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[单项选择]The only solution to rubbish problem for a nation which now spends more on wrapping food than it pays farmers to produce it, is recovering ( ) the packaging materials for commercial as well as for conservation reasons.
A. on sale
B. on the spot
C. on a large scale
D. on all sides
[填空题]The rubbish problem______________________(对人们的健康形成潜在的危险) because it contains all kinds of germs and viruses and transmits a number of epidemic diseases.
[单项选择]One sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea, for example, the idea of "privatization," is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question. The method described above for determining how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions
A. Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rarely used.
B. Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage.
C. For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.
D. As a word passes into common usage, its meaning does not undergo any severe distortions in the process.
E. (E) Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood.
[单项选择]A small robot sent to solve one of history’’s mysteries only succeeded in presenting scientists and TV viewers with yet another mystery yesterday. With its (47) peering through a hole in a small sealed door in Egypt’’s Great Pyramid to see what was beyond, it (48) yet another door. "It’’s another sealed door. This is very important," said an (49) Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt’’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The robot took two hours to (50) along a narrow shaft, drill through a door, then push through its camera. Dr Harass said the (51) job for researchers was to study the video tape and plan for further inspections, which could take up to 12 months. His council, engineers from the Boston firm iRobot and researchers from National Geographic, had spent a year (52) planning yesterday’’s event. American TV stations went (53) showing the robot creeping along the 20-centimetre-square 60-metre-long shaft. As the robot inched along the (54) surfaced shaft