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Break, Break, Break is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
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In B2B markets, the demand for coffee beans is related to the demand for coffee machines. This example reflects elastic demand.
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The vulture is the symbol of death both in real life and in Hemingway’s story.
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Why is the protagonist death given significance?
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“The use of force is a matter of life or death for the soldiers, the people and the country.” is the most widely quoted concept from Sunzi’s Art of War.
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The Halloween holiday is symbolically associated with death and the supernatural.
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When Americans drink coffee, the spoon is used to ________.
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According to Edgar Jackson, the proper way to educate children about death is to __________.
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Mexicans believe that the real death is not physical death, but no one in the world remembers you.
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In the passage, Sumatra is a kind of coffee.
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Is this the air-conditioner you wish ______?
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There is a 15-minute coffee ________during the meeting.
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It is likely that, at some point in the near future, cancer will()heart disease as the leading cause of death in the united states。
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This is the very house my grandpa lived before his death in 2017()
A.which
B.that
C.when
D.where
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In the west, the most unwelcome number is “thirteen” becauseof its relation to the death of Jesus Christ after the Last Supper.()
此题为判断题(对,错)。
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In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngster(年轻人)who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we transfer them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally ill patients--even when those patients are their parents. This deprives(剥夺)the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed approximately 500 terminally ill patients in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients' communications in order to truly understand their needs, fears, and fantasies(幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their tremendous need to be informed, to be kept up-to-date on their medical condition, and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.
Five hundred critically ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of ______.
A.learning how to best help them and their families
B.observing how they reacted to the crisis of death
C.helping them and their families overcome the fear of death
D.finding out their attitude towards the approach of death
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The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".()
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否
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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature—from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway—one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face—the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the floodgates of religious intensity, the American avoids dwelling on death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and moves back from it, surrounding it with word avoidance (Americans never die; they "pass away") and various taboos of speech and practice. A "funeral parlor" is decorated to look like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed tones, as if it were something secret, to be concealed from the world; there is so much emphasis on being dignified that the ceremony often loses its quality: of dignity. In some of the primitive cultures, there is difficulty in under-standing the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even unintelligible. Living in a scientific culture, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet they show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that accompanies it.
"We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Margaret Mead, "but more and more deal with the death off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for young and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth." And one may add, even in its hurry and brevity, the last stage of an American's life m the last occasion of this relation to his society—is as standardized as the rest.
Unwillingness to face death is
A.a characteristic of American society.
B.a quality found in all civilizations.
C.a quality inherited from our Latin ancestors.
D.a quality of the American character.
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The picture exhibition bored me to death. I wish I______to it.
A.have not gone
B.didn't go
C.had
D.could not have gone
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What is responsible for the death of many people in developing countries?
A.The development of resistance to diseases.
B.The difficulty to cure new emerging diseases.
C.The inability of the poor to afford medicine.
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What kind of cancer is the sixth-leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide?
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The rate of population growth is fastest in underdeveloped countries. In these countries a high birthrate is accompanied by a lowered death rate thanks to improved standards of public health. Ideally it should be possible to counter balance the effect of a reduced death rate by all increased use of family planning. In practice, however, population control is a complex matter. Throughout history people have determined the size of their families according to the cultural values of their societies.
Population control has long been a subject of discussion among researchers. Some have argued that the supply of good land is limited. In order to feed a large population, bad land must be cultivated and the good land overworked. As a result, each person produces less in a given amount of time and this means a lower average income than could be obtained with a smaller population. Other researchers have argued that a large population gives more scope for the development of facilities such as sports, roads and railways, which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand to justify them. Similarly, it can be argued that the public costs of society will not be so heavy to each individual if they are shared among the members of a large population.
One of the difficulties in implementing birth control lies in the fact that the official attitudes to population growth vary from country to country. In underdeveloped countries where a large population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, it will be the first concern of government to place a limit on the birthrate. In a well-developed society the problem may be more complex. A declining birthrate may lead to unemployment because it results in a shrinking market. Cities with a declining population may have to face the prospect of a shrinking tax base and a fall in land values. If there are fewer children going to school, teachers may be thrown out of work. When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and the building industry is weakened. Faced with considerations such as these, the government of a developed country may well prefer to see a slowly increasing population, rather than one which is stable or in decline.
The writer suggests that policy makers should consider cultural values ______.
A.in carrying out family planning
B.in producing birth control drugs
C.in improving public health standards
D.in introducing birth control techniques
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听力原文:W: Would you like some hot coffee or tea M: I like them both, but I’d rather have听力原文:W: Would you like some hot coffee or tea M: I like them both, but I’d rather have something cold. Q: What does the man want to drink ()
A.Something col
D..
B.Coffee
C.TeA
D.Both coffee and teA.
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The active ingredient that makes tea and coffee valuable to man is () by vacuum filtration.