单选题Some of the world's leading museums show Dyson vacuums.

单选题Vacancy announcement-Accounting Officer Summary Job title: Accounting Officer Location: Wageningen, the Netherlands Employment: Full-time, international position; possibility to start under a consultancy contract Area: Agricultural science and development Education: University degree in accountancy Experience: 5 years of professional experience in accounting in a similar position Applications are invited from citizens of the European Union Member States or of the 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. Interested candidates should send their applications to the CTA, in Wageningen (the Netherlands). The CTA applies an equal opportunities policy. Employment package A range of benefits, including private pension and health insurance scheme will support an attractive, largely taxexempt salary. Procedure Qualifying candidates are invited to forward before 10th October, 2008: — One-page motivational letter explaining why he/she qualifies for this position, — Curriculum Vitae, — Scanned copies of relevant diplomas and certificates, — Full contact details of three referees. Please note that only candidates under serious consideration will receive written notice of the selection process.

单选题TapeStore: A NEW TAPE SIORAGE SYSTEM TapeStore is a new kind of tape storage system which can store up to 6,000 computer tapes. No other tape storage system can hold as many computer tapes as TapeStore. The tapes look exactly like video cassettes. Many hundreds of data files can be stored on each tape, up to a maximum of 500 million bytes of data. If you stored the same amount of information on paper, you would need nearly 4.5 billion printed pages. The machine is a tall black box with a mechanical arm. The machine is 2.5 metres high and 3.0 metres wide. This is how it works. Each tape has a code printed on it. YOU feed the code number into TapaStore, which then looks for the code. As soon as TapaStore locates the cede, the arm reaches in and pulls out the tape. The system is very fast. It takes the mechanical arm about 10 seconds to find the tape it is looking for. The machine then searches the tape to extract the required file, and this take less than a minute. A human technician would have to locate and remove the tape by hand; and could take at least an hour to find the right file on the tape. Some of the world's biggest companies, including banks, insurance companies, airlines, telephone companies, utilities and computer centres, have bought the system. They like it particularly because the system guarantees the security of their data. TapeStore was originally developed in Canada and is now being marketed world-wide. In Europe alone, 750 have already been installed at a cost of 480,000 dollars each.

单选题MinutesLighting Staff are complaining about the poor lighting in the main office. The secretary of the committee recently obtained quotes (29) new lighting, (30) we passed to the management board. The committee is (31) waiting for (32) decision. We are hoping the board will let us (33) within the next few weeks.New Drinks Machine Of the three types of machine we looked at, Maxcup appeared to be the best option. The committee now has to find a new (34) as our current machine causes problems near the fire exit (35) several people use the machine at the same time. It was decided to put (36) taking the decision, and we expect to have enough information (37) the end of the month.Conference AttendanceJohn (38) to be away at the conference from 1st to 8th of next month. Rebecca has agreed to assist us in his (39) John has a useful list of contacts in (40) to help her research new safety equipment.Next committee meeting: 16th March.

单选题Lucy Jane rang. Her train's been cancelled. She says the meeting should go ahead without her. Sandra

单选题· Read the following passage which advises candidates how to answer difficult interview questions.· Are the sentences 16-22 "Right" or "Wrong"? If there isn't enough information to answer "Right" or "Wrong", choose "Doesn't say".· For each sentence, mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}} Attending Interviews{{/B}} Good interviewers prepare their questions carefully in advance according to the candidate's application and CV. So candidates need to prepare just as carefully. Here are some useful tips on answering interview questions. What don't you like about your current position? No job is perfect; there's always something we don't like. Be honest but don't give a list of complaints. The important thing is talking positively about how you deal with problems at work. Where does your employer think you are today?Be honest. If you lie to your current employer, you'll lie to your next employer. Don't phone in sick in the day of the interview. Take a day's holiday but don't say why. What are your professional objectives? Think about these before the interview. Your objectives should be relevant to the job you have applied for and achievable. If the new job can't offer you everything you want, the interviewer will think that you probably won't stay with the company very long. What are your weaknesses? Be honest. No one is perfect. Think about this before the interview and choose your answer carefully. Talk about how you deal with a weakness; this is far more important than the weakness itself.

单选题He cannot ______ to the new problems that have emerged out of the financial turmoil. A. tend B. attend C. affect D. subject

单选题Congratulations to Ms. Zhang on her promotion to Brand Manager.Ms. Zhang works in______

单选题Smith Still waiting for approval from the authorities. Hope to get it next week so that we can finalise the launch date. MaryA. They have finalised a date for the launch.B. They hope to launch the product next week.C. They cannot yet finalise a date for the launch.

单选题Whoisaskedtocallback?A.DorothyBorrowB.FrancisGregoryC.IsabelHawkins

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单选题DELAYS EXPECTED ON COMMUTER TRAIN SERVICES.A. People traveling to work by train may be late.B. There are problems with high speed trains.C. Due to problems, all trains will be lat

单选题 An unexpectedly robust German economic rebound has allowed the eurozone to escape recession, highlighting diverging fortunes across the region but also the country's scope for lifting the prospects of weaker rivals. German gross domestic product expanded 0.5 percent in the first quarter of the year compared with the previous three months, a much stronger pace of growth than economists had forecast. As a result, eurozone GDP remained flat—rather than contracting as had been widely expected—despite further falls across much of southern Europe and stagnation in France, the eurozone's second-largest economy. Although the eurozone debt crisis could yet deliver an economic "shock", Germany has emerged from the crises of the past few years as one of the world's best-performing advanced industrial economies. Unemployment is near record lows since reunification in 1990, while business confidence remains high. GDP in Europe's largest economy had contracted 0.2 percent in the final three months of last year, which largely explained a 0.3 percent fall in eurozone GDP, and raised fears of a technical recession, defined as two quarters of negative growth. But German weakness was only temporary. Eurozone divergences have complicated the task of the European Central Bank. Although interest rates are widely seen as too low for Germany, the rest of the bloc is not yet ready for any policy tightening. Jens Weidmann, Bundesbank president, is prepared to tolerate a German inflation rate above the eurozone average—but Germans' deep-seated worries about inflation trends limit the ECB's room for maneuver. German politicians, meanwhile, have come under international pressure to use fiscal policy to boost domestic consumer spending as way of further stimulating demand for imports. Some signs of a eurozone "rebalancing" have already emerged, however. The main driver of German growth in the first quarter was exports, according to the country's statistical office. That reflected German success in selling top of the range manufactured goods and services outside the eurozone—especially to China and Russia. But German domestic demand also picked up in the first quarter, which would have sucked in exports from other parts of eurozone and beyond. Germany is the most important export market for most European economies. Italy's exports to Germany in the first quarter were almost 11 percent higher than a year before, while Spanish exports were up more than 4 percent. "People think that German private consumption has to increase very strongly for Germany to act as a growth motor for the eurozone," said Andreas Rees, European economist at UniCredit in Munich. "But if you look at trade in the eurozone, consumer goods do not play a decisive role. It is capital and intermediate goods—parts of the manufacturing process—that matter." Still, with fiscal austerity programs starting to bite, the eurozone's economic outlook remains bleak. The latest data are unlikely to dispel worries about the effect of the region's re-escalating debt crisis or the ramifications of a possible Greek exit. "We haven't got through the crisis yet—there is a long road ahead of us," warned Markus Kerber, director of Germany's BDI industrial association.

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单选题Industry and Schools in Partnership The new Manufacturing Partners program aims to improve teachers' understanding of manufacturing by inviting 2000 teachers to take part in factory visits. It will not be just one-way traffic, however about 500 manufacturing employees are also invited to visit schools each year to improve their awareness of modern schools. Peter Davis, Program Director, believes employees will also see the benefits. "It's an excellent means of improving professional development by helping to improve management and communication skills." Davis says. Until now, manufacturing firms have been slow to send staff into schools and teachers haven't been very keen to visit factories, either. According to Davis, most would rather visit a bank or retail company instead. Head teacher Andrew Morris recently spent three days at KTM, an engineering firm. Afterwards he admitted his view of industry had been out-of-date: "I thought it would be a dirty place to work, but conditions have obviously improved a lot nowadays." KTM Director John Dimmock said that without a doubt his staff had benefited from explaining their jobs to teachers and pupils.

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单选题 COMMON CAUSE, a left-leaning advocacy non-profit, has filed a lawsuit against the Senate on the grounds that the filibuster (用冗长的发言妨碍会议的议员或行为) defies the constitution. Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, a leading anti-filibuster opinion-maker, lays out the Common Cause case as it has been articulated by Emmett Bondurant: Between 1840 and 1900, there were 16 filibusters. Between 2009 and 2010, there were more than 130. But that's changed. Today, Majority Leader Harry Reid says that "60 votes are required for just about everything." At the core of Bondurant's argument is a very simple claim: This isn't what the Founders intended. The historical record is clear on that fact. The framers debated requiring a supermajority in Congress to pass anything. But they rejected that idea. The constitution sets out six cases in which a supermajority is required in the senate, and passing ordinary legislation isn't one of them. Mr Bondurant's basic claim is that the upshot of this omission is that the majority vote is the mandatory default for decision-making about legislation. That is to say, the use of anything other than majority voting is prohibited, except for those cases in which another voting rule is explicitly prescribed. If the constitution doesn't outright say this, that's only because the framers thought it was too obvious to mention. Mr Klein thinks Mr Bondurant "makes a strong case". Gregory Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami seems not to agree. "I am very excited that Common Cause has filed a lawsuit against the Senate filibuster", Mr Koger confesses at the Monkey Cage biog. "Excited in a John Stuart Mill, isn't-it-great-when-bad-arguments-get-aired-and-demolished kind of way." In a 2009 post, Mr Koger systematically reviewed the arguments against the proposition that the filibuster is unconstitutional. In his more recent post he responds specifically to the Common Cause/Bondurant brief: The central argument of the brief is that the use of supermajority procedures in the US Congress is inherently unconstitutional. It states, "The principle of majority was so basic to the concept of a democratically elected legislative body that it did not need to be expressly stated in the Constitution." Of course, too-important-to-be-written looks exactly like not-important-enough-to-include, so affirming this claim would invite a series of lawsuits claiming other "obvious but unwritten" principles. Mr Koger goes on to observe that the principle that "every supermajority procedure used by Congress is prohibited" if not explicitly required would take down a number of longstanding and uncontested practices in both houses. Constitutional questions aside, Mr Koger is sceptical that ditching the filibuster would make the Senate significantly more functional. Here's the real problem, as he sees it: The Republicans generally don't want anything to pass, and when legislation does come to the floor the Republican often demands roll call votes on "message" amendments that provide fodder for the current news cycle and the next campaign. The Democrats, whose majority is based on winning seats in red states, don't want to vote on these amendments. And so there is a stalemate in which must-pass legislation is put off until the final moment while they wait for each other to blink and nothing else gets done Changing the voting threshold would have the small benefit of removing an excuse for this dysfunction, but it would not solve the more fundamental problem that many legislators find it in their electoral interests to disagree.

单选题He was a courtly, gentle and ______ man, never known to slight or embarrass others. A. consistent B. continuous C. considerate D. continual