Amazon started out as an online _______________

While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline—after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late 1980s—and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down-shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 1980s, downshifting in the mid-90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.

听音频，回答下面各题。 Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game makes people 26 themselves doing one of the hardest jobs in American politics: cutting the federal budget. The game is called Budget Hero. Students in Los Angeles and other cities have been playing it. Budget Hero lets them 27 how they want to spend federal tax dollars. The game uses information from the 28 Budget Office. It shows what effects each cost-cutting proposal would have. The game was developed in 2008. In the newest 29 , students make decisions about what spending is important to them. Do they want to reduce taxes? 30 environmental protection? What should they do about defense spending? Making these decisions helps 31 their goals. Jane Harmon, a former Democratic 32 from California who has served in Congress for almost twenty years, offered students some ideas. She now heads the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which helped create Budget Hero. More than one million people have played it 33 , she says, and she thinks they have learned at least two things. One is how hard it is and the other is that it can be done if theres a will to do it. Ms. Harmon also says the students are having more 34 than Congress at cutting the budget. She says that kids, and actually adults too who play this game, have open minds and they want to learn what the facts are. And sadly, a lot of Congress is a fact-free universe, and that is 35 for the country. 请回答（26）题__________.

Jewel Co is setting up an online business importing and selling jewellery headphones. The cost of each set of headphones varies depending on the number purchased, although they can only be purchased in batches of 1,000 units. It also has to pay import taxes which vary according to the quantity purchased.

Jewel Co has already carried out some market research and identified that sales quantities are expected to vary depending on the price charged. Consequently, the following data has been established for the first month:

Required:

(a) Calculate how many batches Jewel Co should import and sell. (6 marks)

(b) Explain why Jewel Co could not use the algebraic method to establish the optimum price for its product.

(4 marks)

" so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. " (Line 4, ParA．5) Why?

A．Two people got all four samples wrong

B．Nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times

C．Only a few cola fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand

D．Half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first round