单选题"In only six days I lost seven pounds of weight." "Two full inches in the first three days!" These are the kinds of statements used in magazine, newspaper, radio and television ads., promising new shapes and new looks to those who buy the medicine or the device. The promoters of products say they can shape the legs, slim the face, smooth wrinkles, or in some other ways to add to beauty or desirability. Often such products are nothing more than money-making things for their promoters. The results they produce are questionable, and some are dangerous to health. To understand how these products can be legally promoted to the public, it is necessary to understand something of the laws covering their regulation. If the product is a drug, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) can require proof (证明) under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that is safe and effective before it is put on the market. But if the product is a device, FDA has no authority to require premarketing proof of safety or effectiveness. If a product already on the market is a danger to health, FDA can request the producer or distributor to remove it from the market voluntarily, or it can take legal action, including seizure (查封) of the product. One notable case a few years ago involved an electrical device called the Relaxacisor, which had been sold for reducing the waistline. The Relaxacisor produced electrical shocks to the body through contact pads. FDA took legal action against the distributor to stop the sale of the device on the grounds that it was dangerous to health and life. Obviously, most of the devices on the market have never been the subject of court proceedings (法律诉讼), and new devices appear continually. Before buying, it is up to the consumer to judge the safety or effectiveness of such items.

单选题The special deal offered by our supplier will last only for a ______ time. A. limited B. minor C. partial D. lower

单选题Many oil companies are now making alternative energy ______ in an effort to remain competitive in future energy markets. A. payments B. contributions C. donations D. investments

单选题New Vacation Policy All vacation days must be taken within the calendar year with written requests submitted and approved by your direct supervisors: 1. All new employees are entitled to 3 weeks' paid vacation per year. 2. Any employee on their probationary period will not be included under policy until his/her 3 months is up. 3. All vocation requests must be made in writing at least 2 weeks in advance of your requested dates. These will be approved at the discretion of your supervisor according to your departmental workload requirements. 4. All vacation days must be taken within the calendar year. Otherwise, you will lose them. 5. Only one person per individual department may be away on vacation for a period of a week or more (to ensure sufficient staffing is available in each department). 6. Employees will receive an extra week of vacation time for every 5 years of additional service. 7. A maximum of two weeks' vacation (at one time) may be taken. Certain requests for longer period of vacation may be considered for exceptional circumstances. Please see your supervisor if this is applicable. 8. We strongly encourage all our employees to spread out your vacation days and enjoy themselves. Vacation Request Memo To: Sally Benson, Supervisor, Human Resources From: Mary Black Date: January 5,2007 Re: Vacation Request for January 25-February 8,2007 Sally, This is a memo to give you advance notice of my request for my upcoming vacation days of January 25-February 8. As written in the vacation policy, I am providing ample notice of my requested days. So hopeful, these 2 weeks will be okay to be away from the office. We are planning a family reunion which had been planned for the last couple of years. I know that I have just recently joined the company and normally would need to wait until my probationary period is over before taking any vacation days. However, as you may recall, this request for some advance days was discussed and agreed to in our negotiation meetings in late November. Thank you for your understanding. I will make sure that my work is covered to avoid any disruption in my projects. Mary

单选题He is running ______ the wind towards the east of the station ______ Tom running ______ the right. A. down; and; on B. against; with; on C. for; with; in D. with; while; to

单选题From: Thy Nguyen To: Cyprus Winn Subject: Final review for the proposal Dear Cyprus, I've completed our funding proposal for the new laboratory facilities. I included everything we had talked about in last week's meeting, and it will be ready to be sent out next week to the venture capital firms we selected. I' m confident it will receive a positive response. Since we have a few days before the proposal goes out, I'd really appreciate it if we could sit down together and look over everything. I added some small formatting ideas of my own that I'd like to run by you. It won't take more than a couple of hours. I'm free all afternoon today and tomorrow morning before 11:00 a.m. Please let me know if either of these times is good for you. Thanks. Sincerely, Thy Nguyen

单选题From: Linda Kamat ＜lindak@cornwall.edu＞ To: Mariana Serrano ＜serrano-csd@lexingtonwf.net＞ Subject: Sales position opening at Lexington Wholesale Foods Dear Ms. Serrano. I read about an opening in your customer sales division on your company's website. As a highly motivated and experienced salesperson, I am very interested in this position. I graduated with honors in Business Administration from Cornwall University in 1998. Since then, I have held jobs with several respected and prominent firms, including a three-year assignment with the nation's largest automotive parts distributor, RMC Auto. In my capacity as a sales representative there, I was the top seller for four months in a row. I am eager to apply the experience I have gained to the sales division at Lexington Wholesale Foods. In addition, my place of residence is near the center of the service routes listed for the position, so traveling to the designated location would not be a problem. I hope that you can offer me the opportunity to come in for an interview so that we may further discuss my qualifications as well as the demands of the job. I will contact you early next week to confirm that you have received this email and attached file containing my resume and two reference letters. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Linda Kamat

单选题Job Listing 14523-Posted May 1:The World Health Coalition(WHC)seeks a highly qualified individual for immediate employment on the HS-1 Vaccination Program. The job provides the opportunity to collaborate with some of the leading researchers in vaccine production. This WHC facility is located in London. Position available from May 27.Duties: Individual is responsible for compiling and storing research results and will assist in creating disease prevention workshops. Requirements: Applicants must have a degree in statistics and at least four years experience working in a research facility. Knowledge of PZB software is a must, as is a team-oriented approach to working. Fluency in English is required; abilities in additional languages preferred. Send resume along with cover letter to jobs@whc.org.uk. Include an e-mail address and telephone number. Deadline is May 10. Applicants will be notified of their status by May 17. Applicants chosen for interviews will be responsible for their own transportation to London. Apply NowJob Listing 14524-Whirlwinds Cruise Ships- Posted May 2:Did you know that you can get paid to travel all over the world? With weekly departures to Africa and the Mediterranean, London is the cruise-ship hub of Europe! Whether you've got ten years experience in the service industry or are new to the international travel industry, cruise ships present excellent opportunities for both skilled and unskilled laborers. All you need is a willingness to work with others. With an average of over 2500 passengers on board at all times, almost every occupation that you can imagine is available. You could be a gift shop manager, fitness / pool instructor, restaurant waiter, or day care worker; visit our Web site at www.whirlwindscruise.com.uk to read about additional skilled positions. This is a great way to pay off university debts or just save up for a new adventure, because rates are competitive, contracts are available on a monthly basis, and room and board are provided free by the cruise line. All contracts are paid in British pounds. Urgent vacancies are waiting to be filled, so contact your London Whirlwinds office today. CLICK HERE TO APPLY

单选题She could not {{U}}formulate{{/U}} her ideas in a few words. A.state B.argue C.invent D.announce

单选题I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which peoplemake a bad situation worse by blaming themselves．One January，I had to officiate at two funerals onsuccessive days for two elderly women in my community．Both had died out“full of years，”as theBible would say；both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life．Theirhomes happened to be near each other，So I paid condolence calls on the two families on the sameafternoon．At the first home，the son of the deceased woman said to me．”If only I had sent my mother toFlorida and gotten her out of this cold and snow，she would be alive today：It’s my fault that shedie@D@“At the second home，the son of the other deceased woman sai@D@”If only I hadn’t insistedon my mother’S going to Florida，she would be alive today．That long airplane ride，the abruptchange of climate，was more than she could take．It’s my fault that she’s dea@D@”When things don’t turn out as we would like them to，it is very tempting to assume that hadwe done things differently，the story would have had a happier ending．Priests know that any timethere is a death，the survivors will feel guilty．Because the course of action they took turned outbadly，they believe that the opposite course-keeping Mother at home，postponing the operation-would have turned out better．After all，how could it have turned out any worse?There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt．The first is our pressingneed to believe that the world makes sense．that there is a cause for every effect and a reason foreverything that happens．That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really existand where they exist only in our minds．The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens，especially the badthings that happen．It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that everydisaster is our fault．The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhoo@D@Psychologists speak of theinfantile myth of omnipotence．A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs，andthat he makes everything happen in it．He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of theworld to its tasks．He cries，and someone comes to attend to him．When he is hungry，people feedhim，and when he is wet，people change him．Very often，we do not completely outgrow thatinfantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen．

单选题He is neither______ European, nor______ American. He is from______ Australia.

单选题 Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books—specially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers. There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dicken's time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet. Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on the small barrows (流动售货车) which line the gutters (街沟). And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them, pounce (一把抓住) upon the dusty cascaded (一叠叠图书). In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.

单选题I made coat ______ my own hands. It was made ______ hand not with a machine. A. in; in B. in; with C. with; by D. with; with

单选题Do we have to wear these name tags ?

单选题Language teachers often extract examples from grammar books.

单选题We arrived at work in the morning and found that somebody______ into the office during the night.

单选题The procurement manager is relieved that the new software he bought will be__________with the existing IT system.

单选题January 11, 2006 Alan Cosgray Bureau Secretary State Bureau of Businesses P.O. Box 29022 Kingman, VA RE: Change of Ownership of Big Sky Networks Dear Mr. Cosgray, I am writing to inform the bureau of a change in the status of ownership of the company Big Sky Networks, SBB ID#ALR20-34893B. The company was purchased by the international firm Superior Telecommunications on January 1st, 2006. At the time of this merger, there were certain organizational and leadership changes made to Big Sky Networks. This included an alternation to the name of the company, which as of January 1st was changed to Superior-Sky Telecommunications. All future correspondence with the State Bureau of Business will be conducted under this title. I have also filed an official Business Name Registration form with Secretary Tanya Maillet of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Please address any further communications regarding this issue to: Evelyn Deitz, Administration Department Superior-Sky Telecommunications Hamilton Building, 2009 Camboard Avenue Lewiston, VA (230) 555-2421 Sincerely, Carlos Rodrigues Pareja, Regulations Department Superior Telecommunications

单选题What kind of__________car do you want to buy?

单选题American travelers abroad have discovered that they can buy more foreign （ ） with their dollar