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Besides bad material conditions, __________also leads to the sharp increase of crime rate.
A . poverty
B . being parentless
C . lack of education
D . easy access to guns
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The violent crime rate delines when the incarceration rate increases.()
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Why does borrowing funds for tuition at a single digit interest rate become overwhelming to the student at the end of four years?
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If a business borrows $1,000,000,000 for one year at an interest rate of 8 percent, what is the interest expense?
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A business borrows $1,000,000,000 for one year at an interest rate of 8 percent. If the interest rate increases by just 1 percent, what is the extra interest expense?
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With an interest rate of 5 percent, the present value of $100 received one year from now is approximately _________
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When an interest rate is 8% compounding yearly，the EAR should be same.
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Last year China’s saving rate was 54 percent of GDP, according to China Daily. The U.S. rate, including households and corporations, was a mere 12 percent of GDP. What kind of statistics are used in the statement.
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Last year the advertising rate ________ by 20 percent.
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A company leased equipment under a seven-year finance lease requiring year-end payments of $20,541. The present value of the lease liability is approximately $100,000 based on a 10% discount rate. The interest portion of the first payment is closest to:
A. $10,000.
B. $13,340.
C. $14,200.
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According to the article.the California energy commission has received 200 project applications in one month. If that rate continues,approximately how many applications will they receive his entire year？
A．2,400
B．1,200
C．200
D．3600
此题为多项选择题。
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Each year millions of people suffer from the effect of alcohol and drug abuse, getting into illness, crime and death.
In the United States alone, l0 to 12 million men and women and their loved ones and family suffer from alcohol. Additional millions abuse alcohol at great cost in health.
In Canada, it is said, "Alcohol increases business of hospitals, ambulance drivers, doctors, and nurses." Alcohol abuse and dangerous drugs have swept through Europe. Soviet culture, too, is paying enormous social and economic costs.
Developing nations are bothered by drug problem—both ancient and modern. In this part of the world hundreds of millions request doctors to ease their miseries and problems in life. These methods of coping are unhealthy solutions!
QUESTIONS:
This passage is mainly about the worldwide【46】and【47】abuse.
【48】million people and their families in America have suffered from alcohol abuse.
The alcohol abuse has damaged【49】
The author strongly implies that the public should seek for proper【50】to drug problems in time.
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Punishment depends as much on politics as it does on crime: crime rates have been stable in recent years but there's been a striking increase in the prison population, And because populism is coming so much to (1)_____ the political agendas, politicians are advocating sharp increases in penalties to take (2)_____ of public unease. The question is how far this will get. In the 21st century weak governments might try to win legitimacy by being especially (3)_____ on crime. That could mean high prison populations and draconian (4)_____ such as those adopted in the United States in recent years.
Luckily, there remain significant differences between the UK and the USA: social divisions are less extreme and racial (5)_____ are not as high. (6)_____ there is a great deal of minor violent crime here, rates of murder—(7)_____ particularly fuel public anxieties—are much (8)_____ because guns have not been so widely (9)_____. It's unlikely that this will change greatly: the (10)_____ to tighten up the gun laws in Britain will continue, and all (11)_____ the toughest criminals will still have a view about what is and what isn't "acceptable violence".
So I don't believe we will see a huge (12)_____ in violent crime, but I (13)_____ rates of property crime and crimes of opportunity to remain high. There will also be much more electronic fraud because it's so hard to (14)_____ and prevent. This is an important problem for business, but not one that (15)_____ much popular agitation.
It's unlikely we'll see the return of the death penalty: the police are (16)_____ about its effectiveness and its reintroduction would be highly problematic (17)_____ the recent Council of Europe protocol outlawing its use. (18)_____ punishment remains a pretty accurate temperature gauge, though: (19)_____ there is significant political pressure for the death penalty, it's a (20)_____ of harsher attitudes towards crime generally.
A．govern
B．dominate
C．control
D．manipulate
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Why crime has risen so much further and faster in Britain than in any other rich country over the past half-century is anybody's guess, maybe it's the result of near-American levels of relative poverty and family breakdown combined with a European reluctance to bang up quite such a large proportion of the population as America does. Anyway, the long-term causes are of less immediate interest to the government than a short-term solution. Popular concern about crime is rising: 23% of people rated it as one of the most important issues for the government at the beginning of this year; 34% do now.
An official report concluding that the criminal justice system is failing has added to the government's problems. The Audit Commission, the government's watchdog, says that the police too often charge suspects with the wrong offences, use inaccurate computerized information and face serious inefficiencies in the forensic science (the use of scientific methods by the police) service. Court delays alone are costing taxpayers￡80m ($120m) a year. The result is that few criminals are brought to justice and even fewer convicted. Only 6% of the more than 5m offences recorded by the police last year resulted in a conviction. Hardly surprising, then, that more than half the public believes that the criminal justice system is ineffective.
The main purpose of the White Paper published last year is to address concerns that the procedures of the court are weighted too heavily against the prosecution. It includes many sensible and uncontroversial proposals. It asks for more support for witnesses, many of whom are frightened of testifying. A survey of one London court found that, of 140 witnesses called in a two-week period, only 19 actually turned up.
Making juries more representative must also make sense. Getting off jury service is too easy. In some London courts, two-thirds of those called for jury service fail to turn up. As a result, juries are often composed of housewives, the unemployed and the retired. The White Paper recommends a check on professionals' getting off service, who can excuse themselves by saying their work is too important, and proposes penalties for those who fail to comply.
Other proposed reforms will be more controversial. At present, no defendant can be tried for the same offence twice even if compelling new evidence emerges. The government's plan to scrap that law will be resisted by civil liberties campaigners, as will the proposal that previous convictions should be disclosed in open court if they are relevant to the case being heard.
Whether or not such proposals make it into law, the White Paper did not do much to address public concerns. The reason why 94% of crimes do not result in a conviction is that three-quarters of them are not cleared up, and so nobody is charged. That is the fault of the police, not the courts; and that is the part of the criminal justice system that the government needs to focus on if it is to make a difference.
[A] use insufficient computerized information.
[B] the work of the police, not that of the courts.
[C] a short-term solution rather than the long-term causes.
[D] the mistaken offences.
[E] most of those called for jury duty are absent.
[F] to address public concerns.
[G] who are afraid of appearing in court.
According to the text, the government would pay more attention to ______
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Anyone who takes an interest in the crime rate will, according to the text, be aware that ______ .
A．more burglars are being caught that ever before
B．people have more possessions to worry about nowadays
C．burglars are more at risk that they used to be
D．homes are more likely to be broken into nowadays
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Three years from now, an investor will deposit the first of eight $1,000 payments into a special fund. The fund will earn interest at the rate of 5% per year until the third deposit is made. Thereafte
A．$8,872.93.
B．$9,251.82.
C．$9,549.11.
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At 1 January, 2009, an option-free 8 percent annual coupon bond, with 10 years to maturity and a par value of $1,000, had a discount rate of 9 percent. On 1 January 2010, the discount rate had decreas
A．-$4.23 $29.35
B．-$4.23 $33.58
C．$4.23 $29.35
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如果利率是20%，那么20年后支付的100万美元在今天的价值是多少？How much is $ 1 million to be delivered 20 years in the future worth today if the interest rate is 20 percent？
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Suppose your firm invests $100,000 in a project in Italy. At the time the exchange rate is $1.25 = €1.00. One year later the exchange rate is the same, but the Italian government has expropriated（）
A．Exchange rate risk
B．Political risk
C．Market imperfections
D．None of the above,since ＄100,000 = €80,000 ′ ＄1．25/1．00
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Suppose that the one-year U.S. interest rate is 13% and the one-year Swiss interest rate is 2%. If the current spot rate is $1.40 per Swiss franc, what must the one-year forward rate （） be according t
A．1．246
B．1．330
C．1．554
D．2．100
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Grandparents are funding a newborn&8217;s future university tuition costs, estimated at $50,000/year for four years, with the first payment due in 18 years. Assuming a 6% effective annual rate, the r
A．60699
B．64341
C．68201
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A corporation issues five-year fixed-rate bonds. Its treasurer expects interest rates to decline for allmaturities for at least the next year. She enters into a one-year agreement with a bank to recei
A、Futures contract.
B、Forward contract.
C、swap.
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On January 1<sup>st of the year, an investor purchases $100,000 in par value of a new Treasury Inflation Protection Security （TIPS） issue that has a 2.5% coupon rate. The annual rate of inflation over
A．$1,275
B．$1,294
C．$1,339
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如果利率是10%，一年后的100美元的现值是多少？如果利率是5%，它的现值又是多少？What is the present value of $ 100 one year from now if the interest rate is 10%？What is the present value if the interest rate is 5%？
