Like all quintessentially British things, gardening is a pastime that has long been in decline. From a high point of ￡5 billion in 2001, spending on plants, tools and garden furniture has fallen every year since then, to around ~3 billion in 2008．The arrival of economic recession only deepened the gloom: to credit-crunched consumers, shrubs and hanging baskets seemed obvious candidates for cuts.
Yet the latest figures from the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) suggest a bumper year for garden-related expenditure is in the making. Sales volumes were up by 21% in March and 28% in April compared with the same months a year earlier. This was not the result of deep discounting, a strategy that many other retailers have been adopting. The value of garden goods sold was 37% higher in March and 42% higher in April than a year earlier, whereas the value of all sales had increased by just 3% in April. Datamonitor, a market-research firm, reckons that gardening will continue to
A. Those who spend their entire time in gardening
B. Those who go abroad to train others in gardening
C. Those who practice gardening to fill in the time while looking for a job, and grow vegetables for their own use
D. Those who help others with gardening
| Like all quintessentially British
things, gardening is a pastime that has long been in decline. From a high point
of ￡5 billion in 2001, spending on plants, tools and garden furniture has fallen
every year since then, to around ~3 billion in 2008．The arrival of economic
recession only deepened the gloom: to credit-crunched consumers, shrubs and
hanging baskets seemed obvious candidates for cuts. Yet the latest figures from the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) suggest a bumper year for garden-related expenditure is in the making. Sales volumes were up by 21% in March and 28% in April compared with the same months a year earlier. This was not the result of deep discounting, a strategy that many other retailers have been adopting. The value of garden goods sold was 37% higher in March and 42% higher in April than a year earlier, A. Garden-related expenditure this year is more or less the same as that of last year. B. Many retailers are offering deep discounts. C. Prices of garden goods tend to remain stable in recent years. D. Due to the status quo of economy, garden goods are not promised a bright future. [单项选择]Many British people like to travel to Spain, Italy and other warm countries for their holiday. They want to live in the sun for a few weeks and many of them like to take their cars on holiday with them. Then they can travel round the warm countries and see many places in a short time.
But them is a problem. It is only twenty-two miles from Dover in England to Calais in France, but between the two towns there is the English Channel. It is necessary to take the cars across the sea, and this is not easy. Some passengers put their cars on a plane and fly across with them, but that is expensive. Others drive their cars onto large ferries. This is cheap, but the boats are slow and sometimes the sea is rough. These days, more and more people choose to travel by hovercraft. A. the comfort of traveling by airplane B. the disadvantages of traveling by ship C. the advantages of traveling by hovercraft D. the difficulty of taking cars across the English Channel [简答题]Some people feel that when things like this happen, it is not just a coincidence, but a manifestation of some higher power or order where all things, including our thoughts, come together.
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It’s logical to suppose that things like good labor relations, good working conditions, good wages and benefits and job security motivate workers, but one expert, Fredrick Herzberg argued that such conditions do not motivate workers. They are merely satisfiers. Motivators, in contrast, include things such as having a challenging and interesting job, recognition and responsibility. However, even with the development of computers and robotics, there’re always plenty of boring, repetitive and mechanical jobs and lots of unskilled people who have to do them. So how do managers motivate people in such jobs One solution is to give them some responsibilities, not as individuals, but a8 a part of a team. For example, some supermarkets combine office stuff, people who fill the shelves, and the people who work at the checkout into a team, and let them decide what product lines to stock, how to display them and so on. Many people now talk about the importance of a company’ [单项选择]Geography ______ certain things like the location and distribution of countries, peoples, products, and climates as its basis of its description.
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