France's ______ of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last month triggered political deb
A.assumption
B.consumption
C.presumption
D.resumption
A.assumption
B.consumption
C.presumption
D.resumption
第1题
In the 17th, France's national library was founded in Paris.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第2题
Why does the author say Britain has given blessing to France's nuclear ambition?
A.British Energy was changed to a state-owned energy giant.
B.British government will never compete with France in nuclear power.
C.The company British government holds shares was purchased by French one.
D.British Energy's incorporation will have no negative effects.
第3题
A.handled
B.generated
C.impressed
D.launched
第4题
A.He provided Washington with a lot of money.
B.He persuaded France to support Washington.
C.He served as a general in Washington's army.
D.He represented Washington in negotiations with Britain.
第5题
What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?
A.There is still a good chance of their being recovered.
B.There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.
C.They have stopped sending homing signals.
D.They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.
第6题
How things have changed. Nuclear power is back in favor, thanks to fears about oil supplies, energy security and global warming. France is ready to develop its expertise into a significant export. Its president, Nicolas Sarkozy, considers the sale of nuclear power to be central to his diplomacy: it is a symbol of France's technical power and a reaffirmation of its status as a global industrial power. Soon after his election 18 months ago, he toured countries from China to Libya to tout France's nuclear expertise, signing deals to open the way for French firms to sell reactors.
France has two competitive advantages in the field. First, it has the most recent and extensive experience of any country in building and operating nuclear plants. That has given Areva's "third generation" reactor design, called the EPR, an advantage over blueprints from its two big rivals: Westinghouse, now a unit of Toshiba of Japan, and GE Hitachi, a recently formed joint venture(合资企业). Second, French engineers have developed a new reprocessing technique, so that nuclear energy produces less waste than in other countries.
Areva's EPRs are under construction at Flamanville in Normandy, Olkiluoto in Finland and Taishan in China. Areva forecasts that demand for nuclear capacity could bring it orders for 60 reactors, or one-third of the total market, by 2020 -- each with a price of around 5 billion. Westinghouse has orders from China for four of its new AP1000 reactors, and GE Hitachi's ESBWR design is being considered by several American utilities.
The high cost of building new plants, arid the uncertainty over the cost of nuclear energy relative to other sources, could delay the nuclear renaissance (复兴), especially in the midst of a credit crunch. Luckily for sellers, governments are bent on tackling climate change and securing energy supplies, and are likely to offer big subsidies.
Britain, for one, has given its blessing to France's nuclear ambitions: in September Electricit6 de France (EDF), a state-owned energy giant which owns and runs France's plants (and is thus closely intertwined with Areva), bought British Energy, a troubled utility in which the British government held a big share.
What does the author tell us about Areva in the passage?
A.It is a French company, used to be owned by. private sector.
B.It has stepped into the third-generation .reactor design period.
C.Its third generation reactor has been constructed in France, Finland and China.
D.Its nuclear capacity will occupy one-third of the total in less than a decade.
第7题
The French child, boy or girl, gives one the impression of being intellectually more precocious(早熟的) than the product of the chillier English climate. This precocity is encouraged by his upbringing among adults, not in a nursery. English parents readily adapt their conversation to the child's point of view and interest themselves more in his games and childish preoccupations. The English are, as regards national character, younger than the French, or, to put it another way, there is in England no deep division between the life of the child and that of the grown man. The art of talking to children in the kind of language they understand is so much an English art that most of the French children's favorite books are translations from the English. French parents, on the other hand, do their best to develop the child's intelligence as rapidly as possible. They have little patience with childish ideas even if they do not go so far as to look upon childhood as an unfortunate but necessary prelude (序言) to adult life. Not that they need to force the child, for he usually leads himself willingly to the process, and enjoys the effect of his unexpectedly clever remarks and of his keen judgment of men and things. It is not without significance that the French mother instead of appealing to the child's heart by asking him to be good appeals to his reason by asking him to be wise. Reasonableness is looked for early in France, and the age of reason is fixed at seven years.
According to behaviorism, all human actions ______.
A.are of a great mystery
B.have no bearing on human drives
C.are supposed to be highly motivated
D.are based on stimulus and response
第8题
听力原文:W: Hi, Jack. Tomorrow's the big day! You must be excited about going to France for your first international conference.
M: The trip, yes, but not the preparation.
W: What do you need to do except pack?
M: You know how you always feel so awful whenever you make big change in time zones? This time I'm trying an anti-jet-lag program so I'll be alert even for the first day's lectures.
W: But how can you avoid jet lag? With that late flight and a six-hour difference in time, it's bound to take you a couple of days to adjust.
M: Well, this program's supposed to get your body to feel like it's in the new time zone before you leave. The theory is that the food you eat actually tells your body when to be active and when to be restful, so changing your diet can help you be ready for the time change. You have to alternate feasting and fasting... you know sometimes eat a lot, sometimes just a little.
W: OK. Now I see why you're not enjoying the preparation. I can't quite picture you fasting!
M: Actually the worst is already over. Two days before the flight, you're supposed to have only light meals and limit yourself to eight hundred calories.
W: That must have been tough.
M: Yeah, but I'm making up for it today. Feast day is much better though I still don't get to eat any snacks after dinner.
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A.Avoiding gaining weight while traveling.
B.Making reservations for the best travel.
C.New foods to try when traveling.
D.Adjusting to time changes when traveling.
第9题
Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life4o joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cart?
Since the late 1950's life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, good- oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.
In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modem economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, convenience, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modem, industrial France is preferable to the old.
Which of the following is NOT given as a feature of the old French way of life?
A.Leisure.
B.Elegance.
C.Efficiency.
D.Taste.
第10题
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D. We would therefore appreciate if you could give us a catalogue and price list regarding your products.
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