The company that Joan works for is（ ）with an automotive company, so she can get a dis-count on a new car.

A.correlated B.parallel C.affiliated D.accounted

Mutual respect for territorial ______ is one of the bases upon which our two countries develop relationships.

A.unity B.integrity C.entirely D.reliability

The Psychology of Warranties Protection RacketIf extended guarantees are overpriced, why are they so popular?CUSTOMERS tend to agonise over the relative merits of different models of electronic goods such as digital cameras or plasma televisions. But when they get to the till, many spend freely on something they barely think about at all: an extended warranty, which is often more profitable to the retailer than the device it covers.Shoppers typically pay 10% -50% of the cost of a product to insure it beyond the term covered by the manufacturer’s guarantee. （ 1） Yet products rarely break within the period covered, and repairs tend to cost no more than the warranty itself. （ 2）So why, asks a paper published in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, so many consumers still buy extended warranties? The authors — Tao Chen of the University of Maryland, Ajay Kalra of Rice University and Baohong Sun of Carnegie Mellon University — examined purchase data from a big electronics retailer for over 600 households from November 2003 to October 2004.（3 ）If a customer is about to buy something fun (i. e., a plasma television rather than a vacuum cleaner), he will be more inclined to splash out on extra insurance. This is because consumers value “hedonic” items over utilitarian ones, regardless of the actual price tag. （4 ） The study also found that poorer consumers are more likely to buy “potentially unnecessary and overpriced insurance”, because they are more worried about the expense of replacing a product if it breaks.（ 5） But although most policies go unused, he admits that the emotional tranquility that comes with buying a new warranty is not in itself without value, even if “rationally, it doesn’t make sense”.

A.This is especially true if the item is on sale, as finding an unexpected bargain leaves buyers feeling flush and pleased. B.The terms of these deals vary (and there is often a great deal of fine print), but they usually promise to repair or replace a faulty device for between one and four years. C.Only in the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. D.This is because consumers are more likely to buy “hedonic” items. E.They concluded that the decision to buy a warranty had a great deal to do with a shopper’s mood. F.The popularity of warranties should logically depend on the likelihood of a product’s failure, says Mr. Kalra. G.That makes warranties amazingly profitable: they generate over $ 16 billion annually for American retailers, according to Warranty Week, a trade journal.
问题2：
A.This is especially true if the item is on sale, as finding an unexpected bargain leaves buyers feeling flush and pleased. B.The terms of these deals vary (and there is often a great deal of fine print), but they usually promise to repair or replace a faulty device for between one and four years. C.Only in the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. D.This is because consumers are more likely to buy “hedonic” items. E.They concluded that the decision to buy a warranty had a great deal to do with a shopper’s mood. F.The popularity of warranties should logically depend on the likelihood of a product’s failure, says Mr. Kalra. G.That makes warranties amazingly profitable: they generate over $ 16 billion annually for American retailers, according to Warranty Week, a trade journal.
问题3：
A.This is especially true if the item is on sale, as finding an unexpected bargain leaves buyers feeling flush and pleased. B.The terms of these deals vary (and there is often a great deal of fine print), but they usually promise to repair or replace a faulty device for between one and four years. C.Only in the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. D.This is because consumers are more likely to buy “hedonic” items. E.They concluded that the decision to buy a warranty had a great deal to do with a shopper’s mood. F.The popularity of warranties should logically depend on

Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been（ ）by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy’s underlying assumptions.

A.supplemented B.undermined C.redeemed D.diverted

Shaken by two decades of virtual anarchy, the majority of people were ready to buy _____ at any price.

A.order B.emancipation C.hope D.liberty

In the current job market, university graduates are having a hard time finding jobs while many employers are complaining about the shortage of work hands. Write an essay of no less than 200 words analyzing the phenomenon. Your essay should be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET 2.