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In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world（）
A . to recognize Maori rights of self-determination
B . go give women the vote
C . to introduce procedures for handling industrial disputes
D . to adopt the 40-hour working week
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The key for its success is its response to the urgent desire of countries along the belt and road to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, the idea of openness and inclusiveness shared by all the people in the world.
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When all the assets of a firm are designed to generate sales of a specific product in one country, the profits of the firm are normally unstable.
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China the largest developing country in the world.
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Radio and TV made an appeal______all kinds of people in the country.
A．in
B．on
C．to
D．about
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An effective system of disease prevention and treatment has been established in every country,all over the world.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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The delegation is comprised of excellent athletes from all over the country.( )
involved
consisted
composed
made
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Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of fans in at least 100 countries. It's one of the best-known sports in the world. It all began in 1891.
Dr. James A. Naismith, the father of basketball, was an instructor at a YMCA(基督教) Training school. The school trained people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were concerned about the low attendance during the winter months. They felt that people didn't attend then because the school did not have a good winter sports program. So they asked Dr. Naismith for help. He came up with a new indoor game.
Naismith studied current games. He found that all the most popular games used a ball. So a ball would be a part of his new game, he decided. But kicking the ball or hitting it would be too rough for indoor. So he put 2 peach baskets up on poles. The players had to try to throw a soccer ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen rules for the game. 12 of them are still in use today. Just 7 years after the game began, professional basketball teams were formed.
And that's how basketball was born.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？
A．The Birth of Basketball
B．YMCA and Basketball
C．Basketball——an Indoor Game
D．A Winter Sports Program
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听力原文：W: Tomorrow is the deadline to hand in the term paper. Are you sure you've corrected all the typing errors in this paper？
M: Perhaps I'd better read it through again.
Q: What is the man most probably going to do？
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A．He is going to finish his term paper.
B．He is going to hand in the paper.
C．He is going to correct the errors in the paper.
D．He is going to read it to the woman.
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The prevailing______winds or me Westerlies blow over the country all the year.
A．south-east
B．south
C．south-west
D．west
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was published in 1751, which once and for all established Thomas Gray as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially "_____________."
A．the Metaphysical School
B．the Graveyard School
C．the Cavalier School
D．Comic epic in prose
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Zimbabweans cope with the shortage of the dollars that count in various ways. The government grabs them from other people. On February 9th, it told the country's banks to start selling all their hard- currency inflows to the central bank and the state petrol-importing monopoly, at the official rate. It said that Zimbabwean embassies abroad face power cuts because they cannot pay their bills. But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them. Exporters told their customers to delay payments.
Hard-currency inflows fell by some 90%, forcing the government to relent.
Business folk were relieved. The economy is so stormy that many exporters stay afloat only by selling American dollars on the black market. Others try to keep their foreign earnings offshore. This is not easy, since most sell tobacco, gold, roses and other goods that can be observed and recorded as they leave the country. But some quietly set up overseas subsidiaries to buy their own products at artificially low prices. The subsidiary then sells the goods m the real buyer, and keeps the proceeds abroad.
Since petrol, which must be imported, is scarce, some employers give their staff bicycles. But the two local bicycle makers have gone bankrupt, so bicycles must be imported too. Where possible, local products are replaced for imports. One firm, for example, has devised a way to make glue using oil from locally-grown castor beans instead of petroleum-based chemicals. But even the simplest products often have imported components. One manufacturer found it could not make first-aid kits, because it could not obtain zips for the bags. The local zip-maker had no dollars to import small but essential metal studs. An order worth $8,000 was lost for want of perhaps $100 in hard cash.
Rich individuals are putting their savings into tangible assets, though not houses or land, which they fear the government may seize. Instead, they buy movable goods such as cars or jewellery. Unlike the Zimbabwean dollar, such assets do not lose half their value every year. Jewellery is also an easy way m move money abroad. Wear it on the plane, sell it in London. and leave the money there. The poor have fewer options. A typical unskilled wage now buys a loaf of bread and a litre of milk a day, plus the bus fare to work. For most poor Zimbabweans, the only measure against inflation is to plant maize in the back yard and hope they can harvest it before their landlord expels them.
But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them means the measure government adopted is______.
A．funny
B．efficient
C．active
D．useless
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The report says lack of water in the future may result in several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking waters not safe. Mr. Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases, such as cholera, which are carried in water. Lack of water may also result in more international conflict. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. This is true of Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Syria, Sudan, and Iraq. And the report says lack of water would affect the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.
The Population Action International study gives several solutions to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water. A third way is to use less water of agriculture.
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All of the following suggestions are made in the first paragraph for the improvement of the land conditions in the poor countries except______.
A．new farming methods to be introduced
B．people to be educated
C．reliable sources of water and energy to be supplied
D．better living conditions to be provided
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The rate of population growth is fastest in underdeveloped countries. In these countries a high birthrate is accompanied by a lowered death rate thanks to improved standards of public health. Ideally it should be possible to counter balance the effect of a reduced death rate by all increased use of family planning. In practice, however, population control is a complex matter. Throughout history people have determined the size of their families according to the cultural values of their societies.
Population control has long been a subject of discussion among researchers. Some have argued that the supply of good land is limited. In order to feed a large population, bad land must be cultivated and the good land overworked. As a result, each person produces less in a given amount of time and this means a lower average income than could be obtained with a smaller population. Other researchers have argued that a large population gives more scope for the development of facilities such as sports, roads and railways, which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand to justify them. Similarly, it can be argued that the public costs of society will not be so heavy to each individual if they are shared among the members of a large population.
One of the difficulties in implementing birth control lies in the fact that the official attitudes to population growth vary from country to country. In underdeveloped countries where a large population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, it will be the first concern of government to place a limit on the birthrate. In a well-developed society the problem may be more complex. A declining birthrate may lead to unemployment because it results in a shrinking market. Cities with a declining population may have to face the prospect of a shrinking tax base and a fall in land values. If there are fewer children going to school, teachers may be thrown out of work. When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and the building industry is weakened. Faced with considerations such as these, the government of a developed country may well prefer to see a slowly increasing population, rather than one which is stable or in decline.
The writer suggests that policy makers should consider cultural values ______.
A．in carrying out family planning
B．in producing birth control drugs
C．in improving public health standards
D．in introducing birth control techniques
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Among all the public holidays，National Day seems to be the most joyful to the people of the country； on that day the whole country is （） in a festival atmosphere．
A．trapped
B．sunk
C．soaked
D．immersed
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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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听力原文： I am living in a small village in the country. My wife and I run a village shop. We have a very peaceful life, boring some might say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village and have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too—gardening, fishing, walking in the country side. I love the outdoor life.
It wasn’t always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working till late in the office every evening and often bring work home at the week end. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look hack, I can’t imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for, family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and to start a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream.
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A．He was a gardener.
B．He worked in an advertising agency.
C．He worked on a farm.
D．He ran a village shop.
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The Top 3 Countries in Global Aquaculture Production in 2012a including the Japan.
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Xuan Zang, a famous monk in the Tang dynasty, went west in 627 to seek dharma. He traveled all over the Ganges River and the Indus valley, and visited more than 110 countries. After returning to China
A．Biography of Monk Xuan Zang
B．A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
C．the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions
D．Pilgrimage to the West
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The fact that the fourth plate from the All You Can Eat Country Buffet generated more satisfaction than the fifth plate is an example of
A．increasing marginal utility．
B．diminishing marginal utility．
C．diminishing total utility．
D．the paradox of valu
E．
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Of all the states of America,______is the smallest of the country while Alaska is the largest one.
A．Maine
B．Utah
C．Rhode Island
D．Kansas
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Persons of all ages are ____ to enjoy the country's medical care.
A) asked B) entitled C) willing D) required
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She looked as if she（)miseries of all sorts while telling us her life in the country.
A．A.experienced
B．B.had experienced
C．C.experience
D．D.should experience
