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The United Nations is no stronger than the collective will of the nations that support it.（）
A . 联合国没有支持它的各成员国的集体意志强大。
B . 联合国的强大程度取决于各成员国的集体意志对它支持的程度。
C . 联合国的作用依靠其成员国集体意志的支持，否则它不会有什么力量。
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Due to the nature of a vessel’s construction for a particular trade，it does not fully comply with the provisions of SOLAS. Where will this be indicated?（）.
A . On the Exemption Certificate
B . On the reverse of the particular SOLAS certificate affected
C . On the face of the Certificate of Inspection
D . Nowhere； the vessel must engage in international trade
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All people of the same nationality will have the same culture.
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The National Bureau of Statistics will release a series of economic indicators, including inflation, investment and social .
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We will have a_____ holiday on National Day.
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We will organize a new trade fair--Asia Spring fair, ______will feature a wide range of light industry products.
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I still have the that one day I will win the National Lottery.
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The National Bureau of Statistics will release a series of economic indicators, including inflation, investment and social .
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Translation：The number of Sichuan students sitting for the national college entrance examination will hit a record low this year.
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The author believes that in a nation where free enterprise（自由企业制）exists, manufacturers will produce ________.
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism is to improve transparency -- through binding and transparency-- disclos ing the policies and practices publicly and taking regular surveillance of national trade policies .
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The more a nation‘s companies ________ factories abroad， the smaller that country’s recorded exports will be.
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The world's exploding population signals even more growing pains ahead for already crowded areas. A new United Nations study forecasts that by the year 2000,2 billion persons will be added to the 4.4 billion in the world today.
Even more troubling than the increasing number of inhabitants are the projections of where they will be concentrated. The study by Rafael M. Solos, executive director of the U. N. Fund for Population Activities, notes that by the year 2000:
Nearly 80 percent of all people will live in less developed countries, many hard pressed to support their present populations. That compares with 70 percent today.
In many of these Third World lands metropolises (大城市) will become centers of concentrated urban poverty because of a flood of migration from rural areas.
The bulging(膨胀的) centers mainly in Asia and Latin America, will increasingly become fertile fields for social unrest. More young residents of the urban clusters(一群) will be better educated, unemployed and demanding of a better lifestyle.
To slow the rush to urban centers, countries will have to vastly expand opportunities in the country side, the study suggests. Solos says: "The solution to the urban problem lies as much in the rural areas as in the cities themselves."
Worldwide, the numer of large cities ,will multiply. Now 26 cities have 5 million or more residents each and a combined population of 252 million. By the end of the decade, the number will escalate to 60. with an estimated total of almost 650 million people.
In the last paragraph, the word "escalate" means ______.
A．decrease
B．increase
C．go down
D．decline
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The cost is going up for just about everything, and college tuition is no exception. According to a nation- wide survey【21】by the College Board's Scholarship Service,【22】at most American universities will be【23】of 9 percent higher this year over last.
The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily subsidized by rax funds, will also【24】their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points【25】than their privately sponsored neighbors.
As a follow-up, the United Press international did their own study【26】Massachussetts Institute of Technology. At M. I. T. advisors recommended that students have $ 8,900【27】for one year's expenses, including $ 5,300 for tuition, $ 2,685 for room and【28】, $ 630 for personal expenses, and $ 285 for books and supplies. Ten years ago the tuition was only $ 2,150. To【29】that another way, the cost has climbed 150 percent in the last【30】.
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A．published
B．declared
C．written
D．quoted
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European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform. of the common agricultural policy(CAP). Will it be enough to kickstart the Doha world trade negotiations？
On the face of it, the deal agreed in the early hours of Thursday June 26th looks promising. Most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken—the idea is to replace these with a direct payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. Support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut—that should mean European prices eventually falling towards the world market level. Cutting the link between subsidy and production was the main objective of proposals put forward by Mr. Fischler, which had formed the starting point for the negotiations.
The CAP is hugely unpopular around the world. It subsidises European farmers to such an extent that they can undercut farmers from poor countries, who also face trade barriers that largely exclude them from the potentially lucrative European market. Farm trade is also a key feature of the Doha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in November 2001. Developing countries have lined up alongside a number of industrial countries to demand an end to the massive subsidies Europe pays its farmers. Several Doha deadlines have already been missed because of the EU's intransigence, and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September, when the world's trade ministers meet in Cancun, Mexico.
But now even the French seem to have gone along with the deal hammered out in Luxembourg. Up to a point, anyway. The package of measures gives the green light for the most eager reformers to move fast to implement the changes within their own countries. But there is an escape clause of sorts for the French and other reform-averse nations. They can delay implementation for up to two years. There is also a suggestion that the reforms might not apply where there is a chance that they would lead to a reduction in land under cultivation.
These let-outs are potentially damaging for Europe's negotiators in the Doha round. They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keep European expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim. Close analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the sceptics' fears.
The deal agreed on Thursday looks promising in that ______.
A．European farm ministers finally reached a consensus
B．the link between farm products and subsidies is removed
C．farmers would definitely accept the direct payment to them
D．European farm products will reach a lower price level than the world
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听力原文：A United Nations report says sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world w
听力原文： A United Nations report says sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where extreme poverty continues to grow over a recent twenty-year period. In its annual report Tuesday, the UN Industrial Development Organization says forty-seven percent of all people living in sub-Saharan Africa subsist on less than one dollar a day. The group said that figure increased by five percentage points in the years between 1981 and 2001. In contrast, the group said the number of people worldwide living in absolute poverty fell from forty percent to twenty-one percent during that same time.
How many people lived in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa in 1981？
A．37% of all the people there.
B．42% of all the people there.
C．45% of all the people there.
D．47% of all the people there.
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The opponent believe that globalization will keep the poorer nations in poverty.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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The United Nations General Assembly will set up a new agency to
A．deal with gender equality.
B．promote women employment.
C．unify existing UN bodies.
D．accelerate world peace.
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◑The attack of the World Trade Center will leave a ______ impression on those who have witnessed the explosion.◑long◑forever◑lasting◑lively
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America will never again have as a nation the spirit of adventure as it ______ before the West was settled.
A．could
B．did
C．would
D．was
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The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you'd expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other's countries at a moderate cost. What was once the "grand tour", reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody's grasp. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn't have dreamed of. But what's the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other？
Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants are temporarily reestablished on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.
The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We don't see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers. So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions. You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression that, say, "Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites" or that "Latin peoples shout a lot". You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you？
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact--how trite it sounds! That all people are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.
The best title for this passage is ______.
A．tourism contributes nothing to increasing understanding between nations
B．tourism is tiresome
C．conducted tour is dull
D．tourism really does something to one's country
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The freedom of trade greatly improves economic efficiency and consumers will benefit a lot from the direct contact with businesses at home and abroad.
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The businessperson is a person of the highest integrity, who is loyal to his customers, tough to any illegal and evil trade, fair to handle any business, and will try his best to protect the justice,
A．independence
B．prudence
C．specialty
D．faithfulness
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This information would be extremely_____ for students who will take a national examination in June（）
A．helpful
B．official
C．personal
D．peaceful
