Which is the antonym of mitigate? A: Alleviate B: Ease C: Mollify D: Exacerbate

1. Books and articles on the subject have ____-ed over the last year. A: interface B: anew C: proliferate D: mitigate

According to Video Clip1, the speaker said that building more wider roads is one of the ways we can mitigate and solve traffic jams.

How could Xiaomi mitigate the decline of its smartphone sales A: Lower the price. B: Enlarge the global market. C: Open more off-line shops. D: Develop the ecosystem of smart appliances.

Many practical areas of engineering controls designed to mitigate exposure of surface mine workers to all airborne dusts, including silica, are： A: drill dust collection systems B: enclosed cab filtration systems C: controlling dust on unpaved haulage roads D: controlling dust at the primary hopper dump

Which of the following security policies is BEST to use when trying to mitigate the risks involved with allowing a user to access company email via their cell phone？（） A: The cell phone should require a password after a set period of inactivity. B: The cell phone should only be used for company related emails. C: The cell phone data should be encrypted according to NIST standards. D: The cell phone should have data connection abilities disabled.

What action should you be prepared to take when verifying a security solution？（） A: having alternative addressing and VLAN schemes B: having a rollback plan in case of unwanted or unexpected results C: running a test script against all possible security threats to insure that the solution will mitigate all potential threats D: isolating and testing each security domain individually to insure that the security design will meet overall requirements when placed into production as an entire system

Reading Comprehension Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. 第一段 A recent study, published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver. Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone. By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger. 第二段The authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight, with passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident. 第三段Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue.” He says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is.” 第四段Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使…缓解) the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting a license is a multi-stage process. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passenger restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges. 第五段Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes, according to recent studies. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place, but only 10 of those states have restrictions on passengers, California is the strictest, with a novice (新手) driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20 (without the presence of an adult over 25) for the first six months.

Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Each word may be used only once. attitudes boundaries collective confident differences distant dramatically links prospects relatively sensitive similarly simply sober subtle People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change and willing to adopt energy-saving behavior, according to a new study based on a recent survey of 1,822 individuals across the United Kingdom. The new study found that those who report experience of flooding express more concern over climate change, see it as less uncertain, and feel more ①__________ that their actions will have an effect on climate change. Importantly, these perceptual (认知的) ②__________ also translate into a greater willingness to save energy to mitigate climate change. Previous psychological research suggests that many people are relatively unconcerned about climate change because they perceive it as a ③________ issue that will not directly affect them. But the authors of the new study say their results suggest that drawing ④_____ between local weather events and climate change is likely to be a useful strategy for increasing concern and action. An earlier study conducted after major U.K. floods in 1998 and 2000 found ⑤_________ similar levels of concern in those directly affected by flooding and those who did not have that experience. But given that ⑥________ severe flooding events struck England since 2003, the British research team decided to revisit the issue. Elke Weber — a professor of business and psychology at Columbia University — called the findings surprising and important. Following the failed climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, the ⑦_________ for sufficient public concern about climate change and political will to reduce carbon emissions have seemed dim. However, recent events in Tunisia (突尼斯), Egypt and other countries have shown that increases in the perceived effectiveness of individual and ⑧_________ action can change ⑨________ and behaviors quickly and ⑩___________. The new study’s findings, Weber added, provide a glimmer of hope that similar ‘tipping point’ dynamics might exist in the domain of climate change.