How can a single postage stamp be worth $16 800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony Mauritius , a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer – Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius ’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy
1、A postage stamp’s value to collectors is raised if ().
A、there are few others like it
B、 there are no errors on the stamps
C、 a mistake is made in the printing
D、 both A and C
2、The mistake in the locally printed postage stamps was in the ().
A、price
B、wording
C、color
D、spelling of postage
3、$16 800 is the collector’s value of ().
A、the One Penny Orange – Red
B、 a correctly printed 1847 stamp
C、 the Twopenny Blue
D、 both A and C
4、Which one is implied but not stated?
A、All correctly printed stamps are worthless.
B、Mauritians needed the stamps to send out invitations to a ball.
C、The printer was punished for his mistake.
D、Collectors are constantly looking for stamps with mistakes.
5、The best title for this section is ()
A、The “Post Paid” Error
B、The Twopenny Blue
C、A London Printer’s Error
D、How Mauritius Became Famous
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How can an Oracle WebLogic cluster’s capacity be increased ?()
A . by adding server instances to the cluster on an existing machine
B . by adding machines to host server for more clustered instances
C . by adding machines to the cluster to host the incremental server instances
D . by adding node managers to an existing machine
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You have a single server that has a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2. How would you install the graphical user interface (GUI) to this server?()
A . You should use Windows PowerShell to run the Enable-NetFirewallRule command.
B . You should use Windows PowerShell to run the Add-WindowsPackage command.
C . You should use Windows PowerShell to run the Install-WindowsFeature command.
D . You should use Server Manager console on to add the User Interfaces.
E . You should use Server Manager console to add the Infrastructure feature.
F . You should use Server Manager console to add the Windows feature.
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Which of the following can an operator use to shutdown a system into single-user mode?()
A . shutdown -d
B . shutdown -s
C . shutdown -m
D . shutdown -Fr -s 1
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How can permissions be set up on /tmp so that one user in a group cannot delete another user’s files in that same group()
A . chmod +s /tmp
B . chmod 755 /tmp
C . chmod 1777 /tmp
D . chmod 4755 /tm
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How does the effect known as “bank suction” act on a single-screw vessel proceeding along a narrow channel?()
A . It pulls the stern toward the bank
B . It heels the vessel toward the bank
C . It pushes the entire vessel away from the bank
D . It pulls the bow toward the bank
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What is the maximum number of wlan controllers that can join a single mobility group?()
A . 48
B . 36
C . 12
D . 24
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How can you estimate the position of a tropical storm’s center?()
A . With a radio weather bulletin or weather fax
B . using shipboard radar
C . observe the wind direction and apply Buys Ballot's law
D . All of the above
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How can permissions be set up on /tmp so that a user cannot delete another user’s files?()
A . chmod +s /tmp
B . chmod 775 /tmp
C . chmod 1777 /tmp
D . chmod 4755 /tm
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Which of the following drive types can be combined in a single EXP5000 expansion unit?()
A . SSD, SATA and FC only
B . SSD, SAS and FDE only
C . SSD, FDE, SATA and FC only
D . SSD, SAS, FDE, FC and SATA
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How can a directory be excluded from a mksysb backup()
A . Put an entry in the /etc/exclude.rootvg file.
B . Put an entry in the /etc/mksysb.exclude file.
C . Remove the directory’s entry from the mksysb /image.data file.
D . Remove the directory’s entry from the /var/adm/ras/bosinst.data file.
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A customer has a new Power 720 with PowerVM Standard Edition. They plan to migrate their single-partition POWER5 550 to the new Power 720. How can the customer migrate from the POWER5 550 to the Power 720 with minimal effort and down time?()
A . Perform Live Partition Mobility between the two systems.
B . Move the boot disks from the old system to the new system.
C . Use Tivoli Storage Manager to back up the POWER5 550 and restore on the Power 720.
D . Upgrade AIX to the latest level on the POWER5 550 and clone using the mksysb command.
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Which of the following can an operator use to shutdown a system into single-user mode?()
A . shutdown -d
B . shutdown -s
C . shutdown -m
D . shutdown -Fr -s 1
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Which storage subsystem can scale in a single image to multiple petabytes of physical disk?()
A . XIV system
B . SONAS
C . DS5300
D . DS8700
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Which Layer 1 devices can be used to enlarge the area covered by a single LAN segment?()
A . Switch
B . Router
C . NIC
D . hub
E . Repeater
F . RJ-45 transceiver
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Usually a lesson should focus on practicing one single skill so that the students can develop that skill successfully.()
A . 正确
B . 错误
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A single extended example can not support a claim.
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How can we speak effectively in a group discussion?
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How style we can see in Eliot’s theories?
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13. M:Jane, how is your new job?W: Great. They offer a good salary.Question: What can we learn about thewoman’s new job?
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How can a replacement voucher be obtained?
A.By telephoning the number provided
B.By faxing the request to (813) 502-3461
C.By making an appointment for repair
D.By contacting the retailer
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By the stop-motion process, many separate shoals can be combined into a single image.()
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
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Is the News Believable? Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one’s struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life.
For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve(痛苦减轻) . Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about--- on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives----was the report that a combination of two new drugs could , as the Times put it, “cure cancer in two years.”
In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors’ phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines.
The time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug called tamoxifen (他莫昔芬) ------ and offering it to patients getting the placebo(安慰剂) -----because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine(子宫的) cancer). Two weeks later came the New York Times’ report that two new drugs could shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever.
It all seemed too good to be true, and of course it was. There are no miracle cancer drugs, at least not yet. At this stage all the drug manufactures can offer is some very interesting molecules, and the only cancers they have cured so far have been in mice. By the middle of last week, even the TV talk-show hosts who talked most about the news had learned what every scientist already knew : that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse,” Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angeles Times. “We have cured mice of cancer for decades---and it simply didn’t work in people.”
第11题:According to the passage, a person suffering from cancer will
A.give up any hope.
B.pray for the health of his loved ones.
C.seize every chance of survival.
D.go out of his way to help others.
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英语填空题 —How can I get to the post office? —You can go s( ).Then t( ) left.
补全单词
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You are a network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directorydomain.A user named Mary works in the information technology security department. Mary is a member of theITSecurity global group. Mary reports that no one in the ITSecurity global group can access the securitylog from the console of a computer named Server1.You need to grant the ITSecurity global group the minimum rights necessary to view the security log onServer1.How should you modify the local security policy?()
A. Assign the Generate security audits user right to the ITSecurity global group.
B. Assign the Manage auditing and security logs user right to the ITSecurity global group.
C. Assign the Allow logon through Terminal Services user right to the ITSecurity global group.
D. Assign the Act as part of the operating system user right to the ITSecurity global group.