Could I ask you a rather personal question? Of course,()
What number should replace the question mark?
Which number should replace the question mark?
George took a test of a certain number of questions, each question having the same value. He answered 10 questions incorrectly. This resulted in an accuracy score of 60%. How many questions were in the test?
‘‘May I know the question so that I can ______ for an answer?”Akbar said, “How many crows(乌鸦) are there in this city?”
In the meantime, the question facing business is whether such research is ______ the costs.
For Question 1, select one answer choice.
Which of the following sentences can be inferred about the Mona Lisa painting from this passage?
Could I ask you a rather personal question? Of course,()
Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. 1) Actually, it isn’t, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have.
On one view of rights, to be sure, it necessarily follows that animals have none. 2) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.Therefore, animals cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd, for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one account, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to animals but also to some people—for instance to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations. In addition, it is unclear what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it, how do you reply to somebody who says “I don’t like this contract”?
The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. 3) It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?
Many deny it. 4) Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake—a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other humans.
This view which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, may seem bravely “logical.” In fact it is simply shallow: the confused center is right to reject it. The most elementary form of moral reasoning—the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others’ interests against one’s own. This in turn requires sympathy and imagination: without which there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. 5) When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankind’s instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.
Passage 5Question 8 – 12
● Read this text which is about issues of a company.
● Choose the best sentence from the list A-G to fill each of the blanks.
● For each blank (8 – 12) mark one letter (A – G) on your Answer Sheet.
● Do not mark any letter twice.
● One answer has been given as an example,(0).
MERRILL LYNCH Slowly and deliberately, like the process of natural evolution, the economics of our world are coming together (0)______ Today, trading alliances are being formed that promise to become stronger than the nations that comprise them.
But as the world grows closer, it also grows more complex. So, too, has Merrill Lynch evolved (8)______.But we have learned that to compete in the global marketplace requires more than just global resources (9)______.
Everywhere we serve the world, Merill lynch acts as catalyst to bring people together with opportunities(10)______.So, an investor in Asia can profit from the efforts of business people in Argentina and vice versa. Wherever we are in the world, it is our business to focus on our clients and build long-term relations with them; to act as responsible citizens in the communities in which we live and work; and, above all, to maintain our reputation for integrity.
Our world is being brought together, not simply by the authority of nations but by the power of individuals who allow themselves to hope for a better life (11)______.
Although the road may not be easy or quick, we believe we can help our clients achieve even greater successes, in a world brought together by individuals with hope (12)______.The difference is Merill Lynch.
A. We think that the difference-all the difference in the world.
B. Command economics have gradually fallen and free markets are flourishing in nearly every corner of our world.
C. It also requires global resourcefulness: intelligence, creativity, agility and understanding.
D. Through us people in different places depend mutually upon each other.
E. We believe that nothing holds greater possibility than a world of individuals with hope for their own future.
F. We have people and capabilities in place throughout the world, and our reach is unmatched.
G. We treat equally people in different places depend mutually upon each other.