[填空题]The Amazon rainforest would be safe if strong laws were passed to protect it.

[填空题]The Amazon rainforest would be safe if strong laws were passed to protect it.

[填空题]If it were simply a matter of passing strong laws to protect it, the Amazon rainforest—the world’s largest tropical forest—would be safe. Brazil, whose territory includes about two-thirds of the forest, has (36) tough laws that, on paper, set most of it aside as a nature reserve and (37) stiff penalties for illegal logging. But the latest annual figures for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon have confirmed a disturbing recent trend: the destruction is (38) despite all efforts to curb it.
The area deforested in the past year was up 6% in 2003, far worse than the Brazilian government’s (39) that it would rise by no more than about 2%. It had been the second worst year for the destruction of the rainforest since satellite surveys began. It is reckoned that almost a fifth of the Brazilian part of the forest has now been (40) out; if it were to continue at this rate, it would all be flattened within the next two centuries. Wor

[填空题]Laws concerning discrimination, capital punishment, sexual behavior, and the conditions under which individuals may be held _______ (依法为…负责) their actions are influenced by psychological theories and research.

[填空题]Laws concerning discrimination and the conditions under which individuals may be ____________________ (依法为……负责)their actions are influenced by the research.

[单项选择]The effective implementation of environmental laws and（）is the responsibility of the local government.
A. formations
B. resolutions
C. regulations
D. constitutions

[单项选择]Government makes the laws and the police enforce them.
A. implement
B. violate
C. carry on
D. obey

[填空题]Eighteen states have enacted laws to regulate activities in wetlands.

[填空题]Variations among state insurance laws can cause problems for families. If you do your (1) ______
homework before moving to another state, you may find that your insurer has dropped
you or raised your monthly premiums on hundreds of dollars. Florida, for example, does (2) ______
not have a guaranteed-issue law, and the state’ s program as the insurer of last resort has
not accepted new applicants in nearly 15 years despite of legislative efforts to reopen it. (3) ______
That comes as a shock to manyearly rearers moving to Florida, said Wayne Sakamoto, a (4) ______
health insurance agent in Naples who is also president of the Florida Association of
Health Underwriters. After being turned off by nearly every company that offers individual (5) ______
policies in Florida, the Johnsons was worried: They said that they were basically (6) ______
healthy for their age and that they took some medications—Mr. Johnson for high blood