Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger America

All the firemen in the city were ______to fight against the big fire.

A．called in

B．called off

C．called up

D．called on

The seller should lodge any claim for this consignment against the sellers( ) 30 days( ) arrival of the goods.

A．within, in B．within, after

C．after, in D．after, on

on, to, from, at, against, ensure, receipt, insure, refund, for, meet, meet with

Dear Sirs,

Re: Our Order No．1001 for 2 000 Washing Machines

We wish to refer you(1)our order No．1001 for 2000 Washing Machines Little Swan Brand, automatic Washing Machines,(2)which you will see that this order is placed(3)CFR basis.

As we now desire to have the shipment insured(4)your end．We shall be pleased if you will arrange to(5)the goods on our behalf(6)All Risks at invoice value 1000000 plus 10% i．e．RMB 1100000.

We shall of course to(7)you the premium upon(8)of your debit note or, if you like, you may draw on us at sight(9)the amount required.

We sincerely hope that our request will(10)your approval.

Yours faithfully,

few things more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so __1__ in the United States？

Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more __2__ than civilian（百姓的）clothes. People have become conditioned to __3__ superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform. tends to __4__ more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the __5__ of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What an easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to __6__ professional identity（身份）than to step out of uniform？ Uniforms also have many __7__ benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.

Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of __8__ experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms,

the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without __9__, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act __10__, on the job at least.

[A]skill

[B]popular

[C]get

[D]change

[E]similarly

[F]professional

[G]character

[H]individuality

[I]inspire

[J]differently

[K]expect

[L]practical

[M]recall

[N]lose

[O]ordinary

Please fill the following particulars in a credit form to issue a Red Clause credit.

(1)issuing date: 6 June, 200×

(2)Credit No. 256734

(3)Credit amount: AUD64,000.00 (say Australian dollars...)

(4)expiry date: 31 July, 200×

(5)available with the advising bank by negotiation

(6)shipment date: 16 July, 200×

(7)special condition

"The Issuing Bank authorises the Negotiating Bank to pay 60% of the amount of the Credit in advance to the beneficiary against the following presentations:

Ⅰ. a receipt for the advance duly signed by the beneficiary;

Ⅱ. an undertaking from the beneficiary to utilize the funds to purchase and pack the goods;

Ⅲ. the undertaking of the beneficiary to present full set of documents as stipulated in the Credit to the Negotiating bank within the expiry of the credit.

After the advance payment has been made to the beneficiary, the Negotiating Bank may claim reimbursement to be supported by the receipt and undertaking on the Issuing Bank which will reimburse the negotiating bank immediately.

Upon negotiation of documents presented by the beneficiary, the advance payment for 60% of the credit amount will be deducted from the whole negotiating amount for beneficiary's refundment. The remaining approximate 40o-/o of the invoice value will be claimed by the Negotiating bank on the Issuing Bank for its reimbursement. "

Red Clause Credit

Name of Issuing Bank Place and date of issue

Bank of Australia, London, (1) ____________

Name of Beneficiary Advised through

To: Marlin Wool Company, Melbourne Bank of Australia, Melbourne

Dear Sirs,

At the request and on the instructions of (name and address of the applicant), we hereby issue an Irrevocable Documentary Credit No. (2) ______ for (3) ______ (say ____________) to expire on or before (4) ______ at Melbourne (5) __________________ of your draft for 40% of the invoice value drawn at sight on us against the presentation of the documents detailed herein:

① Commercial invoice in triplicate.

② Full set clean on board ocean bills of lading made out to order endorsed in blank marked "freight prepaid".

③ Packing list in triplicate.

Evidencing shipment from London to Melbourne not later than (6) ______.

Partial shipments not allowed. Transhipment allowed.

(7)Special condition

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Instructions to the Negotiating Bank

All shipping documents in compliance with the terms and conditions of the credit shall be forwarded by you immediately to us for beneficiary's refundment of 60% advance payment and claiming your reimbursement of 40% invoice value.

We engage with drawers and bona-fide holders of draft (s) drawn under and negotiated in compliance with the terms and conditions of the credit that such draft (s) shall be duly honoured upon due presentation.

This Credit is subject to UCP 600.

Yours faithfully

Bank of Australia,

London

dignature(s)

Passage 4

Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers’rights on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Canada&39;s Labour Day was _1_ celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canada’s first significant _2_ for worker’s rights. The aim was to release the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for _3_ to campaign .for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to _4_ trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form. trade unions, _5_ in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the _6_ of workers. There was _7_ public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important role that the trade unions had to play in the _8_ Canadian democratic society. A few months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to _9_ all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in the same year and _10_ led to the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress In 1883. A similar holiday，Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadian trade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improve workers’rights.

A) disrupt

B) enormous

C) lashed

D) muttering

E) striking

F) mediated

G) originally

H)perpetual eventually

J) emerging

K) gesture

L) mistreatment

M) abolish

N) parade

O) practically

第1空答案是：

__________

[A] Quebec’s resistance to a national agency is provincialist ideology. One of the first advocates for a national list was a researcher at Laval University. Quebec’s Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from 14.3 per cent to 26.8 per cent!

[B] Or they could read Mr. Kirby’s report: “the substantial buying power of such an agency would strengthen the public prescription-drug insurance plans to negotiate the lowest possible purchase prices from drug companies.”

[C] What does “national” mean？ Roy Romanow and Senator Michael Kirby recommended a federal-provincial body much like the recently created National Health Council.

[D] The problem is simple and stark: health-care costs have been, are, and will continue to increase faster than government revenues.

[E] According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, prescription drug costs have risen since 1997 at twice the rate of overall health-care spending. Part of the increase comes from drugs being used to replace other kinds of treatments. Part of it arises from new drugs costing more than older kinds. Part of it is higher prices.

[F] So, if the provinces want to run the health-care show, they should prove they can run it, starting with an interprovincial health list that would end duplication, save administrative costs, prevent one province from being played off against another, and bargain for better drug prices.

[G] Of course the pharmaceutical companies will scream. They like divided buyers; they can lobby better that way. They can use the threat of removing jobs from one province to another. They can hope that, if one province includes a drug on its list, the pressure will cause others to include it on theirs. They wouldn’t like a national agency, but self-interest would lead them to deal with it.

Passage 6

The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. A dying symbol of a dying empire. Well, maybe not. The dollar continues to _1_ gloom-and-doom predictions. After a swoon (低迷）last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major _2_. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar’s value against other major currencies, is just off an eight-month high. The main reason behind the dollar’s recovery is actually no real surprise at all. There is no _3_ able to replace the dollar as the world’s No.l currency. What makes currencies so fascinating is that their perceived value is always relative to other currencies. Sure, the U.S. budget deficit is _4_, the government’s debt is increasing, and Wall Street is still repairing itself. But the dollar remains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any other major industrialized economy _5_ better off than the U.S.？ Not really. Just about the _6_ developed world is suffering with the same problems. That’s why when investors get nervous, they still rush to the good old dollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game. The euro has been exposed as a _7_. Only a few months ago, economists truly believed the euro could _8_ the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if the euro has a future at all. The Greek debt crisis has _9_ that the euro is only as strong as its weakest link. Maybe over the next 20 or 30 years，the dollar will slowly lose the _10_ status it holds today. That process, however, could well be driven by the appearance of new rivals.

A)fraud

B)consistently

C)dominant

D)expanding

E)entire

F)incentive

G)rival

H)alleged

I)defy

J)particularly

K)alternative

L)relative

M)revealed

N)intriguing

O)rally

第1空答案是：

years ago. Even though I own a home in Port St. Lucie just minutes from the ocean, an uncontrollable urge wells up to return to Long Island even as others make their way south. I guess I am a snowbird stuck in reverse. Instead of enjoying Florida’s mild winters, I willingly endure the severe weather on Long Island, the place I called home for 65 years.

I’m like a migratory bird that has lost its sense of timing and direction, my wings flapping against season.

So what makes me fly against the tide of snowbirds？ The answer has a lot to do with my reluctance to give up the things that define who I am. Once I hear that the temperature on Long Island has dipped into the range of 40 to 50 degrees, I begin to long for the sight and crackling sound of a wood fire. I also long for the bright display o£ colors — first in the fall trees, and then in the limits around homes and at Rockefeller Center. Floridians decorate too, but can’t create the special feel of a New England winter.

I suppose the biggest reason why I return is to celebrate the holidays with people I haven’t seen in months. What could be better than sitting with family and friends for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, or watching neighbors’ children excitedly open gifts on Christmas？ Even the first snowfall seems special. I especially enjoy seeing a bright red bird settling on a snow-covered branch (My wife and I spend winters at a retirement community in Ridge, and I’m grateful that I don’t have to shovel.)

While these simple pleasures are not unique to Long Island, they are some of the reasons why I come back. Who says you can’t go home？

(1) 单选题What does the underlined word "snowbird" in Paragraph 1 refer to？

A.A person spending winter in a warmer climate.

B.A bird seen chiefly in winter.

C.A person permanently living in a foreign country.

D.A bird flying to the south in winter.

(2) 单选题What’s the difference between Florida and Long Island？

A.Winters in Long Island are milder.

B.The snowbirds in Long Island are rarer.

C.Weather in Long Island is severer.

D.Long Island is nearer to the ocean.

(3) 单选题What did the author miss most when he was in Florida？

A.The colorful light display.

B.The family gathering.

C.The cold temperature.

D.The winter landscape.

(4) 单选题What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text？

A.To praise the beauty and warmth of his hometown.

B.To describe his dream to be a free bird.

C.To explain the reasons for moving from his hometown.

D.To express his feeling of missing his hometown.