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[简答题]The recovery of the US economy during the first quarter of this year has been so spectacular that it is creating a new set of risks for financial markets--the great new risks now facing the US economy center on monetary policy and the oil market. The current federal funds interest rate of only 1.75 percent has clearly become unsustainable in view of the economy’s resilience. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by at least 0.25 percentage points during the second quarter and could increase short-term interest rates to at least 3 percent before the autumn the level they were at before september 11.
Such tightening would probably cause refinancing to slump to about $ 300 billion at annual rates late this year, which would eliminate residential capital gains as a prop for consumer- spending. Rising interest rates could also damp the rally likely to occur in the equity market as corporate profits recover. If investment spending fails to revive, the economy’s annual growth rat
[填空题]Vermont has become the first US state to require that food containing genetically modified ingredients be labelled. The law is presented as increasing consumers’ (36) to information, but it is unclear how it will help because scientists believe these widely-used (37) are harmless.
From 1 July 2016, all genetically modified (GM) food sold in Vermont must have the words "produced with genetic (38) " emblazoned on the packaging in a "clear and conspicuous" way. The bill was signed into law on 8 May by the state’s (39) Peter Shumlin. Connecticut and Maine have passed similar laws, but these will only take effect once other states join in. Vermont is the first state to require that GM food be labelled (40) .
Almost everything in an (41) grocery store in the US contains an ingredient with some level of genetic modification. Most US-grown Corn and soy is genetically modified, and these are present in a wide (42
[单项选择] How Babies Learn Language
During the first year of a child’’s life, parents and careers are concerned with its physical development very carefully. It is interesting just how easily children learn language. Children who are just three or four years old, who cannot yet tie their shoelaces, are able to speak in full sentences without any specific language training.
Language as Instinct
The current view of child language development is that it is an instinct—something as natural as eating or sleeping. According to experts in this area, this language instinct is innate—something each of us is born with. But this prevailing view has not always enjoyed widespread acceptance.
Learning as Repetition
In the middle of last century, experts of the time, including a renowned professor at Harvard University in the United States, regarded child language development as the process of learning through mere repetition. Language "habits" developed
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