[单项选择]CORNELL’S SUICIDE PROBLEM. That’s the description that broadcasted across the bottom of CNN during this morning’s segment about the university installing fences to prevent people from jumping into the gap. Actually, CNN, it’s not a suicide problem so much as a media problem—a problem stemming from outlets like yours that are quick to spread the myth that Cornell is the "suicide school".
The New York Times is guilty, too. After the third Cornell suicide in less than a month, the Times ran a front-page story that said the university was on "high alert about the mental health of its students" and that the recent deaths "have cast a golly atmosphere over the university and renewed talk of Cornell’s reputation—unsup-ported, say officials—as a high-stress ’suicide school’". But it’s not until deep into the jump, on April 25th, that the article addresses the actual statistics, which indicate that Cornell’s rate of suicides is no higher than the national average for a university of that s
A. supportive
B. neutral
C. admiring
D. critical

[单项选择]CORNELL’S SUICIDE PROBLEM. That’s the description that broadcasted across the bottom of CNN during this morning’s segment about the university installing fences to prevent people from jumping into the gap. Actually, CNN, it’s not a suicide problem so much as a media problem—a problem stemming from outlets like yours that are quick to spread the myth that Cornell is the "suicide school".
The New York Times is guilty, too. After the third Cornell suicide in less than a month, the Times ran a front-page story that said the university was on "high alert about the mental health of its students" and that the recent deaths "have cast a golly atmosphere over the university and renewed talk of Cornell’s reputation—unsup-ported, say officials—as a high-stress ’suicide school’". But it’s not until deep into the jump, on April 25th, that the article addresses the actual statistics, which indicate that Cornell’s rate of suicides is no higher than the national average for a university of that s
A. a psychological problem of the students
B. a management problem of the university
C. a social problem caused by the government
D. a man-made problem exaggerated by the media

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A. new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th-floor ledge of a Chicago hotel, eluding the lunging grasp of firemen called to help.
The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that the mother of a 3-month-old daughter, Melanie Stokes, 41, was said to be suffering from a severe form of after-birth depression called postpartum psychosis, an extremely rare biological response to rapidly changing hormonal levels that can result in hallucinations, delusions, severe insomnia and a drastic departure from reality.
"That was a monster in my daughter’s brain, " said Stokes’ mother, Carol Blocker. "The medicine took no effect at all, while her grief was so strong that nothing could make up for it. I’m just glad she didn’t take her daughter with her. "
Virtually all new mothers get postpartum blues, also called the "baby blues". which are
A. Visions.
B. Delusions.
C. Inflamed breast.
D. Serious sleeplessness.

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The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect" , a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.
Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediatio
A. manage their patients incompetently
B. give patients more medicine than needed
C. reduce drug dosages for their patients
D. prolong the needless suffering of the patients

[单项选择]The cause for Romao’s suicide was likely to be（）
A. family problems
B. political problems
C. economic problems
D. problems of private life

[单项选择]Cornell指数是指
A. Sv₁、v₂+Rv₆
B. R_Ⅰ+S_Ⅲ
C. Sv₂+Rv₄、v₅
D. R_avL+Sv₃
E. (R_Ⅰ-S_Ⅰ)+(S_Ⅲ-R_Ⅲ)

[填空题]The author gives a description of Charlotte’s life with a kind of tone that helps his argument.

[单项选择]Bill Cornell needs time to
A. get the sample bikes.
B. try out the sample bikes on his customers.
C. check the work efficiency.

[单项选择]The nurse reinforces the physician’s description of a fasciotomy for a client. When a fasciotomy is performed to alleviate compartment syndrome, the fascia is opened along the length of the muscle compartment and（）
A. the skin is sutured loosely.
B. a pressure dressing is applied.
C. the skin is left open.
D. a skin graft is placed.

[单项选择]The researchers at Cornell University suggest that ______
A. policies be worked out on women’s wages
B. women go out to work instead of working at home
C. husbands hire others to do their housework
D. husbands pay their wives for their work at home

[单项选择]Romao committed suicide by （）
A. shooting himself
B. taking poisons
C. producing a traffic accident and died in it
D. jumping from a high building

[填空题]Study done in Swiss and Cornell University indicated that Bt crops could have unreasonable adverse effects on insects in the field.