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Due to the bad weather, I had to ask for one day’s leave this morning
A.幸亏
B.凡是
C.尽管
D.由于
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Due to the bad weather, I had to ask for one day’s leave this morning
A.幸亏
B.凡是
C.尽管
D.由于
A.set off
B.broken off
C.worn off
D.called off
A.putup
B.turn down
C.make out
D.give up
Credit customers of ZXC Co take an average of 51 days to settle invoices. Approximately 0·5% of the company’s credit sales have historically become bad debts each year and written off as irrecoverable. The finance director has been advised that offering an early settlement discount of 0·5% for payment within 30 days would increase administration costs by $35,000 per year, while 75% of credit customers would be likely to take the discount. The credit controller believes that bad debts would fall to 0·375% of credit sales if the early settlement discount were introduced.
ZXC Co has an average short-term cost of finance of 4% per year. Assume that there are 360 days in each year.
Required:
(a) Evaluate whether ZXC Co should introduce the early settlement discount. (6 marks)
(b) Discuss TWO ways in which a company could reduce the risk associated with foreign accounts receivable. (4 marks)
My interest in Chinese food started years a90,when l was a young reporter for the Washington Post.Our office Wasn’t far from Chinatown,where I found some very good Chinese restaurants.
The first time I ever ate Chinese food I loved it.I noticed the fresh taste of the meat and vegetables.When I learned more about the food,I began to understand why it has this special feature.
Many years ago,China had an energy crisis(危机)because it lost much of its wood due to over population and poor management of its forests.This loss was very bad for the country,of course,but it turned out to be very good for the food.Wood became very expensive and hard to get,so the Chinese had to either find a substitute(替代物)for their valuable wood,or learn how to use it better.There weren’t any substitutes so people found ways to—economize.
In order to economize in cookin9,they had to use very little wood.So they started cutting their meat and vegetables into small pieces before they put them in the hot oil.That way,the food cooked faster and they saved their fuel。The food prepared in this way kept its fresh flavor(味道)一and its this flavor that attracts people from other countries to the art of Chinese cooking.
This text is mainly about__________.
A.what caused Chinese food to taste fresh
B.how Chinese food is cooked in the US
C.when the author started to make Chinese food
D.why most foreigners like cooking Chinese food
Once people believed it was 19) that the human brain was fully developed by the age of three. According to this theory, teenager behaviors like risk-taking, a lack of sensitivity to how their actions 20)both themselves and others, increased aggressive deeds, 21) concentration and a negative attitude were thought to be due to bad parenting or changes in body chemistry.
However, new technology has allowed researchers to examine the healthy brain at work. What they have discovered is something 22) : Not only does the brain continue to grow beyond the age of three, but the research also23) that the brain of a teenager is larger than that of an adult.
As teen brains are 24) with chemicals during adolescence phase, the brain grows. However, only the cells that are used the most will 25) the competition within the brain. Those that are used less begin to die off until the brain reaches what will be its adult size.
The way that teens spend their time 26) influences which connections remain and which disappear. On the basis of this knowledge, experts advise parents to be 27) on how their teenagers spend their time. What teens do today will affect their brains for the rest of their lives.
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B) demonstrated
C) alert
D) radical
E) surrender
F) survive
G) affirms
H) afford
I) affect
J) effect
K) soaked
L) soaped
M) sensitive
N) sensible
O) somehow
A.It is primarily a necessary step to have children.
B.It meets resistance in Western and other rich countries.
C.It has a tremendous impact on the rearing of children.
D.It is the most important institution throughout history.
There are three main types of influenza virus. The most important of these are types A and B, each of them having several sub-groups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus group A, but he didn't know the sub-group. He reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. WHO published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15%~20% of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, they began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself at very high speed, the virus had multiplied more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs used against all the known sub-groups of type A virus. None of them gave any protection. This then, was something new; a new influenza virus against which the people of the world had no ready help whatsoever.
Having isolated the virus they were working with, the doctors now conducted tests on some specially selected animals, which contracted influenza in the same way as human beings did. In a short time the usual sign of the disease disappeared. Theses experiments revealed that the new virus spread easily, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, called it simply "Asian" flu.
The influenza discovered by a doctor in Singapore is caused by ______.
A.a new type of virus
B.type A virus
C.a sub-group of type B virus
D.a virus only existing in Asia
Firms 05 by senior citizens are still a rarity, in Japan and worldwide. But the elderly have numbers on their 06 . Healthier and longer-living seniors,born immediately after World War II, are reaching retirement 07 in huge numbers all over the developed world. Extremely low 08 in those same countries mean there are far fewer young workers to take their 09 . One likely consequence is now clear: 10 work forces.
While the streamlining effects of international 11 are focusing attention on the need to create and keep good jobs, those fears will eventually give 12 to worries about the growing shortage of young workers. One unavoidable solution: putting older people back to work, 13 they like it or not. Indeed, advanced economies like those of Finland and Denmark have already raised their retirement ages. Others are 14 severe pressure to follow suit, as both the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have recently warned their members that their future prosperity depends on a 15 contribution from the elderly.
Whether these changes are good or bad news to workers depends on 16 they anticipate retirement with eagerness or dread. In the United States, half of working-age Americans now expect to work 17 their 70s, whether by financial necessity or by lifestyle 18 , according to a new study by Putnam Investments.
Contrary to still widespread assumptions, there is very little hard evidence to suggest that companies cannot stay competitive with a 19 share of older workers. At British hardware chain B&Q, its “elder worker" stores in Manchester and Exmouth were 18 percent more 20 than its regular outlets — due in part, the company says, to six times less employee turnover and 60 percent less shoplifting and breakage.
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Bfriend
Cfriendship
Dfriendless
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Acoin
Bmoney
Ccash
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Aon
Bfor
Cat
Din
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Aold
Belder
Coldest
Deld
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Arace
Bwalk
Crun
Djump
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Atip
Bside
Ctop
Dbottom
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Aage
Bsecond
Cminute
Dera
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Abirthrights
Bsecond
Cbirthplaces
Dbirthrates
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Aplace
Blife
Ctime
Dperson
(10)
Ashaving
Bshrugging
Cshrinking
Dshaking
(11)
Acompetition
Bcontest
Cgame
Dtournament
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Aroad
Bpath
Cstreet
Dway
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Awhen
Bwho
Cwhether
Dwhy
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Aunder
Bover
Cbefore
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Bgrown
Cgrew
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Awhy
Bwho
Chow
Dwhether
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Awithin
Bwithout
Cinto
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Bchose
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Arosen
Brise
Crising
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Aprofitable
Bprofitless
Cprofits
Dprofitive
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B.because
C.due
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