Combine the following sentences to make one complex statement out of each group. Make any

A．Only one out of six were present at the meeting.

B．Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.

C．Either my sister or my brother is coming.

D．Five miles seem like a long walk to me.

A．Square Ａ.

B．Square Ｂ.

C．Square Ｃ.

D．Square Ｄ.

Listen to the following passages and then decide whether the statements below are true or false. There are 10 questions in this section, with 1 points each. You will hear the recording only ONCE. At the end of the recording, you will have 2 minutes to finish this section.

听力原文： There are many occasions on which you can be expected to talk about your firm. This may include actually showing someone physically around the place of work or premises. But it may more generally involve referring to the way in which the company is organized and run.

Firms are a very important part of the economy. They are responsible for producing goods and services. Businesses come in every shape and size. While the vast majority of the world's businesses are small, large firms often dominate the economy in some countries. Indeed, the income of the world's largest fifty industrial companies added together represents more than haft the total output of the United States.

Large businesses differ very much from small ones in a wide variety of ways. In many countries there are both private firms and nationalized firms belonging to the government. A small private firm may have just one owner but a very large firm has thousands of shareholders.

In very large firms the owners have very little to do with the day-to-day running of the firm. This is left to the management. Very large companies may be organized into several large departments, or sometimes even divisions. The organizational structure of some companies is very hierarchical with the board of directors at the top and the various departmental heads reporting to them. Often the only time shareholders can influence the board is at yearly shareholders' meetings.

Some firms may only produce one product or service. Others may produce many different products: in fact they may seem to be like a collection of businesses inside one company. The bigger a business becomes the further it may expand geographically. Many large firms have manufacturing plants and trading locations in several different countries spread around the world.

Talking about a firm may generally include showing people around the premises.

A．正确

B．错误

No other industry or consumer of wood could match the timber industry itself for the exploitation of North America's forests.

A Throughout the century, the timber industry continued to supply the single most valuable raw material for a rapidly expanding population. Between 1840 and 1860, the annual production of lumber rose from 1.6 million to 8 billion board feet.B This increase was made possible by the widespread application of steam power. Wood-fueled steam engines powered the sawmills, moved and barked the logs, and finished the boards. Railroad lines were now built right into the forests so that felled logs could be shipped directly to market.C These innovations had their greatest impact in the Great Lakes region.D By 1890 the technology of the timber industry had triumphed over the natural abundance of the forests, and woodlands that had once seemed endless were now depleted.

A．Square Ａ.

B．Square Ｂ.

C．Square Ｃ.

D．Square Ｄ.

A．One out of every four car buyers changed their minds in August.

B．Interest in hybrid vehicles has doubled.

C．Younger drivers seem to be less concerned about the change in gas price.

D．More men than women changed their minds in the last 30 days.

Sophisticated plumbing was needed to service bathrooms and also to heat buildings with either steam or hot water.

A Skyscrapers differed from previous tall structures with their use of technical innovations such as cast iron and the elevator. The development of cast iron technology, in which molten iron is poured into a mold, made modem plumbing possible.B Cast iron pipes, fittings, and valves could deliver pressurized water to the many floors of tall buildings and drain wastewater out. The invention of the mechanical elevator made it possible to construct even taller buildings.C Before the elevator, office buildings were rarely more than four or five stories high. In 1857, the first passenger elevator equipped with safety brakes prevented the elevator from falling to the basement when a cable broke. The elevator made the upper floors as rentable as the first floor, liberating architecture from dependence on stairways and human muscle.D

A．Square Ａ.

B．Square Ｂ.

C．Square Ｃ.

D．Square Ｄ.