简述SP（Stated Preference）调查和RP（Revealed Prefere...

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Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： E-mailed resumes account for 32 percent of all submissions to potential employers, according to a new survey of 160 executives representing the country's 1,000 largest companies. And 45 percent of employers now prefer to receive resumes by e-mail according to Office-team, the employment center that conducted the study. That's a striking contrast to two years ago, when just 5 percent of respondents stated a preference for resumes via e-mail.

The poll also revealed that 21 percent of executives prefer getting resumes by mail, 11 percent prefer faxes, and the rest had no stated preference.

However, even with an informal medium like e-mail, job hunters should still pay strict attention to professional presentation of themselves. E-mails sent from a user name like "Fast-car" or "Sherlock" is a strict no-no, says Management Recruitment International, a staffing-service firm. And remember don't use an office e-mail account for personal business.

Other tips: ensure that the resume is in a format friendly to most brim, and send the document in both text and as an attachment, preferred by a brief cover letter. Also, include your name and the position you're interested in on the e-mail's subject line to distinguish your resume from others submitted.

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A．They were attached to the cover.

B．They were written by the employment center.

C．They were written via emails.

D．They were written to the employers through fax.

Some people prefer to work for a large company. Others prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view. In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

______likes them better than me or prefers their products to ours owing to his personal preference.

A．Either he

B．He either

C．Neither he

D．He neither

听力原文：W: There is nothing I like more than a good detective story when I've got some spare time.

M: I like to read too. But I prefer non-fiction: history, philosophy and others alike.

Q: What do we know about the man from this conversation?

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A．He doesn't have time to read.

B．He has no reading preference.

C．He doesn't read the same kind of books as the woman.

D．He prefers writing to reading.

Which of the following is true?

A．People's preference of one color to another is instinct (天性).

B．People's preference of one color to another is acquired as they grow up.

C．More people happen to love brown because they saw something brown when they were born.

D．Colors have little influence on our moods. 40. Those who committed suicide preferred the bridge over the Thames River near

OPEN-OUTCRY trading is supposed to be a quaint, outdated practice, rapidly being replaced by sleeker, cheaper electronic systems. Try telling that to the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest commodities exchange. On November 1st the NYMEX opened an open-outcry pit in Dublin to handle Brent crude futures, the benchmark contract for pricing two-thirds of the world's oil.

The NYMEX is trying to snatch liquidity from London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), which trades the most Brent contracts; the New York Exchange has hitherto concentrated on West Texas Intermediate, an American benchmark grade. The new pit is a response to the IPE's efforts to modernise. On the same day as NYMEX traders started shouting Brent prices in Dublin, the IPE did away with its morning open-outcry session: now such trades must be electronic, or done in the pit after lunch.

The New York Exchange claims that customers, such as hedge funds or energy companies, prefer open-outcry because it allows for more liquidity. Although most other exchanges are heading in the opposite direction, in commodity markets such as the NYMEX, pressure from "locals" — self-employed traders — is helping to prop up open-outcry, although some reckon that customers pay up to five times as much as with electronic systems. Even the IPE has no plans to abolish its floor. Only last month it signed a lease, lasting until 2011, for its trading floor in London.

Dublin's new pit is "showing promise", says Rob Laughlin, a trader with Man' Financial, despite a few technical glitches. On its first day it handled 5, 726 lots of Brent ( each lot, or contract, is 1,000 barrels), over a third of the volume in the IPE's new morning electronic session. By the year's end, predicts Mr. Laughlin, it should be clear whether the venture will be viable. It would stand a better chance if it moved to London. It may yet: it started in Ireland because regulatory approval could be obtained faster there than in Britain.

Ultimately, having both exchanges offering similar contracts will be unsustainable. Stealing liquidity from an established market leader, as the NYMEX is trying to do, is a hard task. Eurex, Europe's largest futures exchange, set up shop in Chicago this year, intending to grab American Treasury-bond contracts from the Chicago Board of Trade. It has made little headway. And the NYMEX has dabbled in Brent contracts before, without success.

Given the importance of liquidity in exchanges, why do the IPE and the NYMEX not band together? There have been merger talks before, and something might yet happen. Some say that the freewheeling NYMEX and the more staid IPE could never mix. For now, in any case, the two exchanges will slug it out — across the Irish Sea as well as across the Atlantic.

Which statements is true as to the description of the NYMEX and IPE?

A．They are both adopting open-outcry trading practice.

B．They are both making efforts to modernize the trading practice.

C．They are competing in the oil trading market.

D．They are competing to take the largest share in world's commodity trade.

From this passage we can infer that ______ .

A．A Pepsi consumer research shows that a majority of consumers preferred the taste of Pepsi to that of Coke.

B．In Coke's test, the majority of those tested preferred the old coke.

C．New Coke has more loyal consumers than the old one.

D．New Coke sells better than the old coke.

Natalie prefers yellow, whereas I prefer green．

A．if

B．while

C．then

D．SO

Census data for Prenland show that unmarried Prenlandic men in their thirties outnumber unmarried Prenlandic women in that age group by about ten to one. Most of these men do wish to marry. Clearly, however, unless many of them marry women who are not Prenlandic, all but a minority will remain unmarried. The argument makes which of the following assumptions?

A．Emigration from Prenland is more common among women than among men.

B．A greater proportion of Prenlandic women in their thirties than of Prenlandic men of the same age would prefer to remain unmarried.

C．It is unlikely that many of these unmarried Prenlandic men will marry women more than a few years older than themselves.

D．Prenland has a high rate of divorce.

E．Most of the unmarried Prenlandic men are unwilling to marry women who are not Prenlandic.