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A world stripped down to briefly summarized essences is reflected in PowerPoint.
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第1题
What caused the unsettlement of world's stock markets?
A.The fluctuation of the UK stock market.
B.A sudden end of the rally in the Hang Seng Index.
C.An overnight plunge of 53.71 in the Dow Jones.
D.The UK market is likely to be depressed.
第2题
听力原文: Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, Muhammad Ali retired from boxing in 1980. As an amateur, he won 100 of 108 fights. Later, as a professional boxer, Ali was trained by Angelo Dundee who pushed him on to face champion boxer Sonny Liston in 1964. In this exciting match, Liston was unable to continue the fight after the sixth round.
After winning the championship fight against Liston, Ali announced that he had joined the Black Muslim religion. At the time, the Vietnam War was in progress. When Ali claimed to be a conscientious objector to the war, based on religious grounds, he was denied exemption from military service. Refusing to be inducted into the U. S. Army, he was stripped of his right to box and able to enter the ring, Muhammad Ali became the first man to win the world’s heavy weight boxing title three times.
According to the passage, what was the result of Ali's 1964 fight against Sonny Liston?
A.Liston was claimed winner by decision after only two rounds.
B.Ali knocked Liston out in the seventh round.
C.Liston was unable to answer the bell in the ninth round.
D.Ali was proclaimed champion after six rounds.
第3题
听力原文: Coca-Cola Company, the world famous beverage company, produces and distributes many kinds of soft drinks and non-soda drinks. The company's soft drinks include its flagship product Coca-Cola (popularly known as Coke), Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta, and Barq's root beer. And its non-soda beverages include Minute Maid fruit juices, PowerAde sports drinks, and Nestea iced tea drinks.
Coca-Cola Company can trace its origin to 1886 when John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist created a drink from carbonated water, cane sugar syrup, caffeine, and extracts of kola nuts and coca leaves. The drink was medicinal and refreshing. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name Coca-Cola. Together, they coined the drink's first slogan, "Delicious and Refreshing." The Coca-Cola Company was established in 1892. In 1893, Coca-Cola was registered as a patented trademark. In 1894 the first bottled Coke was produced. And by 1895, the drink was sold throughout the United States.
The year 1977 marked a new era for Coca-Cola Company, it began packaging Coke and other drinks in two-liter plastic bottles. The popularity of these large bottles grew over time, and their sales earned the company new profits.
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was established in the year 1986, and in the next year, it was listed in the prestigious Dow Jones Industrial Averages index of stock market performance. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Worldwide, Coca-Cola ranked first in soft drink sales, and the company earned almost 80 percent of its profits from international sales.
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A.In 1886.
B.In 1892.
C.In 1893.
D.In 1895.
第4题
听力原文: The pound plunged to its lowest level against the dollar for four years as the American currency soared to a new peak on the world's financial markets.
Share prices received a shock yesterday when the government increased interest rates to fifteen per cent. As a result, the Footsie slumped forty-two points closing at two thousand two hundred and eighty-one, its lowest level for ten weeks.
Minsk Data announced reductions in its workforce yesterday. Because of a small dip in profits, the company is in the red for the first time.
Yesterday, in a major collapse on the Tokyo stock market, the Nikkei average plunged five hundred and fifty-nine points because of the failure of the powerful New York bond market. And because of a sudden surge in profits from its overseas operations, Drexol is back in the black after two years of disappointing results.
Well, there's nothing like an attack of nerves on Wall Street for unsettling the world's stock markets. Already, an overnight plunge of 53.71 in the Dow Jones has had an impact in the Far East. As a result the UK market is likely to be depressed later this morning. The Hang Seng Index fell almost 2% to 12, 882 ending a rally that's been going on for several weeks.
Back home -- having fallen 21 points yesterday, the London share market badly needs good news to improve the situation. However, rumors that Britain's trade figures for the next quarter are disappointing again will not help.
Why did the share prices get a shock yesterday?
A.Because the pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar.
B.Because the American currency soared to a new peak.
C.Because the Footsie slumped forty-two points.
D.Because the government increased interest rates to fifteen per cent.
第7题
Mysterious Nazca Drawings
?? One ofthe most mysterious archaeological spectacles in the world is the immensecomplex of geo- metrical symbols, giant ground-drawings of birds and animals,and hundreds of long, ruler-straight lines , some right across mountains, which stretch over l,200 square miles of the Peruvian tablelands, atNazca.
?? Nazcawas first revealed to modern eyes in 1926 when three explorers looked dow??n onthe desert from a hillside at dusk and briefly saw a Nazca line highlighted bythe rays of the sun. But it was not until the Peruvian airforce took aerialphotographs in the 1940s that the full magnificence of the pano- rama wasapparent. Hundreds of what looked like landing strips for aircraft wererevealed. There were eighteen bird-like drawings, up t0 400 feet long;four-sided figures with two lines parallel; and long needle-like triangleswhich ran for miles. Among the many abstract patterns were a giant spider, a monkey,a shark all drawn on the ground on a huge scale.
?? Thescale is monumental, but from the ground almost invisible and totallyincomprehensible. The amaz- ing fact about Nazca, created more than l,500 yearsago, is tha??t it can only be appreciated if seen from the air. Many, therefore,regarded it as a prehistoric landing ground for visitors from outer space, butJim Wood- man, an American explorer, who was long fascinated by the mystery ofNazca, had a different opinion. He be- lieved that Nazca only made sense if thepeople who had designed and made these vast drawings on the ground couldactually see them, and that led him to the theory that the ancient Peruvianshad somehow learned to fly, as only from above could they really see the extentof their handiwork. With this theory in mind, he researched into ancientPeruvian legends about flight and came to the conclusion that the only feasibleanswer was a hot- air balloon.
?? To provehis theory, Woodman would have to make such a thing using the same fabrics andfibers that would have?? been available to the men of Nazca at the time. Hestarted by gathering information from ancient paintings, legends, books andarchaeological sites. After many attempts, Woodman built a balloon-typeairship. It took him into the air, letting him have the sensation he had neverhad from viewing the same ground that he had seen many times. His flight was amodern demonstration of an ancient possibility.??
?? One of the "most mysterious archaeologicalspectacles in the world" is??
A.the size of Nazca
B.the lines over mountains
C.the Peruvian tablelands
D.the huge and complicated ground-drawings
第9题
How many points did Dow plunge?
A.50.
B.115.
C.150.
D.15.