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world language is that _______. [A] Chinese and Indic languages are mutually unintelligible[B] Chinese is too plex to be a world language [C] Russian is only spoken on two continents [D] there are more native speakers of English than of any other language54. According to the author the fact that the same individual will not pronounce his vowels and consonants identically every time shows that ________. [A] everyone has their own literary style [B] mutual intelligibility is a myth[C] people’s vocabularies vary[D] no two people speak the same language in exactly the same way55. According to the author, style is ________. [A] significant when it es to paring only two people [B] a question of grammatical and syntactical correctness[C] the particular way an individual uses language [D] a strange type of language 第二篇:關于美國的mandated最低工資問題。 一開始說最低工資統(tǒng)一規(guī)定不好,不同的州情況不一樣。然后就舉了幾個州最低工資差異。有人反對最低工資,提出最低工資造成企業(yè)成本增加,社會失業(yè)率增加。后面好像說在經濟繁榮的時候,最低工資不為人們關心,但是經濟不好時,最低工資還是有用的,blabla~~~第三篇:倫敦的千禧穹(Millennium Dome) 只找到斷斷續(xù)續(xù)的幾段,是在New york times上的。If in this season of annual achievement awards there were one for the biggest New Year39。s bang and sorriest yearending whimper, the winner would be Britain39。s entrant, the Millennium Dome. 然后說千禧穹是一個ambitious的創(chuàng)作,代表了英國人的想象力。No country built more ambitious millennial projects and talked them up more than Britain, and the centerpiece was the $ billion Dome, on the meridian that gave the name to Greenwich Mean Time and afforded Prime Minister Tony Blair the opportunity to proclaim Britain in 2000 as the 39。39。home of time.39。39。 然后說千禧穹雖說被認為代表英國人的想象力,但是卻是讓一個建了法國的迪斯尼的法國人建的。(好像是這樣)The trouble with the Dome began on opening night. Thousands of those invited got stuck on the new subway line built to speed people from central London out to Greenwich。 others who did arrive could not get past security to see the show. Fatally for the Dome, among the barred and detoured were top newspaper editors.By the spring, the enormous space was virtually deserted on weekdays. The original projection of 12 million visitors was officially scaled back to 10 million, then 7 million, and finally 6 million, of which only million were expected t