Business English

Reading

  1. 一个艰难的决定:不同流合污
  2. 卡夫遭吉百利拒婚

Listening

  1. WWYD:That’s the reason I wear the uniform
  2. Colorado kids caught on camera returning wallet

Grammar

    For the best extraction of the flavor of saffron threads, it should be soaked in liquid after being pounded  with a mortar and pestle.

  1. For the best extraction of the flavor of saffron threads, it should be soaked in liquid after being pounded
  2. To best extract their flavor, saffron threads should be soaked in liquid after pounding
  3. The best way to extract the flavor from saffron threads is soaking them in liquid after being pounded
  4. The best way to extract the flavor from saffron threads is to soak them in liquid after pounding them
  5. The flavor of saffron threads can best be extracted by soaking it in liquid after pounding it

    The proliferation of so-called cybersquatters, people who register the Internet domain names of high-profile companies in hopes of reselling the rights to those names for a profit, led to passing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, allowing companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent of selling them later.

  1. passing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, allowing companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent of selling
  2. the passage of the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which allows companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent that they will sell
  3. the passage in 1999 of the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which allows companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent of selling
  4. the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was passed in 1999, and it allows companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent to sell
  5. the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, passed in 1999 and allowing companies to seek up to $100,000 in damages against those who register domain names with the sole intent of selling

Translation

据报导家用空调制造商格力电器(Gree Electric Appliances, Inc.)2008年实现净利19亿元,同比增长为54%。同期,格力最大竞争对手美的电器(Midea Electric Ltd.)实现净利仅10亿,同比下降14%。不过,以2008年每股收益和4月30日收盘价计算,格力市盈率为19.43倍,而美的为24.45倍。依你判断,哪一家在2008年表现的更好一点,美的还是格力?

Supplement

世联学院校区一览
Massive chain-reaction pile-up on Pa. Turnpike
Police Officer Pulls Over 3-Year-Old Speeding In Toy Convertible
希拉里・克林顿竞选团队成员纽约与新泽西港口事务管理局委员凯伦・特纳辱警事件

Reading

  1. 世界最大零售集团开开设网络购物中心挑战eBay
  2. 俄总统欲与华设立货币互换机制

Listening

  1. 玩具反斗城的商海沉浮
  2. 丰田普锐斯将折戟?
  3. 随马云追忆往昔重回湖畔花园

Grammar

    The Supreme Court has ruled that public universities can collect student activity fees even with students' objections to particular activities, so long as the groups they give money to will be chosen without regard to their views.

  1. with students' objections to particular activities, so long as the groups they give money to will be
  2. if they have objections to particular activities and the groups that are given the money are
  3. if they object to particular activities, but the groups that the money is given to have to be
  4. from students who object to particular activities, so long as the groups given money are
  5. though students have an objection to particular activities, but the groups that are given the money be

    As an actress and, more importantly, as a teacher of acting, Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists in the American theater, who trained several generations of actors including Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro.

  1. Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists in the American theater, who trained several generations of actors including
  2. Stella Adler, one of the most influential artists in the American theater, trained several generations of actors who include
  3. Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists in the American theater, training several generations of actors whose ranks included
  4. one of the most influential artists in the American theater was Stella Adler, who trained several generations of actors including
  5. one of the most influential artists in the American theater, Stella Adler, trained several generations of actors whose ranks included

Translation

成立于1997年的eToys在1999年风风火火上市,首发股非常成功。首发每股20美元,第一天交易中它的股价攀升至76美元。按最高价位的股价计算,eToys上市当天的市值高达85亿美元,竟比当时全美最大的“水泥加砖头”的玩具经销商、已有52年历史的Toys R Us(玩具反斗城)的市值高出52%。极具讽刺意味的对比是,玩具反斗城销售额是eToys在1998年的300多倍。然而,由于经营不善,在2000年12月,eToys股价跌破1美元,公司在4月份破产。

Supplement

assignment: complaint letter and reply

China’s Official News Media Sharply Criticize Trump

Reading

  1. 毛皮大衣惹毛中国网民
  2. 港府称盗用央视世界杯转播信号将负民事责任

Listening

  1. 用SPSS检测数据正态分布[提取码: tcnw]
  2. Taking Notes for TOEFL iBT

Grammar

    His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas.

  1. in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas
  2. in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas
  3. when great ice sheets existed where there were areas now temperate
  4. when great ice sheets had existed in current temperate areas
  5. when great ice sheets existed in areas now that are temperate

    The use of lie detectors is based on the assumption that lying produces emotional reactions in an individual that, in turn, create unconscious physiological responses.

  1. that, in turn, create unconscious physiological responses
  2. that creates unconscious physiological responses in turn
  3. creating, in turn, unconscious physiological responses
  4. to create, in turn, physiological responses that are unconscious
  5. who creates unconscious physiological responses in turn

Translation

帕玛拉特公司(Parmalat)是意大利最大、欧洲第四大的食品企业,在意大利乳制品市场的占有率达50%。然而突然有人发现帕玛拉特自称的40亿欧元的流动资金并不存在,同时,800万欧元的股东权益也蒸发了。帕玛拉特丑闻是欧洲历史上最大的破产事件,其损失大约是意大利GNP的1.5%,该比例比安然(Enron)和世通(WorldCom)合计对美国GNP的还大。

Supplement

Correlation: the Pearson and Spearman methods
研究证实课堂用手机影响考试成绩与认知能力
Statistics Lecture - The keywords and definitions for elementary statistics 提取码: xx2i