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Our__________ sensitivity decreases with age． By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of their ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds．
A.sensible
B.senseless
C.sensitive
D.sensory
B.senseless
C.sensitive
D.sensory
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解析：考查形容词辨析。句意为“我们的__________随着年龄的增长而下降。比如说，到60岁的时候，多数人失去了他们40％的嗅觉能力和50％的味觉能力”。sensible意为“明智的，合情理的”，senseless意为“失去知觉的，不省人事的”，sensitive意为“敏感的”，sensory意为“感觉的，传递感觉的”。根据语境，应为感官能力随着年龄的增长而下降。故选D。
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Exercise Can Replace Insulin for Elderly DiabeticsMost old people with so-called type Ⅱ diabetes could stop taking insulin if they would do brisk exercise for 30 minutes just three times a week,according to new medical research results reported in the Copenhagen newspaper Berlingske Tidende on Monday.Results from tests conducted on diabetics at the Copenhagen Central Hospital Rigshospitalet's Centerfor Muscle Research showed that physical exercise can boost the body's ability to utilise insulin by 30 percent,the newspaper reported.This is equal to the effect most elderly diabetics get from their insulin medication today,it said.Researchers had a group of non-diabetic men and a group of men with type II,all more than 60 years of age,exercise on bicycles six times a week for three months.After the three months the doctors measured how much sugar the test subjects'muscles could utilise as a measure for how well their insulin worked.Associate Professor Dr.Flemming Dela of the Muscle Research Center said the tests demonstrated that the exercising diabetics had just as high insulin utilisation as the healthy non-exercising persons."This means that the insulin works just as well for both groups.Physical exercise cannot cure people of diabetes,but it can eliminate almost all their symptoms.At the same time it can put off the point at which they have to begin taking insulin or perhaps completely avoid insulin treatment,"Dela was quoted as saying.Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas,controlling sugar in the body and used against diabetes.Dela said that to achieve the desired effect diabetics need only exercise to the point where they begin to work up a sweat,but that the activity has to be maintained since it wears off after five days without sufficient exercise。Most diabetics realise that they have to watch their diet while remaining unaware of the importance of exercise,Dela added.Physical exercise may increase the body ability to utilise insulin by______.A:70 percent B:30 percent C:60 percent D:only a few percent
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问答题Practice 9 Youth unemployment across the world has climbed to a new high and is likely to climb further this year, a United Nations agency said Thursday, while warning of a “lost generation” as more young people give up the search for work. The agency, the International Labor Organization, said in a report that of some 620 million young people ages 15 to 24 in the work force, about 81 million were unemployed at the end of 2009—the highest level in two decades of record-keeping by the organization, which is based in Geneva. “There’s never been an increase of this magnitude — both in terms of the rate and the level — since we’ve been tracking the data,” said Steven Kapsos, an economist with the organization. The agency forecast that the global youth unemployment rate would continue to increase through 2010, to 13.1 percent, as the effects of the economic downturn continue. It should then decline to 12.7 percent in 2011. In some especially strained European countries, including Spain and Britain, many young people have become discouraged and given up the job hunt, it said. The trend will have “significant consequences for young people,” as more and more join the ranks of the already unemployed, it said. That has the potential to create a “‘lost generation’ comprised of young people who have dropped out of the labor market, having lost all hope of being able to work for a decent living.” The report studied the German, British, Spanish and Estonian labor markets and found that Germany had been most successful in bringing down long-term youth unemployment. In Spain and Britain, increases in unemployment were particularly pronounced for those with lower education levels. Data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency, show Spain had a jobless rate of 40.5 percent in May for people under 25. That was the highest level among the 27 members of the European Union, far greater than the 9.4 percent in Germany in May and 19.7 percent in Britain in March.
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单选题What is worth nothing from the example of Athens County is that _____.A
greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standardsB
70 percent of the people there have been, employed for two yearsC
50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfareD
the living standards of most people are going down
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单选题The percent change in the weight from age 2 months to age 10 months is approximately ______ the percent change in the weight from age 10 months to age 19 months.A
equal toB
2 timesC
3 times
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问答题One hundred boys went on a school outing. Eighty-one percent of the boys lost a shoe, 82 percent of the boys lost a sock, 77 percent of the boys lost a handkerchief and 68 percent of the boys lost a hat. What is the minimum percentage who lost all 4 items?
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单选题How many U.S. households have linked to Internet today?A
More than 25 percent.B
By 29 percent.C
More than 42 percent.D
More than 50 percent.
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问答题Scientists have long assumed that most of the ice that melted was in the Northern hemisphere（半球） during the 30,000-year long ice age.
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问答题Do at least 20 percent of the people in country X who are over the age of 25 possess a college diploma? (1) In country X, among the population over the age of 25, 26 percent of the male population and 16 percent of the female population possess college diplomas. (2) In country X, women account for 55 percent of the total population.
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