German Chancellor Angela Merkel won over German voters in the Federal Election on Sept. 27. Can she now be won over by a French charm offensive (1) at repairing the relationship that was once at the heart of Europe That’s the question being asked in Paris, (2) top government officials are (3) talking about their desire to rekindle closer ties (4) their neighbors across the Rhine. (5) the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the (6) force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has (7) in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to (8) her irritation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s grandstanding. Sarkozy, (9) , has often been impatient with what he (10) Merkel’s lack of resolve.The sometimes (11) personal rapport is a long way from the public shows of affection their predecessors staged, particularly Helmut Kohl and FranCois Mitterrand, who movingly held (12) in 1984 in a Verdun cemetery. There’s been tension on (13) , too. Charles Grant, director of the London-based think tank Centre for European Reform, points out that France and Germany have been (14) on issues from how best to reflate their economies during the economic (15) to the smartest strategies for dealing with Russia.But influential movers in France are now (16) to put the relationship back on a friendlier footing. In a recent paper French think tank Institute Montaigne (17) an ambitious agenda for the two nations, (18) that a new impetus is needed if Europe’s voice is to be heard in a world (19) of big new players, such as Brazil and India, and at a time when President Obama seems fax more (20) with China and the rest of Asia than with America’s traditional allies in Europe. Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.14()
A. at the cost
B. at peace
C. at odds
D. at a loss
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John Smith never refuses to take on more (responsible) ______ that are assigned to him.
承包人提出的变更与监理提出的变更一样,一旦获得批准,承包人有权获得额外的费用补偿。
A. 对
B. 错
When workers become more efficient, it’s normally a good thing. But lately, it has acted as a powerful brake on job creation. And the question of whether the recent surge in productivity has run its course is the key to whether job growth is finally poised to take off.One of the great surprises of the economic downturn that began 27 months ago is this.. Businesses are producing only 3 percent fewer goods and services than they were at the end of 2007, yet Americans are working nearly 10 percent fewer hours because of a mix of layoffs and cutbacks in the workweek.(46) That means high-level gains in productivity--which in the long run is the key to a higher standard of living but in the short run contributes to sky-high unemployment. So long as employers can squeeze dramatically higher output from every worker, they won’t need to hire again despite the growing economy.(47) On Friday, the Labor Department will release a closely watched March employment report expected to show the strongest job growth in three years, driven by stabilization in the economy and a rebound from February snowstorms.A strong March job-growth number-at a time when the economy is growing at only a middling pace--would suggest that the productivity boom has largely run its course. (48) Regardless, the question of what caused the burst in workers’ efficiency is one of the great unanswered questions of the expansion and has huge stakes for the economy over the coming year."It is an episode that we’re going to--we, economists in general--are going to want to understand better and look at for a long time," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said at a hearing last week in which he described the productivity gains as "extraordinary" and acknowledged he had not foreseen them.(49) Businesses have certainly not been investing in new equipment that might enable workers to be more efficient-capital expenditures plummeted during the recession and are rebounding slowly. (50) And the structural shifts occurring in the economy are so profound that one would expect productivity to be lower, rather than higher, as people need new training to work in parts of the economy that are growing, such as exports and the clean-energy sector.So what’s happening As best as anyone can guess, the crisis that began in 2007 and deepened in 2008 caused both businesses and workers to panic. Businesses have certainly not been investing in new equipment that might enable workers to be more efficient-capital expenditures plummeted during the recession and are rebounding slowly
赵普,字则平,幽州蓟人。后唐幽帅赵德钧连年用兵,民力疲弊,普父回举族徙常山,又徙河南洛阳。普沉厚寡言,镇阳豪族魏氏以女妻之。 周显德初,永兴军节度刘词辟为从事。词卒,遗表荐普于朝。世宗用兵淮上,太祖拔滁州,宰相范质奏普为军事判官。太祖尝与语,奇之。时获盗百余,当弃市,普疑有无辜者,启太祖讯鞫之,获全活者众。淮南平,调补渭州军事判官。太祖领同州节度,辟为推官;移镇宋州,表为掌书记。太祖数微行过功臣家,普每退朝,不敢便衣冠。一日,大雪向夜,普意帝不出。久之,闻叩门声,普亟出,帝立风雪中,普惶惧迎拜。帝曰:“已约晋王矣。”已而太宗至,设重茵地坐堂中,炽炭烧肉。普妻行酒,帝以嫂呼之。因与普计下太原。普曰:“太原当西北二面,太原既下,则我独当之,不如姑俟削平诸国,则弹丸黑子之地,将安逃乎”帝笑曰:“吾意正如此,特库卿尔。” 普为政颇专,廷臣多忌之。时官禁私贩秦、陇大木,普尝遣亲吏诣市屋材,联巨筏至京师治第;吏因之窃货大木,冒称普市货鬻都下。太祖大怒,促令追班,将下制逐普,赖王溥奏解之。淳化三年春,以老衰久病,令留守通判刘昌言奉表求致政,中使驰传抚问,凡三上表乞骸骨。拜太师,封魏国公,给宰相奉料,令养疾。 七月卒,年七十一。上闻之震悼,谓近臣曰:“普事先帝,与朕故旧,能断大事。响与朕尝有不足,众所知也。朕君临以来,每优礼之,普亦倾竭自效,尽忠国家,真社稷臣也,朕甚惜之。”因出涕,左右感动。 (《宋史·赵普传》) 下列对原文有关内容的分析和概括,不正确的一项是( )。
A. 赵普沉厚寡言,能断大事,很得宋太祖和宋太宗的尊重和器重;太祖和太宗曾雪夜看望赵普,宋太祖还称赵普的妻子为“嫂”
B. 赵普在作军事判官的时候,宋太祖同他谈了一次话,觉得他很不一般;后来盗贼一案的许多无辜者能保全性命,都得益于赵普
C. 赵普虽然勤于政务,能断大事,但独断专行,很遭大臣们嫉恨,所以差一点因木材事件而被罢官
D. 宋太祖同意了赵普多次以“老衰久病”为由的告老还乡请求,并给予了高规格的待遇;赵普去世以后,宋太祖很惋惜,流着泪赞赏了赵普一番