Drug development is a risky and costly business. Many possibly effective drugs fail to cut the mustard during the experiments. One reason is that drugs which work on lab animals may not work quite so well in human tests. Being able to pick winners and losers as early as possible would save money, and the One Health Company thinks it may have found a way. It is offering to help medical groups test their cancer drugs on sick pets.
There are several benefits. By treating animals with existing cancers, it hopes to avoid a problem with modern animal research, which is that the “model” animals and diseases that are used to test drugs are not always good stand-ins (替身) for the natural illness. For example, mice used to test cancer drugs may have had their tumours (肿瘤) placed into their bodies, or their immune systems weakened with drugs.
Another plus is that pet owners tend to be great caretakers who are very knowledgeable about their four-legged friends and are likely to report even small changes in behaviors. Lab animals are checked far less often.
Perhaps the most useful aspect of using pets for drug experiments, however, is that there is no law on animals’ medical records. One Health has been able to get 98% of records on animals from hospitals—a number that is impossible for humans. That allows the company to find the right animals for a drug experiment.
Based on the benefits above, the company hopes that pets will prove useful in other diseases in addition to cancers. Horses, for example, seem to be good stand-ins for humans when it comes to arthritis (关节炎). Cats, meanwhile, may prove instructive in breast cancer research.
1. What do the underlined words “cut the mustard” in Paragraph1 probably mean?| A．Meet the requirements. | B．Reduce the pain. |
| C．Affect the test results. | D．Tell the differences. |
| A．It makes sure the animals with natural diseases are used. |
| B．It makes sure the model animals are checked regularly. |
| C．It makes sure most animals’ medical records are available. |
| D．It makes sure the model animals are in healthy condition. |
| A．How to help sick pets at a low price. | B．How to improve drug experiments. |
| C．How to save the drug business. | D．How to treat some pet diseases. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
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【推荐1】About aspirin (阿司匹林):
Aspirin is a commonly used drug which can be taken to relieve discomfort caused by numerous medical problems including headaches, toothache, inflammation(发炎) and infections. It is also suitable to treat colds and flu-like symptoms(症状), and to reduce a high temperature.
Who can take aspirin?Adults and children over 16 years of age.
Who should not take aspirin?Women who are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. Aspirin may harm your unborn baby.
Women who are breast-feeding. Aspirin can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby.People who have any problems with the way the liver works or with the way the kidneys work.
How to take aspirin:Take aspirin after meals, with a full glass of water or milk.
The recommended dose (剂量) ranges from two to three tablets at a time. Never take more than 4g 12 tablets) in any 24 -hour period.You must not take these tablets with any other medicine which contains any aspirin or painkiller.
How to store aspirin:Keep all medicines out of the reach and sight of children.
Store aspirin in a cool, dry place, away from direct heat and light.
Do not put aspirin in the bathroom because the dampness there can cause it to lose its effectiveness.Throw away aspirin that smells strongly of vinegar.
Possible side effects:Feeling sick, increased risk of bleeding, stomach pain, indigestion and heartburn are common. If these effects continue, contact your doctor.Ringing in the ears, difficulty breathing, dizziness, and mental confusion are rare. If these occur, stop taking the drug and contact your doctor for further advice.
1. What type of writing is this text?| A．A hospital announcement. | B．A medical report. |
| C．A doctor’s suggestions list. | D．Medical instructions. |
| A．Stomachache. | B．Fever. |
| C．Breathlessness. | D．Nosebleed. |
| A．6. | B．5. |
| C．4. | D．3. |
| A．Adults and children over 12 years old can take aspirin. |
| B．Store aspirin in a warm, wet place. |
| C．Aspirin doesn’t harm unborn baby. |
| D．If any possible side effects continue, contact your doctor. |
【推荐2】More primary care doctors in a community (社区) appear to lead to improved life expectancy for people living there，though a lack of such physicians across U.S. could be a cause of concern for overall population health in years to come.
For the study, researchers looked at physician counts per 100,000 people in a range covering 2005 to 2015 in the U. S.，along with life expectancy and specific causes of death. They found that an increase of 10 primary care physicians per 100,000 population was associated with a 51. 5-day increase in life expectancy, while an increase of 10 specialty physicians per 100, 000 population increased life expectancy by 19. 2 days. An increase in primary care physicians also was associated with reductions of many deaths including heart diseases and cancers.
Along with those findings, though, the study said many communities did not have primary care physicians in 2015，with the decline in supply more prominent in rural areas than their urban areas. Many believe that a well-functioning health care system requires a solid foundation of primary care, however, payment difference between primary care and technical specialties continue to dispirit the U. S. primary care physician workforce.
“Higher pay and lifestyle preferences lead most students to choose non-primary care fields, even when their hearts say primary care,” the study said. “We must turn this trend around with practical changes in physician payment policy; no amount of superb primary care training or creative practice reform will prevent further declines in primary care physician, which will lead to worsening health for the United States. ”
The study’s researchers conclude that future research should focus on the “quality and cover of primary care，types of primary care physician training and service offerings, and effective access rather than just supply”.
1. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?| A．Provide some data for the readers. |
| B．Offer some tips on life expectancy. |
| C．Add some background information. |
| D．Stress the importance of primary care. |
| A．Adequate. | B．Considerate. |
| C．Obvious. | D．Reasonable. |
| A．Primary care is badly paid. |
| B．They have to work in rural areas, |
| C．They need to face fierce competition. |
| D．Primary care lacks superb training |
| A．Primary care can lengthen life. |
| B．Primary care needs improving. |
| C．Primary care physicians are decreasing. |
| D．Higher pay attracts more primary care physicians |
Diana Rae of Tenino, Washington, demonstrates Virtua/（虚拟的）Urgent Care with Dr. Ben Green in Seattle, who consults with her via Skype.
Telemedicine is the name for when doctors give advice to patients by telephone or the Internet, or when health care providers in rural areas connect with specialists in big cities.
Telemedicine has existed for a long time, but the rise of smartphone, tablets and webcam-equipped computers is raising telemedicine to new levels. Some health care systems in the United States now offer Virtual Urgent Care, patients see a doctor by video chat without having to leave home.
Diana Rae recently demonstrated how Virtual Urgent Care works. She used an iPad tablet and Skype—-the video chat service.
Doctor Green first has the patient describe her symptoms. Then the doctor performs a physical exam by demonstrating what he wants her to do. Doctor Green decides that the problem is an infection and gives her some penicillin for medicine. He says about 3 out of 4 patients who have health problems can be treated like this—through Virtual Urgent Care, which means a video chat could substitute a visit to the doctor’s office.
Franciscan charges $35 for this kind of virtual house call, that is much less than the cost of going to an emergency room, a doctor’s office or an urgent care clinic. After trying the video conference, Diana Rae says she would be happy to pay the 35 dollars, when she was recently home with a bad cold. "I would have paid twice that for the convenience of getting taken care of without having to sit in a waiting room, wait, and get exposed to everyone else’s germs." Rae said.
But a company official says state rules have not kept progress with development in telemedicine. The workers who provide Virtual Urgent Care must be licensed separately in each state where the company does business. For now, that means Franciscan doctors can treat patients in Washington state and California, for example, but not in neighboring Oregon or Idaho.
1. What is helping telemedicine to rise to new stages?（No more than 8 words）2. What does the underlined word "substitute" mean?（1 word）
3. Why would Diana Rae be happy to pay Virtual Urgent Care even more?（No more than 10 words）
4. Why can’t Virtual Urgent Care develop fast now?（No more than 10 words）
5. What do you think of Virtual Urgent Care’s future? Why?（No more than 20 words）
【推荐1】It’s a cold night, and strong winds are blowing atop a hill in southwest Uganda. The wind rattles the giant metal insect trap. A 400-watt bulb is fixed at its center. The light is blinding to human eyes, but it’s a magnet for local bush crickets.
Protein dense and full of iron, zinc, and other essential minerals, bush crickets, and edible insects in general, have been praised by the UNFAO as a “food source of the future”, key to establishing food security. That’s important in countries such as Uganda, where nearly half of the children and a third of women suffer greatly from poor nutrition due to food shortage.
The visitors, as they’re called locally, come together to mate and feed in huge swarms after each rainy season in the autumn and pring, when hundreds of people across the country set aside their day jobs to catch then. Salted and fried, the crickets are a delicacy in Uganda, sold for two dollars a bag at open-air markets, taxi parks, and roadsides. Now what once was a small-scale and personal harvest in Uganda has become an increasingly commercialized undertaking, with giant traps taking tons of the insects at a time to meet the growing demand. “You see how you enjoy a movie with popcorn? Me, it’s movie with crickets,” says one fan.
However, this month, it should be the middle of the autumn harvest in Uganda. Legend has it that the insects come from the moon, and tonight it’s full. Yet “we’ve got nothing,” says a cricket catcher and wholesaler. “Where are they?”
Decreasing catches suggest the problem is not just overharvesting. Logging to clear land for cash crops has destroyed much bush cricket habitat. And climate change is making the rainy seasons unpredictable, affecting the crickets’ swarming patterns. With so many problems accumulating, there is still a long way to go. Thus, scientists have to start from scratch.
1. What does paragraph 1 present to us?| A．A scene. | B．A view. | C．A plot. | D．A lifestyle. |
| A．Because they are rich in essential minerals. |
| B．Because they can cure many different diseases. |
| C．Because they’re considered a symbol in local culture. |
| D．Because they can relieve hunger and ensure nutrition. |
| A．Tourists. | B．Crickets. |
| C．Local people | D．Cricket catchers |
| A．Because the weather is unpredictable. |
| B．Because it’s a tricky problem to deal with. |
| C．Because it’s too late to save the bush crickets. |
| D．Because people’s awareness should be raised. |
【推荐2】Baby bats learn language from peers (同伴) in their social group, and will adopt the group’s dialect, or accent, instead of their mother’s, researcher said on Tuesday.
The findings shed new light on crowd-learning of language, a skill thought to belong mainly to humans and just a few other mammals. It also shows that bats are different from songbirds, which tend to learn songs by copying one of their parents. “The ability to copy vocalizations (发音) from others is extremely important for speech learning in humans, but it’s believed to be rare among animals”, said lead author Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University.
For the study, researchers captured 14 pregnant Egyptian fruit bats. They separated them into three different bat social groups, where they raised the young bats with their mothers. Each bat group was exposed to a different recording of bat vocalizations.
“The baby bats all adopted the manner of vocalizing of the group they heard, not their mothers. The difference between the vocalizations of the mother bat and those of the group is comparable to the difference in a London accent and, say, a Scottish accent,” Yovel said.
“The babies heard their mothers’ London dialect, but also heard the Scottish dialect produced by many dozens of Scottish bats. The babies eventually adopted a dialect that was more similar to the local Scottish dialect than to the London accent of their mothers.”
Researchers hope to conduct future studies to examine how bats’ dialects change when they leave their social groups, and if it affects how they integrate with others.
1. What are the latest findings about bats?| A．Bats’ accents are influenced by their peer’s accents. |
| B．Bats are born to adopt their mother’s dialect. |
| C．Bats can understand peers with different dialects. |
| D．Bats pick up language quickly in company with their peers. |
| A．To indicate the birthplace of baby bats. |
| B．To explain why bat produce different sounds. |
| C．To show the differences in dialects among social groups. |
| D．To compare how the two accents influenced understanding. |
| A．Accents. | B．Baby bats. | C．Researchers. | D．Mother bats. |
| A．How bats adopt a new dialect after entering a new social group. |
| B．Whether bats leave their social group if they change their accents. |
| C．Why some bats fail to be accepted in a new group after they are born. |
| D．What changes might occur to bats’ accent after entering a new social group. |
【推荐3】According to a team of researchers, an animal’s ability to perceive (感知) time is linked to their pace of life.
“Our results lend support to the importance of time perception in the animal kingdom where the ability to perceive time in a very short time may cause the difference between life and death for fast moving creatures,” commented the lead author Kevin Healy from Trinity College Dublin.
The study was conducted with a variety of animals using phenomena based on the maximum speed of flashes of light an individual can see before the light source is seen as a constant. Dogs, for example, have eyes with a refresh rate higher than humans.
“One example of this phenomenon at work,” the authors said, “is the housefly and its ability to avoid being hit.” The research showed “flies observe motion within a shorter time than our own eyes do”, which allows them to avoid being hit.
Professor Graeme Ruxton of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, who worked jointly on the research project, said in a statement, “Having eyes that send updates to the brain at much higher frequencies than our eyes do is of no value if the brain cannot process that information equally quickly. Thus, this work highlights the perceptual abilities of even the smallest animal brains. Flies might not be deep thinkers, but they can make good decisions very quickly.”
In comparison, the tiger beetle (虎甲虫) runs faster than its eyes can keep up, basically becoming blind, which requires it to stop periodically to reevaluate its prey’s (猎物) position.
1. What is the research mentioned in the passage mainly about?| A．The pace of life of animals. |
| B．The impressive abilities of animals. |
| C．The lifetime of small animals. |
| D．The time perception of animals. |
| A．The survival of fast moving animals relies on their ability to perceive time. |
| B．Animals with quicker pace of life have better perception of time. |
| C．The ability of animals to perceive time depends on their high moving speed. |
| D．Animals with the poor ability to perceive time have a shorter life. |
| A．They can think very deeply before they act. |
| B．They can process the information as quickly as they receive it. |
| C．They can fly much faster than their eyes can keep up. |
| D．They can send information to the brain more quickly. |
| A．Slow down to gain its time perception. |
| B．Prevent itself from becoming blind. |
| C．Stop occasionally to spot the prey again. |
| D．Try to run as fast as it can. |
Last April, 15-year-old Rei Iwasaki stopped her piano and flute lessons and began to study every day of the week. Her parents paid to send her to a “cram school (灌输式教学模式的学校).” She wanted very much to pass her exams.
In February she did pass an all-day, five-subject examination and entered the high school she hoped to enter.
Thirteen-year-old Akio Yoshiwara wasn’t so lucky. Unable to take the pressure of the exams, he hanged himself in February. He left a suicide (自杀) note which said, “I did my best in this dear life, but it’s no good.”
Suicides are now a common part of life among students in Japan. The cause is the incredible pressure of the “examination hell.”
Even a number of teachers are committing suicide each year. When some students broke windows in a school near Tokyo, the principal blamed himself and wrote the following note: “The incidents were due to the lack of appropriate measures by the principal and I apologize. I am very tired.”
The Japanese educational system is much different from the American system. It is perhaps the most regimented (严密组织的) school system in any of the industrialized nations.
Boys and girls wear uniforms and go to school six days a week —240 days a year compared to 180 in the U.S. Ninety- five percent graduate from high school compared to seventy-five percent in the U.S.
Students don’t ask questions in class but only listen respectfully to the teachers. And every few year’s students are tested to see which school they will enter next. There is stiff competition for the “best” schools.
The result is a well-informed, disciplined student, ideal for factory and company work and excellent at learning specialized skills. But there is little fun in education, little creativity and the incredible pressure of “examination hell.”
1. It’s because ______ that many Japanese students committed suicide.
| A．they didn’t do their best in their lives. |
| B．they were sent to a “cram school”. |
| C．of the most regimented school. |
| D．they were unable to take the pressure of the exams. |
| A．He thought it was his fault that some students broke the windows. |
| B．He was very tired. |
| C．He couldn’t stand the pressure of the “examination hell”. |
| D．He blamed himself and wrote a note. |
| A．The Japanese students love to study under pressure. |
| B．The Japanese students do well under pressure. |
| C．The exams give the Japanese students much pressure. |
| D．The exams make the Japanese students commit suicide each year. |
| A．The American educational system is much different from the Japanese system. |
| B．To enter a high school, a student must pass an all-day, five-subject examination. |
| C．The Japanese graduates from high school are much less than the American graduates. |
| D．In Japanese education, there is little creativity as well as little fun. |
【推荐2】Cell phones, tablets, laptops, smart-watches: the modern world is packed with a lot of devices that bring us connectivity, entertainment and information. Our hunger for the latest models leads to the “throwaway” culture, which means consumers often throw away old devices as soon as new ones come to the market, a habit that can have a significant effect on waste streams and the environment.
With concerns about e-waste growing, some companies are now turning to chemistry to develop solutions to recycle items like old cell phones, extracting value at the same time. One such example is the work being carried out by Mint Innovation, a clean tech firm based in Auckland, New Zealand. “We’ve developed a biological process for recovering valuable metals from electronic waste,” said Ollie Crush, the company’s chief scientific officer.
Crush explained that Mint Innovation’s system included grinding(磨碎)waste up into a powder. “The reason why we must do this is that we need to make sure that we’re exposing all the metal contained within to a chemical filtering(过滤)process,” he added.
When it comes to recovering a valuable material like gold, the technique used by Mint Innovation has a number of steps. According to a video, chemicals dissolve (溶解) the powdered waste into a solution, with any materials that haven’t dissolved filtered out. Microbes are then added to the mix. Gold atoms catch on to them in a process called “selective biosorption”. Next, the microbes coated gold are filtered, producing a paste which is then turned into a solid, “recycled” gold.
“Nearly 50% of the value of e-waste comes from the gold,” Cameron Weber, a senior lecturer at Chemical Sciences, said. “In fact, there’s actually more gold in e-waste as a concentration than there is in gold that’s been mined, which shows you the value of being able to take your e-waste and recycle and reuse some of the elements that are found in it,” he added.
Looking ahead, Crush, explained the process could potentially have a number of interesting applications. “The future for Mint Innovation is to prove that our technology works with a number of different materials,” he said. “So, we’ll just keep trying to see where our microbial process makes more sense.”
1. What is Mint Innovation trying to do?| A．To develop eco-friendly products. | B．To change the “throwaway culture”. |
| C．To collect harmful things in e-waste. | D．To get valuable things from e-waste. |
| A．Mixing e-waste with gold. | B．Reusing elements of e-waste. |
| C．Turning e-waste into tiny pieces. | D．Exposing e-waste to special chemicals. |
| A．The ways of dealing with e-waste. | B．The necessity of reducing e-waste. |
| C．The difficulty of recycling e-waste. | D．The meaning of recycling e-waste. |
| A．Concerned. | B．Positive. | C．Doubtful. | D．Objective. |
【推荐3】A group of Northern Ireland schoolchildren warmed the hearts of Chinese guests on a cold December day when they performed Chinese songs. The children had rehearsed (预演)for six weeks, with the help of Mandarin (汉语)teachers from the University of Ulster's Confucius Institute (阿尔斯特大学孔子学院).
The performance on Friday, inside Belfast's elegant and historic Parliament Buildings, preceded (预备)a welcome dinner ahead of the third UK - China Regional Leaders Meeting on Saturday that was attended by more than 100 leaders from China. As trade relations between China and Northern Ireland grow, Mandarin has become more popular in the province. Friday's performance was given by children from Millburn Primary School and Grosvenor Grammar School, which both offer Mandarin lessons, thanks to the local Confucius Institute that was established in 2012. From its start five years ago, which saw two Mandarin teachers support 169 students, the University of Ulster's Confucius Institute has grown to comprise (由……构成)51 teachers and 19,000 registered students. A quarter of the institutes 161 partner primary and secondary schools have made Mandarin learning compulsory (必修) for certain age groups. And students also gain exposure to Chinese culture, including calligraphy (书法),Chinese character and music.
"Our Confucius Institute was established partly in response to existing demand from schools," said Liu Yan, director of the University of Ulster's Confucius Institute. While preparing to open the institute, her team sent out a survey to 1,241 primary and secondary schools in Northern Ireland. Around 500 responded by saying they would like to offer Mandarin lessons.
The Chinese government launched the Confucius Institute concept in 2004 as a way of promoting the Chinese language and culture abroad. Confucius Institutes are non-profit organizations and are affiliated (附属于)with Western academic institutions, including secondary schools and universities. So far. 516 Confucius Institutes have been established in 142 countries and regions.
1. What is the local people's attitude to the performance?| A．Serious. | B．Uninterested. |
| C．Curious. | D．Cautious. |
| A．40 schools | B．100 schools |
| C．160 schools | D．169 schools |
| A．To compete with local schools, | B．To meet local schools' demand. |
| C．To trade with Irish people. | D．To realize existing purposes. |
| A．To earn more money. | B．To know more people. |
| C．To spread Chinese culture. | D．To teach more students. |
【推荐1】Do you know the following expressions?
Homeric laughter
The “Homer” in this expression is the Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey. People laugh differently. Some laugh silently, while others tend to laugh loudly. “Homeric laughter” refers to laughter of the latter (后者) kind. It is at times uncontrollable, and the entire body shakes during the process. This kind of laughter is called Homeric laughter because this is how the gods laughed in Homer’s classics.
Faustian bargain
According to most stories, Faust was a German scholar who was rather unhappy with his life. The devil( 魔 鬼 ), Mephistopheles, promises him that in return for his soul, he will give Faust unlimited power and knowledge. Faust agrees and experiences all kinds of pleasures, but, in the end, his soul is condemned to the hell (下地狱). A “Faustian bargain” therefore is a deal that finally results in one's ruin. It means a bargain made for temporary gain without taking future consequences into consideration.
A three-ring circus (马戏团)
When you refer to a situation as being a three-ring circus, you are saying that it is a situation of complete confusion. There are so many activities taking place all together that they leave you confused or annoyed. The expression comes from the world of entertainment — the circus. The area where the artists perform their acts is called the “ring”. In the past, some of the circuses were so grand that they had three acts taking place simultaneously in three different “rings”. The audience had to decide which “ring” they wanted to focus on.
In the swim (of things)
When someone is in the swim of things, the individual is actively participating in the things happening around him, as in “I've been ill, but soon I'll be back in the swim of things.” In the world of fishing, fishermen use the word “swim” to refer to the section of the lake/river where fish can be found in plenty. So, if you are a fisherman and wish to catch a lot of fish, where would you be? You would be “in the swim”!
1. According to the text, Homeric laughter _______.| A．was the way Homeric laughed |
| B．means nervous, silent laughter |
| C．is a way to show disagreement |
| D．comes from a Greek poet’s works |
| A．he might come to a bad end |
| B．he would be considered clever |
| C．his life would become satisfying |
| D．he would gain power and knowledge |
| A．All of a sudden. | B．Little by little. |
| C．At the same time. | D．One after another. |
| A．It means having a lot of things to do． |
| B．It has nothing to do with swimming． |
| C．Originally it was used to refer to "going fishing"． |
| D．Patients use it to express their desire for health. |
【推荐2】Walk from the Arc de Triomphe to the Louvre, stroll along the Seine River and enjoy the beautiful sights in Paris now!
The Arc de Triomphe The most monumental one of arehes celebrating the victory of war, was built between 1806 and 1836. Even though there were many modifications（修改）to the original plans, the Arch still keeps the essence of the original concept which was a powerful, unified symbol of France. Climb up to its top for a splendid view of Paris, especially the Eiffel Tower in the distance. | The Musée de I’Orangerie The 1852 stone structure facing the Seine River was once a place that helped to store orange trees of the Tuileries Garden from the cold in the winter. Now, It's home to Claude Monet's excellent water lily（睡莲）paintings. It is one museum not to miss, it feels as if you're standing in Monet’s garden at Giverny! But, in addition to those of Monet, there are also works by Renoir, Cezanne, and Picasso. |
The Louvre The splendid, baroque palace and museum sits along the right bank of the Seine River in Paris. It is one of the city's biggest tourist attractions. It has a history of about 800 years. There are several ways to visit the Louvre museum. Read it up in advance and find paintings of da Vinci, Raphael, Napoleon and Joan of Art that will interest you, or approach the Louvre like exploring the darkest continent, where you will discover amazing things. |
1. Which place is probably most attractive to one loving military history.
| A．The Louvre | B．The Eiffel Tower |
| C．The Arc de triomphe. | D．The Musée de I'Orangerie |
| A．Raphael was one of its designers |
| B．It is located beside the Seine River |
| C．It was set up in the middle of the fifteenth century. |
| D．You can climb up to its top for a splendid view of Paris. |
| A．It is home to water lilies |
| B．It was once Monet’s garden |
| C．It mainly displays Picasso's works |
| D．It once helped to store orange trees. |
Outlook
Outlook is back with a new series of reports to keep you up to date with all that’s new in the world of entertainment. Stories go all the way from the technical to the romantic, from stage to screen. There will be reports of the stars of the moment, the stars of the future and the stars of the past. The director with his new film, the designer with the latest fashion, and the musician with the popular song are part of the new Outlook. The program is introduced by Fran Levine.
9:00 PM
Discovery
When a 10-year-old boy gets a first class degree in mathematics or an 8-year-old plays chess like a future grand master, they are considered as geniuses. Where does the quality of genius come from? Is it all in the genes or can any child be turned into a genius? And if parents do have a child who might become a genius in the future, what should they do? In this 30-minute film, Barry Johnson, the professor at School of Medicine, New York University will help you discover the answer.
10:00 PM
Science/Health
Is it possible to beat high blood pressure without drugs? The answer is “yes”, according to the researchers at Johns Hopkins and three other medical centers. After a study of 800 persons with high blood pressure, they found that after 6 months, those devoted to weight-loss exercise and eating a low-salt, low-fat food lost about 13 pounds and became fitter. Plus, 35% of them dropped into the “normal” category. This week, Dr. Alan Duckworth will tell you how these people reduce their blood pressure to a level similar to what’s achieved with Hypertension drugs.
1. From Outlook, you can get a great deal of information about _____________.| A．famous stars | B．story tellers |
| C．film companies | D．music fans |
| A．Parents who want to send their children to a school of medicine. |
| B．Children who are good at mathematics. |
| C．Parents who want their child to become another Albert Einstein. |
| D．Children who are interested in playing chess. |
| A．Low-salt and low-fat food. |
| B．Loss of thirteen pounds in weight |
| C．Six months of exercise without drugs. |
| D．Exercise plus a healthy diet. |
