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[单项选择]Something very odd is going on in our country at the moment. On one hand, we hear every day about the "cuts", the closure of libraries and old people’s homes; on the other, we read about 220 councils paying their senior executives more than the Prime Minister and still advertising handsome salaries for "non-jobs", such as climate change officials and "future shape managers", which have swollen our council payroll by 180,000 over 13 years.
The BBC loves to tell us nightly about those terrible "cuts", but never admits that public spending is still scheduled to soar over the next four years, from ￡696 billion to ￡739 billion. The ￡130 billion a year we pay in interest on our public debt—which is still rising by ￡3 billion a week—has become easily the largest item of state expenditure, projected by the Taxpayers’ Alliance to rise to ￡190 billion by 2014, equating to ￡7,600 for every household in the land.
Beside such mind-boggling figures, the mere ￡10 billion which the CBI last
A. senior executives are paid more than the Prime Minister
B. libraries and old people’s homes are closed
C. councils advertise handsome salaries for non-jobs
D. cutbacks are in disproportionate to public spending
[单项选择]He has （ ） a very odd set of people. I hope they won’t have a bad influence on him.
A. got mixed up with
B. got involved in
C. lined up with
D. come up with
[单项选择]
W: We are going to change our meeting from Monday to Tuesday.
M: It’s all the same to me.
What can we infer from the conversation（ ）.
A. The man won’t have the meeting.
B. The man will go to the meeting whether the time is changed or not.
C. The man will go for a meeting any day.
D. Any meeting is the same to the man.
[填空题]We’re going to change our suppliers as they have become very ______ in the last year. (rely)
[简答题]something you celebrate in your country
[单项选择]What is the man going to do very soon
A. Take a taxi.
B. Board a train.
C. Take a bus.
D. Take a plane.
