单选题All who completed the voluntary ______ on Friday will receive a certificate recognizing their participation. A. train B. trained C. training D. trainable

单选题Outstanding career opportunity in costume design A well-established theater production company is looking for a talented, professional costume designer, with the possibility of a promotion to head designer in our costume department. A university graduate is preferred, particular a degree in a field related to design. Experience in recreating period garments will distinguish a candidate from other applicants, as our next season includes a performance set in 16th century England. Knowledge of set design is also a plus. The successful candidate will have a three-month trial period before full-time employment is offered. Salary is commensurate with experience. To apply, send a cover letter and resume with detailed qualifications and a brief personal profile before August 12th to: The Lotus Flower Theater Company 5565 Radison Ave. Kingston, ON H2W 1D9 Or send by email to: manager@thelotusflower.ca Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls please.

单选题Can you______your car up so that I can get through?

单选题I always wanted to do the job which I' d been trained______.

单选题What {{U}}puzzles{{/U}} me is why his books are so popular. A.shocks B.influences C.confuses D.concerns

单选题An {{U}}abnormal{{/U}} amount of snow fell here last week which is quite rare in the region. A.funny B.frightening C.repeated D.unusual

单选题Butter and bread ______ their daily food, but the bread and the butter up now.

单选题Just tell me what subject you"d like me to ______ so that I could get some notes ready.

单选题My work ______, I went home. A. had been done B. done C. having done D. to be done

单选题I met several people there, two of ______ being foreigners.

单选题 At a certain time in our lives we consider every place as the possible site (地点) for a house. I have thus searched the country within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms, one after another, and I knew their prices. The nearest thing that I came to actual ownership was when I bought the Hollowell place. But before the owner completed the sale with me, his wife changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me additional dollars to return the farm to him. However, I let him keep the additional dollars and sold him the farm for just what I had given for it. The real attractions of the Hollowell farm to me were its position, being about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, bounded (相邻) on one side by the river, and separated from the highway by a wide field. The poor condition of the house and fences showed that it hadn't been used for some time. I remembered from my earliest trip up the river that the house used to be hidden behind a forest area, and I was in a hurry to buy it before the owner finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the apple trees, and clearing away some young trees which had grown up in the fields. I wanted to buy it before he made any more of his improvements. But it turned out as I have said. I was not really troubled by the loss. I had always had a garden, but I don't think I was ready for a large farm. I believe that as long as possible it is better to live free and uncommitted (不受约束的). It makes but little difference whether you own a farm or not.

单选题 To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. " One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is animals--no meat, no fur, no medicines, Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then I would have to say yes. " Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don't worry, scientists will find some way of using computers. " Such well-meaning people just don't understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way-in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst. Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

单选题Can you tell the difference among A and B?A. tellB. theC. differenceD. among

单选题We strongly suggest that Ann is told about his physical condition as soon as possible. A. strongly B. is C. told D. as soon as possible

单选题 Inflation Business and government leaders also consider the inflation rate to be an important general indicator. Inflation is a period of increased spending that causes rapid rises in prices. {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}your money buys fewer goods so that you get {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. There is a general rise {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}the price of goods and services. Your money buys less. Sometimes people describe inflation as a time when "a dollar is not worth a dollar anymore". Inflation is a problem for all consumers. People who live on a fixed income are hurt the {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Retired people, for instance, cannot count on an increase in income as prices rise. Elderly people who do not work face serious problems in stretching their incomes to {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}their needs in time of inflation. Retirement income {{U}} {{U}} 21 {{/U}} {{/U}}any fixed income usually does not rise as fast as prices. Many retired people must cut their spending to {{U}} {{U}} 22 {{/U}} {{/U}}rising prices. In many cases they must stop {{U}} {{U}} 23 {{/U}} {{/U}}some necessary items, such as food and clothing. Even {{U}} {{U}} 24 {{/U}} {{/U}}working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can be a problem. The {{U}} {{U}} 25 {{/U}} {{/U}}of living goes up, too. People who work must have even more money to keep up their standard of living. Just buying the things they need costs more. When incomes do not keep {{U}} {{U}} 26 {{/U}} {{/U}}with rising prices, the standard of living goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living as well because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes {{U}} {{U}} 27 {{/U}} {{/U}}the rate of change can be determined. A price index measures changes in prices using the price for a {{U}} {{U}} 28 {{/U}} {{/U}}year as the base. The base price is set at 100, and the other prices are reported as a {{U}} {{U}} 29 {{/U}} {{/U}}of the base price. A price index makes {{U}} {{U}} 30 {{/U}} {{/U}}possible to compare current prices of typical consumer goods, for example, with prices of the same goods in previous years.

单选题Rising wages — together with currency fluctuations and high fuel costs — are eating away the once-formidable "China price" advantage, prompting thousands of factory owners to flee the Pearl River Delta. Much has been written about the more than doubling of wages at the Shenzhen factory of Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, which produces Apple iPhones and iPads and employs 920,000 people in China alone. "One carl talk about a world pre- and post- Foxconn," says Victor Fung, chairman of Li & Fung, the world's biggest sourcing company and a supplier of Wal-Mart. "Foxconn is as important as that." Foxconn' s wage increases are only the most dramatic. Our analysis suggests that, since February, minimum wages have climbed more than 20 percent in 20 Chinese regions and up to 30 percent in some, including Sichuan. At a Guangdong Province factory supplying Honda, wages have risen an astonishing 47 percent. All this is bad news for companies operating in the world's manufacturing hub, and chief executives should assume that double-digit annual rises — if not on the scale witnessed this year — are here to stay. Looked at another way, however, wage inflation provides companies with a once -in -a -generation opportunity to rethink radically the way they approach global production — and they should do so sooner rather than later. Why the urgency? After all, wage hikes in China are nothing new. Since 1990, they have risen by an average of 13 percent a year in U.S. dollar terms and 19 percent annually in the past five years. There are two big reasons the situation is different now. The first has to do with productivity. Over the past 20 years, productivity increases have broadly matched wage increase, negating their impact. The pay rises came from a very low base, so while average wages grew 19 percent a year from 2005 to 2010, this amounted to only ￥260 a month per employee, a sum that could be offset by more efficient production or switching to cheaper sources of parts and materials. If labor costs continue, however, to increase at 19 percent a year for another five years, monthly wages would grew ￥623 per month, according to BCG estimates. Such an increase would ripple through the economy in the form of higher prices for components, business services, cargo-handling and office staff. The second reason relates to societal change. Until now, if has been easy to lure a seemingly unlimited number of young, low-wage workers to the richer coastal regions and house them cheaply in dormitories until they saved enough to return home to their families in the interior provinces. In the future, though, young workers will be harder to recruit. This is partly because there will be fewer of them: Largely because of the country's one-child policy, the number of Chinese aged 15 to 29 will start declining in 2011. Moreover, with living standards rising across China, fewer of today's rural youth will want to go to coastal regions to toil for 60 hours a week on an assembly line and live in a cramped dormitory. So what can CEOs do in this fast-changing environment? An instinctive reaction is to search for cheaper labor elsewhere. But this is short-sighted and would provide — at best — a short-term fix. Another option is to stay in China and try to squeeze out greater productivity gains.

单选题______ did we go swimming in the Changjiang River.

单选题The girl ______ an English song in the next room is Tom's sister. A. who is singing B. is singing C. sang D. was singing

单选题______children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

单选题What ______ you do this Sunday if it ______?A. do, will rainB. will, rainC. do, rainsD. will, rains