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A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第1题
?Look at these sentences and the four paragraphs.
?Which clip (A, B, C and D)does each sentence 1-7 refer to?
?For each sentence 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
?You will need to use some of the letters more than once.
A
Management Trainees
For this exciting position in the leisure industry we are seeking management trainees to develop excel-lent buying skills. Possibly a new graduate, the successful applicant may have experience with a big national retailer, but must certainly possess excellent negotiation and communication skills.
B
Marketing Executive
This important position has recently been created by one of the country's leading clothes manufactruers. It is an outstanding opportunity for a graduate with two years' experience in design or magazine publishing. The successful candidate will be given responsibility for a major, recently launched brand. It would be an advantage to have experience of promotional activities. Excellent fringe benefits on offer.
C
Product Manager
This company has at present about 30% of the market and a turnover of more than £ 500 million. The person appointed will have responsibility for a long-established product which is a household name. Experience in the insurance market is necessary and a background in accountancy would be helpful.
D
Group product Manager
This is a rare opportunity to work at a senior level for a market leader in the food industry, located in the north of the country. The person appointed will report directly to the Marketing Director and take full responsibility for a turnover in excess of £ 80 million and a team of three managers. Applicants need to have a minimum of five years' experience in product management. A market research qualification would be an advantage.
To get this job it is not necessary to have work experience.
第2题
听力原文: The idea of public work projects as a device to prevent or control depression was designed as a means of creating job opportunities for unemployed workers mad as an effective device to aid business to revive. It was conceived during the early years of the New Deal Era 1933~1937). By 1933 ,the number of unemployed workers had reached about 13 million. This meant that about 50 million people—about one-third of the nation—were without means of support. At first, direct relief in the form. of cash or food was provided to these people. This made them receivers of government charity. In order to remove this stigma and restore to the unemployed some measure of respectability and human dignity, a plan was devised to create governmentally sponsored work projects that private industry would not or could not provide. This would also stimulate production and revive business activity.
What did the idea of public work projects help during economic depression?
A.To prevent or control depression.
B.Creating job opportunities.
C.To aid business to revive.
D.All the above.
第3题
Lured by generous new subsidies to develop alternative energy sources - and a measure of concern about the future of the planet - European farmers are plunging into growing crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil when burned. They are chasing after their counterparts in the Americas who have been cropping for biofuel for more than five years.
"This is a much-needed boost to our economy, our farms," said Marcello Pini, a farmer, standing in front of the sea of waving yellow flowers he planted for the first time this year. "Of course we hope it helps the environment, too."
In March, the European Commission, disappointed by the slow growth of thebiofuels industry in Europe, approved a directive that included a "binding target" requiring member states to use 10 percent biofuel for transport by 2020 - the most ambitious and specific goal in the world.
Most EU states are currently far from achieving the target, and are introducing new incentives and subsidies to boost production.
As a result, bioenergy crops have now replaced food as the most profitable crop in a number European countries. In this part of Italy, for example, the government guarantees the purchase of biofuel crops at €22 per 100 kilograms, or $13.42 per 100 pounds - nearly twice the €11-to-€12 rate per 100 kilograms of wheat on the open market last year. Better still, European farmers are allowed to plant biofuel crops on "set-aside" fields, land that EU agriculture policy would otherwise require them to leave fallow to prevent an oversupply of food.
But an expert panel convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this month pointed out that the biofuels boom produces both benefits as well as tradeoff and risks - including higher and wildly fluctuating global food prices. In some markets grain prices have nearly doubled because farmers are planting for biofuels,
"At a time when agricultural prices are low, in comes biofuel and improves the lot of farmers and injects life into rural areas," said Gustavo Best, an expert at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. "But as the scale grows and the demand for biofuel crops seems to be infinite, we&39;re seeing some negative effects and we need to hold up a yellow light."
Josette Sheeran, the new head of the UN World Food program, which fed nearly 90 million people in 2006, said that biofuels created new dilemmas for her agency. "An increase in grain prices impacts us because we are a major procurer of grain for food. So biofuels are both a challenge and an opportunity." In Europe, the rapid conversion of fields that once grew wheat or barley to biofuel oils like rapeseed is already leading to shortages of ingredients for making pasta and brewing beer, suppliers say. That could translate into higher prices in supermarkets.
"New and increasing demand for bioenergy production has put high pressure on the whole world grain market," said Claudia Conti, a spokeswoman for Barilla, one of the largest Italian pasta makers. "Not only German beer producers, but Mexican tortilla makers have see the cost of their main raw material growing quickly to quickly to historical highs."
For some experts, more worrisome is the potential impact to low-income consumers from the displacement of food crops by bioenergy plantings. In the developing world, the shift from growing food to growing more lucrative biofuel crops destined for richer countries could create serious hunger and damage the environment in places where wild land is converted to biofuel cultivation, the FAO expert panel concluded.
But officials at the European Commission say they are pursuing a measured course that will prevent the worst price and supply problems that have plagued American markets.
"We see in the United States farmers going crazy growing corn for biofuels, but also producing shortages of food and feed," said Michael Mann, a commission spokesman. "So we see biofuel as a good opportunity - but it shouldn&39;t be the be-all and end-all for agriculture."
In a recent speech, Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU agriculture and rural development commissioner, said that the 10 percent EU target was "not a shot in the dark," but rather carefully chosen to encourage a level of biofuel industry growth that would not produce undue hardship for the Continent&39;s poor. Over the next 14 years, she calculated, it would push up would raw material prices for cereal by 3 percent to 6 percent by 2020, while prices for oilseed may rise between 5 percent and 18 percent. But food prices on the shelves would barely change, she said.
第4题
Why did the speaker say we might be surprised at a yuppie dinner party?
A.Because we might be offered a dish of insects.
B.Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are served
C.Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.
D.Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.
第5题
Food industry relies mainly on agriculture for raw material.
A.depends on
B.dependent on
C.derives from
D.derived from
第6题
第7题
The author appears to tell us ______.
A.how food industry works
B.how to introduce a new food technology into a developing country
C.key factors of applying technological solutions to the problem of food shortages
D.some food technological innovations
第8题
A.attendant
B.attention
C.attends
D.attending
第9题
Myers is the founder of Auburn University's Institute for Biological Detection System, the main task of which is to chase the ultimate in detection devices--an artificial nose.
For now, the subject of their research is little more than a stack of gleaming chips tucked away in a laboratory drawer. But soon, such a tool could be hanging from the belts of police, arson (纵火) investigators and food-safety inspectors.
The technology that they are working on would suggest quite reasonably that, within three to five years, we' ll have some workable sensors ready to use. Such devices might find wide use in places that attract terrorists. Police could detect drugs, bodies and bombs hidden in cars, while food inspectors could easily test food and water for contamination.
The implications for revolutionary advances in public safety and the food industry are astonishing. But so, too, are the possibilities for abuse: Such machines could determine whether a woman is ovulating(排卵), without a physical exam--or even her knowledge.
One of the traditional protectors of American liberty is that it has been impossible to search everyone. That' s getting not to be the case.
Artificial biosensors created at Auburn work totally differently from anything ever seen be fore. Aroma Scan, for example, is a desktop machine based on a bank of chips sensitive to specific chemicals that evaporate into the air. As air is sucked into the machine, chemicals pass over the sensor surfaces and produce changes in the electrical current flowing through them. Those current changes are logged into a computer that sorts out odors based on their electrical signatures.
Myers says they expect to load a single fingernail-size chip with thousands of odor receptors (感受器), enough to create a sensor that's nearly as sensitive as a dog's nose.
Which of the following is within the capacity of the artificial nose being developed?
A.Performing physical examinations.
B.Locating places which attract terrorists.
C.Detecting drugs and water contamination.
D.Monitoring food processing.
第10题
Which of the following is within the capacity of the artificial nose being developed?
A.Performing physical examinations.
B.Locating places which attract terrorists.
C.Detecting drugs and water contamination.
D.Monitoring food processing.