Doctors in our country often have to work 34 hours or longer without sleep. Most of them work 104 hours a week, and some even 150. (There are only 168 hours a week!) One report said that a doctor who works such long hours cannot think more clearly than a drunk driver. Another found that doctors who sleep 5.8 fewer hours than the week before might make 22% more serious mistakes. Surely no one wants to get in a car that is driven by a drunk driver. So, how safe would you feel when you are under the care of a tired doctor?
Sadly this problem has been around for a long time. There are no laws about it yet and hospital bosses don’t look like they care either. And that is why we doctors are asking you to join us on the street this Sunday. Fight together with us on the street so we can fight better for your life in the hospital.
Time: 1 p. m. July 15 Place: City Hospital Square 24. How long do doctors often have to work per week in the country? A. 34 hours. B. 104 hours. C. 150 hours. D. 168 hours.
25. What does the underlined word “Another” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. A country. B. A doctor. C. A report. D. A driver.
26. Why does the writer compare a tired doctor with a drunk driver? A. To find out who can think more clearly. B. To give an example of a common disease. C. To show who can work longer without sleep. D. To give the reader a clear idea of the danger. 27. What is the purpose of the text? A. To warn doctors not to work too long. B. To get support for the fight for doctors.
C. To tell people how to find a good doctor. D. To call for a law against drunk driving.
C
A massive winter storm is expected to begin hitting Massachusetts tonight, dumping up to a foot or more of snow in some areas, while whipping the coast with powerful winds and driving rains, forecasters predict.
“It’s got a little bit of everything,” William Babecock, a meteologist（气象学家）at the National Weather Service in Taunton, said of the post-Christmas storm that brought snowstorm conditions to the Ohio Valley before heading east with its mixed bag of snow, sleet, and rain.
State Highway Administrator Frank De Paola said more than 4,000 states and snowplows（扫雪车）and salt spreaders were ready to make the roads safer for holiday travelers.
“MassDOT will be fully staffed and will be ready to handle this,” De Paola said, nothing that the storm, which should bring snow to most of the state except the Cape and Island before turning into rain tomorrow, is Massachusetts’ first significant snow storm of this winter season.
“There have been events where we have had pretty much freezing, icing concerns, which we have treated with chemicals.But this is the first big event that will call for plowing,” he said.
A high wind watch has been issued for southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, Forecasters say the wind could reach 60 mph, possibly bringing down power lines. In Worcester, some were busy for severer by buying rock salt,shovels and windshield wash,Barrows Hardware president Brain Barrow said.He called the volume（总量）of customers at his Webster Street store very steady on Wednesday morning, “You do get that supermarket effect for sure,”he said of shoppers stocking supplies before a storm.
There were no flight delays or cancellations at Logan International Airport in Boston as of day,” Right now, everything’s running normally.” airport spokesman Richard Walsh said.But Walsh said as the day progressed, travelers should contact
their airlines directly to check the status of their flights. 28. According to William Babecock, we can know that_____. A. snow, sleet, and rain occurred after Christmas B. nothing has been done to prepare for the winter storm C. 400 snowplows were ready for the snow D. the snowstorm came from the Ohio snow 29. We can conclude from Paragraph 5 that_____. A. this winter season is filled with great significance B. Massachusetts seldom sees snow all year round C. here are some poisonous chemicals in the snow D. the icy roads have inconvenienced people 30. Some people bought supplies _______. A. became they got affected by the supermarket B. because they were wrongly directed to do this C. because they were excited to be informed
D. because they were preparing themselves for the snow 31. What does the author mainly want to say in the passage? A. People tend to fall into a panic when faced with had weather B. The government shows concern for people’s living conditions C. People from all walks of life have gotten ready for the snow D. Flights usually aren’t affected much by had weather
D
We may think we're a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices(装置) well after they go out of style. That’s bad news for the environment — and our wallets — as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.
To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life — from when its minerals
are mined to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s. Devices were grouped by generation. Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.
As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones. \living-room television is replaced and gets planted in the kids' room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house,\number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. We're not just keeping these old devices — we continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions（排放）more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.
So what's the solution（解决方案）? The team's data only went up to 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%. 32. What does the author think of new devices? A. They are environment-friendly. the old.
C. They cost more to use at home. quickly.
33. Why did Babbitt's team conduct the research? A. To reduce the cost of minerals. B. To test the life cycle of a product. C. To update consumers on new technology.
D. To find out electricity consumption of the devices. 34. Which of the following uses the least energy? A. The box-set TV.
B. The tablet.
D. They go out of style
B. They are no better than
