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Aspirin may be the most familiar drug in the world — but its power to heal goes far beyond the usual aches and pains. Exciting new studies suggest that aspirin can help fight a wide range of serious illnesses. "It now seems to be a benefit in so many areas of health," says Dr Debra Judelson, medical director of the Women’s Heart Institute in Beverly Hills, California. "I advise most of my patients, as long as they aren’t allergic to aspirin and don’t have bleeding problems, to take low-dose aspirin."
Some of the major illnesses and conditions that aspirin or aspirin-like drugs might help prevent are. Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes-related heart disease, heart attack, cancer and antibiotic-induced hearing loss.

The passage mainly discusses the effects of（）
A. health.
B. aspirin.
C. hearing loss.
D. heart attack.

[单项选择]In a quickly changing world the most important part of education is to learn how to think critically，how to create and how to ask interesting questions. It is much less important to learn how to categorize knowledge and how to answer old questions.

[单项选择]The most appropriate title for this passage may be ______.
A. Trust in a Hospital
B. Why Nurses Protest
C. Nurse Tracking Technology
D. New Technology

[单项选择]Since the Second World War, most urban growth in the United States has occurred ______ of existing metropolitan areas.
A. on the outskirts
B. on the outskirt
C. on outskirts
D. on outskirt

[单项选择]Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage
A. The Charm of Computer Science
B. A New Type of Electronic Toys
C. Compulsive Computer Programmers
D. Computer Addicts

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Henry Kissinger may be the most successful, certainly the most flamboyant, Secretary of State to hold that office in modern times. When he was appointed in the late 1960’s, there were no American ties with Communist China, Vietnam and Berlin seemed ready to draw the United States into a third world war, and Russia was seen as "the enemy".
But all this has changed, and Henry Kissinger caused much of the change; in 1971, he made his first trip to China, a trip that was the beginning of the current ties between the United States and China. He brought the United States and Russia closer together on major issues by the policy he called "detente", literally meaning a relaxation. His philosophy was always to talk and to bring together. With these two policies, Kissinger did much to draw attention away from any possible Russia-American friction.
In 1973 he made his first visit to Egypt. Here he was able to begin U. S. relati
A. notorious.
B. ambiguous.
C. showy.
D. arbitrary.