17.The main goals of the Ministry of Finance are ______ taxation fairness, boost economic and social development, enhance international competitiveness, and maintain an environment of sustainable development.
(A)to follow (B)to issue (C)to ensure (D)to deduce
It is easy to understand why the Greeks found geocentric cosmology so appealing. Night after night, we see celestial objects moving across the sky from east to west. Wouldn’t it be natural to assume that the Earth lies motionless at the center of the universe and that the Sun, the moon, planets, and stars revolve around it? In the 4th century B.C., Plato postulated a world system with the stationary Earth as its hub and a huge outer space that carried the planets and stars in its daily revolution. But his two-sphere configuration could not account for a particular motion of certain planets. As a rule, the planets and stars traveled together across the sky every night from east to west. But now and then, inexplicably, some planets seemed to drift backwards. Today we know that retrograde motion is an illusion caused by the fact that we observe planetary motion from a planet that is itself in motion. It never entered the mind of Eudoxus, a young contemporary of Plato’s, that the Earth could actually move. But he did try to accommodate planetary retrogression to the motionless earth by developing from the two-sphere Platonic system a model with twenty-seven spheres, one for every known planet; each was attached to another sphere whose rotation, combined with the rotation of the other planetary spheres, explained the “reversed” direction of certain heavenly bodies. 【題組】Which movement of some planets can NOT be explained in Plato’s system?
(A)Backward (B)Forward (C)Upward (D)Downward
31 At the annual party, the Chief Executive Officer____ three department supervisors and named them Leaders of the
Year. (A) left out (B) knocked over (C) singled out (D) took over
11 This type of building is_________ to this area, and it is not often seen in other parts of the world.
(A) accustomed (B) likely (C) peculiar (D) similar
The devolution of immigration policing authority from the federal to local governments represents a sharp break with a long-established tradition of federal control over all aspects of immigration enforcement. In the past, state and local police forces played only a supportive role in immigration affairs, sometimes sharing information about those they had detained as criminal suspects or assisting in enforcement actions. The federal government could not require local governments to do immigration policing. Police powers were constitutionally reserved for the states and their jurisdictional subunits, an arrangement that provided localities with significant flexibility and autonomy. However,with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), the federal government has created an opening for localities to ask their police officers to be trained by and to join the federal government in enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States.Thus, beginning in 2002, informal working relationships between local police and federal immigration agents have developed. For example, some local police departments are now seeking formal training from federal immigration authorities. Federal agents are also embedded in some police departments to assist in enforcement of drug and human smuggling laws. A number of state prisons and local jails send the names of criminal suspects to federal authorities to be checked for immigration violations. And an increasing number of police departments are electing to do their own immigration status checks. Such an increased involvement of state and local police departments in immigrant affairs has given rise to what some observers are calling "immigration federalism." 【題組】60 What may the term "immigration federalism" (last line) most likely mean?
(A)Sharing of powers on immigration between the federal and state governments.
(B)All the immigration agents in the U.S.
(C) Immigrants coming from all parts of the world.
(D) The sole legitimate federal authority in immigration policing.
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