[单项选择]After extensive research, retired portfolio manager, Ryan Wang, CFA, purchased 20000 shares of a small public company. He then posted messages on several Internet bulletin boards. The messages read, "This stock is going up once the pending patents are released. You would be crazy to sell anything below $5 in a few months from now. The stock is a buy at anything below $5. I just bought 50 K shares for my personal account. I have done some close research on these guys. " According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, Ryan most likely violated the Standard or Standards associated with:（）
A. Conflicts of Interest and Integrity of Capital Markets.
B. Conflicts of Interest, but not Integrity of Capital Markets.
C. Integrity of Capital Markets, but not Conflicts of Interest.

[单项选择]Carey had retired as usual after dinner for a little ______ in the drawing-room, but he was in an irritable mood and could not sleep.
A. snooze
B. sniff
C. snore
D. sneeze

[单项选择]After he retired from office, Rogers （） painting for a while, but soon lost interest.
A. took up
B. saved up
C. kept up
D. drew up

[单项选择]After he retired from office, Rogers ______ painting for a while, but soon lost interest.
A. took up
B. save up
C. kept up
D. drew up

[单项选择]How did the speaker feel after his research
A. He believed what Ralph said but felt uneasy.
B. He argued more forcefully with the news announcer.
C. He was sure that he was right to disagree with Ralph.
D. He had greater doubt about Ralph’s words.

[填空题]After he retired, the professor lived in __________ (纽约西面的一个小镇上).

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After years of research, Charles Drew devised a procedure for preserving plasma（）

A. transporting
B. saving
C. reusing
D. labeling

[单项选择]After scientists did some research ______ the health of workers, the government tried to find some way to meet their demand.
A. into
B. off
C. about
D. for

[单项选择]After putting it off three times, we ______ managed to have a holiday in Greece.
A. at last
B. finally
C. in the end
D. eventually

[单项选择]When Jack and Chuck officially retired
A. Bruce had been meeting with influential investors.
B. Bruce had been giving most of the presentations to analysts.
C. Bruce was already involved in the management of the company.

[单项选择]When John and Simon officially retired,
A. Ford was already involved in the management of the corporation.
B. Ford had been meeting with influential investors.
C. Ford had been giving most of the presentation to analysts.

[单项选择] Market research  

Market research has become more and more important in recent years. In some organisations, in fact, managers will not initiate any activity without market research to back. them up.
The first thing to be said about market research is that it is not an (21) to management decision-making. No form of market research, no matter how deep, complicated and detailed, can ever be seen as a substitute for creative decision-making by professional managers (22) its very best, all it can do is (23) some doubt and clarify the nature of the problem. It may even be seen as a tool which can improve the (24) of decisions but it is not in itself a decision-making mechanism.
Market research, in (25) with a number of other approaches in marketing, suffers from the frequent complaint that it is not really accurate. Market research results can never be completely accurate because t
A. attempt
B. venture
C. choice
D. try

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Market research
 

Market research has become more and more important in recent years. In some organisations, in fact, managers will not initiate any activity without market research to back. them up.
The first thing to be said about market research is that it is not an (21) to management decision-making. No form of market research, no matter how deep, complicated and detailed, can ever be seen as a substitute for creative decision-making by professional managers (22) its very best, all it can do is (23) some doubt and clarify the nature of the problem. It may even be seen as a tool which can improve the (24) of decisions but it is not in itself a decision-making mechanism.
Market research, in (25) with a number of other approaches in marketing, suffers from the frequent complaint that it is not really accurate. Market research results can never be completely accurate because
A. association
B. common
C. addition
D. connection