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[填空题]Gestures aren’t the only area in which the unwary traveler can
get tripped up. Foreign cultures adhere different business customs (1)
and behavior. For example: Caffeine junkies should restrain them (2)
in the Middle East. "Three cups of tea or coffee is usually the polite
limit in offices and during social calls," counsel "Travel Pak, " a (3)
free publication of Alia, the Royal Jordanian Airline. "And if your host (4)
keeps going, you also may continue sipping. If you’ve had your fill,
give your empty cup a quick twist-a sort of wiggle-as you hand it
back. That means "No more, thank you. "
Middle East visitors also should be surprised "if others barge (5)
right into the office in the middle of your conversation with the
person you are seeing," notes "Travel Pak." An old Arab custom
calls f
[单项选择]Which language aren’t they learning
A. Japanese. B. French. C. German.
[单项选择]
Real-time web search—which scours only the latest updates to services like Twitter—is currently generating quite a buzz because it can provide a glimpse of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any given moment. Interest in this kind of search is so great that, according to recent leaks, Google is considering buying Twitter.
The latest research from the internet search giant, though, suggests that real-time results could be even more powerful—they may reveal the future as well as the present.
Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home sales. The result Better forecasts in almost every case. It works because searches reveal something about people’s intentions. Google has demonstrated before that search data can predict flu outbreaks, and last week World Bank econo
A. It tells us what people did in past days.
B. It generates quite a buzz in recent days.
C. It provides latest news about everything.
D. It informs what people do in the future.
[简答题]Zambia’s copper industry, which only last year still boasted a rosy future, seems to be staggering towards a rather gloomier end. A group of worried bystanders—the World Bank, the Zambian government, private investors, the mine workers and their families—are looking on, wringing their hands. Some 15,000 jobs and Zambia’s biggest industry are threatened by the mines’ possible closure. What has gone wrong
Consider first the invisible hand of the market. Zambia’s copper is too expensive. Two years ago, when the mines were privatized, it cost 100 cents to dig out every pound of copper. But the world price at the time was just 84 cents. Last year, efficiency improved and the Konk01a Copper Mines (the country’s largest) turned out a pound of copper for 85 cents. But that, sadly, was still well over the market price, which had by then fallen to 75 cents.
[单项选择]A. That taste buds aren’t located only on the tongue.
B. That taste buds aren’t all the same size.
C. That solutions must be measured and mixed carefully.
D. That he shouldn’t swallow the solutions.
