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Misers everywhere: that Mediterranean cruise could be within reach at last. There’ll be no free ride to the port, and no free food or entertainment on board. The cabin will measure 30 meters square and housekeeping will be extra. But the fiberglass suite is easy to clean, and costs as little as ￡29 a night.
Earlier this year, serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man who gave Europe its first budget airline, cashed in ￡14 million of his easyJet shares to fund what he calls a "little shopping spree." Boldly expanding his no-frills model into new markets, Stelios (he insists on first-name in formality) plans to open the first easyHotel in London this year with prices from ￡ 5 a night, an easy Bus fleet and easy Cruise, ready to sail next summer. Also on the list: easy Pizzas and easy Tele com, a mobile-phone service.
Can he make it work The soaring success of easyJet and its rivals was Europe’s great business story
A. it is all about transportation.
B. it provides no first-class service.
C. it lowers the amount of expenditure.
D. it has many chain stores.

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Misers everywhere: that Mediterranean cruise could be within reach at last. There’ll be no free ride to the port, and no free food or entertainment on board. The cabin will measure 30 meters square and housekeeping will be extra. But the fiberglass suite is easy to clean, and costs as little as ￡29 a night.
Earlier this year, serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man who gave Europe its first budget airline, cashed in ￡14 million of his easyJet shares to fund what he calls a "little shopping spree." Boldly expanding his no-frills model into new markets, Stelios (he insists on first-name in formality) plans to open the first easyHotel in London this year with prices from ￡ 5 a night, an easy Bus fleet and easy Cruise, ready to sail next summer. Also on the list: easy Pizzas and easy Tele com, a mobile-phone service.
Can he make it work The soaring success of easyJet and its rivals was Europe’s great business story
A. the no-kills model is very successful.
B. Stelios's expansion plans have great future.
C. Stelios can hardly repeat his soaring success in easy Jet.
D. Stelios is very careful in applying his model.

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Teachers grumble over pay everywhere, but in West Virginia Wesleyan College the anger is a cute. Salaries here have barely moved since 2000, and the average assistant professor’s pay has fallen below that at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. On a campus with just 86 full-time faculty, a sociology professor said, a few hundred thousand dollars more spent on teaching could make a real difference.
Wesleyan President William Haden says the college plans to raise faculty pay. But he says Wesleyan is nothing without students—"they vote with their feet"—and the college has no choice but to address their wants and needs. He says technology has been a big part of that, and some recent graduates agree that it’s valuable—though maybe not essential. Daniel Simmons, a 1999 graduate and also a middle-school teacher, praised the technology program. "If I had gone to another school it wouldn’t
A. Wesleyan needs to improve its aging school facilities.
B. the technology program is not so attractive to the students.
C. foresighted students concern more about obvious growth.
D. Skinner prefers to excellent facilities in Wesleyan.

[单项选择]Conditions everywhere have been seriously worsened, ______ the postwar rise in prices.


A. as to
B. in relation to
C. owing to
D. with regard to

[单项选择]In the Mediterranean seaweed is so abundant and so easily harvested that it is never of great ______
A. fare
B. payment
C. worth
D. expense

[单项选择]Rumours are everywhere spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into ones.


A. turbulent
B. tragic
C. vulnerable
D. suspicious

[单项选择]Audiences everywhere found the American dream in the ______

[单项选择]We got so used to seeing advertisements everywhere that they become largely invisible（）
A. 我们习惯了看到比比皆是的广告，以至于这些广告大都变成隐形的了。
B. 我们变得习惯于看到处处都是有形或隐形的广告了。
C. 我们对比比皆是的广告已经习以为常，所以往往对它们视而不见。
D. 我们适应了看到处处都是广告，所以大部分广告几乎不被我们所见。

[单项选择]The arrival of computers everywhere in the workplace would，we were assured，soon make paper a thing of the past（）
A. 电脑铺天盖地出现在工作场所各处，我们深信有纸办公即将成为过去的事情。
B. 电脑出现在工作场所各处，我们确信，有纸办公很快会成为过去的事情。
C. 电脑铺天盖地出现在工作场所的各个角落，使我们深信有纸办公即将成为历史。
D. 我们确信电脑到达了办公场所各个地方，很快会使纸的生产成为历史。

[单项选择]Rumors are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into ones.


A. turbulent
B. tragic
C. vulnerable
D. suspicious