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firms, and marketing consulting firms that help the company target and promote its products to the right markets.（）

difficulty of recruitment ______.

A．some companies do not have a clear target when they are doing the marketing

B．some students make hasty decisions about their jobs

C．many students do not have the required research skills

D．many students have little knowledge about the companies they apply for

A.proceed from the elementary to the profound.

B.provide research background.

C.pay attention to the logic flow, so that the paper can be more comprehensive.

D.set target readers.

In paragraph 5, why does the author mention religious and academic institutions？

A．To show how effective Internet blocking software can be.

B．To illustrate that filters may fail to block harmful sites.

C．To explain what types of research sites library patrons use.

D．To show that the blocking software may target the wrong sites.

most fragrantly appealing humans. Mosquitoes use odor to sort attractive people from the unattractive to find those that are most tasty.

Researchers found one sure way to stop attracting the little bugs—stop breathing. Mosquitoes can sniff out an attractive target from as far as 40 miles. When humans exhale, they expel a plume of CO(下标)2 and other odors that travel through the air. The appetizing stir is the equivalent of a dinner bell, alerting mosquitoes that a warm meal is within range,

When a mosquito is trailing an attractive target, it zigzags up the breath plume until it makes contact, landing on the skin and patiently searching for just the right spot to insert its stylet for an eight-to-ten second feeding.

Perspiration, a barely avoidable human condition, also is a mosquito lure—but only if the sweat has formed bacteria.

Bathing helps reduce the attractiveness of sticky bodies, but after-bath products don't. Skin-care products that clean, soften and moisturize not only improve a person's appearance, they're also attractive to mosquitoes. Certain medications, including heart and blood pressure medicine, also alter a person's likelihood of being bitten.

Scientists conducted the research to explore 'the tastes of mosquitoes and help humans protect themselves from mosquito-borne disease.

All of the following are causes of being bitten by mosquitoes EXCEPT ______.

A．carbon dioxide and other odors

B．sweat

C．the quality of your skin

D．heart and blood pressure medicine

Write a proposal for a research paper you plan to write. In clear, concise language, your proposal should explain: l What your main question or topic is, l Why it matters, l How you plan to approach the analysis. The proposal should briefly state your topic, its importance to your field, and the way you intend to analyze it. The trick is to be brief without being vague. There is no one way to write a research proposal, but most proposals have similar criteria. Your proposal is required to include the following sections. 1. Introduction Your introduction should state your research topic or issue and explain why you are interested in it. Explain why it is problematic and warrants a deeper examination. Explain why your research is important to you and the larger world. You are also required to name a target journal, and explain why you select this journal. 2. Research question/s State clearly your research question/s. 3. Current research on your topic Describe the sources you have used to research your topic to give an overview of current perspectives. Explain how other researchers have approached this topic, the questions they have asked and the strategies they have used to conduct their research. 4. Research method Describe in detail how you will conduct your research, including the kinds of sources you will use and the steps you will take to complete the research. Explain why you will use the method and how it will contribute to your overall results. 5. Conclusion and bibliography Write a conclusion to your proposal that reiterates your reasons for doing the research and what you hope to achieve. Leave your reader with a sense of your proposed paper’s importance. End with a list of the sources you have cited in your proposal, and be sure to format them according to the style adopted by the target journal you have selected. Write 500 – 1000 English words.

ph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.”One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied,“Then I would have to say yes.”Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said,“Don’t worry, scientists will find some way of using computers.”Such well-meaning people just don's understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way-in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.Much can be done. Scientists could“adopt”middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

第46题：The author begins his article with Edmund Burke\'s words to

A. call on scientists to take some actions.

B. criticize the misguided cause of animal rights.

C. warn of the doom of biomedical research.

D. show the triumph of the animal rights movement.

well in test marketing trials conducted recently by the company’s research and development division. The following information relating to this investment proposal has now been prepared.

Initial investment $2 million

Selling price (current price terms) $20 per unit

Expected selling price inflation 3% per year

Variable operating costs (current price terms) $8 per unit

Fixed operating costs (current price terms) $170,000 per year

Expected operating cost inflation 4% per year

The research and development division has prepared the following demand forecast as a result of its test marketing trials. The forecast reflects expected technological change and its effect on the anticipated life-cycle of Product W33.

It is expected that all units of Product W33 produced will be sold, in line with the company’s policy of keeping no inventory of finished goods. No terminal value or machinery scrap value is expected at the end of four years, when production of Product W33 is planned to end. For investment appraisal purposes, PV Co uses a nominal (money) discount rate of 10% per year and a target return on capital employed of 30% per year. Ignore taxation.

Required:

(a) Identify and explain the key stages in the capital investment decision-making process, and the role of

investment appraisal in this process. (7 marks)

(b) Calculate the following values for the investment proposal:

(i) net present value;

(ii) internal rate of return;

(iii) return on capital employed (accounting rate of return) based on average investment; and

(iv) discounted payback period. (13 marks)

(c) Discuss your findings in each section of (b) above and advise whether the investment proposal is financially acceptable. (5 marks)

ing English as a second language. This report identifies some of the learner variables/strategies used by two students in a Hong Kong Technical Institute. The instruments for data collection included observation, interviews and questionnaires. The findings are discussed and some implications highlighted.

What makes a "good" language learner "good", and what makes a "poor" language learner "poor"？ What does this imply for the teaching of language in the Hong Kong context？ These are the central questions of this assignment. The existing body of research attributes the differences between language learners to learner variables and learner strategies, learner variables include such things as differences in personality, motivation, style, aptitude and age (Ellis, 1986: chap 5) and strategies refer to "techniques, approaches, or deliberate actions that students take in order to facilitate the learning and recall of both linguistic and content area information" (Chamot, 1987: 71). It is important to note here that what we are considering is not the fact that language learners do and can learn, but why there should be such variations in speed of learning, ability to use the target language, and in achieving examination grades, areas which generally lead to the classification of students as being either "good" or "poor".

Learner variables and strategies have been the focus of a number of research projects, (O'Malley et al, 1985, Oxford, 1989). However, to the best of my knowledge, this area has not been researched in Hong Kong classrooms. Since I am a teacher of English working in Hong Kong, gleaning a little of what learner variables and strategies seem to work for local students seems to be a fruitful area of research.

In discussing learner variables and strategies, we have to keep in mind the arbitrary nature of actually identifying these aspects. As the existing research point out, it is not possible to observe directly qualities such as aptitude, motivation and anxiety. (Oxford, 1986). We cannot look inside the mind of a language learner and find out what strategies, if any, they are using. These strategies are not visible processes. Also, as Naiman and his colleagues (1978) point out, no single learning strategy, cognitive style. or learner characteristic is sufficient to explain success in language learning. The factors must be considered simultaneously to discover how they interact to affect success of failure in particular language learning situation.

Bearing these constraints in mind, the aim of this assignment is to develop two small scale studies of the language learners attempting to gain an overall idea of what strategies are in use and what variables seem to make a difference to Hong Kong students.

In paragraph 2 "leaner variables" and "strategies" are defined by reference to other writers ______.

A．because these writers are authorities in the field and these are recognized as important concepts

B．because these writers are authorities in the field and these are recognized as important definitions

C．because the present author is not sure what these terms mean

D．because the present author wishes to redefine the scope of research in this area