The plan has ______ various problems.
A.given rise to
B.paid rise to
C.raised
D.rose
A.given rise to
B.paid rise to
C.raised
D.rose
Vicky has been sad recently, for her plan to go to college______at the last moment.
A.fell out
B.fell behind
C.fell through
D.fell off
A. worked
B. spent
C. done
D. launched
A.until
B.which
C.although
D.for
—________________ about it now?
—Every time a customer has complained we've followed our store policy and offered them an exchange or a full refund.
A、What's the plan
B、 What's be doing
C、What's being done
Goods bought on installments are more expensive than goods bought by cash because
A.the buyer has to pay extra money as interest
B.the delivery of the goods charges extra money
C.the buyer has to pay a down payment
D.the service offered by installment plan is much better
The Saskatchewan program in Canada shows that______.
A.the labor union of a country can play a positive role in health-insurance reform
B.universal health insurance is practicable in a federal government
C.a third party is needed to coordinate the efforts of the government and the labor union
D.the electoral system has a direct impact on the insurance plan
A. To perersuade the government to build new houses.
B. To protest about a new motorway near the town.
C. To encourage more people in the town to use Parson's Place.
D. To inform. other people about the builders' plans.
【C1】
A.However
B.Since
C.Although
D.Unless
Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta's metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city center and the airport, but not much else; bus stops are often near-invisible poles, offering no indication of which bus might stop there, or when.
Georgia's Democratic governor, Roy Barnes, who hopes for reelection in November, has other plans. To win back the federal highway money lost under the Clean Air Act, he created the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a 15-member board with the power to make the county governments, the city and the ten-county Atlanta Regional Commission cooperate on transport plans, whether they like it or not.
Now GRTA has issued its own preliminary plan, allocating $4.5 billion over the next three years for a variety of schemes. The plan earmarks money to widen roads; to have an electric shuttle bus shuttle tourists among the elegant villas of Buckhead; and to create a commuter rail link between Atlanta and Macon, two hours to the south. Counties will be encouraged, with generous ten-to-one matching funds, to start express bus services.
Public goodwill, however, may not stretch as far as the next plan, which is to build the Northern Arc highway for 65 miles across three counties north of the city limits. GRTA has allotted $270m for this. Supporters say it would ease the congestion on local roads, opponents think it would worsen over-development traffic. The counties affected, and even GRTA's own board, are divided.
The governor is in favor, however; and since he can appoint and fire GRTA's members, that is probably the end of the story. Mr. Barnes has a tendency to do as he wants, regardless. His arrogance on traffic matters could also lose him votes. But Mr. Barnes thinks that Atlanta's slowing economy could do him more harm than the anti-sprawl movement.
The author's presentation of Atlantans' car-dependence is meant ______.
A.to be ironic.
B.to poke fun to them.
C.to be fair.
D.to make it notorious.
Can privacy be preserved 2 bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly 3 ?
Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a 4 to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech 5 of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled 6 one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential 7 to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.
The idea is to 8 a federation of private online identity systems. User could 9 which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts with one that would require an Internet driver's license 10 by the government.
Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these " single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to 11 just once but use many different services.
12 , the approach would create a " walled garden" in cyberspace, with safe " neighborhoods" and bright "streetlights" to establish a sense of a 13 community.
Mr. Schmidt described it as a "voluntary ecosystem" in which "individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with 14 , trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure 15 which the transaction runs. " Still, the administration's plan has 16 privacy rights activists. Some applaud the approach; others are concerned. It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would 17 be a compulsory Internet "drive's license" mentality.
The plan has also been greeted with 18 by some computer security experts, who worry that the "voluntary ecosystem" envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet 19 . They argue that all Internet users should be 20 to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads.
【B1】
A.swept
B.skipped
C.walked
D.ridden