What can be inferred from the last paragraph about the current newspaper business?

A．Distinctiveness is an essential featrue of newspapers.

B．Completeness is to blame for the failure of newspaper.

C．Foreign bureaus play a crucial role in the newspaper business.

D．Readers have lost their interest in car and film reviews.

Regarding the future of the EU, the author seems to feel______.

A．pessimistic

B．desperate

C．conceited

D．hopeful

The most appropriate title for this text would be______.

A．American Newspapers: Struggling for Survival

B．American Newspapers: Gone with the Wind

C．American Newspapers: A Thriving Business

D．American Newspapers: A Hopeless Story

Mies held that elegance of architectural design______.

A．was related to large space

B．was identified with emptiness

C．was not reliant on abundant decoration

D．was not associated with efficiency

Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about Bauhaus?

A．It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

B．Its designing concept was affected by World War II.

C．Most American architects used to be associated with it.

D．It had a great influence upon American architectrue.

By saying "Newspapers like ... their own doom" (Lines 3-4, Para. 1), the author indicates that newspaper______.

A．neglected the sign of crisis

B．failed to get state subsidies

C．were not charitable corporations

D．were in a desperate situation

The French proposal of handling the crisis implies that______.

A．poor countries are more likely to get funds

B．strict monetary policy will be applied to poor countries

C．loans will be readily available to rich countries

D．rich countries will basically control Eurobonds

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cyber-crime that has (1) across the Web.

Can privacy be preserved (2) bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly (3) ?

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a (4) to make the Web a safer place a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech (5) of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled (6) one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential (7) to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

The idea is to (8) a federation of private online identity systems. User could (9) which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts with one that would require an Internet driver's license (10) by the government.

Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these "single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to (11) just once but use many different services.

(12) , the approach would create a "walled garden" cyberspace, with safe "neighborhoods" and bright "streetlights" to establish a sense of a (13) community.

Mr. Schmidt described it as a "voluntary ecosystem" in which "individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with (14) ,trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructrue (15) which the transaction runs".

Still, the administration's plan has (16) privacy rights activists. Some applaud the approach; others are concerned. It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would (17) be a compulsory Internet "drive's license" mentality.

The plan has also been greeted with (18) by some computer security experts, who worry that the "voluntary ecosystem" envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet (19) . They argue that all Internet users should be (20) to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads.

(1)

A．swept

B．skipped

C．walked

D．ridden

The debate over the EU's single currency is stuck because the dominant powers______.

A．are competing for the leading position

B．are busy handling their own crises

C．fail to reach an agreement on harmonization

D．disagree on the steps towards disintegration

It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors______.

A．may stay for the attractive offers from the firm

B．have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm

C．are accustomed to stress-free work in the firm

D．will decline incentives from the firm

What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?

A．They ignored details and proportions.

B．They were built with materials popular at that time.

C．They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.

D．They shared some characteristics of abstract art.