单选题Due to sluggish market conditions, the factory's workforce has ______ from over 4,000 to a few hundred. A. proclaimed B. dwindled C. repressed D. indulged

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单选题Some 121 countries may be designated "developing", and of this 121, seventeen countries ______ more than four-fifths of energy consumption. A. amount to B. account for C. add up D. take away

单选题______ all our kindness to help her, Sara refused to listen.

单选题According to the first two paragraphs, if present trends continue, which one of the following situations will not occur?

单选题You wouldn't expect an Information Age company like Intel to get on the wrong side of environmentalists, but the company's recent 42 billion expansion at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, plunged the world's largest semiconductor maker into an age-old Western problem: water rights. Chip plants consume millions of gallons of water a day, mainly to wash microscopic dirt from the surface of chips. That's a problem in the dry West, where, as Twain remarked, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about. During construction of the new 1.3 million-square-foot chip-making plant, which starts production this month, residents and activists complained that the company's expanding thirst would be too great a drain on local supplies. After weeks of public hearings, the state of New Mexico last year granted Intel 72% of the water it requested. The strife at Rio Rancho is the most intense the industry has faced. "I think it sensitized us, " says Howard High, spokesman for Intel. "We have a lot of efforts under way to try and minimize the amount of water we use. " Current conservation efforts may not work for an industry that in North America is expected to double in size to $ 75 billion in sales in the next three years. The trend is to reuse treated wastewater from chip cleaning in places such as cooling towers and air-conditioning systems. Motorola employs such methods in Phoenix and Austin. Recycling water for chip cleaning is the most logical approach. But the technology to make ultra-pure water for such a closed-loop system is still too costly. New technologies could eventually take the water out of chip cleaning. One company, Radiance Services, a six-person start-up based in Bethesda, Maryland, holds patents for a new "dry cleaning" method. Using laser light and inert gas (惰性气体) to lift impurities (杂质，不洁物) from surfaces of a chip, Radiance claims its process can clean as effectively as the current water-based methods.

单选题UDeceptively /Usimple in design, the sculptural works of George Norton incorporate a broad range of textures, sizes, and contours.

单选题What does "the practical manifestations.., out of control" (Para. 3) mean?

单选题Which of the following is true of the environments in which fossils are found?

单选题The phrase "at a premium" (paragraph 2) might mean ______.

单选题{{B}}Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.{{/B}}{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Artificial flowers are used for scientific as well as for decorative purposes. They are made from a variety of materials, such as wax and glass, so skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished from natural flowers. In making such models, painstaking skill and artistry are called for, as well as thorough knowledge of plant structure. The collection of glass flowers in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University is the most famous in North America and is widely known throughout the scientific world. In all, there are several thousand models in colored glass, the work of two artists-naturalists, Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph. The intention was to have the collection represent at least one member of each flower family native to the United States. Although it was never completed, it contains more than seven hundred species representing 164 families of flowering plants, a group of fruits showing the effect of fungus diseases, and thousands of flower parts and magnified details. Every detail of these is accurately reproduced in color and structure. The models ate kept in locked cases, as they are too valuable and fragile for classroom use.

单选题Higher demand from developing countries and oil producers is offsetting the lower demand of wealthy countries. Consumption in these countries will rise 3 percent in 2008, or 1.2 million barrels a day, projects the International Energy Agency. Many of these countries subsidize fuel so that final customers are insulated from price increases. Gasoline is about 25 cents a gallon in Venezuela and about 60 cents in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran. There"s been a huge transfer of power to oil producers. Even at $100 a barrel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will earn almost $8 trillion in oil revenues between now and 2020, estimates the McKinsey Global Institute. More troubling are the political implications. "This has really strengthened the Iranians, Russians and Venezuelans to be more provocative in the world," says Larry Goldstein of the Energy Policy Research Foundation. Although governments control crude supplies, private companies have dominated distribution. Anyone can buy oil at a price. Now oil could become a political commodity, used by governments to cement their alliances, offered to friends at a discount; withheld from rivals. How can we retrieve some of our lost power? The first thing is to get out of denial. Stop blaming oil companies, "speculators" and other scapegoats for a situation not of their making. Next, we need to expand oil and natural-gas drilling in the United States, including Alaska. No, we can"t "drill our way" out of this problem. But we can augment oil supplies and lessen price strains on global markets. It might take 10 years or more, because new projects are huge undertakings. But delay will only aggravate our future problems, just as past errors aggravate present problems. Finally, we need to let high prices work. Aside from encouraging fuel-efficient vehicles and disciplining driving habits, they may also stimulate development of new biofuels from wood chips, food waste and switch grass. Production costs of these fuels may be in the range of $1 a gallon. If true, that"s well below today"s wholesale gasoline prices. To assure new producers that they wouldn"t be wiped out if oil prices plunged, we should set a floor price for oil of $50 to $80 a barrel, about 40 percent to 60 percent of today"s levels. It"s a worthy idea and can be done with a standby tariff. It would activate only if prices hit the threshold. We know that oil prices are unpredictable, and should a price collapse occur, Americans wouldn"t be deluded into thinking we"ve returned permanently to cheap energy. We"ve made that mistake before.

单选题The ______ of the dollar can be directly linked to deterioration of the current account of the U.S. balance of payments. A. depression B. depreciation C. description D. deficit

单选题The payroll register constitutes the treasurer department's authority to pay the employees． Payment is usually made in the form of a check drawn on the company's regular bank account． Pre-numbered payroll checks should be used, and there should be independent verification of!the agreement of the checks with the payroll register in detail and in total． Payroll checks should be distributed directly to employees, on proper identification, by treasurer's department personnel．The checks should not be returned to payroll for distribution since the payroll department would then have control over both preparing and paying the payroll．Alternatively,payroll checks may be deposited directly in the employee's cheeking account． Payment of employees in cash is the exception rather than the rule．This form of payment is more easily influenced by errors, irregularities, and robbery than payment by check．Following payment, check numbers are entered on the register,the preparation and payment of the payroll are programmed on a computer． A termination notice should be issued by the personnel department on the completion of an individual's employment with the company．Copies of the termination authorization should be sent to the employee's supervisor and to payroll, and a copy should be filed in the employee's personnel record．The proper execution of this function is vital in preventing terminated employees from continuing on the payroll．The subsequent diversion of such payroll checks to an unauthorized individual has been responsible for many payroll cheat through the years． Every company is expected to fulfill the legal requirements relevant to the filing of payroll tax returns and the payment of the resulting taxes．Ordinarily,the payroll department prepares the tax returns and a check is issued through the guarantor system in payment of the taxes．The responsibility for the filing of returns before due dates should be assigned to a payroll department supervisor．Furthermore, there should be independent verification within that department of the accuracy and completeness of the return．Effective control over tax retums is necessary to avoid penalties for late or incorrect filings．

单选题The ship ______ at Sydney and we spent a day touring the city. A. berthed B. amassed C. dissuaded D. poached

单选题The Hadrian"s Wall was built during the period of______.

单选题The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I re member experiencing the events related to the People's Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities. Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people's lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the Electronic City. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "Live Action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities. In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury was able to ac- quit the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feed- back that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading. "Can we all get along?" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.

单选题Only one member of the committee______from the final report.