[单项选择]What’s the chief duty of every government
A. To protect persons and property.
B. To collect taxes.
C. To teach and train citizens.
D. To save natural resources for future use.

[填空题]What duty has her granny fulfilled through years of toil

[单项选择]The index is the government’s chief gauge of future economic activity.
A. method
B. measure
C. way
D. manner

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Yukio Edano, Japan’s chief government spokesman also stated that Japan is now facing acute power shortages causing difficulty shifting products around the country. The impact from power outages is likely to be significant as it is making it difficult for some of the country’s biggest exporters, such as carmakers and electronics firms, to restart production at their factories, he said.
Separately, Japanese nuclear technicians have stopped the outflow of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. After trying and failing several times to stem the leak since it was discovered, Tokyo Electric Power engineers succeeded by injecting sodium silicate, or liquid glass, into the ground near a seaside "pit" from which the highly contaminated water had been seeping.
Residents have been evacuated from a 20 km zone around Tepco’s Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima as well as from a 10 km zone arou
A. The country’s north-east coast region.
B. All over.
C. It doesn’t say.
D. Fukushima Daini.

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Conversation 1

What is Irene’s main duty（）
A. To see the letters.
B. To answer and transfer calls.
C. To translate letters.
D. To call the clients.

[单项选择]What’s the man’s attitude towards what’s happening
A. He’s unwilling to wait in line.
B. He’s satisfied with the purchase.
C. It’s worthwhile to queue for tickets.
D. He’s impatient with the ticket sellers.

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Every minute of every day, what ecologist James Carlton calls a global "conveyor belt" redistributes ocean organisms. It’s a planet wide biological disruption that scientists have barely begun to understand.
Dr. Carlton—an oceanographer at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. —explains that, at any given moment, "there are several thousand [marine] species [traveling].., in the ballast water of ships. " These creatures move from coastal waters where they fit into the local web of life to places where some of them could tear that web apart. This is the larger dimension of the infamous invasion of fish destroying, pipe-clogging zebra mussels.
Such voracious invaders at least make their presence known. What concerns Carlton and his fellow marine ecologists is the lack of knowledge about the hundreds of alien invaders that quietly enter coastal waters around the world every day. Many of them probably just die out. Some benignly
A. being moved to new environments
B. destroying the planet
C. succumbing to the zebra mussel
D. developing alien characteristics

[单项选择]Work hard and get ahead. That’s what every American learns growing up, but for millions of them, it’s getting harder to tell the difference between working hard and being a workaholic. "The line happens when you come home one day and your husband isn’t there, and you didn’t realize he left you a week ago," Stephen Viscusi said. Viscusi is CEO of the Viscusi Group.
The actual reasons for becoming a workaholic are quite varied. It might involve a need in someone to always stay a step ahead of their co-workers or anyone else they perceive as a competitive threat. It could be a desire to never leave the office at night without tying up any loose ends such as returning an email, writing a memo or getting a package out. It might be a single-minded commitment to being successful, gaining promotion after promotion, no matter what the cost.
Workaholics Anonymous—a "fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common
A. person
B. organization
C. therapy
D. symptom