[填空题]Multinational companies have grown in size, but the local workers are not happy with their conditions.

[单项选择]Nowadays many multinational companies are evolving from mass production manufacturing to ________enterprises.


A. moveable
B. mobile
C. flexible
D. versatile

[填空题]The shareholders of multinational companies are likely to contribute towards a more even distribution of wealth.

[单项选择]Falling sales and rising overheads have obliged the company to review each customer's（）limit.
A. credit
B. currency
C. check
D. certificate

[单项选择]

In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastestgrowing the U. S. minority. As their children began moving up through the nation’s schools, it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging. Their achievements are reflected in the nation’s best universities, where mathematics, science and engineering departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character. This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact’ that Asian-American students who began their educations abroad arrived in the U.S. with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. Asians feel they will be judged more objectively. And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an arts degree.
Most Asian-American students owe their success to the influence of parents who are deter- mined that t
A. feel they are mistreated because of limited knowledge of English
B. are afraid that their academic successes bear a strong Asian character
C. still worry about unfair treatment in society
D. generally feel it a shame to have to depend on their parents

[单项选择]What advantage do home-grown vegetables have


A. They are fresher than those bought in markets.
B. They are ideal foods for people on a diet.
C. They are easy to keep in a cool area.
D. They can be frozen to increase nutrition.

[单项选择]We are delighted at the news（）they have started the business cooperation you’re your company.
A. that
B. when
C. which
D. what

[单项选择]If we had followed his plan, we would have done the job with （　）money and （　） people
A. less, less
B. fewer, fewer
C. less, fewer
D. fewer, less

[单项选择]Had he found the right buyer．he would have sold the house．
A. 只要找到了合适的买方，他才能出售房屋。
B. 如果找到了合适的买方，他就会把房屋售出。
C. 如果找到了合适的买方，他就已经把房屋售出了。
D. 他已经找到了正式的买方，并会把房屋售出。

[单项选择]The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring, and reheating iron ore.
Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle (易碎的). As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted, to steel. The Bessemer Converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a mater of minutes.
Just when th
A. cheaper and more plentiful
B. lighter, and easier to mold
C. cleaner, and easier to mine
D. stronger and more durable

[填空题]Most theories about the evolution of Earth have the same general point of view.

[单项选择]Today’s students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革淅) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字的), they are impatient to get on with life.
The easiest way to find kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them.
A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 50,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two-and four-year campuses--up from just 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which u
A. Entrepreneurship, or at least certain elements of it, can be taught.
B. An entrepreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isn’t all about business.
C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields.
D. Colleges shouldn’t put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs.