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Others argue that since the earth has endured a long string of ice ages in the last two million to three million years, any warming is（）to be temporary.
A、seemed
B、likely
C、tended
D、possible
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The population of the U.K. is more than （）million.
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Between 1845 and 1854,about 1.5 million Irishmen emigrated to United States because of（）
A、famine
B、English oppression
C、war
D、Both A & B
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About three million people have migrated to Britain since World War ll.They are mainly from the West Indies,India and（）
A . Indonesia
B . Singapore
C . Hong Kong
D . Pakista
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It took millions of years for order to grow out of the（）of the universe.
A . adjustment
B . change
C . chaos
D . profile
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Cities of a million are considered towns in India.
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He left home on 1970 and____heard of since.
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Millions of cars __________from Japan last year.
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Russia has a population of more than 190 million.
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Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent
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Arrow’s net income of $117 million and average assets of $1,400 million results in a return on assets of 8.36%.
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Industry in Britain has been in ____________ since the 1970s.
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After （attracting) more than a million marchers-（four times of the size) of the historical
After (attracting) more than a million marchers-(four times of the size) of the historical 1963 March on Washington-the 2004 March for Women's Life (became) the largest mass demonstration (in history).
A．attracting
B．four times of the size
C．became
D．in history
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The United States______a population of over 200 millions.
A．have had
B．is having
C．have
D．has
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Millions of people worldwide take warfarin to prevent stroke and blood clots.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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In just the last seven years， jobs supported by U.S. exports have risen by 4 million， to a total of 11million.最佳译文是（)
A．就在过去的7年中，美国出口创造的就业机会增加了4亿个，总数上升到11亿个。
B．就在过去的7年中，美国出口创造的就业机会增加了400万个，总数上升到1100万个。
C．就在过去的7年中，美国出口创造的就业机会增加了4千万个，总数上升到1亿1千万个。
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Unemployment in the state hit an all-time low of 2.1 percent this summer, the lowest in the nation. Though it has edged up a little since, it is still among the tightest labour markets in the US. And Connecticut is only the most extreme manifestation of the conditions that now prevail across America. Unemployment nationally is 4.1 percent, the lowest since 1970.
The performance of the US labour market in the late 1990s is as much a feature of the puzzlingly benign so-called New Economy.
For the past four years the US has enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 4 percent— up from an average of about 3 percent in the previous decade. Productivity improvements account for about two-thirds of that elevated output, as workers have increased their output per hour.
The rest has come from a rapid increase in the total number of workers, what economists call labour inputs. There has been a surge in new jobs—7m in the last three years—that has pushed the unemployment rate down into the uncharted territory of barely 4 percent.
Recent economic history suggests that, whenever unemployment has gone this low, the scramble for workers becomes so difficult that wages are rapidly bid up, and an inflationary spiral follows. But in the US in the past five years, wage growth has been muted. In the last year, total employee compensation in the private sector rose by just 3.3 percent, almost unchanged on the figure three years ago, when the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent.
"In some ways it's a bigger puzzle than the productivity puzzle," says Paul Krugman, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "How can we have such a low unemployment rate without an explosion of wages？"
A number of factors appear to have contributed.
In their search for workers to fill positions, companies have reached out to places they have not looked at in the past. As a result, more people are working than ever. The proportion of the population in employment reached a record high this year of more than 64 percent.
This expanded labour supply helps explain why companies have kept the lid on pay over the last few years. The availability of new sources of labour—women, retirees, college students among them—means companies may not have to give big pay rises to hire new workers. It also helps explain why the benefits of the New Economy are not always widely felt—more people seem to be working longer hours than ever.
But an expanded labour supply can only explain part of what has changed in the US in recent years. After all, unemployment—the proportion of the labour force out of work—has still declined, indicating that companies have drawn new workers not just from the pool of those not previously in the labour force, but also from the unemployed.
And yet still wage costs have remained muted.
One possible explanation is that companies have become more flexible in how they pay.
"At Newfield, we use a much broader variety of means to reward workers, including performance related pay, year-end bonuses, and extended contracts," says Mr. Ostop.
Why does Connecticut have the tightest labour market in the U. S. ？
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Life on land probably began about 430 million years ago, though it has existed in the water for perhaps much as 3 000 million years. When we think of the first life on land, we probably think of strange animals coming out of the oceans, but, in fact, no animals could have been living if plants had not been on land first. Plants had to be on land before animals arrived. They supplied the first land animals with the surrounding and food necessary, since the plants are the only form. of life that
is able to get and store energy.
The first plants to exist out of the water were probably certain kinds of algae (海藻) which were followed by other plants that grew close to the ground and needed water in which to reproduce. Once their move to land had been made, however, evolution (进化) took place quickly. By the end of 100 million years, plants had developed their roots (根), and some had got tree-like forms since height was very important in gaining sunlight. About 300 million years ago, much of the world was covered with forests of huge trees. In most ways they were like modern trees. They had loots, leaves, wood, but mostly they had not developed seeds.
The main idea of the first paragraph is ______.
A．life on land probably began about 430 years ago
B．the first animal on land came from oceans
C．there wouldn't be animals without plants
D．plants are the only form. of life that is able to get and store energy
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According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation's Jewish population is in shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990. What's truly startling is that the reported decline is not tree. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it.
Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million.
Despite all this, the two figures --5.2 million now, 5.5 million then --are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis.
United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone's definition, including the researchers.
Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one.
So why did the organization flawed figures once again？ Some scholars who have studied the. survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It' s too early to tell if that' s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups--"highly involved" Jews and "people of Jewish background"- and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result, most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible.
We can' t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the National Jewish Population Survey？
A．It found a decline of 300,000 Jews in ten years.
B．It was carded out by United Jewish Communities.
C．This is the first time United Jewish Communities has made mistakes in the population survey.
D．The reported decline is not reliable.
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The Lorry Supply Company uses LIFO inventory valuation. Lorry Supply had a cost of goods sold of $1 million for the period. The inventory at the beginning of the period was $0.5 million and the invent
A．$1.0 million.
B．$0.8 million.
C．$0.9 million.
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Question 11 Gourmet and Company has the following information: Current market value = $250 million Current book value = $225 million Sales = $750 million Earnings = $75 million Cash flow = $125 million Stock price = $7.50 Which of the following statements regarding Gourmet and Company is most accurate？
A.The price/book ratio is 0.90.
B.The price/cash flow ratio is 0.50.
C.The price/sales ratio is 0.33.
D.The price to earnings (P/E) ratio is 33.3.
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___________________（这家工厂就在这里了)since the 1970s.（factory, been, has, The, here)
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The present population of the Irish Republic is about 4 million. （）
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The programme Strictly Come Dancing attracts millions of ___ every week.
A．spectators
B．audience
C．viewers
D．watchers
