Los Angeles has planted 2,000 rubber trees down the middle of one of its main streets. These trees do not (21) rubber. They are, (22) , made of rubber. Mr Joe Dynamo, a spokesman for Los Angeles (23) council, explained the reasons. He said:
"These (24) are representative of our virtual society. We have polystyrene grass on our golf (25) . We have non-milk powder (26) our coffee. We (27) copies in plastic of old wooden furniture. We have fiberglass tombstones. (28) shouldn’t we have trees made of rubber"
"At 50 miles an hour, (29) motorist will see any difference. And our preservation (30) will be lower. You give the trees an annual rinse with detergent, and (31) them off twice a year. We (32) a lot of money because transplanting, pruning, weeding and leaf-collection are all (33) And we have a 60-year (34) guarantee on each plant. This is rationali
A. essential
B. accidental
C. unnecessary
D. necessary
Increasingly, historians are blaming diseases imported from the Old World for the great disparity between the native population of America in 1492--new estimates of which jump as high as 100 million, or approximately one-sixth of the human race at that time--and the few million full-blooded Native Americans alive at the end of the nineteenth century. There is no doubt that chronic disease was an important factor in the sharp decline, and it is highly probable that the greatest killer was epidemic disease, especially as manifested in virgin-soil epidemics.
Virgin-soil epidemics are those in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore immunologically almost defenseless. That virgin-soil epidemics were important in American history is strongly indicated by evidence that a number of dangerous maladies--smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, and undoubtedly several more--were unknown in the pre-Columbian Ne
A. recur more frequently than chronic diseases
B. involve populations with no prior exposure to a disease
C. usually involve a number of interacting diseases
D. are less responsive to medical treatment than are other diseases
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1．2007年4月9日至10日，全国纠风工作会议在广州召开。中共中央常委、国务院总理温家宝会前对纠风作出重要批示，中共中央政治局常委、中央纪委书记吴官正向会议致信，国务委员兼国务院秘书长华建敏出席会议并讲话。会议总结了工作，部署了2007年纠风工作任务。
会议要求深入治理教育乱收费；进一步纠正医药购销和医疗服务中的不正之风，强化医德医风建设；着力解决损害农民利益的突出问题。
会议指出，要继续做好治理公路“三乱”工作，清理“特权车”、“人情车”，纠正违规减免车辆通行费工作。全面清理和严格控制各种名目的节庆活动，对用公款大操大办，重金邀请演艺明星捧场，铺张浪费、劳民伤财等现象坚决予以纠正。要规范出租汽车行业管理，继续治理党政部门报刊散滥和利用职权发行等工作。要进一步加强部门和行业作风建设，当前，特别要坚决制止和纠正超范围超标准公务接待、公款旅游、修建豪华办公楼等奢侈浪费之风、文山会海之风，搞脱离实际、劳民伤财的“形象工程”、“政绩工程”，以及其他伤害群众感情、漠视群众疾苦、损害群众利益的行为。公共服务行业，特别是与人民群众日常生活密切相关的电信、邮政、供水、供电等垄断性行业要加大作风建设力度，坚决纠正人民群众反映强烈的霸王条款、价格欺诈、服务陷阱、乱收费和服务不到位等问题。
会议强调，做好今年纠风工作要牢固树立大局意识，进一步增强做好纠风工作的责任感和紧迫感；坚持改革创新，努力从源头上防治不正之风；加强监督检查，确保各项纠风工作任务的落实；强化案件查处，切实维护群众利益；严格落实责任，建立健全纠风工作考核制度，努力把纠风工作提高到一个新水平，以优异成绩迎接党的十七大胜利召开。(《人民日报》2007年4月11日)
2．甘肃省定西市通渭县一些乡村邮政所，去年以来向前来邮政柜台取款的村民强行搭售化肥、洗衣粉等物品，村民们敢怒不敢言。为了取回自家亲人寄来的汇款，他们只好听命于邮政所，不然那里的工作人员不让取款。
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Ⅱ．QDII基金可单独或同时以人民币、美元等主要外币计算并披露净值信息
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