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Yesterday afternoon 2 cargo surveyors appointed by the consignee came on board for investigation. I told them the cargo was loaded between Aug.14th.and 16th. Under favorable weather without any remarks on（）.
A . log book
B . short/over-loaded cargo list
C . the mate's receipt
D . manifest
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A person on a fixed, or floating platform engaged in oil exploration, located 10 nautical miles from nearest land MAY discharge （）.
A . food waste
B . food, ground to less than 1"
C . paper, ground to less than 1"
D . None of the above
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Magnetic information on a chart may be （）.
A . found in the center(s) of the compass rose(s)
B . indicated by isogonic lines
C . found in a note on the chart
D . All of the above
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The independence Day of America was on July 4th,________.
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Chaucer died on the 25 th of Oct., 1400, and was buried in .
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From the 17th century, there was a custom of sending a basket of food to the poor inAmerica.
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Shakespeare was born on 26th April, 1564.
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The first period of the 18th-century English literature was characterized by neo-classicism represented by Alexander Pope, the great essayist who wrote Essay on Criticism.
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Was the horse killed by someone?
A、listening
B、to listen
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2010.12 5. We have received your letter of May 10th, (inform) _______ us of the rise of the price.
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Which animal was recognized as a swift horse by the son of Sun Yang ( 孙阳 )?
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Sun Yang’s son wrote a book entitled On the Physiognomy of Horses
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Was the horse killedby someone?
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听力原文： The Titanic, with 2, 300 passengers aboard, was on its first voyage from Southampton to New York. It was 11:40 p. m. on April 14th 1912 and the sea was calm. Suddenly the look-out man saw the enormous iceberg. "Iceberg ahead ! "he shouted.
Immediately the ship turned, but not soon enough. The iceberg tore a 300-foot hole in the hull and water began to pour in. At first the captain didn't worry because the ship was said to be" unsinkable". Then the ship began to lean. At 12:05 the captain gave the order" Uncover the lifeboats" !
The Wireless operator sent out an SOS signal. Six ships began to race towards the Titanic. But the two ships who were closest did not hear the desperate calls for help.
At two a. m. the captain gave the order"Abandon ship!"A few minutes later the Titanic began to slip beneath the surface. One by one the last passengers jumped into the sea. Then the stern rose up in the air and the Titanic sank quickly out of sight.
At dawn the next morning a rescue boat picked up 705 survivors from the lifeboats. Most of them were first and second class passengers. All their children survived. Of the children who traveled third class, only a third survived.
Where was the destination of Titanic？
A．Southampton.
B．New York.
C．London.
D．Paris.
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35 The little-known George Mason University was a dark horse because
A it had a student body of 30,000.
B its players were all black people.
C its players ran as fast as black horses.
D it had never been expected to be victorious.
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On Nov. 5th, 1605, a few fanatical Catholics attempted to blow King______and his ministers up in the House of Parliament, which was called "the Gunpowder Plot".
A．Charles I
B．Mary I
C．Henry VII
D．James I
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What was the date yesterday?
A March 7th.B March 6th.C March 8th.
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He was caught parking his car in a wrong place and was fined $ 10 on the _____.
A. place
B. spot
C. ground
D. sport
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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's in London on September 15th, 2008．All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡ 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brother, filed for bankruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003．At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $ 65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of art Economics, a research firm-double the figure five year earlier. Since then it may have come down to $ 50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008．Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $ 200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionist at the end of 1989．This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: "I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom. "
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds--death, debt and divorce-still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.
In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as "a last victory" because______.
A．the art marker had witnessed a succession of victories
B．the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
C．Beautiful inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
D．it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
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Slavery was____in America in the 19th century.（2012-75)A．terminatedB．cancelledC．abandonedD
Slavery was____in America in the 19th century.(2012-75)
A．terminated
B．cancelled
C．abandoned
D．abolished
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On April the 18th, 1960, it was a few minutes after 5 o'clock in the morning. Most people in San Francisco were a-sleep, but the rattling of the milkmen's carts and bottles meant that the city was waking to another busy day.
At that moment the land suddenly moved. The vibration was so strong that great buildings fell down, including the new seven-million-dollar City Hall, which the community had good reason to be proud of. Main water pipes burst. Cooking stoves overturned and electric wires flashed. The fires which started caused damage in large areas of the city.
What had happened.'？ The rocks had broken apart along nearly three hundred miles of a crack in the earth of California, a feature of the physical map of that region known as a "fault".
The damage was greatest in San Francisco which was near the center of the fault. Many buildings were destroyed by fire or by the earthquake itself, and hundreds of people were killed. Many people also died from diseases which broke out in the dirty camps later occupied by homeless people. The fires got out of control and, before they died out, four square mi-les of the city were burnt out.
The loss of property was serious. The loss from fire alone amounted to 400,000,000 dollars, more than nine-tenths of the total damage. In those days this was an enormous sum.
The effects of the earthquake were widespread. Rivers and streams began to run in new directions and their flow pat-terns were changed. Trees six feet in diameter were uprooted within half a mile of the central break. An area of wet fields on the side of a hill actually moved half a mile downwards. A road which crossed the fault burst apart and a gap of 21 feet remained between the broken ends.
The California earthquake is remembered because it was so sudden and because it occurred in a city, where the dam-age and destruction were plainly visible and where many people were killed simultaneously. Actually, deaths on American roads from car accidents are now greater in almost any week of the year, but we are so accustomed to road accidents that we do not pay much attention to them.
Scientists and engineers studied the effects of the San Francisco earthquake. The city was rebuilt, and new features were introduced to strengthen buildings and maintain a constant water supply in the event of. another earthquake. The water mains were fitted with control values which would enable water to travel by different routes round broken places. Large underground tanks were constructed to supply water if normal supplies could not be tapped. Special measures were taken to prevent fires, which often do more damage than earthquakes themselves.
The San Francisco earthquake provided scientists with valuable information, since the effects of the break were visible and reports of the incident were an important contribution to the world's store of knowledge about earthquakes.
The main cause of the great loss of property 'after the San Francisco earthquake in 1960 is______.
A．falling buildings
B．broken pipes
C．fires
D．floods
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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics , a research firm—double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: " I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom. "
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.
In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as "a last victory" because_________.
A．the art market had witnessed a succession of victories
B．the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
C．Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
D．it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
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You are on a tanker discharging oil．When all of th...
You are on a tanker discharging oil．When all of the oil that the main cargo pumps can handle is pumped out of a tank，the remainder is ______．
A.Stripped out and pumped directly ashore into the mainline as the remaining cargo tanks are pumped out with the main pumps
B.Stripped to one tank and then pumped out with the main pumps
C.Stripped out and pumped directly ashore after all the tanks have been emptied by the main pumps
D.Gravitated to the centers from the wings and pumped out with the main pumps
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A man was coming home late one night—about threeo&39;clock in the morning—when he saw a guy standing in front of a house with ahorse. The man with the horse stopped him and said,（46)
"Well, what would you like me todo？" asked the passer-by.
"I want you to help me get thishorse upstairs. "
"Why？"
"(47) I haven&39;t got time toexplain. Would you just help me, please？"
Together they pushed the horse up thesteps and into the hallway, then up three flights of stairs and into the man&39;sflat. When they got inside, the man with the horse said,(48)
Fearful that he might be dealing witha mad man, the passer-by helped the man lift one foreleg (前腿) ,then the second foreleg, then one hind(后面的)leg, then the second hind leg, and there stood the horse in the bathtub.
"Now, " said the passer-by,"would you mind telling me what this is all about？"
"Well, " said the man withthe horse," I&39;ll tell you. I&39;ve got a brother-in-law who lives here withme.(49) I can&39;t tell him anything. No matter what I tell him, he says, &39; Sowhat ! &39; No matter what information I give him, he says, &39; So what ! &39; He&39;s outlate tonight.(50) I want him to come upstairs, open the door, take off hisclothes, put on his pajamas, go into the bathroom, then come running outyelling, &39; Sol ! Sol ! There&39;s a horse it the bathtub ! &39; and I&39;ll say, &39; Sowhat ! &39; "
(46)
A. Well, I can&39;t tell you at themoment.
B. He is a very smart fellow.
C. The man with the horse got in side.
D. Brother, could you give me a handhere？
E. He&39;ll be home about four o&39;clock.
F. Now will you help me get the horsewith his feet in the bathtub？
(47)
A. Well, I can&39;t tell you at themoment. B. He is a very smart fellow. C. The man with the horse got in side. D. Brother, could you give me a handhere？ E. He&39;ll be home about four o&39;clock. F. Now will you help me get the horsewith his feet in the bathtub？
(48)
A. Well, I can&39;t tell you at themoment. B. He is a very smart fellow. C. The man with the horse got in side. D. Brother, could you give me a handhere？ E. He&39;ll be home about four o&39;clock. F. Now will you help me get the horsewith his feet in the bathtub？
(49)
A. Well, I can&39;t tell you at themoment. B. He is a very smart fellow. C. The man with the horse got in side. D. Brother, could you give me a handhere？ E. He&39;ll be home about four o&39;clock. F. Now will you help me get the horsewith his feet in the bathtub？
(50)
A. Well, I can&39;t tell you at themoment. B. He is a very smart fellow. C. The man with the horse got in side. D. Brother, could you give me a handhere？ E. He&39;ll be home about four o&39;clock. F. Now will you help me get the horsewith his feet in the bathtub？
