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[填空题]John,
I’m afraid a few details are still missing in your expenses form. Why did you leave on the 14th this month Did you go by train as usual The Accounts Department complains about expenses forms from Delivery again. The reference number they gave is 75921, and I know it’s yours. Please be more careful next time.
Pete
To: Pete Stewart
From: John Harris
Date: March 26, 2009
Subject: Expenses form
Pete,
I’m sorry for the incomplete form ! I went to Cambridge to take a training course on the 14th. And as my train was cancelled, I flew there instead. And sorry again for the inconvenience.
John
TRAVEL EXPENSES FORM
No.:
(41) NAME:
(42) DEPARTMENT:
(43) DATE OF TRAVEL:
(44) DESTINATION: Cambridge
REASON FOR TRAVEL: Training course
METHOD OF TRANSPORT:
(45)
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Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily. It seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.
Ostensibly, overuse of salt muses high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby food. Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Bemuse doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn’t the only harmful ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content
A. We must stop eating salt immediately.
B. She is not convinced that salt is harmful.
C. The Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors.
D. Soon there won’ t be anything tasty left to eat.
[单项选择]John Nikolakis came from a privileged family. Few would have predicted that last September, at the age of 36, he would be alone in a dark, cold Louisiana apartment--all the utilities were cut off because he couldn’t pay for them--dead broke and writing suicide notes. He was on probation (缓刑) for having embezzled nearly $ 80,000 from his former employer. His entire adult life had been consumed by the intoxication and compulsion of gambling away hundreds of thousands of dollars on everything from online poker to sports. He lost two good jobs, one girlfriend, and 17 years of his life. "This gambling crap has cost me everything," he says. "It cost me my pride, my honesty, and the biggest thing it cost was the relationships of people who cared for me."
His story, with as many variations as there are individuals, illustrates the trajectory of most pathological (病理的) gamblers: a period of exhilaration and great windfalls--punctuated by a little dishonesty here and there--ending in mise
A. explain what is pathological gambling
B. show how miserable the gambler is
C. illustrate the path of a pathological gambler
D. warn people away from gambling
[填空题]Though a few rebels still held out, the fighting was (effective)（）ended.
[填空题]Few large cities still remain ______ (pollute).
[简答题]John still had no idea how he had lost his way in the small town where he was no longer a stranger.
