In a federal form of government like that of the United States, power is divided between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. (A) Like (B) That of the United States (C) Is divided (D) Be...

Today, the Secret Service is the agency of the United States government that is charged with the protection of the president and family members of the president. Any time that the president appears in public, neatly dressed Secret Service agents are clearly in evidence alongside the president. Secret Service agents might also accompany a presidential spouse to a committee meeting, on a shopping trip, to a charity event, or out for a walk in the park. Agents accompany the president’s children to school on a daily basis, sitting unobtrusively but hardly unnoticed in the background throughout each hour of class, and tag along with the president’s children on dates and to any type of social event.

The Secret Service is so much in evidence around the president and members of the president’s family, one might question why the activities of these agents are considered secret. The name of the agency, however, is -not derived from its duty in protecting the president but from its original covert duty in protecting the economy of the young United States from counterfeiters. Before the Civil War, the official currency of the United States was in coins; however, after the war, the government began issuing paper money. This new paper currency was easy for counterfeiters to replicate, and soon counterfeit bills flooded the country. Secret Service agents, as part of the Department of the Treasury, posed as criminals interested in purchasing large sums of counterfeit bills in order to gather evidence against counterfeiters and put them out of their illegal business. For quite some time, the government preferred to keep the public in the dark about the extent of the counterfeiting at that time, afraid that the public would lose confidence in the country’s paper money if they knew that there was so much counterfeit money mixed in with the real thing.

It was not until 1901 that the role of the Secret Service was expanded from protecting the currency of the country to protecting its president. In that year, then President William McKinley was shot by an assassin in Buffalo, New York. Sadly, he died eight days later from the wounds inflicted during the assassination attempt. At that time, the Secret Service was assigned to protect the president, in addition to its other duties, and it has carried out that assignment, often not in a secretive fashion, to this day.

2. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A.Protection of the United States Presidency

B. The Duties of the Secret Service

C. The President and Family Members of the President

D.The Role of the Secret Service in Protecting the Currency of the United States

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a responsibility of the Secret Service?

A.Shopping for the president

B. Accompanying the president on public appearances

C. Going for walks with the presidents spouse

D.Attending school with the president’s children

4. According to paragraph 2, the Secret Service is called secret .

A.because its duty in protecting the president is unknown to the public.

B. because of its original covert duty in protecting the economy of the young United States from counterfeiters.

C. because it keeps the public in the dark about its duty of protecting members of the president’s family.

D.because its assignment to protect the president is carried out in a secretive fashion.

5. It can be inferred from the passage that before the Civil War .

A.paper money was used extensively

B. counterfeiting of paper money was not a big problem for the U.S. government

C. coins were relatively easy to counterfeit

D.Secret Service agents spent most of their time protecting the president and his family

6. The expression “posed as” in line 16 is closest in meaning to which of the following?

A. talked with B. chased after C. pretended to be D. looked for

7. The word “them” in line 19 refers to …………..

A.counterfeiters

B. secret agents

C. counterfeit bills

D.criminals

8. According to the passage, the government kept its citizens uninformed about the extent of early counterfeiting because the government………….

A.worried that counterfeiters would learn to make better counterfeit currency

B. believed that the amount of counterfeiting would increase

C. felt embarrassed about how easy it was to counterfeit the currency

D.feared that the citizens would stop using paper currency

9. All of the following are similar in meaning to “covert” (line 12) EXCEPT………….

A. hidden B. secret C. overt D. concealed

10. The word “it” in line 27 refers to………….

A.the assassination attempt

B. the role

C. the country

D.Secret Service

11. According to the last paragraph,…………...

A.By 1901, the Secret Service had stopped protecting the currency of the country

B. the role of the Secret Service was widened as a result of the assassination of President William McKinley

C. since the assassination of President William McKinley, protecting the president has become the sole duty of the Secret Service

D.protecting the president has always been a secret operation

#Tiếng anh lớp 12

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DT

Đỗ Tuệ Lâm

13 tháng 2 2022

2B

3A

4B

5A

6C

7D

8C

9C

10B

11D

Đúng(1)

NN

Nga Nguyen

13 tháng 2 2022

2B 3A 4B 5A 6C 7D 8C 9C 10B 11D

Exercise III. Choose the best sentence that can be made from the cues given: 16. Most /the researches / studies / world / written / English. A. Most of the researches and studies in the world are written in English. B. Most of the researches and studies on the world are written in English. C. Most the researches and studies in the world are written in English. D. Most of researches and studies in the world are written in English. 17. English speakers / United States / earn / money...

MT

Minh Tánh Lý

9 tháng 4 2020

Exercise III. Choose the best sentence that can be made from the cues given: 16. Most /the researches / studies / world / written / English. A. Most of the researches and studies in the world are written in English. B. Most of the researches and studies on the world are written in English. C. Most the researches and studies in the world are written in English. D. Most of researches and studies in the world are written in English. 17. English speakers / United States / earn / money than / non-English speakers. A. English speakers in United States earn more money than non-English speakers. B. English speakers in the United States earns more money than non-English speakers. C. English speakers in the United States earn money than non-English speakers. D. English speakers in the United States earn more money than non-English speakers. 18. Students/ want/ go abroad/ education/ have to/ learn/ English well. A. Students who want go abroad for education will have to learn English well. B. Students who want to go abroad for education will have to learn English well. C. Students whom want to go abroad for education will have to learn English well. D. Students who want to go abroad education will have to learn English well. 19. The simplest definition / language / that "language / the means / communication”. A. The simplest definition language is that "language is the means of communication”. B. The simplest definition of language that "language is the means of communication”. C. The simplest definition of language is that "language is the means of communication”. D. The simplest definition of language is that "language has been the means of communication”. 20. English/ most spoken / official language/ world. A. English is the most spoken official language in the world. B. English was the most spoken official language in the world. C. English is the most spoken official language in world. D. English is most spoken official language in the world. Giúp em với ạ !!! Cần gấp

#Tiếng anh lớp 9

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DL

Đỗ Lê Hà Giang

7 tháng 6 2018

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES Public Education in the United States, programs of instruction (1) _______ to children, adolescents, and adults in the United States through schools and colleges (2) _______ by state and local governments. (3) _______ the nationally regulated and financed education (4) _______ of many other industrialized societies, American public education is (5) _______ the responsibility of the states and individual school districts. The national system of formal (6)...

#Tiếng anh lớp 10

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NT

Nguyễn Trương Quỳnh Anh

7 tháng 6 2018

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Public Education in the United States, programs of instruction (1) offered to children, adolescents, and adults in the United States through schools and colleges (2) operated by state and local governments. (3) Unlike the nationally regulated and financed education (4) systems of many other industrialized societies, American public education is (5) primarily the responsibility of the states and individual school districts.

The national system of formal (6) education in the United States developed in the 19^thcentury. It differed (7) from education systems of other Western societies in three fundamental respects. (8) First , Americans were more inclined to regard education (9) as a solution to various social problems. Second, (10) because they had this confidence in the power of education, Americans (11) provided more years of schooling for a larger percentage of the population than (12) other countries. Third, educational institutions were primarily governed by local (13) authorities rather than by federal ones.

The (14) most notable characteristic of the American education system is the (15) large number of people it serves. In 2002, 86 percent of Americans (16) between age 25 and 29 had graduated (17) from high school, 58 percent had (18) completed at least some college, and 29 percent had earned at (19) least a bachelor’s degree. Expanding access to college education is an important priority (20) for the U.S. government.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations (which were set up at the end Of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

29 tháng 10 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations (which were set up at the end Of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power plants were constructed throughout the country, the reliance on coal increased. Since the First World War, coal-fired power plants have accounted for about half of the electricity produced in the United States each year. In 1986 such plants had a combined generating capacity of 289,000 megawatts and consumed 33 percent of the nearly 900 million tons of coal mined in the country that year. Given the uncertainty in the future growth of nuclear power and in the supply of oil and natural gas, coal-fired power plants could well provide up to 70 percent of the electric power in the United States by the end of the century.

Yet, in spite of the fact that coal has long been a source of electricity and may remain one for many years (coal represents about 80 percent of United States fossil-fuel reserves), it has actually never been the most desirable fossil fuel for power plants. Coal contains less energy per unit of weight than natural gas or oil; it is difficult to transport, and it is associated with a host of environmental issues, among them acid rain. Since the late 1960's problems of emission control and waste disposal have sharply reduced the appeal of coal-fired power plants. The cost of ameliorating these environmental problems, along with the rising cost of building a facility as large and complex as a coal-fired power plant, has also made such plants less attractive from a purely economic perspective.

Changes in the technological base of coal fired power plants could restore their attractiveness, however. Whereas some of these changes are evolutionary and are intended mainly to increase the productivity of existing plants, completely new technologies for burning coal cleanly are also being developed

It can be inferred from the passage that coal became the principal source of electricity in the United States, because it _______.

A. required no complicated machinery

B. was comparatively plentiful and inexpensive

C. was easy to transport

D. burned efficiently

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

29 tháng 10 2018

Đáp án B

Dựa vào thông tin “… created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill…” → có thể suy ra rằng than đá trở thành nguồn điện chính của Hoa Kỳ bởi vì nó tương đối nhiều và không quá đắt đỏ

Read the passage below and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE?According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, more than 30 of the highest-ranked 45 institutions are in the United States, as measured by awards and research output. Public universities, private universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges all have a significant role in higher education in the United States. An even stronger pattern is shown by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities with...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

16 tháng 12 2018

#Tiếng anh thí điểm lớp 10

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

16 tháng 12 2018

Đáp án A

Giải thích: Dựa vào câu: “Educational attainment in the United States is similar to that of other developed countries.”.

Dịch: Trình độ học vấn ở Hoa Kỳ tương tự như các nước phát triển khác.

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34. In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

27 tháng 9 2018

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.

In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.

Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.

Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.

The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States?

A. Limitations in financial support

B. The use of marine species as food

C. Variability of the climate

D. Increases in tourism

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

27 tháng 9 2018

Đáp án D

Các đoạn trích đề cập đến những vấn đề dưới đây như là mối đe dọa đối với các khu vực biển ngoài Hoa Kỳ?
A. Hạn chế trong hỗ trợ tài chính
B. Việc sử dụng các loài sinh vật biển làm thực phẩm
C. Tính đa dạng của khí hậu
D. Du lịch phát triển

Dẫn chứng: Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems.

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34. In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks....

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

1 tháng 3 2017

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.

In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.

Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.

Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.

The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States?

A. Limitations in financial support

B. The use of marine species as food

C. Variability of the climate

D. Increases in tourism

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

1 tháng 3 2017

Đáp án D

Các đoạn trích đề cập đến những vấn đề dưới đây như là mối đe dọa đối với các khu vực biển ngoài Hoa Kỳ?
A. Hạn chế trong hỗ trợ tài chính
B. Việc sử dụng các loài sinh vật biển làm thực phẩm
C. Tính đa dạng của khí hậu
D. Du lịch phát triển

Dẫn chứng: Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems.

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The...

DM

Dương Minh

20 tháng 10 2017

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.

In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.

Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.

Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.

The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States?

A. Limitations in financial support

B. The use of marine species as food

C. Variability of the climate

D. Increases in tourism

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

20 tháng 10 2017

Đáp án D

Các đoạn trích đề cập đến những vấn đề dưới đây như là mối đe dọa đối với các khu vực biển ngoài Hoa Kỳ?
A. Hạn chế trong hỗ trợ tài chính
B. Việc sử dụng các loài sinh vật biển làm thực phẩm
C. Tính đa dạng của khí hậu
D. Du lịch phát triển

Dẫn chứng: Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems.