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Having a(n)（ ） attitude towards people with different ideas is an indication that one has been well educated.
We must also understand how to（ ）between what should be remembered and what should be forgotten.
The country’s president has appealed for international（ ）in the wake of the disaster.
Sometimes, over a span of many years, a business will continue to grow, generating ever- increasing amounts of cash, repurchasing stock, paying increased dividends, reducing debt, opening new stores, expanding production facilities, moving into new markets, etc. , while at the same time its stock price remains stagnant (or even falls).When this happens, the average and professional investor alike tend to overlook the company because they become familiar with the trading range.Take, for example, Wal-Mart. Over the past five years, the retailing behemoth has grown sales by over 80% , profits by over 100% , and yet the stock price has fallen as much as 30% during that timeframe. Clearly, the valuation picture has changed. An investor that read the annual report back in 2000 or 2001 might have passed on the security, deeming it too expensive based on a metric such as the price to earnings ratio. Today, however, the equation is completely different — despite the stock price, Wal-Mart is, in essence, trading at half its former price because each share is backed by a larger dividend, twice the earnings power, more stores, and a bigger infrastructure. Home Depot is in much the same boat, largely because some Wall Street analysts question how fast two of the world’s largest companies can continue to grow before their sheer size slows them down to the rate of the general economy.Coca-Cola is another excellent example of this phenomenon. Ten years ago, in 1996, the stock traded between a range of $36. 10 and $54. 30 per share. At the time, it had reported earnings per share of $1. 40 and paid a cash dividend of $0. 50 per share. Corporate per share book value was $2. 48. Last year, the stock traded within a range of $40. 30 and $45. 30 per share； squarely in the middle of the same area it had been nearly a decade prior! Yet, despite the stagnate stock price, the 2006 estimates Value Line Investment Survey estimates for earnings per share stand around $2.16 (a rise of 54% ), the cash dividend has more than doubled to $1. 20, book value is expected to have grown to $7. 40 per share (a gain of nearly 300% ), and the total number of shares outstanding (未 偿付的；未完成的)has actually decreased from 2. 481 billion to an estimated 2. 355 billion due to the company’s share repurchase program.
1.This passage is probably a part of （ ） .2.The italicized word ‘’stagnant"，(line 3，Para. 1) can be best paraphrased as （ ） .3.Wal-Mart is now trading at a much lower price because4.All the following are shared by Wal-Mart and Coco-Cola EXCEPT（ ）.5.According to the author, one had better（ ）.
A.Find Hidden Value in the Market B.Become Richer C.Get Good Bargains D.Identify Good companies问题2： A. prominent B. terrible C. unchanged D. progressing问题3： A. it has stored a large quantity of goods B. it has become financially more powerful C. it has been eager to collect money to prevent bankruptcy D. it is a good way to compete with other retailing companies 问题4： A.the cash dividend has increased B.the earning power has become stronger C.both business have continued to grow D.the stock price has greatly decreased问题5： A.buy more shares when the stock price falls down B.sell out the shares when the stock price falls down C.do some research on the value of a business when its stock price falls down D.invest in the business when its stock price falls downBad traveling conditions had seriously （ ） their progress to their destination in thatregion.
We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who’s responsible? Actually, it’s more like, what is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it - Facebook, Twitter. You can write your own list.There’s been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before --- there are more and more readers, and more and more books.The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “digests” of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of, reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modem technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg’s invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.1.Which of the following paragraphs briefly reviews the historical challenges for reading?2.The following are all cited as advantages of e-books EXCEPT（ ）.3.Which of the following can best describe how the author feels toward single-sentence-long novels?4.What is the main idea of the passage?
Jean holds very （ ） opinions about food; she won’t eat anything new or foreign.
The industry has pumped（ ）amounts of money into political campaigns，making it less and less likely that politicians will deal with the issue sensibly.
Digging the foundation is the first （ ）of our building project.
Tight shoes（ ） my feet.
Many of the earliest（ ）into the United States established large plantations.
Since you changed lanes without signaling, you are as much to（ ）for the accident as us.
A healthy and better-educated new generation is a guarantee for（ ）economic and social development of all countries.
The ideas expressed in the art historian’s book are more（ ） than one would expect on the basis of her rather （ ）treatment of her subject in the opening pages.
The famous inventor was awarded an（ ）_ doctorate by the university.
If you are always sitting up at night, I’m afraid you may （ ）from overwork soon.
How many times did the clock（ ） ?
In spite of the（ ）economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.
The town square really looks magnificent at night when it is（ ）
As long as we don’t lose heart, I believe we can achieve our goal（ ） .