[单项选择]New Zealand is the first country in the world to get the new day because （　）.
A. it is just east of the International Date Line
B. it is just west of the International Date Line
C. it is located halfway between the equator and the South Pole
D. it is located in the Southern Pacific Ocean

[单项选择]In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world （　）.
A. to recognize Maori rights of self-determination
B. to give women the vote
C. to introduce procedures for handling industrial disputes
D. to adopt the 40-hour working week

[单项选择]It was all agreed that the first problem the new government would have to ______ was unemployment.
A. grip
B. tackle
C. discern
D. manipulate

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The first navigational lights in the New World were probably lanterns hung at harbor en- trances. The first lighthouse was put up by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1716 on Little Brew- stet Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. Paid for and maintained by "light dues" levied (征收) on ships, the original beacon was blown up in 1776. Until then there were only a dozen or so true lighthouses in the colonies. Little over a century later, there were 700 lighthouses.
The first eight lanterns erected on the West Coast in the 1850’s featured the same basic New England design: a Cape Cod dwelling with the tower rising from the center or standing close by. In New England and elsewhere, though, lighthouses reflected a variety of architectural styles. Since most stations in the Northeast were set up on rocky eminences (高处), enormous towers were not the rule. Some of them were made of stone and brick, others of wood or metal. Some of them stood on pilings or stilts;
A. The Lighthouse on Little Brewster Island.
B. The Life of a Lighthouse Keeper.
C. Early Lighthouses in the United States.
D. The Modem Profession of Lighthouse-keeping.

[填空题]The industrialized First World countries should take the main responsibility for the emission of CO₂.

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New York: when the first jet struck World Trade Center at 8:48 a.m. on Tuesday, the people in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast.
Katherine Hachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years of age, Ms Hachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an executive (经理), screamed and set off too.
But others up and down the 110 floors, many without clear views of the damage across the way and thus unclear about what was happening, were not so sure. And the 18 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.
Amid the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the sound tower instructed people to stay put, assuring them t
A. The 79th floor.
B. The 103rd floor.
C. The 60th floor.
D. The 91st floor.