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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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1986 was the tenth anniversary of the 1976 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements held in ___________________.
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In which year the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program recommended that July 11 be observed by the international community as World Population Day?
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The dialogues at the United Nations, for example, would be termed _________.
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This year, the United Nations observes the International Year of _____________________________.
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Which day is designated as the World Water Day by the 47th United Nations General Assembly?
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When was the United Nations founded? ( )
A、 in 1945
B、 in 1949
C、 in 1776
D、 in 1979 [分值:2]
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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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听力原文： Iraq's deputy foreign minister, Riyadh A1-Qaysi, has told the United Nations Security Council his government completely rejects a British plan to change the sanctions program against his country.
In a lengthy speech to the UN Security Council (Thursday), Mr. A1-Qaysi said the British draft resolution would do nothing to lessen the humanitarian suffering in his country. Speaking through an English translator, Mr. A1-Qaysi said the claim that the proposals will help the Iraqi people is misleading.
Mr. A1-Qaysi said what he called the" siege against Iraq "must come to an end. The Iraqi deputy foreign minister also charged that there has been numerous financial abuses in the current" oil-for food" program, and asked the council to order an outside audit of the program.
Who have made the new plan to change the sanctions program against Iraq？
A．The United States.
B．Britain.
C．China.
D．Russia.
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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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听力原文： The United Nations General Assembly has again called for an end to the United States economic embargo against Cuba. But Washington ignored the demand, insisting the sanctions are a bilateral issue.
Cuba's National Assembly president opened the debate at the United Nations by announcing Havana's new legal campaign against the US embargo. Ricardo Allorcon said his country will Erie a US $ 100 billion law suit against Washington. The case seeks compensation for the enormous suffering inflicted by the 37-year-old economic blockade on the Cuban people. After the debate, the UN General Assembly voted 155 to 2 to demand an end to the sanctions for the eighth straight year. Only the US and Israel opposed the resolution. Washington's key allies, Japan, Canada and the European Union supported the calls for the lifting of the blockade. Washington has ignored the non-binding UN resolutions, insisting its embargo is a bilateral trade policy towards Cuba.
In Bogota, Columbia, today, a mass of car bomb, packed with shrapnel, exploded on a busy street. Eight people are dead, forty-five others injured. Police believe that drug lords put the bomb there, angry that the government is sending suspected narcotics traffickers to the United States for trial.
Questions:
6.What is the American government referred to as in the news？
7.How much does Cuba ask for from America as compensation in this law suit？
8.Why does America ignore the UN's resolution？
9.How many people were killed and injured in the car bomb in Bogota, Columbia？
10.What is the suspected reason for the accident according to the police？
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A．U.S. government.
B．Washington.
C．National Assembly.
D．General Assembly.
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The Dial, edited by Margaret Fuller, was among the first influential magazines published in the United States.
A．illustrated
B．profitable
C．imaginative
D．important
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The United Nations Conference on Drug Abuse that took place earlier this year in Vienna, was a very productive meeting. As never before, the nations of the world demonstrated a willingness to confront a common threat.
Most previous international gatherings on this subject have not seen the same intensity of delegate inter est. Many nations have gone through a shock of recognition. A decade ago, only those nations identified as "producing countries" also become "consuming countries", but many have witnessed the growth within their borders of drug trafficking gangs (often allied with terrorists) so powerful they present a danger to the state's stability. Many developing countries now have the worst of both worlds, in that they grow their own people. There is a growing sense of fright in ninny governments that matters are out of control and the single way to recover is through cooperation with other countries.
The high points of the conference were the drafting of two documents, both of which were adopted with out a disagreed vote. One was a joint declaration of intent to combat drag abuse and traffic. The other consisted of many detailed suggestions for particular regional and national policies.
Overall, the conference developed a two-level action plan. The focus was on ways to curb the demand for dangerous drugs and on methods of destroying at least interrupting the distribution process.
On the demand side, the delegates recommended the establishment of a system for collecting information on the nature and scope of narcotics use. In addition, they concluded that drug education should be taught in schools and that governments and labor organizations should act together in the anti-drug campaign in the work place. The delegates also recommended strict adherence to international agreements to curb the supply of narcotics.
The United Nations Conference was held to discuss ______.
A．ideological and individual differences
B．production
C．drug abuse
D．nations of file world
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The United Nations chapter dedicated to the education, promotion, facilitation and advocacy of sustainable practices and environmentally sound concerns is called the:
A、 UNRWA
B、 UNIFEM
C、 UNODC
D、 UNEP
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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 most common type of undernutrition in industrialized nations, such as the United States, is
A．anorexia
B．protein deficiency
C．obesity
D．iron deficiency
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The airlines are mom and more nervous, and they want the problem be considered by IATA, a United Nations body.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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听力原文： The United Nations mission in Sierra Leone reports tile rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has begun carrying out its promise to return weapons and military equipment it seized a year ago from U.N. peacekeepers.
U.N. officials the country say RUF commanders have handed over rifles and other weapons, vehicles, equipment and uniforms at a U. N. ceremony in the northern town of Makeni, a rebel strong hold that U. N. troops moved in to earlier this year.
A U.N. statement says the leader of the rebel delegation, Colonel Ngulu Kpakai, told the U. N. commander that logistical problems had prevented the return of all the U.N. equipment. He promised to hand over more in the future.
The rebels seized the military equipment when they surrounded and seized hundreds of U. N. peacekeepers. The U. N. troops were later released through negotiations and the rebels pledged to return the equipment during peace talks.
Which one of the following is NOT mentioned in the llst of the military equipment handed over？
A．Rifles.
B．Vehicles.
C．Uniforms.
D．Fuel.
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The United Nations' experts are supposed to
A．construct strong buildings.
B．put forward proposals.
C．detect disastrous earthquakes.
D．monitor earthquakes.
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According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation's Jewish population is in shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990. What's truly startling is that the reported decline is not tree. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it.
Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million.
Despite all this, the two figures --5.2 million now, 5.5 million then --are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis.
United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone's definition, including the researchers.
Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one.
So why did the organization flawed figures once again？ Some scholars who have studied the. survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It' s too early to tell if that' s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups--"highly involved" Jews and "people of Jewish background"- and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result, most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible.
We can' t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the National Jewish Population Survey？
A．It found a decline of 300,000 Jews in ten years.
B．It was carded out by United Jewish Communities.
C．This is the first time United Jewish Communities has made mistakes in the population survey.
D．The reported decline is not reliable.
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听力原文： A new study says millions of the world' s children continue to live in poverty, disease and despair. VOA's correspondent Bmeck Ardery reports on the annual report from UNICEF, the United Nations Children' s Fund.
The report acknowledges great progress has been made in the eradication of certain childhood diseases such as polio and measles. However, it emphasizes that for millions of the world' s children, armed conflicts, disease and forced labor continue to take a heavy toll. Susan Surandon, the American film actress who is recently appointed UNICEF special representative, told reporters that 3 main factors are endangering the lives and futures of the world' s children. "Poverty is killing our children; HIV is killing our children, disproportionately in sub-Saharan Africa; armed conflict is killing our children. And when I say killing, I mean their bodies and their souls their futures, our futures." Ms. Surandon cited statistics which show that in the last decade 2 million children died in wars, 6 million were disabled as the result of armed conflicts, and 14 million have been orphaned by the disease AIDS. A special focus in this year' s UNICEF report is on the rights of adolescents. No longer children in the traditional sense, the report says adolescents still need positive support and guidance and the opportunity to finish school. Breck Ardery, VOA News, at the United Nations.
According to the UNICEF report, great progress has been made in the protection of world' s children from______.
A．some childhood diseases
B．AIDS
C．wars
D．forced labor
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In order for the RU-486 pill to be approved for use in such nations as the United States, it is necessary that______.
A．the drug be proven absolutely safe for human use
B．a consensus be reached in the nation regarding the proper usage of such drugs in a moral sense
C．influential opposition groups accept it, opening the way for political feasibility
D．the question of when life begins be satisfactorily resolved and the current health concerns related to the pill clarified
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To eliminate child－labor （) the Labor Organization, a special agency of the United Nations, has introduced several child－labor conventions among its members.
A．A.abuses
B．B.allowances
C．C.budgets
D．D.dividends
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Though the Unites States is a ____ country, it should obey the rules made by the United Nations. (power)
