According to Robert Half Technology, increased IT hiring is mainly due to______.A．the larg

What does the author mean by "a mixed bag"(line 1, para. 3)?

A．Job prospects are increasing after a period of employment woes.

B．Employment is increasing in some IT sectors but decreasing in others.

C．The job scene has had its ups and downs.

D．Unemployed workers are on the rise again after a fall in numbers.

What can we infer from the second paragraph?

A．Project professionals with key skills are in short supply.

B．CIOs are optimistic about increasing short-term job prospects.

C．Temporary project professionals are being employed in certain positions.

D．Full-time staffs are being brought in to ease temporary increased work-loads.

The percentage of CIOs who expect IT staffing levels to be cut are______.

A．11%

B．3%

C．81%

D．75%

IT workers can expect an improved job market in the near future because______.

A．some CIOs are planning on hiring more staff during the next three years

B．Robert Half Technology are planning on hiring more staff

C．over three-quarters of CIOs are planning on hiring new staff

D．some CIOs are planning on hiring more staff during July to August

Which one is the best title of the text?

A．How Banking Got Big

B．A Brief History of Banking

C．The Democratization of Money

D．Smart Money, Dumb Money

On which of the following statements would the author LEAST probably agrees?

A．In the past four centuries, banking evolved and money became smarter.

B．Debt, credit and equity are quite new concepts.

C．Smart money should be treated with care.

D．With democratization of money came democratization of debt.

According to the text, when did money lending evolve into banking?

A．When interest is charged.

B．When a commission is taken for exchanging money.

C．When the first stock exchange was built.

D．When money business became diversified.

What is the essential element that bankers were practically outcasts 400 years ago?

A．Christians could not legally charge interest to other Christians.

B．William Shakespeare"s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice is a Jew.

C．The price of banking in the early 1600s was ostracism.

D．It was difficult to go from ghettos to Goldman.

The purpose of the author in writing Paragraph 1 is______.

A．to show that September 2008 was the nadir

B．to show the severity of the financial panic

C．to show that banking wasn"t so big 400 years ago

D．to show the feeling of a hysterical New York City broker

The authors attitude towards Wikipeida is one of______.

A．objectiveness

B．advocacy

C．ambivalence

D．skepticism