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The youths began protesting Tuesday morning over demands that a local oil refinery and petrochemical plant employ more people from the area, said police chief Samuel Adetuyi.

They set fire to part of a police station in the Niger delta village of Ogale and burned an SUV in its courtyard. One protester was killed when he tried to grab a rifle from a police officer and the gun accidentally went off, he said.

Discontent is high among people in the Niger delta over unemployment and continued poverty despite booming oil production in their area.

Nigeria is the world's seventh largest oil exporter and the fifth largest supplier of crude oil to the United States.

According to a police officer, the protest was triggered______

A．for a local police commander ordered Ms men to open fire on them

B．for a nearby petrochemical plant had dismissed some young employers

C．for protesters demanded to find a job in the local oil-related factories

D．for the police had killed a young man from the neighborhood

A．held

B．grasped

C．clung

D．stuck

A．other

B．the other

C．ones

D．another

A．Because her dad did not like him.

B．Because she needed to finish her college.

C．Because he had a busy career.

D．Because her dad threatened not to support her college education.

A．$ 100.

B．$ 110.

C．$ 120.

D．$ 130.

A．will we

B．shall we

C．would we

D．should we

A．He has some confidential information about the limitations of the traditional syllabus.

B．According to him today's business schools do not pay enough attention to the skills of leadership.

C．He is an expert on training students how to develop a gut instinct.

D．He points out a major constraint on the speed with which multinational companies can expand.

A．Traditional style. of MBA courses.

B．Self-awareness in 21st century business schools.

C．Reforms in today's business schools.

D．Reforming the MBA to meet the challenges of the new century.

A journalist for Australia's SBS Arabic radio service, Majida Abboud-Saab, said Sheik al-Hilali, in Iraq to try to free 63-year-old Donglas Wood, had told her he had spoken to a man who said he represented the militants holding the engineer.

"They said that they were willing to release Donglas Wood," Abboud-Saab told Southern Cross Broad- casting on Wednesday.

"They are not placing any conditions on his release. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is very convinced and he is very optimistic and he is very happy about the fact that they have agreed to release Douglas."

Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said that Wood, who is married to an American, may have been kidnapped two days before a two-minute video was delivered to news agencies on May 1.

Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali was ______

A．was a journalist working for Australia's SBS Arabic radio service

B．was a leader of militants who held an Australian hostage

C．was a Muslim leader designated to rescue the hostage

D．was the American to whom the hostage was married

A．early land policy was favorable for the expansion of the new nation

B．rich families moved west and bought land

C．there were no financial problems in building railroads in the middle of the 19th century

D．colleges in the original thirteen states could own land