Iran is reacting to the increasing pain of economic sanctions. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is urging greater efficiency and motivation, and Iran’s vice president is threatening to stop doing business in dollars and euros. As new U.S. and U.N. economic sanctions step up the pressure on Iran’s economy, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is urging his countrymen to change their habits. Fars News Agency reports that Ayatollah wants Iranians to work harder,use more initiative and be more creative.
Top Iranian vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi also told journalists Friday that the government was planning to stop selling oil in euros and dollars. Iran has threatened to stop selling oil in dollars, before, but with limited success. It was the first time that Tehran has threatened to stop using the Euro.
The European Union ambassadors, meeting in Brussels, agreed Thursday to a new package of sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sect
A. Because Iran suffered from more severe economic sanctions from the U.S. and U.N.
B. Because the Iranian government was planning to stop selling oil to the U.S.
C. Because the Iranian government already stopped selling oil in euros.
D. Because the European Union already approved of a new package of sanctions.
Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language. It is also the variety which is normally (21) by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other (22) situations. The difference between standard and nonstandard, it should be noted, has (23) in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial (24) ; standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants.
(25) , the standard variety of English is based on the London (26) of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect became the one (27) by the educated, and it was developed and promoted (28) a model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. It was also the (29) that was carried overseas, but not one unaffected by such exp
A. talked
B. concerned
C. mentioned
D. involved
Most plants can make their own food from sunlight, (1) some have discovered that stealing is an easier way to live. Thousands of plant species get by (2) photosynthesizing, and over 400 of these species seem to live by pilfering sugars from an underground (3) of fungi(真菌). But in (4) a handful of these plants has this modus operandi been traced to a relatively obscure fungus. To find out how (5) are (6) , mycologist Martin Bidartondo of the University of California at Berkeley and his team looked in their roots. What they found were (7) of a common type of fungus, so (8) that it is found in nearly 70 percent of all plants. The presence of this common fungus in these plants not only (9) at how they survive, says Bidartondo, but also suggests that many ordinary plants might prosper from a little looting, too.
Plants have (10) relations to get what they need to survive. Normal, (11)
A. shows
B. denotes
C. indicates
D. hints
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