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单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting". But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods. As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court. Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using as evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment. When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable. It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag. "As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the 'sputnik' and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her." "For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."

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单选题Which of the following is NOT the way employed by the company to cope with the economic crisis? A. Dismissing employees. B. Cutting down on expenses. C. Reducing costs on developing new products. D. Requiring employees to work extra hours.

单选题The word "litigants" means most nearly ______.

单选题People of Burlington are being dis- turbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of higher educa- tion are in the bell tower of the church and have made (1) their minds to (2) the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run day and night (3) the narrow High Street."They not (4) make it difficult to sleep at night, but they are (5) damage to our houses and shops of historical (6) ," said John Norris, one of the protesters. "If we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student, why don't they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn't much more than a (7) village. Its streets were never (8) for heavy traffic. Harry Fields also studying (9) said they wanted to make as much noise as possible to (10) the government officials to realize what everybody was having to (11) ."Most of them don't (12) here anyway," he said, "they come in for meetings and that the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably don't (13) . It's high time they (14) the problem." The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were (15) on their side, and even if they weren't they soon would be. I asked if they were (16) that the police might come to (17) them from ringing the bell. "Not really," she said, "actually we are (18) bell ringers. I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church. There is no (19) against practising." I (20) the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

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单选题Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题Passage One After the close of regular trading yesterday, Turner sold a block of 60 million shares to Goldman Sachs & Co. for $13.07 per share, or 31 cents below the stock's closing price yesterday. Goldman was said by Wall Street sources to be offering the stock to major investors for $13.15. An outspoken critic of the corporation, Turner remains AOL Time Warner's largest individual shareholder, with 45 million shares, and a member of its board of directors. A spokeswoman for Turner referred questions to AOL Time Warner. At his peak Turner owned about 130 million shares, but he lost billions of dollars in wealth and grew bitter after the stock plunged following the merger of America Online and Time Warner in January 2001. Turner, who initially supported the merger, later expressed outrage over revelations that America Online had manipulated its financial results. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating AOL, and the corporation has acknowledged discovering tens of millions of dollars of overstated revenue. Turner resigned as vice chairman earlier this year and has been spending less of his time on AOL Time Warner matters. He stepped down after achieving his goal of pressuring America Online founder Steve Case to resign as the corporation's chairman. Case said he was giving up the post to avoid a bruising public battle for reelection at next week's annual meeting. In the effort to oust(取代) Case, Turner teamed up with Gordon Crawford, the senior media portfolio manager at Capital Research & Management, the largest institutional shareholder in AOL Time Warner. Capital Research has indicated it will vote against Case's election to remain on the board of directors next week-a position that analysts said should not affect the outcome. Turner, meanwhile, has said he will support the management slate that includes Case and will make Richard D. Parsons the company's chairman and chief executive. Turner, a visionary who started Cable News Network, is in the midst of rolling out a new chain of restaurants, Ted's Montana Grill, featuring bison burgers. ①He recently moved his residence from Georgia to Florida for estate-planning purposes and is spending time and money on his independent film company, which lost millions of dollars on a lengthy movie about the Civil War.

单选题Prompt action can often ________ the severity of shock in road accident victims.

单选题A young man was going to join the army (军队) and had to (41) a medical examination. The doctor was sitting at a desk when he came in. He said to the man, "Take your coat and shirt off and (42) on that chair. The young man did so. The doctor looked at him for a moment without (43) up from his chair and then said, "All right. Put your clothes on again. "But you haven't examined me at ail!" the young man said in (44) . "There is no need to do so," the doctor said with a (45) . "When I (46) you to take your coat and shirt off, you heard me all right, so there is nothing wrong with your (47) . You saw the chair, so your eyes are (48) . You could take your clothes off and sit on the chair, so you must be in good health. And you understand what I told you to do and did it without a (49) , so you (50) healthy enough for the army./

单选题Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

单选题A) concretely C) considerately B) concisely D) considerably

单选题Which of the following is the way that a computer does its processing?

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单选题The invention of paper meant more people could be educated because more books could be printed and ___________.

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