Which of the followings are necessary for an entrepreneur? ①a resource shifter②one who starts a new business ③nonprofessional④moneygaining ⑤a risk taker
___________________________________________________________________ Esquel's plight is winning attention from international conservation and environmental groups such as Greenpeace.
__________________________ About 3.2 million acres already are under contract for mineral exploration in poor and sparsely settled Chubut Province, where Esquel is, near the southern tip of South America.
______________________________________ Meridian's project, about 5 miles outside Esquel at a higher elevation, is about 20 miles from a national park that preserves rate trees known as alerces, a southern relative of California's giant sequoia. Some of them have been growing serenely in the temperate rain forest for more than 3,000 years. The greatest fear is that cyanide, which is used to leach gold from ore, will drain downhill and poison Esquel's and possibly the park's water supplies. The mine will use 180 tons of the deadly chemical each month. Although many townspeople and some geologists disagree, the company says any excess cyanide would drain away from Esquel. "We won't allow them to tear things up and leave us with the toxic aftermath," said Felix Aguilar, 28, as he piloted a boatload of tourists through a lake in the Alerces National Park."We take care of things here, so that the entire world can hear and see nature in its pure state. The world must help us prevent this."
__________________________________________________________________________ A young English botanist named Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, was the first European to see alerces, with trunks that had a circumference of 130 feet. He gave the tree its generic name, Fitzroya cupressoides, for the captain of his ship, Robert Fitzroy. Argentina, pressed by the United States, Canada, the World Bank and other global lenders, rewrote its mining laws in the 1990s to encourage foreign investment.
In part,the surge in multiple marriages is a side effect of the 1970s divorce boom that has supplied an everexpanding pool of divorced singles.Even the simple fact that people are living longer has opened the door to marrying more often.Nofault divorce laws (meaning no one is blamed for the failure of the marriage),and cultural changes have also meant there's less peer pressure than in past generations to stay in a joyless or abusive marriage.
While a single divorce didn't block either Ronald Reagan or Bob Dole from seeking the most highly scrutinized job in America - the US presidency - modern society still raises an eyebrow at more than one matrimonial mistake. Indeed,there are signs that attitudes are changing.Even the language is softening.Clinical papers in social science journals no longer probe for "neurosis" or mental depressive disorder among the "divorce prone". More and more marriages are said to "end," not "fail," and one author has coined the term "encore marriages". "It's coming out of the closet or becoming more accepted," says Glenda Riley,a Ball State University professor who wrote a book on the history of divorce in the US.
Some experts say that the trend toward multiple marriages shows an erosion in Americans' capacity for commitment."We live in the age of light.We have light cream cheese,light beer,light mayonnaise,"says Wayne Sotile,a psychologist and marriage counselor in WinstonSalem,North Carolina.But,he adds,"There's no such thing as light,longterm,intimate,romantic marriage.You've got to commit yourself to those things." There's no guarantee,of course,that the third time is the best.
To the contrary,second and third marriages run an equal or greater risk of divorce than first marriages,which today are given 4outof10 odds of failing,and they tend to end more quickly.Divorce statistics show that failed second marriages typically end two years sooner than first marriages,lasting six years on average rather than eight.That leaves some doubly divorced people open for a third try at a relatively young age.
Direction: You've just come back from a tour in JiuZhaiGou, and you're writing to your friend Mary. 1)tell her that you've been back at the very day 2)share your travelling experience with her 3)invite her to a tour in ZhangJiajie in the coming year You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Jane" instead. You do not need to wirte the address.(10 points)
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Dear Mary: I' ve been back this morning. What a tiring but exciting trip. JiuZhaigou is an excellent place and really worth going. The tour guide led us visited several travelling sites, which made us feet like in heaven. The most wonderful site is the Huohuahai Lake. The water there was so clear that we could see different colors of stones at the bottom, as if the water didn' t exist except for the pure blue. We also visited the waterfall which was found scene by the famous TV play "Xiyouji ". How are you at present ?Is anything coming along successfully ?Don' t be so occupied with your work, try a little bit to relax yourself. I' m planning to a tour in ZhangJiajie next year. It is said to be another wonderful place to visit.I hope you could go together with me to share the happiness. Please write back to let me know your idea. Yours Truly, Jane September 24th, 2004
Direction:study the following picture carefully and write an essay of about 200 words.In the essay you should 1)interpret the picture's meaning 2)give your comments on the phenomenon 3)give your suggestions to solve the problem 注:该题缺图
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Be Kind to Our Mother Earth This depiction is to some extent a heartrending dramatization of our present life. Skyscrapers stand in clusters, and trees lining on both sides of the street are all made of artificial materials. Mankind's dwelling place on earth no longer looks green, but is in the colour of gray. Are we still living in a natural world? Definitely not! With the steps of modernization and mechanization, the serene poetic life of former times has vanished. Vast green pastures are replaced by factories belching out columns of thick smoke; rivers once teemed with all kinds of fishes are now polluted by sewage water. In addition to that, environmental pollution has given rise to a number of serious problems, such as the extinction of some species of animals owing to the desertification, the greenhouse effect owing to the depletion of ozone layer, and the dwindling away of fresh water. Mother earth is the only home we live in. Therefore, she exists more for our protection than for our destruction. Supposing our planet is a vessel made of cake, and it is going to carry us across the ocean to the other side, namely, the paradise. Could we gnaw a hole in the cakevessel and still sail across the ocean safe and sound? On the contrary, my friends, we will get drowned. Now it is high time that measures be taken to counter the negative effects of modernization. The strategy of sustainable development has been launched, but this is not enough, because it is each citizen's business to be kind to our mother earth.