正确答案: C

Distrust.

题目：根据以下材料回答{TSE}题：Age DiscriminationBy the year 2000 nearly half the workforce in Europe are over 40 and yet throughout Europe there is a deep ambivalence ( 犹豫 )-if not outright suspicion-towards the capabilities of older workers.Those over the age of 40 generally take longer to find new employment, but European governments have done little to protect their employment rights. Only Germany, with incentives to business to encourage the employment of older people, and France, with the introduction of legislation making it illegal to use age barriers in recruitment-or to make employees redundant because of their age done anything substantive to combat age discrimination.Yet even in these two countries, there has been no noticeable improvement in the lot of the older workers; indeed, in France, job advertisements flout ( 轻视，反对 ) the law openly by asking for applicants of a certain age. So, should France and Germany be tightening up their laws and should the rest of Europe follow suit?Bill Robbins, a careers consultant said, "Legislation against age discrimination has been in existence for well over ten year in the U.S. and Canada, but has had no effect. Employers will always be able to find some reasons for turning down an older applicant without appearing to break the law."Ironically, it was governments which played a leading role in hardening business culture against older workers in the first place. In the late 1970s, many European countries were extremely concerned about the levels of youth unemployment, and France, Germany and Belgium even initiated incentive schemes for businesses to encourage older employees to take early retirement provided that younger trainees were taken on in their place. As more and more employees took early retirement, often willingly, a new, youth-oriented culture permeated business throughout most of Europe-even in those countries that had taken no active measures to promote it.Demographic ( 人口统计学的 ) trends mean that governments are now anxious to slow down the policy of early retirement as they realize that they simply do not have the funds to meet their pension promises. But reversing business attitudes is no easy matter. Dianah Worman a policy adviser said, "There is a widely held belief that older people are less, adaptable and trainable. This is just not true: research has shown that differences in capability are as wide within age groups as they are between them."{TS}Which of the following words can best describe the European attitude to older workers?

解析：【解析】从文章第一段可以看出欧洲人对年龄较大的工作者存在着不信任的态度，suspicion(怀疑)即是distrust(不信任)。

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[单选题]The legislative provision has a great impact on the operations of the department.

clause

解析：【答案】D【解析】provision“规定”。law“法律”；passage“通过”；revision“修正”；clause“条款”。

[单选题]doing

回答下面的题目：Traffic in Uur CitiesTile volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continuesto expand．This causes many problems，including serious air pollution，lengthydelays，and the greater risk__________ (51)accidents．Clearly，something must be done，but it is often difficult to persuade people to__________ (52)theirhabits and leave their cars at home．One possible__________ (53)is to make it more expensive for peopleto use their cars by__________ (54)charges for parking and__________ (55)tougherfines for anyone who__________ (56)the law．In addition，drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes atdifferent times of the day．This system，__________ (57)as“road pricin9”，is alreadybeing introduced in a__________ (58)of cities，using aspecial electronic card__________ (59)to the windscreen of the car．Another way of__________ (60)with the problem is to provide cheapparking on the__________ (61)of the city，and strictly control the number ofvehicles allowed into the centre．Drivers and their passengersthen use a special bus__________ (62)for the final stage of their journey,Ofcourse．the most important__________ (63)is to providegood public transport．However，toget people to__________ (64)the comfort of their cars，publictransport must be felt to be reliable，convenient andcomfortable，with fares__________ (65)at an acceptablelevel．

解析：根据句意，要求表达另一种处理这个问题的方法，deal with problem表示“处理问题”，为正确答案，A项do with表示“处理，对待”时，多用于具体的事物，且一般与what连用，如what should I do with this oldcomputer?(这台旧电脑我怎么处理呢?B项handle和C项solve都为及物动词，表示处理解决问题时，直接加宾语problem，故选D。．

[单选题]Paragraph 5_____

回答下面的题目：Screen TestEvery year millions of women are screened with X-rays to pick up signs of breast cancer．If this happens early ecough, the disease can often be treated successfully．According to a survey published last year, 21 countries have screening programmes．Nine of them, including Australia, Canada, the US and Spain, screen women under 50.But the medical benefit of screening these younger women are controversial, partly because the radiation brings a small risk of inducing cancer．Also, younger women must be given higher doses of X-rays because their breast tissue is denser.Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia analysed the effect of screening more than 160,000 women at 11 local clinics．After estimating the women’s cumulative dose of radiation, they used two models to calculate the number of extra cancers this would cause.The mathematical model recommended by Britain’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) predicted that the screening programme would cause 36 cancers per 100,000 women, 18 of them fatal．The model preferred by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation led, to a lower figure of 20 cancers.The researchers argue that the level of radiation-induced cancers is “not very significant” compared to the far larger number of cancers that are discovered and treated．The Valencia programme, they say, detects between 300 and 450 cases of breast cancer in every 100,000 women screened.But they point out that the risk of women contracting cancer from radiation could be reduced by between 40 and 80 percent if screening began at 50 instead of 45, because they would be exposed to less radiation．The results of their study, they suggest, could help “optimise the technique” for breast cancer screening.“There is a trade-off between the diagnostic benefits of breast screening and its risks.” admits Michael Clark of the NRPB．But he warns that the study should be interpreted with caution．“On the basis of the current data, for every 10 cancers successfully detected and prevented there is a risk of causing one later in life．That’s why radiation exposure should be minimised in any screening programme.”Paragraph 2_____

Small Risk of Inducing Cancers from Radiation

[单选题]请在第____处填上正确答案。

根据以下资料，回答下面的题目。 请在第____处填上正确答案。

conduct   

解析：根据文意及下文第五段第二句…does not conduct electricity，such as glass的提示，可知此处应该选A项，conduct electricity意为“导电”，本句意为当光通过不导电的材料时。可产生相比以前所认为的10亿倍的磁效应。B项produce“生产，制作”，C项use“用，行使”，D项consume“消耗，耗尽”都不符合句意。故本题选A。

[单选题]Promising Results from Cancer Study  　 A new experimental vaccine(疫苗)has shown promising results in the fight against lung cancer．In a small Texas-based study，a vaccine developed by scientists at Baylor University Medical Centre in Dallas，USA，cured lung cancer in some patients and slowed the progress of the disease in others．   　 Researchers have reported encouraging findings from this small study．Forty-three patients suffering from lung cancer were involved in these trials．Ten of these patients were in the early stages and thirty—three in the advanced stages of the disease．They were injected with me Vaccine every two weeks for three months，and were carefully monitored for three years.In three of the patients in me advanced stages of cancer，the disease disappeared and in the others，it did not spread for five to twenty—four months．However，no great difference was seen in the patients in the early stages of the illness．  　 This new vaccine uses the patients’own immune、system．It is made specifically for each patient and is injected into the arm or leg．It stimulates the body’s immune system，which then recognizes that the cancer cells are harmful，and attacks and destroys them.  　 The vaccine could be effective against other forms of cancer．It offers great hope for the treatment of cancer in general，although further studies are needed before such treatment can be widely used．根据以上内容，回答{TSE}题。{TS}The vaccine cured all the participants in the trial．

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解析：【题 干】该疫苗治愈了参加试验的所有患者。【解 析】利用题干关键词vaccine，cure和participant等可以定位到第一段，即“一 种新的实验疫苗在抵抗肺癌方面展示了有希望的结果。在一个小型的基 于德克萨斯州的研究中，贝勒大学医学中心的科学家发明的疫苗治愈了 部分病人的肺癌，同时减缓了其他病人的病情”。由此可知有些患者被治 愈了，有些是病情得到缓解，因此题干内容与原文信息不一致，故选B。