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[单项选择]The less affluent investors would historically not buy municipal bonds because______.
A. factors in the tax savings and the munis enjoyed a yield advantage for them
B. municipal bonds could only be sold to those in the higher tax brackets
C. a tax savings stands for a smaller yield on their investment as an exchange
D. they could profit more from choosing the munis than a tax savings
[单项选择]The affluent middle class created by the Asian boom now take up over from exports as the main engine of growth.
A. take over from exports
B. take from exports
C. take exports
D. takes exports
[单项选择]Having come from an affluent society, Dick found it difficult to adjust to a small, country town.
A. affable
B. wealthy
C. overpopulated
D. large
[单项选择]The Gulf of Guinea is strategically important to the United States because ______.
A. roughly 15% of oil production of West Africa is supplied to the United States
B. West African reserves are forecast to reach the Persian Gulf size
C. its oil can help lessen U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil
D. its waters border Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria
[单项选择]The Dutch winters are influenced by the Gulf Stream, which is ______.
A. a warm and powerful ocean stream
B. a cold and strong wind from the Gulf
C. a cold and powerful ocean current
D. a warm and powerful wind from the ocean
[单项选择]A gulf remains between negotiators from the rich world, who are so skeptical they hope to see the treaty's ambitious provisions -------, and those from poor countries, who want them -------.
A. (A) explicated … ignored
B. (B) diluted … strengthened
C. (C) absconded … delivered
D. (D) reinforced … removed
E. (E) relaxed … loosened
[单项选择]News about the Gulf War came pouring from a number of unnamed （）.
A. origins
B. sources
C. ways
D. places
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Say goodbye to the Mountain Gorilla. Say farewell to the Short Tailed Chinchilla.
That’s the conclusion of the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) Third Global Environmental Outlook Report. The report was compiled (编写) for the UN from the work of 1 100 scientists. It predicts the state of the planet in the year 2032 based on the policies and practices of the last 30 years. If these continue, UNEP says, we’re going to be living on a very lonely planet. By 2032, one quarter of the world’s mammal species (哺乳动物种群) will disappear. They will be joined by 12% of the world’s bird species. And according to UNEP, 5 611 species of plants will also be wiped out-but since only 4% of the world’s plant species have been examined in detail, that figure will probably be much higher.
UNEP blames a variety of causes, from poverty and overpopulation to pollution, global warming and profit-driven economic and trade policies. But ther
A. mountains
B. rivers
C. animals
D. sceneries
