【正文】 their cigarette smoking, but other factors such as being displaced from home, losing possessions during the attacks, or being involved in the rescue efforts were not consistently associated with increased substance use. Symptoms of panic attack were associated with an increase in the use of all substances. Increase in substance abuse did not differ significantly between men and women or among racial or ethnic groups. Demographic factors such as age, marital status, and ine seemed to play a more critical role in determining if the events of September 11th led to an increase in substance use. 26. The survey results suggest that the largest increase in substance use was . 27. The survey participants were . randomly selected New York City citizens 28. The author is trying to show that . substances may vary from time to time 大量管理資料下載 29. What can be said about substance abuse after September 11? cigarette smoking. Cassociated with increased substance use. 30. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? mographic information such as gender, race and marital status was not collected. er predictor of substance abuse than age. Text 3 The entrepreneur, according to French economist . Say, “is a person who shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and ot tell us who this entrepreneur is. Some define the entrepreneur simply as one who starts his or her own new and small business. For our purposes, we will define the entrepreneur as a person who takes the necessary risks to anize and manage a business and receives the financial profits and nonmoary rewards. The man who opens a small pizza restaurant is in business, but is he an entrepreneur? He took a risk and did something, but did he shift resources or start the business? If the answer is yes, then he is considered an entrepreneur. Ray Kroc is an example of an a new idea, but he applied new techniques, resource allocations, and anizational methods in his venture. Ray Kroc upgraded the productivity and yield from the resources entrepreneurship means. professional have faced to a gray color. Formerly, professionals such as doctors, lawyers, 大量管理資料下載 dentists, and accountants were not supposed to be entrepreneurial, aggressive, or market who aggressively sought to make something happen. Long hours were about all the two worlds had in mon. However, changed the world of the professionals. Today they need to market their skills, talents, and petencies。 it is something in between the two. An illustration best 6 the nature of imprinting. Once, biologists thought that ducklings followed the mother duck because of instincts. Now we know that, shortly 7 they hatch, ducklings fix 8 any object about the size of a duck and will henceforth follow it. So ducklings may follow a basketball or a briefcase if these are 9 for the mother duck at the time when imprinting occurs. Thus, social ties can be considerably 10, even ones that have a considerable base 11 by geics. Even among the social insects something like imprinting 12 influence social behavior. For example, biologists once thought bees municated with others purely 13 instinct. But, in examining a “dance” that bees do to indicate the distance and direction o f a pollen source, observers found that bees raised in isolation could not municate learning rather than the more specific responses of imprinting. Chimpanzees, for instance, generally 14 very good mother but Jane Goodall reports that some chimps carry the infant upside down or 15 fail to nurture the young. She believes that these females were the youngest or the 16 child of a mother. In such circumstances, they did not have the opportunity to observe how their own mother 17 for her young. Certainly adolescent chimps who are still with their mothers when other young are born take much interest in the rearing of their young brother or sister. They have an excellent opportunity to learn, and the social ties that are created between mother and young 18 Goodall to some evidence to 20 that ties also continue between siblings of the same sex, that is 大量管理資料下載 cted Section ⅡReading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, 大量管理資料下載 Text 1 New figures from France,Germany and Italy— the three biggest economies in the 12 country Eurozone — suggest the continent’s economic woes may have been France, evidence emerged that consumer spending remained solid in July and August,rising %and % had generally expected the July figure to show a % slippage,with August the figures were flattered slightly by a down grade to the June figure,to % %. With manufacturing in the doldrums across Europe and the US,consumer spending has been increasingly seen as the best hope of stopping the global economic slowdown from turning into a French government said the news proved that the economy was holding up to the strain of the slowdown. Meanwhile in Germany,new regional price figures went someway towards calming fears about inflation in Europe’s largest economy — a key reason for the European Central Bank’s reluctance to cut interest 15 states said consumer prices were broadly stable,with inflation falling year on information backed economists’ expectations that inflation for the country as a whole is set to fall back to a yearly target of 2%.The drop is partly due to last year’s spike in oil prices dropping out The icing on the cake was news that Italy’s job market has remained country’s July unemployment rate dropped to % from % the month befor e,its lowest t