26. Senator Jessie Helms stopped the US government from paying its dues to the UN because he wants .

　　[A] other countries to pay as much as the US

　　[B] Washington to make assessments and changes

　　[C] the UN's general budget to be trimmed ,

　　[D] the US to share a smaller part of the burden

　　27. The new formula has adjusted the assessment and will save the US government at least a year.

　　[A] $114 million 　　　[B] $ 154 million

　　[C] $ 200 million 　　　[D] $ 234 million

　　28. After the budget reassessment, the gap left by the US will be covered by______________ .

　　[A] Ted Turner　　　　　 [B] peacekeeping countries

　　[C] all member nations　　　　 [D] other wealthy nations

　　29. The author believes that Richard Holbrook's negotiations at the UN were______________ .

　　[A]A money-saving success

　　[B] An eye-catching embarrassment

　　[C] A waste of US influence

　　[D] A defense of US interest

　　30. From the passage, we can infer that_____________ .

　　[A] The US contribution to the UN has become a huge burden to Washington

　　[B] The new formula has not solved all problems concerning the US dues

　　[C] The dispute over the US dues has been deliberately made political

　　[D] Ted turner's intervention saved the US a diplomatic disaster

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　　With its cluster of high-rises known as the Frankfurter Manhattan, its big banks and its bustling airport, this is a town with pretensions. Petra Roth, the mayor, sees it as a global city providing hub functions for the Continent,a place that should be as cosmopolitan as New York.

　　Frankfurt is not just the city of foreign companies, but it is also home to 8000 Muslims, most of them Turks of modest means. Foreigners, including a large contingent from the former Yugoslavia, make up 30 percent of the population； one of the highest ratios for any city in Europe troubled by immigration. But there is no blood on the streets. Quietly flows the Main River be??neath that mock-New World skyline.

　　As Germany goes these days, so goes Europe. And if Frankfurt, the headquarters for Europe's new Central Bank and so the capital of Europe's nascent shared currency, the euro, is comfortable being a part-Muslim city with 27 mosques, perhaps the so-called New Europe of one money and blurred borders can be a more tolerant place.

　　Xenophobia is very unusual in Frankfurt,SAID Francesco Renaldo, an Italian banker. Perhaps it's the 300 foreign banks, or the vast airport, or the long American presence. Not until 1994 did 30 000 American troops pack up and go home—the Cold War ended and, so people here say, the city shaped in the soldiers’ open, can-do spirit.

　　But even here, at the heart of American-influenced Europe, far from the strained psyche of a former East German city like Esau, where rightists this year killed an African immigrant, the gho

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