BEIJING,Feb.5,2013(Xinhua)-Chinese health authorities on Tuesday launched a campaign to fight against assisted reproductive technology (ART:辅助生育技术) abuse.Unauthorized ART use,surrogate motherhood and the illegal collection and supply of sperm and eggs,as well as the illegal sale and abuse of ovulation induction(诱导排卵) medicine,will be targeted.
The Ministry of Health and health department of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department jointly announced the campaign at a conference.Both departments also ordered all of their local branches to suspend permits for new organizations that wish to offer ART treatments.That is,new organizations will not appear recently.Official figures showed that at the end of 2012,China had 358 organizations authorized to conduct ART treatment.
The health ministry also delivered a brief statement of the country's current infertility rate(不孕率) and ART use.The infertility rate in China is now between 7 and 10 percent,the ministry said.Some 70 to 80 percent of women who are suffering from infertility can be pregnant after changing their lifestyles and receiving medical treatment.Around 20 percent of infertile couples have to resort to ART to have babies.In 2011,about 350,000 people received ART treatment and more than 60,000 infertile couples successfully had children with the help of ART,the ministry said.
1.ART abuse DOSEN'T include________.
A.surrogate motherhood
B.unauthorized ART use
C.the regular usage of medicine
D.the illegal supply of sperm and eggs
2.What does the underlined word “suspend” (paragraph 2) probably mean?
A.Support. B.Pause. C.Allow. D.Ban.
3.From the last paragraph we can know________.
A.Nearly10 percent of couples could not have their own babies
B.70 to 80 percent of women could not be pregnant now
C.Over 350,000 infertile couples had their babies with the help of ART
D.About one fifth of infertile couples have to turn to ART for help
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A.China targets ART abuse
B.ART is used in China
C.ART is illegal in China
D.China increases ART using
In the past,people usually believed what newlyborn babies wanted was food and to be kept warm and dry.They thought babies were not able to ____ things until they were five or six months old.____ the researchers in the United States now believe babies begin learning on their first ____ of life.They say babies are strongly ____ by their environment and one baby will ____ if his or her mother does something that the baby likes.
A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to ____ her mother.This is how babies start to learn to ___ and communicate with other people.The researchers say this ability to learn ___ in a baby even before birth.They also ____ the idea that newlyborn babies can ____ and understand sounds they heard while they were still ____ inside their mothers.
Recently,an American study ____ 112 babies found babies learned better when they were ____.The babies appeared to learn well whether they were sitting up on their own,sitting in seats or __ to sit up.The researchers say keeping that kind ____ had what they called a ____ effect on the babies' ability to learn about objects.They say the body position may be linked to development in the ____.One ____ says babies can pay more attention to ___ an object if they do not have to be worried about their balance.
1.A.eat B.know C.remember D.learn
2.A.Besides B.While C.But D.Therefore
3.A.hour B.day C.week D.month
4.A.influenced B.accepted C.disturbed D.moved
5.A.cry B.smile C.eat D.sing
6.A.annoy B.love C.notice D.please
7.A.live B.connect C.speak D.smile
8.A.disappears B.informs C.exists D.happens
9.A.infer B.support C.deny D.instruct
10.A.recognize B.realize C.receive D.record
11.A.sleeping B.delivering C.shaping D.developing
12.A.helping B.raising C.involving D.containing
13.A.sleeping soundly B.lying down C.awaking clearly D.sitting up
14.A.assisted B.forced C.asked D.mentioned
15.A.hobby B.gesture C.decoration D.purpose
16.A.negative B.unmarked C.significant D.side
17.A.language B.feeling C.brain D.body
18.A.psychologist B.mother C.doctor D.researcher
19.A.exploring B.finding C.feeling D.discovering
20.A.anxious B.confident C.worried D.curious
He changed so much that only when I looked closely________he was exactly my long lost friend.
A.I realized B.did I realize
C.I did realize D.realized I
-Personally,I believe I can do it well on my own.
-________Selfconfidence is the first secret of success.
A.It's up to you. B.Take it easy.
C.Let' s get going. D.I'm with you on that.
I've had a cookie,but you'd better give me________.I want to taste again.
A.other B.another
C.others D.the other
The video,Gangnam Style,is becoming the first video________more than one billion views.
A.got B.getting
C.to get D.gets