中国银行(BOC)的笔试题目
native language
53. The reason why English is the closest approach to a world language is that _______.
[A] Chinese and Indic languages are mutually unintelligible
Chinese is too complex 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 language
54. 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
mutual intelligibility is a myth
[C] people’s vocabularies vary
[D] no two people speak the same language in exactly the same way
55. According to the author, style is ________.
[A] significant when it comes to comparing only two people
a question of grammatical and syntactical correctness
[C] the particular way an individual uses language
[D] a strange type of language
第二篇：关于美国的mandated最低工资问题。 一开始说最低工资统一规定不好，不同的州情况不一样。然后就
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举了几个州最低工资差异。有人反对最低工资，提出最低工资造成企业成本增加，社会失业率增加。后面好像
说在经济繁荣的时候，最低工资不为人们关心，但是经济不好时，最低工资还是有用的，blabla~~~
第三篇：伦敦的千禧穹(Millennium Dome) 只找到断断续续的几段，是在New york times上的。
If in this season of annual achievement awards there were one for the biggest New Year's bang and
sorriest year-ending whimper, the winner would be Britain's entrant, the Millennium Dome. 然后说
千禧穹是一个ambitious的创作，代表了英国人的想象力。
No country built more ambitious millennial projects and talked them up more than Britain, and the
centerpiece was the $1.2 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 ''home
of time.'' 然后说千禧穹虽说被认为代表英国人的想象力，但是却是让一个建了法国的迪斯尼的法国人建的。
（好像是这样）
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 4.5 million were expected to pay.
In fact, the project may be more a victim of its own hyped expectations than of its actual
performance. The anticipated final figures of 6.5 million visitors (5.7 million paying) compare
favorably with other London tourist attractions, and surveys indicate customer satisfaction of 85
percent.
The huge cupola now faces mothballing for several weeks before demolition of the contents begins.
Items lent to the exhibition will be returned, following by an auction of all that is left. Over