单选题According to paragraph 1, the insider's attitude towards Google IPO can be said to be

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单选题Philip Morris, the conglomerate that owns Kraft Foods but is probably best known for its cigarettes and costly tobacco, litigation, recently decided to change its name to Altria to reflect the diversity of the company's brands. And Enron, which is in the process of moving its core energy assets out from under the bankruptcy and into a separate company, is looking for a new name for that entity. The recent name changes highlight the importance for companies of choosing a moniker that is relevant and authoritative while still being catchy an appealing to consumers, say marketing experts. A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but if a company chooses a name that does not work, the stench can hover for quite some time. Companies often decide to change their names in an effort to rebrand themselves after a merge or a spin off. For instance, Andersen Consulting changed its name to Accenture shortly after that firm split from parent Arthur Andersen—a move that turned out to be fortuitous, given Andersen's troubles. Companies may also want to reinvent themselves after a scandal has tarnished its name, as Enron is doing. Or perhaps they simply want to give their image a makeover. But a new name that does not work can be a mistake that can cost company customers, credibility and millions of dollars. One example out of Britain last year was the U.K. Post Office's decision to change its name to Consignee. The postal service recently renamed itself once again to Royal Mail Inc., capping off a year of steep job and revenue for the entity. Though a hefty advertising and marketing budget will help to make a new name successful, other factors, such as familiarity, a coherent message from the company and a name in people's minds. When U.S. automaker Chrysler merged with German company Daimler Benz to form Daimler Chrysler in 1998, a year after the deal, the familiarity of the newly merged company dropped to a score of 89 when the company was just called Chrysler. These days, PWC Consulting's new Monday title is causing more than one brand expert to raise their eyebrows in puzzlement. The company's web site proudly announces that "Monday is a flesh start, a positive attitude, part of everybody's life. Monday is a real name universally understood and easy to remember. Monday is confident. It stands for something." Too bad the only thing Monday stands for in most people's minds is the beginning of a week full of toil and drudgery. Monday is not everyone's favorite day; it's just an odd choice. "Like with any name, it's going to be what we make of it," says PWC Consulting's spokeswoman, "Whereas some look upon it perhaps with dread, we see it as a flesh start and a new beginning./

单选题______ led Einstein gradually to identify with the Jewish community.

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单选题Stinking buses, their passengers pale and tired, jam the crowded streets. Drivers shout at one another and honk their horns. Smog smarts the eyes and chokes the senses. The scene is Athens at rush hour. The city of Plato and Pericles is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage facilities, hemmed in by mountains and the sea, its 135 square miles crammed with 3.7 million pepole. Even Athens' ruins are in ruin: sulfur dioxiode eats away at the marble of the Parthenon and other treasures on the Acropolis. As Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis has said, "The only solution for Athens would be to demolish half of it and start all over again." So great has been the population flow toward the city that entire hinterland villages stand vacant or nearly so. About 120000 people from outlying provinces move to Athens every year, with the result that 40% of Greece's citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation. Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is almost at killing levels: 180 300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (＄2.95 per gallon) ,nearly 100000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year;3000 driver's licenses are issued in Athens monthly. After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, a minimum of ＄5 billion in public spending for Athens alone, and other projects for the countryside to encourage residents to stay out. A master plan that will move many goverment offices to the city's fringes is already in the works. Meanwhile, more Greeks keep moving into Athens. With few parks and precious few oxygen-producing plants, the city and its citizens are literally suffocating.

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} Britain's undeclared general election campaign has already seen the politicians trading numbers as boxers trade punches. There is nothing new in such statistical slanging matches (相互谩骂). What is new is an underestimation of worry about what has been happening to official statistics under the Labour government. One of the most important figures for Gordon Brown when presenting his pre-election budget on March 16th was the current-budget balance. This is the gap between current revenues and current spending. It matters to the chancellor of the exchequer(财政部长) because he is committed to meeting his own "golden rule" of borrowing only to invest, so he has to ensure that the current budget is in balance or surplus over the economic cycle. Mr. Brown told MPs that he would meet the golden rule for the current cycle with & 6 billion ( $11.4 billion) to spare--a respectable-sounding margin, though much less than in the past. However, the margin would have been halved but for an obscure technical change announced in February by the Office for National Statistics to the figures for road maintenance of major highways. The ONS said that the revision was necessary because it had been double-counting this spending within the current budget. If this were an isolated incident, then it might be disregarded. But it is not the first time that the ONS has made decisions that appear rather convenient for the government. Mr. Brown aims to meet another fiscal rule, namely to keep pubic net debt below 40% of GDP, again over the economic cycle. At present he is meeting it but his comfort room would be reduced if the & 21 billion borrowings of Network Rail were included as part of public debt. They are not thanks to a controversial decision by the ONS to classify the rail-infrastructure corporation within the private sector, even though the National Audit Office, Parliament's watchdog, said its borrowings were in fact government liabilities. This makes it particularly worrying that the official figures can show one thing, whereas the public experiences another. One of the highest-profile targets for the NHS is that no patient should spend more than four hours in a hospital accident and emergency department. Government figures show that by mid-2004, the target was being met for 96% of patients. But according to a survey of 55,000 patients by the Healthcare Commission, an independent body, only 77% of patients said they stayed no more than four hours in A&E. One way to help restore public confidence in official statistics would be to make the ONS independent, as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have suggested. Another would be for the National Audit Office to assess how the government has been performing against targets, as the Public Administration Committee has recommended.

单选题In the past, American colleges and universities were created to serve a dual purpose to advance learning and to offer a chance to become familiar with bodies of knowledge already discovered to those who wished it. To create and to impart, these were the distinctive features of American higher education prior to the most recent, disorderly decades of the twentieth century. The successful institution of higher learning had never been one whose mission could be defined in terms of providing vocational skills or as a strategy for resolving societal problems. In a subtle way Americans believed higher education to be useful, but not necessarily of immediate use. Another purpose has now been assigned to the mission of American colleges and universities. Institutions of higher learning--public or private--commonly face the challenge of defining their programs in such a way as to contribute to the service of the community. This service role has various applications. Most common are programs to meet the demands of regional employment markets, to provide opportunities for upward social and economic mobility, to achieve racial, ethnic, or social integration, or more generally to produce "productive" as compared to " educated" graduates. Regardless of its precise definition, the idea of a service-university has won acceptance within the academic community. One need only be reminded of the change in language describing the two-year college to appreciate the new value currently being attached to the concept of a service-related university. The traditional two-year college has shed its pejorative "junior" college label and is generally called a "community" college, a clearly value-laden expression representing the latest commitment in higher education. Even the doctoral degree, long recognized as a required "union card" in the academic world, has come under severe criticism as the pursuit of learning for its own sake and the accumulation of knowledge without immediate application to a professor's classroom duties. The idea of a college or university that performs a triple function--communicating knowledge to students, expanding the content of various disciplines, and interacting in a direct relationship with society--has been the most important change in higher education in recent years. This novel development, however, is often overlooked. Educators have always been familiar with those parts of the two-year college curriculum that have a "service" or vocational orientation. It is important to know this. But some commentaries on American postsecondary education tend to underplay the impact of the attempt of colleges and universities to relate to, if not resolve, the problems of society. What's worse, they obscure a fundamental question posed by the service-university--what is higher education supposed to do?