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    22 October

    考T归来

    上午刚考完T,现在来发布机经。
    不过话说回来,了解我的人都知道,我考完试一般是一点题目都不记得的。所以说是机经其实就是感想。
     
    阅读:
    他娘的5篇。做到后来觉得心力交瘁,正是人生共愤啊!靠前我就祈祷加试的听力,结果还是上了这趟浑水……
    现在想想宏哥的话真的是不无道理,阅读之所以大家都做得差,是因为大家都以为自己这方面很强。而往往轻敌了。套用Alex的话“reading不拿分,总觉得有点亏啊!”
    所以以后大家要注意了,扬长避短,先要扬长!
     
    听力:
    强烈建议大家不要练了,听得时候attentive一点就好了。不过有写文章实在让我气死,一开始说三个特点。然后First, Second, Third,然后我看进度条也走得差不多了。于是就放下笔,抬起头,准备迎接题目了。居然又出来其他的一刚!弄得我措手不及。所以好几道就没听到……
     
    口语:
    不说了,前两道都是老题目了。后面的题目做得不好。不过听听旁边mm的回答,还是找回一点信心的。
    作文:
    怎么说呢……题目不难,做得也不怎么样。唯一庆幸的就是写完了。但是大作文感觉有点偏题,听天由命吧!
     
    补充:
    监考的老师总体比较kind,但是考虑到我在主场中的主场作战,居然多给我一张纸都不肯,mean得可以!(那记录纸居然是粉红色的一刚!ETS玩什么啊!)
    考完之后到楼下,从包里拿手机,眼镜掉了出来。骤然!用了2年多从未有闪失的眼镜壳子一分为二。虽然本人历来精通天象。但是这种物象还不会解释……请高人指点!凶兆否?
    21 October

    明日考T

    XDJM们:
    俺明天去考T啦!!!
    今早刚去考察考场,监考的老师看上去还是蛮厚道的。但就是不知道,为什么今天我不考都感觉这么慌,希望明天心情平静一些。
    最担心的还是自己的体力,本来打算前两天进行的体能储备也没能落实。希望明天不要考到一半休克。美国人果然不把外国人当人。除了TOEFL之外的所有考试,哪有超过3个小时的?禽兽!不过即使这样骂还是要好好考的。
    今晚开始拜观音娘娘。
    15 October

    What r u doing China!

     
    For years, Chinese government always acts like a old eclectic no matter what happens. When American battle jet shot our embassy we 'strongly oppose'. When Japenese ship detect the crude oil amount in east China sea, we  excert official argue. And now, North Korea test nuclear weapon right under our nose, we just reluctantly agree the sanction proposed in UN Security Council and refused to take part in the inspection of ships trading to North Korea!!
    No more to say, yes, China has a perfect excuse -- economic development is the primary center. Well, therefore, we shall never be entangled with international political affairs too much. We just sit and watch, waiting something happen. What we can do most the 'strongly oppose'. It's good and short sighted.
    China is too soft; I hate to say so but it's truth. Looking at those leaders of center government, they strive for building a harmonious society, i.e. they want everyone happy with thier life. However, if a person cannot feel the strength of whose motherland, if a man is abashed to declare he is a Chinese, how can people happy living in this nation.
    Patriotism is losing because our nation acts too softly internationally, avoiding taking any responsibility and any risk. What is the most unfortunate is that this is not the worst.
    You know what the worst is? China's reluctance to proceed the duty of inspection force the UN and US turn to other to take this job. In the Asia-Pacific region, who will be this lucky dog? Nobody but that rich, ambitious Japan who has been anxiously seeking an opportunity to gain political importance after its post-war economic recovery.
    Japan failed to be a member of permanent trustee of UN security council and now the uncomprehendably good-willing China sends a big cake, free of charge.
    Chinese government, you try your best to avoid risk and to enhance economic sector. Nevertheless, you're taking a unprecedented risky job, not knowing!
    09 October

    金正日一坨屎!

    WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 9 — North Korea said Sunday night that it had set off its first nuclear test, becoming the eighth country in history, and arguably the most unstable and most dangerous, to proclaim that it has joined the club of nuclear weapons states.

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    South Koreans watched a television showing the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, at a railway station in Seoul this morning.

    The New York Times

    The test came just two days after the country was warned by the United Nations Security Council that the action could lead to severe consequences.

    American officials cautioned that they had not yet received any confirmation that the test had occurred. The United States Geological Survey said it had detected a tremor of 4.2 magnitude on the Korean Peninsula.

    China called the test a “flagrant and brazen” violation of international opinion and said it “firmly opposes” North Korea’s conduct.

    Senior Bush administration officials said that they had little reason to doubt the announcement, and warned that the test would usher in a new era of confrontation with the isolated and unpredictable country run by President Kim Jong-il.

    Early Monday morning, even before the test was confirmed, Bush administration officials were holding conference calls to discuss ways to further cut off a country that is already subject to sanctions, and hard-liners said the moment had arrived for neighboring countries, especially China and Russia, to cut off the trade and oil supplies that have been Mr. Kim’s lifeline.

    In South Korea, the country that fought a bloody war with the North for three years and has lived with an uneasy truce and failed efforts at reconciliation for more than half a century, officials said they believed that an explosion occurred around 10:36 p.m. New York time — 11:36 a.m. Monday in Korea.

    They identified the source of the explosion as North Hamgyong Province, roughly the area where American spy satellites have been focused for several years on a variety of suspected underground test sites.

    That was less than an hour after North Korean officials had called their counterparts in China and warned them that a test was just minutes away. The Chinese, who have been North Korea’s main ally for 60 years but have grown increasingly frustrated by the its defiance of Beijing, sent an emergency alert to Washington through the United States Embassy in Beijing. Within minutes, President Bush was notified, shortly after 10 p.m., by his national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, that a test was imminent.

    North Korea’s decision to conduct the test demonstrated what the world has suspected for years: the country has joined India, Pakistan and Israel as one of the world’s “undeclared” nuclear powers. India and Pakistan conducted tests in 1998; Israel has never acknowledged conducting a test or possessing a weapon. But by actually setting off a weapon, if that is proven, the North has chosen to end years of carefully crafted and diplomatically useful ambiguity about its abilities.

    The North’s decision to set off a nuclear device could profoundly change the politics of Asia.

    The test occurred only a week after Japan installed a new, more nationalistic prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and just as the country was renewing a debate about whether its ban on possessing nuclear weapons — deeply felt in a country that saw two of its cities incinerated in 1945 — still makes strategic sense.

    And it shook the peninsula just as Mr. Abe was arriving in South Korea for the first time as prime minister, in an effort to repair a badly strained relationship, having just visited with Chinese leaders in Beijing. It places his untested administration in the midst of one of the region’s biggest security crises in years, and one whose outcome will be watched closely in Iran and other states suspected of attempting to follow the path that North Korea has taken.

    Now, Tokyo and Washington are expected to put even more pressure on the South Korean government to terminate its “sunshine policy” of trade, tourism and openings to the North — a policy that has been the source of enormous tension between Seoul and Washington since Mr. Bush took office.

    The explosion was the product of nearly four decades of work by North Korea, one of the world’s poorest and most isolated countries. The nation of 23 million people appears constantly fearful that its far richer, more powerful neighbors — and particularly the United States — will try to unseat its leadership. The country’s founder, Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, emerged from the Korean War determined to equal the power of the United States, and acutely aware that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had requested nuclear weapons to use against his country.

    But it took decades to put together the technology, and only in the past few years has the North appeared to have made a political decision to speed forward. “I think they just had their military plan to demonstrate that no one could mess with them, and they weren’t going to be deterred, not even by the Chinese,” a senior American official who deals with the North said late Sunday evening. “In the end, there was just no stopping them.”

    But the explosion was also the product of more than two decades of diplomatic failure, spread over at least three presidencies. American spy satellites saw the North building a good-size nuclear reactor in the early 1980’s, and by the early 1990’s the C.I.A. estimated that the country could have one or two nuclear weapons. But a series of diplomatic efforts to “freeze” the nuclear program — including a 1994 accord signed with the Clinton administration — ultimately broke down, amid distrust and recriminations on both sides.

    Three years ago, just as President Bush was sending American troops toward Iraq, the North threw out the few remaining weapons inspectors living at their nuclear complex in Yongbyon, and moved 8,000 nuclear fuel rods they had kept under lock and key. Those rods contained enough plutonium, experts said, to produce five or six nuclear weapons, though it is unclear how many the North now stockpiles.

    For years, some diplomats assumed that the North was using that ambiguity to trade away its nuclear capability, for recognition, security guarantees, aid and trade with the West. But in the end, the country’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, who inherited the mantle of leadership from his father, still called the “Great Leader,” appears to have concluded that the surest way of getting what he seeks is to demonstrate that he has the capability to strike back if attacked.

    Assessing the nature of that ability is difficult. If the test occurred as the North claimed, it is unclear whether it was an actual bomb or a more primitive device. Some experts cautioned that it could try to fake an explosion, setting off conventional explosives; the only way to know for sure will be if American “sniffer” planes, patrolling the North Korean coast, pick up evidence of nuclear byproducts in the air.

    Even then, it is not clear that the North could fabricate that bomb into a weapon that could fit atop its missiles, one of the country’s few significant exports.

    But the big fear about North Korea, American officials have long said, has less to do with its ability to lash out than it does with its proclivity to proliferate. The country has sold its missiles and other weapons to Iran, Syria and Pakistan; at various moments in the six-party talks that have gone on for the past few years, North Korean representatives have threatened to sell nuclear weapons. But in a statement issued last week, announcing that it intends to set off a test, the country said it would not sell its nuclear products.

    The fear of proliferation prompted President Bush to declare in 2003 that the United States would never “tolerate” a nuclear-armed North Korea. He has never defined what he means by “tolerate,” and on Sunday night Tony Snow, Mr. Bush’s press secretary, said that, assuming the report of the test is accurate, the United States would now go to the United Nations to determine “what our next steps should be in response to this very serious step.”

    Nuclear testing is often considered a necessary step to proving a weapon’s reliability as well as the most forceful way for a nation to declare its status as a nuclear power.

    “Once they do that, it’s serious," said Harold M. Agnew, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory, which designed most of the nation’s nuclear arms. "Otherwise, the North Koreans are just jerking us around.”

    Networks of seismometers that detect faint trembles in the earth and track distant rumbles are the best way to spot an underground nuclear test.

    The big challenge is to distinguish the signatures of earthquakes from those of nuclear blasts. Typically, the shock waves from nuclear explosions begin with a sharp spike as earth and rock are compressed violently. The signal then tends to become fuzzier as surface rumblings and shudders and after shocks create seismologic mayhem.

    With earthquakes, it is usually the opposite. A gentle jostling suddenly becomes much bigger and more violent.

    Most of the world’s seismic networks that look for nuclear blasts are designed to detect explosions as small as one kiloton, or equal to 1,000 tons of high explosives. On instruments for detecting earthquakes, such a blast would measure a magnitude of about 4, like a small tremor.

    Philip E. Coyle III, a former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon and former director of nuclear testing for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a weapons-design center in California, said the North Koreans could learn much from a nuclear test even if it was small by world standards or less than an unqualified success.

    “It would not be totally surprising if it was a fizzle and they said it was a success because they learned something,” he said. “We did that sometimes. We had a missile defense test not so long ago that failed, but the Pentagon said it was a success because they learned something, which I agree with. Failures can teach you a lot.”

    03 October

    郁闷!

    今天超级郁闷!什么事情也没做就发现长假过了一半了!
    想想7号还要去学校科创,通信原理做了两天第一题还没有做出来,李力利的课件么坏的,微机原理也没法做……更不要说托福了!靠!
    想想就郁闷呀!
    突然又想起来“郁闷”这个词怎么翻……嗯,gloomy不错!稍微少gloomy一点……