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[单项选择]CYCLES MOVE WITH THE TIMES
Times have been hard for the UK cycle industry. Poor weather and competition from abroad have had a serious effect on sales. Manufacturers have had to cut back and last month more than 40 job losses were announced at Cycle World, one of the country’s main bicycle factories in Leicester. But the company says it is fighting to win back customers, using such strategies as improved after-sales and bikes built to specific customer requirements.
Two years ago, Cycle World sold off its bike-making machinery in an effort to cut costs and save money. The company’s Leicester factory is now only an assembly plant as most of the parts are imported.
The company produces half a million bikes a year across the full Cycle World range, with nearly all of these being sold in the UK. Production is largely done by hand. Workers use the batch production method - everyone making up to 600 bikes of a particular model at any one time.
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[填空题]Airlines have been hit hard this year by a rise in the price of jet fuel, ______ (比2008年增长了80%).
[单项选择]He must have been very hard to please, indeed, if he did not approve the salary of he job.
A. if he had not approved
B. if he is not approved of
C. if he not approves
D. if he had not approved of
[单项选择]It is hard to say how long people have been drinking wine. Wine is far older than recorded history. Some experts say it is as old as (31) itself.
The flint wine ever made was (32) an accident. People in ancient times (33) have picked ripe grapes. Some juicy grapes at the bottom of the container were (34) together. As the grapes broke open, yeasts on the skins went to work turning sugar from the fruit into alcohol. It is the fermentation (35) that turns grape juice into wine.
Wine was not just about having a/an (36) drink. It could be stored for future use. (37) it was nutritious and much safer to drink than water during early times. Some experts say that up (38) the 1600s in Europe, wine was one of the only prepared drinks. After that, wine had (39) from beer, coffee, and tea.
Winemaking probably began in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Burial places in ancient Egypt (40) informati
A. let
B. permitted
C. guaranteed
D. ensured