[单项选择]Problems common to most countries include the social, economic ______ problems.
A. and politics
B. and with government
C. of government
D. and political

[填空题]Corporation Merger
The most common kind of consolidation today is the merger. A merger occurs when two or more companies get together to from one company
With the deregulation of natural gas, the nation’s 20 interstate pipeline companies became fearful of cutthroat competition. Some felt that they could increase their efficiency and improve their market flexibility by merging. In 1985 Internorth of Omaha paid $ 2, 3 billion for Houston Natural Gas Corporation, (8) . The system connected markets from coast to coast and raised sales to $10 billion.
On occasion, mergers have occurred between smaller companies in an industry dominated by a few giant firms. These smaller companies claim that (9) . They maintain that such action increases competition instead of reducing it. The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department has not always agreed with them. Four major waves of mergers have taken place in this country. The first started in 1887, just prior to the p

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What is the most common form of traveling abroad

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By far the most common difficulty in study is simple failure to get down to regular concentrated work. This difficulty is much greater for those who do not work to a plan and have no regular routine of study. Many students muddle along, doing a hit of this subject or that, as the mood takes them, or letting their set work pile up until the last possible moment.
Few students work to a set time-table. They say that if they did construct a timetable for themselves they would not keep to it, or would have to alter it constantly, since they can never predict from one day to the next what their activities will be. No doubt some temperaments take much more kindly to a regular routine than others. There are many who shy away from the self-regimentatign of a weekly time-table, and dislike being tied clown to a definite programme of work. Many able students claim that they work in cycles. When they become interested in a topic they work on it intensively for three or four days at a
A. the failure to keep to a routine of methodical and intensive work
B. changing from one subject to another
C. unwillingness to follow a systematic plan
D. applying oneself to a subject only when one feels inclined

[单项选择]For most people, common cold is a mild illness （） they will quickly recover.
A. over that
B. over which
C. from that
D. from which

[填空题] The benefits to citizens of modern industrial society may have 【B1】 sometime in re cent decades, and increasingly, we are paying the 【B2】 of pollution of our own nest. In a (an) 【B3】 world, everyone would 【B4】 personal health, but at the same time would strive to 【B5】 planet health. Smart people realize that no personal benefits will 【B6】 long in a world that is 【B7】 and polluted. The really sad part of our current predicament is that all the right ideas have been 【B8】 for decades and have been clearly expressed in many 【B9】 by a host of intelligent people. The right ideas 【B10】 unselfish and compassionate behavior. They include long term planning, conservation and a deep 【B11】 to preserving the natural world. Without a healthy natural environment, there will be few or no healthy humans. I have been seeing more and more patients who want to 【B12】 from city life, air pollution, and chronic illnesses which they 【B13】 comes from polluted environments a
A. A．suspect
B．doubt
C．confirm
D．imagine