In order to have a successful meeting, theorganize
Inorder to have a successful meeting, the organizer should ______ first.
A.prepare pens, notebooks, drinks
B.look up a reference book
C.assigndifferent roles to different people
Inorder to have a successful meeting, the organizer should ______ first.
A.prepare pens, notebooks, drinks
B.look up a reference book
C.assigndifferent roles to different people
Purchase Order #120-B21
Date: 4/6/07
Creating Better Living
Room 1903, No 521 South Wanping Rd,
P. R. China, 200000
Phone: 021-6464-4471
To: Ann Lin (lin@woodman.com)
From: Bruce Campbell (bruce@living.com)
Date: April 10
Subject: Purchase Order (#120-B21)
Dear Mr. Ann Lin,
We have received your Purchase Order No. 120-B21 dated 4-6-07.
We regret to inform. you that this order cannot be fulfilled in its totality at this time due to the following reason: Item #G6 (True-Bond Adhesive) is temporarily out of stock.
We can substitute a comparable product (#G11: Woodlock Carpenter' s Glue) if an item you have chosen is not available and reduce the price to match the price of item #G6.
Our policy indicates that we will neither substitute items nor automatically send backordered items without our customer's direct consent, so you must reply to this e-mail and tell us how you wish to proceed.
Otherwise, your partial order will be shipped on April 13, 2007 and you will be contacted by a representative when we receive our next item #G6.
Best Regards,
Bruce Campbell
What comprises the bulk of the order?
A.Adhesives
B.Fasteners
C.Lumbers
D.Tools
Section C
Directions: In this section you will hear a short recorded passage. The passage has some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the blank in order of numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.
Ladies and gentleman,
It's a great pleasure to have you visit us today. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to 【11】 our company to you.
The company was established in 1950. We mainly manufacture electronic goods and 【12】them all over the world. Our sales were about $100 million last year, and our business is growing steadily. We have offices in Asia,【13】and Europe. We have about 1000 employees, who are actively working to serve the needs of our 【14】. In order to further develop our overseas market, we need your help to promote (促销) our products.
I【15】doing business with all of you. Thank you.
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阅读理解:阅读下面的短文,根据文章内容从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
The qualities of a good questionnaire
It should be noted that one does not start by {A. writingB、B. writeB、C. wrote} questions. Firstly.we have to decide 'what are the things one needs to know from the respondent in order to meet the survey's objectives?' {A. SecondlyB、B. SecondB、C. Next},we should decide the target respondents.At the outset, the researcher must define the population about which he/she wishes to generalise from the sample data to be collected.Thirdly,we have to decide the question contents.opening questions should be general and easy to answer so that the respondents have the patience to finish next.and then we can offer some specific questions {A. In order thatB、B. In orderB、C. In order to} get more data from the respondents. {A. In the wordB、B. In a wordB、C. In word}.we couldn’t ignore the physical appearance of our questionnaires.If our questionnaires look like a mess.People would not be willing to {A. helpB、B. helpingB、C. Helpful} us answer our questions....
The child's rapid acquisition of political knowledge also promotes the growth of political ideology during adolescence. By knowledge I mean more than the dull "facts" such as the composition of country government, that the child is exposed to in the conventional ninth-grade school course. Nor do I mean only information on current political realities. These are facts of knowledge, but they are less critical than the adolescent's absorption of a feeling for those many unspoken assumptions about the political system that comprise the common ground of understanding, for example, what the state can "appropriately" demand of its citizens, and vice versa, or the "proper" relationship of government to subsidiary social institutions, such as the schools and churches. Thus, political knowledge is the awareness of social assumptions and relationships as well as of objective facts. Much of the naivete that characterizes the younger adolescent's grasp of politics stems not from an ignorance of "facts" but from an incomplete comprehension of the common conventions of the system, of which is and not customarily done, and of how and why it is or is not done.
Yet I do not want to over-emphasize the significance of increased political knowledge in forming adolescent ideology, Over the years I have become progressively disenchanted about the centrality of such knowledge and have come to believe that much current work in political socialization, by relying too heavily on its apparent acquisition, has been misled about the tempo of political understanding in adolescence. Just as young children can count numbers in series without grasping the principle of ordination, young adolescents may have in their heads many random hits of political information without a secure understanding of those concepts that would give order and meaning to the information.
Children's minds pick up bits and pieces of data, but until the adolescent has grasped the encompassing function that concepts and principles provide, the data remain fragmented, random, disordered.
The author's primary purpose in the text is to ______.
A.clarify the kinds of understanding an adolescent must have in order to develop a political ideology
B.dispute the theory that a political ideology can be acquired during adolescence
C.explain why adolescents are generally uninterested in political arguments
D.suggest various means of encouraging adolescents to develop personal political ideologies
(1) The Radio Doctor's advice today is to tell people () .
A. how to stay away from doctors
B. wha to do to keep themselves healthy
C. .how to have a nice sleep
D. how to prevent themselves from catching a cold
(2) In order not to catch a cold,you should () .
A. stay away from the people who have a cold
B. keep your room aired
C. not to get too tired or too excited
D. all the above answers together
(3) The Radio Doctor also advises people to () .
A. go to bed early
B. sleep less before midnight
C. sleep less after midnight
D. get up early in the morning
(4) A healthy person usually has () .
A. a clever mind
B. healthy mind
C. quick mind
D. pleasant mind
(5) () if you have caught a cold.
A. Don't meet anybody
B. Don't talk to anybody you meet
C. Stay at home alone
D. Don't sneeze over anybody else.
Bethan Oak was the audit engagement partner for Willow and as she had completed seven years as the audit engagement partner, she has recently been rotated off the audit engagement. The current audit partner, Sandeep Pine, has suggested that in order to maintain a close relationship with Willow, Bethan should undertake the role of independent review partner this year. In addition Willow has requested that Bethan assist them by attending their audit committee meetings, as a non-executive director has recently left the company.
Willow has also asked Sandeep and the other partners at Beech & Co to help them in recruiting a new non-executive director.
The total fees received by Beech & Co for last year equated to 16% of the firm’s total fee income. The current year’s audit fee has not yet been confirmed, but along with taxation and other possible non-audit fees the total income from Willow this year could be greater than for last year. Last year’s audit fee was being paid monthly by Willow but no payments have been made for the last three months.
The audit manager for Willow has just announced that he is leaving Beech & Co to join Willow as the financial controller.
Required:
Using the information above:
(i) Identify and explain FIVE ethical threats which may affect the independence of Beech & Co’s audit of Willow Wands Co; and
(ii) For each threat explain how it might be reduced to an acceptable level.
Note: The total marks will be split equally between each part.
s the Abstract of a research article?____________
A.A number of studies have demonstrated that there can be important cross-cultural differences in the speech-act performance between two different speech communities, especially in relation to the level of directness of their request realization.Such distinct cross-cultural differences have been found to exist between the Greek and the English interactional styles as well as between the Greek and the English verbal telephone behavior.
B.A total of 200 opening requests were randomly collected from the telephone service encounters produced by callers at the call center of a UK airline: 100 opening requests produced in Greek by GNSs and 100 opening requests produced in English by ENSs.Semi-structured interviews were also carried out in relation to the telephone operators who received the calls.These interviews were conducted in order to gain some qualitative insights into how the callers’ requests and telephone behavior. were perceived by the hearers (operators).Using the analytical framework of face-saving theory, each of the opening requests of the telephone observation data was coded and classified.The results were statistically tested in order to establish whether the differences found were statically significant.
C.This article examines whether there are marked cross-cultural differences in the level of directness of request realization between Greek and British speakers when ringing an airline’s call center.Using the analytical framework of face-saving theory, 200 opening requests were analyzed and statistically tested.Qualitative insights were gained from semi-structured interviews.Significant differences were found in the degree of requestive directness employed by Greek and British speakers in telephone business encounters, with the Greek employing a higher degree of directness.Further research is needed to establish whether such differences exist in socially different contexts and in different role relationships.
D.The present empirical study found significant differences in the degree of requestive directness employed by GNSs and ENSs when ringing an airline’s call center.The GNSs were found to employ a higher degree of directness as far as their opening telephone requests were concerned and this finding can be seen as being consistent with the ethos of directness, spontaneity and positive politeness orientation found to characterize the Greek language and culture.It additionally suggests that there is a need for the Greek callers to formulate their requests in the most explicit and shortest way possible in the business context examined particularly because directness seems to be motivated not only by spontaneity but also by their need for efficiency, urgency and pragmatic clarity.As the requests elicited from this data were exclusively elicited from an airline’s call center, they are context-specific.Further research is therefore needed in order to establish whether such significant differences are present in socially different contexts as well as in different role relationships.
It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as "hard", the social sciences as "soft", and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical systems is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of bur capacity to sample the relevant universes, however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth's social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on, is not very 'dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived from the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience.
In contrast, our image of the astronomical universe, of even of earth's geological history, can easily be subject to revolutionary changes as new data comes in and new theories are worked out. If we define the "security" of our image of various parts of the total system as the probability of their suffering significant changes, then we would reverse the order of hardness and see the social sciences as the most secure, the physical sciences as the least secure, and again the biological sciences as somewhere in between. Our image of the astronomical universe is the least secure of all simply because we observe such a fantastically small sample of it and its record-keeping is trivial as compared with the rich records of the social systems, or even the limited records of biological systems. Records of the astronomical universe, despite the fact that we see distant things as they were long ago, are limited in the extreme.
Even in regard to such a close neighbor as the moon, which we have actually visited, theories about its origin and history are extremely different, contradictory, and hard to choose among. Our knowledge of physical evolution is incomplete and highly insecure.
The word "paradox"(Para. 1) means "()".
A.implication
B.contradiction
C.interpretation
D.confusion
Heat Co is now trying to ascertain the best pricing policy that they should adopt for the Energy Buster’s launch onto the market. Demand is very responsive to price changes and research has established that, for every $15 increase in price, demand would be expected to fall by 1,000 units. If the company set the price at $735, only 1,000 units would be demanded.
The costs of producing each air conditioning unit are as follows:
Note
The first air conditioning unit took 1·5 hours to make and labour cost $8 per hour. A 95% learning curve exists, in relation to production of the unit, although the learning curve is expected to finish after making 100 units. Heat Co’s management have said that any pricing decisions about the Energy Buster should be based on the time it takes to make the 100th unit of the product. You have been told that the learning co-efficient, b = –0·0740005.
All other costs are expected to remain the same up to the maximum demand levels.
Required:
(a) (i) Establish the demand function (equation) for air conditioning units; (3 marks)
(ii) Calculate the marginal cost for each air conditioning unit after adjusting the labour cost as required by the note above; (6 marks)
(iii) Equate marginal cost and marginal revenue in order to calculate the optimum price and quantity. (3 marks)
(b) Explain what is meant by a ‘penetration pricing’ strategy and a ‘market skimming’ strategy and discuss whether either strategy might be suitable for Heat Co when launching the Energy Buster. (8 marks)
It is now universally accepted that children should be encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles, but so few people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their minds and muscles active. They perform. innumerable services for the old that they would be much better left to do, even with a struggle, for themselves.
Convenient flats, "motherly" visitors, or organized entertainments cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied--the need to retain to the end of life human dignity and the respect of one's fellows.
Many people are not aware that it is rather rude to______.
A.talk casually about old people in front of them as if they were not there
B.show sympathy for the old
C.take care of the old when they are not iii
D.pat the faces of the contemporaries
The council has said that jobs will have to be cut in order to balance the ______.
A.resources
B.budget
C.potential
D.consumption