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[单项选择]If in this season of annual achievement awards there were one for the biggest New Year’s bang and sorriest year-ending whimper, the winner would be Britain’s entrant, the Millennium Dome (千 年圆顶).
No country built more ambitious millennial projects and talked them up with more hucksterism than Britain, and the centerpiece was the $1.2 billion Dome, located on the meridian that gave the name to Greenwich Mean Time and gave Prime Minister Tony Blair the opportunity to proclaim Britain in 2000 as the " home of time" His closest political associate and first director of the project, Peter Mandelson, said, "Other countries will be kicking themselves that they did not have the imagination to go ahead as we did. "
That the project had to dump its English director and two English chairmen and turn to a new chief executive who not only learned his trade at Disneyland Paris but also was a Frenchman is an indication of just how much a triumph of British ingenuity the project ended up not
A. its director and chairmen had to be dismissed
B. it had a French chief executive trained in Paris
C. it had some uninspiring and uninventive parts
D. its transportation and ticket repeatedly went wrong
[单项选择]The film-awards season, which reaches its tearful climax with the Oscars next week, has long been only loosely related to the film business. Hollywood is dedicated to the art of funneling teenagers past popcorn stands, not art itself. But this year’s awards are less relevant than ever. The true worth of a film is no longer decided by the crowd that assembles in the Kodak Theatre—or, indeed, by any American. It is decided by youngsters in countries such as Russia, China and Brazil.
Hollywood has always been an international business, but it is becoming dramatically more so. In the past decade total box-office spending has risen by about one-third in North America while more than doubling elsewhere. Thanks to Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and "Inception", Warner Bros made $2.93 billion outside North America last year smashing the studio’s previous record of $2.24 billion. Falling DVD sales in America, by far the world’s biggest home-entertainment market, mean Hollywood is even more
A. film awards are not relevant to the film business
B. Hollywood tries its best to attract teenagers to pass popcorn stands
C. the true worth of a film is decided by Russia, China and Brazil
D. Oscar will reach its tearful climax next week
[填空题]It’s an annual occurrence in the dry season: a smoky, hazardous haze blankets southern Malaysia and Singapore. This year it was so bad that in some affected areas there was a 100 percent rise in the number of asthma cases. Hundreds of schools were closed, and the government of Malaysia (36) gas masks.
The source of the pollution lies across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia where (37) burning of forests to clear space for palm oil plantations continues unabated.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono offered a public (38) for what has happened and asked for the understanding of Singapore and Malaysia.
The Indonesian president promised to prosecute anyone (39) in illegal slash-and-burn activities. Eight Southeast Asian companies are reportedly under (40) .
But the ongoing deforestation seems to contradict past promises. In 2009, President Yudhoyono pledged to reduce by 26 percent greenhouse gas (
