Which of the following statements about WWI and WWII is NOT true? _______ A. The Triple Alliance in WWI did not include Italy from the beginning. B. After WWI and before WWII, Britain followed a foreign policy known as nonintervention and appeasement. C. After WWI, London was replaced by New York as the world’s financial center. D. The “Allies” were Britain, France and Russia.

Which of the following is a true statement about International Financial Reporting Standards? A: They are not needed for U.S. businesses since the United States already has the strongest accounting standards in the world. B: They are more exact (contain more rules) than U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. C: They are converging gradually with U.S. standards. D: They are not being applied anywhere in the world yet, but soon they will be.

Since the mid-1990s, the world cotton price has dropped more than half.______

The outbreak of the world financial crisis has ____ consumer confidence, which is now down in its lowest levels since 1992.

At present, the world's largest RMB offshore settlement center is A: London B: Singapore C: Hong Kong D: New York