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Steve Robinson went for a walk yesterday morning with tens of millions of people watching. A walk in space. What made his sojourn so different from those of the hundreds of other astronauts who have floated around shuttles for more than 20 years is that the very future of the nation’s manned space program may rest on his success. In the wake of the Columbia disaster 30 months ago, and amid questions about NASA’s commitment to a safety-first culture, Robinson tested what accounts to the repair kits to help astronauts survive damage from debris during lift-off or in orbit. Apparently, the repairs went well. How well, however, and whether the spacecraft sustained damage from foam insulation as it rose from Kennedy Space Center, won’t be known until Discovery completes its super-heated descent through the atmosphere and touches down. What is known now is that NASA allowed Discovery to fly despite internal questions about whether NASA had done enough to address safety issues raised inside and outside the agency. That’s disquieting. Space flight is dangerous; it can never be as safe as, say, a flight in a jetliner. But every investigation following both the Challenger and Columbia tragedies cited a culture that did not put safety first. Yes, NASA has made progress. Robinson’s repair walk is evidence of that. For now, let’s hope for the best for the seven brave astronauts as, amazingly, they do their jobs. Which of the following is NOT cited by the author in his criticism of NASA’s neglect of safety
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It was an early September day, cool and bright for running, and I was in the first few miles of a 10.5-mile race over a course through steep, exhausting hills. Still, I felt rested and springy; despite the hills it was going to be a fine run. Just ahead of me was Peggy Mimno, a teacher from Mount Kisco, New York. She too was running easily, moving along efficiently at my speed. The pace felt comfortable, so I decided to stay where I was; why bother concentrating on pace when she was setting such a nice one I’d overtake her later on when she was tired. So I was running behind her. The course headed north for five miles, wandered west for a hilly mile, then turned south again along a winding road. The race was getting tougher. We had four miles left and already it was beginning to be real work. I was breathing hard, and my legs were turning to mush. Peggy overtook a young male runner. Apparently she knew him, for they exchanged a few cheerful words as she passed him. Their exchange worried me. You don’t chat during a race unless you are feeling good, and Peggy plainly was. There was still a noticeable bounce in her stride, but whatever resilience I’d once possessed had long since left me. Still, I was close enough to overtake her if she tired, so I didn’t give up hope completely. We were approaching a long, punishing hill now and it would be the test. We were a mile from the finish line, so whatever happened on the hill would almost certainly determine who crossed it first. As I moved up the hill, working hard, my attention wandered for a few minutes. When I looked up, Peggy was moving away--first five yards, then ten, then it was clear that there was no hope of catching her. She beat me decisively. There is an important lesson in that race. Much of what you read about running makes a sharp distinction between the sexes. Women are assumed to be weaker slower and not nearly as adept athletically. Yet as Peggy Mimno so clearly demonstrated, the similarities between male and female runners are more important than the differences. I have run with a number of women, both in training and in competition, and I can testify that it is often hard work. In the second paragraph, by saying "I decided to stay where I was", the narrator probably means
材料1： 消费者陈女士为在外地大学读书的女儿通过甲快递公司快递一封信件，第3天陈女士接到女儿电话，问为什么还没有收到信件。陈女士很奇怪，便致电甲快递公司，快递公司承认工作人员开封检查了，但对陈女士和其女儿提出的赔偿要求予以拒绝，理由是快递公司有规定，即“本公司拥有绝对权利对每票快件开封检查是否符合有关政府机关规定或者航空限制，如发现寄件违法、违禁，有权退回或拒收。本公司有权在未事先通知寄件人的情况下开封检查交寄的物品”。陈女士怀疑信件被拆开偷看后丢弃了，于是报了警。 材料2： 近些年，一些街头小广告成为我国现代城市的公害。小广告内容涉及办理证件、刻章、疏通管道、开锁等各种五花八门的内容，被随处张贴在树木、居民楼、电线杆等处。这些小广告的特征还表现在特别留下电话、手机或寻呼机等通信方式。为有效治理这种“城市牛皮癣”，近年来全国有近20个城市通过地方立法来治理乱贴、乱写并公布其通信方式的行为，利用24小时不间断呼叫、暂停或终止其通讯工具的使用等手段来治理此类违法行为。对此有人认为这一地方立法行为已经侵害到了公民所享有的通信自由的基本权利。 请结合我国宪法的规定及相关知识，回答下列问题： 材料2中有关地方立法是否侵害了公民所享有的通信自由为什么
A lot of people don’’t like to give waiters extra money — a tip, but maybe those people don’’t understand about waitresses and waiters. You see, we get very low wages, most of the time less than the minimum wage. We count on the tips as part of our salary. If waiter and waitresses didn’’t get tips, they wouldn’’t get enough money to live. People ask me, "What’’s a good tip" I like to get 15% of the bill. So if a customer has to pay $20.00 for her dinner, I like to get about $3.00 for a tip. Sometimes I expect 20% if I did a lot work for the customer. For example, if I got her a special kind of food or recipe from the chef. But do you know something Very often it’’s the person you work the most for who gives you the smallest tips. But to tell the truth, I do pretty well with tips. I’’m a friendly person, so people like me. They talk to me during their meal and leave me a good tip. Of course some people prefer a quiet waitress and every once in a while I get some pretty small tip or no tip at all. Once I looked up "tipping" in a dictionary. It said that the letters in the word "tip" stand for "To Insure Promptness". In other words, to make sure that we do things right away. The dictionary said that no one knows if that is the real meaning of "tip", but it makes sense to me. If we know a regular customer is a good tipper, then we make sure he gets good service. But if someone gives small tips, we aren’’t in a hurry to bring him food or get his drinks. So remember, be nice to your waitress and she’’ll be nice to you. The implications of this passage include the following EXCEPT________.
Archaeology has long been an accepted tool for studying prehistoric cultures. Relatively recently the same techniques have been systematically applied to studies of the more immediate past. This has been called "historical archaeology," a term that is used in the United States to refer to any archaeological investigation into North American sites that postdate the arrival of Europeans. Back in the 1930’s and 1940’s, when building restoration was popular, historical archaeology was primarily a tool of architectural reconstruction. The role of archaeologists was to find the foundations of historic buildings and then take a back seat to architects. The mania for reconstruction had largely subsided by the 1950’s and 1960’s. Most people entering historical archaeology during this period came out of university anthropology departments, where they had studied prehistoric cultures. They were, by training, social scientists not historians, and their work tended to reflect this bias. The questions they framed and the techniques they used were designed to help them understand, as scientists, how people behaved. But because they were treading on historical ground for which there was often extensive written documentation and because their own knowledge of these periods was usually limited, their contributions to American history remained circumscribed. Their reports, highly technical and sometimes poorly written, went unread. More recently, professional archaeologists have taken over. These researchers have sought to demonstrate that their work can be a valuable tool not only of science but also of history, providing fresh insights into the daily lives of ordinary people whose existences might not otherwise be so well documented. This newer emphasis on archaeology as social history has shown great promise, and indeed work done in this area has led to a reinterpretation of the United States’ past. In Kingston, New York, for example, evidence has been uncovered that indicates that English goods were being smuggled into that city at a time when the Dutch supposedly controlled trading in the area. And in Sacramento an excavation at the site of a fashionable nineteenth-century hotel revealed that garbage had been stashed in the building’s basement despite sanitation laws to the contrary. According to the first paragraph, what is a relatively new focus in archaeology
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