40. According to the last paragraph, meetings are held to _________.

A . tightly B . closely C . securely D . strictly

A . SORT BY age ASC, last_name B . SORT BY age DESC, last_name C . ORDER BY age DESC, last_name D . ORDER BY age ASC, last_name

A. criminals B. pigeons C. the stolen cars D. demands for money

A．To get more information right now. B．To give up his work right now. C．To think very seriously about that.

The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily subsidized by rax funds, will also【24】their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points【25】than their privately sponsored neighbors. As a follow-up, the United Press international did their own study【26】Massachussetts Institute of Technology. At M. I. T. advisors recommended that students have $ 8,900【27】for one year's expenses, including $ 5,300 for tuition, $ 2,685 for room and【28】, $ 630 for personal expenses, and $ 285 for books and supplies. Ten years ago the tuition was only $ 2,150. To【29】that another way, the cost has climbed 150 percent in the last【30】. (61) A．published B．declared C．written D．quoted

A．Efforts should be exerted on pollution prevention instead of on remedial measures. B．More money should be spent in order to stop pollution. C．Ordinary citizens have no access to technical information on pollution. D．Environmental degradation will be stopped by the end of this decade.

A．When the manager called the shelter, there was a volunteer there. B．Both the manager and the congregation were very kind. C．The new liberary happened to become a new shelter. D．The books the manager donated were what women were expecting. 此题为多项选择题。

A．$ 10 million B．$ 47. 4 million C．no statistics available D．nearly a 3 percent increase

Research on the benefits of an extremely low-calorie diet【C2】______back to the 1930s, when scientists found that rats lived【C3】______to twice as long when they ate less than control animals. And how about in human？ To fill that【C4】______, scientist Agnes and her colleagues at the University of Muenster【C5】______50 healthy elderly subjects. The【C6】______volunteer was 60 years old and overweight. The researchers【C7】______assigned the volunteers to one of three groups. Twenty people were instructed to reduce their daily calorie【C8】______by 30%, while still eating a【C9】______diet. Another 20 were told to keep their calorie intake the same but increase their【C10】______of unsaturated(不饱和的 )fatty acids. The【C11】______10 volunteers did not change their diets. After 3 months, all of the volunteers【C12】______a memory test in which they were shown 15 words and asked how many they could remember after 30 minutes.【C13】______average,those in the calorie-restriction group showed a 20%【C14】______over their baseline memory scores taken before they started their diets. Subjects in the other two groups showed【C15】______or no improvement. "Our study【C16】______provides some of the first【C17】______on the impact of calorie restriction on memory in the elderly, but this study has to be【C18】______up now," Floel noted. Her team plans to【C19】______larger studies to determine exactly【C20】______calorie restriction enhances memory. 【C1】 A．reducing B．declining C．burning D．increasing

The fact the ordinary citizens are now starting to think seriously about the nation’s moral climate, says this ethics (伦理学) professor at the University of Chicago, is reason to hope that new ideas will come forward to improve it. But the challenge is not to be underestimated. Materialism and individualism in American society are the biggest obstacles. “The thought that ‘I’m in it for me’ has become deeply rooted in the national consciousness,” Ms. Elshtain says. Some of this can be attributed to the disintegration of traditional communities, in which neighbors looked out for one another, she says. With today’s greater mobility and with so many couples working, those bonds have been weakened, replaced by a greater emphasis on self. In a 1996 poll of Americans, loss of morality topped the list of the biggest problems facing the U.S. and Elshtain says the public is correct to sense that: Data show that Americans are struggling with problems unheard of in the 1950s, such as classroom violence and a high rate of births to unmarried mothers. The desire for a higher moral standard is not a lament (挽歌) for some nonexistent “golden age,” Elshtain says, nor is it a wishful (一厢情愿的) longing for a time that denied opportunities to women and minorities. Most people, in fact, favor the lessening of prejudice. Moral decline will not be reversed until people find ways to counter the materialism in society, she says. “Slowly, you recognize that the things that matter are those that cant’ be bought.” 第36题：Professor Elshtain is pleased to see that Americans ________. A) have adapted to a new set of moral standards B) are longing for the return of the good old days C) have realized the importance of material things D) are awakening to the lowering of their moral standards

A．government"s job to curb unhealthy consumption is fulfilled B．government"s job to relieve the tax burden of British people is fulfilled C．government"s job to advocate public health campaign is fulfilled D．government"s job to elevate the moral level of British people is fulfilled

A．the newer the music is the harder it can pass the test of time B．it is the most difficult for music to gain a kind of permanent status C．pop music will cease to be enjoyed soon after it is introduced D．good music needn't pass the test of time

Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million. Despite all this, the two figures --5.2 million now, 5.5 million then --are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis. United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone's definition, including the researchers. Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one. So why did the organization flawed figures once again？ Some scholars who have studied the. survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It' s too early to tell if that' s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups--"highly involved" Jews and "people of Jewish background"- and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result, most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible. We can' t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the National Jewish Population Survey？ A．It found a decline of 300,000 Jews in ten years. B．It was carded out by United Jewish Communities. C．This is the first time United Jewish Communities has made mistakes in the population survey. D．The reported decline is not reliable.

A．The waters are salty. B．The waters are not very salty. C．The salinity is decreasing. D．The sea water is becoming less and less.

A．A.a problem B．B.depression C．C.shame D．D.a disease