[单项选择]Price（）is at the top of the factors contributing to the rise of construction cost in the area after the earthquake.
A. flaw
B. fraud
C. flake
D. fore

[单项选择]Most discussions of the factors contributing to improvements in public health greatly underestimate the influence of the values held by individuals. This influence is indicated by the fact that the astonishing decline mortality from infectious disease during the past century was primarily due to an improvement in living conditions. To a substantial degree, these improvements depended on the emphasis by an increasing share of the population on cleanliness, prudence, and moderation.
The main point of the passage is made primarily by
A. analyzing existing data on medical practices and health outcomes.
B. presenting a set of related cause-and-effect assertions.
C. applying several general principles to a specific case.
D. presenting a general observation and supporting it with several specific examples.
E. (E) refuting in detail a commonly accepted argument.

[填空题]The two factors contributing to the appealing of GM crops to farmer. are ______ and______.

[简答题]load factors

[单项选择]
At some point in their lives virtually everyone will experience stressful events or situations that overwhelm their natural coping mechanisms. In one poll, 89% of respondents indicated that they had experienced serious stress in their lives. Some people are simply biologically prone to stress. Factors leading to stress and anxiety mainly are as follows:
Risk Factors
Conditions that are most likely to be associated with stress and negative physical effects include the following:
* An accumulation of persistent stressful situations, particularly those that a person cannot easily control (for example, high-pressured work plus an unhappy relationship).
* Persistent stress following a severe acute response to a stabbing event (such as an automobile accident).
* Acute stress accompanying serious illness, such as heart disease.
People respond to stress differently, dep
A. two persons with different characteristics work together
B. a person always recalls past painful experience
C. a person has just gotten over a serious physical disease
D. parents abuse their children too much in early nurturing

[填空题]Contributing to the attention on adolescent literacy is the Bush legislation and the funding being provided from private sources.

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Greenspace facilities are contributing to an important extent to the quality of the urban environment. Fortunately, it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. At present it is generally accepted, although more as a self-evident statement than on the base of a closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition of the importance of greenspaces in the urban environment is a first step on the right way; this does not mean, however, that sufficient details are known about the functions of greenspace in towns and about the way in which the inhabitants are using these spaces. As to this rather complex subject I shall, within the scope of this lecture, enter into one aspect only, namely the recreative function of greenspace facilities.
The theoretical separation of living working, traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town-and-country planning, has in my opinion resulted in disprop
A. is still unknown
B. is being closely studied
C. is usually neglected
D. has been fully recognized

[简答题]

Green space facilities are contributing to an important extent to the quality of the urban environment. Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. (46)At present it is generally accepted , although more as a self-evident statement than on the basis of a closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition of the importance of green space in the urban environment is a first step on tile right way. (47)This does not mean, however, that sufficient details are known about the functions of green space in towns and about the way in which the inhabitants are using these spaces. As to this rather Complex subject I shall, within the scope of this lecture, enter into one aspect only, namely the recreative function of green space facilities.
(48) The theoretical separation of living, working, traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town-and-country planning, h