[单项选择]Apart from deaths from illnesses，one of the biggest threats to one's life in highly motorized Singapore is to be killed in a traffic accident．
A. 不管是由于患病还是新加坡交通繁忙，在公路意外中丧命都是对我们生命的一大威胁。
B. 除了患病身亡之外，由于新加坡交通繁忙，在交通事故丧命是对生命的最大威胁之一。
C. 除了患病身亡，新加坡交通繁忙，在公路意外中丧命是对我们生命的一大威胁。
D. 由于新加坡交通繁忙，最大的威胁就是在公路意外中丧命还有患病身亡。

[单项选择]Apart from enormous productivity, another important impetus to high consumption is ______.

[单项选择]Apart from philosophical and legal reasons for respecting patients' wishes, there are several practical reasons why doctors should ________ to involve patients in their own medical care decisions.
A. enforce
B. endow
C. endeavor
D. enhance

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Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story-telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the novel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize, show rather than tell, what happens.
Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can conjure up at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay, for a film depends greatly
A. The analytical method.
B. The fragmenting technique.
C. Ease.
D. Convenienc

[单项选择]Apart from achieving his desired results, a child should also learn to______.


A. behave properly
B. attain his goal as soon as possible
C. show his affection for his parents
D. talk quietly

[单项选择]Apart from these sciences there is philosophy, about ______ we will talk in detail later.
A. that
B. it
C. what
D. which

[单项选择]Apart from technology, the growing leisure time throughout the twentieth century is also due to ______.
A. changes in laws
B. mass entertainment
C. new types of consumption
D. competitive businesses

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Text 3
Quite apart from any awkwardness in the way he handled the hostile bid by rival Oracle for the firm he was running, Craig Conway seems to have been an unpopular CEO of PeopleSoft, a large enterprise-software company. Three managers who reported directly to him were apparently close to resigning in frustration, and the board was unhappy about "mis-statements" he made to analysts. So even though there was no "smoking gun", as the board put it, Mr. Conway was fired on October 1st and replaced by the firm’s founder, David Duffield.
Mr. Duffield’s brief is now to address Mr. Conway’s perceived shortcomings and his obsession with fending off the $ 7.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle. At the same time, says Paul Hamerman of Forrester, a research firm, Mr. Conway offered no compelling technological vision for PeopleSoft, and seemed deaf to "quite a noise level of customer complaints". Mr. Conway’s firing
A. is hard to resist.
B. is not given first priority.
C. depends on its validity.
D. is irrational.

[单项选择]Apart from a handful of weather stations, within 2 000 miles of the South Pole there is hot a single tree, industry, or ______.


A. habitation
B. settlement
C. residence
D. accommodation