[简答题]Extensive new studies suggest that the world has made extraordinary progress in reducing poverty in recent decades.

[简答题]Extensive new studies suggest that the world has made extraordinary pmgressin reducing poverty in recent decades.

[单项选择]Psychologists have done extensive studies on how well patients（）with doctors' orders.
A. comply
B. correspond
C. interact
D. interfere

[填空题]The price of oil in the world market has (great) ______ increased in recent months.

[简答题]What, then, does Drucker suggest are the new knowledge-based industries on which economic growth will depend He discusses three categories of such industries. The first of these is the information industry. This industry collects, stores, spreads, and applies knowledge. It depends on the computer. In the future, however, the computer itself will probably become less important than communicating and applying knowledge. Drucker foresees a central computer that will make information available to everyone. Another source of new industries is the science of the oceans. New technologies may help to supply food and minerals from the seas. A third new source of economic growth is the materials industry. This industry provides the materials for making objects. one such industry that has already become economically important is the plastic industry. Drncker explains that throughout history our traditional materials have been metals, glass, natural fibers, and paper. Today, with the help of modem

[单项选择]What will the height of the new building suggest
A. The number of people killed in the tragedy.
B. The time when the building was attacked.
C. The exact height of the destroyed building.
D. The year when America declared independence.

[单项选择]Into the Unknown 　　The world has never seen population ageing before. Can it cope 　　Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable. 　　For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly by Americans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare. 　　Since then the debate has become less emotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organ
A. not be sustained in the long term
B. further accelerate the ageing process
C. hardly halt the growth of population
D. help tide over the current ageing crisis

[简答题]Undoubtedly, our world has changed a lot with the development of science and technology. Some people think that technology has made the world a better place to live. Do you agree or disagree with this Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view on the following topic: {{B}} Has Technology Made The World a Better Place To Live {{/B}} In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[填空题]The amount of waste produced in the world has doubled in the past ten years.

[填空题]In last two years the world has seen an intensification (1) ______.
in the search for sustainable development and social (2) ______.
responsible business. A series of events, from demonstrations
at the WTO meetings in Seattle expressing dissatisfaction
for the effects of economic globalization, the terrorist attacks (3) ______.
on the WTO in New York on "9·11", corporate financial
scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Ahold, the collapse (4) ______.
of He Argentinean economy and the Internet bubble, have
extended this search from wastern social and environmental
circles to mainstream economic and business circles across
the globe. According to Hazel Henderson, a leading thinker
on economics and development, the traditional economic (5) ______.
profession is in a state of crisis. We witness such impoverishing (6) ______.
of millions in Thailand, Indonesia and the other "tiger economies"
during the Asian meltdo