In the United States, the main argument for protection of domestic industry is that foreign competition costs Americans their jobs. When we buy Japanese cars, U.S. cars go (1) . This leads to a (2) in the domestic auto industry. When we buy German steel, steelworkers in the nor them part of America (3) their jobs. It is true that when we buy goods from foreign producers, domestic producers in the U.S. (4) . But there is no reason to believe that the workers thrown out of employment in the contracting sectors will not find jobs in other expanding sectors. Foreign (5) in textiles, for example, has (6) thousands of workers out of work in New England. (7) with the expansion of new industries, the unemployment rate in this area (8) one of the lowest in the country in the mid-1980s. (9) time the United States lost its advantage in textiles (10) countries with larger unskilled labor (11) , but other new industries have (12) in which the United States does have a greater advantage. Of course, it is very difficult for workers to (13) the fact of being jobless. The knowledge that some other industry, perhaps in some other part of the country may be expanding, is of (14) comfort to the person whose skills become out of date. The (15) and personal problems brought about by unemployment and out of date skills as a result of foreign competition (16) close attention. These problems can be solved in two ways. We can stop (17) and give up the gains from free trade, claiming that we are (18) to pay more to save domestic jobs in industries that can produce more (19) abroad. Or we can aid the victims of free trade in a more effective way, helping to (20) them for jobs with a future.
A. given up
B. brought up
C. thrown up
D. grown up
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“______”指定Access是否在一页中打印组的所有内容。
除可以使用自动报表和向导功能创建报表外,Access中还可以从______创建一个新报表。
水准测量是利用水准仪所提供的水平视线直接测出地面上两点之间的高差,然后再根据其中一点的已知高程来推算出另一点的高程。( )
A. 对
B. 错
Although there are many skillful Braille readers, thousands of other blind people find it difficult to learn that system. They are thereby (1) from the world of books and newspapers, having to (2) friends to read aloud to them. A young scientist named Raymond Kurzweil has now designed a computer which is a major (3) in providing aid to the (4) . His machine, Cyclops, has a camera that (5) any page, interprets the print into sounds, and then delivers them orally in a robot-like (6) through a speaker. By pressing the appropriate buttons (7) Cyclops’s keyboard, a blind person can "read" any (8) document in the English language. This remarkable invention represents a tremendous (9) forward in the education of the handicapped. At present, Cyclops costs $50,000. (10) , Mr. Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller (11) improved version that will sell (12) less than half that price. Within a few years, Kurzweil (13) the price range will be low enough for every school and library to (14) one. Michael Hingson, Director of the National Federation for the Blind, hopes that (15) will be able to buy home (16) of Cyclops for the price of a good television set. Mr. Hingson’s organization purchased five machines and is now testing them in Maryland, Colorado, Iowa, California, and New York. Blind people (17) in those tests, making lots of (18) suggestions to the engineers who helped to produce Cyclops. "This is the first time that blind people have ever done individual studies (19) a product was put on the market," Hingson said. "Most manufacturers believed that having the blind help the blind was like telling disabled people to teach other disabled people. In that (20) , the manufacturers have been the blind ones.\
A. execution
B. distinction
C. breakthrough
D. process