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[单项选择]The local residents were unhappy about the curfew in this region and decided to（ ）it.
A. disgrace
B. disguise
C. defy
D. distress
[单项选择]Which two states have declared states of emergency（ ）.
A. Carolinas and New England.
B. Connecticut and New Jersey.
C. Vermont and New York.
D. Pennsylvania and Maine.
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Stocks finished mixed in post-holiday trading yesterday as Wall Street meandered through a shortened session. (46) The major indexes ended the week higher as investors looked forward to the results of the first weekend of holiday shopping and a key jobs report next week.
Wall Street struggled to continue its bullish streak, albeit in very light trading, as continued weakness in the dollar weighed on stocks. (47) Reports that the Chinese central bank had sold off some of its US Treasury notes due to the low dollar turned out to be unsubstantiated, boosting the dollar against the yen. The dollar reached another new low against the euro, however.
The trading day ended at 1 p.m. EST as part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Investors already looked to next week for further news, hoping that consumer spending over the holidays would help revive the overall economy. The Labor Department is expected to release job-creation figures next Friday tha
[单项选择]The government’s new cyber-security officials yesterday asked telecommunications companies for help in building at government computer network that would have "no risk of outside penetration" — a task some computer security consultants say is nearly impossible. Plans for the private network, called Govnet, hinge on whether a reliable network infrastructure can be built at an affordable price, officials said. Computer system consultants said they could not estimate how much the network would cost because of the government’s enormous size and security needs. Richard Clarke, who was appointed special adviser to the president for cyberspace security this week, said he believes a more reliable system can be built. Ninety percent of available fiber-optic space is unused and fairly inexpensive to obtain, he said.
Govnet is part of a plan Clarke announced earlier this week "to secure our cyberspace from a range of possible threats, from hackers to criminals to terrorist groups, to forei
A. A reliable network infrastructure that can be built at an affordable price.
B. A government computer network that may prove immune to penetration.
C. A national security system to be developed by the government.
D. A private national security system to be developed against outside invasion.
[单项选择]When I was in the waiting room at the station yesterday, I read a magazine in order to __________ time.
A. spend
B. kill
C. take
D. waste
[单项选择]The（）of his first novel appeared in The Times yesterday; no doubt he was very happy to see that.
A. survey
B. inspection
C. appraisal
D. review
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W: I like that picture you put up on the wall yesterday.
M: Oh, thank you. It’s a photograph that I took on my vacation last year.
W: You took it yourself I didn’t know you were a photographer.
M: Oh, yes, I’ve been taking pictures for years.
W: It sounds interesting. Do you have any more of your pictures here And may I see them
M: Yes, certainly. Some of them are faces, just faces of people whom I see when I’m walking around.
W: Do you let them know that you’re taking pictures of them
M: I try not to. I don’t like pictures of people who set themselves for the camera. I like people who are going about their business without knowing the camera’s there.
W: I suppose you need a lot of equipment. How many cameras do you have
M: Well, I have a dozen of them, but I use two of them more than the others.
What did the man put up on his wall yesterday （ ）
A. The picture he drew on his vacation.
B. The picture he took.
C. His picture taken last year.
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M: Why did Mary give Jim flowers
W: I think yesterday was Jim’s birthday.
Who gave Jim flowers（ ）.
A. The man.
B. Jim.
C. Mary.
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W: I went to a modern art exhibition yesterday. It is really abstract. Do you like the modern art
M: I certainly do, yet not so much as the classical music.
What kind of the art does the man prefer （）
A. The man likes the modern art in a higher degree.
B. The man likes the classical art better.
C. The man likes neither modern nor classical art.
D. The man likes both modern and classical art.
