[单项选择]The book concentrates on the fact that the twenty executives who are interviewed ______. A. work in a number of different in dustries. B. strated their companies. C. have worked for different lengths of time.

[单项选择]This book concentrates on women as individuals and outlines the help and services available.（）
A. 本书集中勾勒了女人在作为个体的时候他们所能提供的帮助和服务。
B. 本书集中表现女性的个体化，勾勒出了他们所能提供的帮助和服务。
C. 这本书着重将妇女作为个体来阐述，并且概述了她们所能得到的帮助和服务。
D. 本书着重讲述了作为个体的女性，并且也大致地描写了他们所能得到的帮助和服务。

[填空题]The Department concentrates on collecting single unrelated objects of great value.

[填空题]The dictionary cost me twenty yuan.
I spent twenty yuan ______ ______ ______.

[单项选择]A. Twenty minutes. B. Twenty-five minutes.
C. Fifty minutes. D. Fifty-five minutes.

[填空题]He concentrates more on (comfortable) ______ and convenience in buying a house.

[填空题]The banana harvest lasts twenty days.

[单项选择]Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago. In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western. Walk into a class today, however, and you’ll get a completely different impression. For a start, you will now see plenty more women—the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, for example, boasts that 40% of its new enrolment is female. You will also see a wide range of ethnic groups and nationals of practically every country.
It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved. But, increasingly, this apparent diversity is becoming a mask for a new type of conformity. Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.
Diversity, it seems, has not helped to address fundamental weaknesses in busi
A. Greater diversity.
B. Intellectual maturity.
C. Exceptional diligence.
D. Higher ambition.

[简答题]It took the producer twenty minutes to convince Connie that he was serious.

[单项选择]Casa ltaliana
Twenty years ago, it was difficult to find fresh pasta in Britain without going to an Italian restaurant. For this reason, Marco and Mariengeladi Bietro, owners of a small but busy Italian restaurant in the Scottish city of Glasgow, found themselves approached by a local Italian food store wanting to stock their pasta. Other foodstores followed this example and soon Marco and Mariangela were supplying them on a large scale as well as running a restaurant. But despite the long hours they were working, Marco and Mariangela did not consider changing career or moving from Scotland. It was only years later that they realised which business made more sense.
So in 1981, Marco and Mariangela sold their restaurant, bought a former factory and moved to the English countryside. They both miss city life. Although suitable property in the country was cheaper than in the city, it was only the thought of trucks wasting hours driving from Scot
A. felt premises in the city were too expensive.
B. needed to be closer to their market.
C. wanted to live in the country.