In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadina, California.They carefully chose a busy corner for their location'.They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, and then another drive-in.But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas.To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.
Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents.Cheese was another four cents.Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks'sticking to their routine.Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch.People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime.The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened.They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines.He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers'fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants.The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu.The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.
Today McDonald's is really a household name.Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers.In 1976, McDonald's had over $ 1 billion in total sales.Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.
26.This passage mainly talks abort().
A.the development of fast food services
B.how McDonald's became a billion-dollar business
C.the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald
D.Ray Kroc's business talent
27.Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except().
A.a drive-in
B.a cinema
C.a theater
D.a barbecue restaurant
28.We may infer from this passage that ().
A.Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc
B.The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in
C.Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants
D.Ray Kroc was a good businessman
29.The passage suggests that().
A.creativity is an important element of business success
B.Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers
C.Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc
D.California is the best place to go into business
30.As used in the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word “unique” means ().
A.special
B.attractive
C.financial
D.peculiar
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Refer to the exhibit. From the MAC addresses shown in the command output, to which two ports is the multicast stream 225.230.57.199 being forwarded on this switch? ()https://assets.asklib.com/images/image2/2018072317400843243.jpg
A . Fa7/28
B . Fa7/20
C . Gi3/7
D . Fa4/2
E . Fa4/14
F . Fa4/38
G . Fa6/28
H . Fa5/7
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Refer to the exhibit.From the MAC addresses shown in the command output,to which two ports is the multicast stream 225.230.57.199 being forwarded on this switch?()https://assets.asklib.com/images/image2/2018072317362091835.jpg
A . Fa6/28
B . Fa7/20
C . Gi3/7
D . Fa4/2
E . Fa4/14
F . Fa4/38
G . Fa6/38
H . Fa5/7
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Several shoals()reported to exist in the area south-west of the Brothers.
A . have
B . have been
C . has
D . has bee
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The two brothers look very much
A . alike
B . like
C . likely
D . likewise
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It is said that Van Gogh succeeded in selling only one painting in his lifetime,________sold to his brother.
A . one
B . another
C . the one
D . which
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Refer to the exhibit. From the MAC addresses shown in the command output, to which two ports is the multicast stream 225.230.57.199 being forwarded on this switch? ()https://assets.asklib.com/images/image2/201807240909385063.jpg
A . Fa6/28
B . Fa7/20
C . Gi3/7
D . Fa4/2
E . Fa4/14
F . Fa4/38
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What are two methods of mitigating MAC address flooding attacks?()
A . Place unused ports in a common VLAN.
B . Implement private VLANs.
C . Implement DHCP snooping.
D . Implement port security.
E . Implement VLAN access maps.
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Which two statements about MAC addresses in the Cisco UCS are true?()
A . The first 2 octets represent the manufacturer OUI.
B . The first 3 octets represent the manufacturer OUI.
C . The last 3 octets are assigned by the organization itseIf.
D . The last 4 octets are assigned by the organization itseIf.
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In 1903, an American Henry Adams is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, and .
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In 1903, an American Henry Adams is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, and .
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He was a loud friendly man. In _____, his brother was rather shy.
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__________ his eider brother,he was always considerate in his treatment of others.
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We have to ________ apart to two groups, but let us be brothers forever.
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My brother ________ (arrive) in Beijing tomorrow morning.
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When was the woman's brother in New Zealand?
A.Three years ago.
B.Two years ago.
C.Ten years ago.
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I have two brothers. Qne is a driver,__is a policeman,
A. one
B. other
C. the other
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Her brother_______in the army for three years.
A.have been
B.has been
C.was
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There are four people in my family, my parents, my _____ brother and I. (old)
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Peter has two brothers. One of them is a teacher;_____ is a driver.
A. another
B. the other
C. other
D. each other
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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's in London on September 15th, 2008.All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £ 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brother, filed for bankruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $ 65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of art Economics, a research firm-double the figure five year earlier. Since then it may have come down to $ 50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $ 200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionist at the end of 1989.This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: "I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom. "
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds--death, debt and divorce-still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.
In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as "a last victory" because______.
A.the art marker had witnessed a succession of victories
B.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
C.Beautiful inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
D.it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
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The narrator's mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because_____.
A.like everybody else at the war time, she was very patriotic
B.she hated the war and the Germans very much
C.all her friends bad relatives in war and she wanted to be like them
D.she liked to have a brother she could think if as a hero
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Several shoals______reported to exist in the area southwest of the Brothers.
A.have
B.have been
C.has
D.has been
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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics , a research firm—double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: " I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom. "
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.
In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as "a last victory" because_________.
A.the art market had witnessed a succession of victories
B.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
C.Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
D.it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
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— Is your brother interested in the computer?—__________
A. He is a pupil
B. He is out of work
C. I have no idea
D. He is an engineer