[单项选择]There is less crime now; it seems that there is a (fall) in the crime rate.
A. decrease
B. incline
C. defeat
D. slope

[单项选择]There is less crime now; it seems that there is a (fall) in the crime rate.
A. decrease
B. incline
C. defeat
D. slope

[单项选择]It seems now that a dollar is not the same as that ten years ago. We can not use it to buy as many things as before. No one can deny that one dollar is worth 100 cents. The amount of money is fixed but the value has experienced great changes. Do our living conditions get decreased Many people are confused about this question.
All the goods are ruled by the axioms of supply and demand. We all know that workers earn more than before, as a result, they have more to pay for what they need or what they like. The great demand promotes the price to go up. At the same time, if there is a shortage, the price also goes up. According to the economists, the value of money depends on the cost of living. The cost of living is what we spend on the necessities. The food, housing and medical expenses have increased largely these years, so the value of money has decreased. For some people whose salary has not increased much, the expense of living becomes a headache. Don’t worry about that
A. Have a formal dress in one year
B. Own a car in two years’ time
C. Save money and have a plan to avoid waste
D. Put down every penny we spend

[填空题]If the air in New York seems a little less grimy this spring, thank Rudolph Giuliani. On January 10th, after months of burning debate, the city’s non-smoke mayor 91.________ signed the Smoke-Free Air Act. From April 10th smoking will be stubbed out(碾灭) in restaurants catering for more than 35 people, a move that will hit about half the city’s 11,000 eating places. Nicotine addicts will also smoked out at work, except 92.________ in ventilated smoking rooms or offices occupied by no more than three consenting adults. More radically, outdoor seating areas will also become smoke zones. 93.________ Come the new baseball season, fans at Yankee Stadium will be breaking the law if they light up. New York joins well over 100 American cities—and four states—that have passed laws banned smoking 94.________ in public places. More than a third of American companies now forbid smoking in the workplace, up to 95.________ a mere 20% in 1986. And the tobacco industry, which in Am