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The number-one threat to a marriage is extramarital affair, for commitment and sexual fide
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What is NOT the effect produced by climate change to the Inuit?
A.Their livelihood is threatened.
B.Their culture is being destroyed.
C.Their hunt is affected.
D.Their population is decreasing.
Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the passage?
A.Goodrem has enjoyed seven number-one singles.
B.Goodrem will live in New York permanently.
C.Goodrem first became a household name as Nina Tucker on neighbours.
D.Goodrem will perform. dates in Adelaide, Melbourne and other places.
What is the purpose of this announcement?
A.To advise of the death of a person
B.To give details of a singer' s career
C.To announce an upcoming tour
D.To advertise a new number-one hit
Perhaps the most pressing of these challenges is housing. As the Phoenix's special package on housing shows, the apartment shortage in Greater Boston has reached crisis proportions. Since the mid 1990s, rents have gone up by 50 percent or more in some neighborhoods. And even at these grossly inflated prices, apartments are still nearly impossible to come by. Nevertheless, some modest steps can be taken.
It's the old not-in-my-backyard syndrome: everyone knows there's a housing shortage, but no one wants to see new housing come into his or her own neighborhood. Such opposition can be eased by involving local residents in planning for new housing. The lesson is that bottom-up solutions invariably work better than top-down edicts.
Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, and MIT have taken major steps toward building housing for their students on their own campuses. During the 1960s and 70s, student housing spread into neighborhoods such as the Fenway (near Northeastern) and Audubon Circle (near BU). Students kept such neighborhoods alive during those difficult years. But as neighborhoods become able to "thrive on their own" , universities should be encouraged, wherever possible, to pull back, thus opening up neighborhood housing to long-term residents.
In his State of the City address in January, Mayor Tom Menino identified the housing crisis as his number-one priority, and named a respected legislator, Charlotte Richie, as his housing czar. In a recently published interview, Boston Redevelopment Authority head Tom O' Brien spoke of the need to preserve the diversity of Boston's neighborhoods, and identified the city's residential character as one of its saving graces. Yet the city has been missing in action. At the very least.
Menino should make a concerted effort to ease the housing shortage in neighborhoods where the problem is particularly acute. More important, Menino has to realize that he cannot deal with housing as an "in box" mayor, taking on an issue here, an issue there as they come up. He should work with officials in surrounding communities and convene a housing summit to consider a wide range of ideas.
The author thinks that Boston is a tiny place, because ______.
A.it has a small population
B.it covers a small piece of land
C.it is unusually small in scale for a major population center
D.few people know about this city
What is the meaning of the last sentence of paragraph one?
A.Vision assistance is listed on the list of popular worker interests.
B.Vision assistance is becoming more and more popular among employees。
C.Vision assistance is considered as one of the employee benefits.
D.Vision assistance is the top concern of the employees.