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单选题— Do you like coffee or milk? — Both. But I prefer coffee ______ milk.A. toB. forC. withD. from
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单选题When he speaks (at) banquets, he (makes) a point of going into the kitchen and (to shake) hands (with) every waiter and waitress.
单选题The best title for this short passage is ______.
单选题The Wilsons live in ______ A-shaped house near the coast. It is ______ 17th century cottage. A) the, / B) an, the C) /, the D) an, a
单选题You have studied hard, and the day has (21) come when you must write your exam. Try to arrive a few minutes before the (22) starts. Avoid talking to other students, especially those (23) are doing some last minute cramming. These people will make you nervous and (24) your concentration. If you can, choose a seat that allows you to (25) . Try to sit away from the (26) to the room so you are not (27) by students leaving before you are finished. Listen (28) to any verbal instructions from the teacher or any (29) written on the board. Here are five (30) for taking exams: 1. Catch your (31) ; 2. Read the (32) very carefully; 3. (33) through the test; 4. (34) your time; 5. Attack the (35) .
单选题At his jokes we could not help but ______.
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单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}}
A man and his wife had a small bar near
a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came
to drink there while they were waiting for trains. At two
o'clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He
was asleep. The barman's wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar
several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to
her husband and said to him, "You've waken that man six times now, George, but
he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It is very
late." "Oh, no, I don't want to send him away, "answered her
husband with a smile: "You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill,
and when I bring it to him. He pays it. Then he goes to sleep
again."
单选题Let us assume, for the moment, that labor is not prepared to work for a lower money-wage and that a reduction in the existing level of money-wages would lead, through strikes or otherwise, to a withdrawal from the labor market of labor which is now employed. Does it follow from this that the existing level of real wages accurately measures the marginal disutility of labor? Not necessarily. For, although a reduction in the existing money-wage would lead to a withdrawal of labor, it does not follow that a fall in the value of the existing money-wage in terms of wage-goods would do so, if it were due to a rise in the price of the latter. In other words, it may be the case that within a certain range the demand of labor is for a minimum money-wage and not for a minimum real wage. The classical school has tacitly assumed that this would involve no significant change in their theory. But this is not so. For if the supply of labor is not a function of real wages as its sole variable, their argument breaks down entirely and leaves the question of what the actual employment will be quite indeterminate. They do not seem to have realized that. Unless the supply of labor is a function of real wages alone, their supply curve for labor will shift bodily with every movement of prices. Thus their method is tied up with their very special assumptions, and cannot be accepted to deal with the more general case. Now ordinary experience tells us, beyond doubt, that a situation where labor stipulates (within limits) for a money-wage rather than a real wage, so far from being a mere possibility, is the normal case. Whilst workers will usually resist a reduction of money-wages, it is not their practice to withdraw their labor whenever there is a rise in the price of wage-goods. It is sometimes said that it would be illogical for labor to resist a reduction of money-wages but not to resist a reduction of real wages. For reasons given below, this might not be so illogical as it appears at first; and, as we shall see later, fortunately so. But, whether logical or illogical, experience shows that this is how labor in fact behaves. Moreover, the contention that the unemployment which characterizes a depression is due to a refusal by labor to accept a reduction of money-wages is not clearly supported by the facts. It is not very plausible to assert that unemployment in the United States in 1932 was due either to labor obstinately refusing to accept a reduction of money-wages or to its obstinately demanding a real wage beyond what the productivity of the economic machine was capable of furnishing. Wide variations are experienced in the volume of employment without any apparent change either in the minimum real demands of labor or in its productivity. Labor is not more truculent in the depression than in the boom.... far from it. Nor is its physical productivity less. These facts from experience are a prima facie ground for questioning the adequacy of the classical analysis.
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单选题Which of the following is an endocentric compound?
单选题______her car stolen, she hurried to a policeman for help.
单选题 For the past two years in Silicon Valley, the centre
of America's technology industry, conference-goers have entertained themselves
playing a guessing game: how many times will a speaker mention the phrase "long
tail"? It is usually a high number, thanks to the influence of the long-tail
theory, which was first developed by Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired
magazine, in an article in 2004. Though technologists and bloggers chuckle at
how every business presentation now has to have its long-tail section, most are
envious of Mr. Anderson, whose brainwave quickly became the most fashionable
business idea around. Whether a blockbuster film, a bestselling
novel, or a chart-topping rap song, popular culture idolises the hit. Companies
devote themselves to creating them because the cost of distribution and the
limits of shelf space in physical shops mean that profitability depends on a
high volume of sales. But around the beginning of this century a group of
internet companies realised that with endless shelves and a national or even
international audience online they could offer a huge range of products—and make
money at the same time. The niche, the obscure and the
specialist, Mr. Anderson argues, will gain ground at the expense of the hit. As
evidence, he points to a drop in the number of companies that traditionally
calculate their revenue/sales ratio according to the 80/20 rule—where the top
fifth of products contribute four-fifths of revenues. Ecast, a San Francisco
digital jukebox company, found that 98% of its 10000 albums sold at least one
track every three months. Expressed in the language of statistics, the
experiences of Ecast and other companies such as Aragon, an online bookseller,
suggest that products down in the long tail of a statistical distribution, added
together, can be highly profitable. The internet helps people find their way to
relatively obscure material with recommendations and reviews by other people,
(and for those willing to have their artistic tastes predicted by a piece of
software) computer programs which analyse past selections.
Long-tail enthusiasts argue that the whole of culture will benefit, not just
commercial enterprises. Television, film and music are such bewitching media in
their own right that many people are quite happy to watch and listen to what the
mainstream provides. But if individuals have the opportunity to pick better,
more ideally suited entertainment from a far wider selection, they will take it,
according to the theory of the long tail. Some analysts reckon that entire
populations might become happier and wiser once they have access to thousands of
documentaries, independent films and subgenres of every kind of music, instead
of being subjected to what Mr. Anderson calls the tyranny of
lowest-common-denominator fare. That might be taking things a bit far. But the
long tail is certainly one of the internet's better gifts to humanity.
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单选题It' s no use______about the bad service in this hotel.
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单选题(Let"s) give the patient (the) hand. The car is waiting (for) us (outside) the school.
单选题Globalization is a phenomenon that has been affecting countries and societies for several decades, but the outline of the global system has only emerged with some clarity recently. The rise of global markets and the increase in speed and volume of international transactions has brought about a degree of interdependence and co-operation in economic matters among states that has not so far been matched by a corresponding increase in respect for and protection of human rights and democracy. Indeed, many democracies are still fragile, and have not made the transition from viewing democratic practices as instrumental to having a widely shared principled commitment to the democratic and constitutional framework.
The rise of global economic networks has led to a rise in the influence of global actors such as multi-national corporations, global economic bodies such as the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF and regional economic organizations. These constitute a new form of global governance whose directives and imperatives states find increasingly difficult to ignore. The established international political organizations have not come close to replicating this effectiveness.
Predictions that the phenomenon of globalization will result in a lowering of human rights standards as the mobility of capital seeks out the markets least constrained by labor and human rights standards to maximize the highest returns need not be the case. The role of human rights organizations in this context must be to ensure that globalization drives standards up not down, and to present the case that freedom of expression and access to official information are key to sustainable human and economic development and the prevention of corruption, which in turn support the conditions necessary for sustainable economic growth.
With the demand for global trade to go hand in hand with global responsibility international financial institutions are coming under increasing pressure to regulate the global economy not simply to facilitate economic growth, but to promote compliance with human development, including international human rights norms. Multinational corporations have also been forced to recognize a degree of corporate social responsibility in the areas in which they operate and in the communities on which they have an impact. Transparency in the operations of such companies is becoming increasingly important to their gaining access to capital. They are more and more accountable to shareholders, who, in turn are increasingly diffuse and numerous. The pursuit of "shareholder value" means that there is score to ensure that the investor—citizen has a say in the way that companies conduct themselves.
The task for those promoting free expression is to harness new technologies to challenge censorship, and to harness the power and influence of new global actors to ensure that they not only take the arguments for free expression on board, but become vocal advocates for such rights.
单选题A: OK, how would you like to pay?B: ______
