If she wants to keep slim, she must make a _____ in her diet.A.changeB.turnC.runD.go
If she wants to keep slim, she must make a _____ in her diet.
A.change
B.turn
C.run
D.go
If she wants to keep slim, she must make a _____ in her diet.
A.change
B.turn
C.run
D.go
A.make
B.prevent
C.keep
D.restrict
A.A. has
B.B. wants
C.C. lets
D.D. enjoys
A.take part in
B.become a member of
C.get in
D.return to
A.State of Authority (SOA)
B.Address (A)
C.Pointer (PTR)
D.Canonical Name (CNAME)
A.Configure the firewall to block all incoming and outgoing packets except for those with the source and destination port of 119.Then, allow all traffic with destination ports above 1024 to transverse the firewall.
B.Configure the firewall to block all incoming packets with the source port of 119, and outgoing packets with a source port lower than 1024.Then, block all packets with the destination port of 119 and with a source port lower than 1024.
C.Configure the firewall to block incoming packets with the destination port of 119, and to block outgoing packets with the destination port of 119.
D.Configure the firewall to block all incoming packets with the source port of 119.
One recently employed graduate says that she is receiving a great deal of valuable training from the company. "This means that I will be a loyal employee", she says. "And it also means that the company will want to keep me. I am an important investment for them. So the policy is a good one because it benefits both the employer and the employee".
Recently, however, attitudes towards lifelong employment are beginning to change. Employees are slowly beginning to accept the idea that lifelong employment is not always in their best interest and that changing firms can have career advantages.
The purpose of lifelong employment is to ______.
A.adjust the needs of the company to its employees
B.make employees loyal to their company
C.select the best skilled young employees
D.keep the skilled staff satisfied
The chief executive officer (CEO) of Faoilean Co has just returned from a discussion at a leading university on the ‘application of options to investment decisions and corporate value’. She wants to understand how some of the ideas which were discussed can be applied to decisions made at Faoilean Co. She is still a little unclear about some of the discussion on options and their application, and wants further clarification on the following:
(i) Faoilean Co is involved in the exploration and extraction of oil and gas. Recently there have been indications that there could be significant deposits of oil and gas just off the shores of Ireland. The government of Ireland has invited companies to submit bids for the rights to commence the initial exploration of the area to assess the likelihood and amount of oil and gas deposits, with further extraction rights to follow. Faoilean Co is considering putting in a bid for the rights. The speaker leading the discussion suggested that using options as an investment assessment tool would be particularly useful to Faoilean Co in this respect.
(ii) The speaker further suggested that options were useful in determining the value of equity and default risk, and suggested that this was why companies facing severe financial distress could still have a positive equity value.
(iii) Towards the end of the discussion, the speaker suggested that changes in the values of options can be measured in terms of a number of risk factors known as the ‘greeks’, such as the ‘vega’. The CEO is unclear why option values are affected by so many different risk factors.
Required:
(a) With regard to (i) above, discuss how Faoilean Co may use the idea of options to help with the investment decision in bidding for the exploration rights, and explain the assumptions made when using the idea of options in making investment decisions. (11 marks)
(b) With regard to (ii) above, discuss how options could be useful in determining the value of equity and default risk, and why companies facing severe financial distress still have positive equity values. (9 marks)
(c) With regard to (iii) above, explain why changes in option values are determined by numerous different risk factors and what ‘vega’ determines. (5 marks)
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bi- cycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.
But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is agood idea--they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on week- ends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only, but Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.
According to the passage, bicycles ______.
A.are more convenient than cars
B.are safer traffic tools than cars
C.are ridden by most people in U.S.
D.are the solution to some city problems
Cars–curse or craze?
Johnny Watson, 30
It is easy to criticize cars – they cause pollution and accidents, and so on. But what are alternatives? Nobody wants to travel in a slow, smelly old bus when you can relax in the comfort of your own car. In most countries, the public transport system is inadequate, expensive and inefficient – and anyway, cities today are designed to meet drivers’ needs, with fast roads and car parks everywhere. The car industry also provides thousands of jobs. Roads are getting safer and more efficient every year, and cars are causing less pollution because of lead-free petrol and other technological improvement. What’s the problem?
Amanda Rees, 33
I am much happier now that I don’t have my car. I used to spend an hour stuck in a traffic jam each morning and that made me angry and irritable for the rest of the day. I was so stressed! The worst thing about cars, though, is the number of accidents. Did you know that somebody dies in a road accident in Britain every two and a half hours? Another thing I hate is the way that road building is destroying the countryside. Finally, I would love to live without that constant traffic noise coming through the window. In fact, I think it’s the noise that bothers me most.
1、What does Johnny think of cars? ()
A、They cause pollution and accidents
B、They are slow and smelly
C、They are comfortable
2、Which is not the reason why Johnny supports cars?()
A、The public transport system in most countries is not good enough
B、Road building is destroying the countryside
C、Roads are much safer and more efficient now
3、Did Amanda use to have a car?()
A、Yes, she did
B、No, she didn’t
C、It doesn’t mention
4、What bothers Amanda most?()
A、What bothers Amanda most
B、The destroying of the countryside
C、The constant traffic noise
5、How serious is the road accident in Britain?()
A、Someone dies every 2 hours
B、Someone dies every 2.5 hours
C、Someone dies every 0.5 hours
Section A(2016年6月英语四级卷三真题及答案)
Signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room. But the__growing___(27)popularity of electronic medical records has forced hospital-based doctors to become_dependent____(28)on computers throughout the day, and desktops-which keep doctors from besides-are__fast___(29)giving way to wireless devices.
As clerical loads increased, "something had to_give____(30), and that was always face time with patients," says Dr.Bhakti Patel, a former chief resident in the University of Chicago's internal-medicine program. In fall 2010, she helped_launch____(31)a pilot project in Chicago to see if the iPad could improve working conditions and patient care. The experiment was so___successful__(32)that all internal-medicine program adopted the same_policy____(33)in 2011. Medical schools at Yale and Stanford now have paperless, iPad-based curriculums. "You'll want an iPad just so you can wear this" is the slogan for one of the new lab coats__designed___(34)with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.
A study of the University of Chicago iPad project found that patients got tests and___tratement__(35)faster if they were cared for by iPad-equipped residents. Many patients also__gained___(36)a better understanding of the illnesses that landed them in the hospital in the first place.
A.dependent
B.designed
C.fast
D.flying
E.gained
F.give
G.growing
H.launch
I.policy
J.prospect
K.rather
L.reliable
M.signal
N.successful
O.treatments
A reporter who has visited plants throughout Europe has an impression that the pace of work is much slower here. Nobody tries too hard. Tea breaks do matter and are frequent. It is hard to measure intensity of work, but Britons give a distinct impression of going at their tasks in a more leisurely way.
But is all this so terrible? It certainly does not improve the gross national product or output per worker. Those observant visitors, however, have noticed something about Britain. It is a pleasant place.
Street crowds in Stockholm. Paris and New York move quickly and silently heads down, all in a hurry. London crowds tend to walk at an easy pace (except in the profitable, efficient city, the financial district).
Every stranger is struck by the patient and orderly way in which Britons queue for a bus. If the saleswoman is slow and out of stock, she will likely say, "Oh dear, what a pity The rubbish collectors stop to chat and call the housewives "Luv". Crime rises here as in every city but there still remains a gentle tone and temper that is unmatched in Berlin, Milan or Detroit.
In short, what is wrong with Britain may also be what is right. Having reached a tolerable standard, Britons appear to be choosing leisure over goods.
What happens when quarrels over job opportunities arise among British unions?
A.More jobs will be provided by the union.
B.Thirty three percent of the workers can’t be employed.
C.More people will be employed than necessary.
D.The unions will try to increase productivity.