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[单项选择]On one occasion a reporter asked Henry Racamier if his shops ever thought of having a sale. "A sale" Mr. Racamier examined the word as though an impropriety had been uttered. "No," he said finally. On the contrary, his policy was to make the firm’s goods ever more alluring by increasing prices, not reducing them.
Mr. Racamier had taken over the leather goods firm of Louis Vuitton in 1977 when its business was slipping. Fewer and fewer people wanted leather luggage. The new generation of travelers was buying lightweight luggage that did not need the assistance of porter; best give leather back to the cows. Mr. Racamier looked beyond Vuitton’s traditional European market to Asia. In the 1970s, the "tiger" economies were producing a middle class gaining a taste for luxuries. A Vuitton steamer trunk might seem in Paris to belong to a bygone age, as indeed it did, but to a newly rich family in Seoul or Taipei it carried cachet. Did you know that a trunk like this was made for the pasha
A. It had always been a family business.
B. Its business was limited to luggage.
C. It had never become a successful business.
D. Its customers were mainly wealthy peopl
[单项选择]One day Henry was asked to go to a big dinner party by a rich mail. He was wearing old clothes and went to the rich man’s house. When he got there, nobody came out to meet him and nobody gave him a seat at a table. Then Henry went back home, and put on his best clothes, and came back to the party. The rich man and the people at the party got up at once and came to meet him. The rich man was very kind to him and took him to the best table, gave him a good seat and the best food.
Henry took off his coat, put it in front of the food and asked, "Eat, my dear coat!"
The other people were surprised and said, "What are you doing " Henry answered, "I was asking my coat to eat. When I was wearing my old clothes, nobody looked at me or gave me any food or drink. Then I went home and came back in these fine clothes, and everything changed. You gave me these things for my clothes, not for me./
A young woman asked Henry to a dinner party.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.
[简答题]Pious, a Church Minister, asked one of his parishioners Short, an accountant, to prepare the fi nancial statements for the church. Short agreed to perform the service at no charge. He instructed a trainee accountant, Bruce, to do the work but not to spend too much time at it.
Bruce immediately worked on the assignment but he did not follow ordinary accounting procedures, which would have revealed that a church employee, Smart Alec, was regularly stealing from the church’s funds. This carried on for two years and the church lost $20,000 due to Smart Alec’s stealing.
Required:
In relation to the law of obligations explain whether Short would be liable to the church for the sum of $20,000·00 for failing to timeously discover Smart Alec’s fraud. (10 marks)
[填空题]Henry asked whether he was to lock the door or leave it (unlock)（）
[填空题]Henry walked for one hour and a half to get home．
It______Henry one hour and a half to walk home．
[单项选择]Henry James was regarded as one of the pioneers of______, and had great influence on the age that followed.
A. black humour
B. existential novel
C. psychoanalytical novel
D. psychological novel
[判断题]When Henry turned twenty-one, he drove to the courthouse to vote.
