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Mr. Clinton writes with rueful candor about his chubby adolescence, confessing that he was once the only child at an Easter egg hunt not to get an egg, not because he could not find them, but because he could not move fast enough to compete with the other children.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.
B. Easter egg hunt is a traditional game in which the children play with dogs.
C. Easter egg hunt is also part of a community’s celebration of holiday.
D. From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures.
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For G-20, a struggle over growth and debt
By Howard Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 27, 2010
TORONTO -- The world’s developed countries have built extensive public health systems, promised citizens a paycheck for life and erected a welter (i.e. disordered mixture) of protections around some industries and types of jobs. Now their leaders are conferring over a singular dilemma: how to take some of it back without undermining the economies they are trying to sustain.
In economic terms, it is a bit like creating a perpetual motion machine -- cutting tens of billions of dollars in public spending would almost certainly slow growth but is considered necessary to tame record levels of government debt. And in a series of recent reports, the International Monetary Fund has suggested that it might be just as tricky to demand unheard-of levels of coordination among the world’s major economies and require politicians to sustain what might prove to be a painful reform process for several years.
An IMF report to the Group of 20 major economies “has to go through a lot of contortions (i.e. adaptations or improvements)” to show that developed world debt can be brought down without undermining growth, said Eswar Prasad, a senior economist at the Brookings Institution and former IMF economist, who has reviewed the document. “They have been tweaking (i.e. to adapt sth.) their methods -- the message is that you need to have fiscal cut, but if you do it the right way you won’t have negative growth effects
The needed changes range from an overhaul of financial regulations to a retooling of world trade, topics U.S. officials mentioned at the start of the talks this weekend. President Obama pledged to pursue passage of a U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement by fall in hopes of boosting American exports, while Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said the pending approval of a U.S. financial overhaul package should be complemented by strong actions by other countries on issues such as the rules for bank capitalization.
The G-20 -- industrialized countries and major emerging powers that include China and India -- meets Sunday amid debate about the risks that public debt in the developed world poses to the global recovery and how to respond to it without creating another set of problems. Heading into the session, even some of the group’s closest allies seemed divided.
“This summit must be fundamentally about growth,” Geithner said on arriving in Canada, just hours after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper emphasized the “strong consensus on the need for medium-term consolidation plans in advanced countries” -- in other words budget cutting.
Can the two be resolved?
The IMF has published a “Ten Commandments for Fiscal Adjustment in Advanced Economies” that includes a warning from its top economists to “obey these . . . and chances are high that you will achieve fiscal consolidation and sustained growth.”
The document acknowledges that the level of budget cutting being planned by the developed world is risky given the weakness in the world economy. Deep cuts are underway in Greece and Spain, and have been proposed in Britain and recommended for the United States and others to begin by next year.
But the document also contends that a commitment to more-balanced public spending will stabilize bond markets, bring down interest rates as governments borrow less, and encourage more private investment -- all “growth-friendly” results that will help offset any reduction in government budgets.
In addition, the agency says that for the process to work, budget cutting must be accompanied by a broad set of other reforms that would improve economic performance.
Public retirement and health programs are singled out: “You shall pass early pension and health care reforms as current trends are unsustainable” is commandment No. 5. Much of the projected increase in future public spending in developed countries is related to the aging of their populations, and changes such as an increase in the retirement age improve future balance sheets without cutting current spending.
Labor markets need to be overhauled to make it easier for people to find and change jobs or enter new markets; in recent reports on Greece and France, the agency singled out rules that protect retailers, pharmacists and others from competition. Product markets need to be deregulated. Taxes almost certainly need to increase.
And on top of all that, the world’s wealthiest nations will still need some help from emerging markets such as China that have benefited from large trade surpluses in recent years and tucked trillions of dollars of currency reserves into the vaults of their central banks. The emerging markets need to boost their own spending and shift to “internal demand” for future growth, and rely less on spending from developed nations, the IMF said.
Synchronizing those efforts on a global scale will be a task in itself. The G-20 asked the IMF to begin the process by collecting economic projections and policy plans from its members, and vetting (i.e.. monitor) them to see how they complement -- or conflict with -- each other, and square with (i.e. match) the IMF’s own forecasts.
According to officials who reviewed the IMF’s report, the developed countries appeared too optimistic in their expectations for growth and the recovery of the private sector and too timid in the political decisions being planned to restructure their economies.
That, according to one Canadian official, will be a centerpiece of the weekend’s discussions.
“Each country is coming in saying here is what we are going to do,” said the official, who is familiar with the talks but is not authorized to speak publicly. The IMF estimates that properly coordinated policies could add about $4 trillion and 30 million jobs to the world economy in coming years, and “we don’t want to leave $4 trillion on the table,” the official said.
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he changes hit a visitor right away. In newspapers ads, the tradition of parents seeking spouses for their offspring continues. But read those classified more closely and see the number that give an e-mail address or even a website for reply. And note all the telephone chat lines for everything from spicy film gossip to advice on cutting business deals. Want to celebrate at a spiffy eatery? Then make a reservation, for while the choice is staggering, the queues can be too. No, this is not Lan Kwai Fong, Boat Quay or the Ginza. It’s Delhi’s Pandan Market, Bombay’s Colaba and Banglore’s Gandhi Road. India is on fire—and its people know it, from the dotcom wallah to the man at the top. Says Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee: “Together we are building a strong and resurgent nation whose confident march forward is being keenly watched by the whole world. Let nothing be done that would slacken the momentum.”
In Line 2, “those classified” probably refers to each of the following EXCEPT
_________.
A. all newspaper advertisements
B. those advertisements which are classified
C. the small advertisements you put in a newspaper
D. the so-called want advertisements in America
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ID：9582-11698（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题）
Regular universities and colleges plan to enroll about 786 200 students this year ____.
A.which is the same as last years figure
B.which is more than last year’s figure by 158 200
C.which is 25 per cent over last year’s figure
D.both B and C
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Protesters join ‘Hands Across the Sand’ to oppose offshore drilling
—— Gloucester event is one of many held nationwide
By Sydney Lupkin —”The Boston Globe” Correspondent / June 27, 2010
GLOUCESTER — Give Jane Barry five days and a bullhorn and she can give you 200 protesters and a message: No to offshore drilling.
Barry, a 63-year-old real estate broker from Gloucester, organized one of 26 “Hands Across the Sand’’ protests in Massachusetts — 808 nationwide — to oppose offshore drilling and call for clean energy alternatives. Participants linked hands, standing on beaches together at noon for 15 minutes yesterday.
“Sometimes in order to start something, you have to scream,’’ Barry said in an interview.
Barry took an old real estate sign and decorated it with paper hands and an ocean made of blue electrical tape.
Beneath her straw with the words “Hands Across the Sand’’ written in orange and blue marker, she was joined by 15 others who gathered at one end of Good Harbor Beach, held hands and started walking toward the other end, their feet splashing in the surf. Barry started yelling into her bullhorn for people to join.
“S-O-S. Save our shores,’’ chanted Sarah Mahan, 17, of Andover, part of the group.
Soon, echoed by the rest of the line, she began yelling, “Yes to clean energy. No to offshore drilling.’’
Within minutes, people lounging on chairs and towels dusted themselves off and joined in. The line grew to 200 people by the time it reached the other end of the beach.
The movement has been spurred by the BP oil spill that has been polluting the Gulf of Mexico since April 20 It is considered the worst oil spill in US history.
In Boston, a smaller group joined hands in the Boston Harbor Islands at noon.
Bruce Berman, spokesman for Boston-based advocacy group Save the Harbor-Save the Bay, predicted that the protests would be a “game-changer. I think there’s an awful lot of frustration and concern about the extent and the duration of the BP oil spill, and I think that people are very cognizant and feel there’s not a lot they can do,’’ Berman said.
“The good news about a symbolic gesture is that anybody can do it,’’ Berman said. “People are just drawing a line in the sand.’’
He said the 15-minute nationwide protest was one of the biggest grassroots efforts he had seen. It was publicized on Facebook pages and via word of mouth. He said seven people without computers called him for directions on Friday.
Hannah Krieger, 17, saw the event on Facebook and drove from Andover. She arrived early to help Barry — whom she had not met before — pass out fliers along the beach and persuade people to sign a petition, which organizers plan to send to the Obama administration.
“Even though not everyone was supportive, I loved shouting the message,’’ she said.
Dave Rauschkolb, a 48-year-old restaurateur and surfer, founded the movement in Florida last year to oppose lifting a ban on local offshore drilling. The protests on 90 beaches persuaded the Florida Legislature to table the effort earlier this year. The BP oil spill persuaded Rauschkolb to expand his movement, he said.
The movement has gone international, including 27 events in Canada, one in China, and five in India, according to the group’s website.
“It made me feel really wonderful to be a vessel through which people could come together regardless of their political affiliation,’’ he said.
Rauschkolb said the goal is getting attention from politicians. “They’re the people that hold the future of our energy policy in their hands,’’ he said. “If we can’t convince them, we can’t convince anybody.
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ID：9582-11705（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题）
Students in need of financial assistance ____.
A.can get a grant
B.need only pay for accommodation
C.can get support from the local government
D. can enjoy reduced tuitions and fees
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