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A ship helicopter landing deck on which fueling operations are conducted must have a fire protection system that is capable of discharging at 100 psi pressure a foam spray of at least（）.
A . 30 gallons per minute
B . 40 gallons per minute
C . 50 gallons per minute
D . 60 gallons per minute
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By regulation，you MUST keep a record of the use of your radiotelephone for at least（）.
A . one month
B . four months
C . six months
D . one year
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Your ISP assigned you a full class B address space. From this, you need at least 300 sub-networks that can support at least 50 hosts each. Which of the subnet masksbelow are capable of satisfying your needs?（）
A . 255.255.255.0
B . 255.255.255.128
C . 255.255.252.0
D . 255.255.255.224
E . 255.255.255.192
F . 255.255.248.0
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Cargo vessels being navigated，and fitted with emergency lighting and power systems，shall have their emergency systems tested at least once（）.
A . a month
B . in each week
C . in every 6 months
D . in every 12 month
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An inland oil barge must have equipment available to remove an on-deck oil spill of at least（）.
A . one barrel
B . two barrels
C . five barrels
D . ten barrel
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What could have（）her （）this state of despair?
A . brought；to
B . brought；on
C . brought；about
D . brought；forward
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A fully loaded motor-propelled lifeboat must be capable of attaining a speed of at least（）.
A . 3 knots in smooth water
B . 6 knots in smooth water
C . 3 knots in rough water
D . 6 knots in rough water
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What are the causes of unhappiness? List at least three causes.
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I have been told that there will be a delay of at least three weeks before our order can be ____.
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__________ a teacher in a university, it is necessary to have at least a master’s degree.
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I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
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The train leaves at 6:00 p.m., so I have to be at the station ____ 5:40 p.m. at the least.
A.until
B.after
C.by
D.around
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An aircraft dispatcher shall receive at least 24 consecutive hours of rest during
A、every 7 consecutive days.
B、Any 7 consecutive days or the equivalent thereof within any calendar month.
C、Each calendar week.
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If you have no time to read Part I, you’ll probably need to at least _________ over it now.
A、look
B、pore
C、glimpse
D、glance
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Many economists say the United States will_____economic recession in at least one year.
A．pull down
B．pull away
C．pull out
D．pull out of
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The products described above have been subjected to （） treatment of at least 80ºC for 30 minutes.
A．freeze
B． cold
C． heat
D． wash
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They are said to be reluctant to forsake the pleasures of single life. But nothing could be further from the truth; British women are much more attached to marriage than their European counterparts, around 95.1 percent of British women have married at least once by age 49, the highest figure in the European Union. Only 91.2 percent of British men have walked up the aisle by the same age.
Meanwhile, the much discussed trend for delaying marriage until later in life--blamed on career women reluctant to have children--may actually reflect a return to the historical norm.
The average age of first marriage in Europe 200 years ago was 28, the same as British brides in 1998, according to a paper for the National Family and Parenting Institute, the independent thinktank set up by Jack Straw to advise on family issues.
"The public conversation about marriage has often been conducted in an atmosphere fraught with anxiety that can easily tip over into what commentators have described as a moral panic," the report, comparing European trends in marriage, adds.
"Changes in the marriage rate and in the way people form. relationships are part and parcel of a society where change is rapid and individuals feel helpless in the face of new developments; yet it is vital that these issues can be discussed without blame."
The paper does not include divorce rates. In 1997 Britain had the highest divorce rate in Europe, although by 1999 the rate had fallen to the level of the late 1980s.
Despite much political consternation about the family, the report suggests British attitudes are more socially conservative than those of many EU counterparts.
Nine out of 10 couples in Britain living with their children are married, compared to half in Finland. And while cohabiting is becoming the norm for European twentysomethings, "change has happened much more rapidly across the whole of the EU than in the UK", the report finds. Around a third of British under-thirties live with a partner, but it is closer to half in France and 40 per cent in Germany.
"This report is about let's bring a cool head to this debate," said Gill Keep, head of policy at the institute. "It is much easier to take the panic out of the discussion if you look at it in a comparative way; things that you think are destroying your own society are actually common trends and they may not be that destructive."
She said that despite anxiety over later marriages--the average age of first-time brides rose from 23 in the postwar period to 28 for women and 30 for men by 1999--historically this would have seemed normal.
Social historian Christina Hardyment said that in the nineteenth century couples would not marry until they could afford to support a household. "Women below the middle classes would always work in some capacity, mainly in domestic service, and it made sense to save; people think of kings and queens and nobility being married off at 12 but that was highly unusual," she said.
It is a well-known fact that British women are unwilling to abandon single life for a marriage.
A．True
B．False
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听力原文：The US government counts more than a quarter of all American adults, 28% of all, who have at least a bachelor's degree now; that compares to 24% back in 2000, and it's a very big rise.
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No reference book, perhaps no book of any kind except the Bible, is so widely used as "the dictionary". Even houses that have few books or none at all possess at least one dictionary; most business offices have dictionaries, and most typists keep a copy on their desks; at one time or another most girls and boys are required by their teachers to obtain and use a dictionary.
Admittedly, the dictionary is often used merely to determine the correct spelling of words, or to find out the accepted pronunciation, and such a use is perhaps not the most important from an intellectual point of view. Dictionaries may, however, have social importance, for it is often a matter of some concern to the person using the dictionary for such purpose that he should not suggest to others, by misspelling a word in a letter, or mispronouncing it in conversation, that he is not "well-bred", and has not been well educated.
Yet, despite this familiarity with the dictionary, the average person is likely to have many wrong ideas about it, and little idea of how to use it profitably, or interpret it rightly. For example, it is often believed that the mere presence of a word in a dictionary is evidence that it is acceptable in good writing. Though most dictionaries have a system of marking words as obsolete, or in use only as slang, many people, more especially if their use of a particular word has been challenged, are likely to conclude, if they find it in a dictionary, that it is accepted as being used by writers of established reputation. This would certainly have been true of dictionaries a hundred years or so ago. For a long time after they were first firmly established in the eighteenth century, their aim was to include only what was used by the best writers, and all else was suppressed, and the compiler frequently claimed that this dictionary contained "low" words. Apparently this aspect of the dictionary achieved such importance in the mind of the average person that most people today are unaware of the great change that has taken place in the compilation of present-day dictionaries.
Similarly, the ordinary man invariably supposes that one dictionary is as good and authoritative as another, and, moreover, believes that "the dictionary" has absolute authority, and quotes it to clinch arguments. Although this is an advantage, in that the dictionary presents a definition the basic meaning of which can't be altered by the speaker, yet it could be accepted only if all dictionaries agreed on the particular point in question. But ultimately the authority of the dictionary rests only on the authority of the man who compiled it, and, however careful he may be, a dictionary-maker is fallible: reputable dictionaries may disagree in their judgments, and indeed different sections of the same dictionary may differ.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？
A．The Bible is the most widely used reference book.
B．The dictionary is the most widely used reference book.
C．The dictionary is actually the more widely used book than the Bible.
D．The Bible is used as widely as the dictionary.
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In any country the wages commanded by laborers who have comparable skills but who work in various industries are determined by the productivity of the least productive unit of labor, i.e., that unit of labor which works in the industry which has the greatest economic disadvantage. We will represent the various opportunities of employment in a country like the United States by symbols: A, standing for a group of industries in which we have exceptional, economic advantages over foreign countries; B, for a group in which our advantages are less; C, one in which they are still less; D, the group of industries in which they are least of all.
When our population is so small that all our labor can be engaged in the group represented by A, productivity of labor (and therefore wages) will be at their maximum. When our population increases so that some of the labor will have to be set to work in group B, the wages of all labor must decline to the level of the productivity in that group. But no employer, without government aid, will yet be able to afford to hire labor to exploit the opportunities represented by C and D, unless there is a further increase in population.
But suppose that the political party in power holds the belief that we should produce every thing that we consume, that the opportunities represented by C and D should be exploited. The commodities that the industries composing C and D will produce have been hitherto obtained from abroad in exchange for commodities produced by A and B. The government now renders this difficulty by placing high duties upon the former class of commodities. This meads that workers in A and B must pay higher prices for what they buy, but do not receive higher prices for what they sell.
After the duty has gone into effect and the prices of commodities that can be produced by C and D have risen sufficiently, enterprisers will be able to hire labor at the wages prevailing in A and B, and establish industries in C and D. So far as the remaining laborers in A and B buy the products of C and D, the difference between the price which they pay for those products and the price that they would pay if they were permitted to import those products duty-free is a tax paid not to the government, but to the producers in C and D, to enable the latter to remain in business. It is an uncompensated deduction from the natural earnings of the laborers in A and B. Nor are the workers in C and D paid as much, estimated in purchasing power, as they would have received if they had been allowed to remain in A and B under the earlier conditions.
When C and D are established, workers in these industries______.
A．receive higher wages than do the workers in A and B
B．receive lower wages than do the workers in A and B
C．are not affected so adversely by the levying of duties as are workers in A and B
D．receive wages equal to those workers in A and B
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Some geologists argue that if oil is as common in unsam-pled areas of the world as it is in those already sampled, our current estimate of reserves that exist underground must be multiplied by a factor of 10,000. From this we can conclude that we can meet the oil needs of the entire world for at least five centuries, even assuming that future consumption grows at an accelerating rate. To reach the stated conclusion, the author must assume which of the following？
A．It is possible to recover the oil contained in unexplored areas of the world.
B．The consumption rate for oil will not grow rapidly.
C．Oil will remain an important energy source for at least 500 years.
D．The world will achieve and maintain zero population growth.
E．New technology will make oil discovery and drilling more feasible than ever before.
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On engines having oil cooled pistons the lubricating oil pre-heater must be put into operation and the rate of heating so ______ that the temperature of the piston cooling oil returns are 32 to 35℃ over a period of at least two hours.
A.slow
B.quick
C.arranged
D.high
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Projects have the least attention in what form of organization？ （） 。
A、 Balanced matrix
B、 Strong matrix
C、 Coordinator
D、 Functional
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Part IV Translation：Almost 30 million Americans weight at least 20 percent more than their ideal weight. In fact, the United State is the most overweight country in the wild. （Passage Three）
