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Attempts to understand the relationship between social behavior and health have their origin in history. Dubos (1969) suggested that primitive humans were closer to the animals (1) they, too, relied’upon their instincts to stay healthy. Yet some primitive humans (2) a cause and effect relationship between doing certain things and alleviating (3) of a disease or (4) the condition of a wound. (5) there was so much that primitive humans did not (6) the functioning of the body, magic became an integral component ofthe beliefs about the causes and cures of heath (7) Therefore it is not (8) that early humans thought that illness was caused (9) evil spirit. Primitive medicines made from vegetables or animals were invariably used in combination with some form of ritual to (10) harmful spirit from a diseased body.

One of the. earliest (11) in the Western world to formulate principles of health care based upon rational thought and (12) of supernatural phenomena is found in the work of the Greek physician Hippocrates. The writing (13) to him has provided a number of principles underiying modern medical practice. One of his most famous (14) , the Hippocratic Oath, is the foundation of contemporary medical ethics.

Hippocrates also argued that medical knowledge should be derived from a (15) of the natural science and the logic of cause and effect relationships. In this (16) thesis, On Air, Water, and Places, Hippocrates pointed out that human well-being is (17) by the totality of environmental (18) : living habits or lifestyle, climate, geography of the land, and the quality of air, and food. (19) enough, concerns about our health and the quality of air, water, and places are (20) very much written in twentieth century.

3()

A.symbols

B.signs

C.symptoms

D.syndromes

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参考答案:C

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阅读《冰岛火山》一文,完成题。(14分)

                             冰岛火山

①来自冰岛的火山烟尘近日肆虐欧洲,迫使许多机场关闭,航班取消,国家政要被迫改变行程,甚至有可能影响全球气候。火山灰为何如此厉害?

②和所有火山烟尘一样,冰岛火山烟尘的根源是地底岩浆。

③冰岛的火山喷发不是什么新鲜事。冰岛位于大西洋中脊上。这个大西洋中脊位于大西洋中间,在北大西洋这部分,是分隔北美板块和欧亚板块的地方,可以说冰岛同时位于北美板块和欧亚板块上。这个中脊高出周围洋底不少,在冰岛这里,索性露出了海面,形成了世界上第18大岛。这里是板块运动活跃的地方,所以经常有火山爆发,冰岛自然也就有很多的火山。这个面积只有10万平方公里的岛屿,竟然有大约130座火山,自从冰岛有人类居住开始,已经有18座火山先后喷发过很多次。

  ④此次喷发的显著特点是冰火交融。除拥有丰富的地热资源外,冰岛境内还有许多冰川。近来喷发的火山位于埃亚菲亚德拉冰盖冰川附近,火山上不少喷发口都覆盖着冰层。3月20日,火山开始活动时,还是在没有冰层的地方冒烟,4月1日火山却直接从冰层之下开始了大规模喷发。冰火交融的第一个结果是融化的冰川形成了洪水。其次,冰水与岩浆相互作用,产生了地质学上所谓的“射气岩浆喷发”。这种喷发导致火山烟尘中含有类似玻璃碎粒的物质。火山灰基本上是由非常小的岩石颗粒组成的,这些颗粒如此小而轻,以至于它们能够很容易的被空气托起来。所有的火山灰云柱都能堵塞飞机的传感器,并包住飞机,这样会增大飞机重量,并改变飞机微妙的平衡。这次的冰岛火山烟柱是特别危险的,因为其中含有类似玻璃碎粒的颗粒,这些颗粒在飞机极高的发动机环境温度下会融化,阻塞并损坏机械结构。喷气式飞机飞过这种灰云的话,发动机将会熄火,进而酿成空难。

⑤冰岛火山爆发带来的大量火山灰严重影响了欧洲各国航班的正常运行。不光是冰岛,连英国的所有进出航班都已经取消,从15号中午开始,英国除执行紧急任务的飞机之外,所有飞机都被禁止飞行,繁忙的机场变成了停机坪。与此同时,爱尔兰、挪威、瑞典北部飞往丹麦、荷兰和比利时的航班也已经全部取消。法国戴高乐机场等其他20多个机场都已经关闭,德国也采取了有关禁飞措施。其他一些欧洲国家也不同程度地受到了影响。全欧洲大概有100万乘客的出行受到了影响。甚至俄罗斯 * * 普京也取消了前往北极视察的计划。因航班取消,挪威首相斯托尔滕贝格也被迫滞留在纽约机场。

小题1: 本文说明的对象是什么?(2分)

小题2:此次冰岛火山爆发的显著特点是什么?产生了什么样的后果?(4分)

小题3: 第④段中划线的“这种灰云”具体指什么?简要回答。(4分)

小题4:第⑤段中划线的词语能否删去?请结合文段内容简析。(4分)