【单选题】The starting point for understanding how exchange rates are determined is a simple

A、has significant predictive power in the short run.

B、the starting point for understanding how exchange rates are determined.

C、does not take into account that many goods and services are not traded across borders.

D、none of the above.

【T1】Determined to make it on his own, Bush did not tell his father that he was applying to Harvard Business School.【T2】The "West Point of Capitalism" was not inundated with applicants in the anti-business early 70s, so Bush got in, despite mediocre grades that kept him out of his first choice of grade schools, the University of Texas Law School. Bush posed as a redneck rebel at Harvard, wearing his National Guard flight jacket and cowboy boots and chewing tobacco as he sat at the back of the class, spitting into a paper cup. 【T3】But he showed early signs of the self-discipline that would become more characteristic as time went on. He kept up with the grueling casework, particularly in a course called Human Organization and Behavior. Here were formal lessons in organizing and managing people that Bush had only intuited as an Andover cheerleader. He developed his basic approach to leadership at Harvards training ground for future CEOs. The essence was to think Big Picture, dont get caught in the details, delegate and decide. 【T4】Bush whizzes through briefing books today, preferring to listen rather than read, but his friends say he has an ability to cut to the chase. If Bush seems less substantive than a Bill Clinton — or an Al Gore — he can blame a Harvard education. 【T5】Bush hardly mentions Harvard today. He loathed what he saw as the universitys liberal, intellectually pretentious atmosphere. On weekends at the home of his aunt Nancy Ellis, who lived in Boston, Bush railed against the "smugness" of Cambridge. He pined to get back to Texas. While Bushs classmates headed for Wall Street, Bush went to look for a job in the oil Patch, again following his father whose portrait hangs in Midlands Petroleum Hall of Fame.

【T1】

听力原文： A lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium specially blended coffees known as gourmet coffees into the America market. Boston seems to have been the birthplace of this trend. In fact major gourmet coffee merchants from other cities like Seattle and San Francisco, came to Boston where today they are engaged in a kind of coffee war with Boston's merchants. They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market. Surprisingly the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them. Experts predict that the gourmet coffee market in the United States is growing and will continue to grow to the point that gourmet coffee will soon capture a half of what is now a 1.5 million-dollar market, Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets. As a result these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee competition.

What is the main topic of the story?

A．The coffee market in Boston.

B．The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.

C．A new trend in the United States.

D．The advertising of a new product.

听力原文： A lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium specially blended coffees known as gourmet coffees into the American market. Boston seems to have been the birthplace of this trend. In fact, major gourmet coffee merchants from other cities like Seattle and San Francisco came to Boston, where today they engaged in a kind of coffee war with Boston's merchants. They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market. Surprisingly, the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them. Experts predict that the gourmet coffee market in the United States is growing and will continue to grow to the point that gourmet coffee will soon capture a half of what is now a 1.5 million-dollar market and will be an 8 million-dollar market by 1999. Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets. As a result, these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee competition.

What is the main topic of the news story?

A．The coffee market in Boston.

B．The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.

C．A new trend in the United States.

D．The advertising of a new product.

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D、fourth lumbar spinous process

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Please point out which of the following statements are right.（ ）

A． The time of shipment should be stipulated in a clear and flexible way in the I/C

B． The time of shipment should not be stipulated in a clear and flexible way in the L/C

C．If the L/C simply stipulates an expiry date without a shipment date which means these two dates are not the same

D．If the L/C simply stipulates an expiry date without a shipment date which means these two dates are the same

The traditional linguists gave priority to ______ and took words as the starting point.

A．spoken form

B．listening ability

C．written form

D．reading comprehension ability