[简答题]Commodity futures refer to contracts to supply quantities of the underlying commodity at a future date.

[简答题]Commodity futures refer to contracts to supply quantities of the underlying commodity at a future date.

[简答题]supply

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For x=4, 3x2-5x+9=______

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Certain animals have an intuitive awareness of quantities, They know without analysis the difference between a number of objects and a smaller number. In his book The Natural History of Selbourne (1786), the naturalist Gilbert White tells how he surreptitiously removed one egg a day from a plover’s nest, and how the mother laid another egg each day to make up for the missing one. He noted that other species of birds ignore the absence of a single egg but abandon their nests if more than one egg has been removed. It has also been noted by naturalists that a certain type of wasp always provides five — never four, never six — caterpillars for each of their eggs so that their young have something to eat when the eggs hatch. Research has also shown that both mice and pigeons can be taught to distinguish between odd and even numbers of food pieces.
These and similar accounts have led some people to infer that creatures other than human can actually count. They
A. Careful training is required to teach animals to perform tricks involving numbers.
B. Animals cannot "count" more than one kind of object.
C. Of all animals, dogs and horses can count best.
D. Although some animals may be aware of quantities, they cannot actually count.

[单项选择]The standardization of futures contracts promotes liquidity because:（　）
A. all the participants in the market know exactly what is being offered for sale, and they know the terms of the transactions. 
B. it guarantees that all of the traders in the futures market will honor their obligations and that futures contracts trade in a smoothly functioning market. 
C. it provides a safeguard whereby traders are required to realize any losses in cash on the day they occur.

[填空题]A distinction is made between vowels where the quality remains constant throughout the articulation and those where there is an audible change of quality. The former are known as PUPE or MONOPHTHONG VOWELS and the latter, VOWEL GLIDES.（）

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MORTGAGE:PTICELESS ADVICE

A. identification B. quality C. credential D. certificate
A. Common (22) is as a customer service adviser in a bank or as an insurance technician or mortgage administrator in a brokerage firm， (23) to mortgage advice as you gain qualifications (24) by the Financial Services Authority(FS．
B. Required qualifications (25) mortgage advisers include the Chartered Insurance Institute(CI (26) in mortgage advice and the School of Finance certificate in mortgage advice and practice．It is possible to study for these by distance learning．This is a career that requires advisers to (27) up to date with new financial products and regulations．CII and the ifs School of Finance offer courses and formal (28) professional development schemes．

[单项选择]Client: Could you please break the dollar into quarters I need the coins for the telephone stand. Bank Clerk: ______
A. Here, you have them.
B. Here, take them.
C. Sure, in what denomination
D. Sure, here you are.

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Such awful losses of human life in the Iranian quake should not have occurred.

[单项选择]Which of the following is not part of a modern quality management concept ______
A. Performance standard is zero defects
B. Quality must be inspected in
C. 85% of failures occur because of the process, not the worker
D. Quality is a 4 cycle process - plan/do/check/act