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The Colonel ask Ashenden a good many questions and then suggested that he had particular qualifications for the Secret Service. Ashenden knew several European languages and the fact that he was a writer provided excellent cover: on the pretext that he was writing a book he could, without attracting attention, visit any neutral country.
It was while they were discussing this point that the Colonel said,"You know you might get material that would be very useful to you in your work. I'll tell you an incident that occurred only recently. Very dramatic. A foreign government minister went down to a Mediterranean resort to fecover from a cold and he had some very important documents with him that he kept in a despatchcase.
"A day or two after he arrived, he picked up a blonde at some restaurant or other, and he got very friendly with her. He took her back to his hotel, and when he came to himself in the morning the lady and the despatch-case had disappeared. They had one or two drinks up in his room and his theory is that when his back was turned the woman slipped a drug in his glass."
"Do you mean to say that happened the other day?"said Ashenden wearily.
"The week before last."
"Impossible,"cried Ashenden. "Why, we've been putting that incident on the stage for sixty years, we've written it in a thousand novels. Do you mean to say that life has only just caught up with us?"
"Well, I can vouch for the truth of the story." said the Colonel, "And believe me, the government concerned has been put to no end of trouble by the loss of the documents."
"Well sir, if you can't do better than that in the Secret Service," sighed Ashenden, "that I'm afraid that as a source of inspiration to the writer of fiction, it's washout."
did the Colonel suggest that Ashenden's being a writer would relate to his work as a spy?
would make travelling abroad more would make it easier for him to meet people.
would enable him to avoid arousing suspicion. would enable him to use the languages he knew.
reason for the Minister's trip was ________ .
fetch some get over an meet a deliver some papers
rding to the Colonel the incident happened _______ .
a.a few days beforeb.a few weeks before weeks y years before
nden cried 'Impossible' after hearing the Colonel's story because he thought ______ .
could not possibly was too was too close to fiction was too recent
effect of the loss of documents on the foreign government was that _______ .
put an end to one source of caused them a lot of inconvenience
merely denied it had refused to believe it
【答案】：cbccd
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There is evidence that the usual variety of high blood pressure is,in part,a familiar e families have similar genes as well as similar environments,familiar diseases could be due to shared genetic influences,to shared environmental factors,or to some years,the role of one environmental factor commonly shared by families,namely dietary salt(i.e.,sodium chloride),has been studied at Brookhaven National e studies suggest that chromic excess salt ingestion can lead to high blood pressure in man and individuals,however,and some rats consume large amounts of salt without developing high blood matter how strictly all environmental factors were controlled in these experiments,some salt-fed animals never developed hypertension whereas a few rapidly developed very severe hypertension followed by early e marked variations were interpreted to result from differences in genetic constitution.
By mating is successive generations only those animals that failed to develop hypertension from salt ingestion,a resistant strain(the "R" Strain)has been evolved in which consumption of large quantities of salt fails to influence the blood pressure contrast,by mating only animals that quickly develop hypertension from salt,a sensitive strain("S" strain)has also been developed.
The availability of these tow strains permits investgations not heretofore provide a plausible laboratory model on which to investigate some clinical aspects of the human prototypes of important,there might be the possibility of developing methods by which genetic susceptibility of human beings to high blood pressure can be defined without waiting for its oactive sodium 22 was an important "tool" in working out the characteristics of the sodium chloride metabolism.
study of the effects of salt on high blood pressure was carried out ______.
members of the same family tend to use similar amounts of salt
explore the long-term use of a sodium based substance
use it was proven that salt caused high blood pressure
use of the availability of chemically pure salt and its derivatives
main difference between "S" and "R" rats is their ______.
for sodium 22 of tion to of blood
can infer from the article that sodium 22 can de used to ______.
rol high blood high blood pressure caused by salt
the "S" rats from the "R" rmine what a sodium chloride metabolism is like
most beneficial results of the research might be ______.
lopment of diets free of early cure for high blood pressure
rol of genetic agents that cause high blood early identification of potential high blood pressure victims
h of the statements best relates the main idea of this article?
salt is added rats and human beings react near future will see a cure for high blood pressure.
medical field is desperately in need of research.d.A tendency toward high blood pressure may be a hereditary factor.
【答案】：acddd
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"Culture shock" occurs as result of total immersion in a new happens to "people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad."Newcomers may be anxious because they do not speak the language,know the customs,or understand people's behavior in daily visitor finds that "yes" may not always mean "yes",that friendliness does not necessarily mean friendship,or that statements that appear to be serious are really intended as foreigner may be unsure as to when to shake hands,when to start conversations,or how to approach a notion of "culture shock" helps explain feelings of bewilderment and uage problems do not account for all the frustrations that people one is deprived of everything that was once familiar,such as understanding a transportation system, knowing how to register for university classes,or knowing how to make friends,difficulties in coping whth the new society may arise.
" an individual enters a strange culture,he or she is like fish out of water."Newcomers feel at times that they do not belong to and feel alienated from the native members of the this happens visitors may want to reject everything about the new environment and may glorify and exaggerate the positive aspects of their own ersely visitors may scorn their native country by rejecting its values and instead choosing to identify with(if only temporatily)the value of the new may occur as an attempt to over-identify with the new culture in order to be accepted by the people in it.
expression "he or she is like fish out of water"suggests ______.
le away from their cultures can hardly survive in a new culture
b.a fish can not survive without water
le away from their culture experience mental isolation
le away from their culture have difficulties in new environment
order to identify with the new environment,some people may ______.
an exaggerated picture of their own icize the positive aspects of their own county
don their original pt a temporary set of values
h of the following statements is true according to the author?
lexity results in culture shock.b.A typical symptom of cultur shock is confusion.
ure shock is the explanation of ure shock happens to foreign students only.
omer may worry about ______.
r ignorance of the alien r knowledge of "Yes" in the native language
r understanding of friendship r control of their behavior
the foreign visitor is immersed in new problems he finds hard to cope whith,he is most likely to feel ______.
led
【答案】：cbbac
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