If we find both the consumption of ice-cream and the drowning accidents increase in summer, we can draw the conclusion that ________.

Lung Cancer

1 The death rate due to cancer of the lungs has increased more than 800 percent in males and has more than doubled in females during the last 25 years. It is considerably higher in urban and industrial areas than in rural districts. There are many possible cause, but it is still controversial which are most blameworthy. Those factors which have been mentioned most frequently are thepresence of foreign particles and other irritants in the air (smoke particles, smog, exhaust fumes), and the smoking of cigarettes and cigars.

2 Numerous studies have demonstrated a striking correlation between the death rate from lung cancer and smoking habits. Among heavy smokers—21 to 30 cigarettes per day—the mortality rate from lung cancer is nearly 17 times the rate from nonsmokers. It is expected the death rate among women will increase as the present high rate of smoking among women has its effect.

3 Sometimes cases of lung cancer are discovered at the time an X-ray is taken for the purpose of detecting tuberculosis. Too often, however, a current emphasis upon the danger of exposure to radiation from X-ray machines can frighten people away from routine chest X-rays. Modern X-ray machines in competent hands pose such slight danger, at least to those over 40 years of age, that this would be much more than offset by the advantages of discovering a tumor while it is small enough to be completely removed.

4 A common form. of lung cancer is broncho-genic carcinoma, so-called because the malignancy originates in a bronchus. The tumor may grow until the bronchus is blocked, cutting spaces between lung and the outside, with a resulting pneumonia or the formation of a lung abscess. Such a lung cancer can also spread to cause secondary growths in the lymph nodes of the chest and neck as well as in the brain and other parts of the body. The only treatment that offers a possibility of cure, before secondary growths have had time to form, is to remove the lung completely. This operation is called pneumonectomy.

5 Malignant tumors of the stomach, the breast, the prostate gland and other organs may spread to the lungs, causing secondary growths.

A. Common Secondary Lung Cancers

B. The Advantages Brought about by Routine Chest Checkup

C. Relationship Between Mortality Rate from Lung Cancer and Smoking Habits

D. Operable and Inoperable Lung Cancers

E. The Increasing Death Rate from Lung Cancer and Possible Causes

F. An Ordinary Type of Lung Cancer

Paragraph 1______

Dee and Eff are major shareholders in, and the directors of, the public company, Fan plc. For the year ended 30 April 2009 Fan plc’s financial statements showed a loss of ￡2,000 for the year.

For the year ended 30 April 2010 Fan plc made a profit of ￡3,000 and, due to a revaluation, the value of its land and buildings increased by ￡5,000.

As a consequence, Dee and Eff recommended, and the shareholders approved, the payment of ￡4,000 in dividends.

Required:

Advise Dee and Eff as to:

(a) the legality of the dividend payment; and (6 marks)

(b) any potential legal liability in regard to the dividend payment. (4 marks)

Directions:

Study the following graphs carefully and write an essay in 160-200 words. Your essay should cover these three points:

1) effect of China' s growing percentage of

inhabitant incomes on its increase of saving

deposits[储蓄]

2) possible reasons for the situation

3) your comment on it.

The history of ice cream is amystery. No one knows exactly how and when people began to eat it. There is onestory that the Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 37—68) sent slaves to the mountains tobring back snow. The snow was served to him sweetened with honey and fruit pulp.Marco Polo (1254—1324) tasted flavored ices, too, during his famous travels inthe Far East. He brought the recipes back toItaly.

Recipesfor ices spread fromItalyto the rest of Europe in the 1500’s. The chefs of kings constantly experimentedwith new combinations to please their masters, and at some point cream andbutter were added to the recipes for ice. The new dish was called cream ice.Cream ice, molded into amusing shapes, began to be served on the tables ofkings across Europe. Louis XIV (1638—1715)surprised his court with a dessert of eggs in cups of silver and gilt. Theeggs, of course, were really cream ice.

Graduallycream ice took the name it has today. One of the earliest advertisements forice cream was put in a New Yorkpaper in 1786. The ad announced that “Ladies and gentlemen may be supplied withice- cream every day at the City Tavern by their humble servant, Joseph Crowe.”But ice cream was still not an everyday event. It was usually presented infancy shapes at the end of dinner parties. Policy Madison (1768—1849) was famous for herimaginative dinners, and she was the first to serve ice cream at the WhiteHouse. When her guests came into the dining room, they found a table coveredwith delicious dishes, and in the center of the table, a huge mound of pink icecream on a silver platter.

Icecream was such a delicacy because it was so hard to make. At first it wasbeaten and then shaken by hand in a pan of salt and ice until it became firm. Afreezer that was cranked by hand was developed around 1846. Making ice creamwas still a chore, but cranking the freezer was much easier and faster thanshaking the mixture in a pan.

“Icecream socials” became a popular way to entertain friends. Everyone helped turnthe crank of the freezer, and homemade peach or strawberry ice cream was thereward. The development of the continuous freezer in the 1920’smade the manufacture of ice cream very quick and economical. It soon was easierto buy packaged ice cream than to make it at home. Eskimo pies and popsiclesbegan to be sold at the same time.

Possiblyice cream cones began with the World’s Fair in 1893. Vendors there sold FriedIce Cream. The ice cream was covered with a fritter batter and then quicklydipped in very hot lard or olive oil. Putting the ice cream in an alreadyprepared cone was the next step. Today there are many novelty products, fromfrozen drumsticks to ice cream pies.

16.According to the passage, which of thefollowing served ice cream disguised as eggs?

A. Policy Madison

B. Joseph Crowe

C. Louis XIV

D. Marco Polo

17.Newspaper advertisements for ice cream first appeared in_________.

A.1846

B.1893

C.1768

D.1786

18.The text would most probably be found in_________.

A. a history book

B. anadvertisement

C. a cookingbook

D. an encyclopedia

19. The main purpose of the writer is to_________.

A. explain how ice cream was invented

B. tell us the history of ice cream

C. describe why ice cream is so popular

D. persuade us the difficulties involved inmaking ice cream

20.Ice cream was so delicious, the reason is that_________.

A. it was difficult tomake

B. it was easy to make

C. it was beaten andthen shaken

D. it was complicated tomake

The company just finished ______ automated defect-removal systems in the last of its nine U.S. potato plants.

A、installing

B、 to install

C、 to set

D、 setting