单选题While we are developing the product, we will write regular reports to ensure that you are informed of its progress.
单选题What does Mr Dale have to say about financing the company's plans?
单选题Could all speakers please produce summaries of the sessions they gave.The speakers should write
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单选题FLIGHT TIMETABLE FROM SHANGHAI TO NEW YORK Tue Dep. 08.07 Wed Dep. 09.08 Thurs Dep. 20.30 FROM NEW YORK TO SHAGNHAI Sat Dep. 14:35 Sun Dep. 23:40 You cannot fly to Shanghai from New York ______.A. at nightB. on weekdaysC. at weekends
单选题Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax Jennifer Porter is the managing (29) of Healthcare, a (30) of the American Pharmaceutical Association. (31) her private office in her Virginia home, she assigns (32) to ten articles for each issue of the magazine. The writers send her their stories on a computer disk, usually (33) means of an overnight delivery service. Porter checks them and then sends them (34) the designer's office in New York. Porter's biggest problem (35) electronic publishing is training her writers. "One sent the story on a wrong-sized disk; (36) used a disk that my computer couldn't read; a third used software I couldn't decipher." The disk problems should improve on the next issue (37) Porter has recently invested in a modem (38) writers can send their stories directly to her computer, Porter says she is a skeptical technical consumer. I like a computer the same way I (39) a pencil. They are both tools that must work. (40) something goes wrong with my electronic equipment out here in the middle of Virginia, I have to put it in the car and take it someplace.
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单选题As he took his foot off the clutch the car ______ forward and the
passenger was almost thrown through the windscreen.
A. swirled
B. lurched
C. staggered
D. wobbled
单选题What is wrong with the photocopier?
单选题Office Staff Required Experience essential Ful I training given(1eading to recognised qualifications) Applicants must have______. A. relevant qualifications B. previous experience C. recognised training
单选题______ by weakness at home and in Europe, even small companies are
seeking a toehold in emerging markets.
A. Deserved
B. Renewed
C. Furthered
D. Constrained
单选题MEMO
To
: Factory staff
From
: Factory Manager
Date
: 19 November 2008
Subject
: Quality control
The new system starts Monday week. Please read attached leaflet and contact me if there are any queries.
What does the Factory Manager want the staff to do?
单选题To: Delivery Staff From: Sander De Haan ①Today's meeting is now postponed. ②You will receive further information about a new date tomorrow. A. The meeting is rescheduled to be held in a later time of the day. B. The meeting is put off to the next day. C. The rearranged time of the meeting is not settled yet.
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单选题 In our zeal to protect the "innocent" consumer, we need to
recognize that each protective step necessarily limits our productive capacity
as a nation. It may be argued that a wealthy nation can afford such luxury and,
though this is true, we need also to take into account the price we are paying
for consumerism. Risk is inherent in every consumer purchase—in
every consumer act—and man can do nothing to alter that fact. The efforts of man
to eliminate risk in the market place contain much political appeal but are
nonetheless futile because the reduction of one kind of risk must always be
accompanied by a compensating increase in another kind of risk. The cost of
protection is deprivation. But the cost of consumer protection is not apparent.
We have no way of putting a value on the sacrifice in foregone products and
services that a free market could provide. Perhaps a specific
illustration may help to expose consumerism in its true light. I have heard it
said that if strawberries were a manufactured product, they would be restricted
from the market today because so many people are allergic to them! Indeed, the
long arm of consumerism will soon reach back to the products of the farm as it
already has in its intense concern with antibiotics, insecticides, herbicides,
and fertilizers. Anyway, my little story has to do with unit
pricing. A few years ago someone had the thought that if all products in the
retail store were price-marked in equivalent units of pounds, quarts, square
feet, and the like, then the consumer could better identify the best buy. There
was an implied assumption that the variety of package sizes on the market were a
calculated attempt to deceive the consumer. Gradually the idea
began to catch on and more and more people began to accept and champion it. I
know of no strong bona fide consumer support for the idea but I do know of a lot
of passionate pleas made by consumerists who thought the idea had merit,
especially for people on a tight budget. But, as in any fight,
charges and countercharges flew wildly. The merchants claimed that the costs of
so marking products would be prohibitively expensive—that the net increase in
cost would be borne by the consumer. The consumerists claimed that such marking
would enable some consumers, and particularly those who needed it most, to save
up to 10 percent on their grocery bill. No one really had any facts, though the
idea sounded plausible and workable. This is the typical way consumerist issues
arise and generate support, first among those who would like to do something for
the consumer, and then among consumers who innocently become effective
consumerists without really knowing it. It also reveals the typical negative
reaction of the business community which serves only to add the fire of
certainty to the consumerist's eyes. Fortunately, this is one
idea that could be tested with reasonable preciseness, and one of my colleagues
at Cornell undertook to do that in a chain of stores in the Midwest. The most
interesting of his conclusions is that both the costs and benefits were grossly
overstated. The costs in the smallest stores ran to over 4 percent of the sales
value but in large supermarkets they amounted to less than a tenth of one
percent of sales. But a check of product movement over time indicated no
significant shift in purchases by the consumer. In two broad food categories the
consumer actually shifted her trade up to the higher cost per unit item; in the
cereal category she shifted to lower-cost packages; and there was no change in
the others. Surveys of consumers shopping these test stores revealed that
awareness of the availability of the information was greatest among the
high-income, well-educated consumers. Despite these findings, the only real
facts on the issue available, it is my prediction that the consumerist will
continue to champion unit pricing, will continue to talk about how it will
benefit the poor, and eventually will succeed in getting widespread regulations
making unit pricing mandatory. The issue of unit pricing did
not originate from any factual base, and accordingly, facts are not likely to
alter the decisions of those who champion its cause. It makes no difference that
the theory of unit pricing is based on a false and strictly materialistic
premise. It makes no difference that it gives the large merchant a competitive
advantage over the small. It makes no difference that the wealthy take greater
advantage of the information than do the poor. Even if the benefits are not very
great, it may be argued that the costs are insignificant. At least the consumer
doesn't need a computer when she shops and she gained a notch in her right to be
informed. But is the cost really insignificant if we add this to the hundreds of
other laws and regulations that have been forced on the consumer within the last
several years?
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单选题Meeting Hall Multi-language instant translation system, 4th floor.A. Translation is done at the same time.B. Speeches will be translated later.C. You will get translated version right away.
单选题Gatwick's atrium is larger than that of the Heathrow Lake.