Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning Yes Then Hiroyuki of Japan has a special bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will get you up in the morning! The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music or other pleasant sounds. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki’s then says in a sweet voice, "Wake up, darling, please. " A few minutes later, a second recording plays. The second recording can be loud music or unpleasant sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss. His boss shouts, "Wake up immediately, or you’ll be late!" If you don’t get up after the second recording, you’ll be sorry. A mechanical "foot" is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly, the tip of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally, the bed is vertical (垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are awake and out of bed. According to the third paragraph, the mechanical "foot" is set ______.
A. on the top of the bed
B. at the foot of the bed
C. in the middle of the bed
D. under the bed
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It is estimated that some seven hundred million people--about half of the world’s population are unable to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more people whose level of attainment is so slight that it barely outlives a literacy.Recently the attack on illiteracy (文盲) has been stepped up . A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, pricelists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill informs.The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africathere are at least one hundred million illiterates, compromising(牵连) eighty to eighty-five per cent of the total population. In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million, most of them in Southern Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Yugoslavia heading tl ,c list (the United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand). Studying carefully the clues in the passage, we learn that the total population of Africa is ().
A. approximately seven hundred million
B. approximately one hundred and twenty-five million
C. approximately eight or eight point five thousand million
D. exactly twenty-four million
海洋性贫血()
A. 酸溶血试验阳性
B. 抗入球蛋白试验阳性
C. 红细胞渗透脆性试验阳性
D. 血红蛋白电泳试验异常
E. 高铁血红蛋白还原试验异常
Mr. Fern was born in a big city. His father owned several companies and earned a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was not good at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble(赌博). Of course he lost much money.Now Mr. Fern was twenty and finished middle school. He could do nothing. But his father didn’ t mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn’ t gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his wife from doing so. They began to fight in the room. The young man brought out a knife and killed Iris father. His mother helped him run away, but soon after that he was caught and sentenced(判刑)to death.It was a cold and wet day. Suddenly it began to rain heavily when Mr. Fern was being sent to the execution ground(刑场). Soon he and the soldiers were wet through. He said angrily, "Bad luck! I shall be shot in such bad weather !""Don’t complain(抱怨), brother," said one of the soldiers. "You’ re luckier than us all. We’ll have to go back to the city after that!\ Old Fern never wanted to know about his son’s studies because ().
A. he was sure his son was good at his lessons
B. he spent all his energies on his business
C. he knew nothing about the education
D. his wife looked after their son
Sports and SexesIn sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That (37) is (38) people say. Women are (39) "the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught (40) schools and universities. There are women (41) are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. (42) European woman can expect (43) until the age of 74; a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker The fastest men can run a mile in (44) 4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women’s times are always slower than (45) , but some facts are a surprise. Some of the (46) women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres (47) 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was (48) Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, (49) is 37.9 seconds (50) than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are (51) men (52) . Conditions are very different now, and sport is much (53) serious. It is (54) serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check (55) the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes. 48().
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B. the
C. an
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