[单项选择]Surviving the Recession America’s recession began quietly at the end of 2007. Since then it has evolved into a global crisis. Reasonable people may disagree about whom to blame. Financiers who were not as clever as they thought they were Regulators falling asleep at work Consumers who borrowed too much Politicians who thoughtlessly promoted home-ownership for those who could not afford it All are guilty; and what a mess they have created. Since 2007 America has shed 5 million jobs. More than 15% of the workforce are jobless or underemployed - roughly 25 million workers. The only industries swelling their payrolls are health care, utilities and the federal government. The value of listed shares in American firms collapsed by 57% from its peak in October 2007 to a low in March this year, though it has since bounced back somewhat. Industrial production fell by 12. 8% in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War. Mark Zandi, and economist at Moody’s Economy, com,
A. raise its efficiency
B. cut unnecessary costs
C. avoid seeming wasteful
D. have fun in San Francisco

[单项选择]Surviving the Recession America’s recession began quietly at the end of 2007. Since then it has evolved into a global crisis. Reasonable people may disagree about whom to blame. Financiers who were not as clever as they thought they were Regulators falling asleep at work Consumers who borrowed too much Politicians who thoughtlessly promoted home-ownership for those who could not afford it All are guilty; and what a mess they have created. Since 2007 America has shed 5 million jobs. More than 15% of the workforce are jobless or underemployed - roughly 25 million workers. The only industries swelling their payrolls are health care, utilities and the federal government. The value of listed shares in American firms collapsed by 57% from its peak in October 2007 to a low in March this year, though it has since bounced back somewhat. Industrial production fell by 12. 8% in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War. Mark Zandi, and economist at Moody’s Economy, com,
A. a messy real estate market
B. a combination of causes
C. unregulated competition
D. financiers’ mismanagement

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During the global economic recession that began in mid 2008, many companies found it diffi cult to gain enough credit in the form of short-term loans from their banks and other lenders. In some cases, this caused working capital problems as short-term cash fl ow defi cits could not be funded. Ultra-Uber Limited (UU), a large manufacturer based in an economically depressed region, had traditionally operated a voluntary supplier payment policy in which it was announced that all trade payables would be paid at or before 20 days and there would be no late payment. This was operated despite the normal payment terms being 30 days. The company gave the reason for this as ‘a desire to publicly demonstrate our social responsibility and support our valued suppliers, most of whom, like UU, also provide employment in this region’. In the 20 years the policy had been in place, the UU website proudly boasted that it had never been broken. Brian Mills, the chief executive often ment

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The Voice of America began during the World War II when Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international (21) . American officials believed they should (22) the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world (23) . The first VOA news report began with these words in (24) : "The (25) may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth." Within a week, other VOA (26) were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World war II (27) in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s (28) had to be changed, (29) the Soviet Union (苏联)became the enemy of America. They wanted to reach Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began (30) something new to its broadcast that was (31) "Music USA" , Another new idea came (32) in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know (33) English to
A. connecting
B. adding
C. sticking
D. leading