Which is NOT a Nasal vowel？（)

A.nasal septum

B.nasal conchae

C.paranasal sinuses

D.palate

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Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of a rich textile(纺织品) owner was freed(释放) by her kidnappers(绑匪) after 118 days. She said she spent most of the time in a tent in the woods{with; and; although}one foot tied to a tree. She was freed late on Friday{so; after; unless}her family paid a total of $1.8 million, the largest ransom (赎金) ever paid in Italy.

“I was treated{good; bad; well},” the girl told the reporter during the interview, “Biscuits, cakes, often hot food and at times beef.” She said her nearly four months in trouble was spent in a tent set up in a wooded area.

“I never saw their faces and{when; that; which}they spoke, they changed their voices in nasal tones (speaking through nose passage) on purpose ,” she said. “They kept repeating that the only thing they wanted was the money and that they didn't want to have{nothing; something; anything}to do with me or my family.”

The high school student, who was seized by three face-covered and armed men on July 2, 1983 from her family's country villa in Tuscany, said she still had no idea where exactly she had been held.

Oral cavity is the place where oral, nasal and nasalised oral sounds are shaped.()

________is not an English consonant.

A.Labio-dental plosive

B.Alveolar nasal

C.Velar stop

D.Dental fricative

on June 11,2009．It is the first worldwide epidemic【1】by the World Health Organization in 41 years.

The heightened alert【2】an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising【3】in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.

But the epidemic is "【4】" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general,【5】the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the【6】of any medical treatment.

The outbreak came to global【7】in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths【8】healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to【9】in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.

In the United States, new cases seemed to fade【10】warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was【11】flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the【12】tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U. S. , it has【13】more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.

Federal health officials【14】Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began【15】orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is【16】ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those【17】dose were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not【18】for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other【19】. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health care workers, people【20】infants and healthy young people.

(1)

A．criticized

B．appointed

C．commented

D．designated

A.palatal, velar, glottal

B.bilabial, labiodental, dental

C.stop, fricative, affricative

D.nasal, lateral, semi vowel

A.glottal

B.palatal

C.dental

D.nasal