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Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors by going to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially    1     they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it    2    (embarrass) to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative     3     (experience) in the past. But    4    (play) doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet    5    medical answers--- and most of them aren’t nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet &American Life Project found that 72 percent of those    6    (survey) believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t look up “headache” and the chances of finding     7    (rely) and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain,    8     (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous    9     (inform) exists on the Internet.

The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative ( 权威的)，so it’s hard to know if what you’re reading is     10    (reason) or not,” says Dr.Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below，fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets.     1     connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People     2     （influence） to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people     3     （describe） their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time     4     （resist） the temptation of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see people     5     （trap）in a pathological （病态的） relationship with time-consuming technology,    6     they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude（奴役）. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence     7     uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what we need to ask     8     if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about the use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.”     9     it's time to discover today's overused technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies,” To break the grand digital connection, people must consider     10     life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology.

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Media is known to be the most     1    (power) means of communication. Print media, electronic media and the Internet all belong to mass media. Newspapers, newsletters, magazines and brochures     2    (include) in print media, while the electronic media consists of the television, radio and other modes of communication. Internet is without doubt the fastest known way of communicating     3    millions of people across the globe. Effects of mass media can be positive as well as negative.

The best thing about the mass media is that it immediately provides us with the latest information about the things    4    (happen) around us. Because of the keen efforts and devotion of the people working in the media and the entertainment sector, our knowledge    5    (remain) fresh. With this knowledge, we become more smart and outgoing. Media is       6    gift for youngsters in many ways. They get useful information related to their career and higher       7     (educate) mostly through the mass media.

Though mass media has many positive effects, there are some    8     (harm) associated with it as well. The news    9       is published without checking whether it is a fact or not can create unnecessary confusion and extreme feelings among the common masses. It becomes the duty of media    10    (provide) only relevant and precise information to the masses.

【推荐1】As an old English saying goes, “Honesty is the best policy”. It is more than    1    old cliché(陈词滥调), but   a good way to live your life. First, honesty is the    2    (easy) choice that we can make. When people get caught in lies, it always costs them something. Many relationships are destroyed by lies. Second, honesty gives us much    3    (free). Many believe that being honest limits them in life, but that is not true. Sooner or later those dishonest people     4     (pay) a price for their acts; on the contrary, when we are honest, we are     5     (true) free.

If there were two people standing before you, a person     6     a record of being honest and a person who is known to be dishonest, who would you be more likely     7     (believe)? I’m sure most people would side with the honest person.     8     we live in the truth or we live in lies. Truth sets us free and lies leave us in nothing     9     more troubles. Honesty is a choice that we can make each day. The choice is     10     (you). What will you choose?

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Up to 82 percent of children with healthy mothers are not easy to be obese（肥胖的）, according to research. A mother,     1     has a healthy weight, exercises regularly, eats a healthy diet, doesn’t smoke and only     2    (drink) wine in moderation, is significantly less likely     3    (have)a fat child, scientists say.

And research suggests it could be more to do with nurture(养育)    4     nature, as a mother's lifestyle appears     5    (direct) linked to the health of her child. When both mother and child follow a healthy lifestyle, the risk of obesity     6    (reduce)even more, the study of more than 24,000 children found.

The study examined the medical history and lifestyles of more than 24,000 children aged nine     7     fourteen, born to almost 17,000 women in the US. Researchers looked at the link between overall mother health and likelihood of a child     8    (be) obese.

The mother's health was judged on her height-to-weight ratio(比例), her diet, amount of physical     9    (active), smoking status and how much alcohol she drank. A healthy weight and diet, regular exercise, no smoking and moderate drinking all reduce the chance of a woman having     10     obese child.

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These days, people     1     (do) manual work often receive far more money     2     clerks who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently     3    (refer) to as 'white-collar workers' for the simple reason     4     they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work.     5     is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay     6     the privilege of becoming white collar workers. This can give rise to curious situations,     7     it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation. When he got married, Alf was too     8    (embarrass) to say anything to his wife about his job. He     9    (simple) told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home     10    (dress) in a smart black suit.