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Every year landslides {滑坡} cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States.They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe.And in December, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines.Sending workers to stabilize (加固) mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties.Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (米屑)."It's quite a risky job," says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering company in Italy. D'Appolonia, working with eight other companies, may have an answer: a three-ton robot called Roboclimber."The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a human being on board,'" says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by the European Commission.Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor.The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged mechanical spider (蜘蛛), has cost at least $2 million so far.The final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the slope' s stability.Testing should begin in May. 小题1:The underlined word "event" (in Paragraph l) refers to ___.
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A、composition of materials, properties
B、composition, structure and processing of materials, properties
C、composition, structure and processing of materials, application
D、structure of materials, application
The benefit to commerce of allowing stevedores and terminal operators to completely limit their liability is often put forward by supporters on their part.Such reasoning,however,ignores the fact that in the commercial world it is preferable for persons who cause damage to cargo to be held responsible for that damage.Otherwise they will continue to be negligent and will do nothing to alter their practices.
Transferring the loss to the underwriters of cargo from the underwriters of the stevedores does not merely shift the cost of insurance.If the stevedores and terminal operators who have the care and charge of cargo do not act carefully when carrying out their duties,then responsibility for loss and damage to cargo will not only be shifted but that loss and damage will be increased as well.Nor are all cargoes or risks fully or even partially insured.
Therefore,the premium of cargo insurance is so high that it has been estimated that not much more than fifty percent of shipments by sea on the North Atlantic are actually insured at all. It is a fundamental principle of GOOD business practice and of efficient,fair and low-cost insurance that persons who are responsible for losses should be held accountable,in some way,for those losses.
问题:
According to the passage,limiting the liability on the part of the stevedores will ________.
A.transfer the loss suffered by underwriters of cargo to the underwriters of stevedores
B.transfer the loss suffered by underwriters of stevedores to the underwriters of cargo
C.not transfer any liability in practice of shipping
D.increase the liability on their part
The author of this passage is a supporter on the side that ________.A.the liability on the part of the stevedores and terminal operators should be completely limited
B.transferring the loss to the underwriters of cargo from the underwriters of the stevedores is impossible in shipping practice
C.transferring the insurance cost to the underwriters of cargo from the underwriters of the stevedores is necessary in the eyes of shipping laws
D.persons who are responsible for losses should be held accountable,in some way,for those losses
If the persons who are responsible for losses and damages are not held accountable,in some way,for those losses and damages,that losses and damages will ________.A.be increased
B.be decreased
C.be prevented
D.not happened
In the author's opinion,the insured cargo accounting to fifty percent of total shipments by sea on the North Atlantic is ________.A.reasonably practicable
B.normal
C.too much
D.too little
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