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16 According to the passage, what protection is given to the workers in the Federal Reserve vault?
(A) They are insured.
(B) They wear special shoes.
(C) They are allowed to work only short periods of time below sea level.
(D) The information is not given in the passage.
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統計： A(15), B(54), C(20), D(19), E(0) #1135205
統計： A(15), B(54), C(20), D(19), E(0) #1135205
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骨頭（四等一般警特正取）
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When the Treasury財政部 sold gold, the gold was frequently moved by armored car裝甲汽車 from the United States Assay Office金屬分析所 in New York on the East River five blocks to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York美國聯邦儲備銀行 on Liberty Street.
The Federal Reserve聯邦儲備系統 vault保險庫 is 50 feet below某平面之下 sea level and 76 feet below street level.
Many foreign countries store some of their gold in this vault保險庫 at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Each working day, gold bars are wheeled推動、盤旋 between the various countries’ storage儲存 compartments（車輛的）分隔廂, on instructions指示 for international payments國際支付, rather than the countries incurring遭受 expensive shipping運輸 and insurance保險 charges from transporting the gold between countries.
It is a weird and fascinating吸引人 sight if one understands the implications含意.
Men far underground, with steel covers over涵蓋their shoes (to prevent injury if one of the bars drops), tote大手提袋 bars between compartments分隔廂 in the basement of the New York Federal Reserve Bank to settle a debt借款 between Norway and Germany that arose引起 from sardine沙丁魚 imports into Germany.
Many of the gold bars weigh 400 troy ounces金衡盎司, or 33.3 pounds.
They rose in price from $14,000 in 1971 (at $35 per troy ounce) to $204,000 in 1979 (at $510 per troy ounce). Many of these bars are stamped標記 with the insignia徽章 of the Soviet Union蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟, which, along with同…一道 South Africa, mines much of the world’s gold.
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