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A few years ago, Facebook was forced to retreat from a new service called Beacon. It tracked what the social network"s users were doing elsewhere on the web—which caused a huge 1 because of the loss of personal privacy. 2 , Facebook promised to make 3 efforts to better protect people"s information.But 4 the firm has not been trying very hard. On November 29th America"s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 5 the results of an investigation it had conducted of Facebook. They showed that the world"s biggest social network, which now 6 more than 800m users, has been making information public that it had 7 to keep private.The FTC"s findings come at a(n) 8 time for Facebook, which is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) that is almost 9 to take place next year. Some recent reports have 10 that the firm may seek a listing as early as next spring, and that it will try to 11 a whopping $10 billion in an IPO that would 12 it at $100 billion. To 13 the way for an offering, Facebook 14 needs to resolve some of the regulatory tussles over privacy that it has become embroiled in. 15 the FTC"s announcement, which came as part of a settlement struck between the commission and Facebook. The FTC"s investigation 16 a litany of instances in which the social network had 17 its users. In what is perhaps the most damning of the findings, the agency documents that Facebook has been 18 people"s personal information with advertisers—a practice its senior executives have 19 sworn it does not indulge in. The FTC also says that the firm failed to make photos and videos on deactivated and deleted user accounts 20 after promising to do so.

A. conjured
B. prospected
C. speculated
D. approved

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接种猪水泡病病料后,可致死的实验动物是______

A. 1~2日龄小鼠
B. 7~9日龄小鼠
C. 1月龄家兔
D. 3月龄家兔
E. 7日龄以下雏鸡

It"s not that we thought things were free. It"s just that this year there were no fixes to the messes we made—no underwater oil-well caps, no AIG bailouts, no reuniting the island castaways in a church and sending them to heaven. We had to idly watch things completely fall apart, making us feel so pathetic that planking seemed like a cool thing to do. This was the year of the meltdown.If a meltdown could happen at a nuclear reactor in Japan—a country so obsessed with keeping up to date that its citizens annually get new cell phones and a new Prime Minister—we should have known we were all doomed. Meltdowns happened to the most unlikely victims. Everyone was so vulnerable to meltdowns that even Canadians rioted, though they did it only so the rest of the world wouldn"t feel bad about their riots.It didn"t take a tsunami; anything could trigger a meltdown. Greece, a country so economically insignificant that its biggest global financial contribution to this century was that Nia Vardalos movie, sent the entire European economy into a meltdown. A meltdown of both the U.S. credit rating and Congress"s approval rating was unleashed over raising the debt ceiling, something so routine and boring. Sometimes, it didn"t take an actual sexual affair to ruin your promising political career.Sometimes, crises sprang out of tiny mistakes that usually have no consequences whatsoever, like that day in college when you went to a protest, charged a couple more things on your nearly maxed-out credit card and drunkenly told the pizza guy with all the dumb ideas that he should totally run for President. Well, when the entire country does that at once, you get a meltdown.There was even a meltdown of the once powerful American middle class. A year ago ours was still a country that pretended there was no class system, where rich people all called themselves "upper-middle class". Now we are full-on feudal, with an angry 99% and a 1% who actually understand the things which the 99% are inarticulately complaining about. The meltdown itself melted down when Occupy Wall Street protesters and police couldn"t agree on lawn care.It"s too late to cool the rods. We are either going to abandon the old structures altogether—nuclear power, the euro, Arab secular rule, unregulated capitalism—or wait a really long time for things to get better. We are finally going to have to choose between our modem love of constant drama and our modem laziness. I know which I"m betting on. Laziness has a really high melting point. According to the author, what could we do about the messes we made

A. We could spare our efforts to change them.
B. We could watch things fall apart leisurely.
C. We were incapable of doing anything.
D. We could stay cool in face of the messes.

A few years ago, Facebook was forced to retreat from a new service called Beacon. It tracked what the social network"s users were doing elsewhere on the web—which caused a huge 1 because of the loss of personal privacy. 2 , Facebook promised to make 3 efforts to better protect people"s information.But 4 the firm has not been trying very hard. On November 29th America"s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 5 the results of an investigation it had conducted of Facebook. They showed that the world"s biggest social network, which now 6 more than 800m users, has been making information public that it had 7 to keep private.The FTC"s findings come at a(n) 8 time for Facebook, which is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) that is almost 9 to take place next year. Some recent reports have 10 that the firm may seek a listing as early as next spring, and that it will try to 11 a whopping $10 billion in an IPO that would 12 it at $100 billion. To 13 the way for an offering, Facebook 14 needs to resolve some of the regulatory tussles over privacy that it has become embroiled in. 15 the FTC"s announcement, which came as part of a settlement struck between the commission and Facebook. The FTC"s investigation 16 a litany of instances in which the social network had 17 its users. In what is perhaps the most damning of the findings, the agency documents that Facebook has been 18 people"s personal information with advertisers—a practice its senior executives have 19 sworn it does not indulge in. The FTC also says that the firm failed to make photos and videos on deactivated and deleted user accounts 20 after promising to do so.

A. sensitive
B. essential
C. beneficial
D. confidential

Richard Holbrooke, who died at the age of 69 after suffering a ruptured aorta, was not the most universally beloved, but was certainly one of the ablest, the most admired and the most effective of American diplomats. He is one of the few of that profession in the past 40 years who can be compared with the giants of the "founding generation" of American hegemony, such as Dean Acheson and George Kennan.Holbrooke was tough as well as exceptionally bright. He was a loyal, liberal Democrat, but also a patriot who was prepared to be ruthless in what he saw as his nation"s interest. To his friends, he was kind and charming, but he could be abrasive: no doubt that characteristic helped prevent him becoming Secretary of State on two occasions, under Bill Clinton and again when Barack Obama became president.He held almost every other important job in the international service of the US. He was ambassador to the United Nations, where he dealt with the vexed problem of America"s debts to the organization, and to Germany. He was the only person in history to be assistant Secretary of State—the key level in routine diplomacy—in two regions of the world, Europe and Asia. He distinguished himself as an investment banker, a magazine editor, a charity executive and an author, but he will be remembered most of all for his success in negotiating an end to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina at an Ohio airbase, and for his part in the American intervention in Kosovo. At the time of his death, he was Obama"s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.Holbrooke joined the Foreign Service, and in 1963 was sent as a civilian official to Vietnam, where he was one of a talented cohort of young men who were to become leaders in American diplomacy. Once back in Washington in 1966, Holbrooke worked for two years in the White House under Johnson, and then at the State Department, where he was a junior member of the delegation to the fruitless initial peace talks with North Vietnam in Paris.By 1972, Holbrooke was ready for a change. He became the first editor of the magazineForeign Policy, created as a less stuffy competitor to the august ForeignAffairs. He also worked forNewsweekmagazine. In 1976, he went to work for Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia, who was beginning his campaign for president and badly needed some foreign policy expertise. When Carter became president, in 1977, Holbrooke became his assistant Secretary of State for Asian affairs. Why didn"t Holbrooke become Secretary of State

A. Because he was a loyal Democrat.
Because he was strong-minded.
C. Because he was rough to his friends.
D. Because his characteristic is unique.

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