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Who offered to help Nicholas finally

[单项选择]Who offered to help Nicholas finally
A. His classmates.
B. His parents.
C. A college.

[填空题]A
Hoover offered any customer who spent at least ￡ 100 on its products two complimentary flights to Europe and the US. The offer attracted more than double the anticipated applications, leading to the dismissal of three senior managers and a bill for ￡ 19 million.
B
A large computer hardware retailer positioned itself at the bottom end of the market by undercutting all its competitors. To attract customers, it even offered a 0% interest Buy Now, Pay One Year Later deal. People did buy, but unfortunately, serious cash flow problems forced the company into liquidation before customers repaid them.
C
Lever Brothers rushed Persil Power onto the market to coincide with a rival company’s launch of its own new washing powder. Despite millions of pounds spent on research, Persil Power was fatally flawed, having the unfortunate effect of damaging clothes. It was quickly withdrawn and reformulated.
D
’The best has been made even better.’ said the

[单项选择]A. The woman offered to help the man find his box.
B. The man doesn’t know where to go.
C. The woman will buy the man’s lunch for him.
D. The woman will give the man a treatment.

[简答题]God help those who help themselves.

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The Month of January offered those who track the ups and downs of the U. S. economy 92 significant data releases and announcements to digest. That’s according to a calendar compiled by the investment bank UBS. The number doesn’t include corporate earnings, data from abroad or informal indicators like, say, cardboard prices (a favorite of Alan Greenspan’s back in the day). It was not always thus. "One reads with dismay of Presidents Hoover and then Roosevelt designing policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s on the basis of such sketchy data as stock price indices, freight car loadings, and incomplete indices of industrial production," writes the University of North Carolina’s Richard Froyen in his macroeconomics textbook.
But that was then The Depression inspired the creation of new measures like gross domestic product. (It was gross national product back in those days, but the basic idea is the same. ) Wartime planning needs
A. met with disapproval
B. face strong criticism
C. won warm welcome
D. gained high appreciation

[单项选择]The proverb "God help those who help themselves. " is related to （　）.
A. Christianity
B. literary works
C. geography
D. navigation

[单项选择]"God help those who help themselves" is a citation from the work of（）
A. Paine
B. Franklin
C. Freneau
D. Jefferson

[单项选择]Who ate the bigger apple finally