[单项选择]The Federal Commission uncapped the energy price with the intention to ______.

[单项选择]The Federal Commission uncapped the energy price with the intention to ______.

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Text 4 Penny-pinching consumers and fierce price wars are bad news for the travel industry. Bad, that is, for everyone except the booming online travel giants. Consider the sharp rebound of such online players as Travelocity and Expedia. While they suffered in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, with bookings off as much as 70%0 in the weeks that followed, business has snapped back. "The speed with which those businesses bounced back surprised even the people most bullish about the sector," says Mitchell J. Rubin, a money manager at New York-based Baron Capital, an investor in online travel stocks. The travel industry’s pain is often the online industry’s gain, as suppliers push more discounted airline seats and hotel rooms to win back customers. And many of those deals are available only online. At the same time, online agencies rely primarily on leisure travelers, where traffic has rebounded more quickly than on the business side. The tw
A. skeptical.
B. doubtful.
C. optimistic.
D. shocked.

[单项选择]An energy analyst forecasts that the price per barrel of crude oil five years from now will range between $ 75 and $105. Assuming a continuous uniform distribution, the probability that the price will be less than $ 80 five years from now is closest to:（）
A. 5.6%.
B. 16.7%.
C. 44.4%.

[单项选择]Energy experts against price caps believe that ______.
A. the present situation in California will continue unless there is price control
B. the current crisis is partly attributed to previous command and control policy
C. price caps can temporarily solve energy problems an individual state meets with
D. they do understand what is going on in California and will take proper measures

[单项选择]Solar energy causes
A. less pollution than oil
B. the same pollution as oil
C. more pollution than oil
D. financial problem

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Text 3
When the Federal Communications Commission proposed giving low-power radio stations licenses on the FM dial, they knew they’d get flak from big broadcasting. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), after all, ’spends millions of dollars every year lobbying to keep everybody else off the radio spectrum—even locally managed, noncommercial stations that broadcast only within a four-mile radius. Sure enough, when the FCC proposed its new regulations, the NAB began screaming about all the terrible things those tiny radio transmitters could do to the big ones, whose signals are 500 times as strong and whose reach is nearly 20 times as far.
It was a pretty thin argument. So thin, in fact, that for a while if appeared the proposed regulations might survive the lobbying onslaught. And then the FCC and its allies ran into a most unlikely opponent, one with the moral authority to do real damage to their cause: National Public Radio. On
A. backers of commercial radio
B. National Public Radio
C. large radio stations in the U.S.
D. companies which produce large radio transmitters

[单项选择]The battle between Californians and federal regulators is about ______.


A. control over the price of power
B. necessity of removing price caps
C. hiking the energy prices in California
D. a regulation concerning power supply

[单项选择]According to American federal government, residents of Hawaii have the longest life______: 77.2 years.


A. rank
B. scale
C. span
D. scope