[简答题]stock raising

[多项选择]charity
government support
raising tuition fee
establishing some school-based business
cost-cutting
more equal distribution of tax revenues

[简答题]finite stock

[单项选择]Scientists believe that by raising atmospheric pressure and surface temperature, it is possible to transform the climate of Mars to the point where humans would be able to live there. The process by which a hostile or unsuitable environment is transformed into one that can sustain human life is called terraforming. In addition to potentially providing an alternate home for the people of Earth in the future, this undertaking may also allow scientists to test hypotheses about the process of global warming, which is a highly pertinent issue affecting our planet today.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage regarding the Martian atmosphere
A. It has a lower pressure than Earth’s atmosphere.
B. It has a higher surface temperature than Earth.
C. It can most certainly be transformed to be more like Earth’s atmosphere.

[多项选择] GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support, the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what. you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organisation, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

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Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to large hedge fund traders, who can be based anywhere. Their orders usually end up with a professional at a stock exchange, who executes the order of buying or selling.
(9) thus providing a marketplace (virtual or real). The exchanges provide real-time trading information on the listed securities, facilitating price discovery.
Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by a method known as open outcry. This type of auction is used in stock exchanges and commodity exchanges where traders may enter "verbal" bids and offers simultaneously. (10) composed of a network of computers where trades are made electronically via traders.
Actual trades are based on an auction market model where a potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock and a potential s

[单项选择]Humans are beginning to realize that raising food animals contributes substantially to climate change.（　）
A. physically
B. materially
C. considerably
D. favorably

[单项选择]Cattle raising is not necessarily a profitable business because ______.
A. the demand is too low
B. the supply is too large
C. the cost is too high
D. the price is changeable

[填空题]The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet. The (1) rise is not very much, but the Earth’s ecosystem is very weak, and small changes can have large effects.
It has been believed that this (2) of one degree will happen by the year 2025. This could probably (3) the North American corn belt, which produces much of the world’s grain, (4) to much higher food prices, and even less food for the Third World than they already have. However, it would also mean that some countries which are further north would be able to (5) crops they had never been able to before, although there is less land as you move north from the corn belt.
The other serious worry is that rising sea levels from the melting of the polar ice could (6) flood many countries. A rise in sea levels of one meter, which many experts are (7) by the year 2100 (and some as soon as 2030), would flood 15 percent