life care.The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for asserting and treating pain at the end of life.Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,” to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse.” He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear ... that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompletely managed and should result in license suspension.”1.From the first three paragraphs, we can learn that （ ）_.2.Which of the following statements is true according to the text?3.According to the NAS’s report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is （ ）.4.George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they （ ）.
Wanting to （ ） much and working harder than ever do not leave much room for relationships.
I couldn’t（ ） the lecture at all. It was too difficult for me.
The opening of Disneyland will bring many associated investment opportunities. At least four economic sectors will benefit directly. First, property markets. Housing and commercial real estate prices around the Disneyland area are already rising. Second, the tourism sector. After the opening, analysts expect 3 to 5 million more tourists will visit Shanghai every year, bring more business to hotels, travel agencies and retails. Third, brand marketing will give a boost to toy manufactures, publishers and the gaming industry. Fourth, construction companies and material suppliers will enjoy a huge increase, comparable to the 2010 Shanghai world Expo. Disneyland’s first phase of construction is expected to cost 24 billion yuan.
It’s difficult for my father to （ ）without a cane.
（1） to the weather report on the radio, it’s raining in Shanghai, but that （2）be true.I was just on the phone to Shanghai and the（3） I spoke with said it was sunny there.句意: 听收音机上的天气预报说伤害正在下雨，但那不可能是真的。我刚和上海的一个人通了电话，其说上海正出太阳。
We’d（1）check the numbers in the chart again. I’m afraid that we（2） not have found all the errors.句意: 我们最好在检查一遍图表中的数字。恐怕我们还没找出所有的错误。
Smith insisted on arguing with the referee although the other players tried to （ ） him.
Reporters and photographers alike took great （ ）at the rude way the actor behaved during the interview.
People like being trusted. They are annoyed, angry, or feel hurt if they are regarded with （1） .They think that they are（2）an injustice. They like being trusted for two reasons:(l)It is a tribute to their honesty, truth, strength, （3），kindness and good character;(2)They find it easier to cheat others. These two （4）Suggest what our attitude towards trust in （5） should be. It is not a simple attitude. We must keep a balance between two （6） over suspiciousness and infantile naivety.A parallel to our trust in people could be our trust in natural （7）.However careful we are, we cannot guarantee （8） safety for ourselves in the physical world, yet we act as（9 ）we can trust an ordered series of physical events. We take the bus to work in the morning （10）that we will arrive safely at our office or school. We have no （11） that we will. The bus could be （12） in an accident.If we were to （13） every accident that might happen to us we would never do anything.We would just remain sitting at home. Even then we could never be absolutely （14） that the ceiling would not collapse on us. （15）we are to do anything at all, we must take risks. Of course we try to reduce risks to a （16）。Similarly with regard to people, trusting them involves taking the risks of being （17 ） .Not trusting them places us outside the area of community activity,（18） trust is an essential bond in community living. In a competitive, materialistic world it would be（19） to trust everyone in everything. However, we should widen the area of trust as far as possible. We cannot eliminate all risks in such trust （20）we should lessen them as far as possible by reliance on intelligence and experience worth our own and those of adults whose reliability has been proven.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the electorate that guns would not be fired without an attempt to win a further U. N. sanction.