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Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to ask her to marry him. The problem is she did the same in the opposite direction. He and Amy Dolby even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights.
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe, Dolby was greeted by Johnstone’s astonished flatmate asking what she was doing there. "It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us," she told The Times.
"He is the most romantic(浪漫的)person I have ever known. I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(易冲动的)people. We are always trying to surprise each other. "
Johnstone, a 27-year-old construction worker, had taken a year off to travel round Australia. But he was missing Dolby, a 26-year-old secretary, so much that he got a job on a Sydney building s
A. Both are from Britain.
B. Both are from Australia.
C. Johnstone’s from Britain, Dolby Australia.
D. Johnstone’s from Australia, Dolby Britain.
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Senior Engineer (Mechanical and Electrical)
For production and Engineering Department, good command of Internet
Junior Positions
For those who wish for success
One purchaser(购货员)
Preferably with experience in a mechanical engineering company and international markets
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A. a secretary in NESTLE
B. a production worker in THYSSEN
C. a production trainee in THYSSEN
D. a cost accountant in THYSSEN
For all his vaunted talents, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has never had much of a reputation as an economic forecaster. In fact, he shies away from making the precise-to-the-decimal-point predictions that many other economists thrive on. Instead, he owes his success as a monetary policymaker to his ability to sniff out threats to the economy and manipulate interest rates to dampen the dangers he perceives.
Now, those instincts are being put to the test. Many Fed watchers — and some policymakers inside the central bank itself- are beginning to wonder whether Greenspan has lost his touch. Despite rising risks to the economy from a swooning stock market and soaring oil prices that could hamper growth, the Greenspan-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged on Sept. 24. But in a rare dissent, two of the Fed’s 12 policymakers broke ranks and voted fo
A. his successful predictions of economy
B. his timely handling of interest rates
C. his unusual economic policies
D. his unique sense of dangers
I remember meeting him one evening with
his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the
snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were
pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and
women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the
clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East
Side. I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile—Charlie Chaplin’s smile. "Arch, it’s Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana." He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, A. (A) Indifferent. B. (B) Sympathetic. C. (C) Appreciative. D. (D) Difficult to tell. 我来回答: 提交
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