[单项选择]Mining operations at the southwestern mine have been ______ until the question of ownership has been resolved by the courts.
A. halted
B. carried
C. endured
D. registered

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Mining operations by their very nature have major impacts, positive and negative, on the local area and on local communities. They are usually in remote places and the people affected are often isolated or neglected communities.
It is inevitable that mining operations will disturb the environment in a fairly dramatic way. Forest cover may have to be cut down to clear the site of the mine or for access roads. Tunnels or open-cut pits are dug. Overburden is removed and dumped nearby, usually to erode slowly into nearby streams and rivers. Tailings from the ore processing plant have to be put somewhere—preferably into an on-site tailings dam, but more likely straight into a river or the sea.
Mine tailings may contain some dangerous chemicals, but the major problem is usually the huge amounts of solid sediment that they put into the river system, and the effect this has on water quality and marine life. This can directly affect the livelihood of people liv

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W: Have you finished your homework I handed mine in yesterday.
M: I finished mine at one o’clock this morning. I have to hand it in by noon.

When did the woman finish her homework （）
A. At nine o’clock.
B. At twelve o’clock.
C. At one o’clock.
D. At two o’clock.

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Southwestern University unveiled plans today to begin construction of a 120-room budget hotel near the university campus. According to the Alumni Association President, the university has received numerous complaints in recent years over the lack of safe, affordable lodging near campus for the convenience of visiting parents and relatives. Also, to further address student concerns, the university has promised that the price of a single room would initially be in the forty-dollar range. This venture into private, for-profit business marks a first for the 148-year-old institution.
Question: The woman expresses her opinion about the school’s decision to build a hotel near the university. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Now hear a conversation between two students.

[单项选择]After the Anasazi abandoned southwestern Colorado in the late 1200s or early 1300s, history’s pages are blank. The Anasazi were masons and apartment builders who occupied the deserts, river valleys, and mesas of this region for over a thousand years, building structures that have weathered the test of time.
The first Europeans to visit southwestern Colorado were the ever- restless, ambitious Spanish, who sought gold, pelts, and slaves. In1765, under orders from the Spanish governor in Santa Fe, Juan Maria Antonio Rivera led a prospecting and trading party into the region. Near the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado, he found some insignificant silver-bearing rocks, and it is thought that it was he who named the mountains nearby the Sierra de la Plata or the Silver Mountains. Rivera found little of commercial value that would interest his superiors in Santa Fe, but he did open up a route that would soon lead to the establishment of the Old Spanish Trail. This expedition and o
A. early exploration of Colorado.
B. the history of the Anasazi in Colorado.
C. the Spanish influence in Colorado.
D. economic exploitation of Colorado.

[单项选择]A. Southwestern China. B. Northern China.
C. Northern California. D. Southern California.

[单项选择]In the southwestern part of the United States ______ built in the last century.
A. there are many abandoned mining towns
B. were many abandoned mining towns
C. where there are many abandoned mining towns
D. where are many abandoned mining towns