[填空题]Could the reason for the world’s economic misfortunes all come down to finger length Although certainly an oversimplification of our (47) troubles, scientists have shown that financial traders who lose the biggest dollars are more (48) to have shorterring fingers than index fingers.
Former Wall Street trader and scientist John Coates of the University of Cambridge wondered whether finger ratio really correlated with trader success. His team (49) that traders with the lowest index-to-ring-finger ratios made the most money over a 20-month period, even when the researchers controlled for years of experience. They averaged the (50) of $1,232,590, nearly six times more than that of men with (51) ratios. "I almost fell off my chair," says Coates. "I could not believe what I was seeing."
Tim Harford, a columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

[填空题]Could the reason for the world’s economic misfortunes all come down to finger length Although certainly an oversimplification of our (47) troubles, scientists have shown that financial traders who lose the biggest dollars are more (48) to have shorterring fingers than index fingers.
Former Wall Street trader and scientist John Coates of the University of Cambridge wondered whether finger ratio really correlated with trader success. His team (49) that traders with the lowest index-to-ring-finger ratios made the most money over a 20-month period, even when the researchers controlled for years of experience. They averaged the (50) of $1,232,590, nearly six times more than that of men with (51) ratios. "I almost fell off my chair," says Coates. "I could not believe what I was seeing."
Tim Harford, a columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

[填空题]How much could the world’s population reach in further 75 years
The world’s population could reach ______ in further 75 years.

[填空题]LED systems could solve the world’s energy problems.

[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT the reason for the slowdown of world oil demand
A. The cooling down of the Chinese economy.
B. Weaker growth of U.S. economy.
C. Inflation.
D. Uncertainty about Japan’s rebound.

[填空题]This Christmas the world economy offers few reasons for good cheer. As credit contracts and asset prices declined, demand across the globe is declining. Rich countries collectively face the severest recession since the Second World War: this week’s cut in the target for the federal funds rate to between zero and 0.25% shows how fearful America’s policymakers are. And conditions are deteriorating fast too in emerging economies, which have been exhausted by declining exports and the drying-up of foreign finance.
This news is bad enough in itself; but it also poses the biggest threat to open markets in the modem era of globalization. For the first time in more than a generation, two of the engines of global integration -- trade and capital flows -- are shifting into reverse at the same time. The World Bank says that net private capital flows to emerging economies in 2009 are likely to be only half the record $ 1 trillion of 2007, while global trade volumes will shrink for the first

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