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When someone has flu-like illness, why will a swab be taken in the nose and sent to the lab？
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听力原文：M: May I see Dean Williams please？
W: Dean Williams won't be in the office this afternoon. I'm an assistant dean. Perhaps I can help you.
M: I need an extension for a paper. And my professor said I would have to get a special permission from the dean's office.
W: For what course？
M: Economics 201, Prof. Brown's course.
W: Is this a term paper or a paper written instead of a final exam？
M: It's to take the place of a final exam.
W: So ordinarily, it would be due on the last day of the exam period which is this Friday. That's two days away. Don't you think you could have the paper finished by then？
M: I haven't even started yet. You see, I've been sick since last Saturday with tonsillitis. I just checked out of the infirmary this morning.
W: So you were in the infirmary for four days.
M: Yes, from Saturday until today Wednesday.
W: Generally, for an illness like this, we can postpone an exam or the due day of the paper that takes the place of an exam by the number of days the student has been ill. In your case, by four days.
M: That means I'll be able to hand in my paper next Tuesday instead of this Friday.
W: That's right. But first you'll have to fill out this form, giving the name of the course, your reason for needing the extension and so on. Then take the request to the infirmary to have a sign by the doctor. Then bring it back to me today. I'll have a copy sent to Prof. Brown.
M: Thank you very much. I'll see you later this afternoon with the completed form.
W: I'm glad you're feeling better.
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What is the text mainly about？
听力原文：W: This is too much. I have been waiting for my meal for more than half an hour.
M: I know, but you see the restaurant is full and we're shorthanded today.
Q: How does the woman feel？
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Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
The core of Greece' s troubles is too much spending, too little tax-collecting and book-cooking. Spain and Ireland are in trouble even if the percentage of their public debt in gross domestic product is much smaller than that of Germany. Italy, also in the financial markets' crosshairs, has high public debt but a lower deficit than the eurozone' s average.
The root of these countries' problems is that their prices and wages have risen much faster than those of other eurozone members.
There are two ways to mitigate the pain. First, to adopt temporarily more expansionary fiscal policies for a while. Or, more powerfully, the wider euro area could adopt more expansionary monetary policies for several years. As to the second option, the "inflation fundamentalists" will have none of it. This elite consisting of central bankers, top economic officials, politicians, academics and journalists insists that it is unacceptable to allow inflation to climb above two percent.
Hyper-inflation in Germany in the 1930s and stagflation in industrial countries in the 1970s and 1980s support their view. It' s true that moderate inflation can creep up to become high inflation. But inflation fundamentalism can also hurt. There is little if any empirical evidence that moderate inflation hurts growth. In most countries, cutting actual wages is politically difficult if not impossible. But, to regain competitiveness and balance the books, real wage adjustments are sometimes inevitable. A slightly higher level of inflation allows for this painful adjustment with a lower level of political conflict.
On the other hand, ultra-low inflation, in a recession, can easily become deflation. Falling prices encourage people to defer spending, which makes things worse and erodes tax payments, impairing a government' s ability to pay debt. That in turn increases the debt' s size and costs.
In addition, a single-minded focus on inflation makes it easy for policymakers to lose sight of the broader picture-asset prices, growth and employment. Policy can become too tight or too loose—as in the run-up to the crisis in the U. S. when low inflation was seen as a comforting sign that things were in order.
In a recession, ultra-low inflation also reduces the effectiveness of monetary policy since interest rates cannot go below zero. The crisis in the euro area highlights the need for a more open-minded discussion of the merits and costs of ultra-low inflation.
In the author' s opinion, the second way to mitigate the pain is_________.
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