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Text 3 Fiercely independent, 90 year-old Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn’t consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Louis Critelli, her nephew had to coax the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation’s growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1, 100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills. Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident’s prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded. Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly eared for, only learned of the finding years later from
A. show sympathy for Critelli's misfortune.
B. reveal problems in assisted living facilities.
C. demonstrate inefficiency of caretakers.
D. exhibit the reliability of USA TODAY.
[单项选择]The ambitious Parkfield programme was successful at least in one of the following aspects:
A. Scientists will be fully prepared with equipment to collect more information if an earthquake occurs.
B. It enabled scientists to predict an impending earthquake on time scales of hours to days.
C. A moderate earthquake did occur in the region sometime between 1985 and 1993 just as predicted.
D. People in the Parkfield region were less panic but more prepared for any coming earthquakes.
[单项选择]His new movie depiets an ambitious American.
A. writes
B. sketches
C. describes
D. indicates
[单项选择]Their ambitious schemes for making money quickly ______.
A. took a chance
B. came to nothing
C. went into action
D. got to the point
[单项选择]My brother' s plans are very ambitious.
A. arbitrary
B. aggressive
C. adequate
D. abundant
[单项选择]The expression "The claim is as ambitious as it is pessimistic." can be best paraphrased as which of the following
A. (A) the claim is both ambitious and pessimistic.
B. (B) the claim is more ambitious than pessimistic.
C. (C) the claim is either ambitious and pessimistic
D. (D) the claim is more pessimistic than ambitious.
[单项选择](On the whole) , ambitious students (are much likely) to succeed in their studies than (those) (with) little ambition.
A. On the whole
B. are much likely
C. those
D. With
[单项选择]The little boy is very ambitious; he's filled with ______for knowledge.
[单项选择]I'm the least ambitious of all the students here.
A. 我与这儿所有的同学一样没有雄心。
B. 我是这儿所有同学中最没有雄心的。
C. 我是这儿所有同学中干有雄心的事最少的。
D. 我是这儿没有雄心的同学之一。
[单项选择](On the whole), ambitious students (are much likely) to succeed in their studies than (those) (with) little ambition.
A. On the whole
B. are much likely
C. those
D. with
[单项选择]Mary is ambitious enough to ______ conversational fluency in Chinese in two months.
A. aim at
B. inspire
C. seek
D. aspire to
[单项选择]This ambitious project, ______ scores of organizations around the world, will take at least ten years to be accomplished.
A. indicating
B. composing
C. containing
D. involving
[单项选择]As an ambitious writer, Hardy sought to______what he considered the authorial ______of solely recording things exactly as they are; it was his goal, rather to express an awareness of the occult and the strange.
A. (A) maintain … strategy
B. (B) employ … practice
C. (C) transcend … tedium
D. (D) overcome… barrier
E. (E) endorse … ruse
[单项选择]As an ambitious writer, Hardy sought to ------- what he considered the authorial ...... of solely recording things exactly as they are; it was his goal, rather to express an awareness of the occult and the strange.
A. (A) maintain... strategy
B. (B) employ... practice
C. (C) transcend ... tedium
D. (D) overcome ... barrier
E. (E) endorse... ruse
[单项选择]His novel {{U}}depicts{{/U}} an ambitious American.
A. writes
B. sketches
C. describes
D. indicates
