[单项选择]This car costs ______the other one.
A. as much over
B. as much more as
C. as much to
D. as much as

[单项选择]The car costs ______ the other one.
A. as much over
B. as much to
C. as much more as
D. as much as

[单项选择]This car costs ______ the other one.
A. as much over
B. as much more as
C. as much to
D. as much as

[单项选择]Which of the following costs for a car manufacturer is not the variable cost
A. tiers
B. steel
C. paint
D. plant depreciation

[单项选择]A: I haven't been driving as fast as the other cars. B: ______

[单项选择]They will buy the car （） it costs.
A. whenever
B. wherever
C. however
D. whatever

[单项选择]Each year, car theft and burglary together costs us about______.


A. ￡300
B. ￡150
C. ￡450
D. ￡250

[单项选择]The other day, my brother drove his car down the street at ______ I thought was a dangerous speed.
A. as
B. which
C. what
D. that

[单项选择]Rising energy costs increase operating costs ______ for many older air - conditioning systems in large buildings, causing owners to seek help.


A. heatedly
B. severely
C. fiercely
D. drastically

[单项选择]Steps must be taken to reduce administration costs.（）
A. government
B. management
C. organization
D. instruction

[单项选择]

Text 3
The costs associated with natural disasters are increasing rapidly. As a result, officials in government and industry have focused more attention on disasters and their effects. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has estimated that disasters cost the country, about 1 billion per week. Hurricane Andrew, the Midwest flood of 1993, and the Hanshin earthquake have shown that individual disasters can cost tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. This increasing cost has resulted in greater funding from government and industry for the development of technologies related to disaster prediction, and has led to more research into the effective use of predictive information.
The insurance industry has long been aware of the dangers of natural disasters; the 1906 earth-quake in San Francisco, California, bankrupted scores of insurance companies. But the industry has focused particular attention on disaster prediction in recent years, as
A. companies want to make more money from the insured places.
B. companies may thus have a better idea of the future risks.
C. companies can get more sympathies from the government.
D. companies intend to make use of people's trust in the industry.