[单选题]Besides cutting its cost，Unilever alsoabandoned its__________． A．their workforceB．huge portionsC．large quantitiesD．their moneyE．a good bargainF．minor brands

回答下面的题目：How Technology Pushes Down Price1 Prices have fallen in the foodbusiness heeause of advances in food production and distribution technology.Consumershave benefited greatly from those advances．People who predicted that the wold would run out of food were wron9．We are producing more and more food with less and less capital.Foodis therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever been．Spending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years，and continues to drop． 2 Supermarkets have helped pushdown prices mainly because of their scale．Like any big business’they can invest in IT systems that make themefficient．And their size allows them to buv in bulk．As supermarkets get bigger，the prices getlower． 3 Huge retail companies such asWal-Mart have tremendous power and they can put pressure on producers to cuttheir margins．As a result，some producers have had to make cuts．Inrecent years.Unilever has cut its workforce by33，000 to 245，000 anddropped lots of its minor brands as Dart of its“path to growth”strategy．Cadbury has shut nearly 20 percent of its 133 factories and cut 10Dercent of its 55，000 global workforce．These cuts help keep costs down，and theprice of food stays low． 4 Does cheap food make people unhealthy? Cheap food may encotlrage people toeat more．Good companies certainly think that givingpeople more food for their money makes them buy more．Givingpeople bigger portmns IS an easy way of making them feel they have got a betterdeal．That is why Dortions have got larger and larger．In America，soft drinks came in 80z(225g)cansin the past，then 120z(350g)，andnow come in 200z(550g)calls．If a company can sell youan 80z portion for$7，they can sell you a 120z portionfor$8．The only extra cost to the company is the food，which Drobably costs 25 cents． 5 Now companies are under pressureto stop selling bigger portions for less money．But it is hard to change the trend．Paragraph 1__________

正确答案 ：

解析：题意：除了降低成本，联合利华也放弃了……。根据文章第三段第三句后半句…dropped lots of its minor brands as part of its“path to growth” strategy可知，联合利华为了实现增长战略放弃了其旗下的一些小品牌。故本题选F。

[单选题]What was Ponzi’s crime?

回答下面的题目：From Ponzi to MadoffThe year was 1920．The country was the United States of America．The man’s name was Charles Ponzi．Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account．Instead，they should give it to him to save for them．Ponzi promised to pay them more than the bank．For example，a savings account might pay you$5 a year for every$1 00 you deposit．Ponzi，however，would pay you $40 a year for every $1 00 you gave him to hold．Many people thought this was a good plan．They began to give their money to Ponzi．How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him：He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money．However，he also kept a lot of the money for himself．Soon he had $250 million．This was a kind of theft，and it was against the law．The people who gave him their money didn’t think anything was wrong．Ponzi paid them every month，just like a bank．Ponzi continued this way of working for two years．Then one day，he didn’t have enough money to pay all the people．They discovered his crime，and he went to prison for froud．Ninety years later，people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Mad off．People said he gave good advice about money．They said when they gave him their money，he paid them a lot more than the bank．Mad off helped hospitals，schools，and individuals earn money．Over a period of 40 years，people gave him$1 70 billion．However，no one investigated what he did with themoney．The people who gave Mad off their money also didn’t think anything was wrong because he paid them every month．One day，Mad off didn’t have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay．That’s when people discovered how Madoff worked：He was taking money from some people to pay other people， just the way Charles Ponzi did．However，this time，instead of losing millions of dollars，people lost billions．Madoff was accused of fraud，and United States government officials arrested him．He didn’t have to go on trial because he said he was guilty．In 2009，a judge sentenced him to 150 years in prison．Bernard Madoff’s crime was even bigger than Ponzi’s．It was the biggest fraud in history．The lesson of this story is clear：When something seems too good to be true，it probably is !For every$100 Ponzi promises to pay people__________．

正确答案 ：D

He didn’t pay people the interests．

解析：句意：庞齐犯了什么罪?本题的关键字是crime，在文章第二段找到相关句为本段最后一句They discovered his crime，and he went to prison for fraud从中我们可以看到，他是因为诈骗入狱的。四个选项中D项他没有给人们支付利息属于诈骗，所以本题选D。

[单选题]His stomach felt hollow with fear.

正确答案 ：C

terrible

解析：【解析】句意：他吓得魂不附体。hollow的意思为“空的”。四个选项sincere“真诚的”：respectful“最经的”；empty“空的”；terrible“可怕的”。

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