Which of the following costs would be considered a period rather than a product cost in a manufacturing company？

A、Depreciation of the bottling plant

B、The factory rent

C、The factory manager’s salary

D、The cost of the bottles

Which of the following statements would best serve as an introduction to the passage?

A．The assumption that the knowledge incorporated in technological developments must be derived from science ignores the many non-scientific decisions made by technologists.

B．Analytical thought is no longer a vital component in the success of technological development.

C．As knowledge of technology has increased, the tendency has been to lose sight of the important role played by scientific thought in making decisions about form, arrangement, and texture.

D．A technologist thinking about a machine, reasoning through the successive steps in a dynamic process, can actually turn the machine over mentally.

Which of the following statements would best serve as an introduction to the passage?

A．It is easy to see why the confusion of skepticism with relativism, or of justification with truth, is rationally so debilitating.

B．The presumption that genuine truth is possible without a measure of justification is a most mischievous error.

C．If scientists would stop lauding scientific rationality in the face of reason, irrationalism would be less popular.

D．Scientific hypotheses are not untrustworthy or unreliable except in the sense of being sometimes false.

E．Faced with their detractors, scientists characteristically retort that science, unlike witchcraft, works.

A、Sunk cost

B、Opportunity cost

C、Interest expense

D、Fixed overhead cost

Which of the following speech performances would be seen as lack of respect in an international business talk?

A.Provoking debates among the audience.

B.Drawing a serious and objective conclusion.

C.Eliminating stereotyped words and statements.

D.Greeting the guests with appropriate titles.

Which of the following statements would most logically conclude the last paragraph of the passage?

A．All human activity is ultimately a product of the organization of our brains, and subject to its laws.

B．In art, something must always be left over for the imagination to perform.

C．Art has been a creative refuge for other unsatisfied ideals created by the brain through its abstractive process.

D．The future branch of aesthetics will study the neural basis of artistic creativity and achievement.

E．Art's richness lies in the fact that its power to disturb and arouse varies between individuals.

Which of the following statements would most logically conclude the last paragraph of the passage?

A．All human activity is ultimately a product of the organization of our brains, and subject to its laws.

B．In art, something must always be left over for the imagination to perform.

C．Art has been a creative refuge for other unsatisfied ideals created by the brain through its abstractive process.

D．The future branch of aesthetics will study the neural basis of artistic creativity and achievement.

E．Art's richness lies in the fact that its power to disturb and arouse varies between individuals.

Which of the following faults would allow lube oil to enter the cooling system of a diesel engine?

A.Excessive valve train lubrication

B.Leaking standby oil cooler core

C.Excessive lube oil pressure

D.Excessive lube oil in the system

Which of the following statements would provide the most of logical continuation of the final paragraph of the passage?

A．Thus Wynne — Edwards" theory raises serious questions about the constancy of animal population in a region.

B．Because Wynne- Edwards" theory is able to explain more kinds of animal behavior. than is the density-dependent theory, epideictic explanations of population regulation are now widely accepted.

C．The results of one study, for instance, have suggested that group vocalizing is more often used to defend territory than to provide information about population density.

D．Some of these studies have, in fact, worked out a systematic and complex code of social behavior. that can regulate population size.

E．One study, for example, has demonstrated that birds are more likely to use winter-roosting aggregations than group vocalizing in order to provide information on population size.

Which of the following statements would both scien-tists most likely use to explain the damage to the forestcaused by the object’s explosion? Energy from theexplosion:

A.traveled rapidly down to Earth’s surface.

B.dissipated in the upper atmosphere.

C.was released less than 1km above Earth’s surface.

D.was released as the object struck Earth’s surface.