Which is the most secure way for the importer to make payment？

A 29-year-old female elite athlete was lifting heavy weights during an intense training session. The athlete felt severe pain radiate suddenly to the posterior aspect of her right thigh and leg. The patient was taken to the hospital where an MRI was performed, and the result picture has been shown below. Which nerve was most probably affected？

A、L3

B、L4

C、L2

D、L5

E、S1

听力原文： Advertising is made up of the techniques and practices used to bring products, services, opinions, or causes to public notice for the purpose of persuading the public to respond in a certain way towards what is advertised. Most advertising involves promoting the goods that are for sale, but similar methods are used to encourage people to drive safely, to support various charities, or to vote for political candidates. In many countries advertising is the most important source of income for the media, through which it is conducted. In the ancient and medieval world such advertising was conducted by word of mouth. The first step toward modem advertising came with the development of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. In the 17th century, weekly newspapers in London began to carry advertisements, and by the 18th century, such advertising was flourishing.

There are eight principal media for advertising. Perhaps the most basic medium is the newspaper, which offers advertisers a large circulation. Magazines, the other chief print medium, may be of general interest or they may be aimed at specific audiences, such as people interested in outdoor sports, computers or literature. In Western industrial nations the most pervasive media are television and radio because of the size and composition of the audience. The other advertising media include direct mail, which can make a highly detailed and personalized appeal; outdoor billboards and posters; transit advertising, which can reach the millions of users; and miscellaneous media, including dealer displays and promotional items.

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A．In the 15th century.

B．In the 16th century.

C．In the 17th century.

D．In the 18th century.

In an attempt to improve the overall performance of

clerical workers, many companies have introduced com-

puterized performance monitoring and control systems

(CPMCS) that record and report a worker’s computer-

(5) driven activities. However, at least one study has shown

that such monitoring may not be having the desired effect.

In the study, researchers asked monitored clerical workers

and their supervisors how assessments of productivity

affected supervisors’ ratings of workers’ performance. In

(10)contrast to unmonitored workers doing the same work,

who without exception identified the most important element

in their jobs as customer service, the monitored workers and

their supervisors all responded that productivity was the

critical factor in assigning ratings. This finding suggested

(15) that there should have been a strong correlation between a

monitored worker’s productivity and the overall rating the

worker received. However, measures of the relationship

between overall rating and individual elements of perfor-

mance clearly supported the conclusion that supervisors

(20) gave considerable weight to criteria such as

attendance .accuracy, and indications of customer

satisfaction.

It is possible that productivity may be a “hygiene

factor.” that is, if it is too low, it will hurt the overall

rating. But the evidence suggests that beyond the point at

(25) which productivity becomes “good enough.” higher

productivity per se is unlikely to improve a rating.

According to the passage, before the final results of the study were known, which of the following seemed likely？

A．That workers with the highest productivity would also be the most accurate

B．That workers who initially achieved high productivity ratings would continue to do so consistently

C．That the highest performance ratings would be achieved by workers with the highest productivity

D．That the most productive workers would be those whose supervisors claimed to value productivity

E．That supervisors who claimed to value productivity would place equal value on customer satisfaction

Companies that advertise on television complain that digital television recording (DTR) services make it possible for consumers to watch television programs without viewing the commercials that these advertisers have paid the television networks to broadcast. The DTR service providers respond that their services may actually help the advertisers, because without their service, many consumers would not have been able to watch the programs--or the commercials in them--in the first place. Which of the following, if true, offers the most support to the advertisers' claims that the DTR services are currently hurting their businesses？

A．Even the best commercials are usually less entertaining than the programs that consumers choose to watch for themselves.

B．DTR services charge such high rates that only a small percentage of consumers subscribe to them.

C．The average per-second cost of advertising on television has risen every year for the past two decades.

D．More than 90 percent of subscribers to DTR services opt to use a setting that automatically edits out commercials.

E．DTR services alter the television viewing experience by allowing customers to view the program of their choice at the time of their choosing.

religious rite with the legal contract. Wedding arrangement for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the【66】(responsible) of the bride's family. In most cases it is mainly friends and re【67】of both families who are invited, but when the bride's father is a person with pr【68】social standing or a businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social co【69】with those people whose goodwill may be of great advantage to him and his family. It is however, the bride's mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed【70】(invite) cards.

In the case of church wedding, the vicar of each pa【71】in which the bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in【72】of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place. Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the church and the bride usually wears the tr【73】(tradition) long white dress and veil, while her br【74】, who are often children, wear long dresses in attractive colours. The wedding ceremony resembles a Christian se【75】during which the bride and bridegroom make promises to each other, according to which, whatever unforeseen difficulties they may encounter, they will remain l【76】to each other until they die. The wedding ceremony may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual and more purely l【77】.

After the ceremony, there is nearly always a "reception" consisting【78】a light meal, which is usually held in a restaurant, or in a local hall where a great number of guests attend. But it may also be held in the bride's own home when there are few guests. Refreshments are provided, a special iced wedding cake is cut and dis【79】to the guests, toasts and drink and dancing may follow. At some point in the celebration, the bride goes off to change into her everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their ho【80】, the journey they will make together, often in romantic surroundings abroad, during which they enjoy all the pleasure and none of the responsibilities of married life.

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(A Most Forgiving Ape) When the author and his party se out that morning, he was quite certain that he would meet the gorillas.()

A.most popular

B.great popularity

C.good seller

D.selling fast

As put by Se author, most of the work that most people have to do is ______.

A．delightful but time consuming

B．exceedingly dull and always painful

C．not worth doing and bearable at all

D．not interesting but rewarding

The most important function of the new software is to

A．maintain the quality of customer service.

B．expand the customer network worldwide.

C．inform. patients about better quality medicines.

By the time you get to Greenwich you ______ the most historic parts of London.

A．will be seeing

B．will see

C．are going to see

D．will have seen

听力原文： The estimated one-fifth of children in London's schools who cannot read simple sentences by the age of eight should be given special help. This is the main conclusion of an independent report on London's 700 primary schools. The report, which is the result of a year's work, tells London's primary schools that they must demand more of their children.

Most parents were happy with the schools, but some said that their children's pace of learning might be too slow. The report confirmed this by stating that much of the new work must have been taught at the same level of difficulty as the old.

The report emphasized that children should not be tortured but more should have been expected of them in schools. This would mean that some children might have achieved much more than the limited demands made on them by comprehension exercises or copying out from textbooks.

Mrs. Morrel, who commissioned the report, said that all London's schools must put into effect a framework of reform. Every child ought to be able to read by the age of eight.

Other reforms mentioned in the report were that parents should be better represented on school governing committees and that each school ought to draw up a development plan, listing what improvements it can make. Parents should also be represented on the education committee.

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A．They should not be too strict with the children.

B．They should limit their demands on some children.

C．They should demand more of their children.

D．They should demand more of the bright children.