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Some of the world’s most accommodating businessmen specialize in getting you what you want at a fair market price. But they’re businessmen with a difference — they’re smugglers who deal only in what’s illegal.
A smuggling operation is complex, so it has to be businesslike. It has managers who plan trips, make deals, and arrange for purchases and pick-ups. It has travelers who deliver the goods, and specialists who recruit and train them. In fact, smugglers frequently have legitimate businesses on the side. A travel agency is helpful because the modern smuggler is a world traveler. When a gold smuggler was arrested recently, he had airline tickets from Geneva to Bangkok by way of Frankfurt, Istanbul, Beirut, Vancouver, Tokyo, Heng Kong, Manila, and Jakarta.
The best places for smuggling operations are border cities and seaports. In one such city, annual sales at local stores amounted to $6,900 for every person in town. But the average
A. it is carried out in small cities and seaports.
B. it is helped by people doing legitimate businesses.
C. the smuggled goods are carried to faraway places.
D. the smuggled goods are hidden in the smuggler’s clothes.

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Some of the world’s most accommodating businessmen specialize in getting you what you want at a fair market price. But they’re businessmen with a difference — they’re smugglers who deal only in what’s illegal.
A smuggling operation is complex, so it has to be businesslike. It has managers who plan trips, make deals, and arrange for purchases and pick-ups. It has travelers who deliver the goods, and specialists who recruit and train them. In fact, smugglers frequently have legitimate businesses on the side. A travel agency is helpful because the modern smuggler is a world traveler. When a gold smuggler was arrested recently, he had airline tickets from Geneva to Bangkok by way of Frankfurt, Istanbul, Beirut, Vancouver, Tokyo, Heng Kong, Manila, and Jakarta.
The best places for smuggling operations are border cities and seaports. In one such city, annual sales at local stores amounted to $6,900 for every person in town. But the average
A. they specialize in illegal businesses,
B. their work has to be efficient.
C. they receive training in business management.
D. they do some legitimate businesses.

[简答题]The heads of some of Russia’s most prestigious educational establishments yesterday admitted that students use surrogates (代理人) to gain entry to top institutes, whose qualifications are a passport to lucrative jobs.
The surrogate students are only the latest symptom of an epidemic of corruption that has gripped the Russian higher education system. A report published this week by the Ministry of Education and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE) showed that more than $300m was paid in bribes to enter the country’s educational establishments last year. A direct bribe to lecturers to enter an institution can be up to $30000 for a top law faculty, the HSE estimates.
"In our school alone this spring we caught four impostors who were attempting to sit the entrance tests in place of others, " said Grigory Kantorovich, deputy head of the HSE. "Those were not isolated cases; it’s a whole, specialised business. "
Such corruption is multiplied by a burgeoning market in coursew

[填空题] DELL BOY MADE GOOD
Some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs cut their business teeth on the playground. Michael Dell is no exception. At 12, he made $ 2,000 (￡ 1,255) selling his stamp collection, and by 14, he had come up with a marketing scheme to sell newspapers. This earned him ￡11,200--more money than some of his teachers made--and led to the creation of the Dell Computer Corporation, the industry’s fastest-growing company. He is now the ninth-richest man in the world, with a personal fortune of ￡12.5 billion, from seed capital of just ￡627 in 1984.
(8) He says, "I thought it was marvelous that this little device could do my math homework much faster than I ever could, and it really started me thinking about electronics. I loved taking things apart and putting them back together again, although I could not always get them working. I quickly became interested in personal computers when I was given an Apple II

[单项选择] Some of today’’s most cutting-edge technology is now being used to help students with special needs. No longer just the province of games for "video needs", virtual reality has come into its own as a tool for special education teachers and therapists. As such, it is used for assessment, teaching, and practice, according to Skip Rizzo, research assistant professor at the University of Southern California. For example, virtual reality has been used effectively to assess students’’ depth perception, with the results being quite different from those obtained from traditional paper and pencil tests. It is also used to help students gain transition skills. Students with autism or developmental delay can visit a virtual supermarket, take public transportation, cross the street, or organize his or her day. Students in wheelchairs can learn how to navigate buildings And the beauty is, these students can make any number of mistakes without endangering themselves. In fact, one of the b
A. how to assess students skill levels
B. how to respond to individual student’’s needs
C. how to deal with students who misbehave
D. how to run an orderly classroom

[单项选择]Britain’s bosses would have you believe that business in Britain is groaning under red tape and punitive tax levels, inhibiting enterprise and putting British firms at a disadvantage compared with overseas competitors.
As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism.
But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame.
The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees and, in many companies, staff have been to
A. suffer a lot from high levels of corporation tax
B. are experiencing an unfair competition
C. complain about the Chi and Tory leaders
D. enjoy more advantages than foreign businesses

[单项选择]Some of Spielberg’s most successful movies came from _______
A. making children laugh
B. almost everything
C. a lot of money
D. his childhood memories
E. telling scary stories
F. a number of reasons

[单项选择]Some of the world’s most beautiful cats are Persian cats. However, it must be acknowledged that all Persian cats are pompous, and pompous cats are invariably irritating.
If the statements above are true, each of the following must also be true on the basis of them EXCEPT:
A. Some of the world’s most beautiful cats are irritating.
B. Some irritating cats are among the world’s most beautiful cats.
C. Any cat that is not irritating is not a Persian cat.
D. Some pompous cats are among the world’s most beautiful cats.
E. (E) Some irritating and beautiful cats are not Persian cats.

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Some of the most interesting buildings in the world are the pyramids. The pyramids stand huge and silent, and in modem days, people look at them and wonder, "Who built them Why When What is inside How did they do it "
Thousands of years ago in Egypt, kings built the pyramids.
They used to build them as (1) . The kings thought the pyramids would help them find life after (2) , and join Ra in his journeys (3) the sky. They also wanted the world to remember them as important people. Some pyramids were found by thieves who in fact found their way into the pyramids and into most of the pharaoh’s tombs. The tombs were still full of treasure.
There are many pyramids along the (4) River. The (5) is the pyramid of Khufu. It is made of 2, 300, 000 huge (6) , most of them higher than a person. It is about 144 meters high. Inside the pyramid are the