-Frank: We haven't got together for a long time. How about lunch next week? -Nick
A.I can reach it on that Wednesday
B.I can get it on that Wednesday
C.I can assure it on that Wednesday
D.I can make it on that Wednesday
A.I can reach it on that Wednesday
B.I can get it on that Wednesday
C.I can assure it on that Wednesday
D.I can make it on that Wednesday
A: I've come about your offer for bristles.
B: We have the offer ready for you. Let me see... Here it is. 100 cases of Tsingtao Bristles, 57mm, at... pounds sterling per kilogram, CIF European Main Ports, for shipment in June, 2009. The offer is valid for three days.
A: Why, your price has soared.It's almost 25 % higher than last year's. It would be impossible for us to push any sales at such a price.
B: I'm a little surprised to hear you say that. You know very well that market for bristles has gone up a great deal in recent months. The price we offer compares favourably with quotations you can get elsewhere.
A: I'm afraid I can't agree with you there. I must point out that your price is higher than some of the quotations we have received from other sources.
B: But you must take the quality into consideration. Everyone in the trade knows that China's bristles are of superior quality to those from other countries.
A: I agree that yours are of better quality. But there's competition from synthetic products, too. You can't ignore that prices for synthetic bristles haven't changed much over the years.
B: There's practically no substitute for bristles for certain uses. That's why demand for natural bristles keeps rising in spite of cheaper synthetic ones. To be frank with you, if it were not for the long-standing relationship between us, we would hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.
A: Well, we'll have a lot of difficulties in persuading our clients to buy at this price. But I'll have to try, I suppose.
【D7】
FRANK: I JUST RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ONE OF MY OLD HIGH SCHOOL BUDDIES. SARAH: 【D5】______ FRANK: WELL, ACTUALLY I HAVEN" T HEARD FROM HIM IN AGES. SARAH: TO BE FRANK WITH YOU, I" VE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH MOST OF MY OLD FRIENDS. 【D6】______ FRANK: I KNOW. IT"S REALLY HARD TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WHEN PEOPLE MOVE AROUND SO MUC
H. SARAH: THAT" S RIGHT.【D7】______BUT YOU" RE LUCKY TO BE BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BUDDY AGAI
N. A. PEOPLE JUST DRIFT APART!
B. THAT"S NICE!
C. ONLY ONE OR TWO STILL KEEP ME POSTED ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOIN
G.
D. DO YOU OFTEN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THEM?
【D5】
FRANK: I JUST RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ONE OF MY OLD HIGH SCHOOL BUDDIES. SARAH: 【D5】______ FRANK: WELL, ACTUALLY I HAVEN" T HEARD FROM HIM IN AGES. SARAH: TO BE FRANK WITH YOU, I" VE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH MOST OF MY OLD FRIENDS. 【D6】______ FRANK: I KNOW. IT"S REALLY HARD TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WHEN PEOPLE MOVE AROUND SO MUC
H. SARAH: THAT" S RIGHT.【D7】______BUT YOU" RE LUCKY TO BE BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BUDDY AGAI
N. A. PEOPLE JUST DRIFT APART!
B. THAT"S NICE!
C. ONLY ONE OR TWO STILL KEEP ME POSTED ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOIN
G.
D. DO YOU OFTEN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THEM?
【D6】
FRANK: I JUST RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ONE OF MY OLD HIGH SCHOOL BUDDIES. SARAH: 【D5】______ FRANK: WELL, ACTUALLY I HAVEN" T HEARD FROM HIM IN AGES. SARAH: TO BE FRANK WITH YOU, I" VE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH MOST OF MY OLD FRIENDS. 【D6】______ FRANK: I KNOW. IT"S REALLY HARD TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WHEN PEOPLE MOVE AROUND SO MUC
H. SARAH: THAT" S RIGHT.【D7】______BUT YOU" RE LUCKY TO BE BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BUDDY AGAI
N. A. PEOPLE JUST DRIFT APART!
B. THAT"S NICE!
C. ONLY ONE OR TWO STILL KEEP ME POSTED ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOIN
G.
D. DO YOU OFTEN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THEM?
A.pointed at
B.decided on
C.turned down
D.picked up
A.result in B.result from C.as a result of D.as a result
A. lot
B.Few
C. Too few
D. A few
From the news in Miami we know ______.
A.the mayor has agreed with the teachers' union
B.the teachers' strike will last long
C.students haven't been to school for two weeks
D.the mayor was trying to end the schools
Drug Warriors
Billy White was wearing a jacket with the word "POLICE" printed on the back, and jeans. His piece was a Glock, a nine-millimeter pistol New Haven Police Department standard issue. Around him, White recognized state cops, special agents from the DEA, officers from the U.S. Marshal's office, FBI special agents, and other police detectives like himself. There were anti-drug case agents from the ATF, and intelligence officers from the police departments of nearby cities. White looked around. These were his people, his soldiers, the ones who would be by his side on the front lines. This was the New Haven Drug Gang Task Force, and Lieutenant Billy White was in charge of it.
It was 3 a.m., and most of the men had been up since the morning before. But none of them would sleep that night either. They had a big day ahead of them. Hours earlier, White had been in his office, preparing warrants. Meanwhile, the New Haven Airport had quietly filled with federal agents, flying in from New York and Washington, DC. They had then gathered at the western corner of the city. The team's field headquarters that night would be an empty building on the very edge of town. The 300-man team of federal agents, state police, and local police had gathered to discuss the next step in the war on drugs.
White listened as his friend Kevin Kline, an FBI special agent and one of the original members of the task force, was speaking to the law enforcement army. Kline laid out the battle plan for the morning's drug bust: the agents were to organize themselves into squads, forming arrest teams and back-up crews. The teams assigned to carry out raids received arrest packets containing the names, addresses, and photographs of each suspect, as well as search warrants issued by the federal court. At 5:3o a.m., the teams were to split up, each reporting to their designated sites to prepare for the final stage of the operation: making the arrests.
As he listened, White asked himself the same question that everyone else in the room must have been thinking. Could the team pull off a successful bust? Born and raised in New Haven, White still remembered a time when New Haven was considered a peaceful town. In 1960, only six murders, four rapes, and 16 robberies were reported. But soon, the drug gangs set up shop, and the turf wars began. With the gangs came gang violence: drive-by shootings, innocent victims killed, murders in broad daylight. In 199o, there were 31 murders, 168 rapes, and 1784 robberies. "Back then it was hell," White recalls. "I thought, 'What are we doing?'"
At exactly 6 a.m., the task force executed a coordinated sweep, arresting 29 out of the 32 people on the list. The arrests in the New Haven area all proceeded without incident. Afterwards, FBI special agent Robert Grispino was struck by the cops' intense emotion. "It was quite a sight," he told reporters. "With some of the New Haven cops, there were tears in their eyes." Billy White, of course, was among them. "We got some big fish, too, guys that handled multi, multi, multi kilos," says White. Of the 29 arrested, about 13 were Colombian citizens. The task force had successfully arrested many of the importers and distributors that had connections with source companies. "The core organization that they arrested here in New Haven had direct connections with Miami, San Juan, and Cali," says Grispino.
Meanwhile, the entire Cali cartel leadership has been arrested by a Colombian police squad. Eight of the top nine Cali drug lords have given themselves up to Colombian authorities or been killed in gunfights with police. Today, New Haven residents are once again venturing out into the streets. The neighborhoods feel safer. In fact, the task force's operations have proven to be so successful that they have attracted national attention. As for Billy White and his team, they continue to do what they have always done. "I think we can win the war on drugs," says White. "I'll probably be gone by then. But I think someday, we'll work our way out of a job, and there won't be any more gangs left in this city."