大学英语四级分类模拟题492
Part 河南最富县前十Ⅰ Reading Comprehension
Passage One
Pregnancy mothers are getting a new tool to help keep themlves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips nt directly to their cell phones.
The so-called text4baby campaign is the first free, health education program in the U.S. to harness the reach of mobile phones, according to its sponsors. Organizers say texting is an effective means of delivering wellness tips becau 90 percent of people in the U.S. have cell phones.
"Especially if you start talking about low-income people, cell phones are the indispensable tool for reaching them and engaging them about their health," said Paul Meyer, president of Voxiva, a company which operates health texting programs in Africa, Latin America and India.
Studies in tho countries have shown that periodic texts can reduce smoking and other unhealthy behaviors in pregnant mothers.
Meyer said the U.S. program, run by Voxiva, will be the largest health-related texting program ever undertaken.
Under the new rvice, mothers-to-be who text "BABY" to a specified number will receive weekly text messages, timed to their due date or their baby's birth date. The messages, which have been scanned by government and nonprofit health experts, deal with nutrition, immunization and birth defect prevention, among other topics. The messages will continue through the baby's first birthday.
Text4baby is expected to be announced Thursday morning by officials from the White Hou's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Government officials will be publicizing the campaign in speeches and promotional materials.
Organizers hope the effort can curb premature (早产的) births, which can be caud by
poor nutrition, excessive stress, smoking and drinking alcohol. About 500,000 babies are born prematurely in the U.S. each year. The nonprofit is among the sponsors of the campaign.
"The real scary thing is that we're an industrialized nation and we're not doing very well on infant death rate, and we know prematurity is a big part of that," said the group's director, Judy Meehan.
Currently the U.S. ranks 30th worldwide for infant death rate, according to Meehan, behind most Western European nations.
松茸菌的功效与作用及食用方法 Rearchers at the George Washington University have agreed to evaluate the effectiveness of text4baby by measuring health trends for mothers and newborns.
1、 The word "harness" in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by "______".
情话短语
A. take advantage of B. be independent of C. produce an effect on D. expand the range of
2、 What do we know about Africa, Latin America and India?
A. They are among the profitable markets.
B. Women ldom care about their health.
C. People there are relatively poor.
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D. Cell phones are popular there.
3、 The Text4baby program is aimed at helping pregnancy women ______.
A. in the U.S.
B. in poor countries
C. all over the world
D. in Western European nations
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4、What is the purpo of the Text4baby program?
A. To warn women against bad habits.
B. To let people care about prematurity.
大班安全教案 C. To improve babies' nutrition.
D. To reduce infant death rate.
5、 Compared with the U.S., most Western European nations ______.
A. have higher infant death rates
尘埃落定的意思 B. do better on infant death rates
C. do more studies on Text4baby
D. pay less attention to Text4baby
Passage Two
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered heartless or unpleasantly aggressive or forceful. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.
印象深刻的一件事作文400字
In my ca, I think I may have had an easier time dealing with this fear becau my first taste of leadership came in a situation fin which I was a blissfully (幸福地) ignorant outsider. It was in college, when I became president of the Cambridge Union debating society. Since I had grown up in Greece, I had never heard of the Cambridge Union or the Oxford Union and didn't know about their place in English culture, so I wasn't weighed down with the kinds of overwhelming notions that may have stopped British girls from even thinking about trying for such a position.
The same thing happened when my first book, The Female Woman, came out. I was 23 and my U.S. publisher, Random Hou, flew me from London to New York. They handed me my schedule, and my first interview was with Barbara Waiters on the Today s
how. This didn't confu and shock me since I had no idea who Barbara Walters was, and had never heard of the Today show. So I was less nervous than if I had been on a local show in Athens that my family and classmates could have watched.
