[判断题]Past consideration is not a good consideration for negotiable instruments.

[单项选择]The primary consideration in achieving a good balanced diet is not how much or how little we eat, but what we eat. Basically we need carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, together with regular but not excessive exercise.
Carbohydrates are found in foods such as bread, potatoes and sugar. They are excellent energy producers, but if eaten to excess may be largely converted to fat and a reduction in the amount of carbohydrates or "starchy" foods is one of the obvious Ways to reduce weight, since most of us eat too much of them anyway.
A. According to the paragraphs, carbohydrates provide us with energy.
B. are the main source of fat in the body.
C. exist in all kinds of food.
D. can make us feel good.

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His people said good-bye and watched him walk off toward the mountains. They had little reason to fear for his safety: the man was well dressed in insulated clothing and equipped with tools needed to survive the Alpine climate. However, as weeks passed without his return, they must have grown worried, then anxious, and finally resigned. After many years everyone who knew him had died, and a note even a memory of the man remained.
Then, on an improbably distant day, he came down from the mountain. Things had changed a bit: it wasn’t the Bronze Age anymore, and he was a celebrity.
When a melting glacier released its hold on a 4,000-year-old corpse in September, it was quite rightly called one of the most important archeological finds of the century. Discovered by a German couple hiking at 10,500 feet in the Italian Tyrol near the Austrian border, the partially freeze-drie
A. tell the readers a true story about the Ice Man and his family
B. tell the readers about the cause of the Ice Man’s death
C. provide some information about the life 4,000 years ago
D. introduce some background to the Ice Man in a vivid way

[单项选择]After a good 2003, will 2004 be better
The past year has been a good one for Southeast Asian stocks. Markets in both Singapore and the Philippines have risen by more than 30% in dollar terms; Indonesia has surged more than 70%; and tigerish Thailand has leapt by almost 130%. Investors, needless to say, are keen to know whether lightning will strike again in the same places in 2004. There is indeed something good in store: elections.
The gains of the past year are easy to explain. Indonesia, for one, has finally found its feet after years of chaos following the regional crisis in 1997. Inflation and interest rates are failing, and the economy has grown by around 4% in the past year.
Thailand’s economy, meanwhile, has been doing even better. It has grown at an annual rate of 6.5% in the year as a whole. Because of low interest rates, consumers have been wildly purchasing cars and houses, helping crisis-hit companies pay off their debts and thus improving the balance
A. crazily buy cars and houses.
B. help crisis-hit companies pay off their debts.
C. improve the balance sheets of straggling banks.