题目内容
The sick ______ to use the mind ______ disease.
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A.will ask…to B.will be asked…against
C.asked…against D.will be asked…with
Television, which made its first serious appearance in 1939, did not become common until the early 1950s.Since then, millions of children have grown up in front of the set, and many people now worry about the effect that TV has on the young, and on society in general.Educators, psychologists, and crime experts wonder if television should be abolished(取消).Many ordinary parents wish it had never been invented.Why are they so afraid? Is television as harmful as they think it is?
Like almost
anything else, television has its good and its bad sides.One should surely thank its inventors for the joy and interest that they have brought into the lives of the old, the sick, and the lonely -- all those who, without it, would have no pleasure and no window on the world.
In truth, television has
opened windows in everybody's life.No newspaper has ever reached so many people and shown so clearly what was happening right now in their own country and everywhere else.TV not only gives the news instantly, it also shows it in pictures more powerful than words.It can be said that TV has brought reality to the public.Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle, a flood, a fire, a crime, disasters of every sort on the screen.
Unfortunately, television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young.Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world.They want to imitate what they see.They do believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable.By the time they are out of high school, most young people have watched about 15,000 hours of television, and have seen about 18,000 killings or other acts of violence.All educators and psychologists agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents,
According to the same experts, the young are also less patient.Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and entertaining, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn't do funny things like the people on children's programs.And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen or thirty minutes.That's the time it takes on the screen.
It is certain that television has deeply changed our lives and our society.It is certain that, along with its benefits, it has brought many serious problems.To these problems we must soon find a solution because, whether we like it or not, television is here to stay.
【小题1】First TV set was made ______.
| A.in 1939 | B.in 1950s | C.in 1940s | D.in 1919 |
| A.Educators. | B.TV producers. |
| C.Crime experts. | D.Psychologists. |
| A.Educators. | B.Crime experts. |
| C.The old and the lonely. | D.The children and their parents. |
| A.lonely | B.more patient | C.more violent | D.more gentle |
As late as 1800, women’s only place was in the home. The idea of woman in the business world was unthinkable. Men were certain that no woman could do a good job outside her home. This was such a widely accepted idea that when the well-known Bronte sisters began writing books in 1864, they had to sign their books with men’s names instead.
Teaching was the first profession open to women soon after 1800. But even that was not an easy profession for women to enter because most schools and colleges were open only to men. Oberlin College in Ohio was the first college in America to accept women.
Hospital nursing became respectable work for women only after Nightingale became famous. Seeing that she was not only a nurse but also a rich and well-educated woman, people began to believe it was possible for women to nurse the sick and still be “ladies”. Miss Nightingale opened England’s first training school for nurse in 1860.
The invention of the typewriter in 1867 helped to bring women out of the home and into the business world. By 1900, thousands of women were working at real jobs in schools, hospitals and offices in both England and America. Some women even managed to become doctors or lawyers. The idea that women could work in the business world had been accepted.
【小题1】 Why couldn’t women become teachers easily? Because___________
| A.the first profession open to them was writing. |
| B.most schools and colleges were open only to men. |
| C.they wanted to be nurses instead. |
| D.they had to work in the business world. |
| A.women are in the business world |
| B.the famous Bronte sisters |
| C.schools and colleges in America |
| D.rights for American women |
| A.The Bronte sisters thought that they were men. |
| B.England’s first training school for nurses was in Ohio. |
| C.There are more men than women in professional jobs. |
| D.Women find it necessary to work harder than before. |
Long ago, operation usually had to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best to save him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.
Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called “laughing gas”. Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn’t seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself.He asked a friend to help him.
Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Wells’ teeth. Wells felt no pain at all.
As he didn’t know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.
Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.
1.Long ago,when the sick man was operated on, he _________.
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A.could feel nothing |
B.could not want anything |
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C.could feel all the pain |
D.could do anything |
2.Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to _________.
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A.be afraid of anything |
B.feel pain |
C.want to go to the parties |
D.be ill |
3.If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on, he _________.
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A.felt nothing |
B.felt very comfortable |
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C.still felt pain |
D.would die |
4.One who took too much of the laughing gas _________.
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A.would laugh all the time |
B.would be very calm |
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C.would never feel pain |
D.would die. |