PART THREE ·Read the following text. ·Each question has four suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentence, A, B, C and D. ·Mark one letter A, B, C or D for the answer you choose.Five advertisements for postgraduate business courses held at five different institutions:A. UNIVERSITY OF PORTCHESTER--MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONWhy choose Portchester Last year we received the prestigious King’s Award for excellence in Business. We have a tradition of academic excellence, with 30 years of MBA experience with a 70-year-old business school and a 200-year-old university. We offer a two-semester MBA program with the emphasis on economic analysis and rigorous thinking. Each year, 110 students from all over the world are carefully selected to do the course. We also offer a 6-week pre-MBA program for students without previous in-depth business experience.B. THE EXTON BUSINESS SCHOOL---MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONThe Exton Business School MBA, taught by experts in the field, enjoys international recognition. This program attracts high flyers from 55 countries, who contribute to the culture of excellence. This is the MBA which gets results, and it will be your passport to success in the global business community. The program lasts 21 months, starting each October. We will shortly be giving a series of presentations on our program in different cities around the world. For further details on these, please contact Janet Fairclough on the number below.C. UNIVERSITY of NEWHAVEN--MBALet the University of Newhaven prepare you to meet the challenges of the global marketplace. In 23 months you will gain a Master of Business Administration degree and a Certificate in International Business. This MBA gives students the opportunity to spend 6 weeks on a placement with an international company, as well as on-going language training in the major world languages. The University of Newhaven offers a limited number of scholarships to home and international students. We also offer an Advanced Management Program for senior executives who want to strengthen their ability to meet the challenges of intensified global competition and improve their organization’s results.D. THE CONNAUGHT INSTITUTE--ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL MARKETING STRATEGYKeep up to date with the latest concepts in business-to-business marketing with our Advanced Industrial marketing Strategy, and gain the skills you need to outperform the competition. We are the acknowledged leaders in the field of Industrial Marketing Strategy. The acclaimed approach developed by our MBA department includes the leading edge ECONOMIX technique adopted by top business schools around the world. At the Connaught Institute you will discover the value and application of the concepts that underpin successful marketing strategies. The program will also identify the dynamics of customer-supplier relationships, how to structure profitable appliances, and how to motivate staff.E. CATISFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT-- MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSThis is an invitation to join one of Europe’s leading business schools in an MSc program for people who wish to pursue a career in international management. This intensive, challenging, two-year program will provide you with a thorough grounding in the central theories and research traditions of international business, with the emphasis on international marketing. This mink-stretching experience prepares students for the challenges they will face in the world of business today. Other specifications available include marketing, strategy, and financial economics. Exchange programs with other prestigious universities in the field are also offered. From these 5 advertisements, we can be certain that ______ enroll international students.
PART ONE · Look at the sentences below and following texts. · Which text does each sentence refer to · For each sentence 1--8, mark one letter A, B, C, D or E. · You will need to use some of the letters more than once.A. Verizon CommunicationsA Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services, with approximately $ 68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles and circulation.B. AdobeFounded in 1982, Adobe today is one of the world’s largest software companies, generating annual revenues exceeding US $1.2 billion. More than 3,700 employees across the world share Adobe’s commitment to helping people communicate better. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ADBE. Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises.C. Mainichi Shimbun"Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun," the Mainiehi Shimbun’s predecessor, was founded on Feb. 21, 1872. In 1944, it merged with the "Osaka Mainiehi Shimbun" to become the "Mainichi Shimbun" of today. It is the oldest newspaper in Japan. Over the years it has garnered a reputation among the Japanese people as a newspaper that provides unbiased reporting, poignant editorials and other information vital to a modern society. The Mainichi Shimbun has five main offices and more than 280 branch offices and news gathering stations throughout Japan. In addition, it has over 20 bureaus around the world. These resources help to make it a leader in collecting and reporting every kind of domestic and foreign news.D. BNSFBNSF was created on September 22, 1995, from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation. The company employs about 38, 000 people. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiary The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. This network covers the western two-thirds of the United States, stretching from major Pacific Northwest and Southern California ports to the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.E. Prudential plcEstablished in 1848, today Prudential plc is a leading international financial services company with some 16 million customers, policyholders and unit holders and some 20,000 employees worldwide. In the UK Prudential is a leading life and pensions provider with around seven million customers. M&G was acquired by Prudential in 1999 and is the Group’s UK and European fund manager, responsible for managing over £111 billion of funds (as at December 2003). Launched by Prudential in 1998, Egg is an innovative financial services company, with over three million customers, with nearly six per cent of UK credit card balances. In Asia, Prudential is the leading European life insurer with 23 life and fund management operations in 12 countries serving some five million customers. In the US, Prudential owns Jackson National Life, a leading life insurance company, and has more than 1.5 million policies and contracts in force. The company is listed on NASDAQ Market.
The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage (1) in the United States-about 9 new marriages for every 1, 000 people-is (2) higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is (3) as widespread as it was several decades ago. (4) of American adults who are married (5) from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried (6) their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some (7) in their lives. Experts (8) that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.The timing of marriage has varied (9) over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the (10) of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry (11) the first time at an average of five years later than people (12) in the 1950s. (13) , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous (14) in U. S. history. Today’s later age of marriage is (15) the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. (16) , a greater proportion of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before (17) . Experts do not agree on (18) the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a (19) to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic (20) and war. Read the following text Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET1.14()
A. descendants
B. ascendants
C. generation
D. population