[单项选择]If present______ continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
A. emergencies
B. trends
C. paces
D. schedules

[单项选择]If present______ continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
A. emergencies
B. trends
C. paces
D. schedules

[单项选择]Exports of United States wood pulp will rise considerably during this year. The reason for the rise is that the falling value of the dollar will make it cheaper for paper manufacturers in Japan and Western Europe to buy American wood pulp than to get it from any other source.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above
A. Factory output of paper products in Japan and Western Europe will increase sharply during this year.
B. The quality of the wood pulp produced in the United States would be adequate for the purposes of Japanese and Western European paper manufacturers.
C. Paper manufacturers in Japan and Western Europe would prefer to use wood pulp produced in the United States if cost were not a factor.
D. Demand for paper products made in Japan and Western Europe will not increase sharply during this year.
E. (E) Production of wood pulp by United States companies will not increase sharply during this year.

[多项选择]Question 2
·Your company or organisation is considering the best way to improve efficiency. You have been asked to write a report giving recommendations on this.
·Write the report, outlining some of the problems the company has concerning efficiency and suggesting solutions. Refer to at least two of the following areas:
·staffing levels
·administration
·communications
·management
Question 3
·The company you work for faces increasing competition and the managing director has asked you to suggest ways of meeting this challenge.
·Write a proposal for the managing director, including the following information:
·reasons for the increased competition
·ways to increase sales
·any extra resources that might be needed
·any disadvantages there might be.
Question 4
·An international fund is offering grants to small businesses to improve their facilities. Your manager has decided to apply and has asked

[单项选择]Which of the following is least likely to be considered a drawback of utilitarianism（　）
A. Wealth transfer from the rich to the poor is expensive.
B. High income earners will work more.
C. Cost of tax administration associated with wealth transfers.

[单项选择]A. He feels sorry for those students.
B. He considers the punishment excessive.
C. He thinks it good to punish those students.
D. He disapproves of what the professor did.

[填空题]______ while standing outside a house is not considered by most Americans as being inside the house or room.

[填空题](take)_______the financial difficulties into consideration, we’’d better put off the plan till next year.

[单项选择]

Escaping from the Earth
The Earth has a force that pulls things toward itself. We call this force gravity(地心引力). This is something we live with all the time, and we take it for granted and hardly ever think about it. But it is a most important factor in rocket operation and must be overcome if we are to get anywhere in space, or off the ground at all.
Take the throwing of a ball as an example. The harder the ball is thrown, the faster and higher it will go. What is the secret Its speed. If we could throw the ball hard enough it would go up and up forever and never come down. The speed at which it would have to be thrown to do this is known as escape speed. Of course, we cannot throw a ball hard enough because the speed required to escape completely from the Earth’s gravity is seven miles per second, or over twenty-five thousand miles per hour.
Once escape speed has been reached by a spacecraft(宇宙飞船), no further power is needed. A rocket aimed
A. Seventy miles per second.
B. Seven thousand miles per hour.
C. Twenty-five thousand miles per second.
D. Twenty-five thousand miles per hour.