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Google's annual income ranks number one among Internet search-engines.A.RightB.WrongC.Does
Google's annual income ranks number one among Internet search-engines.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't Say
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Google's annual income ranks number one among Internet search-engines.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't Say
Baidu Eye. It is said to be a different product from Google Glass in terms of functionality.
The company demonstrated a working prototype on September 3 at its annual Technology Innovation Conference in Beijing. It bears a similarity to Google Glass, but it has no screen. Instead, the device uses a camera to scan objects, and focuses on analyzing information around its user and beaming that to a smartphone.
Baidu says the device is designed to support image search. The company's CEO Robin Li believes in five years' time, people will get used to searching by image and audio rather than text. Li has given an example of how one can take advantage of Baidu Eye, "If you are in a shopping mall and come across a woman whose skirt looks really attractive, you take a photo of her skirt using Baidu Eye, and you'll get to know where to buy one for yourself.
According to Kaiser Kuo, Baidu's director of international communications, Baidu Eye can also recognize voice and gesture, "You can use voice commands, or gesture commands - like expanding to zoom, or circling an object in your field of view with your finger.
Baidu is yet to announce a release date or marketing plans for Baidu Eye.
1.Baidu is China's leading search engine company.{T; F}
2.Baidulaunched a product that has more functions than Google Glasson September 3.{T; F}
3.Baidu Eyecanscan objects with its small screen.{T; F}
4.The company’s CEO Robin Li believes thatpeople will get used to searching by text.{T; F}
5. Baidu has already announced the release of Baidu Eye.{T; F}
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A.Smoking brings many psychological benefits.
B.Tobacco is an important source of income to the government.
C.Smoking is sure to cause diseases.
D.It's a short sighted policy to depend on tobacco for money.
E.The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful.
F.The tobacco industry makes high quality advertisement for smoking.
G.It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking and cancer.
Soaring commodities prices have left mining firms flush with cash and keen to expand. One Way would be to search for more metal in the ground, instead of on the stockmarket. But organic growth is expensive at the moment; as firms rush to increase their output to take advantage of high prices, every conceivable input, from engineers to mining trucks' huge tyres, is in desperately short supply. Developing new mines is also slow. Mining executives worry that projects that get the go ahead when prices are high will not look so attractive when the next slump comes.
That could be true of the proposed merger too, of course. Phelps Dodge offered a premium of 23% over the price of Inco's shares and 12% over Falconbridge's. Those shares, in turn, have been rising for several years along with the firms' wares--nickel, for the most part, at Inco, and nickel and copper at Falconbridge.
The bosses of the firms insist that the mark-up is justified, for several reasons. For one thing, they reckon they can squeeze savings of $ 900m a year out of the combined entity by 2009, by sharing equipment and personnel among adjacent mines, for example, and pooling their marketing staff. More importantly, they argue that the size and diversity of the new company will make it less vulnerable to mining's painful cycles, and so more attractive to investors.
The biggest and most diversified mining companies, such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, do boast higher share valuations. They produce everything from aluminium to zircon, and so are less susceptible to flutuations in the price of any particular metal. By the same logic, the more mines a firm is running or developing, and the more countries it operates in, the less risk each individual project poses to profits.
The merged trio will certainly have a broader geographical spread, with mines in five continents. But its main projects, in stable places like the United States, Canada and Chile, never seemed that risky in the first place. Furthermore, despite having sidelines in cobalt and molybdenum, the new firm's fortunes will depend chiefly on the price of copper and nickel--two of most volatile metals of late.
Some analysts mutter that Phelps Dodge embarked on the merger chiefly to save itself from being taken over. Investors seem to share their doubts: Phelps Dodge's shares fell by 8% after it announced the deal, despite a simultaneous pledge to spend $ 5 billion on a share buy-back scheme once the merger is concluded.
On the other hand, the price of nickel and copper jumped on the news. Traders seem to have assumed that the companies would have contemplated such an expensive deal only if they thought that metals would remain in short supply for some time. The more money that mining firms spend buying one another, rather than exploring for and developing new mines, the likelier that is.
It can be inferred that some mining firms are keen to merge because
A.they want to monopolize the mining market.
B.they have greatly profited from skyrocketing prices of metals.
C.they are afraid of losing money on the stock market.
D.they want to defeat all the other competitors of mining industry.
A.R only
B.R and S
C.R, S and T
D.R, S, T and U
A.The annual revenue of China's Internet bars tops 3.68 billion US dollars.
B.The annual revenue of China' s Internet bars tops 25.58 billion Yuan.
C.The annual revenue of China's Internet bars tops 25.68 billion Yuan.
D.The annual revenue of China's Internet bars tops 128 billion Yuan.
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