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The basis for overhauling the country’s tobacco
regulations—and the opportunity to snag a huge windfall for the Treasury —
(46) State attorneys general had ganged up
on the industry, suing for reimbursement of Medicaid and other patient-care
costs incurred, they say, because of the companies’ promotion of cigarette
smoking. (47) The companies offered to
pay a whopping $ 368.5 billion to the plaintiffs and various governments over 25
years, accept strict regulation of their products, and curb advertising.
(48) The companies specifically asked Congress for a bar on
class-action suits, protection from punitive damage awards for past deeds, and
an annual limit of roughly $ 5 billion on damages awarded to individual
plaintiffs. The proposal is stunning, but Congress didn’t leap at the offer.
Just days after these terms were unveiled, two of the
nation’s best known public health officials and antitobacco crusaders—former
[单项选择]Claim: Country X’s government lowered tariff barriers because doing so served the interests of powerful foreign companies.
Principle: In order for a change to be explained by the advantage some person or group gained from it, it must be shown how the interests of the person or group played a role in bringing about the change.
Which one of the following, if true, can most logically serve as a premise for an argument that uses the principle to counter the claim
A. Foreign companies did benefit when Country X lowered tariff barriers, but consumers in Country X benefited just as much.
B. In the period since tariff barriers were lowered, price competition among importers has severely limited importers’ profits from selling foreign companies’ products in Country X.
C. It was impossible to predict how Country X’s economic reforms, which included lowering tariff barriers, would affect the economy in the short term.
D. Many of the foreign companies that benefited from Country X’s lowering tariff barriers compete fiercely among themselves both in Country X and in other markets.
E. (E) Although foreign companies benefited when Country X lowered tariff barriers, there is no other evidence that these foreign companies induced the change.
[简答题]U.S. tobacco farmers are hurting from low tobacco prices, rising labor costs and decreasing demand in America. The government of Maryland is paying its farmers to get out of the business. However, that’s not the way it will be done in North Carolina, which grows more tobacco than any other state. The state is offering $2 billion to their 11 000 tobacco farmers so they can look for someplace else to sell it.
[单项选择]The job vacancy is forAt Town and Country Stores.she deals with
A. suppliers.
B. secretaries.
C. sales staff
[填空题]Great changes in a country’’s social structure have always caused stresses.
A. A．一个国家社会阶层的重大变化总会带来压力。
B．一个国家社会结构的压力总引起巨大的变化。
C．一个国家社会结构的巨变总会导致紧张状态。
D．一个国家社会阶层的重大变化总是很突然的。
[单项选择]How much of your country’’s electrical supply is ______from water power
A. deduced
B. derived
C. detached
D. declined
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Tobacco’s public image couldn’t be more stained these days, given the war on cigarettes in the courts, federal and state governments, the medical establishment — even in Doonesbury. But the tobacco plant is not an irredeemable never-do-well. Because its genetic makeup is fairly straightforward and well understood, scientists believe tobacco could turn out to be the perfect blotch factory for protein-based drags. By splicing human genes — a technique developed in the early 1990s — researchers have enabled tobacco plants to produce a number of drugs and vaccines and even human blood components. Within 10 years, researchers are hopeful that tobacco farmers might be raising millions of acres of biofactories rather than "the killer weed".
The latest breakthrough in tobacco "pharming" may bring such a vision one step closer to reality. Scientists at Monsanto Co. (MTC) reported in the March issue o
A. Tobacco’s public image will never change.
B. Chloroplast will make tobacco change its social role.
C. Nuclei is more important than chloroplast.
D. DNA Dilemma is very optimistic.
[单项选择]Agriculture is the country’’s chief source of wealth, wheat _______by far the biggest cereal crop.
A. is
B. been
C. be
D. being
[填空题]Before raising their voices against U.S. tobacco industry, many critics have made field trips across many parts of Asia.
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The World No Tobacco Day theme for 2003 is tobacco free films tobacco free fashion Action! World No Tobacco Day is celebrated around the world every year on May 31.
This year World No Tobacco Day will focus on the role of the fashion and film world in fostering the worldwide tobacco epidemic and urge them to stop being used as vehicles of death and disease. The world of film and fashion cannot be accused of causing cancer. But they do not have to promote a product that does.
WHO is calling on the entertainment industry, in particular the world of films and fashion, to stop promoting a product that kills a regular user every second. In November 2002, WHO was joined by medical associations and the Smoke Free Films project at the University of California in San Francisco in its call to the entertainment and fashion industries to ensure that their social responsibility is commensurate with their global influence. In particular, Bollywood and Hollywood—th
