[单项选择]Recent audits revealed that BanqueCard, a credit service, has erred in calculating the interest it charges its clients. But BanqueCard’s chief accountant reasoned that the profits that the company shows would remain unaffected by a revision of its clients’, credit statements to correct its previous billing errors, since just as many clients had been overcharged as undercharged.
Which of the following is a reasoning error that the accountant makes in concluding that correcting its clients’ statements would leave BanqueCard’s profits unaffected
A. Relying on the reputation of BanqueCard as a trustworthy credit service to maintain the company’s clientele after the error becomes widely known.
B. Failing to establish that BanqueCard charges the same rates of interest for all of its clients.
C. Overlooking the possibility that the amount by which BanqueCard’s clients had been overcharged might be greater than the amount by which they had been undercharged.
D. Assuming that the clients who had been overcharged by BanqueCard had not noticed the error in their credit bills.
E. (E) Presupposing that each one of BanqueCard’s clients had either been overcharged or else had been undercharged by the billing error.

[单项选择]Competitors complain that Microsoft’s recent settlement of their antitrust case with the federal government will do little to protect them or consumers from the software giant’s monopoly power. But they hold out hope that state attorney generals could make the deal more restrictive. "My guess is that all Bill Gates could do was to suppress a big grin when he held his press conference this morning," said Mitchell Kertz-man, chief executive of Liberate Technologies, a rival provider of software for interactive TV. "This settlement does not come close to matching the scope of the violation of antitrust law that Microsoft has been convicted of," he added. "It was an inexplicably bad deal for the government."
Microsoft and the Justice Department presented the settlement to a federal judge Friday, saying that it would end the antitrust case in a way that would help the declining economy. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed to review it and gave the 18 states involved in the
A. They felt that the settlement was at least partially successful.
B. They felt the penalties against Microsoft were too harsh.
C. They believed that the settlement was a sign of progress.
D. They were under pressure to demand changes in the settlement.

[简答题] 　　You borrowed some recent issues of U. S. business magazine from your professor a month ago, but delayed returning them. Write a letter of apology to your professor, stating your reasons for the delay and expressing your thanks. 　　Write your letter in no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points)

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Could you describe the speaker’s recent activity
A. He’s never lonely, for he has worked in his own company.
B. He started a business after he had gained some experience.
C. He’s upset about his own business for three years.
D. He needed to spend three more years working with the IT firm.

[判断题]Credit instruments are issues by which investors supply permanent financing to firms or other borrowers including governments.

[单项选择]第二篇 Credit Card Only Works When Spoken to A credit card that will not work unless it hears its owner’s voice could become an important weapon in the fight against fraud(欺骗)． The card requires users to give a spoken password that it recognizes using a built-in Voice-recognition chip．The idea is to prevent thieves using a stolen card or fraudsters using someone else’s credit card details to buy goods online． A model built by engineers at Beepcard in Santa Monica，California，represents the first attempt to pack a microphone。a loudspeaker，a battery and a voice recognition chip into a standard．sized credit card． They are not quite there yet：the card is the length and width of an ordinary credit card，but it is still about three times as thick．The company now plans to make it thinner． The voice card is based on an earlier Beepcard technology designed to prevent fraud in online transactions This earlier card has no microphone，but has a built in loudspeaker that i
A. it can be made cost-effectively．
B. it can leave voice messages，
C. it makes online shopping easy
D. it makes fraud difficult．

[单项选择]　　Crosby’’s recent study of American historical demography is blithely based on the reconstitution of the records of single parishes, a method that often excludes migrants. Moreover, it is troublesome for historians to obtain information on the birthdates of people who relocated to the parish, and equally difficult to follow those who had migrated to new places of residence. Thus, the exclusion of migrants also followed from the way spatial units were once conceived by the parishioners themselves, a stable and unchanging pre-modern countryside of interchangeable towns unlike "modern" flows to cities. 　　As a result, migration was improperly assumed to be irrelevant because the small units in the countryside were interchangeable and migrants into a parish could thus stand as a proxy for those who had left. In any case, it was thought that migration in the countryside was repetitive and occurred only in response to life course events, such as finding a spouse, and thus, like the parishi
A. summarizing the findings of a study
B. placing new research within its historical context
C. evaluating the methodology of a historian
D. comparing various demographical techniques
E. establishing categories

[填空题]One of London Zoo’s recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality. Headlined "Without zoos you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed", it was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species and went on to extol the myth that without zoos like London Zoo these animals "will almost certainly disappear forever". With the zoo world’s rather mediocre record on conservation, one might be forgiven for being slightly skeptical about such an advertisement.
Zoos were originally created as places of entertainment, and their suggested involvement with conservation didn’t seriously arise until about 30 years ago, when the Zoological Society of London held the first formal international meeting or3 the subject. Eight years later, a series of world conferences took place, entitled "The Breeding of the Endangered Species", and from this point onwards conservation became the zoo community’s buzzword. This commitment has now been clearly d

[单项选择]The republication of the poet’’s most recent works will certainly ______his national reputation.
A. enhance
B. strengthen
C. enlarge
D. magnify

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