[简答题]Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year； half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.

[简答题]Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.

[填空题]As predicted by some economists last year, China’s GDP ________________________ (到2041年将超过美国).

[单项选择]Last year, some poor people had hardly ______ the severe winter.（　）
A. remained
B. lived
C. endured
D. survived

[单项选择]Unfortunately sales results over the last year have failed to come up to our expectations. A number of factors have been responsible, but basically it is the result of too many companies chasing the microcomputer market which is no longer expanding as fast as it once was.
Looking at the past year in detail, it must be admitted that the sales have declined considerably over the period. Our market share in wholesales has dropped from 21% to only 10%. The lack of a good local distributor in Asia has meant that our sales of the Obec series have collapsed despite the huge jump in the microcomputer market there during the past year. Our dominance of that part of the market has been lost to Strong, but once we find a new distributor we should come back strongly.
Retail sales in general have been a problem. There has been a tendency for the big high street stores to concentrate on high volume turnover of a few fairly well-known makers. When they stopped promotion of the Obec 1500
A. There are too many other products.
B. Fewer and fewer people are interested in their products.
C. There are major problems with their products.
D. High-street stores neglected the promotion of their products.

[填空题]Last year, researchers published new findings from the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term study of more than 160000 midlife women. The data showed that multivitamin-takers are no (36) than those who don’t take the pills, at least when it comes to the big diseases-cancer, heart disease, and (37)
"Even women with poor diets weren’t helped by taking a multivitamin," says study author Marian Neuhouser, PhD, in the cancer (38) program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle.
Vitamin (39) came into fashion in the early 1900s, when it was difficult or impossible for most people to get a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round. Back then, vitamin (40) diseases weren’t unheard-of: the bowed legs and (41) ribs caused by a severe shortage of vitamin D, or the skin problems and mental (42) caused by a lack of vitamin B.
But these days, you’re (43) unlike

[单项选择]We have ______ rainfall this year than last year.
A. less
B. little
C. fewer
D. few