【文章內容簡介】 eans of a shortterm price promotion are liable to be lost when a peting brand has a similar promotion.Q13: The passage suggests that evidence for price promotions’ “effect on the bottom line” (line 40) is provided byA. the lack of lingering aftereffects from price promotionsB. the frequency with which price promotions occurC. price promotions’ inability to attract new customersD. price promotions’ recognizable effect on salesE. the legitimate uses to which management can put price promotions Q14: It can be inferred from the passage that if a pany ceased to run shortterm price promotions for a particular product, an effect of this change would be toA. reduce excess inventory of the productB. lose some of the product’s longterm customersC. reduce the product’s overall salesD. inhibit growth in the number of the product’s customersE. threaten the product’s profitabilityQ15: PP72. A recent United States Census Bureau report shows that there are more than three times as many households where the children and grandchildren are living in their grandparents’ home as pared to households where the grandparents are living in their children’s or grandchildren’s home.A. as pared to households where theB. as there are households where theC. as those whoseD. than pared to those where theE. than there are whoseQ16: PP73. With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000A. With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to haveB. With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials39。 estimate of the deer population in New Jersey hasC. With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, hasD. Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanse of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to haveE. Without natural predators and with expanses of green neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that hasQ17: TTGWD11Q32:（對照GWD10Q17）Editorial: An arrest made by a Midville police officer is provisional until the officer has taken the suspect to the police station and the watch mander has officially approved the arrest. Such approval is denied if the mander judges that the evidence on which the provisional arrest is based is insufficient. A government efficiency expert has observed that almost all provisional arrests meet the standards for adequacy of evidence that the watch manders enforce. The expert has therefore remended that because the officers’ time spent obtaining approval is largely wasted, the watch mander’s approval no longer be required. This remendation should be rejected as dangerous, however, since there is no assurance that the watch manders’ standards will continue to be observed once approval is longer required.In the editorial, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?A. The first is a claim, the accuracy of which is disputed by the editorial。 the second is a conclusion drawn in order to support the main conclusion of the editorial.B. The first is an observation that the editorial disputes。 the second is a conclusion that was drawn from that observation.C. The first is a finding that was used in support of a proposal that the editorial opposes。 the second is a judgment that was based on that finding and in turn was used to support the proposal.D. The first is a finding introduced to support the main conclusion of the editorial。 the second is that main conclusion.E. The first is a conclusion, the evidence for which the editorial evaluates。 the second is part of the evidence cited in favor of that conclusion.Q18: TTGWD11Q40:Parland’s alligator population has been declining in recent years, primarily because of hunting. Alligators prey heavily on a species of freshwater fish that is highly valued as food by Parlanders, who had hoped that the decline in the alligator population would lead to an increase in the numbers of these fish available for human consumption. Yet the population of this fish species has also declined, even though the annual number caught for human consumption has not increased.Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the decline in the population of the fish species?A. The decline in the alligator population has meant that fishers can work in some parts of lakes and rivers that were formerly too dangerous.B. Over the last few years, Parland’s mercial fishing enterprises have increased the number of fishing boats they use.C. Many Parlanders who hunt alligators do so because of the high market price of alligator skins, not because of the threat alligators pose to the fish population.D. During Parland’s dry season, holes dug by alligators remain filled with water long enough to provide a safe place for the eggs of this fish species to hatch.E. In several neighboring countries through which Parland’s rivers also flow, alligators are at risk of extinction as a result of extensive hunting.