[单项选择]We are on the （） of a new era in European relations.
A. threshold
B. advent
C. commencement
D. departure

[单项选择]The new era of television is brought about by ______.


A. modern technologies
B. computer technologies
C. television technologies
D. the combination of TV and computer technologies

[单项选择]All the information we have collected in relation to that case______very little.


A. makes up for
B. adds up to
C. comes up with
D. puts up with

[单项选择]We can get inadequate money for our new project.
A. enough
B. efficient
C. marginal
D. insufficient

[单项选择]We are hoping for a large sale of our new products because the new car design ______ all the latest safety features.
A. illuminates
B. scrutinizes
C. simulates
D. incorporates

[单项选择]New York is truly an exciting place and we've decided to stay for （　） three weeks.
A. another
B. other
C. the other
D. other's

[单项选择]We'll begin to（）the new plan next month.
A. carry out
B. carry off
C. carry on
D. carry up

[单项选择]The new teacher was very nervous ______ she was well prepared.


A. despite
B. unless
C. even
D. even though

[单选题]We'11 never forget ( ) in New York last year.
A. us to meet a few friends
B. our meeting a few friends
C. a few friends to meet
D. a few friends meeting

[单项选择]For relation R where primary key contains multiple attributes,no non-key attribute should be functionally dependent on a part of the primary key. This relation R is at least in
A. 1NF
B. 2NF
C. 3NF
D. BCNF

[单项选择]European leaders trying to give Saddam Hussein


A. a last resort.
B. a warning.
C. a deadline.
D. a setback.

[单项选择]What was the relation of the BOJ's monetary policy and the call from Japanese Prime Minister


A. The policy supported his call.
B. The policy was against the call.
C. The policy and the call were interdependent.
D. The policy and the call were the same to some degree.

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Text 4
In an Internet era, whether globalization means democracy and development or hindrance to progress, foreign interference and .U.S.-led economic domination over the developing countries has evoked hot debate.
Globalization is an inevitable tendency which has brought great opportunities such as exchange of knowledge and information, access to other societies, as well as economic competitions and exposure to different value systems. On the other hand, it is also accompanied by a multitude of challenges together with side effects on the form of increased poverty rates, but the effect is not always predetermined, because the problem is how to deal with it and make preparation for minimizing the challenge.
Statistics demonstrate in the last two centuries the individual income average has decreased, and the shares of profit in the Third World also have demolished, in contrary to the developed world. There is an international distortion due to the ex
A. Globalization is terrible.
B. Globalization is beautified by the international media, but it is not so ideal as they broadcast.
C. Globalization has proven that the whole world is nothing but corruption.
D. Globalization is an ideological expression and it has nothing practical in it.

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Passage Four
The first European stock exchange was established in Antwerp, Belgium(比利时) , in 1531. There were no stock exchanges in England until the 1700’ s. A man wishing to buy or sell shares of stock had to find a broker(agents) to transact his business for him. In London, he usually went to a coffee house, because brokers often gathered there. In 1773, the brokers of London formed a stock exchange.
In New York City, brokers met under an old button-wood tree on Wall Street. They organized the New York Stock Exchange in 1792. The American Stock Exchange, second largest in the United States, was formerly called the Curb Exchange because of its origin on the streets of New York City.
A stock exchange is a market place where member brokers buy and sell stocks and bonds (债券) of American and foreign businesses on behalf of the public. A stock exchange provides a market place for stocks and bonds in the same way a board of trade does for commodit
A. the Wall Street
B. the stock exchange
C. the stock
D. the stockholder and stockbroker