[单项选择]Trade dispute is one of the major issues that ______ Sino-US relations.


A. bothers
B. bother
C. is bothering
D. has bothered

[单项选择]Trade dispute is one of the major issues that ___________ Sino-US relations.
A. bothers
B. bother
C. is bothering
D. has bothered

[单项选择]Whose major responsibilities are for Iraqi issues
A. John Negroponte
B. Mike McConnell
C. Donald Rumsfeld.

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The Internet raises major issues and challenges for education, not just in China but all over the world. Yet it simply cannot be ignored in terms of the opportunities and resources that it can offer.
We can divide the main issues facing education systems into three groups — access, quality and responsibility. Let us consider the Internet in relation to each of them.
First, access. Through the Internet, practically the whole world can be brought into your classroom. Using e-mail makes it possible to have a class whose members are spread all over the world and who may never meet either the teacher or each other face to face. It can put students in different countries in easy contact.
The information resources available are almost limitless. With the Internet, students and teachers can access the wisdom, experience, skills, and even guidance of others in a way that was only possible for a very privileged few.
Next, quality. The Internet does pos
A. communities.
B. governments.
C. schools.
D. researching groups.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that one major difficulty in establishing patterns of migration is
A. (A) the infrequency of life course events, which restricts the amount of data available to demographers
B. (B) the overwhelming availability of proxies in migration patterns, which creates a degree of stasis in migration records
C. (C) the lack of parishioner birth records, which limits the hard evidence upon which demographers base their observations
D. (D) the homogeneity of single parishes, which makes it difficult to distinguish the motivations of migrants
E. (E) the repetitive nature of migration, which results in a surfeit of unusable data that overwhelms demographers

[单项选择]Strickland pointed out one major advantage of talking binoculars that ______.
A. it is impossible for the enemy to detect them
B. the chance of being detected by the enemy is slim
C. the laser beam they send is too weak to be detected
D. they can only be detected if the detector is near to the forward scout

[单项选择]Overall, there are several major issues _________ us on the media front right now.
A. confining
B. confirming
C. conforming
D. confronting

[单项选择]As an English major student at one of the most famous universities in China, I strongly believe that business English is more practical than other fields.（　）
A. a student in English
B. a major English student
C. an English major
D. an English student major

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Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the era of (1) oil is over. What we all do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and (2) .
Demand is soaring like (3) before. As populations grow and economies (4) , millions in the developing world are enjoying the benefits of a lifestyle that (5) increasing amounts of energy. In fact, some say that in 20 years the world will (6) 40% more oil than it does today. At the same time, many of the world’s oil and gas fields are (7) And new energy discoveries are mainly occurring in places where resources are difficult to (8) , physically, economically and even politically. When growing demand meets (9) supplies, the result is more (10) for the same resources.
We can wait until a crisis forces us to do something. (11) we can (12) to working together, an
A. take on
B. take to
C. take off
D. take after