Children today spend more time stare at computer and (1)______ TV screens both at school and at home. Scientific (2)______ studies show an epidemic of myopia (also known as nearsightedness) has struck children—and it is spreading faster in many countries. Doctors warn that sitting too close to a computer, especially fixes your eyes at a computer or (3)______ TV screen from close range, increases the risk of myopia. The cause of myopia is difficult to explain in simple terms. While some say sitting near computers and TV screens is one of the reasons, others say children born to nearsighted parent/parents are vulnerable. (4)______ Can genes or the environment, or a combination of two (5)______ explain the growing prevalence of myopia across many countries How can parents understand what causes myopia and the risks it poses to their children’s eyesight Children suffering from myopia have trouble seeing close objects clearly. The eyeball is thought to become (6)______ longer, because of which less effort is needed to see up close. Moreover, the elongated eye can no longer focus on (7)______ distant objects. Symptoms of myopia are rarely noticed in early (8)______ childhood. Myopic children must hold books very close to (9)______ their face or may not be able to read the writing on the blackboard in school. They may squint and complain of (10)______ head and eyestrain.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard your Scenic Cruiser Bus to Saint Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans with changes in Saint Louis for Kansas City and points west.This coach is scheduled to arrive in Saint Louis at eight o’clock. You will have a fifteen-minute rest stop at Bloomington at three o’clock and a half-hour dinner stop at Springfield at five-thirty.Passengers on this coach are scheduled to arrive in Memphis at seven o’clock tomorrow morning and in New Orleans at five o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Please don’t forget the number of your coach when re- boarding. That number is 4118.Let me remind you that federal regulations prohibit smoking cigarettes except in the last three rows to the rear of the coach. No pipe or cigar smoking is permitted anywhere in the coach. If you wish to smoke. kindly move to the last three rows.This coach is rest-room equipped for your comfort and convenience. Please watch your step when moving about in the coach. Relax and enjoy your trip, and thank you for traveling Scenic Cruiser Bus Lines. In tile coach pipe or cigar smoking is not().
W: I’ve been reading about a new snack food. It’s made from fish. Have you heard anything about itM: No. I haven’t, but 1 don’t like fish very much anyway.W: Not to worry. Although it’s made primarily from fish, it actually doesn’t have a fishy taste. In fact, it can be flavored with tomato, cheese, or chocolate for instanceM: How can it not taste fishy Do you know how this snack food is madeW: First the fish is minced and cooked and fermented. Then water and starch are added to make a dough.M: It sounds awful.W: Actually the dough is very bland al that point, so the flavorings are added to give it some taste.M: Well, it still sounds a little strange. But I suppose this product will at least be low calorie and high protein. like a health food.W: Yes, you could call it that. And it has a long shelf life, so it won’t spoil quickly. It is also easy to digest and can ha made from types of fish that usually aren’t eaten, or from high grade fish by-products,M: Mm, have you got any samples I might be willing to try the cheese-flavored variety.W: No, none of it seems to be available yet. As I understand it, this fish snack food probably won’t be in the stores for another couple of years. So you’ll have a while to get used to the whole idea.M: A couple of years, ah It may just take me that long. but thanks for telling me about it. According to the woman, what is an advantage of the new product()
A. Its bland flavoring is healthful.
B. It can be stored a long time.
C. It goes well with fish dishes.
D. A high grade of fish is used in its preparation.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard your Scenic Cruiser Bus to Saint Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans with changes in Saint Louis for Kansas City and points west.This coach is scheduled to arrive in Saint Louis at eight o’clock. You will have a fifteen-minute rest stop at Bloomington at three o’clock and a half-hour dinner stop at Springfield at five-thirty.Passengers on this coach are scheduled to arrive in Memphis at seven o’clock tomorrow morning and in New Orleans at five o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Please don’t forget the number of your coach when re- boarding. That number is 4118.Let me remind you that federal regulations prohibit smoking cigarettes except in the last three rows to the rear of the coach. No pipe or cigar smoking is permitted anywhere in the coach. If you wish to smoke. kindly move to the last three rows.This coach is rest-room equipped for your comfort and convenience. Please watch your step when moving about in the coach. Relax and enjoy your trip, and thank you for traveling Scenic Cruiser Bus Lines. Passengers moving about in the coach should () their step.
Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or those at high risk of AIDS suffer prejudice; they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a "bravado" that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism. Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted by pre-existing social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims.To address the fact the AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure of societal collapse. The proper response to AIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.To describe how AIDS tests institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political sys- tem, science, the legal establishment, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS describes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civilized. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry of modem society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten the individual and the societal, or public responses to AIDS. The word "afflict" in the third sentence of the first paragraph most probably means "()".
A. benefit
B. cause suffering to
C. teach
D. draw attention from