科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
“In only six days I lost seven pounds of weight.”
“Two full inches in the first three days!”
These are the kinds of statements used in magazine, newspaper, radio and television ads, promising new shapes and new looks to those who buy the medicine or the device. The promoters of products say they can shape the legs, slim the face, smooth wrinkles, or in some other way to beauty or desirability.
Often such products are nothing more than money-making things for their promoter. The re they produce are questionable, and some are dangerous to health.
To understand how these products can be legally promoted to the public, it is necessary? Understand something of the laws covering their regulation. If the product is a drug, FDA(Food Drug Administration)can require proof (證明)under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that safe and effective before it is put on the market . But if the product is a device, FDA. has no author to require premarketing proof of safety or effectiveness. If a product already on the marker danger to health, FDA. can request the producer or distributor to remove it from the a voluntarily, or it can take legal action ,including seizure (查封) of the product.
One notable case a few years ago involved an electrical device called the Relaxacisor, had been sold for reducing the waistline. The Relaxacisor produced electrical shocks to the ## through contact pads. FDA. took legal action against the distributor to stop the sale of the ## the grounds that it was dangerous to health and life.
Olwionsly, most of the devices on the maker never been the subject of court proceedings (法律訴訟),and new devices appear continually, Before buying, it is up to the consumer to the safety or effectiveness of such items.
61.It can be inferred that ads mentioned in the text are ______.
A. objective B. costly C. unreliable D. illegal
62.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The court is in charge of removing dangerous product.
B. New products are more likely to be questionable.
C. The production of a device must be approved by FDA.
D. The promoters usually just care about profits.
63. FDA. can ask for the proof of safety and effectiveness of a product ________.
A. if it is a drug
B. if it is a device
C. if its consumers make complaints
D. if its distributors challenge FDA’s authority
64. The Relaxacisor is mentioned as_______.
A. a product which was designed to produce electricity
B. a product whose distributor was involved in a legal case
C. a successful advertisement of a beauty product
D. an example of a quality beauty product
65. The author intends to __________
A. make consumers aware of the promoters’ false promises
B. show the weakness of the law on product safety
C. give advice on how to keep young and beautiful
D. introduce the organization of FDA.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Chinese netizens who like to create and use cyber words such as “geilivable” might find a new regulation very “ungeilivable”. The new regulation by the General Administration of Press and Publication last week banned the use of Chinglish words created by netizens for publishing in the Chinese language.
“Geilivable”, combining the pinyin geili (giving strength) with the English suffix (后綴) for adjectives, literally means “giving power” or “cool”. Different suffixes and prefixes were then added to the word. “Hengeilivable” means “very cool”, and “ungeilivable” means “dull, not cool at all”.
Cyber language is popular among Chinese netizens, who create Chinglish words to reflect phenomenon in society. One example is “antizen”, which refers to college graduates who earn a meager salary and live in small rented apartments, like tiny and laborious ants.
David Tool, a professor with the Beijing International Studies University, said it’s very interesting to combine Chinese with English to create new words. “English is no longer mysterious to the Chinese people. They can use the language in a flexible way according to their own experiences,” Tool said.
At the announcement of the regulation by the General Administration of Press and Publication, netizens expressed their concern.
“The administration is totally ‘ungeilivable’,” said a netizen named laoda1713. “I know other netizens will shed tears with me... it is a good chance to enrich our language”.
“Language is always developing,” said a columnist, Wang Pei. “It needs to be updated to absorb foreign culture and folk wisdom.”
But an unnamed official with the administration said that, in fact, many senior staff from news media who supported the regulation were worried that years later, the younger generation would forget how to use formal Chinese expressions. The official also pointed out that the regulation was only for formal publications in Chinese language, and it only banned Chinglish words in the publication.
The new regulation by the General Administration of Press and Publication may be aimed at .
A. simplifying the Chinese language B. limiting the development of language
C. banning the use of Chinglish D. making the netizens more serious
The underlined word meager in the third paragraph probably means .
A. poor B. flexible C. high D. plentiful
From this passage we can infer that .
A. the Chinese people like their own language only
B. the English words are considered informal in China
C. nobody in China will support the new regulation
D. “geilivable” will be popular among Chinese netizens
On which column of China Daily can you find this passage?
A. Entertainment B. Business C. Travel D. Opinion
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Xinhua) —U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Saturday at the White House that China can have confidence in the American economy.
“Not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States,” Obama said.
“There is a reason why even in the midst of this economic downfall you have seen actual increases in investment flows here in the U. S.,”he said.
Obama also noted the U. S. will push for stricter regulation of the financial industry “front and center” at the upcoming Group of 20 Summit (峰會) in London ,ending an argument between the Europe and the United States over whether more focus should be placed on financial regulatory reform.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said earlier Friady he is “a little bit worried ”about the safety of Chinese assets (財產(chǎn)) in the United States ,urging the U. S. government to ensure the security of those assets.
China has invested its huge foreign exchange reserves (外匯儲備) in low-risk but low-yield assets ,such as U. S.government bonds (政府債券) ,to play it safe . According to the U.S. Treasury, China held 681.9 billion U.S. dollars worth of U.S. government bonds as of November.
“China is indeed the largest creditor of the United States, which is the world’ s biggest economy .We are extremely interested in developments in the U. S. economy.”said Wen, adding that he is expecting the effect of the measures taken by the U.S.government to counter the global financial crisis.
Asked to react to Wen’ s concern, Lawrence Summers, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, noted on Friday that the U.S. will be sound steward (管家)of the money it invests.
“This is a commitment that the president has made very clear—we need to be sound stewards of the money we invest.”said Summers in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in the united states.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his worry about the huge fund to the United States.
Obama claimed that China can have confidence in the American economy.
Obama said that the U. S. would be “sound stewards of the money we invest.”
The U. S. will push for stricter regulation of the financial industry.
It can most likely be inferred from the passage that .
A. the U. S. is now having great difficulty improving the economy.
B. China will have confidence in Obama forever according to Wen’s speech
C. China held 681.9 billion U.S. dollars worth of U.S.government bonds as of November
D. China will do its best to help the U.S. overcome the global financial crisis.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said earlier Friday he is “a little bit worried”, because .
A. he doesn’t have confidence in America’ s economy at all
B. China lent a huge fund to the United States
C. he is concerned about the security of China’s assets in the U. S.
D. the U.S. refused to ensure the security of China’s assets
The underlined word “soundness” in the second paragraph can be replaced by “ ”
A. loudness B. safety C. richness D. friendship
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科目:高中英語 來源:2011-2012學(xué)年江西省修水縣第一中學(xué)高二第一次段考英語試卷 題型:閱讀理解
閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項中(A、B、C和 D)中,選出最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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Most of us feel upset if we miss just one meal, and if we try to go without food for 12 hours we would really be uncomfortable. But there are some people who seem able to “fast” for very long periods.
Various records are claimed for long fast, but in most cases there is no medical proof and so the records are doubtful. One South African woman claimed that she lived for 102 days on nothinig but water and soda water.
There are great differences among living things in the ability to survive without food. For example , a tick(扁虱), which lives on animals, may survive a whole year. Warm-blooded animals use up their stores of food in the body more quickly.
In fact, the smaller and more active the animal, the more quickly it uses up its reserves. A small bird starves to death in about five days, a dog in about twenty. In general, we can say that a warm-blooded creature will die when it has lost about half its normal weight.
This matter of weight is important. Man and other creatures live in a state of metabolic equiplibrium(新陳代謝的平衡)which means maintaining the body weight once a certain point has been reached. This regulation of body weight is done by thirst, hunger, and appetite.
When your blood lacks nutritional materials, this registers(記錄)in the hunger center of the brain and you feel “hungry”. The body is crying out for any kind of fuel(food). And it is our appetite that sees to it hat we chooose a mixed diet, which is the kind the body needs.
【小題1】According to this passage, a man will die _________.
A.when a certain point in losing weight has been reached. |
B.when his blood lacks nutritional material |
C.when his normal weight is lost |
D.when he goes without food for more than 12 hours |
A.eat no food | B.live merely on water and soda water |
C.live on nothing | D.remains alive for a long time without food |
A.a(chǎn) tick lives on animals | B.a(chǎn) tick is much smaller |
C.a(chǎn) bird is more active | D.both B and C |
A.if he doesn’t choose a mixed diet |
B.because his body cries out for food |
C.when soemthing is wrong with regulation of body weight |
D.if there are not enough nutritional in his blood |
A.believes the South African woman very firmly |
B.does not believe the South African woman at all |
C.is not certain whether the South African woman’s claim was true. |
D.is doubtful whether there was such a South African woman |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2012-2013學(xué)年廣東省執(zhí)信中學(xué)高二下學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
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One of the main challenges facing many countries is how to maintain their identity in the face of globalization and the growing multi-language trend. “One of the main reasons for economic failure in many African countries is the fact that, with a few important exceptions, mother-tongue education is not practiced in any of the independent African states.” said Neville Alexander, Director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa at the University of Cape Town.
In response to the spread of English and the increased multi-language trends arising from immigration, many countries have introduced language laws in the laws in the last decade. In some, the use of languages other than the national language is banned in public spaces such as advertising posters. One of the first such legal provisions was the 1994 “Toubon law” in France, but the idea has been copied in many countries since then. Such efforts to govern language use are often dismissed as futile by language experts, who are well aware of the difficulty in controlling fashions in speech and know from research that language switching among bilinguals is a natural process.
It is especially difficult for native speakers of English to understand the desire to maintain the “purity” of a language by law. Since the time of Shakespeare, English has continually absorbed foreign words into its own language. English is one of the most mixed and rapidly changing languages in the world, but there has not been a barrier to acquiring prestige and power. Another reason for the failure of many native English speakers to understand the role of state regulation is that it has never been the Anglo-Saxon way of doing things. English has never had a state-controlled authority for the language, similar, for example, to the Academic Francaise in France.
The need to protect national languages is, for most western Europeans, a recent phenomenon—especially the need to ensure that English does not unnecessarily take over too many fields. Public communication, education and new modes of communication promoted by technology, may be key fields to defend.
【小題1】Neville Alexander believes that .
A.mother-tongue education is not practiced in all African countries |
B.lack of mother-tongue education can lead to economic failure |
C.globalization has led to the rise of multi-language trends |
D.globalization has resulted in the economic failure of Africa |
A.useless | B.practical | C.workable | D.unnecessary |
A.They think language protection laws are ineffective. |
B.They want their language to spread to other countries. |
C.They have a long history of taking words from other languages. |
D.It reduces a language’s ability to acquire international importance. |
A.English has taken over fields like public communication and education. |
B.Europeans have long realized the need to protect their national languages. |
C.Most language experts believe it is important to promote a national language. |
D.Many aspects of national culture are threatened by the spread of English. |
A.Fighting against the rule of English |
B.Globalization and multi-language trends |
C.Protecting local languages and identities |
D.To maintain the purity of language by law |
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