They may be one of Britain’s most
successful exports and among the world’s most popular TV shows, ranking
alongside the World Cup Final and the Olympic Games opening ceremony in terms of
audience. But, in Britain, beauty competitions are unfashionable. To most
people, beauty contests seem as out-dated as bowing. Nicolas Barker, a lawyer in
London, said that" As much as I think it’s fine for women to do it I don’t think
it’s interesting and in fact. I think they’re irrelevant to today". Last year,
Miss World was broadcast to 142 countries, but it wasn’t even shown in this
country where it started in 1951. It wasn’t always this way in Britain. once, beauty queens dated footballers, traveled the world and were guaranteed fame, fortune and fun. Now, they open new supermarkets, are sponsored by dry-cleaning companies and, if they’re lucky, they get free cloth A. bringing huge benefits for the country B. as popular as the World Cup Final C. no longer popular in the country D. widely protested in the country [填空题]Britain’s Concealed Advantage
[单项选择]Britain’s undeclared general election campaign has already seen the politicians trading numbers as boxers trade punches. There is nothing new in such statistical slanging matches (相互谩骂). What is new is an underestimation of worry about what has been happening to official statistics under the Labour government.
One of the most important figures for Gordon Brown when presenting his pre-election budget on March 16th was the current-budget balance. This is the gap between current revenues and current spending. It matters to the chancellor of the exchequer (财政部长) because he is committed to meeting his own "golden rule" of borrowing only to invest, so he has to ensure that the current budget is in balance or surplus over the economic cycle. Mr. Brown told MPs that he would meet the golden rule for the current cycle with ~ 6 billion ( $11.4 billion) to spare--a respectable-sounding margin, though much less than in the past. However, the margin woul A. whether he can deliver what he has promised. B. whether the budget is realistic over the economic cycle. C. whether his government wins the next election. D. whether the golden rule is a sound theory. 我来回答: 提交
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