[单项选择]Out of the 325 million laborers in the Middle East and North Africa, 63 percent are women and 32 percent university students.
A. True
B. False

[单项选择]Out of the 325 million laborers in the Middle East and North Africa, 63 percent are women and 32 percent university students.
A. True
B. False

[单项选择]The Middle East Quartet includes the following EXCEPT （　）.
A. NATO
B. Russia
C. the United States
D. the United Nations

[填空题]Democracy was expected in all Middle East nations under the influence of Iraq.

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New Finding Puts Origins of Dogs in Middle East

A. Borrowing methods developed to study the genetics of human disease, researchers have concluded that dogs were probably first domesticated (驯养) from wolves somewhere in the Middle East, in contrast to an earlier survey suggesting dogs originated in East Asia. This finding puts the first known domestication—that of dogs—in the same place as the domestication of plants and other animals, and strengthens the link between the first animal to enter human society and the subsequent invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. A Middle Eastern origin for the dog also fits in better with the archaeological evidence, and has enabled geneticists (遗传学家) to reconstruct the entire history of the dog, from the first association between wolves and hunter gatherers some 20,000 years ago to the creation by Victorian dog lovers of many of today’s breeds.
B. A research team led by Bridgett M. Vo

[填空题]Africa and Middle East are the districts facing most severe water shortage.

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Many in the Middle East have difficulty in adjusting themselves to the new situation created by the departure of the imperial powers. For the first time in almost 200 years, the rulers and people of the Middle East have to accept the final responsibility for their own affairs, to make their own mistakes and to accept the consequences. This is difficult to internalize, even to perceive, after so long a period. For the entire lifetimes of those who formulate and conduct policy at the present time and of their predecessors for many generations, vital decisions were made elsewhere, ultimate control lay elsewhere, and the principal task of statesmanship and diplomacy was as far as possible to avoid or reduce the dangers of this situation and to exploit such opportunities as it might from time to time offer. It is very difficult to forsake the habits not just of a lifetime but of a whole era of history. The difficulty is much greater when alien cultural, social and economic preeminence
A. their real enemies are the Western countries
B. no countries can save them but their own
C. it is up to their leaders, not the ordinary people, to make decisions
D. other countries should come to their help in times of urgency