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t to the local government after finishing everything, I was surprised to find that they’d stopped issuing permits for Internet cafes. ”Having an Internet cafe without Internet is much like having a coffee shop without coffee. Pm avoiding closing the place, but it39。s been more than three months with the situation ongoing as it is,” Obeidallah said “Who will bear the losses caused by the permit issue?”The decision took many cafe owners by surprise. “I asked to open an Internet cafe, and I was handed a list of all the things that were needed to follow through, such as a sign for the place filling out forms,” said Hassan AlHarbi.“I did all that was asked and rented a place . And after the Haj vacation I went to the local government and they surprised me , saying that there are new rules that forbid the issuing of any more Internet cafe permits and that one can39。t even renew his permit. Pve lost more than SR80,000, AlHarbi added.As for the government, officials say a method to deal with it is on the way, but security concerns e before profit (盈利).60. The government stopped issuing or renewing permits for Internet cafes ____A. to prevent misuse of new safeguards in Internet cafes.B. to make cafe owners earn less profit from their business.C. to stop the use of the information superhighway on Internet.D. to make sure of the proper use of the information superhighway.61. The government’s decision led to the fact that many cafe owners ____.A. suffered heavy financial losses B. asked to open up Internet cafesC. continued to operate Internal cafes D. asked the government for payment.62. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “on the way” means ____.A. to be studied B. to be put into practice.C. to be changed D. to be improved63. The cafe owners found the governments decision ____.A. surprising and unacceptable B. understandable and acceptableC. reasonable but surprising D. surprising but acceptableCWalk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been around 15, 000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the Amazon might have reacted (反應(yīng)) to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to future climate change? If it gets drier, will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2? Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past.Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake muds. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments (沉淀物) which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aero planes. Rivers tend to the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers pletely unsampled (未取樣). So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.64. The underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph means ____.A. cleaning up B. taking in C. wiping out D. giving out65. How will the Amazon rainforest react to future climate change?A. It’ll get drier and continue to remove CO2. B. It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thick.C. It