[单项选择]As companies become more and more global, it’s increasingly important for rising finance executives to have experience living overseas. For those who have the opportunity to work abroad, though, there’s good reason to be choosy. An annual look by Mercer at the quality of life in more than 200 cities quantifies just how disparate living conditions can be from Sydney to Shenzhen.
European cities garnered(获得) 7 of the top 10 rankings in Mercer’s latest survey, released in May, with Vienna, Zurich, and Geneva heading the list. The highest-ranking U.S. city is Honolulu at 31, followed closely by San Francisco and Boston. New York, considered the "base" city with a quality of life rating of 100, ranks 49th on the overall list and 6th among U.S. cities. Singapore and Tokyo are the top-ranked cities in Asia. At the bottom of the list is Baghdad, with a rating of 15, with Port au Prince, Haiti, and several cities in Africa clustering near it.
The ratings are based on 10 factors, with
A. their expats are trying to cities with better living conditions
B. their expats do a great number of short-term work
C. the project-based task is their expats’ common job
D. the life quality of the cities expats living in declines severely

[单项选择]As companies become more and more global, it’s increasingly important for rising finance executives to have experience living overseas. For those who have the opportunity to work abroad, though, there’s good reason to be choosy. An annual look by Mercer at the quality of life in more than 200 cities quantifies just how disparate living conditions can be from Sydney to Shenzhen.
European cities garnered(获得) 7 of the top 10 rankings in Mercer’s latest survey, released in May, with Vienna, Zurich, and Geneva heading the list. The highest-ranking U.S. city is Honolulu at 31, followed closely by San Francisco and Boston. New York, considered the "base" city with a quality of life rating of 100, ranks 49th on the overall list and 6th among U.S. cities. Singapore and Tokyo are the top-ranked cities in Asia. At the bottom of the list is Baghdad, with a rating of 15, with Port au Prince, Haiti, and several cities in Africa clustering near it.
The ratings are based on 10 factors, with
A. Their living conditions become better and better.
B. They have more opportunities to work abroad.
C. Their overseas working experience becomes more important.
D. They are easy to be particular about the company they work for.

[单项选择]D. As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations zxxkEducational , Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations _UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect. Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and zxxkTheir Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal. Documenting the Thangmi
A. promote global languages
B. rescue disappearing languages
C. search for language communities
D. set up language research organizations.

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U. S. firms typically have a code of ethics that provides guidelines for their employees. (9) Consider a U. S. firm that sells suppliers to foreign manufacturers. Both its code of ethics and the U. S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prevent the firm from offering payoffs ("kick- backs") to any employees of the manufacturing companies that order its suppliers. Competitors based in other countries, however, may offer payoffs to employees of the manufacturing companies. (10) Thus, the U. S. supplier is at a disadvantage because its employees are required to follow a stricter code of ethics. This is a common ethical dilemma that U. S. firms face in a global environment. (11)
Another ethical dilemma that U. S. firms may face involves their relationship with certain foreign governments. (12) Officials of some foreign governments commonly accept bribes from firms that need approv

[简答题]The results have been encouraging: more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents.

[单项选择]Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said
A. Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming.
B. Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development.
C. Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries.
D. Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters.

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functions like engineering and marketing, or between people-hourly, salaried, management, and something the like.