[单项选择]For a limited time only, this exquisite collector’s item will be offered at forty percent off of the original ______.
A. price
B. piece
C. challenge
D. certificate

[单项选择]For a limited time only, this exquisite collector’s item will be offered at forty percent off of the original
A. price
B. piece
C. challenge
D. certificate

[单项选择]News writers know their readers have limited time and usually give the ______ develop-ments of an event first.
[A] newest [B] latest [C] nearest [D] earliest

[填空题]Because of the limited time allowances, the speakers were told ______. (省略一切与当时正讨论的话题无关的东西)

[单项选择]They only have a limited amount of time to get their points across.
A. large
B. total
C. small
D. similar

[单项选择]With the awfully limited vocabulary to only a thousand words or fewer, the reader resembles a color blind artist who is only aware of a few colors and consequently his ability to create on canvas is lamentably restricted.（　）
A. auspiciously
B. deplorably
C. suspiciously
D. disbelievingly

[填空题]can be taken only when large enough collector plates are built

[单项选择]Time is limited and I can（）finish my work in time.
A. almost
B. even
C. nearly
D. hardly

[单项选择]Why did Detroit put only limited resources into small-car production
A. Smaller cars are much more costly to produce.
B. It was not able to make high quality smaller cars.
C. It was good at producing large cars.
D. It expected the coming back of the market for large cars.

[多项选择]Section C There was a time when only governments could create money, and as Mike Rowbotham explains in his excellent book, The Grip of Death, they have long since delegated 97 percent of that responsibility to the banks-which create it in the form of mortgages or interest bearing loans. They are helped by the credit card companies, which give the power to customers to create their own debts-and create their own money at the same time-every time their card is swiped through a till. But now there are also supermarkets and airlines issuing their own money. Tesco, Safeway, and other businesses all issue their own, points to encourage regular customers. A whole range of businesses deal in frequent-flier miles, which you can spend on an ever-increasing variety of goods and services, and which then disappear when you’ve spent them. In the Unite States, there are now a range of off-the-shelf "incentive cards" along the same lines or companies to offer their custo

[单项选择]For visitors whose time is limited and are unable to learn the history and examine the building in detail on the spot, it is suggested that the following plan of a journey be followed.（　）
A. whose
B. and are unable
C. on
D. be followed

[单项选择]Americans believe time is a limited resource; they try to conserve and manage it. People in the U.S. often (31) seminars or read books on time management. It seems they all want to (32) their time bet- ter. Professionals carry around pocket planners--some in electronic form--to keep (33) of appointments and deadlines. People do all they can to (34) more life out of their time. The early American hero Benjamin Franklin expressed this (35) best: "Do you love life Then do not waste time, for that is the (36) life is made of."
To Americans, punctuality is a (37) of showing respect for other people’s time. (38) more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually (39) an apology, and maybe an explanation. People who are running late often call (40) to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less (41) the sit- uation, the less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-toge