20．A.beyond

　　B．within

　　C．despite

　　D．without

　　答案　D　[很难想象没有科技日新月异的发展我们的生活会是什么样子的。此句含有虚拟语气，without没有，符合句意。beyond超出；within在……之内；despite尽管。]

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　　More men are finding their calling as nurses.

　　A new study from the United States Census Bureau reports the number of male nurses has doubled since the 1970s.Back then，about 2.7 percent of registered nurses were men.The new study，which tracked data through 2011，finds that men now make up 9.6 percent of all employed nurses in the United States—about 330,000 men in total.

　　Recent years of shortages have led to increased efforts，according to the report，which included recruiting men into the field.

　　Men，in fact，had been largely kept out of nursing in past decades because nursing schools often refused to admit men.The Supreme Court ruled that practice unconstitutional in 1981 after a case involving a state nursing school.

　　“The relatively high wages and expanding job opportunities make this field attractive，offering stability even during recessions(经济衰退)，”wrote the report's author，Liana Christin Landivar of the US Census Bureau.“And because of

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