Why should employees NOT rush to finish tasks?
A. They will spend more time being talking to others.
B. They will become very bored at the office.
C. They could cause costly errors for the company.
D. They could get easily distracted from their goals.
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What is the only foreseeable threat to the lumber industry?
A. The cost of cutting down large trees.
B. The threat of the spruce budworm.
C. The rising number of imported workers.
D. The lack of physically fit employees.
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
Questioning and routine double-checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
According to the passage, the initial concern about computers was that they might______.
A. change our personal lives
B. take control of the world
C. create unforeseen problems
D. affect our businesses
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of pursuing a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport; they wear a special uniform. of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal, has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation between hunters and hunt saboteurs. Sometimes these incidents lead to violence , but mostly saboteurs interfere with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox's smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Poster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
Rich people in Britain have been hunting foxes______.
A. for recreation
B. in the interests of the farmers
C. to limit the fox population
D. to show off their wealth
It can be inferred from the passage that Marie finally resolved to continue with her busi-
A. cancer patients kept writing to her, making orders for the products
B. the prospect of inheriting the legacy left to her by Barbara cheered her up
C. she knew she was doing something useful for others
D. she was determined to make profits from the business