题目
Furthermore, the country's recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, "stunning". GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching. Turkey's inflation rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country reached agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic program that will, according to the IMF's managing director, Rodrigo Rato, "help Turkey... reduce inflation towards European levels, and enhance the economy's resilience (弹性)".
Resilience has not historically been the country's economic strong point. As recently as 2001, GDP fell by over 7%. It fell by more than 5% in 1994, and by just under 5% in 1999. Indeed, throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram recording a violent heart attack. This irregularity has been one of the main reasons (along with red tape and corruption) why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment (as a percentage of GDP) is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual inflows have scarcely ever reached $1 billion (whereas Ireland attracted over $25 billion in 2003, as did Brazil in every year from 1998 to 2000).
One deterrent to foreign investors is due to disappear on January 1 st 2005. On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six naughts will be removed from the face value of the lira; one unit of the local currency will henceforth be worth what lm is now--i.e., about C0.53 ($0.70).
Goods will have to be priced in both the new and old lira for the whole of the year, but foreign bankers and investors can begin to look forward to a time in Turkey when they will no longer have to juggle mentally with indeterminate strings of zeros.
The mood of the workers was pessimistic in that______.
A.their plant would go to bankruptcy
B.they would be unemployed temporarily
C.new models and investment would bring about jobs cut
D.they are confronting the threat of losing jobs
第1题
A. destruction
B. construction
C. conduction
D.deduction
第2题
第3题
ld support life.
A.as far as it concerns
B.there are possibly
C.chances are that
D.it is sure to say that
第4题
A.It starts with some common concerns and ends up with a hook.
B.It is a well-structured concise speec
C.It should arouse the listener’s actions that the speaker expects.
D.It must grab the audience’s attention.
第5题
A.They are much influenced by the academic community.
B.They are most likely to benefit from AI development.
C.They share the same concerns about AI as academics.
D.They believe they can keep AI under human control.
第6题
Which of the following statements about the elevator pitch are true?
A.It must grab the audience’s attention.
B.It is a well-structured concise speech.
C.It starts with some common concerns and ends up with an interesting hook.
D.It should arouse the listener’s further actions that the speaker wants.
第7题
A.With some awareness of it, business people are able to understand the norms, customs, values and beliefs of another cultur
B.It mainly focuses on business trade between companies from different countries or cultures.
C.It chiefly concerns how people from different countries or cultures communicate with each other.
D.In the communication related to it, business people are supposed to adapt themselves to such a context and environment.
第8题
Passage Five
Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways. It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist's failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.
We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.
51. Some people hate everything that is modern because ______.
A. they are aged
B. they find it hard to accept modern things
C. they take their standards of perfection from the Greek
D. they look at things by the standards of the past
第9题
(英译汉)One reason for discussing listening here is because of concerns expressed by people attending assertiveness courses, many of whom are helped by improving their listening skills. For example, non-assertive people who are shy often find it difficult to begin conversations with others, especially on social occasions when they feel they have no aptitude for small talks.
Many people find it relatively easy to communicate on a professional level, on which the content of conversation is technical, technological or business oriented, but have difficulty in stepping from behind their desks and chatting with superiors, co-workers, clients and customers on a more personal level. On training courses participants previously unknown to each other will soon talk together about work-related issues --- common objectives --- but some keep silent during refreshment breaks where social chitchat is required.
Concentrating on others ---finding out their experiences, beliefs and attitudes --- is the way forward. Active listening can really help you know more about them and establish a basis for solid communication.
第10题
(a) A director of Enca, a public listed company, has expressed concerns about the accounting treatment of some of the company’s items of property, plant and equipment which have increased in value. His main concern is that the statement of financial position does not show the true value of assets which have increased in value and that this ‘undervaluation’ is compounded by having to charge depreciation on these assets, which also reduces reported profit. He argues that this does not make economic sense.
Required:
Respond to the director’s concerns by summarising the principal requirements of IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment in relation to the revaluation of property, plant and equipment, including its subsequent treatment.
(b) The following details relate to two items of property, plant and equipment (A and B) owned by Delta which are depreciated on a straight-line basis with no estimated residual value:
At 31 March 2014 item A was still in use, but item B was sold (on that date) for $70 million.
Note: Delta makes an annual transfer from its revaluation surplus to retained earnings in respect of excess depreciation.
Required:
Prepare extracts from:
(i) Delta’s statements of profit or loss for the years ended 31 March 2013 and 2014 in respect of charges (expenses) related to property, plant and equipment;
(ii) Delta’s statements of financial position as at 31 March 2013 and 2014 for the carrying amount of property, plant and equipment and the revaluation surplus.
The following mark allocation is provided as guidance for this requirement:
(i) 5 marks
(ii) 5 marks (10 marks)
第11题
This action, from the beginning to the end of a movement toward a purposed goal, must also have a middle; it must proceed through a number of steps, the succession of incidents which make up the plot. Because the dramatist is concerned with the meaning and logic of events rather than with their casual relationship in time, he will probably select his material and order it on a basis of the operation, in human affairs, of laws of cause and effect. It is in this causal relationship of incidents that the element of conflict, present in virtually all plays, appears.
The central figure of the play—the protagonist—encounters difficulties; his purpose or purposes conflict with events or circumstances, with purposes of other characters in the play, or with cross-purposes which exist within his own thoughts and desires. These difficulties threaten the protagonist’s accomplishment; in other words, they present complications, and his success or failure in dealing with these complications determines the outcome. Normally, complications build through the play in order of increasing difficulty; one complication may be added to another, or one may grow out of the solution of a preceding one. At some point in this chain of complication and solution, achieved or attempted, the protagonist performs an act or makes a decision which irrevocably commits him to a further course, points toward certain general consequences. This point is usually called the crisis; the complications and solutions which follow work out the logical steps from crisis to final resolution, or denouement.
第26题:According to the first paragraph of the text, a dramatist________.
[A] seldom believes what he writes about
[B] portrays what he experiences in the drama
[C] concerns himself with the results of human effort
[D] tries to convince his audience of what he believes
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