The gardens in Suzhou can show you the beauty and peace of the natural world without
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A.casual
B.elaborate
C.fruitful
D.frantic
A.in a restaurant
B.in the Luxemburg Gardens
C.in his own room
D.in a wine shop
Many American families pride themselves () their cooking, and have deep freezers, () they store foodthey grow in their gardens or buy in the supermarket. Supermarkets are large self service stores () every kind of food--fresh, canned or frozen. So, () the fast-food restaurant, their produce is less expensive andeasier () . There have been supermarkets in the USA since the 1930s, and they have now spread through a large part of the world.
A.Moby Dick by Herman Melville
B.Daisy Miller by Henry James
C.Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
D.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
B.The Gardens
C.The Buildings
D.The Collection
E.The Popularity
F.The Surroundings
Paragraph 2_____A.The Service
B.The Gardens
C.The Buildings
D.The Collection
E.The Popularity
F.The Surroundings
You can walk from one building to another through _____.A.hire a guide
B.draw pictures
C.the natural light
D.make reservations
E.the glassed walkways
F.the handrails and waterfall
At the Getty Center, visitors can enjoy paintings in _____.A.hire a guide
B.draw pictures
C.the natural light
D.make reservations
E.the glassed walkways
F.the handrails and waterfall
Robert Irwin himself constructed _____.A.hire a guide
B.draw pictures
C.the natural light
D.make reservations
E.the glassed walkways
F.the handrails and waterfall
In the family room, children can _____.A.hire a guide
B.draw pictures
C.the natural light
D.make reservations
E.the glassed walkways
F.the handrails and waterfall
Paragraph 4_____A.The Service
B.The Gardens
C.The Buildings
D.The Collection
E.The Popularity
F.The Surroundings
Visitors to the Getty Center do not need to _____.A.hire a guide
B.draw pictures
C.the natural light
D.make reservations
E.the glassed walkways
F.the handrails and waterfall
Paragraph 5_____A.The Service
B.The Gardens
C.The Buildings
D.The Collection
E.The Popularity
F.The Surroundings
Paragraph 3_____A.The Service
B.The Gardens
C.The Buildings
D.The Collection
E.The Popularity
F.The Surroundings
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Cinola Island, Wonderland plc operates a circus and zoological gardens (zoo) both of which are open for 365 days
per annum. The circus, which is widely regarded as the best in the world, can accommodate a maximum of 14,000
visitors per day. The zoological gardens, which opened on 1 December 1999, can accommodate a maximum of
20,000 visitors per day. Visitors travel to and from Cinola Island using petrol-driven ferries owned by Wonderland plc.
There is no other mode of transport to and from Cinola Island.
The following information is available in respect of the year ended 30 November 2006 and the year ending
30 November 2007.
(1) The zoo and circus were open on each day of the year. The circus performed once per day and was always
operated at maximum capacity.
(2) Three types of ticket were sold as follows:
Note: The petrol-driven ferries were fully depreciated as at 1 December 2006.
(7) Wonderland plc received an annual fee of £10 million from an International media group under a fixed-term
contract of three years’ duration. The contract commenced on 1 December 2005 and relates to the rights to
televise programmes which were filmed in the zoo and therefore the fee should be regarded as relating to the
zoo.
(8) Admission fees to the zoo and circus will be increased by 5% with effect from 1 December 2006. Transport fees
will remain unchanged.
(9) It is anticipated that all operating costs will increase by 4% per annum due to the impact of inflation during the
year ending 30 November 2007.
(10) The management of Wonderland plc expect that the number of visitors, visitor mix and ticket mix will remain
unchanged during the year ending 30 November 2007.
(11) Ignore taxation.
Required:
(a) Prepare the budgeted profit and loss account for Wonderland plc for the year ending 30 November 2007.
(9 marks)
Gardening
The technology of beauty
Now, gardening was driven by three main trends: technological change, plant prospecting and fashion. Of these, the most important was technology, whose advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich.
The most dramatic example of popularizing technology was surely the invention of the lawnmower. Nothing was more labour-intensive, in the 18th century, than maintaining a large lawn. It would take three men with scythes (大镰刀) a whole day to cut an acre (two-fifths of a hectare) of grass; they would be followed by lawn women whose task was to gather up the cuttings.
Just one man went to mow
Then, in 1830, Edwin Beard Budding realised that the rotary blade used in the cloth industry to produce an even pile on textiles could be used on grass. The rotary lawnmower meant that suburban homes could afford the neat greensward (草皮) previously available only to the rich.
The other technology that transformed Victorian gardening was the development of the art of growing plants under glass. Importing plants from countries as distant as Australia became a commercial possibility once they were sealed in wooden boxes with glass tops. From the 1830s on, Victorian gardens, private and public, used masses of bedding plants. In 1877, 2 million plants were bedded out in London's parks, often in elaborate geometric designs. Growing them under glass protected them both from frost and from pollution.
In the past century, technology has once again transformed and simplified gardening. Among the most significant advances is the growing of plants in containers. Instead of ordering plants grown in open fields and dug up bare-rooted for planting in autumn, gardeners now typically buy plants which, because they have been grown in containers, can be transplanted at almost any time of year. Container growing has in turn become possible largely because of the development of lighter composts.
Other men's flowers
The past two centuries have seen an immense increase in the range of garden plants. Native species have been refined and developed; and explorers have brought back plants from all parts of the world. The passion for plant collecting sprang partly from the expansion of Catholic religious orders (神职) abroad in the 16th century, looking for medicinal plants as well as souls to convert. Many early plant-hunters are commemorated in plant names, such as the Tradescants, father and son; Sir Joseph Banks, who sailed with Captain Cook and brought home 3500 species from Australia.
Fashion is every bit as important in determining what people grow as in what they wear. The geometry, gravel and bedding plants of the mid-19th-cenmry town-house garden had given way, by the century's end, to a passion for informality and English cottage gardens, fostered by two of the great designers of the age. Their influence has proved enduring. "All over the world, people want to rival English gardens, often in a climate that makes it very difficult," says Sarah Bond, an enthusiastic amateur gardener in Manhattan.
A growing business
Both gardening and looking at gardens are developing rapidly. Give people a piece of ground and they will buy something to put in it. Mark Bhatti and Andrew Church of Brighton University in England point to the fact that people now seem to spend far more on machinery and chemicals, and more again on benches, barbecues, pots and sun-loungers, than they spend on plants themselves.
Moreover, the range of places where people can buy gardening supplies has expanded. Supermarkets and general stores frequently carry plants and other gardening necessities. On the contrary, Britain's Garden Centre Association says that around 12% of the typical turnover of a garden centre now comes from the cafe. A trip to a ga
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BQK Co, a house-building company, plans to build 100 houses on a development site over the next four years. The purchase cost of the development site is $4,000,000, payable at the start of the first year of construction. Two types of house will be built, with annual sales of each house expected to be as follows:
Houses are built in the year of sale. Each customer finances the purchase of a home by taking out a long-term personal loan from their bank. Financial information relating to each type of house is as follows:
Selling prices and variable cost of construction are in current price terms, before allowing for selling price inflation of 3% per year and variable cost of construction inflation of 4·5% per year.
Fixed infrastructure costs of $1,500,000 per year in current price terms would be incurred. These would not relate to any specific house, but would be for the provision of new roads, gardens, drainage and utilities. Infrastructure cost inflation is expected to be 2% per year.
BQK Co pays profit tax one year in arrears at an annual rate of 30%. The company can claim capital allowances on the purchase cost of the development site on a straight-line basis over the four years of construction.
BQK Co has a real after-tax cost of capital of 9% per year and a nominal after-tax cost of capital of 12% per year. New investments are required by the company to have a before-tax return on capital employed (accounting rate of return) on an average investment basis of 20% per year.
Required:
(a) Calculate the net present value of the proposed investment and comment on its financial acceptability. Work to the nearest $1,000. (13 marks)
(b) Calculate the before-tax return on capital employed (accounting rate of return) of the proposed investment on an average investment basis and discuss briefly its financial acceptability. (5 marks)
(c) Discuss the effect of a substantial rise in interest rates on the financing cost of BQK Co and its customers, and on the capital investment appraisal decision-making process of BQK Co. (7 marks)
They discussed what Mother and I should do during the day, what Santa Claus should give a fellow for Christmas, and what steps should be taken to brighten the home. There was that little matter of the baby, for instance. Mother and I could never agree about that. Ours was the only house in the neighborhood without a new baby, and Mother said we couldn't afford one till Father came back from the war because it cost seventeen and six. That showed how foolish she was. The Geneys up the road had a baby, and everyone knew they couldn't afford seventeen and six. It was probably a cheap baby, and Mother wanted something really good, but I felt she was too hard to please. The Geneys' baby would have done us fine. Having settled my plans for 'the day, I got up, put a chair under my window, and lifted the frame. high enough to stick out my head. The window overlooked the front gardens of the homes behind ours, and beyond these it looked over a deep valley to the tall, red-brick house up the opposite hillside, which were all still shadow, while those on our side of the valley were all lit up, though with long storage shadows that made them seem unfamiliar, stiff and painted.
The boy usually felt ________ early in the morning.
A.frightened
B.cheerful
C.worded
D.puzzled