Nearly four years ago, a web-based political movement set itself the modest task of "closing the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want". Calling their group Avaaz, which means "voice" in several languages, the founders aimed to reproduce globally some of the success which their predecessors—like America’s Moveon.org, and Australia’s Getup! —had enjoyed in national political fields.
By its own lights, the movement, using 14 languages and engaged in an astounding list of causes, has had some spectacular successes. Within the next few months, membership will top 6m. The number of individual actions taken is estimated at over 23m. Among the recent developments Avaaz claims to have influenced are a new anti-corruption law in Brazil; a move by Britain to create a marine-conservation zone in the Indian Ocean; and the spiking of a propos
A. A political website has been built four years ago.
B. National politics have been quite enjoyable.
C. Some political campaigns had achieved a lot.
D. Voices in 14 languages has been well aime
Nearly four years ago, a web-based political movement set itself the modest task of "closing the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want". Calling their group Avaaz, which means "voice" in several languages, the founders aimed to reproduce globally some of the success which their predecessors—like America’s Moveon.org, and Australia’s Getup! —had enjoyed in national political fields.
By its own lights, the movement, using 14 languages and engaged in an astounding list of causes, has had some spectacular successes. Within the next few months, membership will top 6m. The number of individual actions taken is estimated at over 23m. Among the recent developments Avaaz claims to have influenced are a new anti-corruption law in Brazil; a move by Britain to create a marine-conservation zone in the Indian Ocean; and the spiking of a propos
A. Indian government finally agrees to take action in Indian Ocean.
B. Whale killing is likely to be reduced in some parts of the world.
C. Brazilian authorities have stood up against widespread corruption.
D. A sealife conservation plan is soon to be carried out in reality.
| Nearly two thousand years have passed
since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story ever
told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry
worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an
unexpected influx, few inns would have a manger to accommodate the weary guests.
Now it is the census taker that does the traveling in the fond hope that a
highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling.
Methods of gathering, recording, and evaluating information have presumably been
improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to
obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries
of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agencies and private
organizations are eagerl A. mobility B. wealth C. population D. census takers [填空题]Twenty-four years and two days ago, on a Tuesday morning, the space shuttle Discovery (26) to low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As NASA’s newest eye in the sky, the Hubble Space Telescope, is an (27) which can peer deep into the cosmos and capture the universe’s inhabitants in exquisite detail. It had taken (28) of design and planning to get the telescope ready for work. The next day, on April 25, astronauts delivered the telescope to space.
Then, scientists eagerly (29) Hubble to start revealing cosmic secrets. We all know what happened next. A flaw in the telescope’s (30) mirror meant the images weren’t sharp. (31) incredibly faint objects, such as very distant galaxies, wasn’t possible. It would be three years before the first of five servicing missions let astronauts correct the defect and (32) Hubble’s vision to what it should have been. Since then, though, the Hubble space teles [单项选择]A. Five years ago. B. Four years ago.
C. Six years ago. D. Not long ago. 我来回答: 提交
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