听力原文: Government officials in India say several people are being tested for bird flu i
Several Indians are being tested for ______.
A.the SARS
B.the AIDS
C.the bird flu
D.the TB
Several Indians are being tested for ______.
A.the SARS
B.the AIDS
C.the bird flu
D.the TB
听力原文: Two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacres. One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algeria, killing one person, and an hour later, another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Annaba, killing 3 others. The Algerians agreed to allow European Union deputy foreign ministers into discuss the situation but again, turned down any UN investigation.
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A.A bomb explosion.
B.A traffic accident.
C.Murder.
D.Massacres.
听力原文: Two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacres. One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algeria, killing one person, and an hour later, another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Algeria, killing 3 others. The Algerians agreed to allow European Union deputy foreign ministers to discuss the situation but again, turned down any UN investigation.
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A.At a railway station.
B.At a bus center.
C.In the countryside.
D.In a coastal town.
The news mentioned ______ reason(s) for the action taken by Indian telecom workers.
A.1
B.2
C.3
D.4
听力原文: The University of California at Davis has government experiments with chemicals to get a bigger crop each year. But they haven't paid enough attention to necessary safety measures. In 1964 or 1965, an airplane was spraying chemicals over the fields. Flying low, the wheels of the plane were caught on the fence wire. The pilot got out, dusted himself off, and drank some water from a nearby pond. Then he died. The nurses and doctors got terribly sick too because of the chemicals he had on his body. A little girl was playing around a sprayer. She stuck her tongue on it and she died immediately.
These chemicals affect the farm worker through the lungs. He breathes them in. Nobody looks into the cause at all. They just was the he is sick.
Why did the plane fall to the ground?
A.It was flying low.
B.Its wheels were caught on a tree.
C.Because the chemicals caught fire easily.
What happened in Algeria Tuesday?
A.A bomb explosion.
B.Murder.
C.Massacres.
D.Air-crash.
What will Air France do with its flights to and from Los Angeles?
A.Cancel the flights.
B.Suspend the flights.
C.Restart the flights.
D.Put off the flights.
听力原文: In the 18th century French economists protested the excessive regulation of business by the government. Their motto was laisser faire. Laisser faire means let the people do as they choose. In the economic sense, this meant that while the government should be responsible for things like maintaining peace and protecting property fights, it should not interfere with private business. It shouldn't create regulations that might hinder business growth, nor should it be responsible for providing subsidies to help. In other words, governments should take a hand off approach to business. For a while in the United States, laisser faire was a popular doctrine. But things quickly changed. After the Civil War, politicians rarely opposed the government’s generous support of business owners. They were only too glad to support government land grants and loans to railroad owners for example. Their regulations kept tariffs high and that helped protect American industrialists against foreign competition. Ironically in the late 19th century, a lot of people believed that the laisser faire policy was responsible for the countries industrial growth. It was generally assumed that because business owners did not have a lot of external restrictions placed on them by the government, they could pursue their own interests, and this was what made them so successful. But in fact, many of these individuals would not have been able to meet their objectives if not for government support.
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A.Competition in business.
B.Government grants.
C.A type of economic policy.
D.International transportation practices.
Even while senior government officials held an emergency meeting to discuss 3 bombs overnight, the fourth was detonated. The blast in Yala on Monday marks a return to form. for violence in the southernmost provinces, where soldiers, police and local officials have been targeted by almost daily shootings and small explosions. But the attacks overnight represent a different kind of threat to Thailand's national security. The 3 explosions on Sunday killed 2 people and injured as many as 60. All of the blasts are thought to have been trigged by a mobile phone signals in the first major attacks outside the southernmost provinces in the large cities of Hat Yai and Songkhla.
What were the senior government officials doing when the last bomb took place?
A.Sleeping.
B.Holding a meeting.
C.Indulging themselves.
D.Quarrelling.
Brokers had expected prices to fall due to / President Carter' s embargo on the sale of 17 million metric tons of grain and soybeans ordered by Russia, / in retaliation for Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, / but not as sharply as they did at exchanges in Chicago, / Minneapolis and Kansas City, Mo. /
Less than half a minute into the trading session, / prices for wheat, com and soybeans dropped by the daily limit the exchanges permit / before halting trading in those commodities. /
The decline may hurt many farmers who have held crops off the market, / hoping to get more for their grain, / but it is unclear how consumers will be affected. /
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听力原文: A new enemy is threatening Japanese traditions:leisure.As part of its attempt to increase imports,the government is trying to get people to work less and spend more.The workers are disgusted.
The figures support the western prejudice that the Japanese are all work and no play.Trying to force workers away from their desks and machines,the government said last April that the country should cut down from its 2,100 hours average work year to 1,899 hours and a five-day week.Beginning in February,banks and stock markets will be closed on Saturdays,staff of civil service will be forced out of their offices two Saturdays a month.The government hopes that others will follow that practice.
But some persuasion will be needed.small companies are very angry about it and they fear competitors may not cut hours.The unions are no happier:they have even advertised in newspapers arguing their case against the foreign pressure that is forcing leisure upon them.They say that shorter hours are a disguised pay cut.The industrialists,who have no objection to the government's plans,admit that shorter hours will help them cut costs. Younger Japanese,who are supposed to be acting against their hard-working parents,show no sign of wanting time off either.But unlike older workers,they do spend money in their spare time.Not content with watching television,they dance,dress up,sit in cafes,go to pop concerts and generally drive the leisure-industry boom. Now that they know how to consume,maybe the West can teach them to relax and enjoy themselves,too.
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A.The government wants to show more concern for the health of the people.
B.The government needs to import more goods from abroad.
C.The Japanese have been working too hard.
D.The Japanese hope to change the western prejudice.
What's true about Toyota according to the passage?
A.Toyota has won worldwide praise for its low maintenance and high mileage vehicles.
B.Toyota is going to build an eighth assembly plan in South America.
C.Toyota's expansion will not cause political pressure.
D.According to an American politician from Washington, Toyota benefit from state-run pension systems, which is unfair.
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