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[单项选择]Bad news for bankers
There was great uncertainty today about the future for employees of Lancet Bank following publication of (29) ...company’s yearly financial results. Losses reached £8.5m, (30) ... this year’s financial figures the worst (31) ... almost 20 years. Lancet Bank, (32) .,. was founded over a century ago (33) ...Jamie McCIoud, currently employs more (34) ... 5,000 staff at 200 branches, mainly in Wales and the north of England. Many people believe stories that the bank is planning to close most of (35) ... branches in Wales. However, the bank has refused to comment on (36) ... rumours. Gary Tooley, a spokesman for Lancet, warned that (37) ... some redundancies would be unavoidable, he could give no further details (38) ... September at the earliest. Union officials are currently involved. (39) ... talks with management and are trying to find an acceptable solution for (40) ..
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We have recently heard a great deal about the bad effects of computers on our social and economic institutions. In industry, computers mean automation, and automation means unemployment. The United States, with its extravagant investment in computers, is plagued (使得灾祸,烦恼) by unemployment for unskilled workers. Already computers have begun to displace workers whose tasks are simple. The variety of jobs, formerly done only by humans, that the machine can perform more rapidly, accurately, and economically, increases with each new generation of computers, if we follow this trend, say the pessimists (悲观主义者), we are faced with the prospect of mass unemployment for all but a handful of highly trained, highly intelligent professionals, who will then be more influential and overworked than they are now. Only recently a distinguished English physicist predicted that within twenty years electronic engineers might have to become conscientious objectors in order to prevent these machines from
A. that computers are misleading
B. that computers have caused industrial strife
C. that we are able to build bigger and faster computers
D. that we can make the most humane and intelligent use of computers
[单项选择]In a world where bad news has become everyday news, people are turning to an ancient technique to deal with stress: meditation. At meditation centers, prayer groups and yoga studios around the United States, more and more are finding peace of mind by being quiet: Some use meditation to help deal with life changes; others, to process the painful reality of political and social unrest around the world of the type that has been experienced more recently. Stress from the September 11 terrorist attacks is "probably about 70 percent" of the reason one Chicago man started meditating and practicing yoga with his new wife. He became so emotionally affected that he realized he needed help in managing his stress. The yoga classes he takes begin and end with meditation. This "quiet time" helps him feel a lot more relaxed and gives him more breath control. The fact is,though ,that he is not alone.
Across the country, many are turning to more meditative exercise as they seek both psychological an
A. justified by official regulations.
B. recorded in documentary sources.
C. proved fully by written evidence.
D. testified by therapeutic outcomes.