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TEXT A

1 MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters)-The personal fortunes of Russia’s 100 richest businessmen are as big as a quarter of the nation’s entire economy, business journal Forbes says.
2 "Capital in Russia is not only concentrated in the hands of a small group of people, but also associated with just one city," Forbes said in a press release ahead of publishing a list of Russia’s 100 wealthiest.
3 "No other city in the world can boast such a large number of billionaires as Moscow."
4 Russia’s biggest billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the main shareholder in oil company YUKOS, will find it hard to enjoy his fiches, although he too is in the Russian capital.
5 Khodorkovsky is worth $15.2 billion, but is languishing in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for fraud and tax evasion.
6 The charges against Khodorkovsky are widely seen as part of a Kremlin campaign to destroy the politically ambitious magnate’s influence.
7 His arrest has found wide support in Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter, where the vast majority of people have gained little from the privatisations of the early 1990s.
8 "By contrast, the combined net worth of all American billionaires is equivalent to just six percent of the gross domestic product of USA," said Forbes.
9 In this year’s Forbes full list of the world’s billionaires published in February, Khodorkovsky was followed among Russians by Roman Abramovich, the owner of English premier league football club Chelsea. Abramovich’s wealth was valued at $10.6 billion.
10 On the Forbes list published on February, the other names making up the Russian top 10 were Mikhail Fridman on $5.6 billion, Vladimir Potanin on $4.9 billion, Mikhail Prokhorov on $4.8 billion, Vladimir Lisin on $3/8 billion, Alexei Mordashov on $3.5 billion, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both on $3.3 billion, and Vagit Alekperov on $2.7 billion.
Which of the following can NOT be inferred from the news

A．Capital in Russia is concentrated in Moscow
B．Khodorkovsky is charged with fake.
C．Russia started the campaign of privatisation in the early 1990s, which benefited the vast majority of Russian people.
D．The proportion of the combined net worth of all billionaires in the GDP in American is less than in Russia.

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TEXT D

The year 1400 opened with more peacefulness than usual in England. Only a few months before, Richard II, weak, wicked, and treacherous, had been deposed (废黜), and Henry IV declared king in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting for but a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man—as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days—and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost somewhat of their power and prestige from the coming in of the new king.
Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former rifles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fail upon King Henry and his followers and to massacre (屠杀) them during a great tournament (中世纪马上比武大会) which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them.
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own min.
Why did the nobles wish to kill Henry

A．Henry had taken away power given to them by Richard.
B．Henry was weak, wicked, and treacherous.
C．Henry had needlessly killed members of their families.
D．Henry had killed King Richard.

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TEXT C

The Virus Hunters
The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil. In recent years it has been, too, the headquarters for a middle-aged American couple who hunt the smallest living things and perhaps the most deadly viruses. Dr Causey and his wife have discovered more new types and more old ones in new places than all of the other search teams.
Dr. Causey insists that the couple’s success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eighteen years of work in Brazil.
"We have found the loveliest diseases fight in our backyard," he told me one day as we walked through a light rain along a jungle trail.
"Oh, these viruses are here all fight. There is in the jungle a great pool of disease which is carried in the blood of animals and birds. Some of the diseases can be caught by people. It may be that we shall find that the jungle is a great center of virus disease and that it overflows from here to other parts of the world. It may be that birds carry the viruses to far countries. It may be that some viruses which presently reproduce in man without making him ill, may change and become deadly to him. ’Viruses waiting for a disease,’ they are sometimes called. This is just an idea, you understand. We do not know, but it is important that we find out, and the first step in finding out is to learn what viruses there are in the jungles." There is a Brazilian story about the beginning of the world which goes: "When God was making the world he tried to keep everything in balance. When he made a desert, he provided it with some green places. When he made a land that was beautiful, he gave it storms and other terrible things caused by the weather, where the earth was rich below the surface, it was also made hard to live on, where the land could be farmed, the weather was made too hot or too cold or too dry. Where there was enough water, God made it so that there should sometimes be too much water.
"But in one place God made a land that was rich, where everything grew easily, where it was not too hot and certainly not too cold, where animals were plentiful and fruit hung from the trees all the year round."
"The angels looked at this loveliness and were jealous of man. They asked God if this was not too beautiful, too much like heaven, this valley of the Amazon." And God said, "True, this land looks like heaven, but wait until you see what happens to man when he tries to live in it."
When Dr. Causey said, "We have found the loveliest diseases right in our backyard," he meant ______.

A．new viruses have just been discovered
B．his discovery was a bit frightening
C．he and his wife were surrounded by harmful viruses
D．his job was exciting

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
Which of the following is the correct order of the whole event according to the passage

A．Israeli helicopters strike in Gaza camp — Ariel Sharon’s work on revising his plan — an Israeli missile strike in Rafah—the beginning of the Gaza operation
B．Ariel Sharon’s work on revising his plan — Israeli helicopters strike in Gaza camp — an Israeli missile strike in Rafah — the beginning of the Gaza operation
C．The beginning of the Gaza operation — Ariel Sharon’s work on revising his plan — an Israeli missile strike in Rafah — Israeli helicopters strike in Gaza camp
D．Ariel Sharon’s work on revising his plan — the beginning of the Gaza operation — an Israeli missile strike in Rafah — Israeli helicopters strike in Gaza camp

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TEXT A

1 MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters)-The personal fortunes of Russia’s 100 richest businessmen are as big as a quarter of the nation’s entire economy, business journal Forbes says.
2 "Capital in Russia is not only concentrated in the hands of a small group of people, but also associated with just one city," Forbes said in a press release ahead of publishing a list of Russia’s 100 wealthiest.
3 "No other city in the world can boast such a large number of billionaires as Moscow."
4 Russia’s biggest billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the main shareholder in oil company YUKOS, will find it hard to enjoy his fiches, although he too is in the Russian capital.
5 Khodorkovsky is worth $15.2 billion, but is languishing in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for fraud and tax evasion.
6 The charges against Khodorkovsky are widely seen as part of a Kremlin campaign to destroy the politically ambitious magnate’s influence.
7 His arrest has found wide support in Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter, where the vast majority of people have gained little from the privatisations of the early 1990s.
8 "By contrast, the combined net worth of all American billionaires is equivalent to just six percent of the gross domestic product of USA," said Forbes.
9 In this year’s Forbes full list of the world’s billionaires published in February, Khodorkovsky was followed among Russians by Roman Abramovich, the owner of English premier league football club Chelsea. Abramovich’s wealth was valued at $10.6 billion.
10 On the Forbes list published on February, the other names making up the Russian top 10 were Mikhail Fridman on $5.6 billion, Vladimir Potanin on $4.9 billion, Mikhail Prokhorov on $4.8 billion, Vladimir Lisin on $3/8 billion, Alexei Mordashov on $3.5 billion, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both on $3.3 billion, and Vagit Alekperov on $2.7 billion.
Which pair of the following possess almost the same amount of fortunes

A．Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska
B．Khodorkovsky and Roman Abramovich
C．Alexei Mordashov and Vagit Alekperov
D．Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg

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TEXT D

The year 1400 opened with more peacefulness than usual in England. Only a few months before, Richard II, weak, wicked, and treacherous, had been deposed (废黜), and Henry IV declared king in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting for but a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man—as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days—and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost somewhat of their power and prestige from the coming in of the new king.
Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former rifles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fail upon King Henry and his followers and to massacre (屠杀) them during a great tournament (中世纪马上比武大会) which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them.
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own min.
How did King Henry find out about the plot

A．His scouts discovered it.
B．He saw the conspirators coming.
C．One of the conspirators told him.
D．He found a copy of the conspirators’ plan.

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TEXT C

The Virus Hunters
The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil. In recent years it has been, too, the headquarters for a middle-aged American couple who hunt the smallest living things and perhaps the most deadly viruses. Dr Causey and his wife have discovered more new types and more old ones in new places than all of the other search teams.
Dr. Causey insists that the couple’s success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eighteen years of work in Brazil.
"We have found the loveliest diseases fight in our backyard," he told me one day as we walked through a light rain along a jungle trail.
"Oh, these viruses are here all fight. There is in the jungle a great pool of disease which is carried in the blood of animals and birds. Some of the diseases can be caught by people. It may be that we shall find that the jungle is a great center of virus disease and that it overflows from here to other parts of the world. It may be that birds carry the viruses to far countries. It may be that some viruses which presently reproduce in man without making him ill, may change and become deadly to him. ’Viruses waiting for a disease,’ they are sometimes called. This is just an idea, you understand. We do not know, but it is important that we find out, and the first step in finding out is to learn what viruses there are in the jungles." There is a Brazilian story about the beginning of the world which goes: "When God was making the world he tried to keep everything in balance. When he made a desert, he provided it with some green places. When he made a land that was beautiful, he gave it storms and other terrible things caused by the weather, where the earth was rich below the surface, it was also made hard to live on, where the land could be farmed, the weather was made too hot or too cold or too dry. Where there was enough water, God made it so that there should sometimes be too much water.
"But in one place God made a land that was rich, where everything grew easily, where it was not too hot and certainly not too cold, where animals were plentiful and fruit hung from the trees all the year round."
"The angels looked at this loveliness and were jealous of man. They asked God if this was not too beautiful, too much like heaven, this valley of the Amazon." And God said, "True, this land looks like heaven, but wait until you see what happens to man when he tries to live in it."
"Viruses waiting for a disease" refers to ______.

A．those viruses carried in the blood of animals
B．some viruses which are at present harmless to man
C．the viruses that reproduce in man without making him ill
D．the still-not-yet-discovered viruses in the jungle

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
The aim of the Gaza operation is to ______.

A．to prevent the Palestinians from hiding an explosive device
B．to force Palestine to withdraw its military and settlements
C．to destroy workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets
D．to revenge the Palestinian attack

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TEXT A

1 MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters)-The personal fortunes of Russia’s 100 richest businessmen are as big as a quarter of the nation’s entire economy, business journal Forbes says.
2 "Capital in Russia is not only concentrated in the hands of a small group of people, but also associated with just one city," Forbes said in a press release ahead of publishing a list of Russia’s 100 wealthiest.
3 "No other city in the world can boast such a large number of billionaires as Moscow."
4 Russia’s biggest billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the main shareholder in oil company YUKOS, will find it hard to enjoy his fiches, although he too is in the Russian capital.
5 Khodorkovsky is worth $15.2 billion, but is languishing in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for fraud and tax evasion.
6 The charges against Khodorkovsky are widely seen as part of a Kremlin campaign to destroy the politically ambitious magnate’s influence.
7 His arrest has found wide support in Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter, where the vast majority of people have gained little from the privatisations of the early 1990s.
8 "By contrast, the combined net worth of all American billionaires is equivalent to just six percent of the gross domestic product of USA," said Forbes.
9 In this year’s Forbes full list of the world’s billionaires published in February, Khodorkovsky was followed among Russians by Roman Abramovich, the owner of English premier league football club Chelsea. Abramovich’s wealth was valued at $10.6 billion.
10 On the Forbes list published on February, the other names making up the Russian top 10 were Mikhail Fridman on $5.6 billion, Vladimir Potanin on $4.9 billion, Mikhail Prokhorov on $4.8 billion, Vladimir Lisin on $3/8 billion, Alexei Mordashov on $3.5 billion, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both on $3.3 billion, and Vagit Alekperov on $2.7 billion.
What can be concluded from the third paragraph

A．Moscow is the richest city in the world.
B．Billionaires like to live in Moscow.
C．Moscow is the home of Russia’s rich.
D．Moscow don’t have as many millionaires as it claims.

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
Sharon’s withdrawal proposal is ______ by the parliament.

A．supported
B．overruled
C．praised
D．criticized

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TEXT D

The year 1400 opened with more peacefulness than usual in England. Only a few months before, Richard II, weak, wicked, and treacherous, had been deposed (废黜), and Henry IV declared king in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting for but a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man—as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days—and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost somewhat of their power and prestige from the coming in of the new king.
Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former rifles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fail upon King Henry and his followers and to massacre (屠杀) them during a great tournament (中世纪马上比武大会) which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them.
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own min.
What does the author seem to think of King Henry

A．He was the best king England had ever had.
B．He was unfair and cowardly.
C．He was just as evil as King Richard.
D．He was a better ruler than King Richard.

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TEXT C

The Virus Hunters
The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil. In recent years it has been, too, the headquarters for a middle-aged American couple who hunt the smallest living things and perhaps the most deadly viruses. Dr Causey and his wife have discovered more new types and more old ones in new places than all of the other search teams.
Dr. Causey insists that the couple’s success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eighteen years of work in Brazil.
"We have found the loveliest diseases fight in our backyard," he told me one day as we walked through a light rain along a jungle trail.
"Oh, these viruses are here all fight. There is in the jungle a great pool of disease which is carried in the blood of animals and birds. Some of the diseases can be caught by people. It may be that we shall find that the jungle is a great center of virus disease and that it overflows from here to other parts of the world. It may be that birds carry the viruses to far countries. It may be that some viruses which presently reproduce in man without making him ill, may change and become deadly to him. ’Viruses waiting for a disease,’ they are sometimes called. This is just an idea, you understand. We do not know, but it is important that we find out, and the first step in finding out is to learn what viruses there are in the jungles." There is a Brazilian story about the beginning of the world which goes: "When God was making the world he tried to keep everything in balance. When he made a desert, he provided it with some green places. When he made a land that was beautiful, he gave it storms and other terrible things caused by the weather, where the earth was rich below the surface, it was also made hard to live on, where the land could be farmed, the weather was made too hot or too cold or too dry. Where there was enough water, God made it so that there should sometimes be too much water.
"But in one place God made a land that was rich, where everything grew easily, where it was not too hot and certainly not too cold, where animals were plentiful and fruit hung from the trees all the year round."
"The angels looked at this loveliness and were jealous of man. They asked God if this was not too beautiful, too much like heaven, this valley of the Amazon." And God said, "True, this land looks like heaven, but wait until you see what happens to man when he tries to live in it."
When the author cited the Brazilian legend he was ______.

A．trying to add a little humor
B．trying to illustrate his earlier point
C．simply joking
D．being religious

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
Why does Ariel Sharon propose unilateral withdrawal

A．Because he is backed by U.S. President Bush.
B．Because Sharon claims that Palestinian fundamentalist groups have always conducted attacks on Israeli civilian and military targets and the diplomatic process doesn’t have any progress.
C．Because Sharon claims that the Palestinian Authority had failed to control or stop the attacks on Israelis.
D．Because Sharon claims that the Palestinian Authority had failed to control or stop the attacks on Israelis and the diplomatic means doesn’t work effectively.

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct according to the passage

A．Sharon’s withdrawal proposal is in collision with the road map to Middle East peace.
B．Eight people were wounded in Israeli second strike on Thursday.
C．Sharon plans to withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and all of the West Bank.
D．Palestinians have criticized Israel for attempting to dodge the negotiations.

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TEXT B

1 GAZA CITY (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 8:35 AM EDT (1235 GMT))-Two Israeli helicopter attacks Thursday in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp have killed 10 people, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
2 The strikes followed Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers Tuesday and Wednesday that have claimed 11 soldiers’ lives. This week, violence in Gaza has claimed the lives at least 33 Palestinians as well as the 11 soldiers.
3 The fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon works on revising his plan to withdraw military personnel and Jewish settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
4 Israel Defense Forces began the Gaza operation Monday night, saying the mission was aimed at destroying workshops used by Palestinian terrorists to construct Qassam rockets.
5 Israeli helicopters first attacked the camp early in the day, killing seven and wounding six others, Palestinian security sources and medical sources said. A second strike was launched around 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), killing three and wounding eight others, the sources said.
6 Wednesday night, an Israeli missile strike in Rafah killed seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources said. Israel Defense Forces said the Palestinians were targeted because they were trying to hide an explosive device. The strikes on the camp followed an attack that killed five Israeli soldiers traveling in a convoy near Rafah, according to the IDF.
Note:
7 Sharon’s withdrawal proposal - which would unilaterally withdraw Israeli military and settlements from Gaza and some regions, but not all, of the West Bank-has been praised by President Bush but was voted down in a Likud party referendum May 2.
8 The prime minister has said the withdrawal is necessary because the Palestinian Authority had failed to rein in attacks on Israelis and because the diplomatic process is in a "frozen state."
9 Palestinians have criticized Israel’s new plan, charging Sharon is attempting to circumvent the negotiations called for in the road map to Middle East peace, which is supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.
The word ’circumvent’ in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to which of the following

A．center around
B．focus on
C．hinder
D．push