[单项选择]The citizens of France are once again taking a pasting on the op-ed pages. Their failing this time is not that they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys, as they were thought to be during the invasion of Iraq, but rather that they voted to reject the new European Union constitution. According to the pundits, this was the timid, shortsighted choice of a backward- looking people afraid to face the globalized future. But another way of looking at it is that the French were simply trying to hold on to their perks -- their cradle-to-grave welfare state and, above all, their cherished 35-hour workweek.
What’s so bad about that There was a time when the 35-hour workweek was the envy of the world, and especially of Americans, who used to travel to France just so they could watch the French relax. Some people even moved to France, bought farmhouses, adjusted their own internal clocks and wrote admiring, best-selling books about the leisurely and sensual French lifestyle.
But no more. T
A. Those that are of Russian origin.
B. Those Russian workers.
C. Those exceedingly hardworking ones.
D. Those socialists.

[单项选择]The citizens of France are once again taking a pasting on the op-ed pages. Their failing this time is not that they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys, as they were thought to be during the invasion of Iraq, but rather that they voted to reject the new European Union constitution. According to the pundits, this was the timid, shortsighted choice of a backward- looking people afraid to face the globalized future. But another way of looking at it is that the French were simply trying to hold on to their perks -- their cradle-to-grave welfare state and, above all, their cherished 35-hour workweek.
What’s so bad about that There was a time when the 35-hour workweek was the envy of the world, and especially of Americans, who used to travel to France just so they could watch the French relax. Some people even moved to France, bought farmhouses, adjusted their own internal clocks and wrote admiring, best-selling books about the leisurely and sensual French lifestyle.
But no more. T
A. French people are leisurely people.
B. French people are now working 35 hours a week.
C. They world is getting busier.
D. In the near future, people will work much less in a week.

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The citizens of France are once again taking a pasting on the op-ed pages. Their failing this time is not that they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys, as they were thought to be during the invasion of Iraq, but rather that they voted to reject the new European Union constitution. According to the pundits, this was the timid, shortsighted choice of u backward-looking people afraid to face the globalized future. But another way of looking at it is that the French were simply trying to hold on to their perks—their cradle-to-grave welfare state and, above all, their cherished 35-hour workweek.
What’s so bad about that There was a time when the 35-hour workweek was the envy of the world, and especially of Americans, who used to travel to France just so they could watch the French relax. Some people even moved to France, bought farmhouses, adjusted their own internal clocks and wrote admiring, best-selling books
A. Those that are of Russian origin.
B. Those Russian workers.
C. Those exceedingly hardworking ones.
D. Those socialists.

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COCA-COLA once famously defined its market as "throat share", meaning its stake in the entire liquid intake of all humanity. Not to be outdone, Indra Nooyi, the boss of COCA-COLA’s arch-rival, PepsiCo, wants her firm to be "seen as one of the defining companies of the first half of the 2lst century’, a "model of how to conduct business in the modern world". More specifically, she argues that Pepsi, which makes crisps (potato chips) and other fatty, salty snacks as well as sugary drinks, should be part of the solution, not the cause, of "one of the world’s biggest public-health challenges, a challenge fundamentally linked to our industry: obesity."
To that end, on March 22nd she unveiled a series of targets to improve the healthiness of Pepsi’s wares. By 2015 the firm aims to reduce the salt in some of its biggest brands by 25%; by 2020, it
A. outdo its biggest rival COCA-COLA
B. become one of the defining companies
C. stop producing food that tend to lead to obesity
D. enrich its product categories

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Taking the Challenge

COCA-COLA once famously defined its market as "throat share", meaning its stake in the entire liquid intake of all humanity. Not to be outdone, Indra Nooyi, the boss of COCA-COLA’s arch-rival, PepsiCo, wants her firm to be "seen as one of the defining companies of the first half of the 2lst century’, a "model of how to conduct business in the modern world". More specifically, she argues that Pepsi, which makes crisps (potato chips) and other fatty, salty snacks as well as sugary drinks, should be part of the solution, not the cause, of "one of the world’s biggest public-health challenges, a challenge fundamentally linked to our industry: obesity."
To that end, on March 22nd she unveiled a series of targets to improve the healthiness of Pepsi’s wares. By 2015 the firm aims to reduce the salt in some of its biggest brands by 25%; by 2020, it hopes to reduce the amount of added sugar in its drinks by 25% and the

[填空题]Once again, science supports what your grandmother told you: A good night’s sleep helps your body fight a cold.
People who (47) fewer than seven hours of sleep per night in the weeks before being (48) to the cold virus were nearly three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged eight hours or more, a new study found.
Researchers used frequent telephone (49) to track the sleep habits of more than 150 men and women aged 21 to 55 over the course of a few weeks. Then they exposed the (50) to the virus, quarantined (隔离) them for five days and kept track of who got sick. (51) sleeping more, sleeping better also seemed to help the body fight illness: Patients who fared better on a measure known as "sleep efficiency"—the percentage of time in bed that you’re (52) sleeping—were also less likely to get sick.
The results held true even after researchers adjusted for (53) such as body-mass index