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Mr. Brown repeated his words to his son, raising his voice a bit, but still no answer.

A. receivedB. receiving C. had received D. to receive

 

A

【解析】

试题分析:考查时态。句意:布朗先生把话重复给儿子听,提高了一点声音,但(他)仍然没有得到回应。but是并列连词,这里表示转折,but后面的分句承前省略了主语he,根据repeated可知,后一分句也用一般过去时,故选A。

考点:考查时态

 

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Doctors Say Most Heart Disease Preventable

Heart disease is the number one killer, worldwide, of men and women over the age of 60. But people of all ages die of heart attacks each year. And while death rates have declined in the U.S. and many western European countries, they are on the rise in the developing world. ___61___.

No one would have guessed that Barbara Teng would have a heart attack. She was not overweight. She did not smoke or exercise. “In 2004, the week after I turned 49, when I was on a business trip in Chicago, I had a major heart attack," she said. _ 62 . She now exercises daily, and monitors her heart health.

Dr. Patrice Nickens, who is with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, thinks that heart disease is 82 percent preventable. “___63___,” she said, “Men are also facing the same problem, and the key to staying healthy is knowing your numbers”.

“Your weight, your blood cholesterol, blood sugar and your blood pressure are important numbers that can help you take action and reduce your risk,” she said.

___64___

“And the steps to take are simple: don’t smoke, maintain a healthy weight, exercise, know your numbers and talk to your physician and control these risks,” she said.

African-Americans are at higher-than-average risk for heart disease and stroke; people don't even know they have it, which increases the risk. Medstar Washington Hospital Center is trying to reach this population. _65 . For example, helping the people monitor their blood pressure. If people realize they are at risk for heart disease, they'll make lifestyle changes: lose weight, exercise, eat the right foods and keep in touch with a doctor

A. A healthy lifestyle can prevent heart disease

B. Lack of exercise causes heart attacks

C. It is the leading cause of death for women

D. With the right training, they can play an important role in community health

E. And that changed her life

F. Yet most heart disease is preventable.

 

During her junior year of high school, Diane Ray's teacher handed her a worksheet and instructed the 17-year-old to map out her future financial life. Ray pretended to buy a car, rent an apartment, and apply for a credit card. Then, she and her classmates played the "stock market game", investing(投资) the hypothetical(虚拟的) earnings from their hypothetical jobs in the market in the disastrous fall of 2008. "Our pretend investments crashed," Ray says, still frightened. "We got to know how it felt to lose money."

That pain of earning and losing money is a feeling that public schools increasingly want to teach. Forty states now offer some type of financial instruction at the high-school level, teaching students how to balance checkbooks and buy stock in math and social-studies classes. Though it's too early to measure the full influence of the Great Recession(大萧条), the interest in personal-finance classes has risen since 2007 when bank failures started to occur regularly. Now, many states including Missouri, Utah, and Tennessee require teenagers to take financial classes to graduate from high school. School districts such as Chicago are encouraging money-management classes for kids as young as primary school, and about 300 colleges or universities now offer online personal-finance classes for incoming students. "These classes really say, 'This is how you live independently,' " says Ted Beck, president of National Endowment for Financial Education.

Rather than teach investment methods or financial skills, these courses offer a back-to-the-basics approach to handling money: Don't spend what you don't have. Put part of your monthly salary into a savings account, and invest in the stock market for the long-term rather than short-term gains. For Ray, this means dividing her earnings from her part-time job at a fast-food restaurant into separate envelopes for paying bills, spending and saving. "Money is so hard to make but so easy to spend," she says one weekday after school. "That is the big takeaway."

Teaching kids about the value of cash certainly is one of the programs' goals, but teachers also want students to think hard about their finances long term. It's easy for teenagers to get annoyed about gas prices because many of them drive cars. But the hard part is urging them to put off the instant satisfaction of buying a new T-shirt or an iPod. "Investing and retirement aren't things teenagers are thinking about. For them, the future is this weekend," says Gayle Whitefield, a business and marketing teacher at Uth’s Riverton High School.

That’s a big goal for these classes: preventing kids from making the same financial missteps their parents did when it comes to saving, spending, and debt. Though the personal savings rate has increased up to 4. 2 percent, that’s still a far distance from 1982, when Americans saved 11. 2 percent of their incomes. “It’s hard for schools to reach strict money-management skills when teenagers go home and watch their parents increase credit-card debt. It’s like telling your kids not to smoke and then lighting up a cigarette in front of them,” Beck says.

Even with these challenges, students such as Ray say learning about money in school is worthwhile. After Ray finished her financial class, she opened up a savings account at her local bank and started to think more about how she and her family would pay for college. “She just has a better understanding of money and how it affects the world,” says her mother, Darleen-and that’s sown to the details of how money is spent from daily expenses to various taxes. All of this talk of money can make Ray worry, she says, but luckily, she feels prepared to face it.

1.The “stock market game” mentioned in Paragraph 1 is meant to .

A. introduce a new course to students

B. help students learn about investment

C. teach how to apply for a credit card

D. encourage students’ personal savings

2.How does the writer show us that schools’ interest in teaching financial classes has increased in paragraph 2_________?

A. By giving examples. B. By providing data.

C. By raising questions. D. By making comparisons.

3.According to the passage, taking money-management courses will .

A. better students’ learning methods

B. prevent students going into debt

C. help students get accepted by colleges

D. make students become very wealthy

4.After completing the financial class, Diane Ray is likely to .

A. pay off all her debts. B. handle her money better

C. find a job in a bank. D. manage the family income

5.The passage is mainly about .

A. ways to teach students to earn money

B. how Diane Ray learns to value money

C. the push to teach personal finance in school

D. how students choose a proper financial class

 

They already guide blind and disabled people; now dogs are to be trained to help people with dementia(痴呆) or Alzheimer's.Alzheimer's can make people confuse night and day or forget basic things such as washing or drinking enough water.

The dogs will be trained to respond to sound triggers(触发器) in the home that cause them to perform tasks.The duties will include reminding their owners to take medicine, as well as encouraging them to eat, drink and sleep regularly.

The idea was developed by design students at the Glasgow School of Art and will now be put into practice by Alzheimer's Scotland and Dogs for the Disabled.The first dogs will be distributed to four Scottish couples, where one of the partners is in the early stages of dementia.Some 670,000 people in Britain have dementia and one in three over 65s will develop the condition.By 2021 this is expected to rise to one million.

Joyce Gray of Alzheimer's Scotland said, "People in the early stages of dementia are still able to live a relatively normal life, and dogs help to maintain routine." Another advantage of using the pets as companions is that dogs can give them a sense of silent support and companionship.Ms Gray said, "The evidence is that people may forget familiar faces but not pets.It's such a strong bond that people often remember them longest.People don't need to communicate verbally (言语地) but they can still interact.You can have a speechless bond."

Helen McCain, director of Dogs for the Disabled, said, "People with dementia often forget to take the medicine.If a dog presents them with a bag with pills in it there's a greater chance of them taking it.The dog would also encourage the owner to take them out for walks, ensuring they keep exercising and interacting with other people."

1.In Britain people with dementia _ _.

A.are likely to increase in number

B.are mostly over 65 years old

C.will be trained to respond to sound triggers

D.will be able to live a relatively normal life

2.The dogs are taught to perform tasks by -.

A.making some sound signals

B.communicating with the patients

C.reminding the patients by barking

D.reacting to some sound triggers

3.What does the underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Faces. B.Triggers. C.Pets. D.Companions.

4.What is mainly talked about in the passage?

A.The idea of dementia dogs was developed by students.

B.Dogs are trained to assist Alzheimer's patients.

C.British people with Alzheimer's are in poor condition.

D.The dementia dogs perform most duties of a doctor.

 

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