[单项选择]The new government embarked upon a program of radical economic reform.
A. initiated
B. produced
C. adopted
D. implemented

[单项选择]The new government embarked upon a program of radical economic reform.
A. initiated
B. produced
C. adopted
D. implemented

[单项选择]In the summer program, the students’ attendance rate was ______.
A. ninety percent
B. One hundred percent
C. ninety-five percent
D. eighty percent

[单项选择]The United Nations has launched a new program with a view to ______ poverty in those African countries.


A. extricating
B. eradicating
C. distracting
D. extracting

[简答题]

In a new program to encourage graduate students to enter public service, Harvard University plans to give ＄14 million in "presidential scholarships" over the next three years to 200 to 300 graduate students interested in public service or research careers. It will also offer below-market-rate loans to all 12,000 of its graduate and professional students—including those from outside the United States—to support students who enter less profitable public-interest careers.
"I believe these steps represent a significant move toward the ultimate objective of drawing more young people into public service, and making possible careers of many different kinds for the most talented young students from all over the world," Harvard’s president, Lawrence H. Summers said. Mr. Summers, an economist who served as United States Treasury secretary before becoming Harvard’s president, said he had become convinced of the need for such a program as h

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