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four-feet tall. Methuselah is growing well. "It’s lovely." Dr. Sarah
Sallon said of the date palm，whose parents may have provided food for the
besieged Jews at Masada some 2 000 years ago. The little tree was sprouted in
2005 from a seed recovered from Masada, where rebelling Jews committed suicide
rather than surrender to Roman attackers. Radiocarbon dating of seed fragments clinging to its root, as well as other seeds found with it that didn’t sprout, indicate they were about 2 000 years old—the oldest seed known to have been sprouted and grown. Sallon, director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel, updates the saga of Methuselah in Friday’s edition of the journal Science. One thing they don’t know yet is whethe A. is an ancient tree about 2 000 years old B. is grown from a seed about 2 000 years old C. had already become extinct 2 000 years ago D. has been the food source since 2 000 years ago [填空题]Just over half the nurses in the 1986 study believed that management understood the effects that shift work had on them.
[单项选择]Just over 10 years ago, Ingmar Bergman announced that the widely acclaimed Fanny and Alexander would mark his last hurrah as a filmmaker. Although some critics had written him off as earnest but ponderous, others were saddened by the departure of an artist who had explored cinematic moods -- from high tragedy to low comedy -- during his four-decade career.
What nobody foresaw was that Bergman would find a variety of ways to circumvent his own retirement -- directing television movies, staging theater productions, and writing screenplays for other filmmakers to direct. His latest enterprise as a screenwriter, Sunday’s Children, completes a trilogy of family-oriented movies that began with Fanny and Alexander and continued with The Best Intentions written by Bergman and directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August. Besides dealing with members of Bergman’s family in bygone times--it begins a few years after The Best Intentions leaves off--the new picture was directed by Daniel Ber A. is presented chronologically. B. takes place in the 19th century. C. occurs all in one locale. D. is derived from reminiscences. 我来回答: 提交
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