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[单项选择]Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft. In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell, who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads, suggested an idea on which be had been working for many years to the British government and industrial circles. It was the idea of supporting a craft on a "pad", or cushion, of low-pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air. Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships, planes, or land vehicles—for it is something in between a boat and an aircraft. As a ship builder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface’s power and limits its speed. His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air, no more than one or two feet thick. This is done by a great number o
A. The engineer had worked out the idea for many years.
B. The engineer had been working on the idea for many years.
C. The engineer suggested the idea to the British government and industrial circles for many years.
D. The British government and industrial circles accepted the idea many years later.
[填空题]Pentagon. Many have been held for more than three years and the______.
[填空题]How many new students have been taken in this year
______ new students.
[单项选择]How many libraries have been established with the money donated by Andrew Carnegie（ ）.
A. 500.
B. 1500.
C. 2500.
D. 3500.
[填空题]Many new games have been designed to (play) ______ on the computer. People of all ages have been playing them.
[单项选择]Although many modifications have been made in it, the game known in the United States as football can be traced directly to the English game of rugby.
A. rules
B. changes
C. demands
D. leagues
[单项选择]How many people have been confirmed for being exposed to radiation
A. 250.
B. 200,00.
C. At least 90.
D. 160.
[单项选择]How many bodies have been removed from the wreckage in the western state of Gujarat
A. More than 6.000.
B. More than 15,000.
C. More than 16,000.
D. More than 60,000.
[填空题]
How many elephants have been taken off the streets and brought here to the elephant center
[单项选择] Many now have been breathing hot flames at our industry and so I thought it would be time to say my piece this week, after all, we in the business cannot deny that it has been a rough spring for news paper editors and reporters.’’ Ethical scandals great and small have soiled newsrooms from coast to coast. Everyone knows about the profound deceits of Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and the "Writergate" controversy involving Rick Bragg, which led to the departure of the two top editors at the paper. Other misdeeds have ranged from two reporters at The Salt Lake Tribune selling information to The National Enquirer, to a food writer for The Hartford Courant fired for plagiarizing recipes. Are newspaper standards going to pot
Some say ethics are worse than ever or are they The past is filled with people running photos of wrestlers in the sports section in exchange for money. In fact, ethical breaches may be less of a problem than 20 years ago. A 1,t of newspapers are cutting co
A. but this creates pressures on newsrooms to control it
B. and this has meant that newsrooms can improve ’’its quality
C. but there needs to be more reflection on the integrity of the process
D. and this has created division among the various departments in a newspaper
