The doctor kept him（ ）on a life-support machine.

A.tidy B.alive C.gentle D.proud

The plants would have grown all right if she（ ）them properly.

A.had watered B.watered C.has watered D.waters

We can’t emphasize（ ） the importance of air and water for the survival of all species.

A.too much B.very much C.pretty much D.quite much

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person（ ）she takes it.

A.whether they be.... from which B.whether it be...from whom C.would they be....from whom D.would it be…from which

The young man,（ ）met us at the station yesterday, will show us around the campus this morning.

A.who B.that C.which D.whose

ve="" already="" suspected:="" young="" boys="" who="" play="" video="" games="" do="" worse="" on="" tests="" than="" children="" don’t.="" researchers="" followed="" 64="" from="" the="" ages="" of="" 6="" to="" 9="" for="" four="" months="" discovered="" that="" those="" received="" a="" new="" playstation="" ii="" gaming="" system="" earned="" lower="" reading="" and="" writing="" test="" scores="" d not="" get="" game="" player.="" this="" comes="" heels="" another="" recently="" reported="" study="" about="" games,="" which="" concluded="" kids="" violent="" become="" more="" aggressive="" less="" caring="" ―="" regardless="" age,="" sex="" or="" culture="" people="" don't="" these="" games. The study on the effects of video games on schoolwork was conducted by Denison University associate professors Rebert Weis and Brittany Cerankosky, who graduated from Denison in 2008. It is called "Effects of Video-Game Ownership on Young Boys' Academic and Behavioral Functioning", and will be published in Psychological Science. Boys who received the system also showed greater teacher-reported academic problems at follow-up than children in the comparison group. The researchers followed 64 young boys over four months. Parents of the 64 were promised a PlayStation II gaming system in exchange for their participation, plus three E rated games. But half the families were given the video gaming system immediately and half were promised it after four months. The children underwent a battery of tests before and after the four months and parents and teachers answered questions about how the boys behaved in school and at home.The conclusions show that, boys who were the first to get the Play Stations spent more time playing video games than the boys who didn't get it immediately—39.3 minutes versus 9.3 minutes. (The boys who didn't get the gaming system right away played at a friend's house). Boys who were given the Play Stations right away spent 18.2 minutes a day in after-school academic activities versus 31.6 minutes for the kids who weren't. The boys who had the video games immediately achieved lower reading and writing test scores than those who didn't. But the Play Stations seemed to have no effect on the boys' math and problem solving skills.Cerankosky said in a statement on the Denison University Web site that there isn’t "necessarily something inherent in video games that negatively affect kids." "It's an activity that detracts from time that could be spent on school work,” she said. If you are wondering why we needed a study to tell us that, the researchers say that conventional wisdom is not always accurate, and it is important to prove such beliefs through experimentation.

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Researchers are trying to tell parents something about what kinds of video games children should be playing and how much time they should spend doing it. A new st