[单项选择]If present______ continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
A. emergencies
B. trends
C. paces
D. schedules

[单项选择]If present______ continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
A. emergencies
B. trends
C. paces
D. schedules

[单项选择]Exports of United States wood pulp will rise considerably during this year. The reason for the rise is that the falling value of the dollar will make it cheaper for paper manufacturers in Japan and Western Europe to buy American wood pulp than to get it from any other source.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above
A. Factory output of paper products in Japan and Western Europe will increase sharply during this year.
B. The quality of the wood pulp produced in the United States would be adequate for the purposes of Japanese and Western European paper manufacturers.
C. Paper manufacturers in Japan and Western Europe would prefer to use wood pulp produced in the United States if cost were not a factor.
D. Demand for paper products made in Japan and Western Europe will not increase sharply during this year.
E. (E) Production of wood pulp by United States companies will not increase sharply during this year.

[单项选择]The problem is that new goals are not always consistent with the existing policies.（）
A. 问题是新的目标总是跟存在的政策不一致。
B. 问题在于新目标总是不坚持现有政策。
C. 问题是新目标不总是与现有政策相一致。
D. 问题在于新目标不总是坚持存在的政策。

[单项选择]Which of the following is least likely to be considered a stated goal of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)（）
A. Develop global accounting standards requiring transparency, comparability, and high quality in financial statements.
B. Remain neutral in the debate on the use of global accounting standards to avoid appearance of a conflict of interest.
C. Account for the needs of emerging markets and small firms when implementing global accounting standards.

[填空题] The History of the Fridge
1．The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with he label: "store in the refrigerator."
2．In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
3．The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast variety of well-tried techniques already existed--natural cooling drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling…
4．What refrigeration did promote was marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, mar

[单项选择]A. He feels sorry for those students.
B. He considers the punishment excessive.
C. He thinks it good to punish those students.
D. He disapproves of what the professor did.

[填空题]______ while standing outside a house is not considered by most Americans as being inside the house or room.