Two commonly used liquidity ratios are and .

Romantic Love My two daughters are at the age of dating and are expecting their great love. They thought their father and I had a ______ fairytale romance ___________ marriage from the outset. But it was not completely true. Love just happens when you _____ expect it, as is shown in my story. At the very beginning, I dated Butch just for fun. I was merely ______ on the first date and not so interested in Butch, for he was really a wild boy and seemed a little _____. After that, Butch intentionally created chances to see me. Though I _________________ his wild personality, I found I started to fall in love because his “bad boy image” was _________________. Then, one night, he announced to the world that I was his girlfriend and promised to marry me and become a lawyer. Though I ______________ him, I was certain that I would never marry this guy, a _____ without a good future. One month later, Butch failed all his courses and was going to be ____________ the university. I _______________on his behalf and helped him obtain reconsideration. Once we became steadies, he passed all of his classes and eventually studied law. Later, I realized that Butch was a perfect gentleman who ________ a lot of credit and we had a pure and __________ relationship for 7 full years. Two years later, Butch _________ marriage. Though I _________ my love for him, I was _______________ our future for we hadn’t graduated from college yet. We got married 5 years later. Our journey of love underwent ups and downs. It turns out to be a long, romantic, sometimes crazy, love story, which _______ a 29-year long honeymoon. Our love started with a casual attraction but ___________ a mature love and rich life together.

流动性陷阱(liquidity trap)

It is impossible to find out exactly how many volunteers are at work today in the United States. Thirty-seven million or so are known to belong to organizations like the Pink Ladies, Travelers' Aid, or Big Brothers; but those who work alone or in small informal groups cannot be counted. The total number of men and women who give their time to help others appears to be between fifty and sixty-eight million.

Volunteers start community projects too small to attract the attention of organized agencies, or work at jobs for which no funds are available. A handful of city folk will turn an empty lot into a playground for the children of their neighborhood; others decide to repair and paint a few dilapidated houses in their street. Somewhere else women cook and deliver two hot meals a day to elderly people living alone, and too sick or too tired to prepare their own food. Another group calls lonely old people once a day to chat a little and find out if they are all right. Some college students teach English, mathematics, or drawing to the inmates of a local jail. Young men and women spend part of their weekends collecting empty cans and bottles for the recycling center of their community, and some children pick up the trash left on the beach by the crowd of a summer holiday. Anywhere one looks, the army of volunteers is hard at work—not Only in the United States, but also in many other countries where volunteerism is spreading.

Fifteen years ago, the typical volunteer was a married woman between twenty-five and forty-five, who had children in school and time on her hands. She was rather well educated, with a high-school or a college degree, and she didn't need to earn a salary. She was therefore free to devote her time and talents to those who seemed to need them. Some women volunteered out of boredom, because they needed to find an occupation outside their house. But the great majority were prompted only by the desire to relieve some distress, to be useful. There have always been such women ready to give of themselves unselfishly and quietly. At the beginning of the American Civil War, around 1846, a schoolteacher named Clara Barton undertook to deliver to wounded soldiers all sorts of supplies-food, clothes, tobacco, and even medicine—that they could not get easily. She paid for these out of her own money at first, and later from the funds that she could collect from other generous people. She also ventured on the battlefields, during or after battles, to help the wounded and the dying. After the war, the government asked her to help search for missing soldiers. She helped later in other wars in Europe and attracted a number of women willing to share her work. The group grew and eventually became the American Red Cross, which now counts about 1,140,000 volunteers, with a budget of eighty-two million dollars, all from voluntary contributions.

Another pioneer of the same period, Dorothea Dix, fought to improve the living conditions in the hospitals for the mentally iii, which were not well run at the time. Her efforts finally caused state governments to take financial responsibility for these institutions. Many organizations have been launched by a determined group of volunteers, from the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America to the Sierra Club, devoted to the protection of nature, and to the Gray Panthers, who fight discrimination against the elderly and try to keep them active, happy, and politically important by encouraging them to vote.

According to the passage, all the following statements are true EXCEPT______.

A．the exact number of volunteers in America is difficult to find out

B．there are thirty-seven million volunteers at work in the United States

C．American Red Cross counts about 1,140,000 volunteers with a large budget

D．the total number of volunteers in America ranges from fifty to sixty-eight million

流动性(Liquidity)

Which of the following is usually least important as a measure of short-term liquidity?

A．Quick ratio

B．Current ratio

C．Debt ratio

D．Cash flows from operating activities

International Liquidity

Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are disturbed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the price of all the products brought and sold in the economy as well as those of numerous services, including labor, professional transportation, and public-utility services.

The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The prices of any particular product or service are linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less on everything else. If one were to ask randomly ( 随机地) a group of individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction (交易). This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes.

For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and the payment will be made, the form. of money to be used, and the credit terms and discounts that supply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors that comprise the total “package”being exchanged for the asked-for amount in order that they may evaluate a given price.

According to the passage, the price system is related primarily to ______.

A.labor and education

B.transportation and insurance

C.utilities and repairs

D.products and services

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a factor in the complete understanding of price?A.Instructions that come with a product

B.The quantity of a product

C.The quality of a product

D.Guarantees that come with a product

In the last sentence of the passage, the word “they” refers to ________.A.return privileges

B.all the factors

C.the buyer and the seller

D.money

The paragraph following the passage likely discusses ________.A.unusual ways to advertise products

B.types of payment plans for service

C.theories about how products affect different levels of society

D.how certain elements of price “package” influence its market value

What is the best title for the passage?A.The Inherent Weakness in the Price System

B.The Complexities of the Price System

C.Credit Terms in Transactions

D.Resource Distribution and the Public Sector

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Which is not Mr. Harris' opinion on Arts?

A．It's chancy.

B．It's not a real job.

C．It's easier than science.

D．It's not as secure as science.