A person with little sleep the night before his speech may show that ______.
A. he has no speaking experience
B. he didn't prepare the speech carefully
C. he was quite nervous about the speech
D. he got no suggestions from other speakers
听力原文:M: It's nice and quiet here, away from the dust and noise of the city. And our apartments are new and well-furnished.
W: It's a good place except it's a bit far from the place where we work. Anyway, I'll talk with my husband to night and give you a call tomorrow.
Q: What is the woman doing?
(15)
A. Looking for an apartment.
B. Taking a suburban excursion.
C. Looking for a job.
D. Asking the man for his opinions.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:M: NOW. Miss, do you feel all right now? What happened?
W: Yes. I'm fine now. I was just at the motorway. I was driving along the main road and when suddenly right he fore the crossroads I met the car came out at the side street. I didn't see it until it hit me.
Q: Where was the other car?
(12)
A. In the side street.
B. At the crossroads.
C. On the main road.
D. On the motorway.
Drug Reactions--a Major Cause of Death
Adverse drug reactions may cause the deaths of over 100,000 US hospital patients each year, making them a leading cause of death nationwide, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The incidence of serious and fatal adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in US hospitals was found to be extremely high. " say researchers at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
They carried on an analysis of 39 ADR-related studies at US hospitals over the past 30 years and defined an ADR as "any harmful, unintended, and undesired effect of a drug which occurs at doses used in humans for prevention, diagnosis, or therapy. "
An average 6.7% of all hospitalized patients experience an ADR every year, according to the researchers. They estimate that " In 1994, overall 2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious ADRs, and 106,000 had fatal ADRs. " This means that ADRs may rank as the fourth single largest cause of death in America.
And these incidence figures are probably conservative, the researchers add, since their ADR, definition did not include outcomes linked to problems in drug administration, overdoses, drug abuse, and therapeutic failures.
The control of ADRs also means spending more money. One US study estimated the overall cost of treating ADRs at up to $ 4 billion per year.
Dr. David Bates of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, believes that healthcare workers need to pay more attention to the problem, especially since many ADRs are easily preventable. "When a patient develops an allergy or sensitivity, it is often not recorded, " Bates notes, "and patients receive drugs to which they have known allergies or sensitivities with disturbing frequency. " He believes computerized surveillance systems--still works-in-progress at many of the nation's hospitals--should help cut down the frequency of these types of errors.
Researchers at the University of Toronto believe that ______.
ADRs have caused medical problems, though they seldom lead to death
B. ADRs have very often caused patients to die in Canada
C. ADRs have caused many deaths in America over the past 30 years
D. it is easy to prevent ADRs from happening