立竿见影，就是把竹竿竖在阳光下，立刻就能看到它的影子．如果将竹竿移动，影子也随之

As Oil Declines, So does America

More than 100 years ago, America’s first great economic (26) abroad was spearheaded by its giant oil companies, notably John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. These companies (27) powerful beachheads in Mexico and Venezuela, and later in parts of Asia, North Africa and, of course, the Middle East. (28) they became ever more dependent on the extraction of oil in distant lands, American foreign policy began to be (29) around acquiring and protecting US oil concessions in major (30) areas.
With World War Ⅱ and the Cold War, oil and US national (31) became thoroughly intertwined. After all, the United States had prevailed over the Axis (32) in significant part because it possessed vast reserves of domestic petroleum, while Germany and Japan lacked them, depriving their forces of vital (33) supplies in the final years of the war. As it happened, though, the United States was using up its domestic (34) so rapidly that, even before World War Ⅱ was over, Washington (35) its attention to finding new overseas sources of crude oil that could be (36) under American control. As a result, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and a host of other Middle Eastern producers would become key US oil suppliers (37) American military protection.
There can be (38) question that, for a time, American domination of world oil production would prove a potent source of economic and military power. (39) World War Ⅱ, an abundance of cheap US oil spurred the (40) of vast new industries, including civilian air travel, highway construction, a (41) of suburban housing and commerce, mechanized agriculture, and plastics.

A. When B. Since C. As D. Because

Abundant oil also underlay the global expansion of the country’s (42) power, as the Pentagon defended the world while becoming one of the planet’s great oil guzzlers. Its global dominion came to (43) on an ever-expanding array of oil-powered ships, planes, tanks and missiles. As long as the Middle East—and especially Saudi Arabia—served essentially as an American gas station and oil (44) a cheap commodity, all this was relatively painless. That is why the use of military force has been a (45) of American foreign policy since 1987.

神经干病变引起的肌萎缩可出现

A．支配区腱反射消失

B．肌束震颤

C．肌酸磷酸激酶增高

D．肌电图相应改变

E．感觉障碍

在几个大国中，讲Caronian语言的人占人口的少数。一国际团体建议，以一个独立国家的方式给予讲Caronian话的人居住的地区自主权，在那里讲Caronnian话的人可以占人口的大多数。但是，讲Caronian话的人居住在几个广为分散的地区，这些地区不能以单一连续的边界相联结，同时也就无法使讲Crdronian话的人占当地人口的多数。因此，那个建议不能得到满足。
上述论述依赖于下面哪条假设

A．曾经存在一个讲Caronian话的人占人口多数的国家。
B．讲Caronian话的人倾向于认为他们自己构成了一个单独的社区。
C．不相连接的地区不能构成一个国家。
D．新Caronian国的公民不包括任何不说Caronian话的人。
E．大多数国家都有几种不同的语言。

外来文化进入东南亚以后与其本土文化中的“祖先崇拜”格格不入。

德士古激冷水哪里从哪里进入气化炉？