广东外语外贸大学国际商务英语学院 《高级英语写作(一)》2006-2007学年下学期期末考试试卷(A) 考核对象： 2004级全体学生 考试时间： 150分钟 班级： 学号： 姓名： Part I Vocabulary (1%×10= 10%) Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A‚ B‚ C and D. Please choose one that best interprets the underlined part. Please write your answers on the answer sheet. 1. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores. A. scattered B. splattered C. splintered D. spread 2. Given falling
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are two terms to be recognized: “safe state” and “swing state”. In a “safe state” the presidential candidate of a particular party has the vast majority of support of that state ’s voters‚ regularly‚ so that he/she can safely assume the favorable outcome of the state ’s electoral college votes. Some well-known safe states are California for democrats‚ and Texas for republicans. On the contrary‚ there are states that are not like safe states and no single candidate or party has overwhelming
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CAN CAR Essay Keaton Mertz Simms-D The goal of the can car lab was to create a rubber band-powered car that demonstrates Newton’s laws‚ and conservation of energy. The advantages of having a heavy rolling can is that I would have a lot of rotational energy and momentum‚ the disadvantage is the car has more static inertia. If the car has more static inertia‚ then it will be harder for the can to roll backwards at the end of its run. The factors affecting the can’s net force (once the rubber band
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America’s Great Depression Fifth Edition America’s Great Depression Fifth Edition Murray N. Rothbard MISES INSTITUTE Copyright © 1963‚ 1972 by Murray N. Rothbard Introduction to the Third Edition Copyright © 1975 by Murray N. Rothbard Introduction to the Fourth Edition Copyright © 1983 by Murray N. Rothbard Introduction to the Fifth Edition Copyright © 2000 by The Ludwig von Mises Institute Copyright © 2000 by The Ludwig von Mises Institute All rights reserved. Printed in the United
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Ease of Access 2) The Windows Experience Index rates a computer’s performance on a scale of 1.0 to 7.9. Based on the rating of your computer‚ what can you conclude about its performance? I should buy a GPU. 3) Based on the Windows Experience Index‚ what component of your computer would you upgrade first? Why? My GPU it has the lowest rating 4) How can you decide which expansion card is a video card? It usually has a DVI‚ VGA‚ or HDMI interface on the end of the card. Modern cards uaually run on
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The effect of caffeine on typing speed‚ accuracy and heart beat 1. Introduction Caffeine is a substance found in coffee‚ tea and most sodas. When it is consumed‚ it is a mild stimulant. The energy drink‚ Monster‚ contains caffeine‚ which has the ability to manipulate adenosine (adrenaline)‚ a substance present in the brain that is used to transmit brain signals to different parts of the body. Adenosine causes an increase in alertness and awareness. Modern studies show that there is direct benefits
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socialization there would be no culture. People pass their culture through socialization. The family with the help of other institutions make contribution to efficiency of performing these functions. When everything goes smooth then the family can be seen fulfilling its purpose in society and its universality emerges in strong relief. The family serves both the individual as well as society. Couples enter into a relationship with understanding of what they let themselves into. They set rules
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subsidy to producers of wheat. A subsidy is an amount of money paid by the government to a firm. There are many reasons why the government might choose to subsidize producers of wheat. In many countries‚ wheat is considered to be an essential good. The government would therefore hope for consumption of wheat to increase‚ which can be achieved through lower prices. If a subsidy is granted to producers of wheat‚ their costs of production will be lowered. Producers can choose to pass this on to
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Taylor Tipping Critical Essay “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel in which the setting in time and place is a significant feature. In this essay I will show how the writer’s use of setting contributes to my understanding of character and theme. The novel begins with Nick Carraway. He is the narrator if this novel who is from a middle class background. Throughout the novel we make judgements from Nick’s perspective and form an opinion from his point of view. The next characters
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S CHOOL OF M ATHEMATICS ‚ S TATISTICS AND O PERATIONS R ESEARCH STAT 392 Tutorial – Ratio and Regression Estimation 1. Regression Estimation (from Lohr‚ Ex 3.6.4) Foresters want to estimate the average age of tress in a stand. Determining age is cumbersome because one needs to count the tree rings on a core taken from the tree. In general‚ though‚ the older the tree‚ the larger the diameter‚ and diameter is easy to measure. The foresters measure the diameter of all 1132 tress and find that
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