[单项选择]The economy in the Latin American and Caribbean region grew by ________ last year.


A. 3 percent
B. 3.8 percent
C. 5 percent
D. 4 percent L

[单项选择]The economy in the Latin American and Caribbean region grew by ________ last year.


A. 3 percent
B. 3.8 percent
C. 5 percent
D. 4 percent L

[单项选择]According to the author, the American economy
A. is nowhere near a sustainable growth.
B. is at its weakest point.
C. is near to complete recovery at hand.
D. is much better than it seems.

[单项选择]

Text 1
The American economy, whether in government or private industry, has found retirement a convenient practice for managing the labor force. On the positive side, widespread retirement has meant an expansion of leisure and opportunities for self-fulfillment in later life. On the negative side, the practice of retirement entails large costs, both in funding required from pension systems and in the loss of the accumulated skills and talents of older people.
Critics of retirement as it exists today have pointed to the rigidity of retirement practices: for example, the fact that retirement is typically an all-or-nothing proposition. Would it not be better to have some form of flexible or phased retirement, in which employees gradually reduce their work hours or take longer vacations Such an approach might enable older workers to adjust better to retirement, while permitting employers to make gradual changes instead of coping with the abrupt departure of an
A. Retirement stopped being practiced.
B. Age limitation in retirement was abolished.
C. Retired people were no longer entitled to pensions.
D. Age discrimination was legally abolished.

[单项选择]American technicians in Latin America complained of feeling "left out" and "shut off" because ______.

[单项选择]______ entitled American to have the freedom of religion.


A. The First Amendment
B. The Constitution of the United States
C. American Government
D. The Declaration of Independence

[单项选择]The "American sleep debt'(Line 1,Para. 3)is the result of ______.

[单项选择]What can we know about the West Caribbean Airways


A. The financial conditions of the airline was just OK.
B. It would be bought by the Colombian Aviation Authority.
C. This was its second time to have lost its airplane this year.
D. The company is on the edge of going bankruptcy.

[单项选择]American corporations are


A. free from international competition.
B. immune to industrial consolidation.
C. under the intense pressure of international competition.
D. stopping the pain 0f industrial consolidation．

[单项选择]Disappearing forests throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa can cause ______.
A. immediate climate change
B. immediate economic damage
C. more forests fires
D. higher death rate

[单项选择]According to the passage, the Caribbean Sea is a place where________.
A. two currents of different temperatures run near to each other and not far away from land
B. two currents of different temperatures run near to each other but far away from land
C. the ocean water is heated by the sun
D. the ocean water gets cool