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1.
澳大利亚国名为澳大利亚联邦，行政区划分为
个州和
个区。
2
．英国是一个
政体的国家，
是世袭的国家元首和武装部队总司令。
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．世界的三大宗教是佛教，
和
。
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．
当代新闻周刊社会问题综合报道所常用
的一种模式是：
→
问题
→
→
措施
→
评论。
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．
美国的新闻杂志主要有《美国新闻与世界报道》，
和
。
1
．澳大利亚国家元首是
，由女王任命的
代表。
2
．英国的最高立法机构是
，它由上下两院组成，但
院没有立法的实权。
3
．基督教主要可分为：东正教，
和
。
4
．传统的新闻结构是
，由标题、
和本文三部分组成。
5
．美国主要的电视网是
NBC
，
和
。
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．澳大利亚主要有三个政党，它们是国家乡村党，
和
。
2
．
是世界上最富有的女人，在世界亿万富翁排行榜上名列第
。
3
．圣经由
和
两部分组成。
4
．英国主要新闻杂志有
，
和《旁观者》
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．美国最有影响的三家大报是《纽约时报》，
和
。
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6. Ex-Serbian president on trial for
war crimes
7. NY building collapses
after explosion, fire
8. Taiwan
leader
’
s son-in-law charged
with insider trading
9. Israel OKs
Expansion; 15 Troops Killed
10. Wife
admits murdering husband in divorce row
6. Australia
gov
’
t in leadership clash
7. Koizumi: Pledge to visit shrine
still valid
8. 2,660 officials punished
in crackdown on illegal mining
9. Nepal
dispute settled; peace talks to resume
10.
15 soldiers killed;
combat expansion OK'd
6.
Planes grounded as bad weather strikes Beijing
7. Vaccine ready for human testing
8. New EU rules to hit home appliance
exports
9. Bush: Terror war not over
yet
10. 19 injured in riot in central
China
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11 The community, however, refused to
budge in Brussels last month during failed final
session of
GATT trade talks.
A. change opinion
B.
agree
C. move
D. back
12
The
question
then
is
whether
society
now
deems
a
fairy-tale
marriage
essential
to
the
monarchy
’
s
survival.
1
A.
irrelevant
B. vital
C. unimportant
D. interesting
13 Every night, prime-time television
assails children with mindless sitcoms and soap
operas.
A. attracts
B. interests
C. attacks
D. influences
14
The
brass
bands,
speeches
and
ticker
tape
are
a
far
cry
from
the
shame
and
silence
that
Vietnam veterans met.
A. similar to
B. far away from
C. familiar
with
D. different from
15 France
’
s
intelligence service has been most brazen about
economic espionage.
A. shameless
B. ashamed
C. brave
D. familiar
16 A
bipartisan
drive
is
under
way
to
raise
or
repeal
the
earnings
limit,
offsetting
the
potential
costs with new
payroll taxes on state and local government
workers.
A. agreement
B. party
C. talk
D. effort
17 People do not
kill their wives in such a premeditated, ingenious
and theatrical way.
A. cruel
B.
illegal
C. shameful
D.
clever
18 The
nation
’
s thrift industry has
been going bust for a decade.
A. broke
B.
better
C. fast
D.
foreward
19
The
plastics
industry
scrambled
to
support
recycling
mostly
out
of
fear
that
its
ubiquitous
products will
otherwise be banned.
A. slow
B. hurry
C. is sure
D.
is sorry
20
In
Februray
the
number
of
women
aged
18-49
watching
television
during
the
day
was
a
catastrophic 14%.
A. sad
B. terrible
C. disastrous
D.
weak
11 History has repeatedly shown
that even superior conventional forces cannot be
relied upon to
deter an aggressor from
chancing an attack.
A. discourage
B.
defend
C. deserve
D. develop
12
Would the British really relish a workday monarchy
like Denmark
’
s?
A. realize
B. enjoy
C.
regret
D. hate
13 These
scandals capped a Spring and Summer of monarchial
discontent.
A. content
B. satisfaction
C. unhappiness
D. love
14
The
busybody
and
the
crybaby
are
getting
to
be
the
most
conspicuous
on
the
American
playground.
A. controversial
B.
contradictory
C. ordinary
D. obvious
2
15
The
increase
has
been
so
alarming
that
both
the
CIA
and
the
FBI
have
beefed
up
their
economic
counterintelligence programs.
A.
strengthened
B. weakened
C.
stopped
D. began
16 The
best way to help seniors bent on working may be to
remove obstacles in their paths.
A.
afraid to work
B. unwilling to work
C.
ready to work
D. determined to work
17 The confession of the terrible crime
stunned the city.
A. saddened
B.
strengthened
C. weakened
D. shocked
18. The economy will suffer if the
current skyrocketing oil prices continue.
A. rising
B. flying
B. diving
D. falling
19
The
plastics
industry
scrambled
to
support
recycling
mostly
out
of
fear
that
its
ubiquitous
products will
otherwise be banned.
A. low quality
B. seen
everywhere
C. environment- unfriendly
D. cheap and light
20 New
Jerseyans turned out a Democratic legislature
after the biggest tax boost in state history.
A. reduction
B. drop
C. hike
D. fall
11
The
death
sentence
was
decreed
as
an
emergency
measure
to
curtail
wool
production
and
rescue a vital export industry.
A. reduce
B. increase
C. raise
D. improve
12
But
the
salacious
news
about
somebody
else
brought
no
lasting
respite
for
the
beleaguered
House of
Windsor.
A. believed
B. criticized
C. beloved
D. belittled
13
Three
days
after
this
bombswhell,
the
Sun,
Britain
’
s
raciest
tabloid
announced
it
possessed
another juicy
phone transcript.
A. fastest
B. most intersting
C. most exciting
D. funniest
14 It is an odd comination of ducking
responsibility and telling everybody else what to
do.
A. taking
B.
facing
C. finding
D.
avoiding
15
Women
in
the
US
armed
forces
must
determine
whether
it
is
worth
registering
a
complaint
when a male
colleague steps out of line.
A. behaves
improperly
B.
steps away
C. does not line up
D. behaves himself
16 The campus is far more diverse than
before with thousands of students from different
countries.
A. big
B.
interesting
C. expensive
D. varied
17 Last week, Perot and Bush engaged in
an Oppo skirmish so nasty they finally declare a
truce.
A. surrender
B. victory
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C. true
agreement
D. agreement to stop fighting
18 All that will be left will be the
ash and building-demolition debris.
A.
broken pieces
B. accident
C.
waste
D. rubbish
19
The
plastics
industry
scrambled
to
support
recycling
mostly
out
of
fear
that
its
ubiquitous
products will
otherwise be banned.
A. allowed
B. forbidden
C.
encouraged
D. used
20 Very low taxes at
the central government level were a means of
redressing inequality.
A. addressing
B.
dressing
C. compensating
D. fighting
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A Indian state bans Coke, Pepsi
B US Rep Accuses BP Of Mkt Manipulation
In Alaska Move
C
Probe into air plot focuses on brothers
D CAAC tightens up security at
airports
E
Shanghai maglev train catches fire
21
India's Supreme Court has since asked the two
companies to disclose the contents of their soft
drinks. Four Indian states - Rajasthan,
Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh - have
already
imposed a ban on sale of Coke
and Pepsi at colleges, schools and government
offices. Several
other states have said
they are examining the issue.
22 HOUSTON (Dow
Jones)--U.S. House Energy Committee Chairman Joe
Barton, R-Texas,
suggested that BP
PLC's (BP) partial shutdown of its Prudhoe Bay,
Alaska, oilfield could be part
of a
wider strategy to influence the market, according
to The Financial Times.
23
LONDON - The investigation into a plot to blow up
jetliners over the Atlantic zeroed in
Saturday on brothers arrested in
Pakistan and Britain, one named as a key al-Qaida
suspect who
left the family's home in
England years ago and the other described as
gentle and polite.
24
China's General Administration of Civil Aviation
(CAAC) ordered tight airport security across
the nation on Friday after British
police foiled a terrorist plot to blow up aircraft
between the
United Kingdom and the
United States.
25 A maglev train caught
fire yesterday afternoon as it arrived at the
terminal, but was
extinguished an hour
later. No deaths or injuries were reported.
According to a statement from the
Shanghai municipal government, a
compartment caught fire at 2:40 pm as the train
reached the
Longyang Lu terminal from
the Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Passengers were
evacuated immediately.
A North Korea slams
Koizumi's Tokyo war shrine visit
B
Muslim groups say British policies fuel militancy
C China to introduce anti-drug law
D British terror threat may not be over
E Bomb kills 8, wounds 28 in Baghdad
4
21 China's
legislature, the Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress (NPC) will read
the
drafts
of
a
new
anti-drug
law
and
a
new
property
law
during
a
six-day
legislative
session
which will begin on August 22.
22 SEOUL -
North Korea on Wednesday called a visit by Japan's
prime minister to a Tokyo war
shrine
grave
insult,
in
its
first
official
reaction
to
the
pilgrimage
that
enraged
Seoul
and
Beijing.
23 British authorities arrested two
dozen suspects on Thursday for allegedly plotting
to use liquid
explosives to blow up
airliners flying from Britain to the United
States. The arrests prompted the
United
States
to
raise
its
terror
alert
to
the
highest
level
ever
and
prompted
airports
to
ban
passengers
from taking liquids, gels and creams on planes.
24
BAGHDAD,
Iraq
-
A
bomb
exploded
Wednesday
in
a
crowd
of
day
laborers
in
central
Baghdad,
killing
eight
people
and
wounding
28,
police
said.
Dozens
of
gunmen
attacked
the
provincial offices in Basra, apparently
to avenge a tribal leader killed the day before.
25 LONDON -
British Muslim groups said on Saturday Britain's
policy on Iraq and Lebanon was
fuelling
militancy, as Pakistan said it had arrested a
British al Qaeda member over an alleged plot
to blow up transatlantic airliners.
A Sino-US talks
cement mutual trust
B Sophomore wins
lawsuit against university
C Terror
plot probe under way in U.S.
D
Regulations on online video mulled
E
Injection kills 3, 78 others affected
21 Three people have now died, while 78
more are struggling with symptoms ranging from
chest
pain to anaphylactic shock, after
receiving a hazardous antibiotic injection.
22 China is to
issue new regulations against websites which
broadcast short films without state
permission, according to the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television
(SARFT). The
administration has listed
the websites of Sina, Sohu and Netease as
authorized providers of online
video
programs.
23
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators are pursuing
leads in the United States related to the
foiled plot to blow up flights from
Britain but so far have found no evidence of
terrorist activity,
Bush administration
officials said Friday.
24
Han
Bing,
is
able
to
go
back
to
campus
after
the
court
overturned
an
expulsion
decision
previously
made
by
Shenyang
Agriculture
University,
on
August
8,
according
to
the
Huashang
Morning News.
25 The Chinese and US
congress members held their
third
meeting on Wednesday in Guilin, a
resort
city
in
South
China's
Guangxi
Zhuang
Autonomous
Region,
with
Vice-Chairman
of
the
5
Standing
Committee
of
the
National
People's
Congress
(NPC),
Sheng
Huaren,
heading
the
Chinese
representatives.
The
meeting
had
considered
China-US
relations,
the
Taiwan
question,
China's peaceful development, bilateral
trade and other regional and international issues.
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将下列句子译成汉语。
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By
American
standards
—
and
those
of
many
English-speaking
Canadians
—
bilingual,
multi-
cultural, tolerant Canada has bent over backward
to accomdate its minorities.
27 The problems of an aging citizenry,
of labor shortages, of immigration pressures will
give the
world
’
s
politicians a sufficient agenda of worries.
28 Polls show that
Americans today are less willing than earlier
generations to commit to marriage
or
stick out a bad marriage for their
children
’
s sake.
29 Twin malformations are cropping up
in the Aerican character: a nasty intolerance and
a desire
to blame everyone else for
everything.
30 The greatest
lift the nation could give its police is the
promise that when they do their jobs well,
it will amount to something.
26
A
nation
that
once
prided
itself
on
a
way
of
life
superior
to
its
neighbors
’
now
stands
in
economic relation to Asia, particularly
Japan, as a colony to a mother country.
27 The issue of immigration
and integration of foreign citizens shared top
billing with the urgent
problem of
rapid political change in Eastern Europe.
28 In the past decade,
Hollywood
―
heavies
‖
have been quick to push for select
causes in TV and
movie scripts,
including more sympathetic coverage of the
environment and homosexuals.
29 It
’
s tough
enough these days for american companies to
compete with their Pacific Rim rivals,
even when the playing field is level.
30 Police work on inner-
city streets is a domestic Vietnam, a dangerous
no-win struggle fought by
confused
misdirected and unappreciated troops.
26 Aggravating the crsis is cut-throat
grain dumping by the US and the E. C., which both
unload
surplus wheat overseas at
subsidized prices.
27
Despite the dramatic slow-down in population
growth, demographic trends over the nest few
decades promise some catastrophes and a
flock of new challenges to human ingenuity.
28 Every night, prime-time
television assails children with minkless sitcoms
and soap opras that
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present materialism and unrelenting
self-gratification as the only goals worth
pursuing.
29 The United
States and the Soviet Union have spared no expense
to ensure that the other side
cannot
contemplate a first strike.
30 Unless some new solution can be
found, current welfare programs seem unable to
break the
culture of poverty and the
abiding sense of victimization that handicaps many
poor people.
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'Three-alls' to be trademarked by
Japanese firm
The 'three-alls', which
was a policy of
implemented during
World War II in China, is under application for
registry as a trademark in
China by
Japanese company Fujian Industry Co Ltd (Fujian
Chanye Zhushihuishe), the
Contemporary
Gold newspaper reported Thursday.
Ma, a manager at the Yujia
Trademark Office in Hangzhou, east China's
Zhejiang Province, was
surprised to see
the 'three-alls' on the list of brand applications
on the Internet Wednesday morning,
with
the applicant being a Japanese company.
According to
the law, newly applied trademarks have to go
through a final stage of being
displayed on a notice list for three
months before they are officially registered. If
there are no
disputes or disagreements
from others towards the brand name during this
period, it would be
accepted as a
trademark.
knowledge of history knows
what the 'three-alls' means. But the company is
planning to use the
phrase to promote
'medicine, officinal drinks and nutrients for
human use'
register a controversial and
unprofitable trademark,
The Trademark Law of the PRC states any
item implying discrimination towards the nation or
is
harmful to social morality must not
be registered as a trademark. Under this law, Ma
says, the
'three alls' trademark is
illegal.
Now Ma
has announced his opposition to the three-alls to
the authorities, claiming the item might
result in a bad effect on society. But
he is still worried the brand might be accepted if
he loses the
argument against his
opposition.
The
company that helped the Japanese company register,
told the paper Wednesday that they were
just the business deputy, and the agent
was eligible to apply for any brand name they
wanted.
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An anonymous official with
the Trademark Association of China believes the
'three-alls' would
have been an
ordinary trademark if it had been applied for by a
company from another country
instead of
Japan.
All
citizens interviewed on the streets by the paper
were against the 'three-alls' being registered.
A man surnamed Yang said he
was happy that the application has been
questioned, because most
people had no
way to be informed about the notice list.
Another woman
was doubtful of the company's motivation in using
such a trademark.
knows the meanings of
the expression,
The 'three-alls' policy was used by
Japanese troops when they invaded Northern China
starting in
October of 1938. Under the
policy, 3.2 million people were killed, 50 million
livestock were
slaughtered, and 89.5
million homes were burned to the ground from 1938
and 1945 in Northern
China alone,
according to incomplete statistics.
31 What is the
―
three-
alls
‖
policy?
32
What has the Japanese company done with the
―
three-
alls
‖
?
33
According to the law, what kind of trademark can
not be registered?
34 How did the
Chinese public react to the incident?
35 When was the
―
three-
alls
‖
policy first used?
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17 nabbed in airplane terror plot
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani
intelligence agents have arrested as many as 17
people, some
of them British nationals
and at least one with alleged ties to al-Qaida, in
the plot to blow up
jetliners flying
from Britain to the United States.
Britain hailed Pakistan's
help in thwarting the planned attack, but the
arrests on Pakistani soil
showed that
despite its successes against al-Qaida, the
country remains a fertile ground for Islamic
militancy.
British authorities arrested 24 people
Thursday in what they said was a scheme to bring
down as
many as 10 jetliners in a
nearly simultaneous strike. The suspects were
believed to be mainly
British Muslims,
at least some of Pakistani ancestry.
The Foreign Ministry said
that acting on information received from Britain,
Pakistan had made
arrests that
triggered the arrests in Britain. It named British
national Rashid Rauf as a
who had been
nabbed in Pakistan.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao
alleged that Rauf has ties with the al-Qaida
terror network.
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British authorities, which
led to further arrests in
Britain,
Associated Press.
Foreign Minister Khursheed
Kasuri, in an interview with CNN, confirmed the
arrests of seven
suspects in Pakistan,
including Britons. He said the suspects
time
Another senior government official said
they included two Britons of Pakistani origin who
were
arrested about a week ago, and
five Pakistanis detained in the eastern city of
Lahore and the
southern city of
Karachi. The Pakistanis were arrested on suspicion
that they served as the Britons'
local
facilitators, the official said.
A Pakistani intelligence
official said 10 Pakistanis were arrested Friday
in Bhawalpur district, 300
miles
southwest of Islamabad, in connection with the
terror plot. A second intelligence official
confirmed there were arrests in
Bhawalpur, but did not know how many. The
officials spoke on
condition of
anonymity because of the secretive nature of their
jobs.
A Foreign
Ministry statement said the arrests in Pakistan
underscored
has been played by Pakistan
in breaking this international terrorist network.
Pakistan, a key
ally of Britain and the U.S. in the war on
terrorism, has been long been regarded as
a center of Islamic militancy, much of
it linked to events in Afghanistan. Since the
Sept. 11 attacks
on the United State,
Pakistan has captured hundreds of al-Qaida
fighters and arrested key figures
in
Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Talat Masood, a former
Pakistani general, said the developments show that
officials are
cooperating in the war on
terror, but also send another message.
minuses are that it shows many active
terrorists have links with Pakistan and people are
visiting
Pakistan for this
purpose,
31 Why have
Pakistani intelligence agents arrested as many as
17 people?
32 What was the
Britain
’
s reaction toward
the arrests?
33 According to a Foreign
Ministry statement, why are the arrests very
significant?
34 Since September. 11,
what has Pakistan done to fight terrorism?
35 According to Masood, what is the
negative point about the arrests?
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Battles rage on eve of U.N. truce
The fate of a mother and her three
children was not immediately clear after they were
buried under
the rubble of a house
struck near the southern city of Tyre, the sources
said. Raids in the area
destroyed eight
petrol stations. Similar strikes in north Lebanon
destroyed three bridges.
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Artillery
pounded Hizbollah-held areas in south Lebanon.
Hundreds of rounds crashed into
the
Hizbollah stronghold of Khiam, residents said.
Hizbollah
reported fierce fighting in several parts of the
border area and said its guerrillas
destroyed at least two tanks and one
bulldozer. It said guerrillas were clashing with
an Israeli
unit trying to reach the
wreckage of the downed helicopter to retrieve the
bodies of the five
soldiers.
Almost 30,000
Israeli troops are operating in south Lebanon,
Israel's Army Radio said.
At least 1,067 people in Lebanon and
143 Israelis, including 104 soldiers, have been
killed in
the war, triggered on July 12
when Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli
soldiers in a
cross-border raid.
LEBANON,
HIZBOLLAH AGREE TRUCE
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
said his government unanimously approved the U.N.
resolution on Saturday, and Hizbollah
leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his fighters
would
abide by the ceasefire once
Israeli forces also adhered to it.
hostilities and the end of
the fighting will enter into force on 14 August at
0500 hours GMT,
Annan said in a
statement in New York.
Council decision, the object
of which was to save civilian lives, to spare the
pain and
suffering that the civilians
on both sides are living through.
Nasrallah said Hizbollah
would abide by the U.N. resolution and cooperate
with the U.N. and
Lebanese troops, but
would carry on confronting any Israeli soldiers on
Lebanese soil.
occupying our land ... it is
our natural right to confront them, fight them and
defend our land,
our homes, and
ourselves,
France is widely expected to lead the
U.N. force, which will expand the existing U.N.
Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) but
have a stronger mandate.
French Foreign Minister Philippe
Douste-Blazy made clear in an interview with Le
Monde
newspaper the mission of the new
force would not include disarming Hizbollah by
force.
A senior
Israeli commander, Major General Udi Adam, said
some Israeli forces had reached
as far
as the Litani river in Lebanon. The river is a few
kilometres (miles) from the border at
some points but about 20 km (13 miles)
away at others.
31 What triggered the fighting between
Israel and Hizbollah?
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32 How many people have been killed
since the beginning of the war?
33 When
will the cessation of hostilities and the end of
the fighting take effect?
34 What is
the object of the Security Council decision?
35 Which country will lead the U.N.
force in Lebanon?
B
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Privacy
advocates and search industry watchers have long
warned that the vast and valuable stores
of data collected by search engine
companies could be vulnerable to thieves, rogue
employees,
mishaps or even government
subpoenas.
Four major search companies
were served with government subpoenas for their
search data last
year, and now once
again, privacy advocates can say, ―We told you
so.‖
AOL’s misstep last week
in briefly p
osting some 19 million
Internet search queries made by more
than 600,000 of its unwitting customers
has reminded many Americans that their private
searches
—
for solutions to
debt or bunions or loneliness
—
are not entirely their
own.
Most of the major
search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN collect
and store information on
what terms are
searched, when they were queried and what computer
and browser was used. And
to the extent
that the information can be used to match historic
search behavior emanating from a
specific computer, it is a hot
commodity.
As it stands now, little
with regard to search queries is private. No laws
clearly place search
requests off-
limits to advertisers, law enforcement agencies or
academic researchers, beyond the
terms
that companies set themselves.
Mr. Bankston’s group, which is
spearheading a class
-action lawsuit
against AT&T for sharing
consumer phone
records with the National Security Agency, issued
an alert this week calling the
AOL
incident a ―Data Valdez,‖ asserting
that
it may be in violation of the
Electronic
Communications and Privacy
Act, which regulates some forms of online
communications.
―I am very
skeptical of any claims that the monetary worth of
this information to these companies
is
worth the privacy trade-off
to millions
of people,‖ Mr. Bankston said.
That is not to say that marketers are
not keenly interested in being able to push ads to
a particular
computer based on the
types of searches coming from that address over
time. For users who
register as members
with some search engines, including Yahoo, this is
already happening
—
although consumers are unlikely to
realize it.
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Which is why privacy advocates question
whether such advertising models are appropriate in
the
first place.
―In many contexts, consumer
s
already have the expectation that information
about their cultural
consumption will
not be sold,‖ said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, a senior
researcher at Boalt Hall School
of Law
at the University of California, Berkeley. ―They
understand that the library items
that
they
check out, the specific television
shows that they watch, the videos that they rent
are protected
information.‖
Indeed, legislation like the Cable TV
Privacy Act of 1984 and the Video Privacy
Protection Act of
1988 were tailored to
keep the specific choices consumers make in their
daily diet of cultural
ephemera off
limits.
There are
exceptions: video ―genre preferences,‖ for
instance, may be disclosed for marketing
purposes.
And of
course, such fare as magazine subscription lists
and club membership information are
bought and sold for marketing purposes
all the time.
But how to characterize a
search engine’s vast catalog, not of what an
individual bought, rented or
subscribed
to, but merely what he or she was curious about
—
perhaps only for a moment
in time
—
for reasons that
are impossible to know?
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Privacy advocates and search industry watchers
have warned that the data collected by search
engine companies could be
.
A. stolen
B.
sold
C.
searched
D. served
37 Most of the major search
engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN collect and
store information
on all the following
aspects EXCEPT
.
A. what historical search behavior are
used
B. what terms are searched
C. when they were queried
D. what computer and browser was used
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Mr.
Bankston’s group is spearheading a
class
-action lawsuit against AT&T for
.
A.
recording consumer phone calls
B.
sharing consumer phone records with NSA
C. regulating online communications
D. calling the AOL incident
a ―Data Valdez‖
39 Marketers are interested in being
able to push ads to a particular computer based on
.
A. membership
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B. addresses
C. the types of searches
D.
search engines
40 The
information that can be disclosed for marketing
purposes is
.
A. the library items that they check
out
B. the specific television shows
that they watch
C. the videos that they
rent
D. the
video ―genre
preferences‖
II
Two charged in British royal snooping
probe
LONDON - British police charged
two men on Wednesday as part of a probe into
suspected
eavesdropping on the
telephone voicemail messages of the royal family.
In a statement, police said
one of the men was 48-year-old Clive Goodman, the
royal
correspondent for the country's
biggest selling newspaper The News of the World.
They charged him and a
35-year-old named as Glen Mulcaire with illegally
accessing voicemail
messages on eight
occasions between January 3 and May 30 this year,
and with conspiracy to
intercept
communications.
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Police launched their investigation
after members of staff working for heir to the
British throne
Prince Charles said they
thought someone was listening to their phones.
One police source told
Reuters on Wednesday that officers were now
working with phone
companies to check
whether other rich and powerful people had been
snooped on.
numbers: what other public
figures might have been subject to the
interception.
Goodman and
Mulcaire were charged under the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act 2000,
which
makes it a crime to intercept communication on
public telecoms systems - including e-mail
and voicemail - without proper
authority.
Police say the
men tapped into mobile phone voicemail messages.
The case has intrigued a
public used to the tactics of hungry tabloids
desperate for scoops. It
recalls the
obtained phone conversations of Prince
Charles and of his late wife Diana.
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Back then,
Diana was taped talking to her lover James Gilbey,
who called her
was recorded memorably
telling his then mistress - now wife - Camilla
Parker Bowles that he
wanted to be
reincarnated as her tampon.
Tabloids have since sent undercover
reporters to get jobs as palace servants. A Daily
Mirror
reporter hired as a palace
footman in 2003 revealed, among other things, that
Queen Elizabeth ate
breakfast cereal
served in a plastic bowl.
Other newspaper reporters have since
been arrested trying to repeat the stunt.
Veterans of Fleet Street -
the collective name given to British newspapers
which used to be
located on that
journalists being accused of
eavesdropping.
royal correspondent of the
Daily Mirror, who said he has received tip-offs
from sources that had
access to
intercepted radio communications.
he said.
41 British police charged two men
because
.
A. they eavesdropped on the royal
family
B. they broke into the palace
C. they suspected the royal family
D. they telephoned the royal family
42 Police launched their
investigation after
,
A. they listened to the Prince Charles
phones
B. Prince
Charles
’
staff reported to
them
C. Prince Charles complained to
them
D. they worked with Prince Charles
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Under
the
Regulation
of
Investigatory
Powers
Act
2000,
it
is
a
crime
to
do
the
following
EXCEPT
.
A. intercept communication
on public telecoms systems
B. receive tip-offs from sources
C. tap into mobile phone voicemail
messages
D. eavesdrop on the telephone
voicemail messages
44 The
reaction of the British public toward the case is
.
A. indifferent
B. angry
C.
interested
D. desperate
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45 It can be inferred from the report
that eavesdropping by journalists in Britain is
.
A. unexpected
B. unusual
C. legal
D. common
III
WB:
China's economy likely to slow down
The country's economy is likely to slow
down slightly during the rest of the year, the
World Bank
said yesterday, pointing to
the central government's moves to rein in growth.
Gross domestic product
(GDP) may grow 10.4 per cent for the whole of 2006
as recent
macroeconomic control
measures are likely to slow down the sizzling
economy to under 10 per
cent in the
second half of the year, the bank said in its
latest quarterly report.
The economy grew at a decade-high 11.3
per cent in the second quarter, the fastest since
1996,
raising fears among economists
that the economy is overheating and prompting the
government to
take a slew of macro
control measures. GDP expanded by 10.9 per cent in
the first half.
But despite
the tightening measures, the World Bank said that
investment growth, which grew 31
per
cent in the second quarter, would remain strong in
the second half.
Domestic
consumer spending
urban
areas,
The Washington-based
international financial organization also
projected
exports to
continue.
half,
resulting in growth of 10.4 per cent for the year
as a whole and 9.3 per cent in 2007.
The central bank raised the one-year
benchmark lending rate by 27 base points to 5.85
per cent on
April 27 and has since
increased banks' required reserves ratio twice,
with the latest taking effect
yesterday.
In
addition, the government has also recently taken a
string of administrative measures against
some sectors, such as imposing
restrictions on land use and foreigners buying
property in the
country, in a bid to
cool the housing market.
Urban property prices rose 5.7 per cent
last month from a year earlier a touch below the
5.8 per
cent in June according to
official figures released yesterday.
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The World
Bank, however, played down concerns of an
overheating economy.
China's economy
remains favourable. With production capacity
continuing to expand in line with
demand, inflation low, and the current
account in surplus, the main policy concern is not
general
overheating,
economist for China.
it's not efficient, it will lead to
overcapacity in some sectors and an increase in
non-performing
loans in
banks.
46 The China
’
s
Gross domestic product (GDP) may grow
for the whole of 2006.
A. 10.4 per cent
B. 11.3 per
cent
C. 10.9 per cent
D. 9.3
per cent
47 According to
some economists, the fast growth rate may result
in the fact that
.
A. the economy is slowing down
B. the economy is
overheating
C. the economy
is under control
D. the economy is
still strong
48 The World
Bank
’
s attitude toward the
outlook of the China
’
s
economy is
.
A.
concerned
B. negative
C.
optimistic
D. pessimistic
49 The World Bank played down concerns
of an overheating economy for the following
reasons
EXCEPT
.
A. production capacity in
line with demand
B. low
inflation
C. the fast
growth rate
D. the current account in
surplus
50 In a
bid to cool the housing market, the Chinese
government
.
A.
has taken a string of administrative measures
against some sectors
B. has imposed
restrictions on land use
C. has imposed
restrictions on foreigners buying property in the
country
D. has done all the above
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IV
Ongoing
drought challenge China's energy, water supply
CHONGQING -- Scorching weather and the
worst drought to hit parts of China in 50 years
are
challenging the country's power and
water supply networks, said reports from several
provinces
and municipalities.
Hangzhou, capital of rich
eastern Zhejiang Province, was forced to resort to
a blackout Tuesday,
the first for this
summer, to avoid the breakdown of a power
transmission line in the eastern part
of the city, the local power supply
administration confirmed on Wednesday.
With temperatures nudging 38 degrees
Celsius on Monday and Tuesday, the city's
electricity
consumption reached a
record 5.91 million kilowatt-hours, up 23 percent
over the same period last
year.
The Hangzhou power grid is
facing a power shortage of 250,000 kilowatts and
has little chance of
buying electricity
from neighboring provinces that are struggling to
provide for themselves.
In
Chongqing Municipality, where the temperature
exceeded 40 degrees Celsius on Wednesday,
many businesses have been told to
suspend production in the afternoon and at night
to ease
pressure on the power supply
network.
The scorching
weather and drought will continue in most parts of
central and southwestern China
with
meteorologists forecasting little rainfall over
the next three days.
In
Changsha, central China's Hunan Province,
temperatures topped 39 degrees Celsius on Tuesday,
the central meteorological station
reported.
Searing heat and
drought have created problems for the supply of
drinking water in Chongqing
and Hunan
Province, leaving about 7.8 million people
thirsty.
More than 7.5
million people in 40 counties in Chongqing have
been panting for drinking water
since
severe drought started in mid May.
with the municipal
government.
than 200 reservoirs are
stagnant.
The water level in
the Chongqing section of the Yangtze River,
China's longest waterway,
dropped to
3.5 meters on August 12, an all-time low since
Yangtze hydrological data became
available in 1892.
Drinking water shortages have affected
another 270,000 people in central China's Hunan
Province,
where the mercury has been
flirting with 40 degrees Celsius over the past few
days.
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