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[单项选择] Today, the British fleet no longer dominates the high seas: our share of the world’’s merchant fleet has fallen from 40 per cent to around eight per cent. But, in terms of tonnage, the British merchant navy has continued to expand. It can now carry over two-thirds more than it could in 1914, and, almost alone among our traditional industries, shipping has remained a major success story.
Unlike the rest of British industry, ship-owners invested big. In the early 1960s, the shipping companies made full use of government grants and tax concessions. Between 1966 and 1976, British shipping lines invested at a rate of over ￡ 1 million a day. By the early 1970s, it seemed that, somewhere in the world, a new British ship was being launched every week. The result is that Britain has a very modern fleet: the average age of our merchant ships is only six years, and over half the fleet is under five years old. For some time now, British shipping managers have stayed ahead of the competiti
A. Government grants and tax concessions.
B. Big investment by British shipping lines.
C. Favorable international competition environment.
D. The "conference".
[填空题]What must be provided as people live longer today than before
[填空题]Subway is no longer central to the city today.
[填空题]The family today is no longer the unit of economic production that it once was. When our society was predominantly rural, both husband and wife produced goods of (36) value that could either be sold or be used by the family. Equally important, there was no (37) of home and work, the home was also the business. In the early stages of (38) , when many people worked in their homes and sold their wares in home front shops, much the same was true. However, once the (39) pattern began to be to work outside the home, as it certainly has been during much of the 20th century, the importance of the family as a unit of economic production (40) One effort of this is that the economic meaning of divorce changed. Under the old pattern, a divorce meant not only a disruption of the family but also the (41) of a productive business. Today, it no longer has that meaning, and thus one major disincentive to divorce has been eliminated.
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For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines—a never-ending flood of words. In (41) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (42) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (43) readers. Most of us develop poor reading (44) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (45) in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have (46) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. (47) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (48) words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (49) you have just re
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