This pair of boots cost much less than yours for I bought them when the department store made a （ ）of the stored goods.
A.clearance B.reduction C.fortune D.deal
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Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from “invisible earnings” to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only $285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional $375 million and this washes out the almost $400 million by which imports exceed exports.It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma（古希腊银币）out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus - $66 million. Greece has a decent one third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing（接合）incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don’t mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece’s problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countryside, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here: “Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the backward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government’s red tape and shrewdness about small points.”Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from approximately $31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.1.The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is（ ）.2.Many peasants earn less than （ ）.3.The Greek Government spends （ ）.4.According to the passage, Greece has （ ）.5.Greece imports annually goods and materials （ ）.
A.Greek income and expenditures B.The improving economic situation in Greece C.The value of tourism D.Military expenditures
问题2：
A.$60 a week B.$2 a week C.$1 a day D.$10 a month
问题3：
A.more than 25% of its budget on military terms B.More than its collects C.A third of a billion dollars in gold D.Less than 25% of its budget on military terms
问题4：
A.a dictatorship B.a monarchy C.a single majority party D.too much red tape
问题5：
A.totaling almost $700 million B.that balanceexports C.that are paid by tourists D.costing $66 million
The drop in the price of Brent crude from a high of more than $115 a barrel in June to less thanA$60 earlier this month has put extra money into consumer’s pockets and boosted B Cfuel-intensive businesses, while cutting oil companies’ revenues and stoking financial crises in Doil-producing countries including Russia and Venezuela.
She is a very original comedian and can （ ）laughs out of any audience.
A.suffer B.wring C.induce D.infect
Thanks in no small part to A1 Gore and his film producers, the American public is waking up to the seriousness of global warming. What is not so widely appreciated is that unless the US government acts urgently and decisively, this problem could very quickly get very much worse.For reasons both economic and political coal is poised to be the fuel of choice in the coming decades as the US weans itself off foreign oil. Coal combustion generates half the US's electricity and releases about 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. If present trends continue, these figures will more than double by 2050, much to the detriment of the world's climate. Without an alternative fuel, the only solution is to capture and store carbon dioxide from burning coal.Overcoming the engineering obstacles in the way of large-scale sequestration of carbon dioxide will be hard enough, but the bigger challenge is one of political will. US companies as yet have no incentive to capture carbon emissions. While moves at state and congressional levels are pushing in the right direction, the ambiguity in the administration’s policy is counterproductive.It is time for the US government to put a price on carbon emissions so utilities that invest in technologies to reduce carbon emissions will see their efforts rewarded. Such a move would not only reduce the risks associated with global warming, but also go a long way to restoring America's green credentials.1.According to the author, what adds to the seriousness of global warming?2.Which of the following is true about the obstacles for effectively capturing carbon emissions?3.What does the author suggest as a solution to the problem?
A.The American public was ignorant of the problem. B.The American government is doing nothing to deal with the problem. C.The US will choose coal as the major fuel which will have large carbon emissions. D.There is no alternative fuel other than foreign oil which has large carbon emissions.
问题2：
A.The existing technology is only able to deal with large-scale carbon emissions. B.The companies are not highly motivated in adopting new technologies. C.The government policy for using coal and oil is counterproductive. D.The companies feel reluctant to be involved in political issues.
问题3：
A.The government should charge carbon emissions so as to encourage companies to adopt new technology. B.The governments should reward utilities that invest in the technologies to reduce carbon emission. C.The government should make long-time efforts to encourage people to plant more trees. D.The government should pay for large-scale carbon emissions.
It is hard to reconcile his splendid speeches （ ）his actual behavior.
A.to B.on C.against D.with
