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A.The foreign banks should have set up a representative office.
B.The foreign banks can't apply for a branch.
C.The foreign banks can't expand business in China.
D.The foreign banks are forbidden to set up a representative office.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't say
A.Failure is success if we learn from it
B.Two wrongs don't make a right
C.Every good deed we do for others will surely come back to us
D.Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Examples of public goods are not as rare as one might expect.A flood control dam is a public good.Once the dam is built, all persons living in the area will benefit------irrespective of their own contribution to the construction cost of the dam.The same holds true for highway signs or aids to navigation.Once a lighthouse is built, no ship of any nationality can be effectively excluded from the utilization of the lighthouse for navigational purposes.National defense is another example.Even a person who voted against military expenditures or did not pay any taxes will benefit from the protection afforded.
It is no easy task to determine the social costs and social benefits associated with a public good.There is no practicable way of charging drivers for looking at highway signs, sailors for watching a lighthouse and citizens for the security provided to them through national defense.Because the market does not provide the necessary signals, economic analysis has to be substituted for the impersonal judgement of the marketplace.
1.With what topic is the passage mainly concerned?
A.Mechanisms for safer navigation.
B.The economic structure of the marketplace.
C.A specific group of commodities.
D.The advantage of lowering taxes.
2.Which of the following marks the feature of public goods?
A.Each citizen has a share of the ownership of the commodity.
B.No one is excluded from the benefits of the goods.
C.People can enjoy the utilization of them if they contribute to it.
D.The use of them is determined by how much one pay.
3.According to the passage, finding out the social costs of a public good is a ().
A.difficult procedure
B.daily administrative duty
C.matter of personal judgement
D.citizen's responsibility
4.To find out the market for public goods, people need to ().
A.watch out for the necessary market signals
B.invent a practicable way of charging users
C.make impersonal judgement of the marketplace
D.do economic analysis of their costs and benefits
5.Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the first two paragraphs?
A.Suggestions for the application of an economic concept are offered.
B.Several generalizations are presented from which various conclusions are drawn.
C.Persuasive language is used to argue against a popular idea.
D.A general concept is defined and then examples are given.
听力原文:W: Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me what kind of a bill you have?
M: Yes, it's a ninety-day bill for $ 6,750.00. It matures about two months from now. I didn't think we'd have to discount it, but I need the working capital right now. How do I discount it?
Q: What kind of bill does the man have?
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A.A bill of exchange with a 90-day maturity for $ 6,075.00.
B.A bill of exchange with a 60-day maturity for $ 6,075.00.
C.A bill of exchange with a 90-day maturity for $ 6,750.00.
D.A bill of exchange with a 60-day maturity for $ 6,750.00.
1.2 million Hispanics live in the Big Apple and one in five New Yorkers speaks Spanish at home. In the last ten years, the Hispanic population has grown by 400 000. This reflects the enormous increase in the Hispanic population in the States. There are now 42 million Hispanics resident in the USA, representing 15% of the total population.
There is a new language, SPANGLISH – a strange mixture of Spanish and English – which is invading the city. The New York Times recently said that it had become the city’s third official language. Its use is colloquial and often limited to short sentences and signs. Many New Yorkers now wear socketines on their feet, drop something on the carpeta, shop for grocerias and have cornfley (“cornflakes”) for breakfast.
Norma Rodríguez, a 45-year-old Cuban living in Washington Heights, says it forms a part of her life now: “Sometimes, you don’t realize that you’re mixing the two languages. You just hear them both all the time and find that you’re inventing new words.” Other people, however, are fighting against this new street language. Businessman Juan Cortés sees it as a sign that the Spanish language is being destroyed. “It’s difficult, but I try not to speak it – it feels vulgar to me.”
Meanwhile, a surprising number of academics have spoken in favour of Spanglish. José María Ruiz, from NY State University, even runs courses in Spanglish and has written a dictionary. “It is a dialogue between two languages and cultures. We have to accept that languages change and evolve. The only languages that never change are dead ones.”
1、The Spanish-speaking population has grown very fast recently.()
2、More people are interested in studying Spanish than before.()
3、Spanglish is mainly used in formal contexts.()
4、Norma Rodríguez doesn’t notice when she is speaking Spanglish.()
5、Juan Cortés doesn’t speak Spanglish because he feels stupid when he tries.()
tead of doing your work, you check Facebook or do some on line shopping.This is called procrastination, and it affects everyone.So how can you stop procrastinating?
We often procrastinate because a task seems too big, or impossible to achieve.Try breaking down the task into smaller pieces.For example, instead of thinking,“I need to finish this essay by 10 p.m.tonight ” tell yourself,“I’ m going to make a short outline, fill that in, and then look for quotes.”
Another important factor is your environment, isn’t it? If there are too many distractions in your work space, you may be tempted to procrastinate more.Are there any things in your work space (for example, a TV) that could be causing you to lose focus?
Making a timeline with goals and deadlines is a great way to stop yourself from procrastinating.
However, it is important to make your deadlines realistic so that you can be sure you’ll stick to them.
Some people like to wait for the perfect time to start a task, while the perfect time is often now.Try something called the Two-Minute Rule to help you get started.This idea comes from David Allen’ s best-selling book, Getting Things Done.It states that.if something takes less than two minutes, such as washing your dishes after a meal, then you should do it now.
1.Procrastination means().
A.putting your work off till later
B.doing your work quickly
C.doing your work carefully
D.doing your work well
2.Sometimes we procrastinate because a task seems too().
A.easy
B.small
C.fun
D.big
3.Having a TV in your work space is an example of an environmental().
A.distraction
B.reaction
C.attration
D.concentration
4.Setting realistic is a() good way to stop procrastinating.
A.environments
B.deadlines
C.focus
D.places
5.The Two-Minute Rule states that if something takes no more than two minutes, you should().
A.put it aside
B.do it later
C.do it now
D.wait for a moment