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. inaccessible
B. accessible
C. unsustainable
D. indispensable
根据以下信息,回答第80题至第81题。 一家公司购买了一项使用寿命十年的资产。公司出于纳税考虑将对其使用加速折旧法。在报表上将使用直线折旧法,因为这种方法据信可以更好地反映这项资产的实际使用情况。 如果市场价格高于均衡价格,______。
A. a.会存在短缺且均衡价格将会上升直到等于市场价格、短缺消失
B. b.会存在过剩且均衡价格将会下降直到等于市场价格、过剩消失
C. c.会存在过剩且均衡价格将会上升直到等于市场价格、过剩消失
D. d.会存在短缺且均衡价格将会下降直到等于市场价格、短缺消失
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. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that ______.
A. he dealt with the problem of America"s debts to Germany
B. he was not successful as an investment banker
C. he was assistant Secretary of State in Europe and Asia
D. he ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina