According to the passage, the main factor working against any immediate entry into Japanese market is ______ .
A. the rapid development of the Japanese economy
B. tradition, culture, and a deeply rooted bureaucracy
C. the Japanese determination to keep up its surplus
D. the Japanese political intentions and their trade policies
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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases 【C1】______ the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant 【C2】______ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 【C3】______ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 【C4】______ and will strictly control the amount of 【C5】______ that can be given to a case 【C6】______ a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he 【C7】______ a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 【C8】______ sufficient control.
【C9】______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine 【C10】______ a storm of media protest when he said the 【C11】______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 【C12】______ to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said 【C13】______ of the Human Rights Bill, which makes the European Convention on Human Rights legally 【C14】______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was 【C15】______ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in 【C16】______ hands with our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an issue 【C17】______ West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 【C18】______ to have received payments for telling 'their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 【C19】______ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to【C20】______ guilty verdicts.
【C1】
A. such as
B. in particular
C. for instance
D. as regards
关于因果关系,下列哪一选项是错误的?A.甲故意伤害乙并致其重伤,乙被送到医院救治。当晚,医院发生关于因果关系,下列哪一选项是错误的?
A. 甲故意伤害乙并致其重伤,乙被送到医院救治。当晚,医院发生火灾,乙被烧死。甲的伤害行为与乙的死亡之间不存在因果关系
B. 甲以杀人故意对乙实施暴力,造成乙重伤休克。甲以为乙已经死亡,为隐匿罪迹,将乙扔人湖中,导致乙溺水而亡。甲的杀人行为与乙的死亡之间存在因果关系
C. 甲因琐事与乙发生争执,向乙的胸部猛推一把,导致乙心脏病发作,救治无效而死亡。甲的行为与乙的死亡之间存在因果关系,是否承担刑事责任则应视甲主观上有无罪过而定
D. 甲与乙都对内有仇,甲见乙向丙的食物中投放了5毫克毒物,且知道5毫克毒物不能致丙死亡,遂在乙不知情的情况下又添加了5毫克毒物,丙吃下食物后死亡。甲投放的5毫克毒物本身不足以致丙死亡,故甲的投毒行为与丙的死亡之间不存在因果关系
The best title for the text is ______.
Ayn Rand's Story
B. Ayn Rand's Books
C. Ayn Rand: Extremist or Visionary
D. Adoration of Ayn Rand
Before the minimum wage jumped to $ 7.25 an hour last summer, University of California-Irvine economist David Neumark estimated that it would lead to an additional 300 000 job losses for teens and young adults. The 2009 wage increase was set in motion in a better labor market in May 2007, when Congress voted to boost the minimum from $ 5.15 an hour to $ 7.25 an hour over the course of the next two years.
It's hard to parse the jobs lost because of the recession and those lost because of the minimum wage increase--there's no direct evaluation of the impact of the wage increase yet--but it's likely that raising the wage floor contributed to the record-high teen unemployment rates, Neumark says. "Almost everyone accepts that minimum wages decrease employment or likely increase unemployment of the least-skilled," he says. Neumark advocated for delaying last year's increase.
The unemployment rate for teenagers was 25.4 percent in April, compared with 9.9 percent overall, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Teens generally have higher unemployment rates. In November 2007, the month before the start of the recession, the unemployment rate for the overall population was 4. 7 percent, versus 16. 2 percent for workers aged 16 to 19. Teen employment has been declining for some time. The percentage of teens with jobs has fallen from about 57 percent in 1989 to about 40 percent in 2007 (both dates reflect healthy economies). The reasons are diverse. For one thing, increased school enrollment appears to account for about a third of that decline, according to the Economic Policy Institute. "For teens, there has been a remarkable long-term shift from summer employment to summer enrollment," reports EPI economist Heidi Shierholz.
One of the critical issues for job-seeking teens is the changing face of the competition, which is increasingly skilled. "Not only are they competing with each other for available positions, but they are competing with recent college graduates and job seekers who have two or more years of on-the-job experience and are willing to take almost any position that provides a steady paycheck," says John Challenger of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The word "walloped" (Line 3, Paragraph 1) most probably means "______".
A. decreased
B. affected
C. increased
D. hit