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They said they（）their own job．
A . finished
B . would finish
C . have finished
D . had finished
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It has been suggested that all government officials __ information on their income.
A . dissent
B . disclose
C . unfold
D . uncover
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The undersigned （）that he is duly authorized by the said Government to issue this certificate.
A . claims
B . declares
C . complains
D . say
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Companies that maintain employees who are dissatisfied and negative about their work environment are said to have negative or low employee morale.
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Critics applauded the effort, but said the government should do more to ______ this policy.
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One study said the government would gain about $12 billion in tax ______ over five years.
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Thais do not like foreigners criticizing their government.
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1. Countries which open their markets usually have a _____ of deregulation, that’s to say, they free their companies to compete in markets, without government _____ or subsidies.
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It has been ________ that some government leaders abuse their power to get illegal profits for themselves.
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It was suggested that all government ministers should____information on their financial interests.
A．discover
B．uncover
C．tell
D．disclose
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The union said that they would （)（采取行动)to save their members’ jobs.
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The chairman of the company said that new techniques had_______ improved their production efficiency.
A．violently
B．severely
C．extremely
D．radically
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I teach economics at UCLA. Last Monday in class, I【36】asked my students how their weekend had been. One young man said that it had not been so good. Then he proceeded to ask me why I always seemed to be so cheerful. His question【37】me of something I'd read somewhere before: "Every morning when you get up, you have a【38】about how you want to approach life that day," I said. "I choose to be cheerful." Then I told them a story.
One day I was【39】to the college I taught in at Henderson, 17 miles away from where I lived. When a quarter mile was left down the road to the college, my car died. I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn't【40】So I walked to the college. My secretary asked me what had happened. "This is my lucky day," I replied, smiling. "Your car breaks down and today is your lucky day？" She was【41】. "What do you mean？" "I live 17 miles from here." I replied. "My car could have broken down anywhere along the freeway. It didn't.【42】it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway,within walking distance of the college. I'm still able to teach my class and get help from the tow truck. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn't have been in a more convenient way." The secretary's eyes opened【43】and then she smiled.
I scanned the sixty faces before me.【44】it was a big crowd, no one made any noise. Somehow, my story had【45】them. In fact, it had all started with a student's observation that I was cheerful.
(36)
A．nervously
B．carefully
C．cheerfully
D．eagerly
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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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Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don&39;t think it&39;s possible to be middle-class,conservative,educated and still be truly black. Once, during an Abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn&39;t have a clue about real African American life. "If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice. "
James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. How would you counsel that woman, asked James.
"Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life. "
"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you&39;re interested,the quality of my life is just fine!"
1、"To move the tables" means__________.
A.to move the tables
B.to carry the tables away
C.to gain courage
D.to gain an advantage after having been at a disadvantage
James' mother__________.A.was educated
B.was conservative
C.was poor
D.A and B
James' family led a__________life when she was born.A.miserable
B.happy
C.well-off
D.hardly
James' father__________.A.divorced his wife
B.liked to drink
C.deserted his family
D.B and C
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
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听力原文： Uzbekistan's government said on Tuesday troops had killed "terrorists" not civilians to quell unrest, contradicting witnesses who said they shot hundreds of protesters, including women and children.
An Uzbek opposition party said it had compiled a list of 745 people killed. Witnesses and a human rights activist in the eastern town of Andizhan have put the death toll at about 500.
The unrest, sparked by the trial of 23 Muslim businessmen and blamed by Karimov on Islamic extremists, was the bloodiest chapter in Uzbekistan's post-Soviet history.
Uzbekistan' s prosecutor general said rebels killed 159 people, including three women and two children. It previously said 10 policemen were killed and "many more" rebels.
Residents and a local human rights activist say the rebellion was staged by locals protesting against poverty, corruption and Karimov' s hard line against Muslims.
According to the government source, the unrest was sparked by ______
A．Islamic extremists protesting against poverty
B．the trial of 23 Muslim businessmen
C．the rebellion against Karimov ' s hard line against Muslims
D．rite opposition party protesting against corruption
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听力原文： Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on a heavily guarded surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday, urged patience for the country' s fragile new government and said Iraqis have made remarkable political progress that can overcome a recent surge of violence.
The one-day trip was Rice's first visit to Iraq as the nation's top diplomat. Rice was a chief architect of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as White House national security adviser during President Bush's first term and she accompanied Bush on his own surprise visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003.
Rice told reporters that she wanted to discuss the new government' s upcoming tasks including writing a constitution, as well as addressing the country's security and infrastructure needs.
From the news item, we are sure this was at least Rice's ______ trip to Iraq.
A．first
B．second
C．third
D．fourth
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InfraGard is a grass roots effort to respond to the need for cooperation and collaboration in countering the threat of cyber crime and terrorism to private businesses and the government. By the end of September, there will be InfraGard chapters in all 50 states, Calloway said. With advice from the FBI, each local chapter will be run by a board of directors that includes members of private industry, the academic community and public agencies. Banks, utilities, and other businesses and government agencies will use a secure Web site to share information about attempts to hack into their computer networks. Members can join the system free. A key feature of the system is a two-pronged method of reporting attacks.
A "sanitized" description of a hacking attempt or other incident--one that doesn't reveal the name or information about the victim--can be shared with the other members to spot trends. Then a mote detailed description also can be sent to the FBI's computer crimes unit to interfere if there are grounds for an investigation. Cyber crime has jumped in recent years across the nation, particularly in hotbeds of financial commerce and technology like Charlotte. "Ten years ago, all you needed to protect yourself was a safe, a fence and security officers," said Chris Swecker, who is in charge of the FBI's Charlotte office. "Now any business with a modem is subject to attack." FBI agents investigate computer hacking that disrupted popular Web sites including Amazon. com, CNN and Yahoo!
Several North Carolina victims have been identified this year. The investigation has also identified computer systems in North Carolina used by hackers to commit such attacks. Prosecutions of hackers have been hampered by the reluctance of companies to report security intrusions for fear of bad publicity and lost business. Meanwhile, too many corporations have made it too easy for criminals by sacrificing security for speed and accessibility. Jack Wiles, who will lead the local InfraGard chapter's board, said a recent report estimated 97 percent of all cyber crime goes undetected. Wiles, a computer security expert, has a firewall on his personal computer to prevent hackers from getting into his files. "I get at least one report a day that somebody was trying to get into my computer," he said, "the Net is a wonderful place, but it's also a dangerous one.
From the first paragraph, we know ______.
A．InfraGard is a protective measure against cyber crime
B．InfraGard is a measure of cooperation and collaboration
C．there will be 50 InfraGard chapters in all states
D．private business and the government are now committing cyber crime
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听力原文： The new US Trade Representative said today that the US will reactivate its complaint against European' subsidies for the aircraft maker Airbus. Both the US and the European Union had filed complaints with the World Trade Organization accusing each other of subsidizing aircraft companies. The US said the European governments were providing cheap loans to help Airbus develop new aircraft. The EU said that the US subsidizes the Boeing Company by giving it government contracts and Washington State tax breaks. Both sides had agreed to suspend their cases in January while they tried to find a negotiated settlement. Today Trade Representative Rob Portman said the EU has continued its cheap loans to Airbus forcing the US to go back to the WTO.
What's the main idea of the news？
A．The EU government provides cheap loans to help Airbus develop new aircraft.
B．The US government subsidizes the Boeing Company by giving it government contracts.
C．The Eli and the US try to find a negotiated settlement on trade war.
D．US make a new complaint against EU subsidies for the aircraft maker Airbus.
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A few years ago it was common to speak of a generation gap between young people and their elders.Parents said that children did not respect and listen to them, while children said that their parents did not understand them at all.What had gone wrong？ Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared？ Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many people argue that it is built into every part of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own ways of life.In a more traditional society, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and like, and often to continue the family jobs.In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose jobs different from those of their parents.
In our society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did, to find better jobs, to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do.Often, that is another cause of the gap between them.Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.
Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is the third cause of the gap between the generations.In a traditional culture, senior people are valued for their knowledge, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date.The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.No doubt, the generation gap will continue in American life for some time to come.
1.The first paragraph tells us that ______.
A、the problem of the generation gap draws much attention from people
B、it is out of date to talk about the generation gap
C、children and parents are trying to understand each other
D、it is very important for people to frequently communicate with each other
2.In a more traditional society, old people_______.
A、have their children respect and listen to them
B、do not care for their children at all
C、expect their children to rebel against them
D、do not live together with their children
3.In American society young people________.
A、do not need to find jobs
B、leave home at an early age
C、have better education than their parents
D、marry people younger than them
4.Which of the following is NOT the cause of the generation gap______.
A、Young people like to depend more on themselves.
B、Parents do not love their children dearly.
C、American society changes rapidly.
D、Parents expect too much of their children.
5.The main idea of the passage is ________.
A、that the generation gap needs considering
B、when the generation gap is necessary in American society
C、why the generation gap exist
D、how we can reduce the generation gap
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The president of the university said that they were trying their best to_their university into a top school in the country（）
A．analyze
B．transform
C．adopt
D．regulate
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It is said that old people do not like having their daily ______ upset （打乱).
A．custom
B．habit
C．routine
D．practice
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As a result, these countries are always struggling to their repayments; government finances that could be spent on health, education and long-term development are instead used for debt repayment.
A.dive right in
B.catch up on
C.push ahead with
D.split off from
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The Hope Project aims to bring hope to people struggling with a disability and to their families. The Hope Project was designed to reach, inform, assist and motivate(激发，驱使) parents to ensure that their disabled children get appropriate help and get it as early as possible, thereby(因此) giving them a much greater chance of taking their rightful place and playing their part in society. We also aim to inform. government and society about the needs of the disabled and their families whom we serve.
Since the Hope Project started, our most important work has been to talk to and keep in touch with parents and with persons with a special need, many in deep distress (穷困) through the Hope Project Help line. We try to offer a wide range of supports (advice, mediation, advocacy, networking, professional placement, etc.) and the fruits of our research into issues of health, education, benefits and care. We are national and are contacted from all over Ireland and internationally.
Since our establishment, we have been inundated(使应接不暇) with requests for help from parents of children and adults within the Autistic Spectrum(自闭症). We have as a result developed particular expertise in this area.
In the area of Autistic Spectrum Disorders(泛自闭症障碍症候群), the Hope Project holds one major conference and several workshops/seminars every year to bring the most up to date and relevant information to this country. We host a SIT therapy facility, summer camps, and integrated kindergarten. We assist parents in forming local support groups, classes and home programs.
The Hope Project
Goal of the Project: bring hope to【46】people.
Another goal of the Project: give some【47】of the disabled and their families to the government and society.
The place the Project being carried out.【48】.
Since the establishment, the Project has received many【49】for help.
The way to bring the latest and relevant information to people: holding a conference and【50】yearly.
