About twenty percent of the population of our country live ____ wages.
A.by
B.on
C.with
D.in
A.by
B.on
C.with
D.in
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A.almost
B.nearly
C.or so
D.about
How hard is it to get into one of the top medical schools, like for example the one at Yale University in Connecticut? Last year almost three thousand seven hundred students hoped to get accepted there. Only one hundred seventy-six -- or less than five percent -- were admitted.
People who want to become medical doctors often study large amounts of biology, chemistry and other science. Some students work for a year or two in a medical or research job before they try to get accepted to medical school.
Medical students spend their first two years in classroom study. They learn about the body and all of its systems. And they begin studying diseases -- how to recognize and treat them. By the third year, students guided by experienced doctors begin working with patients in hospitals. As the students watch and learn, they think about the kind of medicine they would like to practice as doctors. During the fourth year, students begin applying to hospital programs for the additional training they will need after medical school. Competition for a residency at a top hospital can be fierce.
A medical education can be very costly, especially at a private school. One year at a private medical college can cost forty thousand dollars or more. The average at a public medical school is more than fifteen thousand dollars. Most students have to take out loans to pay for medical school. Many finish their education heavily in debt.
Doctors are among the highest paid professionals in the United States. Specialists in big cities are generally the highest paid. But there are also doctors who earn considerably less, including those in poor communities.
(1)Which of the following ideas is NOT suggested in the passage?
A、It is hard to get into one of the top medical schools.
B、The United States has more than one hundred twenty medical colleges.
C、Medical students need two years' classroom study.
D、After graduating from medical schools, the students become doctors.
(2)How many years the medical students take to graduate from medical school?
A、2
B、3
C、4
D、1
(3)In what way many medical students pay for their medical education?
A、Have part-time jobs in hospitals.
B、Take out loans.
C、Their parents pay for it.
D、Work hard for the scholarship.
(4)What the medical students begin to do in their fourth year of study?
A、Looking for a job.
B、Working with patients in hospitals
C、Applying to hospital programs for the additional training.
D、Learning about the body and all of its systems
(5)_______ are generally the highest paid.
A、Specialists in big cities.
B、Experienced doctors.
C、Doctors in poor communities
D、Doctors who graduated from private medical schools.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK.
B. The whole society should pay attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.
C. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.
D. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance.
The human body may look solid, but most of it is water. New-born babies are as much as eighty-five percent water. Women are about sixty five percent water, and men about seventy-five percent. Women usually have less water than men because women, in general, have more fat cells. Fat cells hold less water than other kinds of cells.
Water is necessary for cooling the body on hot days, and when we are working hard or exercising. Water carries body heat to the surface of the skin when the heat is lost through perspiration.
Researchers note that fat cells block body heat from escaping quickly. Fat cells under the skin act like warm clothing to keep body heat inside. This is why over-weight people have a more difficult time staying cool than thin people.
Researchers also note that cold liquids cool us faster than warm liquids. This is because cold liquids take up more heat inside the body and carry it away faster. They say, however, that cold sweet drinks do not work well. The sugar slows the liquid from getting into the bloodstream.
The body loses water every day through perspiration and urine. If we lose too much, we will become sick. To replace what is lost, health experts say grown persons should drink about two liters of liquids each day, and more in hot weather. They say we also can get some of the water we need in the foods we eat. Most fruits and vegetables have more than eighty percent water. Even bread has about thirty-three percent water.
From the passage we learn that among the following four groups of people _______.
A.fat women are over eighty percent water
B.thin men are never eighty percent water
C.new-born infants are over eighty percent water
D.elderly adults are over eighty percent water
How many people of US population suffered compulsive buying disorder?
A.2 to 60 percent.
B.2 to 16 percent.
C.20 to 60 percent.
D.16 to 20 percent.
The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily subsidized by rax funds, will also【24】their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points【25】than their privately sponsored neighbors.
As a follow-up, the United Press international did their own study【26】Massachussetts Institute of Technology. At M. I. T. advisors recommended that students have $ 8,900【27】for one year's expenses, including $ 5,300 for tuition, $ 2,685 for room and【28】, $ 630 for personal expenses, and $ 285 for books and supplies. Ten years ago the tuition was only $ 2,150. To【29】that another way, the cost has climbed 150 percent in the last【30】.
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A.published
B.declared
C.written
D.quoted
Today, cigarette smoking is a common habit. About forty-three percent of the adult men and thirty-one percent of the adult women in the United States smoke cigarettes regularly. It is encouraging to see that millions of people have given up smoking.
It is a fact that men as a group smoke more than women. Among both men and women the age group with the highest proportion of smokers is 24-44.
Income, education, and occupation all play a part in determining a person's smoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer years of schooling and lower incomes. On the other hand, if a well-educated man with a higher income smoked at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.
The situation is somewhat different for women. (80) There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family income and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups. These more highly .educated women tend to smoke more heavily.
Among teenagers the picture is similar. There are fewer teenaged smokers from upperincome, well-educated families, and fewer from families living in farm areas. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke.
What do we know from the first paragraph?
A.More and more people take up the habit of smoking.
B.There are more smoking women than smoking men in the U. S. A.
C.It is good news that more people have given up smoking.
D.The U. S, has more smoking people than any other country.
The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, () in the last twenty years. The main change has been () giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had () rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. () , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situ ation. Today, women in Britain certainly () more rights than they used to. They were () the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal () of wealth in the case of divorce, () the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet () these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to () the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is () to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. () a survey, at present, only one-third of the country’s workers are () women. This small percentage is partly () a shortage of nurseries. If there were () nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work
A.but
B.and
C.because
D.although