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The actual cost of the building was much higher than our original ______.
A．consideration
B．judgment
C．estimate
D．plan
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The actual cost of the house was higher than their original ______.
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C．judgment
D．estimate
It can be learned that the types of entertainment of mid-nineteenth century
A．have become increasingly popular among scholars since the 80's.
B．were so sophisticated that audiences couldn't understand.
C．actually involved very little actual fraud and double consciousness.
D．discouraged people from suspecting their perceptions.
A．She just couldn't bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.
B．The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.
C．Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.
D．Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation.
They haven’t decided whether to buy the house because() (维修) it will cost a fortune.
A、attaining
B、attaching
C、maintaining
D、manufacturing
A.spend
B.afford
C.take
D.cost
Saudi Arabia began privatizing water services after shortages sparked riots last November in Jeddah. Loay Ahmed Musallam, the deputy water minister, said the first contract to manage water supplies for Riyadh would be awarded this year. By 2010, private companies will provide water for half the population, he added. Saudi Arabia plans to invest $37 billion over five years to improve water pipelines. Leaks cost 1 million cubic meters of water a day—the output of seven desalination plants—the minister said. Even after putting contracts out to bid, governments still face politically sensitive decisions. In Saudi Arabia, for example, water tariffs are among the lowest in the world. Musallam said Saudis consumed twice as much water as Britons in spite of living in one of the driest parts of the globe. The government is introducing measures to encourage water conservation.
Even in the US, the shortfall between actual investment and the industry's real needs is estimated to be $122 billion for waste water treatment and $100 billion for drinking water over the next 12 years, said Michael Dean of the Environmental Protection Agency. "People take for granted clean, safe, inexpensive water, but the old ways of paying for water in the US no longer meet our needs", Dean said.
Water services in the US are mainly owned by municipalities, which fiercely resist privatization. Gasson says decades of underinvestment are catching up with the water industry. "Either tariffs or subsidies will have to rise. We are at an inflection point. Investment now is unavoidable", he said.
David Lloyd Owen, a British consultant, estimated the investment shortfall for the global water industry at $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years. "The question is how to overcome political resistance to the involvement of the private sector", he said. "The water industry is one of the most conservative in the world. By and large, it is still run by bureaucrats and engineers", Owen said. "There is also a passionate and well-organized lobby against privatization".
He sees more room for the private sector as technology for desalination and recycling come to play an increasing role in the industry. Banks are also becoming more creative in matching the financing of capital outlays in the industry with the long lives of water treatment facilities.
Which of the following can't we infer according to the author？
A．Global warming will exacerbate the shortage of water.
B．Water companies will feel happy because of water shortage.
C．Saudi Arabia and Algeria are making great efforts to solve the problem of water shortage.
D．According to the UN, 60% of the world's population won't suffer water shortages by 2050.
Passage Two
America put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spending billions of dollars to keep nearly 2 million people locked up. According to statistics, the United States ends 1999 with 1983084 men and women in prisons. That shows an increase of nearly 840,000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prisoner population in the world. With the cost of housing a prisoner at about $20,000 a year the cost in 1999 for keeping all these prisoners behind bars is about $39 billion.
Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of keeping prisoners behind bars doesn't seem much in comparison in the 1990s coincided with (与……相一致) a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years in a row. "There are noticeable number of people who don't do crimes because they don't want to go to prison," they say.
36. There is a heated debate among American experts because ______.
A. America has put 2 million people in prison
B. the cost for housing a prisoner keeps rising
C. billions of dollars has been spent on prisoners
D. the prisoner population is the largest in the world
Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of keeping prisoners behind bars doesn't seem much in comparison in the 1990s coincided with (与……相一致) a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years in a row. "There are noticeable number of people who don't do crimes because they don't want to go to prison," they say.
There is a heated debate among American experts because ______.
A．America has put 2 million people in prison
B．the cost for housing a prisoner keeps rising
C．billions of dollars has been spent on prisoners
D．the prisoner population is the largest in the world
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