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Western Australia is the biggest Australian state,but its population is only（）of the country.s population.
A . 9%
B . 10%
C . 11%
D . 12%
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Which of the following livestock has the biggest number in the UK?（）
A、Beef cattle.
B、Dairy cattle.
C、Chicken.
D、Sheep.
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The Klondike was the scene of one of the biggest gold rushes the world has ever known．
A . location
B . view
C . even
D . landscape
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Which three factors have the biggest influence on OSPF scalability？（）
A . Flooding paths and redundancy
B . Amount of routing information in the OSPF area or routing domain
C . Number of routers with Cisco Express Forwarding enabled
D . Number of neighbor adjacencies
E . Other routing protocols in use
F . OSPF timer reconstruction negotiation
G . Redistribution with BGP neighbors
H . Redistribution with other IGP routing protocols， such as RIP or EIGRP
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A new IBM x 3650 M3 customer has experienced support issues with problem resolution from their previous vendor. The biggest problem was with Microsoft applications failing intermittently. Which of the following IBM products covers this issue？（）
A . IBM Hardware Standard Warranty
B . Techline
C . Tivoli Problem Resolution Manager（TPRM）
D . RTS
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What is the biggest advantage of using Web services to create SOA solutions？（）
A . They are implemented using Java and XML
B . They support a client-server programming model
C . They are used to create tightly coupled applications
D . They are implemented using standardized technologie
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The biggest problem you generally encounter while towing a single tow astern is（）.
A . the catenary dragging on the bottom
B . swamping of the tow
C . the tow tending to dive
D . yaw
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What is the biggest destroyer of ourenvironment?
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8 The north-west of England is the biggest provider with 11% of the total venues.
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Compared with Plato, the biggest character of Aristotle is_____.
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I've read a lot about the High Dam ____ the biggest in the world .
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In some European countries, the people are given the biggest social benefits such as medical insurance.
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The Forbbiden City is the biggest classical imperial botanical garden.
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Foreign exchange market is the biggest financial market in the world.
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What is the biggest rice-growing area in Vietnam?
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_______has the biggest pitch change in the intonation units.
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In the nineteenth century Constantinople was the biggest, richest and most sophisticated city in the world.
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The Biggest Threat to the Role of Police Officers Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at
<center>The Biggest Threat to the Role of Police Officers</center>
Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the training of London&39;s special armed police unit. These are the people who regularly have to tackle the increasing number of criminals who are prepared to carry guns.
The journalists also get a chance to shoot a gun on the practice range—none of it seems that difficult, and we put most of the bullets somewhere on the target. But then we move on to the next stage of the training, where some of the problems, which actually crop up on the street are imitated. The lights on the range are dimmed and we are stood in front of a large screen. We still have guns, but the bullets are fake, and videos are played where actors act out various types of situations.
Does the man holding a woman in front of him really have a gun or not？ Is the man apparently preparing to surrender really going to, or is he going to raise the gun in front of him and shoot？ We have to decide whether to shoot and when, just like the police officer has to when faced with this situation for real. The journalists&39; results here were not so impressive. I am afraid we killed many an innocent person carrying nothing more lethal than a stick.
The debate over whether more police in Britain should be armed with guns has been going on for years. The current policy is to have a small number of specialists available in each of the 43 police departments in Britain. They are kept up to scratch with intensive and regular training.
But the wisdom of that policy has been questioned as the amount of violence encountered by the police has grown. It is usually the ordinary street officer who is on the wrong end of this, rather than the armed experts who arrive rather later.
To see the direction in which the British police are heading, consider the experience of the Northumbria police who have responsibility for law and order in 5,000 square kilometers of Northeast England. The population is 1.5 million, living in rural areas and a few urban centers. The 3,600 police officers in the force deal with all the typical problems thrown up by the Britain of the 1990s.
John Stevens, head of the Northumbria Police Department, has just published his review of the past years. During 1994, for example, 61 officers (54 men and 7 women) were forced into early retirement after being attacked on duty. Before being allowed to leave the police for medical reasons, they lost between them 12,000 days on sick leave: the equivalent of 50 police officers off the street for a full year.
Stevens makes this observation: "The personal cost of policing has never been so high. One-third of the officers leaving were disabled in the very worst degree and will suffer for the rest of their lives for their efforts in the fight against crime."
This picture of a policeman&39;s lot could be repeated in many other parts of Britain, yet the police themselves still oppose more widespread arming of their officers. The most recent survey, conducted last year, showed that only 46% were in favor.
The general public, however, likes the idea: 67% favored wider issuing of guns. But they, of course, would not have to carry them and maybe even use them. Recalling my own experience shooting a gun on the practice range, I certainly would not want the responsibility.
It is clear to everyone that the police need more protection against the gun and the knife. They already carry longer clubs to replace the old ones. They have access to knife-resistant coats and gloves.
The likely next step is agreement from the government to test pepper spray, an organic substance derived from peppers that disables an attacker if sprayed in his face. If used properly, the discomfort, although extreme, is only temporary. Provided the spray is washed away with water, recovery should be complete within a couple of hours. Unpleasant, certainly, but better than being shot.
Many people in Britain would not mind seeing their police with longer clubs or even pepper spray. They would just like to see them. I have lost count of the times we have been filming police officers on the street when local residents have come up to us and told us it is the first time in weeks they have seen police in the area.
Actually the biggest threat to the traditional image and role of police officers does not come from guns and armed crime but the increase in the tasks we expect the police to carry out. New laws and police priorities are taking up so much time that many forces simply cannot afford to let their officers walk up and down the streets. Politicians are now asking members of the public to watch the streets. In some prosperous areas, local people pay private security firms.
Many officers believe it is all these extra duties, rather than the fear of being shot, that have really changed their role. In future, if you want to know what time it is there might not be much point asking a policeman. He either will not be there to ask or will not have the time to answer. 1． Why do actors act out various types of conditions？ 2． Why did journalists "kill" many innocent persons ？ 3． Why do the police oppose more widespread arming of the officers？ 4． What do people in Britain want about the police officers？ 5． What can you infer from the last sentence？<center>Exercises</center>
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What will be the biggest problem with the big cities？
A．There are no jobs to find and no place to live in.
B．The newcomers stop coming in large numbers.
C．Good doctors decide to move out of the cities.
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What is the biggest shock in the writer's career？
A．She lost her job as a field systems analyst in 1920s.
B．She lost her grandmother who was her inspiration.
C．She was denied the post of first manager on account of sexual discrimination.
D．She quit after being totally blown away and crawled back home.
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Lack of confidence is the biggest ________ to his success.
A barrier
B obstacle
C flaw
D drawback
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The biggest challenges for autonomous ships are______.
A．technological problems
B．stable controlling systems
C．rules and security concerns
D．regulations and technologies
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The biggest danger facing the global airline industry is not the effects of terrorism, war, SARS and economic downturn. It is that these blows, which have helped ground three national flag carriers and force two American airlines into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will divert attention from the inherent weaknesses of aviation, which they have worsened. As in the crisis that attended the first Gulf war, many airlines hope that traffic will soon bounce back, and a few terrible years will be followed by fuller planes, happier passengers and a return to profitability. Yet the industry's problems are deeper—and older—than the pain of the past two years implies.
As the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight approaches in December, the industry it launched is still remarkably primitive. The car industry, created not long after the Wright Brothers made history, is now a global industry dominated by a dozen firms, at least half of which make good profits. Yet commercial aviation consists of 267 international carriers and another 500-plus domestic ones. The world's biggest carrier, American Airlines, has barely 7% of the global market, whereas the world's biggest carmaker, General Motors, has (with its associated firms) about a quarter of the world's automobile market.
Aviation has been incompletely deregulated, and in only two markets: America and Europe. Everywhere else deals between governments direction who flies under what roles. These aim to preserve state-owned national flag-carriers, run for prestige rather than profit. And numerous restrictions on foreign ownership make cross-border airline mergers impossible.
In America, the big network carriers face barriers to exit, which have kept their route networks too large. Trade unions resisting job cuts and Congressmen opposing route closures in their territory conspire to block change. In Europe, liberalization is limited by bilateral deals that prevent, for instance, British Airways (BA) flying to America from Frankfurt or Pads, or Lufthansa offering transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow. To use the car industry analogy, it is as if only Renaults were allowed to drive on French motorways.
In airlines, the optimists are those who think that things are now so bad that the industry has no option but to evolve. Frederick Reid, president of Delta Airlines, said earlier this year that events since the 911 attacks are the equivalent of a meteor strike, changing the climate, creating a sort of nuclear winter and leading to a "compressed evolutionary cycle". So how, looking on the bright side, might the industry look after five years of accelerated development？
According to the author, the deeper problems of aviation industry ______.
A．are the effects of various disasters
B．are actually not fully recognized
C．are attracting a lot of attention
D．are not the real cause of airlines' bankruptcy
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The biggest security threats for Britain in the 1970s were from ________（）
A．international terrorists
B．the Soviet Union and its allies
C．major criminals within the country
D．agents working for both camps
