She ______ 10 000 to charity in her will.A.auditedB.settledC.bequeathed
She ______ 10 000 to charity in her will.
A.audited
B.settled
C.bequeathed
She ______ 10 000 to charity in her will.
A.audited
B.settled
C.bequeathed
Anger and fear led Dees-Thomases, 46, a mother of three from Short Hills, NJ, to organize the Million Mom March on Mother's Day in 2000. A stand against the 30 000 deaths and 75 000 gun-related injuries a year in the United States, it drew an estimated 750 000 to Washington, DC.
Now the second Million Mom March, set for May 9 in DC, will urge the federal government to renew and strengthen the assault weapons ban (set to expire in September). And Dees-Thomases' new book, Looking for a Few Good Moms: How One Mother Rallied a Million Others against the Gun Lobby, will be published this month by Rodale, Prevention's parent company.
How many children does Donna Dees-Thomases have?
A.Two.
B.Three.
C.Four.
D.Five.
听力原文: Now, let me first give you a brief introduction to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was America's best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson, and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. From 1840 to 1847 she attended the Amherst Academy, and from 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, a few trips to Boston for eye treatments in the early 1860s, Dickinson remained in Amherst, living in the same house on Main Street from 1855 until her death. During her lifetime, she published only about 10 of her nearly 2, 000 poems, in newspapers, Civil War journals, and a poetry anthology. The first volume of Poems of Emily Dickinson was published in 1890, after Dickinson's death.
Although few of Dickinson's poems were formally published during her lifetime, she herself "published" by sending out at least one-third of her poems in the more than 1, 000 letters she wrote to at least 100 different correspondents. Dickinson's method of binding about 800.of her poems into 40 manuscript. books and distributing several hundred of them in letters is now widely recognized as her particular form. of self-publication. She also read her poems aloud to several people, including her cousins Louise and Frances Norcross, over a period of three decades.
Well, that's all about her life. Now shall we concentrate on her famous poem, "Success is Counted Sweetest".
In which state was Emily Dickson born?
A.Michigan.
B.Ohio.
C.Massachusetts.
D.Washington.
Part B
Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company, and frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did so. She often found the air during the meetings terrible. One day, after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore, she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air-conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.
After a few days the air-conditioning company sent two estimates for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate was $5, 000 to put in new air-conditioning, and the other was for $5. 00 for a sign which said, "NO SMOKING".
What is Mrs. Green?
A.A manager.
B.A typist.
C.a clerk.
D.The wife of a manager.
The picture, ______ she paid $ 5, 000, was once owned by an old artist.
A.in that
B.for which
C.which
D.at which
The editor told her that if she could______her story to 1 000 words, he would take it.
A.cut short
B.cut off
C.cut down
D.cut out
Mrs.Beverley Lancaster was awarded£67, 000 for______.
A.illness caused by her job
B.her successful and good work
C.the courage she showed in court
D.the amount of work she did
A.$ 200 000
B.twelve million dollars
C.twenty million dollars
D.more than twenty million dollars
Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board. Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals. If the sky, and the share price, is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.
The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10, 000 firms and more than 64, 000 different directors between 1989 and 2004. Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next. The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those "surprise" disappearances by directors under the age of 70. They found that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20% . The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform. worse. The effect tended to be larger for larger firms. Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship. Often they "trade up, " leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.
But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred. Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives. Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.
According to Paragraph 1, Ms. Simmons was criticized for_________.
A.gaining excessive profits
B.failing to fulfill her duty
C.refusing to make compromises
D.leaving the board in tough times
What was then the attitude of the department store in this legal case?
A.They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.
B.They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C.They still suspected that she was a thief.
D.They agreed to pay her $ 3 000 damages.
What was nm4 the attitude of the department store in this legal case?
A.They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.
B.They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C.They still suspected that she was a thief.
D.The agreed to pay her $ 3, 000 damages.
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