[单项选择]Car-rental companies expect more rentals this summer, despite.
A. the poor economy
B. increased air travel
C. increased ownership of private cars
D. higher gasoline prices

[单项选择]Car-rental companies expect more rentals this summer, despite ______.
A. the poor economy
B. increased air travel
C. increased ownership of private cars
D. higher gasoline prices

[单项选择]Companies are hiring more foreign employees because ______.
A. they find foreign employees are usually more talented
B. they need original ideas from employees hired overseas
C. they want to expand their business beyond home borders
D. they have difficulty finding qualified personnel at home

[单项选择]The shortage of water became more ______ this summer with the highest temperatures in 40 years.
A. needy
B. latent
C. severe
D. dredge

[单项选择]Which of the following companies will face a more difficult problem

[单项选择]Which of the statements below offers the best summary of the author' s point of view as expressed in the passage
A. Despite their questioning of the values of their elders, adolescents really want the same things their parents have.
B. If adolescents only would follow parental advice, societal hostilities would diminish.
C. In a spirit of adolescent rebelliousness, young people deliberately prize what their parents scorn.
D. The explanation of adult bitterness and antagonism toward youth lies in the regret of parents about dropping that for which they had yearned when they were young, and their reluctance to examine the values of the path they had turned to instead.

[单项选择]The more a nation's companies ______ factories abroad, the smaller that country's recorded exports will be.
A. lie
B. spot
C. stand
D. locate

[单项选择]Usually waiters and waitresses expect their tip to be ______.


A. 25% of the bill
B. 15% of the bill
C. 50% of the bill
D. 20% of the bill

[单项选择]The percentage of students who expect college education is higher now than that in the early 1980s by approximately
A. 44%.
B. 49%.
C. 52%.
D. 96%.

[单项选择]What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school
A. Profound knowledge of the world.
B. Practical abilities for future career.
C. The habit of thinking independently.
D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.

[单项选择]Why do companies take downsizing
A. Because this is an inevitable tide throughout the world.
B. Because incompetent employees must give their way to new competent ones.
C. Because it is a direct way to reduce cost.
D. Because those employees are too old to work efficiently.

[单项选择]How many economists surveyed expect a rate cut late this year or early in 2006
A. 17
B. 34
C. 42
D. 47

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Text 4 Americans no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English. Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another criticism against the decline in education. Mr. McWhorter’s speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of" whom" ,for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English. But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly e
A. interest in their language
B. appreciation of their efforts
C. admiration for their memory
D. contempt for their old-fashionedness