[填空题]The United States is the world’s No.1 emitter of greenhouse gases.

[填空题]The United States is the world’s No.1 emitter of greenhouse gases.

[填空题]The United States is the world’s No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases.

[单项选择]Brazil has become one of the developing world’’s great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Brazil’’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries. Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧，肥皂剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three
A. by educating its citizens
B. by careful family panning
C. by developing TV programmes
D. by chance

[填空题]The fiscal year for the United States government starts on October
first and ends September thirtieth. Other fiscal years begin in April or July.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants begin its fiscal year (1)
on August first. Accountants add earnings and losses at the end of a fiscal (2)
year. These numbers are needed to know how much is owed for taxes, and
how much is left for the next budget. Congress is supposing to approve (3)
federal spending for the coming fiscal year by October first. This does not
always happen. Both the House of Representatives or the Senate must (4)
write and vote for their own budget resolution. This is a general plan for (5)
spending. Then, a conference committee meet. Members from both houses (6)
are on this committee. T