Fire protection regulations for towing vessels require that all crew members participate i

State and local governments provide().

A、police and fire protection

B、education

C、public works

D、other services

An advantage of an ABC dry chemical over a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher is ______.

A.lack of toxicity

B.the multipurpose extinguishing ability

C.burn-back protection

D.cooling ability

form each of these tasks EXCEPT ______．

A.Start the mechanical ventilation system for the engine room

B.Operate the fuel shut-off for the engine room

C.Operate all fire extinguishing equipment aboard the vessel on board the vessel，including starting the fire pump

D.All of the above

A marine chemist issues gas free certificates and is certified by which organization？

A.Mine Safety Appliance Association

B.American Chemical Society

C.Marine Chemists Association

D.National Fire Protection Association

n be made. An entry in the unofficial logbook is required if this inspection is made by ______.

A.a marine chemist

B.the Officer in Charge，Marine Inspection

C.the Master or person in charge of the ship

D.the National Fire Protection Association

he vessel as if there were an actual emergency．Drills include all of the following，EXCEPT ______．

A.testing all alarm and detection systems

B.breaking out and using the vessel's emergency equipment

C.participation by selected crew members

D.one person putting on protective clothing，if the vessel is so equipped

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Do you know insurance (保险)？Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves____51____large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay____52____sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only____53____will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out of the sums of money it has collected.

The first modem fire insurance company was____54____in London, England, in 1666. A great fire had just____55____most of the city, and people wanted to protect against____56____losses. The fire company grew rapidly. Soon, other companies were founded in other areas.

Benjamin Franklin helped form. the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. He also____57____a new kind of insurance for farmers. The new insurance would offer protection against the loss of crops by storm.

In 1759, Benjamin Franklin helped start____58____new insurance. This company, which offered life insurance, collected some money regularly from different men. Although a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Today, this company is still in business.

Over the years, people have____59____from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from such accidents as car, plane crashes. Tomorrow, almost everyone has____60____kind of insurance.

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A.against

B.to

C.from

D.on

verybody is free to enjoy the benefits of these commodities, and one person’s utilization(利用)does not reduce the possibilities of anybody else’s enjoying the same good.Examples of public goods are not as rare as one might expect. A flood control dam is a public good. Once the dam is built, all persons living in the area will benefit--regardless of their own contribution to the construction cost of the dam. The same holds true for highway signs or aids to navigation. Once a lighthouse is built, no ship of any nationality can be effectively excluded from the utilization of the lighthouse for navigational purposes. National defense is another example. Even a person who voted against military expenditures or did not pay any taxes will benefit from the protection afforded.It is no easy task to determine the social costs and social benefits associated with a public good. There is no practicable way of charging drivers for looking at highway signs, sailors for watching a lighthouse, and citizens for the security provided to them through national defense.Because the market does not provide the necessary signals, economic analysis has to be substituted(代替) for the impersonal judgement of the marketplace.

31. With what topic is the passage mainly concerned？

A. Mechanisms for safer navigation.

B. The economic structure of the marketplace.

C. A specific group of commodities.

D.The advantage of lowering taxes.

32. Which of the following would NOT be an example of a public good as described in the passage？

A.taxi.

B. A bridge.

C. A fire truck.

D. A stoplight.

33. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “holds”？

A. has

B. is

C. grasps

D. carries

34. According to the passage, finding out the social costs of a public good is a ________.

A. difficult procedure

B. daily duty

C. matter of personal judgement

D. citizen’s responsibility

rd major【1】to consider the role of government. Government has a powerful【2】on the economy in at least four ways:Direct Services. The postal system, for example, is a federal system【3】the entire nation, as is the large and complex establishment. Conversely, the construction and【4】of most highways？ The【5】of the individual states, and the public educational systems, despite a large funding role by the federal government, are primarily【6】for by country or city governments. Police and fire protection and sanitation【7】are also the responsibilities of local government.

Regulation and Control. The government regulates and controls private【8】in many-ways, for the【9】of assuring that business serves the best【10】of the people as a whole. Regulation is necessary in areas where private enterprise is granted a【11】, such as in telephone or electric service. Public policy permits such companies to make a reasonable【12】, but limits their ability to raise prices【13】, since the public depends on their services. Often control is【14】to protect the public, as for example, when the Food and Drug administration bans harmful drugs, or requires standards of【15】in food. In other industries, government sets guidelines to ensure fair competition without using direct control.

Stabilization and Growth. Branches of government, including Congress and such entities as the Federal Reserve Board, attempt to control the extremes of boom and bust, of inflation and depression, by【16】tax rates, the money supply, and the use of credit. They can also【17】the economy through changes in the amount of public spending by the government itself.

Direct Assistance. The government provides many kinds of help to【18】and individuals. For example, tariffs【19】certain products to remain relatively free of foreign con petition; imports are sometimes taxed so that American products are able to【20】better with certain foreign goods. In quite a different area, government supports individuals who cannot adequately care for themselves, by making grants to working parents with dependent children, by providing medical care for the aged and the indigent, and through social welfare system.

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A．economy

B．horror

C．magnifier

D．element

tistics!

The 64,000-dollar question, if you have come up with a device which you believe to be the answer to the energy crisis or you've invented a lawnmower which cuts grass with a jet of water (not so daft, someone has invented one), is how to ensure you're the one to reap the rewards of your ingenuity. How will all you garden shed boffins out there keep others from capitalizing on your ideas and lining their pockets at your expense？

One of the first steps to protect your interest is to patent your invention. That can keep it out of the grasp of the pirates for at least the next 20 years. And for this reason inventors in their droves beat a constant trail from all over the country to the doors of an anonymous grey-fronted building just behind London's Holborn to try and patent their devices.

The building houses the Patent Office. It's an ant heap of corridors, offices and filing rooms—a sorting house and storage depot for one of the world's biggest and most varied collections of technical data. Some ten million patents — English and foreign — are listed there.

File after file, catalogue after catalogue detail the brain-children of inventors down the centuries, from a 1600's machine gun designed to fire square bullets at infidels and round ones at Christians, to present-day laser, nuclear and computer technology.

The first letters' patent were granted as long ago as 1449 to a Flemish craftsman by the name of John Utynam. The letters, written in Latin, are still on file at the office. They were granted by King Henry Ⅵ and entitled Utynam to import into this country his knowledge of making stained glass windows in order to install such windows at Eton College.

Present-day patents procedure is a more sophisticated affair than getting a go-ahead note from the monarch. These days the strict procedures governing whether you get a patent for your revolutionary mouse-trap or solar-powered back-scratcher have been reduced to a pretty exact science.

From start to finish it will take around two and a half years and cost ￡ 165 for the inventor to gain patent protection for his brainchild. That's if he's lucky. By no means all who apply to the Patent Office, which is a branch of the Department of Trade, get a patent.

A key man at the Patent Office is Bernard Partridge, Principal Examiner (Administration), who boils down to one word the vital ingredient any inventor needs before he can hope to overcome the many hurdles in the complex procedure of obtaining a patent — "ingenuity".

People take out a patent because they want to______.

A．keep their ideas from being stolen

B．reap the rewards of somebody else's ingenuity

C．visit the patent office building

D．come up with more new devices