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The law firm Patrick worked for before he died filed for bankruptcy protection a year after his funeral. After his death, the firm’s letterhead properly included him- Patrick S. Lanigan, 1954～1992. He was listed up in the right-hand corner, just above the paralegals. Then the rumors got started and wouldn’t stop. Before long, everyone believed he had taken the money and disappeared. After three months, no one on the Gulf Coast believed that he was dead. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up. The remaining partners in the law firm were still together, attached unwillingly at the hip by the bondage of mortgages and the bank notes, back when they were rolling and on the verge of serious wealth. They had been joint defendants in several unwinnable lawsuits; thus the bankruptcy. Since Patrick’s A. (A) They all wanted to divorce their wives. B. (B) They were all heavily involved in debts. C. (C) They were all recovering from drinking. D. (D) They had bought new homes, yachts, etc. [填空题]
Wanted: ACCOUNTANT [单项选择]Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon (结肠).（）
A. 一些研究表明80%的癌症，特别是结肠癌，也和人们饮食有关。 B. 一些研究表明80%的癌症，特别是结肠癌，也和人们节食有关。 C. 一些研究表明80%的癌症，特别是结肠癌，人们节食就不会得。 D. 80%研究体现癌症，特别是结肠癌与人们饮食有关。 E. 80%研究证明人们节食就不得癌症，特别是结肠癌。 [单项选择]Which of the following statements about the percentage-of-completion and completed contract methods is FALSE The completed contract method will produce:（）
A. the same cash flows as that using the percentage-of-completion method. B. smaller net worth and retained earnings than using the percentage-of-completion method. C. greater net income in the periods before construction is completed, but not at the end of the contract, than using the percentage-of-completion method. [填空题]A recent survey reveals that a startling 37 percent of the country’s workforce—some 54 million people—have bosses who scream at them, belittle them, sabotage their work, and are otherwise aggressive. Social scientists and policymakers are very concerned about this toxic phenomenon, if only because of the enormous personal and economic costs. It’s hard for people to do their best work when they are busy trying to avoid the office ogre.
So why are workplace tyrants so common What’s the psychological dynamic underlying such dysfunction at the top It’s not simply the power; there are many powerful bosses who are good and decent—or at least tolerable. Power corrupts only some—but which ones and why Two psychologists recently decided to explore one possible explanation: perhaps it is power, but only power mixed with incompetence, that leads to aggression and abuse. Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California and Serena Chen of the University of California, Berkel [单项选择]The world’s rainforests cover less than ten percent of the earth’s surface, but contain over forty percent of all plant and animal species. The biggest rainforest is in South America, it’s called the Amazon.
Amazon is by far the largest remaining rainforest area left on our planet. It’s about 6 to 7 million square kilometers. It’s about two-thirds the size of the United States including Alaska. It’s enormous. Sixty percent of it is in Brazil, but the rainforest also extends into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Surinam. And amazingly each year the Amazon provides twenty percent of the world’s fresh water. Here you can find at least 60-70 thousand plant species and at least 3 thousand species of fresh water fish. And more monkeys than you find anywhere else on earth. In Brazil alone nine new species of monkeys have been identified over the last year. But many of those species, known and unknown, are destroyed every day. Moreover, constant logging, A. A．3) means ______ . frequentB. gradualC. continuousD. quick 我来回答: 提交
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