【正文】 ___. (A) stimulating them to build up selfconfidence (B) cultivating the attitude of risk taking (C) enlarging the areas for children to succeed (D) making them understand their family crisis 3. What is the message that peer pressure conveys to children? (A) A sudden lack of motivation is attributed to the student39。s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities? Says the DOJ39。s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.(), the expression sink its own case most probably means that _________. (A) counterattack the opposition (B) lead to blocking of porn sites (C) provide evidence to disprove the case (D) give full ground to support the case 10. When Kurt Opsahl says that They should be able to take advantage of the Inter without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders. (), the expression Big Brother is used to refer to _________. (A) a friend or relative showing much concern (B) a colleague who is much more experienced (C) a dominating and allpowerful ruling power (D) a benevolent and democratic anization Questions 1115 On New Year39。t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models。s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism? (A) Neutral and indifferent. (B) Sympathetic and understanding. (C) Critical and vehement. (D) Subjective and fatalistic. 14. When the author writes the policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. (), he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not __________. (A) have an objective view of the situation in Africa (B) understand the unpredictable weather systems there (C) feel themselves superior in decision making (D) care about the development of the local people 15. The author39。s a significant source of money for probing fundamental questions of how and why life emerged on Earth and whether life arose elsewhere in the universe. 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As the team pondered the evidence, they nixed several explanations, including the idea that the particles in the plumes were driven by vapor billowing out as ice reached the surface and immediately turned into a gas. The last idea standing: Liquid water was venting from reservoirs near the surface, perhaps only tens of meters below the frigid crust. This explanation also helped solve the riddle of puzzlingly high levels of oxygen atoms found in Saturn39。s moon Enceladus. Scientists mining new data from the Cassini spacecraft say they may have found evidence that Enceladusthe pla39。s drylands can support mercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa39。s perennial problem with drought and famine. How so? It es down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders39。m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper authorities. 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