According to the author, biographies can become boring because they are tooA．short.B．detai

To which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

A．The UAW should be fully satisfied in order to avoid a strike.

B．The administration has given more than enough sympathy to the workers.

C．The unfair treatment can make future investors lose trust in the government.

D．Legitimate concerns are only tools of the government to achieve political goals.

It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that the UAW gives top priority to

A．taking its ownership stake in GM.

B．enlarging the retiree health-care fund.

C．raising workers" wages and benefits.

D．validating the contract with GM.

If it had not been watched by the government, GM would probably have

A．imposed no pressure on bondholders to take the 10% equity stake.

B．cut the percentage of equity stake controlled by the UAW.

C．torn up its UAW collective bargaining agreement in an illegal way.

D．launched staff-downsizing and reduced workers" wages and benefits.

The statement "call the shots"(Line 3, Paragraph 2)is closest in meaning to

A．implement strategies.

B．have the final say.

C．seek compromises.

D．make concessions.

In its dealings with U.S. automakers, the Obama administration has

A．been hard on shareholders and auto industry labor force.

B．helped struggling automakers to right themselves with a short-term cash-infusion.

C．narrowly avoided ignorance of basic principles of fairness and economic realities.

D．successfully saved the automaker-giants while striving for political goals.

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．The Climate Group"s Combat

B．Less Fossil Fuels, More Plants

C．Clean Air and Blue Sky

D．Protections for the Climate

It is suggested in the last paragraph that

A．the government profited from the Climate Group"s gas emission reduction.

B．energy used more efficiently will bring benefits to economy as well as nature.

C．energy bills should be slashed in order to maintain a low level of gas emission.

D．the Climate Group is tackling the problem through accumulating strong evidence.

Which of the following is true of the reactions of authorities to the global warming?

A．The government decides to rewrite the Kyoto Protocol.

B．Parts of the U.S. will follow the federal government"s advice.

C．The U.S. has approved the new plan of gas emissions.

D．Nine states in the U.S. will paddle their own canoe.

What does "carbon sinks"(Line 1, Paragraph 2)mean?

A．The process of producing greenhouse gas.

B．The gradual process of land submersion.

C．The absorbers of carbon dioxide.

D．The process of forming carbonic compounds.

Inez Y. Fung has found in the study that

A．the problem of global warming has attracted great attention.

B．the earth cannot accommodate the mounting greenhouse gas.

C．the carbon dioxide is the main component of the greenhouse gas.

D．the oceans and continents are able to take in more gas.