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（）of this deratting exemption certificate is hereby extended until 4th 0ct.1988 as the vessel is laden with cargo.
A . Validity
B . Valid
C . Validation
D . The coming into force
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Atmospheres laden with coal dust or grain dust caused by loading these cargoes（）.
A . require loading operations to be shut down until the atmosphere clears
B . are toxic to human life
C . are subject to spontaneous combustion
D . may be explosive in some concentratio
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During the voyage he encountered boisterous winds and heavy weather during which time the vessel（）heavily and to such an extent that at times it was necessary to change course.
A . moved
B . labored
C . drove
D . went
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Atmosphere laden with coal dust or grain dust caused by loading these cargoes（）.
A . require loading operations to be shut down until the atmosphere clears
B . are toxic to human life
C . are subject to spontaneous combustion
D . may be explosive in some concentratio
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At the beginning of the dinner, he stood up and proposed a ( ) in his heavily accented English.
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California relies heavily on income form fruit crops, and _____.
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Die Müllers laden uns zum Essen______.
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Infant“婴儿”和infantry“步兵”来源于同一个拉丁语单词，字面意思是“不会说话的人”
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Jackson said his boss became increasingly depressed and _____(回到) to smoking heavily.
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形容下雪天气的句子中，应填入哪个单词？The snow was ____ heavily when I left the house.
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California relies heavily on income from fruit crops, and____.
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But federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they determine penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely inadequate. （CET4-2016.12）
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Historically,a civil law is heavily overlaid by ( ).
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California relies heavily on income from fruit crops, and ________（）
A．to do Florida
B．so Florida too
C．so Florida does
D．so does Florida
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___was established in 1960 to provide assistance for the same purposes as the IBRD, but primarily in the poorer developing countries and on terms that it would bear less heavily on their balance of payments than would IBRD loans.
A、The International Development Association
B、The International Finance Corporation (IFC)
C、The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
D、The World Bank
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Hospitals, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put computers, smartphones and other devices into the hands of medical staff for instant access to patient data, drug information and case studies.
But like many cures, this solution has come with an unintended side effect: doctors and nurses can be focused on the screen and not the patient, even during moments of critical care. A poll showed that half of medical technicians had admitted texting during a procedure.
This phenomenon has set off an intensifying discussion at hospitals and medical schools about a problem perhaps best described as “distracted doctoring.” In response, some hospitals have begun limiting the use of electronic devices in critical settings, while schools have started reminding medical students to focus on patients instead of devices.
“You justify carrying devices around the hospital to do medical records, but you can surf the Internet or do Facebook, and sometimes Facebook is more tempting,” said Dr. Peter Papadakos at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
“My gut feeling (本能的感觉) is lives are in danger,” said Dr. Papadakos. “We’re not educating people about the problem, and it’s getting worse.”
A survey of 439 medical technicians found that 55 percent of technicians who monitor bypass machines acknowledged that they had talked on cellphones during heart surgery. Half said they had texted while in surgery. The study concluded, “Such distractions have the potential to be disastrous.”
Medical professionals have always faced interruptions from cellphones, and multitasking is simply a fact of life for many medical jobs. What has changed, say doctors, especially younger ones, is that they face increasing pressure to interact with their devices.
The pressure stems from a mantra (信条) of modem medicine that patient care must be “data driven,” and informed by the latest, instantly accessible information. By many accounts, the technology has helped reduce medical error by providing instant access to patient data or prescription details.
Dr. Peter Carmel, president of the American Medical Association, said technology “offers great potential in health care.” but he added that doctors’ first priority should be with the patient.
56. Why do hospitals equip their staff with computers, smartphones and other devices？
A. To reduce medical error.
B. To cope with emergencies.
C. To facilitate administration.
D. To simplify medical procedures.
57. What does the author refer to by “distracted doctoring”？
A. The disservice done by modem devices to doctors, nurses, as well as patients.
B. The tendency of medical institutions encouraging the use of modem devices.
C. The problem of devices preventing doctors from focusing on their patients.
D. The phenomenon of medical staff attending to personal affairs while working.
58. What does Dr. Peter Papadakos worry about？
A. Medical students are not adequately trained to use modem technology.
B. Doctor’s interaction with their devices may endanger patients’ lives.
C. Doctors are relying too heavily on modem electronic technology.
D. Pressures on the medical profession may become overwhelming.
59. Why do doctors feel increasing pressure to use modem devices？
A. Patients trust doctors who use modern technology.
B. Use of modem devices adds to hospitals’ revenues.
C. Data is given too much importance in patient care.
D. Patients’ data has to be revised from time to time.
60. What is Peter Carmel’s advice to doctors？
A. They follow closely the advances in medical science.
B. They focus their attention on the patient’s condition.
C. They observe hospital rules and regulations.
D. They make the best use of modem devices.
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a short fat man was seen____(breathe)heavily at the corner of the street at 10p.m.last night
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In Paragraph 5, the word "heavily" can best be replaced by ______.
A．widely
B．densely
C．chiefly
D．largely
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Trying to get Americans to eat a healthy diet is a frustrating business. Even the best-designed public-health campaigns cannot seem to compete with the tempting flavors of the snack-food and fast-food industries and their fat-and sugar-laden products. The results are apparent on a walk down any American street—more than 60% of Americans are overweight, and a full quarter of them are overweight to the point of obesity.
Now, health advocates say, an ill-conceived redesign-has taken one of the more successful public-health campaigns—the Food Guide Pyramid—and rendered it confusing to the point of uselessness. Some of these critics worry that America's Department of Agriculture caved to pressure from parts of the food industry anxious to protect theft products.
The Food Guide Pyramid was a graphic which emphasizes that a healthy diet is built on a base of gains, vegetables and fruits, followed by ever-decreasing amounts of dairy products, meat, sweets and oils. The agriculture department launched the pyramid in 1992 to replace its previous program, which was centered on the idea of four basic food groups. The "Basic Four" campaign showed a plate divided into quarters, and seemed to imply that meat and dairy products should make up haft of a healthy diet, with grains, fruits and vegetables making up the other half. It was replaced only over the strenuous objections of the meat and dairy industries.
The old pyramid was undoubtedly imperfect. It failed to distinguish between a doughnut and a whole-grain roll, or a hamburger and a skinless chicken breast, and it did not make clear exactly how much of each foodstuff to eat. It did, however, manage to convey the basic idea of proper proportions in an easily understandable way. The new pyramid, called "My Pyramid", abandons the effort to provide this information. Instead, it has been simplified to a mere logo. The food groups are replaced with unlabelled, multi-colored vertical stripes which, in some versions, rise out of a cartoon jumble of foods that look like the aftermath of a riot at a grocery store. Anyone who wants to see how this translates into a healthy diet is invited to go to a website, put in their age, sex and activity level, and get a custom-designed pyramid, complete with healthy food choices and suggested portion sizes. This is free for those who are motivated, but might prove too much effort for those who most need such information.
Admittedly, the designers of the new pyramid had a tough job to do. They were supposed to condense the advice in the 84-page United States' Dietary Guidelines into a simple, meaningful graphic suitable for printing on the back of a cereal box. And they had to do this in the face of pressure from dozens of special interest groups—from the country's Potato Board, which thought potatoes would look nice in the picture, to the Almond Board of California, which felt the same way about almonds. Even the National Watermelon Promotion Board and the California Avocado Commission were eager to see their products recognized.
Nevertheless, many health advocates believe the new graphic is a missed opportunity. Although officials insist industry pressure had nothing to do with the eventual design, some critics suspect that political influence was at work. On the other hand, it is not clear how much good even the best graphic could do. Surveys found that 80% of Americans recognized the old Food Guide Pyramid—a big success in the world of public-health campaigns. Yet only 16% followed its advice.
Trying to get Americans to eat a healthy diet is a frustrating business can be easily proved by the fact that
A．public-health campaigns cannot compete with tempting flavors.
B．snack-food and fast-food industries are flourishing in the US.
C．most food in America are profoundly rich in fat and sugar.
D．fat people account for a large proportion of American population.
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听力原文： Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on a heavily guarded surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday, urged patience for the country' s fragile new government and said Iraqis have made remarkable political progress that can overcome a recent surge of violence.
The one-day trip was Rice's first visit to Iraq as the nation's top diplomat. Rice was a chief architect of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as White House national security adviser during President Bush's first term and she accompanied Bush on his own surprise visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003.
Rice told reporters that she wanted to discuss the new government' s upcoming tasks including writing a constitution, as well as addressing the country's security and infrastructure needs.
From the news item, we are sure this was at least Rice's ______ trip to Iraq.
A．first
B．second
C．third
D．fourth
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International airlines 【C1】______ the business travelers, the man or woman who regularly jets from country to country as part of the job. This does not necessarily mean that airlines ever abandoned their business travelers. Indeed, companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would rightly argue that they have always catered best 【C2】______ the executive class passengers. But many lines could be 【C3】______ of concentrating too heavily in the recent past on attracting passengers by volume, often at the expense of regular travelers. Too often, they have seemed 【C4】______ for quantity rather than quality.
Operating a major airline in the 1980s is essentially a matter of finding the right mix of passengers.
The airlines need to fill up the back end of their wide-bodied jets with low 【C5】______ passengers, without forgetting that the front end should be filled with people who pay substantially more for their tickets.
It is no coincidence that the two major airline bankruptcies in 1989. were among the companies specializing 【C6】______ cheap flights. But low fares require 【C7】______ full aircraft to make flights economically viable, and in the recent recession the volume of traffic has not grown. Equally the large number of airlines jostling for the available passengers has created a huge excess of capacity. The 【C8】______ result of excess capacity and cut- throat competition driving down fares has been to push some airlines into collapse and leave many others 【C9】______ on the brink.
Against this 【C10】______ background, it is no surprise that airlines are turning increasingly towards the business travelers to improve their rates of return. They have invested much time and effort to establish exactly what the executive demands for sitting apart from the tourists.
High on the list of priorities is punctuality; an executive% time is money. In-flight service is another area where the airlines are jostling for the executive's attention. The free drinks and headsets and better food are all part of the lure.
【C1】______
A．will rediscover
B．have rediscovered
C．rediscover
D．rediscovered
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听力原文： President Bush is renewing sanctions on the Tale. ban forces that control most of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, administration officials say they are trying to convince other countries to put pressure on the Taleban to turn over suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. The sanctions were originally imposed by former President Clinton in 1999 and renewed a year later. President Bush says they are still needed today.
In a written statement, Mr. Bush says the Taleban continues to provide safe haven and a base of operations for Osama bin Laden. He goes on to say the bin Laden operation has committed, and threatens to commit, acts of violence against Americans.
Why does President Bush renew sanctions on the Taleban forces？
A．Taleban forces killed some Americans.
B．Taleban forces attacked other countries.
C．Taleban forces are a terrorist organization.
D．Taleban forces continue to provide safe haven and a base of operations for Osama bin Laden.
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If national health insurance would not cure the problems of the American healthcare system, what, then, is responsible for them？ Suspicion falls heavily on hospitals, which make up the largest component of the system. In 1988 hospitals accounted for 39% of all health expenditures-more than doctor, nursing homes, drugs, and home health care combined.
Although U.S. hospitals provide outstanding research and frequently excellent care, they also exhibit the classic attributes of insufficient organizations: increasing costs and decreasing use. The average cost of a hospital stay in 1987—$3,850—was more than double the 1980 cost. A careful government analysis published in 1987 revealed the inflation of hospital costs, over and above general price inflation, as a major factor in their growth, even after allowances were made for increases in the population and in intensity of care. While the rate of increase for hospital costs was 2796 greater than that for all medical care and 163% greater than that for all other goods and services, demand for hospital services fell by 34%. But hospitals seemed oblivious of the decline: during this period the number of hospital beds shrank only by about 396, and the number of full-time employees grew by more than 240,000.
After yet another unexpectedly high hospital-cost increase last year, one puzzled government analyst asked: "Where's the money going？" Much of the increase in hospital costs—amounting to $180 billion from 1965 to 1987—went to duplicating medical technology available in nearby hospitals and maintaining excess beds. Modern Healthcare, a leading journal in the field, recently noted that "anecdotes of hospitals' unnecessary spending on technology abound". Medical technology is very expensive. An operating room outfitted to perform. open-heart surgery costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. From 1982 to 1989 the number of hospitals with open-heart-surgery facilities grew by 33%, and the most rapid growth occurred among smaller and moderate-sized hospitals. This growth was worrisome for reasons of both costs and quality. Underused technology almost inevitably decreases quality of care. In medicine, as in everything else, practice makes perfect. For example, most of the hospitals with the lowest mortality rates for coronary-bypass surgery perform. at least fifty to a hundred such procedures annually, and in some cases many more; the majority of those with the highest mortality rates perform. fewer than fifty a year.
According to the passage, the American health-care system______.
A．is working smoothly
B．is the best system in the world
C．is not working efficiently
D．in on the point of collapses
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The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, announced here today that a delegation of Pakistani officials would fly to the Taliban's headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Monday to renew demands that the militia surrender Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden.
U.S. officials have named Bin Laden, who has been given shelter by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, as the prime suspect in Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Washington and New York.
"We are aware of the gravity of the situation and know that in the lives of nations, such situations do arise that require making important decisions", Musharraf said at a meeting with Pakistani newspaper editors.
The Taliban's leader, Mohammad Omar, has refused to give up Bin Laden, claiming he is not responsible for the U.S. attacks.
"The Pakistan government is leaning on the Taliban government to hand over Osama to save this entire region from catastrophe", said Najam Sethi, editor of the weekly newspaper Friday Times, who participated in the meeting with Musharraf. "I am not sure whether there is much chance of that happening, but the pressure is on from the Pakistan government".
Pakistan has been a key supporter of the Taliban, which controls more than 90 percent of Afghanistan and has enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law in the country.
Omar, the Taliban leader, today convened an emergency meeting of clerics(圣职人员) in the Afghan capital, Kabul. "As regards the possible attack by America on the sacred soil of Afghanistan, veteran honorable clerics should come to Kabul for a sharia decision", Omar said in a statement broadcast on the Taliban's Radio Shariat today. Sharia is Islamic law.
Omar, who reportedly left Ms. Kandahar headquarters several days ago in anticipation of a U.S. attack, asked Afghans to pray and read the Koran to meet what he called a "test", according to the statement. He indicated he would not attend the meeting of clerics, though he reportedly met with a small group of senior clerics today.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reported today it had received a statement from Bin Laden, dispatched by an aide from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, in which he denied involvement in last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"I am residing in Afghanistan", the statement said, "I have taken an oath of allegiance to Omar which does not allow me to do such things from Afghanistan. We have been blamed in the past, but we were not involved".
What is the mission of the delegation of Pakistani officials to Afghanistan？
A．To surrender Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden.
B．To convey the demands of the U.S. on the Americans' decision of an air-raid on Afghanistan.
C．To tell Taliban leaders to hand over Bin Laden.
D．To advise Taliban leaders to get ready for the Americans' unexpected air attacks.
