Boris Yeltsin, Russia's______President, died. His funeral in Moscow was attended by a bevy
A.prior
B.past
C.former
D.late
A.prior
B.past
C.former
D.late
According to the news, the senior aide to President Yeltsin was __
A.deputy of Commonwealth television station
B.his spokesman
C.the head of his administration
D.a parliamentary leader
听力原文: The United States has begun to review Russian documents about the life and death of former President John F. Kennedy and expected to release them once the review is complete, the White House said on Monday. The documents which Russia gave the United States on Sunday could be a particular interest because Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the former Soviet Union for several years before he returned to the United States and was arrested for killing the former President on November 22nd, 1963. Russian President Boris Yeltsin surprised US president Bill Clinton on Sunday when he turned over what was described as the results of an exhausted search of Russian government, military and private archives for papers about Kennedy and his assassination.
The Russian documents are expected to draw great attention because
A.they cover the whole story of the former US president.
B.the assassin used to live in the former Soviet Union.
C.they are the only official documents released about Kennedy.
D.they solved the mystery surrounding Kennedy's assassination.
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听力原文: Russia was in mourning yesterday for victims of a market bombing that killed 51 people.
Shocked residents of this southern provincial capital began to bury their dead.
President Boris Yeltsin ordered flags flown at half-mast on all official buildings as a sign of respect to shoppers and traders blown apart by a 10-kilogram device which devastated a produce market here on Friday.
The country also commemorated a separate tragedy concerning 21 patients who perished in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in the Vologda region on Friday, 350 kilometers northeast of Moscow.
Alexander Dzasokhov, president of North Ossetia, told journalists in Vladikavkaz that he had discussed an on-going investigation into the deadly market explosion via telephone with Yeltsin.
Dzasokhov later left to attend funerals of some of the 16 victims expected to be buried in Vladikavkaz and surrounding villages in simple family ceremonies.
Reports had earlier said 19 people were to be buried.
Russian television showed wailing mourners gathered round one victim's open coffin, and aired appeals from Vladikavkaz residents for an end to a wave of killings, kidnappings and crime destabilizing the Caucasus region.
Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin hinted on Saturday that religious extremists could have been responsible for the attack, which has increased tensions in Russia's troubled northern Caucaus region.
Which of the following is NOT a form. of recent violence?
A.Murdering.
B.Kidnapping.
C.Arson.
D.Raping.
Winners and Losers
Why are the biggest winners in the past decade of trade globalization mostly in South and East Asia, whereas the biggest losers are mostly in the former Soviet bloc (集团) and sub-Saharan Africa? History is a partial guide: East Asia has a long trading tradition, Lately reinvigorated (给以新的活力) by the Chinese adoption of market economics. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was sheltered from free-market forces for more than 70 years. In Africa, some countries are disadvantaged because of inadequate infrastructure (基础结构); many countries have little to trade hut commodities, the prices of which have fallen in recent years.
In some regions, certain countries have suffered by adopting misguided policies, often under pressure from International Monetary Fund. First among these is Russia, which in the early 1990s tried to embrace capitalism before first building the institutions that make capitalism work, such as an independent bank system, a system of business law, and an adequate method for collecting taxes. Encouraged by the IMF, the World Bank and the U. S. Department of the Treasury, President Boris Yeltsin’s regime privatized the state-owned industrial sector, creating a class of oligarchs (寡头政治集团成员), who, knowing how unstable conditions were at home, sent their money abroad instead of investing it at home.
In contrast, China, the biggest winner from globalization, did not follow the IMF formula. Of the former states of the Soviet bloc, only a few, notably Poland and Hungary, managed to grow, which they did by ignoring IMF advice and adopting expansionary plans, including spending more than they collected in taxes. Botswana and Uganda are also success stories: despite their disadvantages, their countries achieved vigorous growth by creating stable civil societies, liberalizing trade and implementing reforms that ran counter to IMF prescriptions.
Japan has a long trading tradition.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
请根据以下内容回答1-7题
Winners and Losers
Why are the biggest winners in the past decade of trade globalization mostly in South and East Asia, whereas the biggest
losers are mostly in the former Soviet bloc (集团) and sub-Saharan Africa? History is a partial guide: East Asia has a long
trading tradition, lately reinvigorated (给以新的活力) by the Chinese adoption of market economics. The Soviet Union, on
the other hand, was sheltered from free-market forces for more than 70 years. In Africa, some countries are disadvantaged
because of inadequate infrastructure (基础结构);many countries have little to trade but commodities, the prices of which
have fallen in recent years.
In some regions, certain countries have suffered by adopting misguided policies; often under pressure from International
Monetary Fund. First among these is Russia, which in the early 1990s tried to embrace capitalism before first building the
institutions that make capitalism work, such as an independent bank system, a system of business law, and an adequate
method for collecting taxes. Encouraged by the IMF, the World Bank and the U. S. Department of the Treasury, President
Boris Yeltsin's regime privatized the state-owned industrial sector, creating a class of oligarchs (寡头政治集团成员), who,
knowing how unstable conditions were at home, sent their money abroad instead of i nvesting it at home.
In contrast, China, the biggest winner from globalization, did not follow the IMF formula. Of the former states of the Soviet
bloc, only a few, notably Poland and&n bsp;Hungary, managed to grow, which they did by ignoring IMF advice and adopting expansionary plans,& nbsp;including spending more than they collected in taxes. Botswana and Uganda are also succes s stories: despite their disadvantages, their countries achieved vigorous growth by creating stable civil& nbsp;societies, liberalizing trade and implementing reforms that ran counter to IMF prescriptions.
Japan has a long trading tradition.()
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentionedC Not mentioned
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Winners and Losers
Why are the biggest winners in the past decade of trade globalization mostly in South and East Asia, whereas the biggest losers are mostly in the former Soviet bloc (集团) and sub-Saharan Africa? History is a partial guide: East Asia has a long trading tradition, lately reinvigorated (给以新的活力) by the Chinese adoption of market economics. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was sheltered from free-market forces for more than 70 years. In Africa, some countries are disadvantaged because of inadequate infrastructure (基础结构); Many countries have little to trade but commodities, the prices of which have fallen in recent years.
In some regions, certain countries have suffered by adopting misguided policies, often under pressure from International Monetary Fund. First among these is Russia,
which in the early 1990s tried to embrace capitalism before first building the institutions that make capitalism work, such as an independent bank system, a system of business law, and an adequate method for collecting taxes. Encouraged by the IMF, the World Bank and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, President Boris Yeltsin's regime privatized the state-owned industrial sector, creating a class of oligarchs (寡头政治集团成员), who, knowing how unstable conditions were at home, sent their money abroad instead of investing it at home.
In contrast, China, the biggest winner from globalization, did not follow the IMF formula. Of the former states of the Soviet bloc, only a few, notably Poland and Hungary, managed to grow, which they did by ignoring IMF advice and adopting expansionary plans, including spending more than they collected in taxes. Botswana and Uganda are also success stories: despite their disadvantages, their countries achieved vigorous growth by creating stable civil societies, liberalizing trade and implementing reforms that ran counter to IMF prescriptions.
第 16 题 Japan has a long trading tradition.()
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
"I would not have contacted you," Hanssen wrote, "if it were not reported that you were held in esteem within your organization." Today, Cherkashin, 69, is a prosperous Moscow businessman. He owns a big house in the suburbs and drives a light blue 1986 Chevrolet, a trophy car in the streets of Moscow. "I've been on my pension now for 10 years," he said when NEWSWEEK contacted him by phone last week. "I'm in the private-security business." Cherkashin didn't want to discuss the Hanssen case. "I don't like to talk about other people's affairs," said the former spymaster.
He wasn't alone; no one in the Kremlin wanted to talk publicly about the exposure of Hanssen either. But that doesn't mean the Russians are bashful about spying on America. President Vladimir Putin, himself a former colonel in the now defunct KGB, has revived the fortunes of Russian intelligence agencies. Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who defected to Britain in 1985, estimates that the number of Russian spies now in the United States has reached "a record figure--more than 300".
in Putin-style. espionage, ideology is out, and so are most acts of subversion aimed at the United States. What Russia needs now is information: military, technological and economic. Putin wants quick growth for Russia's defense industry, sensing lucrative markets overseas. But he has written that it would take as many as 15 years for Russia to catch up with even the poorest countries in the West. "Scientific institutes won't be able to do it; it costs a lot of money," says Jolanta Darczewska, a Polish expert on Russia's intelligence establishment. "It's better to steal--cheaper and faster."
Like many other Russian agents in the United States, Hanssen apparently was mothballed by the Kremlin after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. His masters feared he might be exposed by a security breach in Moscow, and they were getting information of more immediate value from their mole in the CIA, Aldrich Ames, anyway. The intelligence agencies began a comeback under Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, another former spymaster. Then, a few weeks after Putin became Boris Yeltsin's prime minister in 1999, Hanssen was "reactivated". With espionage picking up again, his counterintelligence know-how may have given Moscow a map of America's defenses against spies.
Putin purports not to care about Washington's reaction to Russian spying. "During the Yeltsin years, they had instructions to avoid any scandals that would spoil relations with the West," says Gordievsky. "What Putin told [his foreign-intelligence agency] was, 'Don't worry. I'm not afraid of scandals'."
What Putin may be worried about, however, is moles in his own security service. Some of the information revealed in the FBI affidavit last week has touched off a wave of concern in Moscow. The Russians fear it could only have been obtained from a source within Russian intelligence, and that has led officials to suspect U.S. infiltration into the SVR. "If you look at the affidavit, they have documents from the archive of the SVR, said Oleg Kalugin, the former KGB general who says he brought Cherkashin to Washington. "Some of the references are from 1999." There were no Russian defectors from that time who could have provided the Americans with the information, officials say.
So are Washington and Moscow back to a spy-vs.-spy standoff?. Gordievsky, among others, thinks Russian intelligence may have misread the new Bush administration, predicting it would be more "pragmatic" and easier to work with than the Clinton White House. But so far, Washington has been no pushover. Bush advis
A.ideology is out, and most acts of subversion are aimed at the United States
B.the aim of its ideology is to subvert the United States
C.ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are out-dated
D.ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are in the open air
Yeltsin's envoy to the IMF talks show Russia will get more help from the INF.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
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