W: Hello! Can I help you
M: Yes, we had a reservation for this weekend.
W: All right, What was the name, sir
M: Bill Martin.
W: Oh, yes, here it is. A double for two nights
M: Yes, that’s right. But we were wondering... would you happen to have a suite available this weekend, something with a living room and a kitchenette
W: Well, the only one that’s available this weekend is the executive suite, and that’ll run you＄140 a night.
M: I see. That’s pretty high...
W: You know, sir, this room is more than twenty-four square feet, and it has a refrigerator.
M: Really That sounds fine, then. What do you say, Sally
Sally: Sounds good to me, too.
M: Good, the double then.
A. cash
B. capital
C. loan capital
D. fixed capital
E. annual report
F. transaction
G. credit
H. long-term credit
I. low-interest credit
J. commercial credit
K. demand deposit
L. fixed deposit
M. short deposit
N. national bank
O. reserve bank
P. currency
Q. reserve currency
R. interest rate
Passage Four
Initial voyages into space introduced questions scientists had never before considered. Could an astronaut swallow food in zero gravity To keep things simple, astronauts on the Project Mercury ate foods squeezed out of tubes. It was like serving them baby food in a toothpaste container.
But these early tube meals were flavorless, and astronauts dropped too many pounds. "We know that astronauts have lost weight in every American and Russian manned flight," wrote NASA scientists Malcolm Smith in 1969. "We don’t know why." Feeding people in space was not as easy as it looked.
Floating around in space isn’t as relaxing as it might sound. Astronauts expend a lot of energy and endure extreme stresses on their bodies. Their dietary requirements are therefore different from those of their gravity-bound counterparts on Earth. For example, they need extra calcium to compensate for bone loss. ’A low-
A. is easier said than done
B. is not absolutely necessary
C. has worked as expected
D. will be the future trend
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