[单项选择]Trevo Rees-Jones has come to Paris to______
A. receive medical treatment
B. conduct the inquiry
C. answer the judge’s inquiries
D. investigate the accident

[单项选择]How many times has Rees-Jones come to Paris for the inquiry
A. Once.
B. Twice.
C. Three times.
D. Four times.

[填空题]A Frenchman living in Paris has great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying because ______.

[单项选择]The cold and rainy weather in Paris has not stopped Joe Schaeffer, an American tourist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from visiting the City of Lights with his family of four. Nor have the city’s expensive prices—all the higher because of the huge drop in value of the American dollar compared to the European euro. "We were coming anyway, not matter the price. We might not stay as long. We might eat cheese sandwiches," he said.
At Notre Dame Cathedral a few blocks away, Linda Surma from Detroit, Michigan says she is also shocked by high prices in Paris these days. But Surma does not regret deciding to come to Paris, and has no plans to trim tourist attractions from her itinerary because of the expense—even if she might not buy souvenirs.
Paul Roll is managing director of the Paris Convention and Visitors Office. He says American tourists in Paris—who numbered about 1.5 million last year—tend to cut expenses when the dollar is weak, rather than cancel their trip.
"We have no s
A. Foreign visitors in the US.
B. Foreign investors.
C. Exporters of America.
D. American visitors to other countries.

[单项选择]The question of where insights come from has become a hot topic in neuroscience, despite the fact that they are not easy to induce experimentally in a laboratory. Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Sheth have taken a creative approach. They have selected some brain-teasing but practical problems in the hope that these would get closer to mimicking real insight: To qualify, a puzzle had to be simple, not too widely known and without a methodical solution. The researchers then asked 18 young adults to try to solve these problems while their brainwaves were monitored using an electroencephalograph (EEG).
A typical brain-teaser went like this. There are three light switches on the ground-floor wall of a three-storey house. Two of the switches do nothing, but one of them controls a bulb on the second floor. When you begin, the bulb is off. You can only make one visit to the second floor. How do you work out which switch is the one that controls the light
This problem, or one equivalent to i
A. Theoretical brain-teasing problems,
B. Simple but rarely known problems.
C. Puzzling hut realistic problems.
D. Simple but theoretical problems.

[单项选择]Why has the couple come to the restaurant
A. To try some expensive food,
B. To celebrate their anniversary.
C. Because it’s a holiday.
D. It’s the man’s favorite restaurant.

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