1、Ian Colman, a mental health epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa.Colman thought itd be interesting to compare violence in films _37_ at kids and grown-ups, after a colleague of his said that he may want to _38_ over the first five minutes ofFinding Nemowhile watching with his kids, since it _3
2、9_ a “death scene,” he says.So he and a few other researchers _40_ the 45 childrens movies of all time to the adults dramas and _41_ how many murders and violent acts took place.They skipped action movies because these “are often also marketed to, and viewed by, young children,” Colman and colleague
3、s wrote in the study. They found that in childrens films _42_ those aimed toward adults, deaths amongst major characters were 2.5 times more _43_, and 2.8 times more likely to be murders, says Colman. Movie characters that were parents fared particularly badly.But in this case, the findings do seem
4、to have some real-world _44_. It may be best for parents to watch movies with their kids, so that if _45_ come up, they can be talked about, Colman says.注意:此部分题请在答题卡2上作答。A) significanceI) concludes B) measured J) right C) look K) versusD) compared L) aimedE) magnificent M) skipF) issues N) includesG
5、) universal O) wrongH) common答案:36O41B4651566137L42K4752576238M43H4853586339N44A4954596440D45F50556065四级第二篇One out of every two people in the U.K. will be _36_ with cancer at some point in their lives, according to new research published in theBritish Journal of Canceron Wednesday.Other studies have
6、 _37_ that the U.K.s cancer rates would _38_ that level at some point in the future, but the newest finding, from the organization Cancer Research U.K., _39_ that that moment has already arrived for anyone born after the early 1960s. The new figure updates aprevious figurepublished by the organizati
7、on, which pegged the U.K. cancer rate at more than one in every three people.Researchers say this new, higher figure is partly due to advances that have _40_people to live longer. “Cancer is _41_ a disease of old age, with more than 60 percent of all cases diagnosed in people aged over 65. If people
8、 live long enough, then most will get cancer at some point. But theres a lot we can do to make it less likelylike giving up smoking, being more active, drinking less alcohol and _42_ a healthy weight,” Peter Sasieni, a professor at Queen Mary University of London and one of the papers authors, said
9、in apress release. “If we want to reduce the risk of developing the disease, we must redouble our efforts and take action now to better _43_ the disease for future generations.”These figures are not a major shock to anyone _44_ with the subject. Cancer rates in the U.S. are extremely similar. Accord
10、ing to the latest publication of the American, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is _45_ less than one in every two for men, and higher than one in every three for women.A) hitI)diagnosedB) slightlyJ) forecastC) indicatesK) preventD) impliesL) familiarE) allowedF) generallyN)maintainingG) prima
11、rilyO) obtainingH) stopIGJCE四级第三篇“How do you get out of an Icelandic forest? You stand up.”During five days spent in Iceland this fall, I heard locals tell this joke several times.The quip once made _36_; Iceland was until recently a tree-deprived land, hosting instead an _37_ of beautiful wide-open
12、 expanses, clad in volcanic rocks, glaciers and some grasses and shrubs. And while it still remains largely that way, trees and woodlands have been _38_ returning the past several decades, and an Icelandic forestry industry is beginning to take root.Thats due in large part to a warming climate, whic
13、h is helping many new types of trees grow here. Over the past 20 years, _39_ temperatures have _40_ by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, trees are _41_ faster and new varieties are now found here that couldnt _42_ before.AdalsteinnSigurgeirsson, head of research for the Icelandic forest serv
14、ice, has heard the joke thousands of times. “I cringe every time I hear it,” he says. Sigurgeirsson picks me up on recent Monday morning in Reykjavik in his black Mitsubishi pickup. Its rainy and the sky is darknot _43_ weather for walking through a forest. Hes dressed in a blue sweater and green ra
15、in jacket. He smiles and nods at the deluge outside. “Welcome to Iceland!” The rain is usually _44_, he assures me, and it _45_ enough water for tree growth over much of the islandone reason he is so upbeat about forestrys prospects here.A) providesI)moderateB) idealJ) surviveC) middleK) decreasedD)
16、 averageL)increasedE) senseM) effectF) abundanceN) growingO) steadily四级第四篇For a while, biologistArjanBoonmanlived in Indonesia and spent much of his time traveling the country to make _36_ recordings of bats.“Theres a lot of deforestation there, and lots of bats are _37_ going to go extinct,” says B
17、oonman, now a postdoctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel. _38_ by the bats, he decided to gather as much information as _39_ about the various species in Indonesia, before theyre gone.One day Boonman sat down on a bus next to a friendly man, who told him hed heard a species _40_cave ne
18、ctar batsmaking a clicking sound with their wings, perhaps using it to echolocate.Echolocationis the process whereby bats and other animals bounce sound off their surroundings to help them navigate, especially in the dark. Boonman was _41_.Bat biologists, including Boonman, pretty much all assumed t
19、hat bats only echolocate _42_, by making sounds in their larynx. It was also generally thought that the vast majority of species in this family, known asOld World fruits bats, didnt echolocate at all, says bat expert Nancy Simmons, the curator-in-charge at the department of mammalogy at New Yorks Am
20、erican Museum of Natural History.Yovel convinced Boonman that it was a story worth looking into, and together they and a third scientist went to Thailand to record several different unrelated species of fruit bats (one of the better travel excuses out there). They found that several species of bats did _43_ make clicking sounds with their wings, increasing the frequency of these clicks more than fivefold when they turned out the lights.This and other experiments led them to _44_ that the bats use these wing clicks to find their way around, and the clicking appears to function as a primi
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