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Passage1Lonely people, it seems, are at greater risk than the gregarious of developing illnesses associated with chronic inflammation, such as heart disease and certain cancers.A paper published last year in the Public Library of Science, Medicine, shows the effect on mortality of loneliness is comparable with that of smoking and drinking after examining the results of 148 previous studies and controlled for factors such as age and pre-existing illness.Steven Cole of the University of Califormia, Los Angeles, thinks he may know why this is so.He told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington,D.C., about his work studying the expression of genes in lonely people. Dr. Cole harvested samples of white blood cells from both lonely and gregarious people. He then analysed the activity of their genes, as measured by the production of a substance called messenger RNA. This molecule carries instructions from the genes telling a cell which proteins to make. The level of messenger RNA from most genes was the same in both types of people. There were several dozen genes, however, that were less active in the lonely, and several dozen others that were more active. Moreover, both the less active and the more active gene types came from a small number of functional groups.Broadly speaking, the genes less active in the lonely were those involved in staving off viral infections. Those that were more active were involved in protecting against bacteria. Dr. Cole suspects this could help explain not only why the lonely are iller, but how, in evolutionary terms, this odd state of affairs has come about.The crucial bit of the puzzle is that viruses have to be caught from another infected individual and they are usually species-specific. Bacteria, in contrast, often just lurk in the environment, and may thrive on many hosts. The gregarious are therefore at greater risk than the lonely of catching viruses, and Dr. Cole thus suggests that past evolution has created a mechanism which causes white cells to respond appropriately. Conversely, the lonely are better off ramping up their protection against bacterial infection, which is a bigger relative risk to them.What Dr. Cole seems to have revealed, then, is a mechanism by which social environment reaches inside a person's body and tweaks its genome so that it responds appropriately. It is not that the lonely and the gregarious are genetically different from each other. Rather, their genes are regulated differently, according to how sociable an individual is. Dr. Cole thinks this regulation is part of a wider mechanism that tunes individuals to the circumstances they find themselves in.Dr. Cole made an analysis of the activity of the genes by______.
A

measuring the level of messenger RNA

B

calculating the number of more active gene types

C

instructing the production of certain proteins

D

comparing less active genes with more active ones

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第1题:

There is no ( ) who lays down his life for his friends.

A、greater love than that of a man

B、greater love than a man's

C、greater love than a man

D、as greater love as a man


参考答案:B

第2题:

Today a student knows that__________

A.his knowledge is often incorrect

B.he cannot learn more than the students in the 19th century did

C.those who come after him will have greater difficulties in learning

D.his knowledge is very limited compared with the total amount


正确答案:D
通读文章最后一段,可知答案应是D项。

第3题:

As a carer you are less at risk from injury caused by manual handling than people in any other occupation.()

此题为判断题(对,错)。


参考答案:错

第4题:

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to protnote social change by opening more areas of life to decision.
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
One of the factors that tend to promote social change is__________.

A.joint interest
B.different points of view
C.less emotional people
D.advanced technology

答案:B
解析:
根据第一段“The simple reasonforthisisthatthere aremore differentways oflooking atthings...There are more ideas...In addition,there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies…A儿these factors tend to promote social change”可知,有很多因素能推动社会变革.B项是其中一个因素。

第5题:

A semisubmersible which flops between forward and aft angles of trim is likely to have ______.

A.KML less than KGL

B.an off-center LCG

C.LCG greater than LCB

D.KML greater than KMT


正确答案:A

第6题:

The value of the collateral must be ______.

A.greater than the loan amount

B.the same as or be greater than the loan amount

C.smaller than the loan amount

D.the same as the loan amount


正确答案:B
解析:文章第二段提到it is imperative that…or greater than, the amount of the loan.抵押品的价值一般应高于或等于贷款的金额,这样才能控制贷款风险的作用。

第7题:

The relative air pressure in the inlet manifold of a turbocharged diesel engine is usually______.

A.greater than the average exhaust manifold pressure

B.less than the average exhaust manifold pressure

C.greater at the turbine wheel than at the impeller

D.greater at reduced engine speed


正确答案:A

第8题:

60 It seems ridiculous to the writer that_______________.

A. people dive 300 metres into the sea

B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones

C. cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive ones

D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell


正确答案:D

第9题:

A celestial body will cross the prime vertical circle when the latitude is numerically ______.

A.greater than the declination and both are of the same name

B.less than the declination and both are of the same name

C.greater than the declination and both are of contrary name

D.less than the declination and both are of contrary name


正确答案:A
一天体将穿过东西圈,当纬度在数字上大于赤纬并且纬度和赤纬同名。

第10题:

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to protnote social change by opening more areas of life to decision.
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
?The expression "greater tolerance" (Para. 1) refers to__________.

A.greater willingness to accept social change
B.quicker adaptation to changing circumstances
C.more respect for different beliefs and behavior
D.greater readiness to agree to different opinions and ideas

答案:C
解析:
由第一段以及常识可知,社会容忍度指的是对不同观点、信仰、行为等的尊重。

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