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大学英语四级阅读-24
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[填空题]An investigator into the drug overdose(服药过量) death of Marilyn Monroe(玛莲·梦露) 43 years ago Friday still is not convinced she killed herself. John W. Miner, who investigated Monroe’s death as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, claims Monroe’s psychologist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, played him secret audiotapes made by the star during one of her therapy sessions (1) before her death. A key (2) of the alleged (所谓的) tapes, according to Miner, is that Monroe was not (3) and was actively planning to become a serious Shakespearean actress. Miner says he took careful, handwritten notes of the tapes and later produced a near-exact transcript. There is no (4) Miner’s claims are true, since Dr. Greenson is now dead and no one else claims to have heard the tape.
"You are the only person who will ever know the most (5) thoughts of Marilyn Monroe," she allegedly told her doctor. In Miner’s transcript, Monroe discussed her plans to (6) Sh
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[填空题]An international committee of doctors says that the number of cases of brain diseases in developing countries is rising. The doctors were reporting the (1) for the Uinted States National Academy of Sciences. They say that brain diseases (2) at least 250 million people in the developing world. These diseases include strokes(中风), epilepsy (癫痫) and (3) sickness such as schizophrenia (精神分裂症) and depression (抑郁症). They also include (4) development of the nervous system, which causes mental slowness and cerebral palsy(脑瘫).
Doctor Murthy says there are two reasons for this. One is a lack of money. The other is a lack of human (5) . For example, a recent study shows that doctors who (6) mental sicknesses are not enough in most developing countries. Another (7) to action against brain diseases is the unfair way in which the public acts toward victims. Many victims of brain diseases are treated (8) .
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[单项选择]Cheating is nothing new. But today, education and administrations are finding that instances of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent-- and are less likely to be punished--than in the past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alike.
Why is student cheating on the rise No one really knows. Some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral values among today’s youth. Others have attributed increased cheating to the fact that today’s youth are far more pragmatic(实际的) than their idealistic predecessors. Whereas in the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the world, today’s students feel great pressure to conform and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating bad become easy. Some suggested they did it out of spite for teachers they did not respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only
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[填空题]Japan has reached an important (1) point. After World War II, the miracle of Japan’s economic growth was achieved through technological (2) and a cheap, well- trained laboratorian. This innovation, however, was based on (3) basic technologies or concepts from the United States and Europe and improving them. The economic success of this (4) approach ended about a decade ago because of the (5) of the Japanese yen, an increase in labor costs and the (6) of other countries in East and Southeast Asia. To achieve further economic development, Japan must develop (7) technologies that promise benefits. This change is not easy, however, because all (8) of Japanese society--including political circles, administration, industry, and education--have (9) been oriented to catching up (10) .
A. innovation [I] growth
B. strength [J] economically
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[单项选择]E1 Nino is a disturbance of the world’s normal climate pattern. During El Nino events, the westerly trade winds become slower and the warmer water in the western Pacific moves towards South America. This huge increase in ocean temperatures--as much as eight degrees centigrade--and the change in atmospheric conditions bring rain to the deserts of South America and the rainforests of south-east Asia, with drought conditions throughout eastern and southern Africa. There are many knock-on effects all over the world.
The home of El Nino is Peru. El Nino, "the Christ Child", was first named by Peruvian fishermen one Christmas when they noticed unusual warm currents affecting the Pacific coast of South America. Up and down the country, from desert m highlands, E1 Nino weather phenomena have brought destructive floods, costing £200 million in immediate and long-term damage, and undoing the work of many development projects.
"The dastruction is near total," Dominic Brain, a worker for
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[单项选择]Time and how we experience it have puzzled physicists who have created fascinating theories. But their time is measured by a pendulum (钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the distinction observed, "When you sit with a girl for two hours, it seems like a minute, but when you sit on hot stove, a minute seems like two hours."
Psychologists have noticed that larger units of time. such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age.
They also note that the more time is structured with schedule and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the beach. Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office, an increase in structured time could well be to blame why time seems to speed up as we grow older.
Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we’ve never been
A. show the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time
B. state the principles of time
C. describe various notions about time
D. explain why time flies and how to slow it down
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[单项选择]Only special plants can survive the terrible climate of a desert, for these are regions where the annual range of the soil temperature can be over 75℃. Furthermore, during the summer there are few clouds in the sky to protect plants from the sun’s ray. Another problem is the fact that there are frequently strong winds which drive small sharp particles of sand into the plants, tearing and damaging them. The most difficult problem for all forms of plant life, however, is the fact that the entire annual rainfall occurs during a few days or weeks in spring.
Grasses and flowers in desert survive from one year to the next by existing through the long, hot, dry season in the form of seeds. These seeds remain inactive unless the right mount of rain falls, If no rain falls, or if insufficient rain falls, they wait until the next year. or even still the next. Another factor that helps these plants to survive is the fact that their life cycles are short. By the time that the water from the s