BEIJING — The rescue operations at a coal mine accident have ended with 105 miners dead.The State Council has organized an investigation team to probe (调查) into what caused the disaster in the city of Linfen, North China’s Shanxi Province.Preliminary investigations show the illegal mining of an unauthorized seam, and the number of miners who had been sent down the shaft far exceeded its capacity.
This mine was found to have long disregarded the rules to steal state coal, and did not have a list of miners employed to check the number of miners missing after the accident.
How did such a coal mine get all the necessary licenses for production? How did it pass the three safety inspections the local government organized last month?
In response to this disaster, the Shanxi governor promised to set up hotlines for people to report illegal coal mines and rewards as high as 100,000 yuan for tip-offs.
We appreciate the action this governor has taken to solving the coal mining problems, and we believe that the reporting scheme will help to stop the existence of illegal coal mines.
But at the same time we have reason to question how governments at various levels supervise these mines.
The sad fact that such a mine with serious safety problems could pass three consecutive local government safety inspections in a month is enough to tell us how ineffective the safety inspections were.
What if these inspections were just a formality? What if the inspectors were bribed by the mine owners to turn a blind eye to the safety dangers? We can well imagine what would happen if reports about mine problems were handled by such officials.
So a thorough probe must find out who are responsible for the death of so many miners.A real safety inspection and management system must be established to guarantee that safety dangers will be removed.
1.What is NOT one of the causes of this coal mine accident?
A.The workers didn’t operate properly.
B.The mine didn’t obey the rules to mine for coal.
C.A lot more miners than allowed were working under the mine.
D.The safety inspections were ineffective.
2.According to the writer, who should be further investigated?
A.Mine owners and miners.
B.Miners’ families and mine staff.
C.Government officials and safety inspectors.
D.The Shanxi governor and miners.
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A.More than 105 miners died in the disaster.
B.Some other coal mines like this one exist in Shanxi province.
C.Safety inspectors just turned a blind eye to hidden dangers.
D.The three inspections were only a formality.
4.What does the underlined word “tip-offs” probably mean in Paragraph 4?
A.Some warnings.
B.Some money for one’s service.
C.Some secret information.
D.Some pieces of advice.
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Nine 1700yearold brick tombs have been discovered in northwest China’s Xinjiang. Experts say that they can 1 valuable clues for the research of exchanges(交换;交流) between the central Chinese government at that time and ___2 Western Regions.
It is the 3 time ancient tombs with typical characteristics of China's main Han nationality have been found in the Uygur ethnic region(自治区).
4 from Beijing,Shanxi and Xinjiang concluded that the tombs were ___5___ between the middle and late third century and fourth century.
The tombs were unearthed during the 6 of a road earlier this year in Kuqa county,740 km from Xinjiang's capital Urumqi and part of the 7 Qiuci State. Qiuci State,which 8 between the second century BC and 860 AD,was one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.
The tombs would help archaeologists with research into the political,economic and cultural 9 between the Central Plains government and states in the west,and on the cultural 10 of the Central Plains on the Western Regions.
Archaeologists from the Xinjiang institute have dug nine tombs since August 22,___11 bodies of more than 30 people,some ancient 12 and more than 60 pottery(陶器)jars. It is thought there are another three tombs to be 13 .
The people buried in the tombs were 14 either people from the western regions deeply influenced by the Han culture or the Han residents(居民)in the ___15 .
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