German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the l 9th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the world’s first workers’ compensation law in 1884.
By 1908, the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. America’s injured workers could sue for damages in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers. For example, employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that they themselves
A. to make industrial production safer
B. to speed up the pace of industrialization
C. out of religious and political considerations
D. for fear of losing the support of the socialist labor movement
The Hope diamond is one of the largest and most famous jewels in the world. For fifty years, it has been in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C. To mark its anniversary, the museum is showing the forty-five carat(克拉) blue diamond for the first time without its usual setting. Visitors can now see the Hope diamond in all its natural beauty.
The Hope diamond has a long and rich history. It was formed over a billion years ago far beneath the Earth’s surface. The stone was discovered in a mine in India during the 17th century. It was more than one hundred carats in weight. In 1668, the stone was sold to the ruler of France, King Louis the Fourteenth.
A few years later, the king’s jeweler re-cut the stone to a weight of about 67 carats. The stone was later lost during the French Revolution. A re-cut version of this blue diamond later reappeared in England.
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A. the small diamonds in the old setting are of different color
B. the setting has been damaged
C. they want people to see it in its natural beauty
D. the style of the setting is too old.
Color is very important to most animals
for it helps them to get along in the world. Color (21) to
make an animal difficult for its enemies to (22) . Many
animals match their (23) so well that as long as they do not
move no one is (24) to see them. You probably have often
"jumped" a rabbit. If you (25) , you know how the rabbit
sits perfectly still (26) you are just a few feet
away. You (27) see the rabbit till it runs for its
(28) matches very closely the place where it is
(29) . Many times you may have walked past a rabbit
(30) didn’t run and you never knew it was there at
all. One of the most usual color schemes that helps animals to keep (31) being seen, is a dark back and light underpants. If an animal is the same color all (32) , there is always a A. surface B. coat C. shape D. appearance 我来回答: 提交
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