Britain enjoys a () climate.
A.hot maritime
B.temperate maritime
C.warm continental
D.cold continental
- · 有4位网友选择 C,占比25%
- · 有4位网友选择 B,占比25%
- · 有3位网友选择 A,占比18.75%
- · 有2位网友选择 D,占比12.5%
- · 有2位网友选择 B,占比12.5%
- · 有1位网友选择 C,占比6.25%
A.hot maritime
B.temperate maritime
C.warm continental
D.cold continental
The King/Queen in Britain enjoys real power and she reigns and rules with the help of her ministers.()
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.it is beneficial for Britain to be a homogeneous society
B.it is beneficial for Britain to be ethnically more diverse
C.the French National Front is coward
D.the Sun enjoys the greatest popularity
Dawna Walter is one of the authors leading the way
in Britain with her book that attempts to how even a tidy 【M1】 _______.
sock drawer can improve the quality of her life. Walter is 【M2】 _______.
the owner of the Holding Company, a shop on London's Kings.
Road which sells hundred of storage ideas for the home. 【M3】 _______.
It has been a hit that Walter is planning to open four 【M4】 _______.
new outlets in near future. Born in America, Dawna 【M5】 _______.
Walter is a fast talker, a self-confessed perfectionist, and
a tidiness fundamentalist. "If it takes 10 minutes for you
to find a matching pair of socks in the morning, then you are
not in the control and your outlook just isn't any good. Being 【M6】 _______.
organised saves you a couple of hours every week and giving 【M7】 _______.
you more time to do the things you enjoy." she explains.
Walter thinks that Britsh people are particularly bad
at getting to grips with their homes and lives: “There's still
this war mentality where you just won' t throw anything away
and soon your house is not working for you and is full of
things that don't give you any pleasant idea. "She, by contrast. 【M8】 _______.
enjoys getting rid of things: “I love giving things off to 【M9】 _______.
friends. If someone admires something I have, I'll just give it
to them."
She admits that some of her customers turn into storage
addicts and reveal that even children are getting the bug:
"We have 13-year-olds dragging their parents to the store because they want to get
their lives be oganised." And what does this alphabetised life 【M10】 _______.
do for here Looking at her new red kitchen, with everything
in place, she says:" It' s so beautiful I could cry."
【M1】
As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism.
But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame.
The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees and, in many companies, staff have been told that they will have to increase pensions fund payments to ensure previously guaranteed benefits.
At a time when the government has been deliberately running down the value of the state retirement pension and driving pensioners towards means-tested benefits, the increasingly shaky nature of occupational schemes has brought about higher levels of insecurity among working people.
However, it's not all doom and gloom. There is a silver lining.
Unfortunately, that silver lining, doesn't shine too brightly outside the corridors of corporate power, where directors are doing what they are best at—looking after number one. Bosses are not only slurping up huge salaries, each-way bonuses and golden parachutes. They have also, as TUC general secretary Brendan Barber says, got "their snouts in a pensions trough."
If having contributions worth one-thirtieth of their salary each year paid into a pension scheme is good enough for directors, why do most workers only receive one-sixtieth? And if companies only donate 6 percent of an employee's salary for money purchase schemes, why do they give 20430 percent for directors' schemes?
The answer, which will be no secret to many trade unionists, is that we live in a class- divided society in which big business and the rich call the shots.
The Child Poverty Action Group revelation that Britain also has the worst regional social inequality in the industrialised world—second only to Mexico—illustrates how fatuous are claims that this country enjoys social justice and opportunities for all. The stark facts of inequality, based on class, gender, age and race, that are outlined in the CPAG Poverty book ought to dictate a new government approach to tackling poverty.
Inequality and poverty cannot be tackled by allowing big business and the rich to dodge their responsibilities to society and to use their positions of power to seize the lion's share.
According to the author, British businesses ______.
A.suffer h lot from high levels of corporation tax
B.are experiencing an unfair competition
C.complain about the CBI and Tory leaders
D.enjoy more advantages than foreign businesses
A In recent years Brussels has been a fine place to observe the irresistible rise of English as Europe's lingua franca. For native speakers of English who are lazy about learning languages (yes, they exist), Brussels has become an embarrassingly easy place to work or visit. English is increasingly audible and visible in this scruffily charming Belgian city, and frankly rampant in the concrete-and-glass European quarter. Now, however, signs of a backlash are building. This is not based on sentiment, but on chewy points of economic efficiency and political fairness. And in a neat coincidence, Brussels is again a good place to watch the backlash develop. Start in the European district, where to the sound of much grinding of French and German teeth, the expansion of the European Union has left English not just edging ahead of the two other working languages, but in a position of utter dominance. The union now boasts 27 members and 23 official languages, but the result has been the opposite of a new tower of Babel. Only grand meetings boast interpreters. At lower levels, it turns out, when you put officials from Berlin, Bratislava, Bucharest and Budapest in the same room, English is by far the easiest option.
B Is this good for Europe? It feels efficient, but being a native English-speaker also seems to many to confer an unfair advantage. It is far easier to argue a point in your mother tongue. It is also hard work for even the best non-native speakers to understand other non-native versions of English, whereas it is no great strain for the British or Irish to decipher the various accents. Francois Grin, a Swiss economist, argues that Britain enjoys hidden transfers from its neighbours worth billions of euros a year, thanks to the English language. He offers several reasons, starting with spending in Britain on language teaching in schools, which is proportionately lower than in France or Switzerland, say. To add insult to injury, Britain profits from teaching English to foreigners. "Elevating one language to a position of dominance is tantamount to giving a huge handout to the country or countries that use it as a native language," he insists.
C What about the Europe outside the bubble of EU politics? Surely the rise of English as a universal second language is good for business? Perhaps, but even here a backlash is starting, led by linguists with close ties to European institutions and governments. They argue that the rush to learn English can sometimes hurt business by making it harder to find any staff who are willing to master less glamorous European languages. English is all very well for globe-spanning deals, suggests Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, a Belgian academic and adviser on language policy to the European Commission. But across much of the continent, firms do the bulk of their business with their neighbours. Dutch firms need delivery drivers who can speak German to customers, and vice versa. Belgium itself is a country divided between people who speak Dutch (Flemish) and French. A local plumber needs both to find the cheapest suppliers, or to land jobs in nearby France and the Netherlands.
D "English, in effect, blocks the learning of other languages," claims Mr Baetens Beardsmore. Just as the global rise of English makes life easy for idle Britons or Americans, it breeds complacency among those with English as their second language. "People say, 'well, I speak English and I have no need to learn another language.'" He cites research by the European Commission suggesting that this risk can be avoided if school pupils are taught English as a third tongue after something else. A huge government-financed survey of Brussels businesses reveals a dire shortage of candidates who can speak the right local languages (40% of firms have reported losing contracts because of a lack of languages). One result is a very odd labour market. By day, Brussels is more or less bilingual, hostin
Jim enjoys ______stamps.
A.to collect
B.collecting
C.collect
A. enjoy cooking
B. enjoys cook
C. enjoys cooking
A.Because she enjoys skiing.
B.Because she enjoys ice-skating.
C.Because she enjoys playing with snow.
D.Because she enjoys cold weather.
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