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How many per cent did shares of IBM almost plunge？
A．20
B．30
C．40
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更多“How many per cent did shares of IBM almost plunge？A．20B．30C．40”相关的问题
第1题
A．Over 50%.
B．Under 50%.
C．About 38%.
D．Approximately 33%.
第2题
根据下列文章,请回答 36～40 题。
A New Cause of Suffering
A conference on obesity(肥胖症)was recently held in Vienna．Two thousand experts from more than fifty countries attended the conference．According to statistics．1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight，and 250 million are too fat．Obesity is rapidly becoming a new cause of suffering．
Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said：“We are living in the new age but with the metabolism(新陈代谢)of a stone-age man．1 have just been to the United States．It is really terrible．A pizza(比萨饼)shop is appearing on every corner．We have been occupied by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization．”
Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer．Hopichler said：“Eighty per cent of all diabetics(糖尿病人)are too fat，also fifty per cent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with fatty tissue complaints．Ten per cent more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease．Reducing one’s weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure．”
Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs．“The health insurance pays for surgery(such as reducing the size of the stomach)when the body-mass index(身体质量指数)is more than 40．That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.60 meters.One should start earlier．”
Toplak said that prevention should begin in school．“Child obesity has a close relation with the time which children spend in front of T V sets．”
第 36 题 How many people are suffering from obesity in the world？
A．250，000，000．
B．25，000，000．
C．1，200，000。000．
D．1 20，000，000．
第3题
根据下列文章,请回答 41～45 题。
A New Cause of Suffering
A onference on obesity(肥胖症)was recently held in Vienna．Two thousand experts from more than fifty countries attended the conference。According to statistics。1'2 billion people worldwide are overweight，and 250 million are too fat。Obesity is rapidly becoming a new cause of suffering．
Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzburg said："We are living in the new age but with the metabolism(新陈代谢)of a stone-age man．1 have just been to the United States．It is really terrible。A Pizza(比萨饼)shop is appearing on every corner．We have been occupied by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization。”
Many of the experts stressed．that obesity was a potential killer．Hopichler said：“Eighty per cent of all diabetics(糖尿病人)are too fat, also fifty per cent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with fatty(脂肪的)tissue complaints．Ten per cent more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease．Reducing one’s weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure．”
Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs, “The health insurance pays for surgery(such as reducing the size of the stomach)when the body-mass index(身体质量指数) is more than 40．That is equivalent to a weight of 11 6 kilograms for a height of l．60 meters．One should start earlier。”
Toplak said that prevention should begin in school．“Child obesity has a close relation with the time which children spend in front of TV sets．”
第 41 题 How many people are suffering from obesity in the world？
A．250，000，000．
B．25，000，000．
C．1，200，000，000．
D．1 20，000，000．
第4题
In short, the course of economic development in general depends in a fundamental way on the performance of farmers. This performance in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment, or market structure, within which it function. In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examined. It is appropriate to begin with a conversation of its market structure.
第31题：This passage is most probably ________.
A) a news item
B) part of an introduction of a book
C) part of a lecture
D) an advertisement
第5题
听力原文：W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.？
M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just know some.
W: For example？
M: Mmm..., Mother's Day, National Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day.
W: Not bad. When does its National Day come？ And the Valentine's Day？
M: The National Day comes on July 4th and the latter on February 14th.
W: Talking of the National Day, who is the Father of the state？ Benjamin Franklin or George Washington？
M: George Washington, of course.
W: Besides Washington, who else is regarded as a great president？
M: Abraham Lincoln, I'm one hundred per cent sure.
What were the two speakers talking about？
A．They were talking about the US holidays and so on.
B．They were talking about the US language and so on.
C．They were talking about the US presidents and so on.
第6题
Eat More, Weigh Less, Live Longer
Clever genetic detective work may have found out the reason why a near-starvation diet prolongs the life of many animals.
Ronald Kahn at Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, and his colleagues have been able to extend the lifespan （寿命） of mice by 18 per cent by blocking the rodent's （啮齿动物） increase of fat in specific cells. This suggests that thinness--and not necessarily diet--promotes long life in "calorie （热量卡） restricted" animals.
"It's very cool work," says aging researcher Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco. "These mice eat all they want, lose weight and live longer. It's like heaven."
Calorie restriction dramatically extends the lifespan of organisms as different as worms and rodents. Whether this works in humans is still unknown, partly because few people are willing to submit to such a strict diet.
But many researchers hope they will be able to trigger the same effect with a drug once they understand how less food leads to a longer life. One theory is that eating less reduces the increase of harmful things that can damage cells. But Kahn's team wondered whether the animals simply benefit by becoming thin.
To find out, they used biology tricks to disrupt the insulin （胰岛素） receptor （受体） gene in lab mice--but only in their fat cells. "Since insulin is needed to help fat cells store fat, these animals were protected against becoming fat," explains Kahn.
This slight genetic change in a single tissue had dramatic effects. By three months of age, Kahn's modified mice had up to 70 per cent less body fat than normal control mice, despite the fact that they ate 55 per cent more food per gram of body weight.
In addition, their lifespan increased. The average control mouse lived 753 days, while the thin rodents averaged a lifespan of 887 days. After three years, all the control mice had died, but one-quarter of the modified rodents were still alive.
"That they get these effects by just manipulating the fat cells is controversial," says Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies calorie restriction and aging.
But Guarente says Kahn has yet to prove that the same effect is responsible for increased lifespan in calorie-restricted animals. "It might be the same effect or there might be two routes to long life," he points out, "and that would be very interesting."
第 41 题 Ronald Kahn and his colleagues can make mice live longer by.
A．offering them less food.
B．giving them a balanced diet.
C．disrupting the specific genes in their fat cells.
D．preventing them growing larger.
第7题
Many people went to buy capitalization stocks.
A. Bangkok rose 2 per cent on the day and 3.4 per cent over the week as buyers moved in to large market capitalization stocks. The SET index rose 27.55 to 1,383.57 in turnover of Bt 8.5 bn, down from Thursday's Bt 10bn.
B. Taipei was pulled lower by late profit-taking in industrials after Thursday's rebound ,and the weighted index fell 45.59 to 5,806.77, or 1.7 per cent, over the week. Turnover rose to T $41.51 bn from T $ 35. 78bn.
C. Manila opened strongly on foreign buying of blue chips but dipped at the close as profits were taken. The composite index fell 10.07 to 2 ,907. 00 , 1.3 per cent higher on the week
D. Hong Kong finished a mixed day slightly lower ,sapped by profit-taking on confirmation of US renewal of China's MFN trade status and concerns over the lower domestic property market. The Hang Seng index fell 11.58 to close at 9,470.13, 1.7 per cent lower on the week.
第8题
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.(本题共20分，每题2分)
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has fund that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt (困扰) you—appears to be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.
His results to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接触) of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practised at that form. of communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more likely to lie in real time—in a instant message or phone call, say—than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous (脱口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as: “Do you like my dress？”
Hancock hopes his research will help companies work our the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium foe sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But, given his result, work assessment where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57. Hancock’s study focuses on ________.
A) the consequences of lying in various communications media
B) the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas
C) people are less likely to lie in instant messages
D) people’s honesty levels across a range of communications media
第9题
In the beginning many foreign shareholders buy blue chips at high prices.
A. Bangkok rose 2 per cent on the day and 3.4 per cent over the week as buyers moved in to large market capitalization stocks. The SET index rose 27.55 to 1,383.57 in turnover of Bt 8.5 bn, down from Thursday's Bt 10bn.
B. Taipei was pulled lower by late profit-taking in industrials after Thursday's rebound ,and the weighted index fell 45.59 to 5,806.77, or 1.7 per cent, over the week. Turnover rose to T $41.51 bn from T $ 35. 78bn.
C. Manila opened strongly on foreign buying of blue chips but dipped at the close as profits were taken. The composite index fell 10.07 to 2 ,907. 00 , 1.3 per cent higher on the week
D. Hong Kong finished a mixed day slightly lower ,sapped by profit-taking on confirmation of US renewal of China's MFN trade status and concerns over the lower domestic property market. The Hang Seng index fell 11.58 to close at 9,470.13, 1.7 per cent lower on the week.
第10题
How to approach Reading Test Part Two
&8226;In this part of the Reading Test you read a text with gaps in it, and choose the best sentence to fill each gap from a set of eight sentences.
&8226;First read the text for overall meaning, then go back and look for the best sentence for each gap.
&8226;Make sure the sentence fits both the meaning and the grammar of the text around the gap.
&8226;Read the text on the opposite page from an article about how a company reduced its transport costs.
&8226;Choose the best sentence from below to fill each of the gaps.
&8226;For each gap 9 - 14, mark one letter (A - H) on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
Route to big delivery savings
There are few areas left within the world's largest businesses where one close look can deliver instant savings of 1 per cent of sales. For Rhodia, the chemicals arm of French conglomerate Rh6ne-Poulenc, scrutiny of the company's transport costs in the UK led to just such savings. Management consultants A.T. Kearney were commissioned to review the company's operations. They scoured order books, invoices and transport logs at the company's fourteen UK sites. some transport they could not account for at all Surprising as it may seem, there were simply no records.
A.T. Kearney's initial survey found that transport accounted for 10 per cent of the company's traceable spending in the UK, and that during a 12-month period, 235 different hauliers had moved products for the company. The company were also running a 30-strong fleet of their own. (9) In a more positive light, though, they meant that the opportunity to improve was huge.
Transport buying was being dictated by the backgrounds of the buyers, rather than rational criteria. (10) Instead, they were typically former drivers or site workers who bought transport from a network of contacts built up over many years.
Even where buyers were seeking tile cheapest transport, their task was complicated by numerous different tariffs for different measures. For A.T. Kearney, the solution lay in a comprehensive, standardised tendering process. During the following weeks, all the company's existing suppliers, Rhodia's own fleet, and others were invited to tender for business. (11) Modelling of these responses began: what if this part of the business was given to X, and this part to Y - what does it do to costs？
Rhodia then went back to the most promising applicants and offered them deals for packages of business. (12) In this way the company ensured that they got the best possible arrangement. Inevitably, this process favoured large suppliers. (13) For example, a driver with his own lorry, who had been transporting goods for the company for years, submitted a tender. A sub- contracting arrangement was made for him with one of the final suppliers.
Today, Rhodia have five main hauliers, who account for 90 per cent of the company's transport spending. All rates are standardised: the whole system is a very simple one. But perhaps the most extraordinary outcome from this monumental number-crunching exercise was the bottom line impact. (14) The new set-up has delivered savings of more than 25 per cent. And the company is confident of achieving even more savings.
A Before the review, transport was eating up 3 per cent of the company's UK sales revenue.
B Nevertheless, the situation was not helped by the fragmented nature of the haulage industry.
C More than 60 did so, and their quotes were then analysed.
D Among the terms they included in these contracts were requirements for improvements in costs, flexibility and reliability.
E None had come into lo
