When grains are rare because of years of draught, the producers__ the price of food.

A.rise

B.arise

C.raise

D.decrease

A.I had to practice long and hard to manage those little grains of rice.

B.One thing I'll say for these things is I don't eat as much.

C.It's easy to offend people when you don't know their customs.

en a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere moves toward the ______．

A.West or northwest

B.Northeast

C.Southeast

D.North

weather conditions are so severe that，in the opinion of the master，it is necessary to carry additional ballast water in cargo tanks for the safety of the ship.

A.besides

B.in particular

C.incase of

D.except

dem life，but manners on the road are becoming horrible.It is more than necessary to launch a be-kind-to-other-drivers campaign，otherwise，the situation may get completely out of control.Road politeness is not only good manners’ but good sense too.It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered of drivers to resist me temptation to revenge when subjected to uncivilized behavior.On the other hand，a friendly nod or a wave of acknowledgement in response to an act of politeness helps to create an atmosphere of goodwill and tolerance so necessary in modem traffic conditions.But such acknowledgements of politeness are all too rare today.(英译中)

Passage Three

An old Indian story says that the game of chess (国际象棋) was invented by Sissa Ben, Prime Minister of King Shirham. As soon as the invention was finished he gave it to the king, who was glad and asked him what he would like to have in return. To the king's surprise, what Sissa wanted seemed very little. "Your Majesty, "said the minister, kneeling before the king. "I want nothing but some wheat. Please put a grain of wheat on the first square of the chessboard (棋盘), two on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth.., and so on, doubling the number for each following square. Give me enough grains to cover the 64 squares of the chessboard."

"You don't ask for much, my honest servant. You might have asked for gold or money," said the king and then ordered a bag of wheat brought to the palace.

But when the counting began, with one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on, the bag was emptied before the 20th square. More bags were brought, but the number of grain needed for the following squares increased so rapidly that the king was not able to keep his promise even with all the crops in the whole India! In fact, he would have needed 8 466 744 073 709 511 615 grains, which would be as much as that they would produce in about 2000 years!

Now tile king found himself deep in debt to his minister. He had either to face the terrible trouble all his life or to cut off Sissa's head, the litter of which, it is said was what he finally chose.

41. This story tells us ______.

A. how cruel the king was

B. how clever the minister was

C. Sissa was a famous mathematician

D. how the game of chess came into being

aps $5 000 or more.【B1】______, it is not uncommon for them to purchase【B2】_______ costing another several hundred dollars. Twenty years ago, computers were【B3】______, but they were very large and extremely expensive. Few, if any,【B4】______purchased computers for home use. Over the years, the price of the "guts" Of a computer its memory—has declined to less than a thousandth of the price per unit of memory that prevailed twenty years ago. This is the main reason why computers cost so much less today than they used to. Moreover,【B5】______improvements have made it possible to【B6】______memory circuitry that is small enough to fit into the portable personal computers that many of us own and use.【B7】______, as the price of computation has declined the average consumer and business have spent more on purchasing computers. 【B8】______, improved agricultural technology, hybrid(杂交)seeds,【B9】______animal breeding, and so on have vastly increased the amount of output a typical farmer can produce. The prices of goods such as meats and grains have fallen sharply relative to the prices of most other goods and services. As agricultural prices have fallen, many households have decreased their total expenses on food. Even though the【B10】______of a product purchased generally increases when its price falls, total expenses on it may decline.

【B1】

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Fruit

Imagine a world without fruit. We wouldn’t be very healthy. We get a lot of important vitamins from eating fruit.

We think of fruit primarily as something to eat. (1) Fruit is part of a flowering plant and it carries the seeds. The purpose of fruit is to protect a plant's seeds and help them get spread about. Wind and water spread seeds. So do animals when they eat fruit and drop the seeds. (2) There are two main types of fruit fleshy and dry. Fleshy fruits are soft and juicy. Pears, bananas and apples are all fleshy fruits. (3) Grains like wheat and rice, or nuts like chestnuts(板栗) ,are dry fruits.

But wait You’ve eaten oranges and grapes without seeds. How can they be fruits？ It's because people have changed the way they grow fruit. They can now grow seedless fruit. Seedless fruit comes from special plants that are made by combining two varieties of a fruit to form. a new variety. These special plants grow and produce seeds. (4) These plants cannot reproduce themselves. They can make fruit, but the fruit has no seeds.

Fruits are a source of substances that keep us alive and healthy. So people make use of fruits for many foods. We make juices from them. We make jams and sweets.(5) Beer comes from grains and wine comes from grapes, and some particular wines are made from apples, peaches, or other fruits.

A. Dry fruits are thin and hard.

B. We even make alcohol from fruit.

C. But fruit has a purpose quite apart from our needs.

D. So these plants produce fleshy fruits.

E. Then the seeds grow into new plants.

F. But the plants grown from these seeds are seedless.

A.grains

B. chickens

C. cookies

D. eggs

计算下列资产的美元收益率：

a．在一年里，一幅画的价格从20万美元升至25万美元。

b．一瓶1978年珍贵的Burgundy，Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1978，在1999～2000年价格由180美元升至216美元。

c．存在一家伦敦银行的10000英镑的一年期存款，英镑利率为10%，美元/英镑汇率由每英镑1.50美元升至每英镑1.38美元。

Calculate the dollar rates of return on the following assets：

a．A painting whose price rises from ＄200,000 to ＄250,000 in a year．

b．A bottle of a rare Burgundy，Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1978，whose price rises from ＄180 to ＄216 between 1999 and 2000．

c．A ￡10.000 deposit in a London bank in a year when the interest rate on pounds is IO percent and the ＄/￡ exchange rate moves from ＄1.50 per pound to ＄1.38 per pound．