正确答案: C

reminded that popular ideas are often inaccurate

题目：According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be__________.

解析：【答案】C【解析】根据文章最后一段内容“Satire tends to remind people that nluch of what thev see，hear，and read in popular media is sanctimonious，sentimental，and only partially true．”可知，讽刺小说倾向于告诫人们，人们在大众媒体上看到的、听到的和读到的内容是伪善的，是带有情感的(而非理性的)，并且只有部分内容是真实的，所以C符合题意。

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[单选题]She was one of the leading writers in her age.

maior

解析：句意：她是她那个时代最重要的作家之一。leading意为“领导的，第一位的，最主要的”。B．major意为“主要的”，与leading意思相近。其他三个选项中，Asuecessful意为“成功的，有成就的”；C．outstanding意为“突出的，显著的”；D．musical意为“音乐的”。

[单选题]________

回答下面的题目：A．that have favorable overtones for the company initiated by the public relations departmentB．not all publicity is initiated by the firmC．usually in the form of press releases or press conferencesD．such as its product quality, the servicing and handling of complaints, and the tenor of the advertisingE. what it means to the company isF. Although the basic purpose of public relations is to provide positive influence on the public image_____

[单选题]Besides cutting its cost，Unilever alsoabandoned its__________． A．their workforceB．huge portionsC．large quantitiesD．their moneyE．a good bargainF．minor brands

回答下面的题目：How Technology Pushes Down Price1 Prices have fallen in the foodbusiness heeause of advances in food production and distribution technology.Consumershave benefited greatly from those advances．People who predicted that the wold would run out of food were wron9．We are producing more and more food with less and less capital.Foodis therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever been．Spending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years，and continues to drop． 2 Supermarkets have helped pushdown prices mainly because of their scale．Like any big business’they can invest in IT systems that make themefficient．And their size allows them to buv in bulk．As supermarkets get bigger，the prices getlower． 3 Huge retail companies such asWal-Mart have tremendous power and they can put pressure on producers to cuttheir margins．As a result，some producers have had to make cuts．Inrecent years.Unilever has cut its workforce by33，000 to 245，000 anddropped lots of its minor brands as Dart of its“path to growth”strategy．Cadbury has shut nearly 20 percent of its 133 factories and cut 10Dercent of its 55，000 global workforce．These cuts help keep costs down，and theprice of food stays low． 4 Does cheap food make people unhealthy? Cheap food may encotlrage people toeat more．Good companies certainly think that givingpeople more food for their money makes them buy more．Givingpeople bigger portmns IS an easy way of making them feel they have got a betterdeal．That is why Dortions have got larger and larger．In America，soft drinks came in 80z(225g)cansin the past，then 120z(350g)，andnow come in 200z(550g)calls．If a company can sell youan 80z portion for$7，they can sell you a 120z portionfor$8．The only extra cost to the company is the food，which Drobably costs 25 cents． 5 Now companies are under pressureto stop selling bigger portions for less money．But it is hard to change the trend．Paragraph 1__________

解析：题意：除了降低成本，联合利华也放弃了……。根据文章第三段第三句后半句…dropped lots of its minor brands as part of its“path to growth” strategy可知，联合利华为了实现增长战略放弃了其旗下的一些小品牌。故本题选F。

[单选题]Which of the following statements is correct?

根据以下材料回答下面的题目：Benefited or HurtFor the most part, it seems, workers in rich countries have little to fear from globalization, and a lot to gain. But is the same thing true for workers in poor countries? The answer is that they are even more likely than their rich country counterparts to benefit, because they have less to lose and more to gain. Orthodox economics takes an optimistic line on integration and the developing countries. Openness to foreign trade and investment should encourage capital to flow to poor economies. In the developing world, capital is scarce, so the returns on investment there should be higher than in the industrialized countries, where the best opportunities to make money by adding capital to labor have already been used up. If pool countries lower their barriers to trade and investment, the theory goes: rich foreigners wilt want to send over some of their capital.If this inflow of resources arrives in the form of loans or portfolio investment, it will supplement domestic savings and loosen the financial constraint on additional investment by local companies. If it arrives in the form of new foreign controlled operations, FDI, so much the better: this kind of capital brings technology and skills from abroad packaged along with it, with less financial risk as well. In either case, the addition to investmentought to push incomes up, partly by raising the demand for labor and partly by making labor more productive. This why workers in FDI receiving countries should be in an even better position to profit from integration than workers in FDI sending countries. Also, with or without inflows of foreign capital, the same static and dynamic gains from trade should apply in developing countries as in rich ones. This gain from trade logic often arouses suspicion, because the benefits seem to come from nowhere. Surely one side or the other must lose. Not so. The benefits that a rich country gets though trade do not come at the expense of its poor country trading partners, or vice versa. Recall that according to the theory, trade is a positive sum game. In all these transactions, sides exporters and importers, borrowers and lenders, shareholders and workers can gain.According to the passage, who may be reasonably afraid of the globalization?

In trade it is possible for every part involved winning at the expense of nobody

解析：【解析】最后一段中提及“The benefits that a rich country gets through trade do not come at the expense of its poor country trading partners or vice versa”，可排除A、B项。文中还提到“the benefits seem to come from nowhere．Surely one side or the other must lose．Not so”，可排除C项。从而确定D项。

[单选题]第55题应选：

回答下面的题目:Exercise Being Good or BadCan exercise be a bad thing? Sudden death during or soon after strenuous exertion on the squash court or on the army training grounds, is not unheard of. 51 trained marathon runners are not immune to fatal heart attacks. But no one knows just 52 common these sudden deaths linked to exercise are. The registration andinvestigation of such 53 is very patchy; only a national survey could determine the true 54 of sudden deaths in sports. But the climate of medical opinion is shifting in 55 of exercise, for the person recovering from a heart attack as 56 as the average lazy individual. Training can help the victim of a heart attack bylowering the 57 of oxygen the heart needs at any given level of work 58 the patient can do more before reaching the point where chest pains indicate a heart starved of oxygen. The question is, should middle-aged people, 59 .particular, be screened for signs of heart disease before 60 vigorous exercise?Most cases of sudden death in sport are caused by lethal arrhythmias in the beating of the heart, often in people 61 undiagnosed coronary heart disease. In North America 62 over 35 is advised to have a physical check-up and even an exercise electrocardiogram. The British, on the whole, think all this testing isunnecessary. Not many people die from exercise, 63 , and ECGs ( 心电图 ) are notoriously inaccurate. However, two medical cardiologists at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, advocate screening by exercise ECG for people over 40, or younger people 64 at risk of developing coronary heart disease. Individuals showing a particular abnormality in their ECGs 65 , they say, a 10 to 20 times greater risk of subsequently developing signs of coronary heart disease, or of sudden death.第51题应选：

favor

解析：【解析】句意为：__________锻炼的意见正在转变。四个选项：favor“有利于”，短语in favor of“赞同，有利于”；positive“积极的”；inclination“爱好，意向，倾向”；indication“表明，迹象，象征”。