Now services in China grows very fast.( )

A . drive B . drives C . have drive

A . when row directories need more row entries B . when there is row migration in the data block C . when there is an increase in the PCTFREE value for the data block D . when more transaction slots are required than are initially configured

In April, a more optimistic Nokia said it was on course for a 20 percent sales growth this quarter. That forecast has been cut in half. Tuesday s warning knocked a whopping $31 billion off Nokia s market capitlization. Nokia joins rivals Motorola and Ericsson in warning about sales. The rate of new phone purchases has slowed dramatically in Europe, with customers reluctant to trade up to new handsets. Why has the rate of new phone purchases slowed in Europe？ A．Because of the warning about sales. B．Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsets. C．Because of cutting into demand for handsets. D．Because of the US slowdown.

B．urgent

A major new study shows that the situation may be changing. A large and rapid drop in the world's birth rate has taken place during the past 10 years. Families generally are smaller now than they were a few years ago. It is happening in both developing and industrial nations, Researchers said they found a number of reasons for this. More men and women are waiting longer to get married and are using birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy. More women are going to school or working at jobs away from their homes instead of having children. And more governments, especially in developing nations, now support family planning programs to reduce population growth. China is one of the nations that has made great progress in reducing its population growth. China has already cut its rate of population growth by about one half since 1970. China now urges each family to have no more than one child. And it hopes to reach zero population growth, the number of births equaling the number of deaths, by the year 2000. Several nations in Europe already have fewer births than deaths. Experts said that these nations could face a serious shortage of workers in the future. And the persons who are working could face much higher taxes to help support the growing number of retired people. In Paragraph one, the sentence "Experts Dong have been concerned about such growth", the phrase "concerned about" is similar in meaning to______. A．worried about B．related to C．engaged in D．made a study of

(6) A．The majority of smart cards users are governments and commercial organizations. B．Many users of smart cards are powerful in governments and commercial organizations. C．The dominant users of smart cards are banks in China by now. D．The dominant users of smart cards used to he banks in China.

A．真 B．假 C．NOT GIVEN

However, limited medical resources cannot meet people's needs【B3】financial deficits in State-owned hospitals.【B4】, there is room for a range of different medical organizations. As is the case with many State-owned enterprises, public hospitals in the past half century have learned a lot of bad habits:【B5】management, over-staffing and bureaucratic operating procedures. Being a member of World Trade Organization (WTO), China has to【B6】its promise to open the health industry to foreign capital in coming years. By then, public hospitals will be facing fierce competition from Western giants they have never prepared for. So it's quite urgent【B7】them to learn how to operate as an enterprise and how to survive in the competitive market economy of the future. As a【B8】, the healthcare sector was first opened to domestic private investors. Since the first private hospital opened in 1999, private investors from Shenzhen, Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces have been scrambling to enter Shanghai.【B9】show that about 20 private hospitals have been set up in the city, although this number,【B10】with more than 500 public hospitals, is still quite low. 【B1】 A．aging B．aged C．being-aged D．age

However, the undying role is that to be successful, bands have to have a novel look. "The 12 Girls Band was the first group to give big live shows and show creativity in how they present their performances. The Beijing Red Poppy Ladies Percussion group, formed in 1999, has made a name for itself because they are the only band that exclusively plays drums and percussion instruments. Bands that don't have ' a thing' are sure to die fast", Jin said. How many members are involved in the band？ A．8. B．10. C．12. D．14.

These recent initiatives owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in north-eastern England. The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering form. an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view on to a garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at during the early 1970s. he felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience. A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art？ Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients' waiting area of the Manchester royal Infirmary in 1975. Believed to be Britain's first hospital-artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates. The effect is striking. Instead of the familiar long, barren corridors and dull waiting rooms, the visitors experience a full view of fresh colours, playful images and restful courtyards. Compared with the total number of Britain's National Health Service hospitals, the hospitals which have art collections is only ______. A．4% B．40% C．25% D．50%.

In the United State , soccer' s popularity began to grow rapidly in the late 1950' s.（） 此题为判断题(对，错)。

华特森太太的两个女儿都在国外求学，一个在德国，一个在中国。

A．1950s B．1960s C．1980s D．1990s

A．original B．distressing C．introduced D．basically E．diplomatic

A、dream coming; come true B、dreamt of coming; come true C、dreamed to come; realized D、dreamed coming; realizing