I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still farther in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
"Mr. Heathcliff!." I said.
A nod was the answer.
"Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honor of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross
A. like each other
B. trust each other
C. are reserved
D. enjoy life in the city
Passage One
|
My First Experience with AIDS Patients 我初次接触艾滋病人 by Marc Kielburger I was ushered to the AIDS ward of a hospice in the slum.I would later learn that the ward did not exist，at least not officially.Not a single person in Thailand had AIDS，according to the Thai government at the time.People got"sick，"of course，sometimes"very sick."but no one had AIDS.The hospice was home to an ever-growing number of"very sick"people. I entered the ward and was greeted by two Thai nurses. "Thank goodness you are here，Marc，"said the first. "You’re a doctor，right" I shook my head. "So you are a medical student then!" I shook my head again. "But you know m A. A doctor B. A medical student C. A volunteer D. A government official [单项选择] Just five one-hundredths of an inch thick, light golden in color and with a perfect “saddle curl,” the Lay’’s potato chip seems an unlikely weapon for global domination. But its maker. Frito-Lay. Thinks otherwise.“ Potato chips are a snack food for the world,” said Salman Amin, the company’’s head of global marketing. Amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a Frito-Lay potato chip.
Frito-Lay is the biggest snack maker in America. owned by PepsiCo. And accounts for over half of the parent company’’s $3 billion annual profits. But the U.S. snack food market is largely saturated, and to grow. the company has to look overseas.
Its strategy rests on two beliefs: first a global product offers economies of scale with which local brands cannot compete. And second, consumers in the 21st century are drawn to “global” as a concept. “Global” does not mean products that are consciously identified as American, but ones than consumes-especially youn
A. consumers worldwide today are attracted by global brands B. local brands cannot compete successfully with American brands C. products suiting Chinese consumers’’ needs bring more profits D. products identified as American will have promising market value 我来回答: 提交
|
