[单项选择]Britain’s bosses would have you believe that business in Britain is groaning under red tape and punitive tax levels, inhibiting enterprise and putting British firms at a disadvantage compared with overseas competitors.
As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism.
But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame.
The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees and, in many companies, staff have been to
A. suffer a lot from high levels of corporation tax
B. are experiencing an unfair competition
C. complain about the Chi and Tory leaders
D. enjoy more advantages than foreign businesses

[单项选择]Britain’s bosses would have you believe that business in Britain is groaning under red tape and punitive tax levels, inhibiting enterprise and putting British firms at a disadvantage compared with overseas competitors.
As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism.
But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame.
The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees and, in many companies, staff have been to
A. suffer a lot from high levels of corporation tax
B. are experiencing an unfair competition
C. complain about the Chi and Tory leaders
D. enjoy more advantages than foreign businesses

[单项选择]Bosses would do well to be alarmed. November is here, and with it a good chance that the back office isn’t processing data, but knocking out a novel on the sly. It’s "National Novel Writing Month", a peculiar American invention that has improbably become an eagerly anticipated rite around the world.
Knock out a novel in a month: it can’t be hard. The premise of the NaNoWriMo, as it’s known, is that all writers need a deadline and a kick in the backside. In 30 days contestants have to knock out 50,000 words. How else to get those 1,666 words a day, except on company time Twenty-one Californian writers started the online writing spree in 1999. Last year more than 200,000 joined in worldwide, though fewer than a fifth completed a full manuscript. If growth continues at the present rate, each American citizen will attempt to write a short novel by the year 2027, according to one calculation. The organizers call it all empowering and harmless fun. But still there’s something in the ent
A. It is held in November all over the world.
B. It requires contestants to write a novel within one week.
C. Last year, only a few contestants finished with a complete draft.
D. The bosses in the enterprise think the event is fun.

[单项选择]I would have accompanied you to the cinema yesterday, but I （） no time.
A. had had
B. could have had
C. might have had
D. had

[填空题]I would have brought you the CD you asked for __________________ (如果我没有忘记的话).

[填空题]If I (know) （）you, I would have told you about it.

[填空题]

How many reactions would you have towards the teacher’s report