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one-year-old twins at the head.
B. separated
C. divided
D. removed
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was 16 to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She 17 the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old mind thinking that she wouldn’t live 18 from then on.
Over the years, I 19 and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, 20 a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a particularly tiring day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang 21 .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair, 22 into my son’s room with a box of 23 . After 16 years, I still 24 Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about her life since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she smoothed the path for those people who were less 25 than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be 26 .
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt 27 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was 28 . From this person that I thought would have no quality of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously 29 and we moved north, but I owe Helen 30 that I can never repay.
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It can greet people, show DVDs and hand out balloons. “Ubiko”, a robot-on –wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers supplied by a Japanese job-referral company, Ubiquitous Exchange, to stores, events and even weddings. Next month, the 44-inch tall robot will be selling mobile phones at a store.
Ubiko can be hired as a temporary worker for two hours for 105,000 yen, or $890.
“We see this as serious business. There are jobs that robots are better at,” Akiko Sakurai said “people do develop a relation with the robot, and it’s lovable.”
The $255,000 robot, which is equipped with a camera and sensors, greets customers with a nasal electronic voice, shows DVDs with a projector in its head and hands out balloons and other goods with wireless remote-controllable arms.
Ubiko sounds like a Japanese female name, which often ends with “ko”.
Tmsuk, the Japanese company that makes the robot, sold three last month to hospital, where they are working as full-time, rather than temporary, receptionists and guides. One of the hospital’s robots serves as a receptionist and has been programmed to greet visitors. It also has a touch-panel(控制板) on its body, and visitors can use it to get directions for where they want to go.
“Just give it electricity, and a robot can work for long hours, even do repetitive work, and you don’t have to worry about labor laws,” Sudo said.
Japan’s lower birth rate means that in the coming years it could face a labor shortage, and some experts believe robots could be part of the key to that problem. Robots are very popular in Japan partly because of the popularity of cartoons that describe robots as friends and assistants to humans.
【小题1】The news report is mainly to _________________.
| A．give praise to advanced robots in Japan |
| B．introduce the development of robots in Japan |
| C．tell readers the advantage of the robots in Japan |
| D．introduce a newly-developed robot in Japan |
| A．the price of Ubiko is $890 |
| B．the purpose for a store to buy the robot is to greet customers |
| C．Ubiko can work for long hours without using energy |
| D．three robots have been sold to a hospital |
| A．It sounds beautiful, like a girl’s voice. |
| B．It is named after a Japanese girl. |
| C．It will have a wider market. |
| D．It was designed for hospitals. |
| A．The low price of robots. |
| B．The interesting shapes of robots. |
| C．The function of showing DVDs and handing out balloons. |
| D．Cartoon’s showing good relationship between robots and humans. |
| A．It has a face of female. |
| B．There is a projector in its head. |
| C．It is equipped with a camera and sensors. |
| D．It has wireless remote-controllable arms. |
Pregnancy(妊娠) and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year. More than half of the cases happened in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. In fact, most of the deaths are preventable with basic medical care.
The five leading causes are bleeding, infection, high blood pressure, longtime labor and bad abortions (流产). Mothers' deaths from such causes were largely reduced nearly a century ago in developed countries.
Experts say that what kill many women are “the three delays”— the woman's delay in deciding to go to the hospital, the time she loses traveling there and the hospital's delay in starting treatment. Only about 15 percent of births have dangerous complications(并发症)．
Women lack education and information about birth control. Husbands and inlaws, may decide where a woman gives birth and insist that she stay at home to save money. However, there is no single solution to a problem with so many factors—shortages of doctors, nurses, drugs, equipment, roads and t
ransportation—though hospital officials are trying many things now.
One stopgap measure to solve the problem for the present has been to train assistant medical officers, to perform certain operations. Some African countries
are now struggling to train more assistants and midwives (接生婆) , and provide places for pregnant women to stay near hospitals.
But there is a long way to go. Only 20 percent of women in the continent give birth at the hospital. More than 50 percent stay at home to give birth, and the rest go to local clinics that cannot handle emergencies.
【小题1】Which is not included in the five leading causes of women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth?
| A．Infection. | B．High blood pressure. |
| C．Traveling long distances. | D．Bleeding. |
| A．final | B．temporary | C．effective | D．instant |
| A．The governments of African countries have to take more effective measures to save pregnant women. |
| B．Developed countries should help African countries reduce mothers'deaths. |
| C．The husbands in poor countries should take responsibility for their wives'deaths. |
| D．Most problems that cause women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth can be treated or prevented. |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. | C．Objective. | D．Subjective. |
Is there a nationwide shortage of nurses? It’s hard to say．However, some characteristic symptoms often indicate that there is indeed a shortage．
One symptom is the vacancy rate, or the percentage of budgeted positions that are unfilled．New England’s hospitals currently report that an average of 7 to 12 percent of their registered nurse positions are vacant, the highest level since the last shortage in the late 1980s．Vermont has a relatively low vacancy rate, at 7．8 percent．But its vacancies were at 1．2 percent just five years ago．
Another symptom is the increased use of stopgap measures to fill empty positions．For instance, many nurses report an upswing in how frequently they are asked to stay past their shifts．According to Murphy, working in the St．Elizabeth’s Hospital, “The shortage has definitely created a lot of opportunities of overtime for our nurses, whether they want them or not．” Similarly, a national survey of registered nurses shows that in an average week, nurses in the U．S．work 2．4 more hours than they are scheduled to．Much of this extra time is voluntary, as nurses earn overtime pay when they stay to fill in blanks in the schedule．
When they can’t fill open positions by more traditional means, health care providers hire temporary staff to tide them over．Travelling workers are the largest part of the temporary health care workforce, hired for thirteen-week reduction at health care facilities facing short-term lack of workers．Temporary workers, mainly nurses, cost hospitals $ 7．2 billion in 2000．
“Any successful solution to the shortage depends on convincing more people to become nurses, and that is not an easy goal to reach．To achieve it,” says Buerhaus, “society needs to place more value on nursing．Legislation （法规） can’t do that – it should come from people．” And if this continues, we might have to learn to care for ourse
lves in the hospital．
【小题1】The temporary staff hired by a hospital _______．
| A．cost a large part of the hospital’s budget |
| B．meet the need for nurses in the hospital for a short time |
| C．should work on a weekly basis and on a scheduled timetable[来源:学科网ZXXK] |
| D．ought to work passively for thirty continuous weeks |
| A．To convince people of the benefits of being a nurse． |
| B．To ask the government for help to work out specific legislation． |
| C．To publicize the past achievements of nurses． |
| D．To make people aware of the importance of being a nurse． |
| A．Symptom | B．Decrease | C．Increase | D．Figure |
| A．Worried | B．Indifferent | C．Doubtful | D．Optimistic |