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【题目】During the floods, the cars, trains and buildings could not survive, _____ the people who stood in the way.

or rather

let alone

more or less

besides

【答案】B

【解析】考查副词短语。or rather更精确地说,倒不如说;let alone不理,不打扰,更不用说;more or less或多或少;besides此外,而且,还有。句意:在洪水来临时,汽车、火车,甚至建筑物都不能幸免,更不用说站在路上的人了。

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The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help prove hospitals who are accused of wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environment helps patients ease discomfort and pain.

A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a selection of 300works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli. They were then asked to look at either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly paintings, or a blank panel while the team zapped(照射) a short laser pulse at their hand, creating a sensation as if they had been stuck by a pin. He subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when looking at the ugly paintings or the blank panel. Electrodes measuring the brain's electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings.

While distractions, such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital patients, Professor Marina de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part.

The findings, reported in New Scientist, also go a long way to show that beautiful surroundings could aid the healing process.

Hospitals have been designed to be functional, but we think that their artistic aspects should be taken into account too, said the neurologist. Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not. But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain worse. I think these results show that more research is needed into the field how a beautiful environment can alleviate suffering.

Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticelli's Birth of Venus. Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso, the Italian20thcentury artist Antonio Buenoand Columbian Fernando Botero. These people were not art experts so some of the pictures they found ugly would be considered masterpieces by the art world, said Professor Marina de Tommaso.

【1】The underlined word alleviate in Paragraph 5 probably means _____.

A. cure B. ease

C. improve D. kill

【2】 How many artists have been mentioned in the passage?

A. 4. B. 5.

C. 6. D. 7.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE about the view of Professor Marina de Tommasos?

A. Beautiful surroundings could help to heal sufferings completely.

B. Hospitals must take their artistic aspects into consideration first.

C. Ugly surroundings will surely make the pain worse.

D. Both music and beauty can reduce pain in hospital patients.

【4】 From the last paragraph, we know that _____.

A. some artists’ paintings were beautiful, so they were masterpieces

B. only art experts could judge whether they were masterpieces or not, though ugly

C. the artists mentioned above were not really art masters

D. some of them were art masters, while others were not

【5】 Which of the /span>following is the most suitable title for the passage?

A. Beautiful surroundings can ease pain.

B. Ugly paintings could be masterpieces.

C. More paintings should be done in the field.

D. Latest environmental research

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