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(1)The banners are packed, the tickets booked. The glitter and white overalls have been bought, the gas masks just fit and the m

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问题     (1)The banners are packed, the tickets booked. The glitter and white overalls have been bought, the gas masks just fit and the mobile phones are ready. All that remains is to get to the parties.
    (2)This week will see a feast of pan-European protests. It started on Bastille Day, last Saturday, with the French unions and immigrants on the streets and the first demonstrations in Britain and Germany about climate change. It will continue tomorrow and Thursday with environmental and peace rallies against President Bush. But the big one is in Genoa, on Friday and Saturday, where the G8 leaders will meet behind the lines of 18,000 heavily armed police.
    (3)Unlike Prague, Gothenburg, Cologne or Nice, Genoa is expected to be Europe’s Seattle, the coming together of the disparate strands of resistance to corporate globalisation.
    (4)Neither the protesters nor the authorities know what will happen, but some things are predictable. Yes, there will be violence and yes, the mass media will focus on it. What should seriously concern the G8 is not so much the violence, the numbers in the streets or even that they themselves look like idiots hiding behind the barricades, but that the deep roots of a genuine new version of internationalism are growing.
    (5)For the first time in a generation, the international political and economic condition is in the dock. Moreover, the protesters are unlikely to go away, their confidence is growing rather than waning, their agendas are merging, the protests are spreading and drawing in all ages and concerns.
    (6)No single analysis has drawn all the strands of the debate together. In the meantime, the global protest "movement" is developing its own language, texts, agendas, myths, heroes and villains. Just as the G8 leaders, world bodies and businesses talk increasingly from the same script, so the protesters’ once disparate political and social analyses are converging. The long-term project of governments and world bodies to globalise capital and development is being mirrored by the globalisation of protest.
    (7)But what happens next? Governments and world bodies are unsure which way to turn. However well they are policed, major protests reinforce the impression of indifferent elites, repression of debate, overreaction to dissent, injustice and unaccountable power.
    (8)Their options—apart from actually embracing the broad agenda being put to them—are to retreat behind even higher barricades, repress dissent further, abandon global meetings altogether or, more likely, meet only in places able to physically resist the masses.
    (9)Brussels is considering building a super fortress of international meetings. Genoa may be the last of the European super-protests.
According to the passage, what is most characteristic of the protest against the G8 meetings in Genoa?
选项 A、It started last Saturday and will last a long time.
B、It involves much violence with a great number of protesters.
C、It takes thousands of heavily armed police to protect the G8 leaders.
D、It symbolizes the merging of disparate global protests.
答案D
解析 谈到热那亚八国峰会上的抗议活动时，文章提到，该抗议活动与布拉格等处不同，将成为欧洲的西雅图，是“不同抗议活动拧在一起”。第4段最后又说，这次抗议活动上会有暴力、有很多人参与，也会因保卫森严而使峰会上的首脑们看起来笨头笨脑，但最让他们担心的是“一种真正新的国际主义的深根在壮大”。这里的国际主义即不同目的抗议活动走到一起的全球化，故D正确。
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