[单项选择]Is telemarketing fraud a new concept to you Some people learn it the hard way. I’ d like to share my experience with you and tell you how not to fall for it. The other day I got a phone call Offering me a" free" vacation-for which the person on the other end said that I had to send a processing fee. I didn’t jump at it. On another day, in my letterbox there was a postcard telling me that I had won a new car, but to get the car I needed to call with my credit card number to pay for shipping charges. It sounds like a dream-come-true. But all too often, these dream deals turn out to be nightmares.
Many people fall for the fast talk, send their money or give their credit card or bank account numbers, wait for employment information or plane tickets that never show up, and find themselves poorer-sometimes by hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Even people who are usually very careful about their finances can get hooked.
Telemarketing fraud is a very business. The problem is so
A. My Experience on Telemarketing Fraud
B. Victims of Telemarketing Fraud
C. Telemarketing Fraud
D. Postcard Solicitation

[单项选择]Is telemarketing fraud a new concept to you Some people learn it the hard way. I’ d like to share my experience with you and tell you how not to fall for it. The other day I got a phone call Offering me a" free" vacation-for which the person on the other end said that I had to send a processing fee. I didn’t jump at it. On another day, in my letterbox there was a postcard telling me that I had won a new car, but to get the car I needed to call with my credit card number to pay for shipping charges. It sounds like a dream-come-true. But all too often, these dream deals turn out to be nightmares.
Many people fall for the fast talk, send their money or give their credit card or bank account numbers, wait for employment information or plane tickets that never show up, and find themselves poorer-sometimes by hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Even people who are usually very careful about their finances can get hooked.
Telemarketing fraud is a very business. The problem is so
A. they learn it the hard way
B. telemarketing fraud is a new concept to them
C. they have no experience of it
D. no reason mentioned in the passage

[填空题]Some new technological problems in the introduction of the new systems will occur in the future.

[单项选择]-- Have you ______ some new ideas
-- Yeah. I’ll tell you later.
A. come about
B. come into
C. come up with
D. come out with

[单项选择] Canada’’s Competition Bureau has some new guidelines governing on-line advertising and marketing that businesses with websites should keep in mind when making claims about products and services. On February 18, 2003, the Bureau clarified the rules relating to on-line advertising and marketing in an Information Bulletin addressing the application of the Competition Act to representations on the Internet. The Competition Act basically sets out rules relating to misleading representations and deceptive marketing practices. The Bulletin was issued to foster obedience with the Competition Act and ensure greater fairness, predictability and transparency in its application to representations made on the Internet. Specifically, it contains criminal and civil provisions that prohibit misleading representations and deceptive marketing practices related to products or services. Any representation that is false or misleading in a "material respect" is prohibited. As determined by the courts
A. applies equally to all representations
B. conveys a false impression to ordinary citizens
C. should be followed rigorously
D. has effectively eliminated deceptive online advertising

[单项选择]Why do some new products succeed, bring millions of dollars to innovative companies, while others fail, often with great losses7 The answer is not simple, and certainly we cannot say that "good" products succeed while "bad" products fail. Many products that function well and seem to meet consumer needs have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes, virtually identical products exist in the market at the same time with one emerging as profitable while the other fails. Mc. Neal Laboratories’ Tylenol has become successful as an aspirin substitute, yet Bristol Meyers entered the test market at about the same time with Neotrend, also a substitute for aspirin which quickly failed.
The nature of the product is a factor in its success or failure, but the important point is that they should aim at meeting the customer’s need, and the introductory promotion should seek to communicate that need satisfying quality and motivate the customer to try the product. Often, attitude change is involved, and
A. They are names of two drug manufactures.
B. They are probably two new brands of medicine which serve as a substitute for aspirin.
C. Tylenol is a drug manufacturer whereas Neotrend is a new substitute medicine for aspirin.
D. They are probably the names of chemists who invented the new medicine.

[填空题]There are some steps you can take yourself to avoid catching a cold. Contrary to popular belief, colds are not caused by (26) severe weather. Colds are caused by viruses (27) in the body, and you’re better off out on the ski slopes or even waiting for the bus on a snowy day than you are in a (28) warm room surrounded by friends, co-workers, or fellow students, who just may be passing the virus around. If you feel a chill when you’re coming down with a cold, you’re already sick. A chill is an early (29) : it’s the cold that caused the chill, not the other way around.
While the virus can spread through droplets (30) the air when a cold-sufferer coughs or sneezes, surprisingly, this is not the most common route of (31) . Numerous studies have now shown that the (32) majority of colds are "caught" by hand contact. A cold-sufferer rubs her nose, (33) transferring the virus to her hand. Then a friend