短分散片段(short interspersed repeated segments，SINES)

A warm-hearted nurse on her first day’s work came to a patient who had come to London for a visit to the famous doctor. She asked the patient whether there was anything that she could do for him. But he only waved his hand, shook his head and said something she couldn’t understand. With a pleasing smile she asked him again and he just kept doing the same and saying the same words, but in about 3 minutes, he closed his eyes. the nurse felt his pulse and found out that the patient had died.
The nurse felt so sorry for the poor patient who had ended his llfe very far away from his home that she ran to the doctor in a hurry and repeated to the doctor the sounds she had heard. "My dear girl," said the doctor after listening to what she repeated,"you’ve just killed him. He was saying, You’ve been standing on my oxygen pipe./

When the nurse asked the patient again （）

A:he repeated what he had said B:he kept silent all the same C:he said he needed her help very much D:he said she was a very bad woman

A warm-hearted nurse on her first day’s work came to a patient who had come to London for a visit to the famous doctor. She asked the patient whether there was anything that she could do for him. But he only waved his hand, shook his head and said something she couldn’t understand. With a pleasing smile she asked him again and he just kept doing the same and saying the same words, but in about 3 minutes, he closed his eyes. the nurse felt his pulse and found out that the patient had died.
The nurse felt so sorry for the poor patient who had ended his llfe very far away from his home that she ran to the doctor in a hurry and repeated to the doctor the sounds she had heard. "My dear girl," said the doctor after listening to what she repeated,"you’ve just killed him. He was saying, You’ve been standing on my oxygen pipe./
When the nurse asked the patient again ______.

A:he repeated what he had said B:he kept silent all the same C:he said he needed her help very much D:he said she was a very bad woman

A warm-hearted nurse on her first day’s work came to a patient who had come to London for a visit to the famous doctor. She asked the patient whether there was anything that she could do for him. But he only waved his hand, shook his head and said something she couldn’t understand. With a pleasing smile she asked him again and he just kept doing the same and saying the same words, but in about 3 minutes, he closed his eyes. the nurse felt his pulse and found out that the patient had died.
The nurse felt so sorry for the poor patient who had ended his llfe very far away from his home that she ran to the doctor in a hurry and repeated to the doctor the sounds she had heard. "My dear girl," said the doctor after listening to what she repeated,"you’ve just killed him. He was saying, You’ve been standing on my oxygen pipe./

When the nurse asked the patient again （　）

A:he repeated what he had said B:he kept silent all the same C:he said he needed her help very much D:he said she was a very bad woman

Passage Five

When the nurse asked the patient again ______.

A:he repeated what he had said B:he kept silent all the same C:he said he needed her help very much D:he said she was a very bad woman

If there is one group of workers across the Western world who will be glad that Christmas is over, that group is shop workers.
It is not that they like to complain. They realize that they are going to be rushed off their feet at Christmas. They know that their employers need happy customers to make their profits that pay their wages. But there is one thing about working in a shop over Christmas that is too bad to tolerate.
That thing is music. These days, all shops and many offices have what is known as "Piped music" or "muzak" playing for all the hours that they are open. Muzak has an odd history. During the 1940s, music was played to cows as part of a scientific experiment. It was found that cows which listened to simple, happy music produced more milk. Perhaps workers and customers who listened to simple, happy music would be snore productive and spend more money.
In fact, nobody knows what effect playing muzak in shops has on profits. It is simply something that everybody does. But we are learning more about the effect of constantly repeated hearings of songs on the people who have to hear them all the time.
Research shows that repeated hearings of complex pieces of music bring greater enjoyment before becoming tiresome. And that point come much sooner with simple songs.
"That’s especially the case with tunes that are already familiar. Once that tipping point is reached, repeated listening become unpleasant," says Professor John Sloboda of UK’s Keele University’s music psychology group. "And the less control you have over what you hear, the less you like it."
That’s why police forces in the US often try and resolve hostage situations by playing pop songs over and over again at high volume. Eventually, it becomes too much for the criminals to stand and they give up.
The problem gets particularly bad at Christmas, when the muzak consists entirely of the same few festive tunes played over and over again. What makes it worse for the shop workers is that they already know these tunes. They get bored very quickly. Then they get irritated. Then they get angry.
Shop workers in Austria recently threatened to go on strike for the right to silence. "Shop workers can’t escape the Christmas muzak. They feel as if they are terrorized all day, especially ’Jingle Bells’. It arouses aggressive feelings," said Gottfried Rieser, of the Austrian shop worker’s union.
It is not just shop workers who complain. A survey this year by UK recruitment website Retailchoice.com found that Christmas is not only the most testing time for shop workers, but that almost half had complaints from customers about muzak. And the British Royal National Institute for the Deaf estimates that some stores play jingle Bells 300 times each year.
"That’s acoustic torture," says Nigel Rodgers of Pipedown, a group against muzak. "It’s not loud but the repetitive nature causes psychological stress."
The group wants the government to legislate against unwanted music in stores, hospitals, airports, swimming pools and other public places, claiming it raises the blood pressure and depresses the immune system.
Perhaps groups like Pipedown don’t really have much to complain about. After all, surely the real point is that people have money to spend Why complain about a bit of music
Which of the following statements is true, according to the research findings reported in paragraph 6

A:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are enjoyable and not tiresome. B:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are tiresome at first and then become enjoyable. C:Repeated hearings of simple songs are more enjoyable than those of complex pieces of music D:Repeated hearings of simple songs become tiresome sooner than those of complex pieces of music

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Which of the following statements is true, according to the research findings reported in paragraph 6 ?

A:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are enjoyable and not tiresome. B:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are tiresome at first and then become enjoyable. C:Repeated hearings of simple songs are more enjoyable than those of complex pieces of music. D:Repeated hearings of simple songs become tiresome sooner than those of complex pieces of music.

Euthanasia: a Heatedly Debated Topic "We mustn’’t delay any longer...?swallowing(吞咽) is difficult...and breathing, that’’s also difficult. Those muscles are weakening too...we mustn’’t delay any longer." These were the words of Dutchman(荷兰人) Cees van wendel de Joode asking his doctor to help him die. Affected with a serious disease, van Vendel was no longer able to speak clearly and he knew there was no hope of recovery and that his condition was rapidly deteriorating. Van Venders last three months of life before being given a final, lethal injection by his doctor were filmed and first shown on television last year in the Netherlands. The programme has since been bought by 20 countries and each time it is shown, it starts a nationwide debate on the subject. The Netherlands is the only country in Europe which permits euthanasia (安乐死) , although it is not technically legal there. However, doctors who carry out euthanasia under strict guidelines introduced by the Dutch Parliament(议会) two years ago are usually not prosecuted. The guidelines demand that the patient is experiencing extreme suffering, that there is no chance of a cure, and that the patient has made repeated requests for euthanasia. In addition to this, a second doctor must confirm(证实) that these criteria have been met and the death must be reported to the police department. Should doctors be allowed to take the live of others? Dr. Wilfred Van Oijen, Cees van Vendel’’s doctor, explains how he looks at the question: "Well, it’’s not as if I in planning to murder a crowd of people with a machine gun. In that case, killing is the worst thing I can imagine. But that’’s entirely different from my work as a doctor. I care for people and I try to ensure that they don’t suffer too much. That’’s very different thing. " Many people, though, are totally against the practice of euthanasia. Dr. Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the organization Healthcare opposed to Euthanasia, says that "in the vast majority of euthanasia cases , what the patient is actually asking for is something else. They may want a health professional to open up communication for them with their loved ones or family—there’’s nearly always another question behind the question." Britain also has a strong tradition of hospices—special hospitals which care only for the dying and their special needs. Cicely Saunders, President of the National Hospice Council and a founder member of the hospice movement, argues that euthanasia doesn’’t take into account that there are ways of caring for the dying. She is also concerned that allowing euthanasia would undermine the need for care and consideration of a wide range of people; "It’’s very easy in society now for the elderly, the disabled (伤残的) and the dependent to feel that they are burdens, and therefore that they ought to opt(脱离) out. I think that anything that legally allows the shortening of life does make those people more vulnerable (脆弱的)." Many find this prohibition of an individual’’s right to the paternalistic (家长式的). Although they agree that life is important and should be respected, they feel that the quality of life should not be ignored. Dr. Van Oijen believes that people have the fundamental right to choose for themselves if they want to die: "What those people who oppose euthanasia are telling me is that dying people haven’t the right. And that when people are very ill, we are all afraid of their death. But there are situations where death is a friend. And in those cases, why not?" But "why not?" is a question which might cause strong emotion. The film showing Cees Van Vendel’’s death was both moving and sensitive. His doctor was clearly a family friend; his wife had only her husband’’s interests at heart. Some, however, would argue that it would be dangerous to use this particular example to support the case for euthanasia. Not all patients would receive such a high level of individual care and attention. According to the guidelines introduced by the Dutch Parliament, when______,enthanasia can be carried out.

A:the patient or his relatives make repeated requests for euthanasia B:the patient is affected with an infectious disease C:a second doctor is present and look on the process D:the patient suffers great pain

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Which of the following statements is true, according to the research findings reported in paragraph 6 ?

A:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are enjoyable and not tiresome. B:Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are tiresome at first and then become enjoyable. C:Repeated hearings of simple songs are more enjoyable than those of complex pieces of music. D:Repeated hearings of simple songs become tiresome sooner than those of complex pieces of music.