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B) immediately fall ill
C) require its master to offer some food D) seek for food on its own
38. Which of the following is NOT true of dogs according to the passage?
A) They can act as friends, guards, and servants to man. B) They have great adaptation for the environment.
C) There live a great variety of breeds of dogs on the globe. D) The Husky and the Saluki are the strongest breed ever known in the world.
39 To keep a domestic animal physically fit, its owner is advised ____.
A) not to hesitate to spend enormous amount of money on it B) to pay attention to its proper feeding来源：www.examda.com C) not to allow it to take excessive amounts of exercise D) to join some sort of pet-keeping organizations
40. Which of the following would be best TITLE for this passage? A) Domesticated Animals - Man’s Best Friend B) Proper Diet - the Road to Health
C) The Advantages of Raising Domestic Animals D) Some Tips on Pet-keeping Passage 2
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The greatest contribution to civilization in the century may well be the air-conditioning- and American leads just as amazing is the speed with which this situation came to be. Air-conditioning began to spread in industries as a production aid during World War Ⅱ. Today most Americans need to take air-conditioning for granted to homes, offices, factories, theatres, shops, studios, schools, hotels, and restaurants. But not everybody is aware that high cost and easy comfort are merely two of the effects of the vast cooling of American. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the country’s character and customs.本文来源:考试大网
Many of the byproducts are so conspicuous that they are scarcely noticed. To begin with, air-conditioning transformed the face of America by making possible those glassy, boxy, sealed-in skyscrapers. It has been indispensable, no less, to the functioning of sensitive advanced computers, whose high operating temperatures require that they be constantly cooled. . .
It has, at will, forced families into retreating into families with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the interactions of neighborhood life. It is really surprising that the public’s often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privacy has coincided with the historic spread of air-conditioning. Though science has little studied how habitual air-conditioning affects mind and body, some medical experts suggest that, like other technical avoidance of natural variations in climate,
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air-conditioning may damage the human capacity to adapt to stress. If so, air-conditioning is only like many other greatly useful technical developments that liberate man from nature by increasing his productivity and power in some way - while indirectly weakening him in others. 41. According to this selection, which of the following constitutes the unique character of U.S.?
A)Its excessive use of air-conditioning. B)Its advanced computerized civilization. C)Its public’s retreating into self-pursuit. D)Its greatest contribution to human civilization.
42. According to the author, the chief consequence brought about by the wide application of air-conditioning is ____.
A)the loss of human capacity to adapt to changes in climate B)the reduction of social communications of neighborhood life C)the active life style of all its users D)the decreased human production and power
43. The tone of this selection reveals that air-conditioning ____. A)has little effect on its users B)has more effect on body than on mind
C)brings more benefits than damage to its users D)does harm as well as good to its users
44. Who benefits the least from air-conditioning according to the author?
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A)Medical experts. B)Manufacturers.
C)Factory laborers.考试大论坛 D)Consumers.
45. What is the author’s overall attitude towards air-conditioning? A)Neutral B)Objective C)Critical D)Compromising
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Cancer is feared by everyone. And this fear is reaching epidemic(流行性) proportions. Not the disease itself — there is no such thing as a cancer epidemic. Except for lung cancer, mostly caused by cigarette smoking ,the incidence rates are leveling off, and in the case of some kinds of cancer are decreasing. But the fear of cancer is catching, and the country stands at risk of an anxiety, The earth itself is coming to seem like a huge carcinogen(致癌物). The ordinary, more or less scientific statement that something between 80 and 90 percent of all cancers are dun to things in the environment is taken to mean that none of us will be safe until the whole environment is “cleaned up.” This is not at all the meaning.www.Ｅxamda.CoM考试就到考试大
The 80-percent calculation is based on the unthinkable differences
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