[单项选择]According to the text, the main factor working against any immediate entry into Japanese market is ______.


A. the rapid development of the Japanese economy
B. tradition, culture, and a deeply rooted bureaucracy
C. the Japanese determination to keep up its surplus
D. the Japanese political intentions and their trade policies

[单项选择]According to the text, the main factor working against any immediate entry into Japanese market is ______.


A. the rapid development of the Japanese economy
B. tradition, culture, and a deeply rooted bureaucracy
C. the Japanese determination to keep up its surplus
D. the Japanese political intentions and their trade policies

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Text 3
The US dollar reached an all-time low against the euro yesterday for the fourth straight day, briefly pushing the European currency above ＄1.33 before recovering slightly, amid concerns about the twin US deficits and the lack of any central bank action to stop the dollar’s decline.
The dollar also dipped to a nearly five-year low against the yen, but later regained ground.
Yesterday, the euro rose to ＄1. 3329 in early trading before dipping back to ＄1. 3290 later in New York. The euro topped ＄1.32 for the first time the day before in European trading. US markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The dollar also traded near its lowest levels since December 1999 against the Japanese yen yesterday, slipping to 102.56 yen, down from 102.81 late Wednesday in New York.
One reason the euro has kept rising is a lack of concerted action by central banks to support the dollar by selling holdings of the other major
A. has reached its lowest level against euro yesterday.
B. was lower than euro in the past four continuous days.
C. is still staying in a worse position than the yen.
D. kept failing despite the central bank's adoption of active measures.

[单项选择]What had been the main factor preventing the development of battery buses


A. Their limited range.
B. Their high cost.
C. Their heavy weight.
D. Their loud nois

[单项选择]According to the passage, many working women find themselves caught between two stools because_____.


A. men are usually judged for being competent for management
B. they are hesitant to what extent they should demonstrate their feminine qualities through what they wear to work
C. there is a variety of professional clothes for them to choose
D. women are generally thought to be only good at following fashions

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Text 4
Until recently, the common factor in all the science used to figure out if a piece of art was forged was that it was concerned with the medium of the artwork, rather than the art itself. Matters of style and form were left to art historians, who could make erudite, but qualitative, judgments about whether a painting was really good enough to be, say, a Leonardo. But this is changing. A paper in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Hany Farid and his colleagues at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire uses statistical techniques to examine art itself—the message, not the medium.
Dr. Farid employed a technique called wavelet analysis to examine 13 drawings that had at one time or another been attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a 16th-century Flemish painter. He also looked at Perugino’s "Madonna with Child", a 15th-century Italian masterpiece lodged in the college’s Hood Museum of Art. He co
A. recognition
B. support
C. denial
D. suspicion