Today’s business organizations make greater use of competitive work teams.（）

A．an imaginative grasp of personal experience

B．an imaginative understanding of the social effects produced by the conditions of the factories

C．an imaginative grasp of people’s min

D．an imaginative understanding of the conditions in different regions

A.Information is power in today’s challenging business environment.

B.Graphics is a powerful tool that can be used to present trends and other concepts in a way that numbers alone can’t convey.

C.The data entered into your accounting software can be productively used by various business applications in HR, sales, shipping and other key business sectors.

D.We may want our accounting program to draw information in from other software products.

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Too much to read!It’S impossible to find time to read today’S top business books and thousands are published each year．Yet not keeping up with those books could be a serious and expensive mistake．Often the ideas and insights they contain are available nowhere else．

But how Can you even（19）_______ which titles are worthwhile，let alone find time to read them？Fortunately，there’S a（20）_______ ：Sound view Executive Book Summaries．It really（21）_______ In fact，it"s（22）_______ o work．It is ingenious and essential．Every month， you（23）_______ two or three quick readin9，time saving（24）_______ of the best new business books．Each contains all the key points in the（25）_______ book．The big difference，instead of 200 t0 500 pages，the summary is only several pages．Instead of（26）_______ five，ten or more hours to read，it takes just l5 minutes．

Of the thousands of business books（27）_______ annually，only a（28）_______ are really worth readin9．To save your time，our Editorial Board goes over them all（29）_______ 90%．Our standards are（30）_______ ，and the criteria rigorous．

When a book meets all our tests，we prepare a summary，instead of a review or a digest．

You get a skillful distillation that preserves the content and spirit of the（31）_______ books．

The titles cover every（32）_______ 0f concem to business people today．There’S（33）

else like Sound view Executive Book Summaries ……

回答第19题。 查看材料

A.see

B.know

C.ask

D.answer

For this part, assume today’s date is 15 August 2005.

5 (a) Donald is aged 22, single, and about to finish his university education. He has plans to start up a business selling

computer games, and intends to start trading on 1 April 2006, making up accounts to 31 March annually.

He believes that his business will generate cash (equal to taxable profits) of ￡47,500 in the first year. He

originally intended to operate as a sole trader, but he has recently discovered that as an alternative, he could

operate through a company. He has been advised that if this is the case, he can take a maximum gross salary

of ￡42,648 out of the company.

Required:

(i) Advise Donald on the income tax (IT), national insurance (NIC) and corporation tax (CT) liabilities he

will incur for the year ended 31 March 2007 trading under each of the two alternative business

structures (sole trade/company). Your advice should be supported by calculations of disposable income

for both alternatives assuming that in the company case, he draws the maximum salary stated.

(7 marks)

Many artists today are in what is called applied art. They use

their ability in advertise, interior decoration, or some similar job.【1】______

But people in business which hire the artists for that kind of work 【2】______

say that simple artist ability is not enough. There are lots of young【3】______

people who have that. But not enough of them who know anything 【4】______

about physics, or mechanical things, or math.

To be a druggist you have to study chemistry. You can't learn

chemistry without knowing something about algebra.

How about a nurse？ One of the requiring subjects in a course of 【5】______

nursing is known to material medica. In materia me dica you'll 【6】______

learn how to figure out doses and prepare for medicines. Algebra is 【7】______

important in doing the figuring. Too many student nurses flunk out

of the course because of their weak math.

It's the same for many trades. If you want to be a crafts-man, 【8】______

a machinist, a molder, and a patternmaker, you'll need algebra and 【9】______

geometry and even trigonometry.

Even you want to go into business for yourself, you'll need 【10】______

math. Business today, whether it is running a little gas station or a

big factory, takes good management. Good management takes mathematics

【M1】

BENEFITS OF VIDEO CONFERENCING

Almost everyone is familiar with video conferencing today, and for good reasons.Video conferencing is convenient. Video conferencing saves money. Video conferencing makes money. And it is so much easier than it used to be.

Today, of course, video conferencing has become an important means for doing business.There is no longer a need to waste time and money traveling, and the advanced technology can offer what every conferencing needs.Audio, web and video together can provide good solutions for large conferences with Q&A sessionsand private chats.

Why is video conferencing so successful when other technologies have come and gone？ It is because it’s convenient and cost-effective. In addition to saving time and money, video conferencing is a lot less stressful than a meeting after a day of airport security, delayed flights and hotel check-in, etc.

Best of all, video conferencing is not expensive nowadays. Web, video and audio conferencing service providers can quickly get you up and running, often without setup fees or high charges. With all that’s available today, the only question is whether a business can afford not to use user-friendly video conferencing.

1. It’s easy to use video conferencing in the past. {T; F}

2. Video conferencing is a convenient way for doing business. {T; F}

3. Only video can provide good solutions for large conferences with Q&A sessions.{T; F}

4. Compared to some other forms of meetings,video conferencing is muchmore stressful.{T; F}

5. Nowadays if you don’t use video conferencing in some cases, maybe your business will suffer losses to some degree. {T; F}

A. 在所有资源都可获得的今天，唯一的问题就是一个企业是否愿意独自召开便捷的视频会议。

B. 在所有资源都可获得的今天，唯一的问题就是一个企业是否能够承担起不使用便捷的视频会议所带来的损失。

C. 在所有资源都可获得的今天，唯一的问题就是一个企业是否能够支付起使用视频会议的费用。

All that one needs to possess these days is a drive to learn a foreign language and there are all kinds of institutes and courses that teach various foreign languages like French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. Today's world economy has bridged the barriers of race, sex, color and religion and the world has become a smaller place. Today's businesses also demand language skills to expand and grow in other countries. Tens and hundreds of businesses world wide are expanding and growing their businesses by promoting them in countries other than their countries of origin. The tremendous growth of the Internet has further increased the demand for language skills. In Canada an official rule also says that all commercial establishments must have their websites created both in English and French, the official languages of the country.

Language can also ease race and border barriers. You are more welcome in an alien nation if you know the language of the people there and can converse in their tongue. People in these countries immediately respect you and think you care about their culture as much as they do because in any culture language is the key identity.

One of the reasons for not studying a foreign language in the past is______.

A．it was too difficult

B．it was not allowed

C．it was taught by foreign rulers

D．it was seen as disloyalty