[单项选择]Is Wal-Mart going wobbly Over the past couple of weeks, America’s largest company--linchpin of the low-wage, no-benefit economy that is increasingly the norm in America--has announced some surprising reversals of course. In a series of speeches and interviews, chief executive H. Lee Scott unveiled four initiatives that he clearly hopes will polish the company’s increasingly tarnished image. Wal-Mart, he said, will shift to more environmentally responsible practices--demanding better packaging of its products. It will offer more affordable health insurance to its employees, cutting the monthly premium in some cases to just ＄11. It will monitor the environmental and health and safety practices of its foreign suppliers. And it will lobby for a higher federal minimum wage.
Scott’s timing is anything but accidental. The sweatshop conditions in which thou-sands of employees of Wal-Mart’s suppliers routinely work, and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standa
A. A．3) It is the most desperate one.B. It is the most believable one.C. It is the most profitable one.D. It is the most valuable on

[单项选择]Is Wal-Mart going wobbly Over the past couple of weeks, America’s largest company--linchpin of the low-wage, no-benefit economy that is increasingly the norm in America--has announced some surprising reversals of course. In a series of speeches and interviews, chief executive H. Lee Scott unveiled four initiatives that he clearly hopes will polish the company’s increasingly tarnished image. Wal-Mart, he said, will shift to more environmentally responsible practices--demanding better packaging of its products. It will offer more affordable health insurance to its employees, cutting the monthly premium in some cases to just ＄11. It will monitor the environmental and health and safety practices of its foreign suppliers. And it will lobby for a higher federal minimum wage.
Scott’s timing is anything but accidental. The sweatshop conditions in which thou-sands of employees of Wal-Mart’s suppliers routinely work, and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standa
A. It will package its products with more expensive material.
B. It will offer another $11 to its employees monthly.
C. It will highly increase its lobbyists’ minimum wage.
D. It will monitor its foreign suppliers’ procedure in production.

[填空题]Marie: Do you think it’ s going to rain over the weekend Jerol: ______

[单项选择]A. over past 50 years B. for more than four decades C. by more than 50 percent D. for home energy use E. as a raw material F. beneath the earth’s surface Natural gas is stored deep