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[单项选择]第一篇Energy and Public Lands
The United States boasts substantial energy resources. Federal lands provide a good deal of U.S. energy production; the U.S. Department of the Interior manages federal energy leasing, both on land and on the offshore Outer Continental Shelf. Production from these sources amounts to nearly 30 percent of total annual U.S. energy production.
In 2000, 32 percent of U.S. oil, 35 percent of natural gas, and 37 percent of coal were produced from federal lands, representing 20,000 producing oil and gas leases and 135 producing coal leases. Federal lands are also estimated to contain approximately 68 percent of all undiscovered U.S. oil reserves and 74 percent of undiscovered natural gas.
Revenues from federal oil, gas, and coal leasing provide significant returns to U.S. taxpayers as well as State governments. In 1999, for example, $553 million in oil and gas revenues were paid to the U.S. Treasury, and non-Indian coal leases accounted for over $304 million in rev
A. Public lands are one of the main sources of revenues.
B. Public lands play an important role in energy production.
C. Public lands should be developed to ease energy shortage.
D. Public lands store huge energy resources for further development.
[单项选择]In the United States, 36 states currently allow capital punishment for serious crimes such as murder. Americans have always argued about the death penalty. Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors--i, e. , under the age of 18--to receive the death penalty
In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors. In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision. Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.
In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends brutally murdered three people. Roach’s lawyer fought the decision to execute him. The young murderer remained on Death Row (a separate part of prison for
A. asked the governor for help
B. stopped the execution
C. let the courts do their job
D. fought with the governor
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The United States is a confederation of states. Each state has the (1) to make laws with regard to the state. (2), based on public opinion, states can (3) policies regarding education, and they may (4) a state income tax; they also determine the speed (5), housing codes, and the drinking age.
In most parts of the United States, you (6) be 21 years old to buy alcohol in a liquor store, bar,(7) restaurant. In some states you may buy beer in a grocery store. If a store sells alcohol to a minor, the (8) of the store is usually (9) a large sum of money. (10) , many areas have an open-container law, (11) means that people may not drink alcohol on the street or in a car. Anyone (12) with an open container of alcohol may be arrested.
(13) , with all of these laws, the (14) of alcohol is a serious (15) in the United States and Canada. Drinking on college campuses, (16) there are many underage drinkers has (17) greatly. In fact, alcohol sales have gone up (18) the legal dri
A. can
B. shall
C. may
D. must
