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单选题The outcry over Internet firms" habit of secretly tracking web surfers" activities has clearly resonated inside the White House. On March 16th the Obama administration announced that it intends to work with Congress to produce a "privacy bill of rights" giving American consumers greater control over how their information is collected and used by digital marketers. Those who have been lobbying for change agree with, but are unsympathetic to, Internet firms" worries that such a law could damage their advertising-driven business models, which rely on tracking and targeting consumers to maximize revenues. "This is dimming the prospects of Google, Facebook and other digital ad companies," says Jeffrey Chester of the Centre for Digital Democracy. Quite how dark things get for them will depend on the details of the bill. It will seek to lay down the basic principles of Internet privacy rights, broadly following recommendations published last December by the Department of Commerce. The department"s report said consumers should be told more about why data are being collected about them and how they are used; and it called for stricter limits on what companies can do with information they collect. Whatever legislation finally emerges is likely to give a broader role to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, which will almost certainly be charged with deciding how those principles are translated into practice and with policing their implementation. Among other things, the FTC is known to be keen on a formal "do not track" system, which would allow users to block certain sites from monitoring their online activities. Keen to avoid this, the online-advertising industry has been working overtime to convince policymakers that it can police itself using systems such as icons on web pages that show surfers when they are being tracked. And it is telling anyone who will listen that consumers will suffer if tough do-not-track rules hit ad revenues, forcing web firms to charge for more content. With Mr Obama throwing his weight behind Internet privacy, this rearguard (无望取胜) action is less likely to be successful. Some ad firms have started talking of creating a do-not-track system of their own that would limit the damage to their digital activities. Microsoft and Mozilla, two tech giants, have recently said they are including do-not-track features in new versions of their respective web browsers. Although all this may dent their revenues, America"s Internet giants could also benefit from the legislation if it helps them in their dealings with the European Union. The EU"s already fairly strict rules on privacy are being tightened further. The time-consuming and expensive legal hoops the EU makes American Internet firms jump through, to be allowed to handle Europeans" online data, will become more demanding. If by passing its own online-privacy bill of rights, America can convince the EU to ease this legal burden, then it will be an important win for American companies, says Joel Reidenberg, a professor at Fordham University"s law school. Google, Facebook and others will no doubt be tracking the progress of EU-American talks on this matter very closely.

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单选题The world-famous Belgian has arrived in Britain with his equally famous dog for a five-month stay—nearly 70 years after his first visit. Tintin, the eternally youthful reporter who only was ever known to file one story in all his adventures, is celebrating his 75th birthday this year with a new exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum. Tintin at Sea is a collection of original drawings by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi—more commonly known as Herge which was the French-speaking pronunciation of his reversed initial RG—and some of the artifacts and models that inspired him. "Herge had a lifelong fascination with the sea and was above all a person who insisted on detail," the museum's director Roy Clare told reporters at a preview of the exhibition which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs to September 5. Tintin, with his trademark quiff and plus-four trousers, traveled all over the world on adventures that took him and his white terrier known as Snowy in English and Milou in French from Tibet to America and Iceland to Africa. Books of his adventures have been translated into 60 languages and have sold 200 million copies since the comic strip character first saw the light of day in 1929. Although the stories took Tintin and his irascible companion Captain Haddock as far as the moon, the sea is a recurring theme, in stories such as The Crab with the Golden Claws, Red Rackham's Treasure and The Secrets of the Unicorn. Herge, who only traveled widely after the success of his creation, was a self-taught artist. He stayed in Belgium through World War Two and was accused and cleared of collaboration immediately afterwards, although he suffered a period of being an exile as a result. He was also accused of racism in some of Tintin's earlier adventures. The reporter only once travelled to Britain, in the story The Black Isle, published in 1938. "Here you have four famous Belgians," Joren Vandeweyer, the country's cultural attaché (大使随员) to Britain, told reporters. "Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and of course Herge himself, back after 66 years./

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单选题A lot of students are having all kinds of sports on the sports field. A ball game is going on right now (41) Class 3 and Class 4. Can you (42) me which team is winning? Do you see many people over there? Some students of Class 1 are practicing the (43) jump. One of them is the best high jumper in the school. He practices (44) every day. He wants to (45) the school record at the sports meeting next spring. Not far away, some girls are getting ready (46) a race. Now on the corner of the field, you can see another group of students. Their teacher is telling them (47) to throw discus. We students love sports. Sports (48) to keep people healthy. They help people to live happily, and to know each other (49) playing games on the sports field, It can (50) people become good friends.

单选题Should a leader strive to be loved or feared? This question, famously posed by Machiavelli, lies at the heart of Joseph Nye's new book. Mr. Nye, a former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is best known for promoting the idea of "soft power", based on persuasion and influences, as a counterpoint to "hard power", based on coercion (强迫) and force. Mr. Nye has now turned his attention to the relationship between power and leadership, in both the political and business spheres. Machiavelli, he notes, concluded that "one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved." In short, hard power is preferable to soft power. But modern leadership theories have come to the opposite conclusion. The context of leadership is changing, they observe, and the historical emphasis on hard power is becoming outdated. In modern companies and democracies, power is increasingly diffused and traditional hierarchies (等级制) are being undermined, making soft power ever more important. But that does not mean coercion should now take a back seat to persuasion, Mr. Nye argues. Instead, he advocates a synthesis of these two views. The conclusion of The Powers to Lead, his survey of the theory of leadership, is that a combination of hard and soft power, which he calls "smart power", is the best approach. The domination theoretical model of leadership at the moment is, apparently, the "transformational leadership pattern". Mr. Nye has performed a valuable service in rounding up and summarizing the various academic studies and theories of leadership into a single, slim volume. He examines different approaches to leadership, the morality of leadership and how the wider context can determine the effectiveness of a particular leader. There are plenty of anecdotes and examples, both historical and contemporary, political and corporate. Leadership is a slippery(狡猾的) subject, and as he depicts(描述) various theories, even Mr. Nye never quite nails the jerry to the wall. He is at his most interesting when discussing the moral aspects of leadership—in particular, the question of whether it is sometimes necessary for good leaders to lie—and he provides a helpful 12-point summary of his conclusions. A recurring theme is that as circumstances change, different sorts of leaders are required, a leader who thrives in one environment may struggle in another, and vice versa. Ultimately that is just a fancy way of saying that leadership offers no easy answers.

单选题Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Something has gone terribly{{U}} (62) {{/U}} with our once proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key{{U}} (63) {{/U}} is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability Accountability isn't hard to{{U}} (64) {{/U}} It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and {{U}}(65) {{/U}}for their consequences. Of the many {{U}}(66) {{/U}}that hold civilization together-honesty, kindness, and so on-accountability may be the most important. My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who {{U}}(67) {{/U}} , or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. {{U}}(68) {{/U}}as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior are far less effective than internal {{U}}(69) {{/U}}such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. {{U}} (70) {{/U}} , there are still communities-smaller towns, usually-where schools maintain {{U}}(71) {{/U}}and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not {{U}}(72) {{/U}} -they simply are not done! " Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these {{U}}(73) {{/U}}restraints are loosening. The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in {{U}}(74) {{/U}}Thirty years ago, if a crime was {{U}}(75) {{/U}}, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking {{U}}(76) {{/U}} , it's the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn't teach him to read, by the church that {{U}}(77) {{/U}}to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a {{U}}(78) {{/U}}home. I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to {{U}}(79) {{/U}}in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, {{U}}(80) {{/U}} accountability, we become a society of endless excuses {{U}}(81) {{/U}}no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.

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单选题The Obesity is a national health crisis, one that—quite literally—weighs on us all. It costs lives. It costs dollars. And in the context of our current health-reform debate in Washington, it's time we took action, as a nation and as individuals, to address this cost. While infectious disease was a disaster recently as our grandparents' generation, chronic disease is killing us and harming our well-being—and obesity is the root cause. The growth in obesity is strongly linked to heart disease, hypertension, and the explosion of diabetes that our country is currently experiencing. These and other chronic diseases account for 7 out of every 10 deaths each year and are the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S. They are also responsible for more than 75 percent of the nation's health-care spending. Year after year, more Americans have become obese or overweight, now representing one third of the population. One in five 4-year-olds are obese, contributing to the fact that for the first time ever, children may have a shorter lifespan than their parents. But the obesity crisis isn't simply a health crisis; it is also an economic crisis—and the mount that it costs us in terms of lost lives, lost productivity, and lost dollars is staggering and deserves attention from our national leaders, and from us. Obesity accounts for nearly 10 percent of what the U.S. spends annually on health care and is linked to about one third of the increase in domestic health spending since the mid-1980s. It is a huge cost driver in Medicare and Medicaid—so even if you or your family members are not obese, you, like the rest of us, are paying for this crisis. Were obesity at 1987 levels, Medicare spending would be $ 40 billion per year lower than it was in 2006. A University of Florida study found that health-care spending for 65-year-old men of normal weight was 6 to 13 percent less over the remainder of their lifetime than those who were overweight or obese. At a time when Americans are on tight budgets and Congress is struggling to "find" savings to pay for health-care reform, it's easy to see why we need to make changes. Policy changes in Washington are a critical part of the solution. We need common-sense reforms in our health system (such as lowering co-pays on preventive care and offering programs to help overweight Americans), in our schools (such as reinstating physical education and requiring school lunches to meet nutritional standards), in our workplaces (such as offering tax credits to employers that offer wellness benefits and encourage health inside and outside of the workplace), and in our communities (such as ensuring that all Americans have access to a place to be physically active and purchase healthy foods).

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