Questions from 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Against this background, the WTO faces several daunting challenges. The first is to continue bringing down tariffs on traded goods. Average penalties have fallen steadily since the GATT’s formation but even the most open economies retain lofty barriers: for instance, America still charges a tariff of 14.6% on import of clothing, five times higher than its average levy. Resistance to tariff cuts is strongest in agriculture. According to Tim Josling, a trade expert at Stanford University, tariffs and other barriers on farm goods average a crippling 40% worldwide and create distortions that “destroy huge amounts of value”. A new set of global farm talk is planned to start in 1999. At the least, you might think, these could lock in impressive reforms in Latin America and encourage further watering-down of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. But they will prove difficult: squabbles over agriculture almost sank the Uruguay round.Where does impressive reforms lock in according to the passage?（）.A、AmericaB、AsiaC、Latin AmericaD、Africa
Questions from 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Against this background, the WTO faces several daunting challenges. The first is to continue bringing down tariffs on traded goods. Average penalties have fallen steadily since the GATT’s formation but even the most open economies retain lofty barriers: for instance, America still charges a tariff of 14.6% on import of clothing, five times higher than its average levy. Resistance to tariff cuts is strongest in agriculture. According to Tim Josling, a trade expert at Stanford University, tariffs and other barriers on farm goods average a crippling 40% worldwide and create distortions that “destroy huge amounts of value”. A new set of global farm talk is planned to start in 1999. At the least, you might think, these could lock in impressive reforms in Latin America and encourage further watering-down of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. But they will prove difficult: squabbles over agriculture almost sank the Uruguay round. Where does impressive reforms lock in according to the passage?（）.
- A、America
- B、Asia
- C、Latin America
- D、Africa
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Judging from the passage, the author ______.A．suggests that New Castle is fortunateB．wonders at Wilmington's prosperityC．regrets that the two places should have become so differentD．thinks that Wilmington should not tear down old houses
(b) As a newly-qualified Chartered Certified Accountant, you have been asked to write an ‘ethics column’ for a traineeaccountant magazine. In particular, you have been asked to draft guidance on the following questions addressedto the magazine’s helpline:(i) What gifts or hospitality are acceptable and when do they become an inducement? (5 marks)Required:For each of the three questions, explain the threats to objectivity that may arise and the safeguards thatshould be available to manage them to an acceptable level.NOTE: The mark allocation is shown against each of the three questions above.
Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.One of the most exciting races ever run is now in progress between doctors fighting malaria(疟疾)and mosquitoes. According to the most recent counts 225 million people a year suffer attacks of malaria and more than two million die. Public health workers around the world are doing all t11ev can to destroy malaria before the mosquitoes that pass on the disease become resistant to the poisons now used against them. It's a race against time and against difficulties，with millions of lives in danger and the chances of winning not in man's favour.Malaria，it is true，has been practically wiped out in thirteen countries. including the United States，and is under attack in many others. But it is equally true that in some parts of the world certain types of malaria-carrying mosquitoes have already learned to resist some of the sprays that formerly killed them. Other types of mosquitoes are not killed as quickly by present sprays as they once were.The World Health Organization is helping national governments to get rid of malaria before resistance among the mosquito population becomes so great that new poisons will have to be found to replace those in use at present. Most of the countries in the world have started，or are planning，campaigns against mosquitoes. If the race against resistance is won by man，it is possible that ten years from now dais old evil will have disappeared completely from the America，perhaps from the world.Malaria has been successfully got. rid of in______.A. all countriesB. some countriesC. no countriesD. most countries
Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Malaria is under attack in a number of countries.B. Some types of mosquitoes have become resistant to the current sprays.C. New poisons have been put into wide use with the new science.D. One of human's challenges is to win the campaigns against mosquitoes.
We can infer from Paragraph 5 that ______.（ ）[A] home prices has fallen down 28% compared with what's in mid-2006[B] many foreclosed homes have been abandoned by their former owners[C] home prices might fall down 28% fi'om their peak in mid-2006 in the future[D] more foreclosed homes have been abandoned because of the falling price
For an accurate barometer check, you would ______.A.check it with a barometer on another vesselB.take readings from several barometers and average themC.check it with the barometer at the ship chandleryD.check it against radio or National Weather Service reports of the immediate vicinity
According to this passage, which of the following is TRUE?___________A.Company workers started to dress down about twenty years agoB.Dress-down has become an everyday phenomenon since the early 1990sC."Dress-down Friday" was first given as a favor from employersD.Many workers want to wear casual clothes to impress people
Text4 Most forecasts suggest that Britain will be a poorer country afier Brexit,largely because trading with the European Union will become more difficult.Such predictions about the distant future are,by their nature,open to doubt,which is partly why Brexit's proponents feel free to dismiss them.But the same does not apply to a new paper by Meredith Crowley,Oliver Exton and Lu Han from Cambridge University,which suggests that,months before Brexit has even happened,trade is already suffering,as firms respond to the prospect of higher tariffs.More than 100,000 British businesses export goods to the EU each year.At present they enjoy tariff-free trade with the country's biggest export market.But all face uncertainty as Britain negotiates a new trading relationship with Brussels.Some fear disaster if the talks break down.British carmakers could face a l0%tanff to export to the EU market.Dairies might have to pay tariffs of more than 30%.These extra costs could make exporting uneconomic.The Cambridge paper looks at the exporting decisions of British firms,across 8,000 types of product,in response to the tariffs that Britain would face in the event of reaching no trade deal with the EU.Where necessary,they adjust their calculations to take account of exchange-rate fluctvations.Since the referendum many companies appear to have reduced their exports to the EU.The research suggests that the bigger the potential tariff facing a product,the more nervous:firms are about exporting it.Why risk producing for a market that could soon become unwelcoming?Overall,the number of companies that began exporting new products to the EU in 2016 would have been 5%higher if there had been a Remain vote,the paper finds.It is hard to know what those firms that decided against producing for the EU did instead.The research finds little evidence,however,that they have lived up to the hopes of Brexiteers and boosted their exports to fast-growing non-EU markets.Some may have tried to sell more within Britain.Businesses may have only temporarily scaled down their production of exports for the EU.Normal service could resume ifBritain negotiates a good trade deal.But some damage is already done.The paper's results imply that in 2016 Britain lost some~lbn（$1.3bn）of exports to the EU because of the mere threat of higher tariffs.The long-term impact will be greater.Some of the firms dissuaded from exporting would have turned into big beasts.The referendum was only halfway through 2016,and the paper does not analyse data after that year.Meanwhile,Brexit uncertainty continues to rise.If new trading relationship failed,Britain would_____A.seek other trade opportunitiesB.lose lots of export marketsC.reduce their external tradeD.face more export tariffs
Since the 1960s, there have been several policies designed to______this challenge, including institutions tailored for smallholder agriculture.A.doB.deliverC.copeD.address
共用题干第一篇Women Staying in Mini-Skirts for LongerBritish women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40,according to research byDebenhams.Just 20 years ago,few wonien would dare to wear a mini-skirt after the age of 33,the store said." shows that women now have an increasing confidence in their bodies and are happy to dress accordingly," added in a statement."If' this trend continues,thlere's no doubt that,within the next decade,women in the mid 40s and early 50s will rightly regard a mini-skirt as an essential part of their everyday wardrobe."The figures emerged when the store exanjined the latest age profile of women buying short,36-cm skir over the past six months. Their results show that it has jumped from an average age of 36-year-old at the sta of millennium to 40 today.Figures from 1980 showed that on average women stopped buying minis when the reached 33 years old一a figure unchanged from the mid-1960s.The store noted that experts believe that the popularity of intensive gym culture,providing women with well toned bodies for longer may be the reason.The increasing number of British women living on their own may also be a factor.The Debenhams'study showed that a modern woman's love affair with a mini-skirt begins at the age of 14 but that she doesn'tbuy her first one until the age of 16.Instead,she flouts school rules by rolling up the waistband of the school uniform to give the impression of wearing a mini-skirt.Skirts get shorter between the ages of 16 and 19,reducing in size from 46 to 36 cm before reaching their shortest,a mere 32 cm,at the age of 23.Skirt length increases slightly between the ages of 23 and 27,rising to 37 cm,possibly due to girls being in their first stable relationship,with no desire to attract attention,the store said.However,it found short skirts suddenly zoom in popularity between the ages of 27 and 34,as those early relationships break down,and new relationships are formed.The move into longer skirts begins irreversibly 40 years old,when 46-cm skirts,still slightly above the knee are the norm.From then on,skirt length increases dramatically,falling below the knee for the very first time since school days at the age of 42.According to the passage,British women are happy to wear mini-skirts up until an old age because of ti following reasons EXCEPT_________.A:women are'more and more confident in their bodiesB:women nowadays pay much more attention to body building,and this provides them with well ton。 bodies to wear mini-skirtsC:the climate of Great Britain is getting warmer in recent years,thus women can wear minis for a longer timeD:more and more women are now living on their own
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Which of the following is TRUE about the ping -f command?（）A、 It is useful for diagnosing data dependent problems by filling the packet with the byte pattern following the "f" in the command line. B、 It is useful for flooding from slow character based terminals since it only displays a dot "." for each packet sent in fast mode. C、 It is useful for flooding from slow character based terminals since it only displays a dot "." for each packet sent and a backspace on returned in fast mode. D、 The command can only be run by root.
Questions from 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: The exporter, as drawer of a draft (bill of exchange), hands the draft to his bank, the remitting bank, who in turn forwards it to the buyer through a collecting bank in the buyer’s country. A draft (also called a bill) is a written order to a bank or a customer to pay someone on demand or at a fixed time in the future a certain sum of money. If shipping documents accompany the draft, the collection is called “documentary collection.” Documentary collection falls into two major categories: one is documents against payment(D/P); the other, documents against acceptance (D/A). Documents against payment, as the term suggests, is that the collecting bank will only give the shipping documents representing the title to the goods on the condition that the buyer makes payment. Where the paying arrangement is D/A, the collecting bank will only give the buyer the shipping documents after buyer’s acceptance of the bill drawn on him, i.e. the buyer signs his name on the bill promising to pay the sum when it matures. In return he gets what he needs – the shipping documents. Under D/A, the seller gives up the title to the goods – shipping documents before he gets payment of the goods. Therefore, an exporter must think twice before he accepts such paying arrangement.The meaning of D/A is（）.A、documents against acceptanceB、documents against paymentC、delivery after paymentD、cash against payment
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Questions from 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: The exporter, as drawer of a draft (bill of exchange), hands the draft to his bank, the remitting bank, who in turn forwards it to the buyer through a collecting bank in the buyer’s country. A draft (also called a bill) is a written order to a bank or a customer to pay someone on demand or at a fixed time in the future a certain sum of money. If shipping documents accompany the draft, the collection is called “documentary collection.” Documentary collection falls into two major categories: one is documents against payment(D/P); the other, documents against acceptance (D/A). Documents against payment, as the term suggests, is that the collecting bank will only give the shipping documents representing the title to the goods on the condition that the buyer makes payment. Where the paying arrangement is D/A, the collecting bank will only give the buyer the shipping documents after buyer’s acceptance of the bill drawn on him, i.e. the buyer signs his name on the bill promising to pay the sum when it matures. In return he gets what he needs – the shipping documents. Under D/A, the seller gives up the title to the goods – shipping documents before he gets payment of the goods. Therefore, an exporter must think twice before he accepts such paying arrangement.Under D/P , the importer can obtain the goods only by（）.A、showing the bill of ladingB、signing on the bill of exchangeC、paying in cashD、paying or accepting the bill of exchange
单选题It was odd that you _______ for Margie’s address. I just got a letter from her—the first one since her family moved on August 1, 1983.Ashould have askedBwould have askedCshall askDmight ask
单选题Which of the following questions is answered according to the passage?AWhat advantages does EMS have over the private couriers?BWhen was EMS set up?CHow many countries have started EMS?DWhat items are not allowed in EMS?
单选题For an accurate barometer check，you would（）.Acheck it with a barometer on another vesselBtake readings from several barometers and average themCcheck it with the barometer at the ship chandleryDcheck it against radio or National Weather Service reports of the immediate vicinity
单选题What does the paragraph following the passage most probably discuss?AHow to recover your luggageBWhere to go to continue your tripCWhen to return to the aircraftDHow to proceed once you are away from the aircraft
单选题According to this passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?ACompany workers started to dress down about twenty years ago.BDress-down has become an everyday phenomenon since the early 1990s.C“Dress-down Friday” was first given as a favor from employers.DMany workers want to wear casual clothes to impress people.
单选题Unlike the author of Passage 1, the author of Passage 2 answers which of the following questions?AWhere did Shah Jahan have the Taj Mahal constructed?BHow did Moslem influences manifest themselves in the Taj Mahal's design?CWhat role did Moslem women play in the design of the Taj Mahal?DDo all people appreciate the Taj Mahal's architecture?EHow does the Taj Mahal compare with other examples of Islamic architecture?
单选题It can be inferred from the passage that ginkgo ______.Acan improve memoryBworks after the first pillCcan produce several side effectsDcauses mild stomach discomfort
单选题Questions from 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Against this background, the WTO faces several daunting challenges. The first is to continue bringing down tariffs on traded goods. Average penalties have fallen steadily since the GATT’s formation but even the most open economies retain lofty barriers: for instance, America still charges a tariff of 14.6% on import of clothing, five times higher than its average levy. Resistance to tariff cuts is strongest in agriculture. According to Tim Josling, a trade expert at Stanford University, tariffs and other barriers on farm goods average a crippling 40% worldwide and create distortions that “destroy huge amounts of value”. A new set of global farm talk is planned to start in 1999. At the least, you might think, these could lock in impressive reforms in Latin America and encourage further watering-down of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. But they will prove difficult: squabbles over agriculture almost sank the Uruguay round.What does the WTO face?（）Afair trade rules.Bfree tradeCexport tax reduction.Dseveral challenges.
单选题INTERVIEW2 In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. Which of the following is NOT Vera’s tip for finding a new job?ANarrow down the scope of search.BDecide what you value the most.CDo some soul searching.DMake your resume distinctive.
单选题NEWS BROADCAST 4 Questions 8 and 9 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. Top officials of several U. S. intelligence agencies believe thatAthe country’s security is not good enough.Bthe U. S. will face an attempted terrorist threat.Cthere will be no actual attack in the U.S.Dan anti-terrorism practice will be held in the following months.
单选题The primary purpose of the first four sentences of Passage 1 is to ______.Aintroduce a discussion with a storyBestablish the author's main thesisCdefine several key conceptsDprovide the historical background to a debateEcharacterize two positions on an issue