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A．not being finished
B．had not been finished
C．not having been finished
D．was not finished
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A．not being finished
B．not having finished
C．had not been finished
D．was not finished
A、assorted
B、assisted
C、associated
D、. absorbed
Paras. 5-8
The first category consists of substantial payments made for political purposes or to secure major contracts. For example, one US corporation offered a large sum of money in support of a US presidential candidate at a time when the company was under investigation for possible violations of US business laws. This same company, it was revealed, was ready to finance secret US efforts to throw out the government of Chile.
In this category, we may also include large payments made to ruling families or their close advisers in order to secure arms sales or major petroleum or construction contracts. In a court case involving an arms deal with Iran, a witness claimed that ￡1 million had been paid by a British company to a "negotiator" who helped close a deal for the supply of tanks and other military equipment to that country. Other countries have also been known to put pressure on foreign companies to make donations to party bank accounts.
The second category covers payments made to obtain quicker official approval of some project, to speed up the wheels of government. An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country. Finally, he hit upon the answer. Discovering that the minister collected rare books, he bought a rare edition of a book, slipped $20,000 within its pages, then presented it to the minister. This man examined its contents, then said, "I understand there is a two-volume edition of this work." The sales manager, who was quick-witted, replied, "My company cannot afford a two- volume edition, sir, but we could offer you a copy with a preface!" A short time later, the deal was approved.
The third category involves payments made in countries where it is traditional to pay people to help with the passage of a business deal. Some Middle East countries would be included on this list, as well as certain Asian countries.
Three broad categories of bribery or questionable payments
The first category consists of substantial payments made for political purposes or to secure major contracts.
Example 1: A US company offered a large sum of money to support a US presidential candidate when it was being investigated for possibly breaking the laws.
Example 2: ____________
Example 3: ____________
Example 4: There are countries putting pressure on foreign companies to make donations to party bank accounts. (Paras. 5-6)
The second category covers ____________.
Example: A sales manager tries to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country. ____________
A short time later, the deal was approved. (Para. 7)
The third category involves ____________.
For example, some Middle East countries as well as certain Asian countries would pay such money. (Para. 8)
This has led researchers to an inescapable conclusion. As healthful as components of red wine may be, the primary benefit must come from ethanol itself. In short, it's the alcohol, stupid. But don't go overboard. Protection comes only with light to moderate intake—two drinks a day for men or a miserly one a day for women.
The major benefit of alcohol seems to come from its ability to boost levels of HDL, the good cholesterol that helps keep arteries clear of plaque. Ethanol does that by signaling the liver to make more of a substance called Apo Al, the major protein in HDL. The effects can be striking. "Depending on the individual, you can get increases of 10 to 30 percent in HDL in a week," says Harvard epidemiologist Eric Rimm. Alcohol also makes blood less sticky and less likely to form. clots that cause heart attacks and strokes. It also appears to have mild anti-inflammatory effects. And it enhances insulin sensitivity—which may explain why moderate alcohol consumption correlates with a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes.
But alcohol is a dietary Jekyll and Hyde. Heavy intake can raise blood pressure, increase irregular heartbeat, and lead to heart failure. The most sobering news concerns cancer. A recent analysis of 156 studies found that as alcohol intake increases, so do risks of tumors in the mouth, and liver. Even moderate drinking can boost breast-cancer risk a small amount.
Is moderate drinking worth the risks？ For some people—pregnant women, people with liver disease or a history of alcoholism—the answer is no. But for most of us, the benefits will probably outweigh the hazards. Whether you sip wine, beer or spirits, your heart may thank you.
According to Dr. Walter Willett, for good health, people could drink
A．only red-wine.
B．beer.
C．some whisky.
D．any alcohol.
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What does this passage mainly talk about？
A．English courses.
B．Ways to improve students' English.
C．The best way to improve your skills.
D．The importance of English.
It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of false goals. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough.
And at the same time the forces of American business are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them—and to create them faster than anyone's budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is based on addicting us to greed. We are even told it is our patriotic duty to support the national economy by buying things.
Look at any of the magazines that cater to women. There advertising begins as art and slogans in the front pages and ends as pills and therapy in the back pages. The art at the front illustrates the dream of perfect beauty. This is the baby skin that must be hers. This, the perfumed breath she must breathe out. This, the sixteen-year-old figure she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever. This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. This is the cream that restores skin, these are the tablets that melt away fat around the thighs, and these are the pills of perpetual youth.
Obviously no reasonable person can be completely persuaded either by such art or by such pills and devices. Yet someone is obviously trying to buy this dream and spending billions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers, but what is it they are trying to buy？
Defining the meaning of "happiness" is a perplexing proposition: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work towards the middle. To think of happiness as achieving superiority over others, living in a mansion made of marble, having a wardrobe with hundreds of outfits, will do to set the greedy extreme.
From the first two paragraphs of the passage we may infer that ______.
A．the US Constitution gives people the right to pursue happiness
B．American people are at a loss as how to gain happiness
C．Jonathan Swift did not believe in happiness itself
D．American people tend to buy their happiness
Large lecture classes are frequently regarded as a necessary evil. Such classes (21) be offered in many colleges and universities to meet high student (22) with limited faculty resource, (23) teaching a large lecture class can be a (24) task. Lecture halls are (25) large, barren, and forbidding. It is difficult to get to know students. Students may seem bored in the (26) environment and may (27) read newspapers or even leave class in the middle of a lecture. Written work by the students seems out of the (28) .
Although the challenges of teaching a large lecture class are (29) , they are not insurmountable. The solution is to develop (30) methods of classroom instruction that can reduce, if not (31) , many of the difficulties (32) in the mass class. In fact, we have (33) at Kent State University teaching techniques which help make a large lecture class more like a small (34) .
An (35) but important benefit of teaching the course (36) this manner has involved the activities of the teaching assistants who help us mark students' written work. The faculty instructor originally decided to ask the teaching assistants for help (37) this was the only practical way to (38) that all the papers could be evaluated. Now those (39) report enjoying their new status as "junior professors", gaining a very different (40) on college education by being on the other side of the desk, learning a great deal about the subject matter, and improving their own writing as a direct result of grading other students' papers.
A．should
B．will
C．can
D．have to
Counter-offer
Joe, the representative of the buyer, is at Mr．Liang's office, discussing the offer with Mr．Liang.
Joe: Mr．Li, Thank you for your prompt offer．I have studied your offer carefully and consulted our home office．After investigating and comparing, we found that your price is about 5 percent higher than those offered by European Suppliers.
Liang: I hope you also should consider the quality of the goods as well．I'm sure you know very well that our product is made of pure silk．This, of course, increases the cost but promises the superior quality.
Joe: I will agree with you about the importance of quality．But 5 percent is a big difference which we can't not accept because that will leave us little benefit in the intense competition on the world market.
Hang: We can give you a 2 percent discount if your quantity can be adjusted up to 10 000 pieces．And we have confidence that even your selective customers will be satisfied with the fashionable design and superb quality of our goods.
Joe: I am afraid 2 percent is not enough for us to open a new market for your products．We believe 4 percent at least will make your product more competitive.
Liang: I'm afraid we can't give 4 percent reduction by all means．Considering you are a new customer, a 3 percent reduction is really the best we can do.
Joe: Well, Mr．Li, does this price include seaworthy packing？
Liang: The outer packing is for container transportation．That is the usual practice.
Joe: How long will this offer be valid？
Liang: Within one week.
Joe: I'll try to persuade our head office to accept the price with 3 percent discount and inform you of the answer at an early date.
Hang: We will await your good reply.
Walter Mitty is______.
A．a successful ad man
B．a short-story writer
C．a beginning piano player
D．a fictional character
For the past seven years, Milano—who describes himself as "a straight, white middle class married guy raised in an affluent suburb of Chicago"—as operated yforum.com, a Website that was created to get us talking. Through the posting of probing, provocative and sometimes simply inane questions and the answers they generate, people are encouraged to have a no-holds-barred exchange on topics across racial, ethnic and cultural lines. More often than not, the questions grow out of our biases and fears and the stereotypes that fuel misunderstanding among us.
As with the Web site, Milano hopes his book will be a social and cultural elixir. "The time is right for a new ’culture of curiosity’ to begin to unfold, with people finally breaking down the last barrier to improve race and cultural relations" by actually talking to each other about their differences, Milano said in an e-mail message to me. Milano wisely used the Internet to spark these conversations. In seven years, it has generated 50,000 postings—many of them questions that people find hard to ask in a face-to-face exchange with the subjects of their inquiries.
But in his book, which was published earlier this month, Milano gives readers an opportunity to read the questions and a mix of answers that made it onto his Web site. "I am curious about what people who have been blind from birth ’see’ in their dreams," a 13-year old boy wanted to know. "Why do so many mentally disabled people have such poor-looking haircuts and ’nerdy’ clothes？" a woman asked. "How do African-Americans perceive God？" a white teenager wanted to know. "Do they pray to a white God or a black God？"
Like I said, these questions can generate a range of emotions and reactions. But the point of Milano’s Web site, and his book, is not to get people mad, but to inform. us "about the lives and experiences" of others. Though many of the answers that people offered to the questions posed in his book are conflicting, these responses are balanced by the comments of experts whose responses to the queries also appear in the book.
Getting people to openly say what they are thinking about things that give rise to stereotypes and bigotry has never been easy. Most of us save those conversations for gatherings of people who look or think like us.
The purpose of the website is to
A．give people a chance to speak out.
B．prepare materials for a book.
C．get people exchanging ideas freely.
D．solve the social and cultural problems.
