Compared with last year, our summer crops output has increased（)10 percent.A)byB)forC

A.Contrast to

B.Contrary with

C.Compared to

D.Controversy on

A.reached

B.risen

C.advanced

D.compared

n the first quarter rose by 15%.

A. Comparing

B. To compare

C. Compared

D. Compare

A.last year's performance

B.competitors' outcomes

C.desired standards

D.last month's efforts

E.management opinion

A．Overall, sales are up last year

B．Overall, sales are down last year

C．There is no change compared to previous sales

D．It is not mentioned in the passage

A、with

B、at

C、for

D、by

A.even if

B.even

C.though

D.even then

E. as though

. Romel wants to calculate the return on the portfolio. Over the last five years, the fund’s annual percentage returns were: 25, 15, 12, -8, and –14. Determine if the geometric return of the fund will be less than or greater than the arithmetic return and calculate the fund’s geometric return:

Geometric Return Geometric compared to Arithmetic

A) 4.96% greater than

B) 12.86% greater than

C) 12.86% less than

D) 4.96% less than

Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile？

A、Cake mixes, too, come ready-prepared—like cement and not much better-tasting compared with true cake.

B、Vegetables with crisp and crackling texture emerge as mush, slippery and stringy as hair nets simmered in Vaseline.

C、Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.

D、Handsome comestibles you put down in the summer come out looking very much like the corpses of woolly mammoths recovered from the last Ice Age.

A. Overall 10 publications with clinical trials could be identified.Their clinical outcome was compared with that laboratory bond strength studies.

B.Clinical data provide strong evidence that air-abrasion at a moderate pressure in combination with using phosphate monomer containing primers and/or luting resins provide long-term durable bonding to glass-infiltrated alumina and zirconia ceramic under the humid and stressful oral conditions.

C. As simple and clinically reliable bonding methods to oxide ceramics exist, the rationale for development of alternative bonding methods might be reconsidered especially when these methods are more time consuming or require rather complicated and/or technique sensitive procedures.

D.Conducting a PubMed database search in May 2014 for articles dealing with the resin bond to dental zirconia ceramic reveals an astonishing increase of research being published in the last two decades years.