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"Desperate" means ______.
A. in great need
B. reckless
C. hopeless
D. skillful
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A. crab B grab
B. slab
C. slam
She killed him in a(n) ______ attempt to free herself.
A) desperate
B) hopeless
C) disappointed
D)intensive
A．demonstrate the fruitful results of UK's economic reform.
B．show that services in those companies have improved greatly.
C．attract more new customers to those companies.
D．tell how desperate many sectors had been before privatization.
According to the text, which of the following statements is correct？
A．sidney Harman hall provides a new stage for Shakespeare Theatre Company.
B．michael Kahn is the artistic director of the expanded Kennedy Centre.
C．lansburgh Theatre is in the heart of downtown area in Washington.
D．many smaller arts groups are desperate for mid-sized space downtown
The luxury-goods business has been in despair in hasty succession against a background of a weakening global economy, an enduring slump in Japanese spending, and the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Japanese, who used to buy a third of the world's luxury goods, cut their foreign travel in half after the attacks and tightened their Louis Vuitton purse-strings. At the same time, wealthy Americans stopped flying, which has a dramatic effect on the luxury-goods purveyors of London, Paris and Rome.
At home too, Americans'attitudes to luxury changed, at least temporarily. "Conspicuous abstention" replaced greedy consumerism among the fast-growing, younger breed of newly rich. The decline in job security, the lower bonuses in financial services, and the stock market bust that wiped out much of the paper wealth generated in the late 1990s, bred a new frugality. Sales of expensive jewelry, watches and handbags—the products that make the juiciest profits for the big luxury-goods groups—dropped sharply.
The impact has been most striking among the handful of large, quoted luxury-goods companies. France's Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the industry leader, issued four profits warnings after September 11th and ended up reporting a 20% decline in operating profit for 2001, after having repeatedly promised its investors double-digit growth; and Italy's Gucci Group, the third largest, announced this week that second-half profits dropped by 33%. Meanwhile, privately held Prada had to postpone its stock market flotation and was forced to sell a recently acquired stake in Fendi, a prestigious Italian bag maker, in order to reduce its debts.
Luxury is an unusual business. A luxury brand cannot be extended indefinitely: if it becomes too common, it is devalued, as Pierre Cardin and Ralph Lauren proved by sticking their labels on everything from T-shirts to paint. Equally, a brand name can be undermined if it is not advertised consistently, or if it is displayed and sold poorly. Sagra Maceira de Rosen, a luxury-goods analyst at J.P. Morgan, argues that, "Luxury companies are primarily retailers. In retailing, the most important thing is execution, and execution is all about management. You may have the best designed product, but if you don't get it into the right kind of shop at the right time, you will fail."
By "Miuccia Prada was obviously biting her nails"(Paragraph 1), the author means
A．Prada is in a desperate situation.
B．Prada is notorious for her hasty execution.
C．Prada is always in her bad habit.
D．Prada is too much engaged in her work.
A) desperate
B) disappointing
C) worshipping
D) bankrupt
E) fancy
F) protects
G) protests
H) similarly
I) wake
J) contest
K) object
L) cruelty
M) dignity
N) originally
O) altitude
Have you ever known anyone famous？ If so, you may have found that they are remarkably similar to the rest of us. You may have even heard them______to people saying there is anything different about them. "I'm really just a normal guy,"______an actor who has recently rocketed into the spotlight. There is, of course, usually a brief period when they actually start to believe they are as great as their ______ fans suggest. They start to wear ______ clothes and talk as if everyone should hear what they have to say. This period, however, does not often last long. They fall back to reality as fast as they had ______ risen above it all. What will it feel like to soar to such ______ and look down like an eagle from up high on everyone else？ And what will it feel like to have flown so high only to ______ from your dream and realize you are only human？ Some only see the ______ in losing something they had gained. They often make ______ attempts to regain what they lost. Often these efforts result in even greater pain. Some become ______ financially and emotionally. The only real winners are those who are happy to be back on the ground with the rest of us.
Even before Alan Greenspan’s admission that America’s red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year’s pace. But don’t sound any alarms just yet. Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy’s long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening.
Consumers say they’re not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. Home prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, “there’s a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses,” says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. “Instead of 20 to 30 offers, now maybe you only get two or three,” says john Deadly, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about their ability to find and keep a job.
Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Potential home buyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldn’t mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Getting a table at Manhattan’s hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant need to be impossible. Not anymore. For that, Greenspan & Co. may still be worth toasting.
第51题：By “Ellen Spero isn’t biting her nails just yet”(Line 1, Paragraph 1), the author means
A Spero can hardly maintain her business.
B Spero is too much engaged in her work.
C Spero has grown out of her bad habit.
D Spero is not in a desperate situation.
Call the Disk Doctorl
1 Desperate computer users who 'lose' the data from their disks can get in touch with
experts who, for a fee, will recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith, who, some years ago, set up a company called fl3ve,5 Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. The fees are always the same, no matter how precious the data on the disk is. Some people, however, are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him Li ,000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check
2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. There have been disks containing medical research, television scripts, manuscripts of whole books, a comedlan,5joke collection, a solicitor' s papers for a court case, and even Margaret Thatcher,5itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case, Dave was asked if he would go in person to Mrs. Thatcher's office 'for security reasons,!
3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post, but sometimes people are in such
a hurry that they can't wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to
Dave's house because they were needed for broadcasting the next day, for example. When the material has been recovered, the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and a prescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client, an author put a 'thank you' to Dave in the front of his book.' Dave saved mc from a cardiac arrest' , he wrote 'But,,says Dave, 'most people don't take any notice ol the doctor's advice!'
Read Passage 2 and decide whether the following statements are Jrue or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet
11. Computer users can get back their lost data from their disks without any payment in Dave's company
12. The company named Dave's Disk Doctor Service Ltd is set up by Dave Smith
13. Dave and his friends earn a large amount of money, but they spend none
14. According to the different value of the data on the disk, people need to pay different amount of money for saving them
15. Most people will take notice of the disk doctor' s . advice after the disk is repaired
16. hopeless _________ (paragraph 1)
17. thankful_(paragraph 1)
18. to save _________ (paragraph 2)
19. lawyer_(paragraph 2)
20. to keep from happening_(paragraph 3)
