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A.how much does it cost
B.who designed it
C.where was it made
D.that the car will be sold in China
A.how much does it cost
B.who designed it
C.where was it made
D.that the car will be sold in China
Woman: Hello。 Is that the sales department?
M: Yes, it is。
W:Oh, well。 My name is Jane Kingsbury of GPF limited。 We need some supplies for our design office。
M: Oh, what sort?
W:Well, first of all, we need one complete new drawing board。
M: DO44 or DO45?
W:Ah, I don’t know。 What’s the difference?
M: Well, the 45 costs 15 pounds more。
W:So what’s the total price then?
M:It’s 387 pounds。
W:Dose that include valued-added tax?
M: Oh, I’m not sure。 Most of the prices do。 Yes, I think it does。
W:What are the boards actually made of?
M: Oh, I don’t know。 I think it‘s a sort of plastic stuff these days。 It’s white anyway。
W:And how long does it take to deliver?
M: Oh, I couldn’t really say。 It depends on how much work we’ve got and how many other orders there are to send out, you know。
W:Ok, now we also want some drawing pens, ink and rulers, and some drawing paper。
M: Oh dear。 The girl who takes all those supplies isn’t here this morning。 So I can’t take those orders for you。 I only do the equipment you see。
W:Ok, well, perhaps I’ll ring back tomorrow。
M: So do you want the drawing board then?
W:Oh, I have to think about it。 Thanks very much。 I’ll let you know。 Good-bye。
M: Thank you。 Good-bye。
Question 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you just heard。
Question 12: What is the woman’s purpose in making the phone call?
Question 13: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
Question 14: What does the man say about delivery?
Question 15: What does the woman say she will possibly do tomorrow?
Evolution is mostly to blame. It has designed mankind to cope with deprivation, not plenty. People are perfectly tuned to store energy in good years to see them through lean ones. But when bad times never come, they are stuck with that energy, stored around their expanding bellies.
Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe. Modernday Malthusians, who used to draw graphs proving that the world was shortly going to run out of food, have gone rather quiet lately. According to the UN, the number of people short of food fell from 920m in 1980 to 799m 20 years later, even though the world's population increased by 1.6 billion over the period. This is mostly a cause for celebration. Mankind has won what was, for most of his time on this planet, his biggest battle: to ensure that he and his offspring had enough to eat. But every silver lining has a cloud, and the consequence of prosperity is a new plague that brings with it a
host of interesting policy dilemmas.
As a scourge of the modern world, obesity has an image problem. It is easier to associate with Father Christmas than with the four horses of the apocalypse. But it has a good claim to lumber along beside them, for it is the world's biggest public-health issue today—the main cause of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war; the principal risk factor in diabetes; heavily implicated in cancer and other diseases. Since the World Health Organisation labelled obesity an "epidemic" in 2000, reports on its fearful consequences have come thick and fast.
Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco? Possibly. In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming (see survey) and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for the first time in recorded history. But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a century's dining to excess. And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds. That's why there is now a consensus among doctors that governments should do something to stop them.
The author write this passage mainly to ______.
A.bring up some warnings.
B.tell the reader some new facts.
C.discuss a solution to a problem.
D.persuade the reader to keep fit.
B.联系是客观的
C.主观想象的联系不能够代替客观事物本身的联系
D.并不是每一事物都处在普遍联系中
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