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  1. What was a great technological feat of the shuttle program?

docking with the international space station


repairing a shuttle in orbit


putting the Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit and later repairing it

  1. The United States has a free trade agreement with:

Cuba and Haiti


Malaysia and Borneo


Mexico and Canada

  1. The United States gave much attention to environmental issues in the 1980s and 1990s. Preservation efforts have included:

care of endangered species


maintenance of lands and parks


purification of the air


all of the above

  1. President George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev:



disagreed about the policy of perestroika


agreed to destroy most of their countries' chemical, nuclear, and conventional weapons


agreed to destroy the Berlin Wall


reunited East and West Germany

Verified Answer :

1. What was a great technological feat of the shuttle program?

Here the best answer is:


putting the Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit and later repairing it

It was also used to assemble the modules of ISS, so docking with it would not be a great achievement: it helped build it!

The repair took place in 1993.


  1. The United States has a free trade agreement with:

Cuba and Haiti -not possible, it does not have a trade with Cuba at all!
The  correct answer is Mexico and Canada - the afreement is called NAFTA


  1. The United States gave much attention to environmental issues in the 1980s and 1990s. Preservation efforts have included: all of the above.

    Protection of environment usually comes in many forms and many different strategies are necessary: one is not enough!




  2. President George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev:

     

agreed to destroy most of their countries' chemical, nuclear, and conventional weapons

this happened  in 1991, with the agreement called START -
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty