How many per cent did shares of IBM almost plunge?A.20B.30C.40
How many per cent did shares of IBM almost plunge?
A.20
B.30
C.40
How many per cent did shares of IBM almost plunge?
A.20
B.30
C.40
A.Over 50%.
B.Under 50%.
C.About 38%.
D.Approximately 33%.
Why is the campaign against illiteracy more important to Third World countries?
A.Because 98 per cent of illiterates live in Third World countries.
B.Because illiterates in Third World countries don't know how important is the ability to read and write.
C.Because high rate of illiteracy is setting back the national development programs
D.Because many adults in Third World countries are too ashamed to admit they can't read and write.
根据下列文章,请回答 36~40 题。 A New Cause of Suffering
A conference on obesity(肥胖症)was recently held in Vienna.Two thousand experts from more than fifty countries attended the conference.According to statistics.1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight,and 250 million are too fat.Obesity is rapidly becoming a new cause of suffering.
Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said:“We are living in the new age but with the metabolism(新陈代谢)of a stone-age man.1 have just been to the United States.It is really terrible.A pizza(比萨饼)shop is appearing on every corner.We have been occupied by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization.”
Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer.Hopichler said:“Eighty per cent of all diabetics(糖尿病人)are too fat,also fifty per cent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with fatty tissue complaints.Ten per cent more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease.Reducing one’s weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure.”
Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs.“The health insurance pays for surgery(such as reducing the size of the stomach)when the body-mass index(身体质量指数)is more than 40.That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.60 meters.One should start earlier.”
Toplak said that prevention should begin in school.“Child obesity has a close relation with the time which children spend in front of T V sets.”
第36题:How many people are suffering from obesity in the world?
A.250,000,000.
B.25,000,000.
C.1,200,000。000.
D.1 20,000,000.
In short, the course of economic development in general depends in a fundamental way on the performance of farmers. This performance in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment, or market structure, within which it function. In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examined. It is appropriate to begin with a conversation of its market structure.
第31题:This passage is most probably ________.
A) a news item
B) part of an introduction of a book
C) part of a lecture
D) an advertisement
Fortunately, there is a new force at work against this epidemic — a nationwide movement of more than 400 parent groups formed to expose and battle drug use among teenagers and preteens. The groups, ranging in size from 15 members to more than 800, have different approaches and widely varying rates of success. Yet this parental crusade is the only major force in the country to have taken active, organized and effective steps aimed at stopping marijuana use.
Why the concentration on marijuana? Because it is the illegal drug most used by kids. According to the 1982 National High School Senior Survey, 44 per cent of U.S. high school seniors had smoked pot during the year, and one out of seven of these were daily or near daily smokers.
Moreover, in 1982, sociologists, Richard Clayton and Harwin Voss, reported a close related connection between pot smoking and subsequent use of cocaine and heroin by young men. Of those who had smoked pot fewer than 100 times, seven per cent had graduated to cocaine, four per cent to heroin. But of those who had smoked pot at least 1,000 times, the equivalent of once a day for those years, 73 per cent had gone on to cocaine, and one out of three had graduated to heroin. (Although heroin use among high school seniors is minimal— 0.6 per cent in the past year — multi drug use is "in.")
Parent groups have found that by stopping their kids from smoking pot, they almost automatically stop all other illegal drugs and cut down on alcohol use as well. The High School Senior Survey's statistics show that heavy pot smokers tend to be heavy drinkers, while those who do not use pot tend not to drink heavily.
Since virtually all over the country teenager "partying" has come to mean "getting smashed and getting stoned" — on anything from pot to pills, hashish, ISD, angel dust and alcohol — some parent groups home in on the partying aspect. Parents Who Care (PWC) was started in November 1979 by 15 Palo Alto, Calif. parents who were upset by stories of drugs senior proms. They held talk sessions with their children and learned, as founder Joann Lundgren observed, that most of them had never been to a party where the main activity was not getting high.
The parents' solution: workshops showing kids how to give successful drug and alcohol free parties. Says Margery Ranch, PWC director: "We've seen a change in attitude. Young people are feeling more comfortable saying no."
What does "the problem" in the first line refer to?
A.The fact that government drug abuse organizations are reluctant to inform. the public of the drug taking phenomenon among teenagers.
B.The fact that many doctors are ignorant of the drug taking phenomenon among teenagers.
C.The fact that many parents are ignorant of the drug taking phenomenon among their children.
D.The fact that many young people have yielded to the wide use of drugs.
听力原文:W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.?
M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just know some.
W: For example?
M: Mmm..., Mother's Day, National Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day.
W: Not bad. When does its National Day come? And the Valentine's Day?
M: The National Day comes on July 4th and the latter on February 14th.
W: Talking of the National Day, who is the Father of the state? Benjamin Franklin or George Washington?
M: George Washington, of course.
W: Besides Washington, who else is regarded as a great president?
M: Abraham Lincoln, I'm one hundred per cent sure.
What were the two speakers talking about?
A.They were talking about the US holidays and so on.
B.They were talking about the US language and so on.
C.They were talking about the US presidents and so on.
At 4 percent interest for the use of $ 1 principal, how much would one pay?
A.Six cents per year
B.Twenty-five cents per year
C.Four cents per year
D.One cent per year
A.$8
B.$7.40
C.10 per cent
D.8 per cent
It is not only luxuries which are wrapped in this way. With so many goods now produced centrally and sold in supermarkets it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything from nails to potatoes that is not already done up in plastic or paper.
The wrapper itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the 31 pounds in weight of rubbish put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the wrapping on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is stupid. Packaging is using up scarce energy and raw materials and ruining all the time. One big firm reports that its glass, cans and paper have all gone up by 30 per cent in the last couple of months, while plastic has increased by 50 per cent and all these prices are still rising. This seems as yet to have had surprisingly little effect on the packaging practice of manufacturers.
Little research is being carried out on the costs in energy and materials of other possible types of packaging. Just how practical is it, for instance, for local authorities to save waste paper and re-manufacture it as egg-boxes? Would it be cheaper to plant another forest to produce new paper?
One reason for the unorganized behavior. of everyone concerned is probably the varied nature of the packaging industry. So many people, with so many different interests of their own, are affected that it is extremely hard to reach any agreement on what should be done. Also, packagers say that preserving forests and preventing waste is not their concern.
The shopper gets rid of the wrapper immediately because______
A.he is careless
B.it adds to the weight
C.it is difficult for him to handle
D.it has no importance for him
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