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单选题Suddenly, Gallup's name was (on everyone's lips); not only (he was) the prophet of the moment, (but) it was generally believed that he had founded (a new) and most important method of prediction.

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单选题New Year's Eve requires the ultimate party outfit. But what if your holiday spending has burned holes in your pockets? The answer might be to rent a little luxury. The renting business has begun to lose the image of an industry filled with designer tuxedos, Halloween costumes or out-of-date evening wear. Still largely an industry dedicated to special-event clothing (dinners, corporate parties, weddings), it has started to branch out into more casual clothing. And for those not afraid to shop around, it has become an option for dressing up on a budget. For the price of rentals (￡150, or $260, for a four-day period) , the only things available in most department stores are dresses that look as if they are late for the party." Working women have sophisticated tastes, but buying an evening dress is a very expensive proposition, and most people don't want to wear the same dress more than once," says Doniger. But what has brought on this recent change in perception on renting luxury? Unexpectedly, the transformation has been helped along by a change in corporate policy by many top businesses. For years businessmen all over the world have gotten a clothing allowance from their companies to rent a tuxedo or other luxury items they need for an event. But while any company looking at the bottom line is not going to pay for a female employee to buy a new evening dress, they are now more willing to help pay for renting one. "In the last five years a lot of businesses have started to pay for some if not all of a rental. They will pay, say, ￡80 or ￡90 of the cost and let the women top off the rest themselves," says Doniger. But renting luxury fashion is not limited to clothing. Having the latest must-have designer handbag is the fastest way for a woman to communicate her fashion savvy and display her luxury status. The rental stores can give the everyday woman a chance to wear the latest designer bag and feel like a million bucks without having to spend it.

单选题The outcome of the conflict Ushattered/U the Palestinian's dream of peace and prosperity.

单选题Woman: I am trying to find out how this dishwasher works. The manual is in French. I can't wait for Bill to translate it for me. Man: Don't worry, Mary. I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work. Question, What does the man mean?

单选题What is the real relationship between education and economic development?

单选题Conditions for the growth of this plant areoptimum in early summer.

单选题Sales Director Wanted—Asia Pacific As an integral member of our Asia Pacific Executive Leadership Team, you will be responsible for the overall planning, coordination, functional management, and leadership of all of the sales activities of the business across the Asia Pacific Theater. Reporting directly to our Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, you will collaborate closely with the Leadership Team and other Theater leads in your day to day function. Job Duties. —Enhancing and executing the AP sales strategy and strategic initiatives. —Planning and rigorous territory planning across geographies, channels and customers to deliver the key metrics of the sales organization. —Leads coordinated engagement with strategic/G2000 accounts and channel partners and C-level contacts within these accounts. —Collaborate with internal operation functions to provide superior service to customers and partners and maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the sales organization. Requirements: —Professional Postgraduate Degree/Diploma in Marketing. MBA preferred. —Minimum 10 years of post-qualification senior management level experience, ideally gained within a AP Sales & Marketing organization. —Extensive experience in Sales Planning and Team Management across different cultures. —Demonstrated success in building an effective and efficient sales operations and processes from territory planning, to pipeline management, to well coordinated cross-border account engagement. —Passionate, mature, self-motivated, hard working and respectable team leader, can work in cross culture environment, and act as connection point between sales and non sales business. —Strong extensive sales experience and track record of success in global market sales & marketing environment. —willing to sacrifice, adapt and work hard as part of a team pursuing an objective. —physically able to perform the tasks required to undertake adventure events. —having patience, understanding, flexibility, and a high level of energy. —Travel is expected and is most often in China but may also include some worldwide projects.

单选题Overseas visitors to Beijing are impressed by the Ucordial/U greeting of these volunteers about the city.

单选题He claims that advertising today tends to portray women in traditional roles such as cooking or taking care of the baby.

单选题Having come from an affluent society, Dick found it difficult to adjust to a small, country town.

单选题The purpose of the passage is to_____.

单选题Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero? Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people. A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and a community who will listen. But a few does beyond mere fame. Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by ordinary people. The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine, a hero experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes. Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant? Heroes are catalysts (催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. , we might still have segregated (隔离的) buses, restaurants, and parks. It may be possible for large-scale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless.

单选题The aurora is one of nature's most ______ spectacles.

单选题Do you know that all human beings have a "comfortable zone" regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk? This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures. Greeks, others of the Eastern Mediterranean, and many of those from South America normally stand close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. North Americans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that they tend to feel most comfortable at about 21 inches apart. In much of Asia and Africa, there is even more space between two speakers in conversation. This greater space subtly lends an air of dignity and respect. This matter of space is nearly always unconscious, but it is interesting to observe. This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent which they lean over one another in conversation, how they move as they argue, or make an emphatic point. In the United States, for example, people try to keep their bodies apart even in a crowded elevator; in Paris they take it as it comes! Although North Americans have a relatively wide "comfortable zone" for talking, they communicate, a great deal with their hands—not only with gestures but also with touch. They put a sympathetic hand on a person's shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around him in sympathy; they nudge a man in the ribs to emphasize a funny story; they pat an arm in reassurance or stroke a child's head in affection, they readily take someone's arm to help him across a street or direct him along an unfamiliar route. To many people—especially those from Asia or the Moslem countries—such bodily contact is unwelcome, especially if inadvertently done with the left hand. (The left hand carries no special significance in the U.S. Many Americans are simply left handed and use that hand more. )

单选题"It may be the most common kind of child abuse—and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives. Psychological maltreatment can include belittling, neglecting a child or threatening a child with violence. It also includes allowing a child to witness violence or severe abuse. What makes this kind of maltreatment so hard to detect and identify, however, is that it"s not defined by any one specific event, but rather by the nature of the relationship between caregiver and child. Keeping a child in a constant state of fear is abuse, for example. But even the most loving parent will occasionally lose their cool and yell. Likewise, depriving a child of ordinary social interaction is also abuse, but there"s nothing wrong with sending a school-aged boy to stew alone in his room for an hour after he hits a younger sibling. All of this means that, for an outsider who observes even some suspected parenting practice, it can be hard to tell whether a relationship is actually abusive, or whether you"ve simply caught a family on a bad day." Comment 1: An abused child may become depressed. He or she may withdraw, think of suicide or become violent. An older child may use drugs or alcohol, try to run away or abuse others. Comment 2: Maybe if the culture values people, it gets easier. Take all the countries where the Morn has a week to recover in hospital after giving birth and doesn"t have to stress about costs. Take companies that provide quality free childcare on site. Comment 3: Kids might be afraid of the consequences of reporting abuse, either because they fear the abuser or the family is financially dependent on that person. For reasons like these, abuse often goes unreported and many kids and teens don"t tell anyone what is going on. Comment 4: I"m glad we"re finally starting to recognize psychological abuse of children as a real problem. For too long, some have had to evaluate their perception of being abused after it occurred when society at large gave no term to it. These people have not known where to turn or how to recover. Others don"t know how to treat these people because they have no training, no point of reference, and very little understanding of their condition. Comment 5: Many kids who are abused distrust others. They may feel a lot of anger toward other kids and themselves, and it can be hard to make friends. Comment 6: It"s also possible that the parent doesn"t intend to keep the child in a constant state of fear. They could be overworked and stressed out to the point that they get home and blow up over the smallest thing. Comment 7: Children who are abused might have trouble getting help because it means they"d be reporting on someone they love—someone who may be wonderful much of the time and awful to them only some of the time.

单选题A: Boy, how quickly technology changes! So many people have a computer in their home nowadays. B：______