[简答题]Andrew is the owner of a coffee bar in Pretoria. He agreed to purchase a food vending machine from Ben and signed the contract without reading its terms. The contract contained an exemption clause excluding liability for all kinds of defects in the machine. The machine proved to be totally defective. Andrew purported to terminate the contract and also maintains that the contract is in conflict with what he and Ben orally had agreed on. Required: Advise Andrew as to whether or not he would succeed. (10 marks)

[简答题]Andrew is the owner of a bakery. There have been a number of burglaries in the vicinity of the bakery and he decided to install a security alarm system. He entered into a contract with Betta Security CC for the installation of the alarm. Andrew was requested to read and fill in a form confirming the order. The form contained a clause that ‘Betta Security CC accepts no liability whatsoever for any injury or loss sustained as a consequence of the wrongful installation or operation of any equipment supplied or fitted by it’. The installation of the alarm was carried out incorrectly. During the night the wiring short-circuited, which caused a fire that destroyed the bakery. Betta Security CC admits negligence but refuses to compensate Andrew for the losses sustained, relying on the exclusion clause. Required: Advise Andrew on the validity and consequences of the exclusion clause. (10 marks)

[简答题]coffee machine

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Did you know coffee is the most consumed beverage in the world How did coffee get this ranking What country first figured out that coffee was safe for consumption When was the first drink of coffee prepared Where did the first coffee shop come into being There are many questions about the starting point of drinking coffee. It has been so long ago that no one really knows all the facts. But, one thing is for sure, coffee is the most consumed beverage on the planet.
The Beginning of Coffee
It looks as if the first trace came out of Abyssinia and was also irregularly in the vicinity of the Red Sea around seven hundred AD. Along with these people, other Africans of the same period also have a history of using the coffee’ berry pulp for more than one occasion like rituals and even for health.
Coffee began to get more attention when the Arabs began cultivating it in their
A. rituals
B. farming
C. beer brewing
D. animal breeding

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Who is Andrew Barnes
A. A newspaper reporter.
B. The owner of the building.
C. The head of the fire department.

[填空题]I don’t like tea. I like coffee. I prefer coffee ______.

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An offi ce building owner (Owner) entered into a fi ve-year leasing contract in 2007 with IT Company. Under the leasing contract the annual rental of RMB 240,000 yuan should be paid within the fi rst month of each calendar year. In the middle of September 2008 these two companies concluded a sales contract, by which IT Company provided Owner some IT equipment for RMB 200,000 yuan. Payment would be by a 20% deposit (RMB 40,000 yuan) to be made after the conclusion of the contract, and the remaining RMB 160,000 yuan to be made in three months after the delivery of the equipment. After the conclusion of the sales contract, Owner paid RMB 40,000 yuan as deposit and received the equipment provided by the IT Company. In February 2009, due to the fi nancial crisis, IT Company suffered a huge loss and was declared bankrupt by a competent court under the application of its creditors. Therefore, it declined to pay the rental for 2009. The court designated a bankruptcy administrator to deal

[简答题]Roger想在他的房间接人卫星电视，他与Andrew签订合同，由Andrew为他安装所有卫星电视的接入设备。签订合同的第二天，Roger得知有其他的设备可替代，于是决定否定与Andrew之间的合同，他立即把自己的决定通知了Andrew。 现在Andrew就其利益损失和违反合同提出损害赔偿金的要求。给Andrew以建议。

[简答题]类别 Bar Chart 题目 The bar charts show the proportion of male and female students getting grades (A and B) by subject area in 1960 and 2000. 题目翻译 这几张柱状图描述了1960年和2000年男女学生分别在各科目中取得top grades的百分比。 写作指导 本次小作文是四幅柱状图。 可以先进行横向比较，即男生在哪些科目占优势而女生在哪些科目占优势。再进行纵向对比，即1960年学生擅长的科目与2000年学生擅长的科目进行比较。 柱状图需要横向总结所有柱状图的共性特征，也要描述各个柱子的个性特征。 重点表达式 In 1960, the proportion of girls who got grade A was %, but 40 years later it dropped to %. The proportion of boys who got grade A in physics is slight higher than that of girls. 此外还可以用while, however, in spite of, by contrast等连词，也包括类似it is clear that插入语。 题目评价 难度一般 推荐练习 剑6 Test 4 近期考试趋势 接下来几次需关注流程图以及表格。

[单项选择]Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist, made a fortune by manufacturing iron and steel protected by customs tariff. In 1873, on one of his frequent trips to England, he met Henry Bessemer and became convinced that the industrial future lay in steel. He built the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Mills near Pittsburgh, and from that moment on, the Carnegie Empire was one of constant expansion. Later on, the Carnegie Steel Co. became an immense organization. It included all the processes of steel production from the great furnaces and finishing mills of Pittsburgh to the lake steamers that moved the ores and the finished products.
Like his grandfather, Andrew Carnegie did not abandon the radical idealism of his forebears for the benefit of the working class and tile poor people. In spite of his espousal (支持) of Hebert Spencer’s philosophy and the social Darwinism of the period, Carnegie remained deeply committed to many of the Chartist (宪章运动) ideals of his boyhood, He bel
A. developed from his belief in social Darwinism
B. developed through his education under Bessemer
C. developed from the Chartist ideals of his boyhood
D. resulted from union strikes and unrest(动乱) at the Carnegie Steel Company