[单项选择]The crisis over parliamentary election illustrated the unpredictable（）that events could take once the coalition troops were withdrawn.
A. process
B. line
C. way
D. course

[单项选择]The crisis over parliamentary election illustrated the unpredictable （　） that events could take once the coalition troops are withdrawn.
A. process
B. line
C. way
D. course

[单项选择]This election year, the debate over cloning technology has become a circus -- and hardly anybody has noticed the gorilla hiding in the tent. Even while President Bush has endorsed throwing scientists in jail to stop ’"reckless experiments", it’s just possible the First Amendment will protect researchers who want to perform cloning research.
Dr. Leon Kass, the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, would like to keep that a secret. "I don’t want to encourage such thinking," he said. But the notion that the First Amendment creates a "right to research" has been around for a long time, and Kass knows it. In 1977, four eminent legal scholars -- Thomas Emerson, Jerome Barron, Walter Berns and Harold P. Green -- were asked to testify before the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. At the time, there was alarm in the country over recombinant DNA. Some people feared clones, designer babies, a plague of superbacteria. The committee wanted to know if the federal g
A. identical.
B. similar.
C. complementary.
D. opposite.

[单项选择]A. The election for senator. B. The election for treasurer.
C. The election for secretary. D. The election for president.

[单项选择]If the left secures the parliamentary majority,______.
A. Chirac will share his presidential power with Jospin.
B. Jospin will share his prime ministerial power with Chirac.
C. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will remain.
D. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will resign.

[单项选择]The option position illustrated in the following profit/loss diagram depicts a: （　）
A. long call where the breakeven is $53.50. 
B. long call where the breakeven is $46.50. 
C. short put where the breakeven is $53.50.

[单项选择]Britain’s undeclared general election campaign has already seen the politicians trading numbers as boxers trade punches. There is nothing new in such statistical slanging matches (相互谩骂). What is new is an underestimation of worry about what has been happening to official statistics under the Labour government.
One of the most important figures for Gordon Brown when presenting his pre-election budget on March 16th was the current-budget balance. This is the gap between current revenues and current spending. It matters to the chancellor of the exchequer(财政部长) because he is committed to meeting his own "golden rule" of borrowing only to invest, so he has to ensure that the current budget is in balance or surplus over the economic cycle.
Mr. Brown told MPs that he would meet the golden rule for the current cycle with & 6 billion ( $11.4 billion) to spare--a respectable-sounding margin, though much less than in the past. However, the margin would have been halved but for an obscur
A. the exchange rate between pounds and dollars is fairly stable.
B. less money was actually spent on the maintenance of major highways.
C. the Office for National Statistics made a revision of its figures.
D. Mr. Brown himself is greatly devoted to meeting the golden rule.