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Last year French drivers killed (56) than
5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes
largely (57) the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on
the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon (58)
3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government
plans to install 500 (59) radar devices this year.
So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at
the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses (60)
the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in
Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras
(61) a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped
spur a sea change. A month (62) the London attacks,
half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and
telecoms to store all e-mail, internet and phone data for "anti-terror"
(63)
[单项选择]We have ______ rainfall this year than last year.
A. less
B. little
C. fewer
D. few
[单项选择]The first 10 months of last year saw more than 270,000 Chinese workers going abroad to work, the People’s Daily Overseas Edition reported.
Currently, about 4 million Chinese workers, or 0.3 percent of the country’s population, are working in foreign countries, the newspaper said.
They are living a very different and difficult life, far from home and family members. Their security and living conditions have raised concern at home and abroad.
In a recent incident, five Chinese telecom workers were kidnapped in Nigeria (尼日利 [非洲中西部国家). Although they were released safely on Wednesday, the general living and working conditions of Chinese workers in that country has raised worry.
There are more than 300 Chinese companies running businesses in Nigeria, involved such fields as petroleum, household appliances, and cell phones.
A worker, surnamed Zhang, working for a Chinese telecom company in Nigeria, told People’s Daily that his job always required him to work
A. study
B. receive education
C. work
D. seek jobs
[单项选择]Cotton output was（）than last year.
A. 20 percent high
B. 20 percent higher
C. 20 percent highest
D. higher 20 higher
[单项选择]Last month more than a hundred workers were killed in the mine ______.
A. exploitation
B. explosion
C. explication
D. explosivity
