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【答案解析】[解析] 6-10
Jakarta: The death toll from Saturday"s earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java has now climbed to over 4,000. Thousands more have been injured, and aid agencies are predicting roughly 100,000 people have been left homeless. The quake struck just before 6:00 AM local time and was centered just offshore, not far from the ancient city of JogJakarta. There was some damage in the city, but the area south of the city adjacent to the Indian Ocean appears to have born the brunt of the damage and suffered the most casualties.
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country had produced its first batch of enriched uranium. He also said Iran would move ahead with enrichment on an industrial scale. His announcement has kept Iran on a collision course with the United Nations and the western powers. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the announcement was deeply unhelpful. The German Foreign Minister said Iran was going in precisely the wrong direction. And their French counterpart said Iran should stop its dangerous activities. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the UN Security Council would need to take Out the issue again.
New York City: Forbes Magazine is out once again with its rankings of the world"s richest people, and this year"s wealthiest persons in the world look on as no surprise. Microsoft founder Bill Gates tops the list, and his net worth grew from 46.5 billion to 50 billion dollars. No. 2 on the list is Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Forbes figures the number of billionaires around the globe grew by about 102 people over the past year and that means there are now a record 793 billionaires with a combined wealth of 2.6 trillion dollars.
London: Britain"s Labor government is having a difficult week. It has a big majority in parliament but the leadership still can"t get MPs to pass laws in the form it wants. Labor rebels want to make a proposed smoking ban tougher. The government wants to ban smoking in indoor public places, including restaurants and other places of entertainment. This is partly because it wants to discourage people from smoking, since smoking causes so much illness, but also to protect the health of the staff who work there, and who have no choice about breathing in second hand smoke.
Washington: Yahoo and AOL will try a new approach to handle spam, the Internet equivalent of junk mail. Since spams can be sinister or offensive, various software systems have been developed to block it and some are pretty effective. But legitimate e-mail from big business is often filtered by anti-spam software, making it hard for the company to operate. For less than a penny a piece, Yahoo and AOL offer to deliver e-mails directly to people"s inboxes, bypassing any anti-spam device. The customer could be reassured that the approach was genuine, and Yahoo and AOL would make a lot of money. Anyone who didn"t want to pay could carry on as before.
Question No. 6: What has happened on the Indonesian island of Java?