[单项选择]A year ago, the only steel assets Tom White Jr. owned were a Chrysler Cherokee and a Mercedes-Benz. Today thanks to his enormous effort with United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard, the New York financier is emerging as one of the most important steel executives in decades.
White made a fortune investing in bankrupt companies such as Texaco and Fruit of the Loom, but didn’t buy his first steel property until last April, when he bought the mills of bankrupt ATM Corp. no longer in use, for $262 million. At the time the industry was in retreat. Destroyed by extremely cheap imports, nearly half the nation’s mills had gone bankrupt, including three of the top five. When assessing White’s chances, those in the industry were not optimistic.
Yet within a month, White and his partners were rehiring the old workers of what had been the No. 4 steel producer in the U. S. , the International Steel Group. Now, the 1SG chairman is close to finalizing his biggest deal yet—a $1.5 billion bid
A. By buying steel mills and selling the products.
B. By limiting steel production to an absolute minimum.
C. By investing in companies who could no longer afford to run themselves.

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[单项选择]A year ago, the only steel assets Tom White Jr. owned were a Chrysler Cherokee and a Mercedes-Benz. Today thanks to his enormous effort with United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard, the New York financier is emerging as one of the most important steel executives in decades.
White made a fortune investing in bankrupt companies such as Texaco and Fruit of the Loom, but didn’t buy his first steel property until last April, when he bought the mills of bankrupt ATM Corp. no longer in use, for $262 million. At the time the industry was in retreat. Destroyed by extremely cheap imports, nearly half the nation’s mills had gone bankrupt, including three of the top five. When assessing White’s chances, those in the industry were not optimistic.
Yet within a month, White and his partners were rehiring the old workers of what had been the No. 4 steel producer in the U. S. , the International Steel Group. Now, the 1SG chairman is close to finalizing his biggest deal yet—a $1.5 billion bid
A. Low productivity levers in the mills.
B. Unhappiness of the staff who worked in the steel mills.
C. Cheaper foreign products becoming more availabl

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[单项选择]______ she joined the company only a year ago, she’s already been promoted twice.
A. Although B. Because
C. If D. When

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[单项选择]Mr. White was only about thirty-five years old, but his hair stopped growing. There was no hair on the top of his head. He did not like this because people thought he was fifty or sixty years old. So he went to a barber’s(理发师) shop one day. He asked the barber for something to make his hair grow again. The barber showed him some brown cream(乳霜).
"Put some of this on your head every night," he told Mr. White. "Then your hair will soon start to grow again."
Mr. White bought some cream and took them home. Three weeks later, he returned to the barber’s shop. He looked very worried.
"What’s the matter " asked the barber.
"You sold me some cream to make my hair grow," said Mr. White.
"Yes, that’s right," said the barber. "That cream is very good."
"I’m sure you’re right," said Mr. White, "My wife didn’t know it was for my hair. Instead, she cleaned our tables and chairs with it."
"Never mind," said the barber, "I’ve got some more cream here."<
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

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[单项选择]Passage Two

One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the everyday pleasures of the beach were suddenly turned to quivering utility as they documented the panic and mayhem of a natural disaster. Who can forget the disbelief in the recorded voices This can’t be happening to us. Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than confront the possibility of destruction, It may happen, we seem to believe, but not now, and not to us. Mount Vesuvius has been erupting since historical records began. The eruption of A. D. 79 both destroyed Pompeii and preserved it for posterity. Pliny the Younger starkly recorded the details in prose that can still be read as a
A. they believe that all preparation is useless for disasters
B. they believe that disasters will never happen to them
C. they believe that gods are helpful when disasters happen
D. none of these

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Neighbors
A year ago August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still 1 (work)in the local school cafeteria, but work for Dave was scarce, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have 2 (lose) their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift-＄ 7000, a legacy (遗产)form their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. "It really made a 3 (different)when we were going under financially," says Dave.
But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by the Hatches, 4 (generous). In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in other, it was more than ＄100 000.
It 5 (surprise) nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than ＄ 3 million-they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.
Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of 6 (save). They thrived own (喜欢) comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store, checking prices before 7 (make)a new purchase.
Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camp when their parents couldn’t 8 (afford) it. "Ish and Arlene never asked you needed anything," says their friend Sand Van Weehten, "They could see thing they could do to make you happier, and they would do them."
Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches had their farmland 9 (distribute). It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy-a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents-should 10 (enrich) the whole community (社区)and Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.
Neighbors helping neighbors-that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.

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