新破解Prep CR1里面的BF题目 - ChaseDream

Most of
Western music since the Renaissance has been based on a seven-note scale known
as the diatonic scale, but when did the scale originate? A
fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite has four holes,
which are spaced in exactly the right way for playing the third through sixth
notes of a diatonic scale. The
entire flute must surely have had more holes, and the flute was made from a
bone that was long enough for these additional holes to have allowed a complete
diatonic scale to be played. Therefore, the Neanderthals who made the
flute probably used a diatonic musical scale.

Journalist: Every
election year at this time the state government releases the financial
disclosures that potential candidates must make in order to be eligible to run
for office. Among those making the
required financial disclosure this year is a prominent local businessman,
Arnold Bergeron. There has often been
talk in the past of Mr. Bergeron's running for governor, not least from Mr.
Bergeron himself. This year it is likely he finally will, since those who have discounted
the possibility of a Bergeron candidacy have always pointed to the necessity of
making financial disclosure as the main obstacle to such a candidacy.

Hunter: Hunters alone are blamed for the decline in Greenrock
National
Forest's deer population over the past ten
years. Yet clearly, black bears have also played an important role in this
decline. In the past ten years, the
forest's protected black bear population has risen sharply, and examination of
black bears found dead in the forest during the deer hunting season showed that
a number of them had recently fed on deer.

A
prominent investor who holds a large stake in the Burton Tool Company has recently
claimed that the company is mismanaged.
As evidence for this claim, the investor cited the company's failure to
slow production in response to a recent rise in its inventory of finished
products. It is doubtful whether an investor's sniping at management can ever be
anything other than counterproductive, but in this case it is clearly not
justified. It is true that an
increased inventory of finished products often indicates that production is
outstripping demand. In Burton's
case it indicates no such thing, however:
the increase in inventory is entirely attributable to products that have
already been assigned to orders received from customers.

CR2里面的题目更新。

99.

One of the limiting factors in human physical performance is the amount of oxygen that is absorbed by the muscles from the bloodstream. Accordingly, entrepreneurs have begun selling at gymnasiums and health clubs bottles of drinking water, labeled “SuperOXY,” that has extra oxygen dissolved in the water. Such water would be useless in improving physical performance, however, since the amount of oxygen in the blood of someone who is exercising is already more than the muscle cells can absorb.

113.

As a large corporation in a small country, Hachnut wants its managers to have international experience, so each year it sponsors management education abroad for its management trainees. Hachnut has found, however, that the attrition rate of graduates from this program is very high, with many of them leaving Hachnut to join competing firms soon after completing the program. Hachnut does use performance during the program as a criterion in deciding among candidates for management positions, but both this function and the goal of providing international experience could be achieved in other ways. Therefore, if the attrition problem cannot be successfully addressed, Hachnut should discontinue the sponsorship program.

115.

In countries where automobile insurance includes compensation for whiplash injuries sustained in automobile accidents, reports of having suffered such injuries are twice as frequent as they are in countries where whiplash is not covered. Some commentators have argued, correctly, that since there is presently no objective test for whiplash, spurious reports of whiplash injuries cannot be readily identified. These commentators are, however, wrong to draw the further conclusion that in the countries with the higher rates of reported whiplash injuries, half of the reported cases are spurious: clearly, in countries where automobile insurance does not include compensation for whiplash, people often have little incentive to report whiplash injuries that they actually have suffered.

-- by 会员 ezailshi (2009/3/19 9:54:00)