The explosive growth in casinos is one of the most () signs of Westernization.

A.dim

B.obscure

C.conspicuous

D.intelligible

A.progressed

B. blossomed

C. extended

D. became

________ Cars is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world.Genuine care for employees, customers and our collective impact on the environment.Corporate culture of openness, team members encouraged to speak up.Great opportunities for career growth, the cream rises to the top.Talent and hard work rewarded with career advancement.Its cars are well-known for its safety.

A.explosive

B.expanding

C.expensive

D.excessive

gpu River, which cuts through the city. Pudong has a laud area of 533.@44 square kilometers and a permanent population of 163 million. In the past, due to the lack of bridges and tunnels across the river, Pudong lagged far behind the old downtown of Shanghai in terms of economic growth, though it lies just opposite the latter.

On April 18, 1990, the Chinese central government made the announcement of opening up and developing Shanghai Pudong. That was seen as a major strategy to turn Shanghai into one of world's largest economic, financial and trade centers and to regenerate the economy of the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole Yangtze River Valley.

The reconstruction of Pudong is a major strategic decision in carrying on the social and economic progress of China. It will lead the country in innovations of administrations, upgrading of industrial structures and expanding the practice of the opening-up policy. The past ten years have witnessed explosive economic growth in Pudong as well as an enormous change in the appearance of the city. Pudong New Area has become the landmark of Shanghai as one of the international economic centers in the 21st century.

As the tallest building in China, Jin Mao Tower is au intelligent building offering services for business, hotel, recreation, sightseeing and shopping. It is not only a new tourist attraction but also a window through which people from other parts of the world may get a better understanding of Shanghai and Pudong.

Pudong

Land area:【46】.

Population:【47】.

Past situation:【48】.

Time for fast development:【49】.

A window to see Shanghai:【50】.

emphasis on the development

of international accounting, auditing and ethical standards. The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has

been at the forefront of the development of the worldwide accountancy profession through its activities in ethics,

auditing and education.

Required:

Explain the developments in each of the following areas and indicate how they affect Chartered Certified

Accountants:

(a) IFAC’s ‘Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants’; (5 marks)

Explosive and flammable gasses are most likely to be encountered on a vessel ______．

A.at any location

B.on the drill floor and liquid mud handling areas

C.in bulk storage tanks

D.in machinery spaces

性的数据：投资率、人口增长率、受教育程度等等。(提示：世界银行的网站www.wordbank.org是找到这类数据的一个地点。)你将如何推断这些因素中哪些是造成观察到的收入差距的最重要的因素？

Choose two countries that interest you——one rich and one poor. What is the income per person in each country？ Find some data on country characteristics that might help explain the difference in income: investment rates, population growth rates, educational attainment, and so on. (Hint: The Web site of the World Bank,www.worldbank.org,is one place to find such data.) How might you figure out which of these factors is most responsible for the observed income difference？

owth but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to【61】birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

Brazil' s population growth【62】has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960【63】1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this【64】may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧)and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect,【65】in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil' s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based【66】wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values--not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and【67】people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other【68】, which were put into a very attractive pack- age. "Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to【69】the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and【70】was incompatible'(不相容的)with un- limited reproduction," says Martine.

(41)

A．increase

B．reduce

C．extend

D．improve

Part B

Directions:

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind., home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino where gambling games are played. During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams, a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling.

He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a Fun Card, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user’s gambling activities. For Williams, these activities become what he calls electronic morphine.

(41)________. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at 5 a.m., then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m. Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem.

In March 1998, a friend of Williams’s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform. the casino of Williams’s gambling problems. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a “cease admissions” letter. Noting the medical/psychological nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being.

(42) ________.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning: “Enjoy the fun... and always bet with your head, not over it.” Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams’s suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling,” intentionally worked to “lure” him to “engage in conduct against his will.” Well.

(43) ________.

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) says “pathological gambling” involves persistent, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.

(44) ________. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities.

(45) ________.

Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on -- you might say addicted to -- revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gamblers’ dollars has become intense. The Oct. 28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual casinos every week. With $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has passed pornography as the Web’s most profitable business.

41.___________________

[A] Although no such evidence was presented, the casino’s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino and used his Fun Card without being detected.

[B] It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative？

[C] By the time he had lost $5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit. One night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.

[D] Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy: the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is government.

[E] David Williams’s suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.

[F] It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addictions what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will.

[G] The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to move against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so？