[单项选择]According to what you have heard, how would you characterize the winter season in the city


A. January receives about 30 inches of snow.
B. Temperatures hover below freezing for the 3-month period.
C. Outdoor activities tend to be popular during this season.
D. Heavy snow storms are frequently experienced during this period.

[单项选择]According to what you have heard, how would you characterize the winter season in the city


A. January receives about 30 inches of snow.
B. Temperatures hover below freezing for the 3-month period.
C. Outdoor activities tend to be popular during this season.
D. Heavy snow storms are frequently experienced during this period.

[单项选择]According to the passage you have just heard, which of the following is the most important


A. The time factor.
B. Musical language.
C. Character.
D. Consciousness.

[单项选择]（）you were coming today, I would have picked you up at the station.
A. Had I known
B. I have known
C. Have I known
D. I had known

[单项选择]What would you do if you ______ your job
A. lose
B. lost
C. would lose
D. will lose

[单项选择]Do you mean that you would rather have the claim brought to court if ______


A. it need be
B. need be
C. it will be
D. there is in need

[单项选择]—What would you wish to do if you were a college student again
—That's very hard to say, but I wish I ______ when I was a college student.
A. has not studied psychology
B. had studied psychology
C. did study psychology
D. studied psychology

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Text 4
Britain’s bosses would have you believe that business in Britain is groaning under red tape and punitive tax levels, inhibiting enterprise and putting British firms at a disadvantage compared with overseas competitors.
As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism.
But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame.
The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees
A. inefficiency of pension investment funds
B. removal of final salary schemes
C. denial of salary schemes to new employees
D. demand for employees to pay more into pensions fund