完形填空People like to think that life was better in the past

完形填空Several types of financial risk are encountered in international marketing; the major problems include commercial, political risk and foreign exchange risk. 41 They include solvency, default, or refusal to pay bills. Their major risk, however, is competition which can only be dealt with through consistently effective management and marketing. 42 Such risk is encountered when a controversy arises about the quality of goods delivered, a dispute over contract terms, or any other disagreement over which payment is withheld. One company, for example, shipped several hundred tons of dehydrated potatoes to a distributor in Germany. 43 The alternatives for the exporter were reducing the price, reselling the potatoes, or shipping them home again, each involving considerable cost. Political risk relates to the problems of war or revolution, currency inconvertibility, expropriation or expulsion, and restriction or cancellation of import licenses. 44 Management information systems and effective decision-making processes are the best defenses against political risk. As many companies have discovered, sometimes there is no way to avoid political risk, so marketers must be prepared to assume them or give up doing business in a particular market. Exchange-rate fluctuations inevitably cause problems, but for many years, most firms could take protective action to minimize their unfavorable effects. 45 Before rates were permitted to float, devaluations of major currencies were infrequent and usually could be anticipated, but exchange-rate fluctuations in the float system are daily affairs. A. Political risk is an environmental concern for all businesses. B. One unique risk encountered by the international marketer involves financial adjustments. C. Commercial risks are handled essentially as normal credit risks encountered in day-to-day business. D. The distributor tested the shipment and declared in to be below acceptable taste and texture standards. E. Floating exchange rates of the world's major currencies have forced all marketers to be especially aware of exchange-rate fluctuations and the need to compensate for them in their financial planning. International Business Machine Corporation, for example, reported that exchange losses resulted in a dramatic 21.6 percent drop in their earnings in the third quarter to 1981. F. Many international marketers go bankrupt each year because of exchange-rate fluctuation. G. Anyone who gets into the stock market can not gloss over the risk brought by the political change.

完形填空 Most high school seniors have now heard back about their college applications, a process often cast as a kind of 'Hunger Games,' with young Americans battling it out for a chance to attend one of more than 3,000 four-year degree-granting colleges, seeking help wherever it may come, believing that the result will determine the course of their lives. But despite the crush of advisers proffering their supposed expertise for money, the endeavor is covered in some plausible shifts in what counts most during admission process. 41 In 2014, Time magazine offered a startling notion to frazzled parents and anxious students worried about their college admissions packages: Those finely honed, painstakingly crafted essays 'might not make a difference for your college admission chances.' After all, at some schools, the pool of applicants is much too large for every essay to be read—at the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, only 1 in 7 essays is a factor in an admission decision, according to the university's dean of admissions. 42 Although William Hurst, writing in Inside Higher Ed, called on schools to end the 'extracurricular arms race,' noting that 'many American high schools push their students to excel in as many extracurricular activities as they can, often because they think this helps those students gain admission to top colleges and universities.' When colleges and universities were thought to be seeking 'well-rounded' students, applicants with long lists of curricular and extracurricular activities stood out as great candidates thanks to their broad interests. Students were expected to engage in sports, cooking clubs, debate and, of course, community service. 43 These days eight Ivy League schools are known as some of the most selective colleges in the United States. But these aren't the most selective schools around. Stanford University often takes less than 5 percent, the smallest share of applicants, and it isn't in the Ivy League. MIT, Caltech and the University of Chicago, all with acceptance rates of about 8 percent for the Class of 2020, are more selective than some of the Ivies, too. Plus, many schools may take a higher proportion of applicants but are equally picky about their credentials: A liberal arts school like St. John's would look dubiously at a savant engineer from a technical high school who hadn't taken humanities classes in his final years. 44 'In most cases, taking an AP(Advanced Placement) class and getting a B is a better choice than getting an A in a regular one,' according to the Princeton Review. Kaplan, a test-prep business, agrees. What's more, schools often weight difficult classes more heavily when tabulating GPAs, so these tips seem to make sense. Colleges and universities like to see students take challenging courses in high school. As Peterson's, an admission and test-prep agency, explains, high schools use distinct grading systems and offer courses that have the same name but varying degrees of difficulty. 45 ''Diversity' isn't why colleges need affirmative action,' Bloomberg View's Noah Feldman declared in 2012. The fact that some universities, like Texas AM, have increased diversity while banning affirmative action might suggest that schools don't need such programs to keep their campuses diverse. But affirmative action programs do appear to increase diversity at colleges and universities. Today, affirmative action has lost much judicial support, and public opinion polls on these programs show mixed results. The Supreme Court permits race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities only to pursue 'diversity' in student populations, not to compensate African Americans for centuries of racially discriminatory public policy. A. Some admission measures that aroused ambivalent attitudes B. Admissions essays that don't matter C. University selecting criteria causing misunderstanding D. Elite universities where competitions are most fierce E. The more versatile, the better chance to succeed F. University candidates' neglect on admission counselors' advices G. Ordinary results in hard classes superior than excellences in easy ones

完形填空Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia but moved to Vienna with his parents at the age of four

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完形填空The business of our nation goes forward

完形填空At the beginning of 1993，Harrison Textile Company，a plant that makes clothes for people，suffered a disaster

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完形填空When former President Ronald fell and break his hip at the age of 89, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who 【A1】________ their hips each year

完形填空Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nations great traditions: the Sunday roast

完形填空American is much more informal than that of many other countries and, in some ways, is characterized by less social 41________

完形填空When former President Ronald fell and break his hip at the age of 89, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who 【A1】 ________their hips each year

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完形填空Workplace English Learning English plays (play) an important role in the workplace

完形填空　Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies that currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely analytic. The old questions "What happened?" and "How did it happen?" have given way to the question "Why did it happen?" 46) Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoanalysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistory. 　　Psychohistory does not merely use psychological explanations in historical contexts. Historians have always used such explanations when they were appropriate and when there was sufficient evidence for them. But this practical use of psychology is not what psychohistorians intend. They are committed, not just to psychology in general, but to Freudian psychoanalysis. This commitment prevents a commitment to history as historians have always understood it. 47) Psychohistory derives its "facts" not from history, the detailed records of events and their sequences, but from psychoanalysis of the individuals who made history, and deduces its theories not from this or that instance in their lives, but from a view of human nature that transcends ( goes beyond) history. It denies the basic criterion of historical evidence: that evidence be publicly accessible to, and therefore assessable by, all historians. And it violates the basic belief of historical method: that historians be alert to the negative instances that would refute their theses. 48) Psychohistorians, convinced of the absolute rightness of their theories, are also convinced that theirs is the "deepest" explanation of any event, that other explanations fall short of truth. 　　Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history; it also violates the past itself. 49) It denies to the past any integrity and will of its own, in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events had many causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and events of their individuality and of their complexity. 50) Instead of respecting the particularity of the past, it assimilates all events, past and present, into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in all circumstances

完形填空With 950 million people, India ranks second to China among the most populous countries

完形填空I have to write to you about the way you dress

完形填空In recent years, more and more foreigners are involved in the teaching programs of the United States

完形填空Children model themselves largely on their parents