The virus is known to be transmitted____physical contact.
A.to
B.in
C.via
D.around
A.to
B.in
C.via
D.around
Although the fact that today viruses are known to 【S1】______
cause cancer in animals and in certain plants, that exists 【S2】______
a great reluctance to accept viruses as being of importance
in human cancer.
Basic biological phenomena generally do not
differ strikingly as one goes from one species through 【S3】______
another. It should be recognize that caner is a biological 【S4】______
problem and not a problem that is unique for man.
Cancer originates when a normal cell suddenly becomes
a cancer cell which multiplys widely and without 【S5】______
apparent restraint. Cancer may originate in many different
kind of cell, but the cancer cell usually continues 【S6】______
to carry certain traits of the cell of origin. The
transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell may have
less than one kind of cause, but there is good reason to 【S7】______
consider the relationships that exist between viruses
and cancer.
Since there is no evidence which human cancer, as 【S8】______
generally experience, is infectious, many persons
believe that because viruses are infectious agents they
cannot possibly be of importance in human cancer.
However, viruses can mutate and examples are known
in which a virus that never kills its host can mutate to
form. a new strain of virus that always kills its host. It
does not seem unreasonable assume that an innocuous 【S9】______
latent virus might mutate to form. a strain that causes
cancer. Certainly the experiment evidence now available 【S10】______
is consistent with the idea that viruses as we know
them today, could be the causative agents of most, if not
all cancer, including cancer in man.
【S1】
A.scan
B.discern
C.testify
D.disclose
According to the passage,______.
A.more and more women are infected by HIV virus
B.women have more chances of being infected by HIV virus
C.the aim of the study in this passage is to understand how the virus works
D.many medical studies didn't answer any questions
听力原文: The death rate from influenza rose markedly in the 1990's, federal scientists reported. The explanation, they said, is that a greater proportion of the population is elderly and thus particularly susceptible to flu. There was an average of 36,000 flu deaths a year in the 1990's as compared to 20,000 a year in previous decades, the investigators, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ninety percent of influenza deaths were in people 65 and older, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the principal researcher for the study. But Dr. Fukuda and his colleagues reported that the virus was especially deadly in people over 85, who might be up to 32 times more likely than those 65 to 69 to die from a flu infection.
The researchers also concluded that there were large numbers of deaths among the elderly from another virus, respiratory syncytial virus, known as R. S. V. As many as 78 percent of the 11,000 people who died from R. S. V. each year were 65 and older, the researchers concluded.
In an editorial accompanying the paper, Dr. David M. Morens of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that many people who were particularly vulnerable to influenza did not get flu vaccines, the only method of preventing the disease. Many mistakenly believe that the vaccine, which is made from a killed virus, can give them the flu. Over the last few years, Dr. Fukuda said, just 65 percent to 67 percent of people 65 and older were immunized. Even when they do get the vaccine, he added, it is less effective in the elderly than it is in younger people. And there is no vaccine to protect against R. S. V. Dr. Morens was not optimistic about the immediate future. The best hope, he said, is for improved flu vaccines and a vaccine for R. S.V. But for now, he said, doctors must do a better job of persuading older people to be vaccinated.
(30)
A.20,000
B.26,000
C.30,000
D.36,000
A.She disagrees with the man.
B.She doesn't enjoy long speeches.
C.She hadn't known how long the speech would be.
D.She doesn't have a special opinion about the speaker.
听力原文: Many people catch a cold in the spring time or fall. It makes us wonder: if scientists can send a man to the moon, [33] why can't they find a cure for the common cold? The answer is easy. There're actually hundreds of kinds of cold viruses out there. You never know which one you will get, so there isn't a cure for each one. When a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of it. Blood rushes to your nose and causes a blockage in it. You feel terrible because you can't breathe well, but your body is actually eating the virus. Your temperature rises and you get a fever, but the heat of your body is killing the virus. You also have a running nose to stop the virus from getting into your cells. [34] You may feel miserable, but actually y9ur wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold. Different people have different remedies for colds. In the United States and some other countries, for example, people might eat chicken soup to feel better. Some people take hot bath and drink warm liquids. Other people take medicines to relieve various symptoms of colds. There is one interesting thing to note. [35] Some scientists say taking medicines when you have a cold is actually bad for you. The virus stays in you longer, because your body doesn't develop a way to fight it and kill it.
(30)
A.They haven't devoted as much energy to medicine as to space travel.
B.There are too many kinds of cold viruses for them to identify.
C.It is not economical to find a cure for each type of cold.
D.They believe people can recover without treatment.
A.The gene number that is known is not enough.
B.Mussels are much smarter than we think.
C.They can't copy the blend of proteins of mussel.
D.Mussels have an amazing power harmful to man.
Tom ________ better than to ask Dick for help.
A) shall know
B) shouldn’t know
C) has known
D) should have known
In areas where avalanches are known to happen ______.
A.local residents stay indoors when the weather is bad
B.measures are taken to prevent serious avalanches
C.small avalanches can easily be prevented
D.skiers form. themselves into a wall to keep the snow in position
The computer virus is an outcome of the computer overgrowth in
the 1980s. The cause of this term is the likeness between the biological
virus and the evil program infected with computers. The origin of this
term came an American science fiction "The Adolescence of P-1" written 【S1】______
by Thomas J. Ryan published in 1977. Human viruses invade a living
cell and turn them into a factory for manufacturing viruses. 【S2】______
Therefore, computer viruses are small programs. They replicate by attaching 【S3】______
a copy of themselves to another program.
Once attached by host program, the viruses then look for other programs 【S4】______
to" infect". In this way, the virus can spread quickly throughout a
hard disk or an entire organization. At some points, the situation will be 【S5】______
totally determined by how the virus was programmed. The timing of the
attack can be linked to a number of situations, included a certain time 【S6】______
or date, the presence of a particular file, the security privilege level of
the user and the number of times a file is used. So-called" benign" viruses
might simply display a message, like the one that infected IBM's
main computer system last Christmas with a season's greeting. Malignant
viruses are designed to damage the system. The attack is to wiping 【S7】______
out data, to delete files or to format the hard disk.
There are two main types of viruses: shell and intrusive system.
Shell viruses wrap themselves around a host program and don't modify
the original program. Shell programs are easy to write, that is why about 【S8】______
half of viruses are of this type. Intrusive viruses invade an existing program
and actual insert a portion of themselves into the host program. 【S9】______
Intrusive viruses are hard to write and very difficult to remove with 【S10】______
damaging the host file.
【S1】
What can be known from the fourth and fifth paragraphs?
A.Congress believed Arctic"s thermostat is upset by the global warming.
B.The aim of releasing a poll is to stress the bad influence of global warming.
C.Scientific organisations are responsible for studying global warming.
D.Fewer people think temperature rise is caused by human activities now.