[填空题]They want to (short) ______ the time it takes to make the car.

[填空题]They want to (short) ______ the time it takes to make the car.

[判断题]

It takes longer time to travel by river is one of the major reasons that the inland waterway system was unable to compete with other forms of transportation.

[单项选择]What is offered for a short time
A. A discount price
B. An extended warranty
C. A complimentary book
D. A free product trial

[单项选择]—Learning a language isn't easy. It takes time.
—I agree.（）. There's no shortcut.
A. All roads lead to Rome
B. Rome wasn't built in a day
C. Practice makes perfect
D. Slow but sure wins the race

[单项选择]Making a film takes a long time and is very hard work. Writing for the film may take many weeks. Filming the story being acted—or shooting the film, as it is called—often takes at least six months. Actors and camera-men work from very early in the morning until late at night. Each scene has to be acted and re-acted, filmed and re-filmed, until it is just right. Sometimes the same scene may have to be acted twenty or thirty times.
The film studio is like a large factory, and the indoor stages are very big indeed. Scenery of all kinds is made in the studio: churches, houses, castles, and factories are all built of wood and cardboard. Several hundred people work together to make one film. Some of these people are the actors and actresses. The director of the film, however, is the most important person in a film studio. He decides how the scenes should be filmed and how the actors should act.
Most people go to see a film because they know the film-stars in it. Sometimes the film
A. wood and cardboard
B. indoor stages
C. houses
D. films

[填空题]Firecrackers have been around for a short time.

[单项选择]Unemployment due to the time it takes for qualified workers to be matched with existing job openings describes:（）
A. structural unemployment.
B. frictional unemployment.
C. cyclical unemployment.

[简答题]With such a short time left before the deadline，______ (Jimmy看似不可能完成这项工作)．

[单项选择]TEXT A
If you want to see what it takes to set up an entirely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes.
But over the past few years Dubal has built a new financial center from nothing. Dozens of the world’s leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big firms are willing to risk missing out.
Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainchild of the riding A1-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Finns licensed for it are not approved to serve the local financi
A. new skyscrapers need to be built to guarantee the confidence of financial markets.
B. cutting on taxes and giving more incentives brings the confidence of financial markets.
C. the government is trying to bring the confidence of financial markets down.
D. it takes great efforts to build the confidence and prosperity of financial markets.