| ABOUT LIPITOR Lipitor(阿伐他汀钙片) is a prescription medicine. Along with diet and exercise, it lowers “bad” cholesterol(胆固醇) in your blood. It can also raise “good” cholesterol. Lipitor can lower the risk of heart attack in patients with several common risk factors, including family history of early heart disease, high blood pressure, age and smoking. |
| WHO IS LIPITOR FOR? Who can take LIPITOR: ●People who cannot lower their cholesterol enough with diet and exercise ●Adults and children over 10 Who should not take LIPITOR: ●Women who are pregnant, may be pregnant, or may become pregnant. Lipitor may harm your unborn baby. ●Women who are breast-feeding. Lipitor can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby. ●People with liver(肝脏) problems |
| POSSIBIE SIDE EFFECTS OF LIPITOR Serious side effects in a small number of people: ●Muscle(肌肉) problems that can lead to kidney(肾脏) problems, including kidney failure ●liver problems. Your doctor may do blood tests to check your liver before you start Lipitor and while you are taking it. Call your doctor right away if you have: ●Unexplained muscle pain or weakness, especially if you have a fever or feel very tired ●Swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and / or throat that may cause difficulty in breathing or swallowing ●Stomach pain Some common side effects of LIPITOR are: ●Muscle pain ●Upset stomach ●Changes in some blood tests |
| HOW TO TAKE LIPITOR Do: ●Take Lipitor as prescribed by your doctor, ●Try to eat heart healthy foods while you take Lipitor. ●Take Lipitor at any time of day, with or without food. ●If you miss a dose(一剂),take it as soon as you remember. But if it has been more than 12 hours since your missed dose, wait. Take the next dose at your regular time. Don’t: ●Do not change or stop your dose before talking to your doctor. ●Do not start new medicines before talking to your doctor. |
What is a major function of Lipitor?
| A.To help quit smoking. | B.To control blood pressure. |
| C.To improve unhealthy diet. | D.To lower “bad” cholesterol. |
Taking Lipitor is helpful for_________.
| A.breast-feeding women | B.women who are pregnant |
| C.adults having heart disease | D.teenagers with liver problems |
If it has been over 12 hours since you missed a dose, you should__________.
| A.change the amount of your next dose |
| B.eat more when taking your next dose |
| C.have a dose as soon as you remember |
| D.take the next dose at your regular time |
Which of the following is a common side effect of taking Lipitor?
| A.Face swelling. | B.Upset stomach. |
| C.Kidney failure. | D.Muscle weakness |

If you happen to be the 200th customer to buy Cholesterolblock, you will .
| A.be able to buy it at a low price | B.be the luckiest one online |
| C.try it free of charge | D.chan ge your diet |
Liptor®, Zocor®, Crestor® are .
| A.diseases | B.side effects | C.medicines | D.cholesterol |
CholestrolblockTM has the following advantages EXCEPT that _____________________.
| A.it helps take cholesterol out of whatever food you eat. |
| B.it has been proved useful in hospital testing. |
| C.it helps people absorb at least 42% cholesterol. |
| D.it sells best on Internet every month. |
Where can you most probably read this passage?
| A.In a travel guide book. | B.On a university bulletin board. |
| C.In a health magazine. | D.In a doctor's prescription. |
You know Australia is a big country, but you may not know how easy it is to get
around. The untouched beaches that go for miles and deserts that touch the horizon are just there, waiting to be reached and explored. Following are the different ways you can explore our vast country.
Getting around Australia
Air
Flying is the best way to cover large distances in a short time. You can spend more time on the Australia’s can’t - miss landscapes and relaxing lifestyle. Moreover, competition among airlines makes great flying fees a
vailable for you.
Drive
Australia has a vast network of well - maintained roads and some of the most beautiful touring routes in the world. You have no difficulty finding car rental companies at major airports, central city locations, suburbs and attractions.
Bus
Bus travel in Australia is comfortable, easy and economical.
Buses generally have air conditioning, reading lights, adjustable seats and videos. Services are frequent, affordable and efficient.
Rail
Train travel is the cheapest and gives you an insight into Australia’s size and variety, all from the comfort of your carriage. Scheduled services are a great way to get quickly between our cities and regional centers.
Ferry(轮渡)
The Spirit of Tasmania runs a passenger and vehicle ferry service between Melbourne and Tasmania nightly. Extra services are running during summer rush hours. Sea - link ferries connect South Australia and Kangaroo Island several times a day. Ferries connect suburbs in our capital cities
Walk
With easy - on - the - feel pedestrian streets, walking is a great way to get around our cities.
Besides all of above, you can also experience some of the longest tracks and trails in the world in central Australia - impressive journeys of a thousand kilometers or more that can take several weeks to complete. The underlined word "untouched" (in the 1st paragraph) means______.
| A.secure | B.special | C.natural | D.artificial |
Which of the following is TRUE about traveling in Australia? ______.
| A.More travelers make the flying fees among airlines higher than before |
| B.You can easily rent a car to explore its most beautiful touring routes |
| C.Taking a bus tour is the most comfortable, economical and efficient way |
| D.Train services can offer you more comfort than any other means of transport |
Ferry service between Melbourne and Tasmania usually runs ______.
| A.only at night hours | B.only during rush hours |
| C.several times a day | D.between different cities |
From the passage, we know that ______.
| A.pedestrian walking is a great way to travel between cities |
| B.traveling in Central Australia is time - consuming |
| C.Central Australia has the world’s longest railway line |
| D.you have to walk over a thousand kilometers in Australia |
How Much to Tip
You’re out to dinner. The food is delicious and the service is fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip. Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think.
Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service. Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter’s choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill’s total. Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night.
“Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker,” wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor. “These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimics them.”
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o Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups. He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, “Coming up!” Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers. Rick van
Baaren then compared their take-home. The results were clear — it pays to mimic your customer. The copycat(模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.
Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at
Washington University in St. Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill. After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers’ bills went up. In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (达到稳定水平) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.
“That’s also a point of tipping,” Green says. “You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you. If they weren’t there, you’d never get any service. So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there.” Apart from service, how many other factors affecting the customers’ tipping are mentioned in the passage?
| A.1. | B.2. | C.3. | D.4. |
These studies show that _________.
| A.tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiter’s factors |
| B.people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them |
| C.the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as the other group |
| D.mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad |
According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages?
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A B C D We know from the passage that the writer seems to __________.
| A.object to Mr. Green’s idea about tipping |
| B.think part of Mr. Green’s explanation is reasonable |
| C.give his generous tip to waiters very often |
| D.support the opinions of Mr. Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping |
My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet
. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find th
em. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field — except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick. The writer’s first job was _______.
| A.to stand down the fairway at a golf course |
| B.to watch over the sugar-cane plantation |
| C.to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields |
| D.to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them |
T
he writer learned that_______ from his first job.
| A.he should work for those who he liked most |
| B.he should work longer than what he was expected |
| C.he should never fail to say hello to his owner |
| D.he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for |
_______ gave the writer self-esteem.
| A.Having a family of eight people |
| B.Owning his own golf course |
| C.Bringing money back home to help the family |
| D.Helping his father with the work on the plantation |
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
| A.He wanted to be a successful golfer. |
| B.He wanted to run a golf course near his house. |
| C.He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation. |
| D.He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick. |
For a girl who's interested in fashion, what would be the dream job? Being a model? Probably
no–-that's for a pencil thin who doesn't eat.
One answer is, fashion stylist.
Girls can find it hard to ignore this attractiveness and the field is opening up to normal girls,
not only style or fashion design majors(某专业的学生). "It looked too high before, but now I find it more approachable," said Xue Rui, 22, a Fudan University Chinese literature graduate who works as an assistant stylist at Hermès in Shanghai. "There is no certain principle in dressing up models, and you can try every way with your own distinct taste to make them pretty and attractive." Some professionals said that Xue's not mistaken.
The attractiveness of this work is not only in the wonderful clothes. Now it's a career with a bright future and pay packet. The income can allow you to buy expensive clothes and, with your name and photo appearing on pages, readers will remember your fashion tips.
A stylist at a fashion magazine can have some unique rights. You have a chance to contact famous pesons and dress them up in a style you like. You need to cooperate with top photographers and select places around the w
orld to take photos in. You might also be invited to fashion shows of top brands and can select some of the favorite clothes.
"You have to be ‘all-round’:from hair and make up to clothes, shoes, and accessories (配饰) to the event," said He Qing,
21, a junior in fashion design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. "You have to know everything, and handle several things at the same time. It's challenging. That's why I love it."
So, remember girls, you've been warned.The underlined phrase “ pay packet” (paragraph 3) means________.
| A.a large bag | B.large amout of money | C.chances | D.choices |
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
| A.There are certain principles in dressing up models. |
| B.The only attractiveness of this work is in the wonderful clothes. |
| C.Only style or fashion design majors can work as a fashion stylist. |
| D.A stylist knows how to make a person beautiful, from head to toe。 |
What is the unique right a stylist at a fashion magazine can have?
| A.You have a chance to contact celebrities and dress them up in a style you like. |
| B.You need to cooperate with top photographers and select places around the world to take photos in. |
| C.You might also be invited to fashion shows of top brands and can select some of the favorite clothes. |
| D.All of above |
What will the author write in the 6th paragraph?
| A.Top brands that fashion stylists like best. |
| B.Various fashion shows |
| C.Difficulities that fashion stylists may meet |
| D.Other dream jobs |