[填空题] Weight-Loss Nirvana
A Substance That Makes Fat Mice Thin Just Might Work for Humans Too
In the US, where one in three adults is seriously overweight, the news carried by the journal Science last week -- that Friedman and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York City’s Rockefeller University had discovered a magical dose that melts fat in a matter of weeks -- resonated with unusual force. Momentarily, at least, it encouraged the spirits of millions of lifelong dieters and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. It is too early to predict, however, whether this rare elixir (called leptin, after the Greek leptos, meaning slender) will be a stunning pharmaceutical (制药上的) success or just another "miracle" cure that never pans out. Even if all goes well, it could be five to ten years before leptin is approved in

[填空题] Weight-Loss Nirvana
A Substance That Makes Fat Mice Thin Just Might Work for Humans Too
In the US, where one in three adults is seriously overweight, the news carried by the journal Science last week -- that Friedman and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York City’s Rockefeller University had discovered a magical dose that melts fat in a matter of weeks -- resonated with unusual force. Momentarily, at least, it encouraged the spirits of millions of lifelong dieters and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. It is too early to predict, however, whether this rare elixir (called leptin, after the Greek leptos, meaning slender) will be a stunning pharmaceutical (制药上的) success or just another "miracle" cure that never pans out. Even if all goes well, it could be five to ten years before leptin is approved in

[填空题]As Nirvana says, a person both as a sport professor and as an experienced manager is harder to obtain than______.

[填空题]Nirvana’s flagship gym is usually filled to full capacity with about 800 fitness enthusiasts most weekends.

[单项选择]A placebo is a chemically inert substance prescribed more for the mental relief of a patient than for its effect on the patient’s physical disorder. It is prescribed in the hope of instilling in the patient a positive attitude toward prospects for his or her recovery. In some cases, the placebo actually produces improvement in the patient’s condition. In discussing the use and effect of placebos, a well-known medical researcher recently paid physicians the somewhat offbeat compliment of saying that physicians were the ultimate placebo.
By comparing a physician to a placebo, the researcher sought to imply that
A. physicians should always maintain and communicate an optimistic attitude toward their patients, regardless of the prognosis.
B. the health of some patients can improve simply form their knowledge that they are under a physician’s care.
C. many patients actually suffer from imagined illnesses that are best treated by placebos.
D. physicians could prescribe less medication and achieve the same effect.
E. (E) it is difficult to determine what, if any, effect a physician’s behavior has on a patient’s condition.

[判断题]Water is a kind of chemical substance.

[填空题]Red bananas contain a substance called carotene which is also found in the vegetable known as a carrot.

[单项选择]Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel and understand about the world has been processed for us." When we "cannot distinguish with certainty the natural from the interpreted, or the artificial from the organic, all theories of the ideal organization of life become equal."
In other words, TV teaches that all lifestyles and values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined right and wrong. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, one of the best recent books on the tyranny of television, Nell Postman wonders why nobody has pointed out that television possibly oversteps the instructions in the Bible.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional standards and mores of society came under heavy assault. Indeed, they were blown apart, largely with the help of one’s own. There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. Even important moral questions suffered distortion when the
A. telling people how amusing it is to watch TV
B. warning people to overstep the instructions in the Bible
C. showing there is a direct link between TV-watching and death
D. criticizing television for eating out our lives