[填空题]Having (damage)（）during the earthquake of 1906, this bridge has never been used again.

[填空题]Having (damage)（）during the earthquake of 1906, this bridge has never been used again.

[单项选择]During an earthquake, the great part of damage and loss of life has been______ collapse of buildings and the effect of rockslides, floods, fire, diseases, and other phenomena resulting from earthquakes, rather than from the quakes themselves.


A. due to
B. owing to
C. by reason of
D. on account of

[单项选择]Earthquake damage has caused some of the communications networks to shut down ______ until essential repairs are carried out.
A. complete
B. completely
C. completeness
D. completion

[单项选择]Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.
Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony (统治权) over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.
And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence--and conceivably military--consequences.
American intelligence officials have warned about this shift. "Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge," Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agenc
A. the Internet was invented by American scientists
B. most Internet traffic flowed through the United States
C. the internet has to be under the control of a central point
D. the United States shared their roads for Internet traffic with other countries

[填空题](damage) ______ during the earthquake, this bridge has never been used again.

[单项选择]The very biggest and most murderous wars during the industrial age were intra industrial-wars that（　）Second Wave nations like Germany and Britain against one another.
A. pitted
B. drove
C. kept
D. embarked

[填空题]

Where is person advised to put his hands during the contest

[单项选择]As in many other areas of human activity during the twentieth century, a number of specialized fields in accounting have evolved as a result of technological advances and accelerated economic growth. The most important accounting fields are described briefly as follows.
Financial accounting is concerned with the recording of transactions for a business enterprise or other economic unit and the periodic preparation of various reports from such records. The reports, which may be for general purposes or for a special purpose, provide useful information for managers, owners, creditors, governmental agencies, and the general public. Of particular importance to financial accountants are the rules of accounting, and generally accepted accounting principles. Corporate enterprises must employ such principles in preparing their annual re ports on profitability and financial status for their stockholders and the investing public.
Auditing is a field of activity involving an independent
A. non-governmental organizations
B. managers
C. creditors
D. governmental agencies