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The Brazilian government has opened the first in a new generation of federal high security prisons which it hopes will help stop gang leaders continuing to operate from behind bars. It’s part of a long term program but follows an outbreak of violence in Sao Paulo which was ordered by jailed gang commanders and resulted in at least 120 deaths.
Inmates will be held in individual cells under video surveillance. Guards will wear clip microphones so their conversations with prisoners can be recorded. And X-ray machines will be used to spot guns, explosives and drugs. Brazilian officials will also hope the new prisons help them tackle 2 other problems with the country’s jails: riots often between rival gangs and escape bids which frequently get help from guards. But there is one potential problem: the Sao Paulo violence was sparked by dispute over the detention conditions of PCC leaders. It’s unlikely that any gang commander would go quietly to the federal gov
A. recording the conversations between guards and prisoners
B. holding prisoners in separate cells
C. storing enough guns and explosives
D. videotaping the actions of the prisoners

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The Brazilian government has opened the first in a new generation of federal high security prisons which it hopes will help stop gang leaders continuing to operate from behind bars. It’s part of a long term program but follows an outbreak of violence in Sao Paulo which was ordered by jailed gang commanders and resulted in at least 120 deaths.
Inmates will be held in individual cells under video surveillance. Guards will wear clip microphones so their conversations with prisoners can be recorded. And X-ray machines will be used to spot guns, explosives and drugs. Brazilian officials will also hope the new prisons help them tackle 2 other problems with the country’s jails: riots often between rival gangs and escape bids which frequently get help from guards. But there is one potential problem: the Sao Paulo violence was sparked by dispute over the detention conditions of PCC leaders. It’s unlikely that any gang commander would go quietly to the federal gov
A. The new high security prison was put into use before the violence in Sao Paulo broke out.
B. The violence in Sao Paulo was under the command of one of the gang leaders who had been released recently.
C. The gang leaders were satisfied with the conditions in the new prisons.
D. Guards in prisons often help the prisoners to escape.

[填空题]______(尽管环保组织强烈反对), the Brazilian government has pressed on with its efforts to exploit rain forest resources.

[填空题]The United States government imposed the first national income tax as early as in 1817.

[填空题]The Brazilian government tried to protect the rainforest by carrying out the BR-163 highway project.

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Since ancient times, May first has been a traditional day to celebrate spring. In modern times, May Day also became a traditional day for countries to honor workers.
In eighteen eighty-nine, Socialists held an international congress in Paris. They chose May first as a workers’ holiday and a day for demonstrations. Since then, the first of May has been observed as International Labor Day.
The United States, however, had already settled on another day. Peter McGuire was a New York labor leader. He is said to have suggested the first Monday in September as a holiday to honor labor. He said it was a nice time of the year for a celebration. He suggested parades to show the strength of labor organizations. And he urged people to end the day with outdoor parties.
The first Labor Day celebration in the United States took place in New York City on September fifth, eighteen eighty-two. About ten thousand workers marched through the streets. Then everyone went
A. The 1st of May.
B. The 1st of September.
C. The 1st Monday in September.
D. The 1st Monday in May.

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The government of Zimbabwe has threatened to expel foreign ambassadors who, it believes, are providing support to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has recently accused the United States, Britain, Sweden and Australia of helping the MDC’s political campaign, which he said was aimed at bringing down his government. Those countries have strongly criticized what they describe as police brutality against opposition leaders, some of whom emerged from police detention last week with severe injuries. Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister summoned western ambassadors to deliver a blunt message: support the opposition and you will be thrown out. He said that under the Vienna Convention, embassies were forbidden from interfering in the internal affairs of their host nation. He said President Mugabe’s government would not hesitate to expel diplomats who violated the rules.

Foreign ambassadors in Zimbabwe
A. backing its opposition
B. downfalling its government
C. disclosing its police outrage
D. meddling in its internal affairs

[单项选择]F When I opened the first "Body Shop" in 1976, what I wanted to do was to earn(挣) enough money to feed my children. Today the "Body Shop" is a great company growing fast all around the world. In the years since we began, I have learned a lot. Much of what I have learned will be found in this book, because I believe that we, as a company, have something worth saying about how to run a successful business without giving up what you really believe in. It’s not an ordinary business book. It is not just about my life, either. The message is that to succeed in business you have to be different. Business can be fun, and can be run with love and do good. In business, as in life, I need to enjoy myself, to have a feeling of my family and to feel excited by something unusual. I have always wanted the people who work for the "Body Shop" to feel the same way. Now this book sends these ideas out into the world, and makes them public. I’d like to think there are no limits(界限) to ou
A. To tell the reader her life story.
B. To tell people how she brought up her children.
C. To let people know how rich she was.
D. To introduce her ideas to the reader.

[填空题]It’s no accident that McDonald’s opened its first drive-through in Dongguan last December. Local newspapers have (47) that one in three Dongguan households owns an automobile, making it one of the highest rates in China.
The new McDonald’s, which also has a sit-down restaurant, (48) the corner of a suburban street of salmon-pink apartments and low-rise malls, and there’s not an iron bicycle in sight.
In short, it’s a/an (49) locale(场所) for the all-American meal in your ear. McDonald’s calls it a natural (50) to the "fast-paced lives" of many Chinese who they hope will (51) this "next generation" of restaurants. A second drive-through has opened this year in Shanghai, and more are (52) .
So far, the signs are (53) . Around 400 cars a day are using the drive-through in Dongguan, a McDonald’s manager tells me, and the (54) of eating on the go has caught on. Workers are no longer poste