[单项选择]The television coverage of human rights issues has all the effects except ______.


A. reduction in the cases of human rights violation
B. increased control over the media in some countries
C. increased respect for different cultures and attitudes
D. heightened international concern over human rights abuses

[单项选择]Which of the following issues of interest has NOT been discussed in the passage by the author


A. Internet accessibility.
B. Therapeutic treatment.
C. Communities and discussion.
D. Behavioral healthcare profession.

[单项选择]The relative stability of the human population has been upset by ______.


A. the proportion of the reproductive age group
B. the influenza epidemic
C. advances in medical science
D. the Black Death in Europe

[单项选择]The human race has already paid a heavy price for its slow ______ to environmental threats.
A. response
B. responsibility
C. resolution
D. resistance

[单项选择]The human body has developed a system of nerves that enables us to （）.
A. stay relaxed
B. avoid pain
C. stand torture
D. feel pain

[单项选择]Every human being who has ever lived had two parents. Therefore, more people were alive three thousand years ago than are alive now.
The reasoning in the argument is flawed because it
A. overlooks the number of people in each generation during the last three thousand years who left no descendants.
B. disregards possible effects of disasters such as famines and plagues on human history.
C. overestimates the mathematical effect of repeated doublings on population size.
D. fails to take into account that people now alive have overlapping sets of ancestors.
E. (E) fails to consider that accurate estimation of the number of people alive three thousand years ago might be impossible.

[单项选择]As a famous leader of human rights movement, Martin Luther King detested injustice.
A. recognized
B. suffered
C. confronted
D. hated

[单项选择]According to the passage, why has human intelligence not been copied in the making of a robot
A. Computers can only do mathematical problems better than human beings.
B. Technology is not advanced enough to copy how hu man minds work.
C. Scientists are Satisfied to have the robot with senses of sight and touch.
D. Robots with human intelligence will be dangerous to human beings.

[单项选择]Human rights activists complain that ______.


A. the US has taken the place of the UN in settling human rights issues
B. the UN has failed to play its necessary role in protecting human rights
C. the UN should have tolerated the violation of human rights by big powers like the US
D. the UN has talked more than it has done in protecting human rights

[单项选择]The purpose of the so-called 'human rights' concept, which is guaranteed and reinforced by government, is based upon the belief that ______.