[填空题]Jerry and Eileen proofread each other’s works and the final draft is always improved based on the other’s comments.

[单项选择]Two competitors battle each other in each match of a tournament with nine participants. What is the minimum number of matches that must occur for every competitor to battle every other competitor
A. 27
B. 36
C. 45
D. 64
E. 81

[单项选择]Jerry Srruth, CFA, works as a portfolio manager for a large investment management firm and manages investment portfolios for high-net-worth individual clients. Smith relies on high-quality investment research that is consistently sound from one of his favorite brokerage firms, Stafford Securities. In return Smith pays Stafford a higher than average commission. Additionally, Smith uses Cannan Securities, another brokerage firm for trade execution only for a particular client at that client's direction. Cannan Securities charges the highest commission of all of the brokerages Smith currently uses. Has Smith most likely violated the Standards of Professional Conduct（）
A. No.
B. Yes, by using Stafford Securities with higher than average commission.
C. Yes, by using Cannan Securities with the highest commission.

[单项选择]A salesperson works 50 weeks each year and makes an average (arithmetic mean) of 100 sales per week. If each sale is worth an average (arithmetic mean) of $1,000, then what is the total value of sales made by the salesperson in a year ？（）
A. $50，000
B. $100，000
C. $500，000
D. $1，000，000
E. $5，000，000

[填空题]person living near to each other

[单项选择]Who are talking to each other
A. A teacher and a student.
B. A mother and a son.
C. A manager and a worker.

[单项选择]Where are they to meet each other
A. At the gate of the station.
B. On the station.
C. At the airport.
D. In a shop.

[单项选择]When will they meet each other again

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When are they talking to each other
A. Before dinner.
B. At dinner.
C. After dinner.

[单项选择]Peter and Sally agree with each other on
A. reducing the production figure.
B. increasing the sales figure.
C. reducing the marketing figur

[单项选择]
How soon will the speakers see each other

[单项选择]People kill each other over diamonds; countries go to war over oil. But the world’s most expensive commodities are worth nothing in the absence of water. Fresh water is essential for life, with no substitute. Although mostly unpriced, it is the most valuable stuff in the world.
Nature has decided that the supply of water is fixed. Meanwhile demand rises as the world’s population increases and enriches itself Homes, factories and offices are sucking up ever more. But it is the planet’s growing need for food that matters most. Farming accounts for 70% of withdrawals.
Few of the world’s great rivers that run through grain-growing areas now reach the sea all the year round or, if they do, they do so as a trickle. Less obvious, though even more serious, are the withdrawals from underground, which are hidden from sight but big enough to produce changes in the Earth’s gravitational field that can be monitored by NASA’s satellites in space. Water tables are now falling in many parts
A. The value of diamonds and oil is much less than that of water.
B. Fresh water is indispensable to human because nothing can take its place.
C. It is hard to price the value of water, because it is too valuable.
D. Water is priceless because the world is always in the absence of it.

[填空题]When people communicate with each other, they exhibit a style that is strongly influenced by their culture. Communicative style refers to several characteristics of conversations between (36) . Naturally,people prefer to use their own communicative styles. (37) about communicative style (38) arise when two people from the same culture are together because their styles (39) agree. Most people-including most Americans--are as (40) of their communicative style as they are of their basic values and assumptions. Foreigners who understand something about the Americans’ communicative style will be less likely to misinterpret or (41) Americans than will those who don’t know the common characteristics of (42) communication among Americans. They will also have a better understanding of some of the (43) Americans have about other nationality groups.
(44) . The most common topic of small talk is the we