People who want to succeed should first imagine themselves to be_________．

What might we learn 'about people who wear extraordinarily warm clothes？

A．They may be homesick or feel insecure.

B．They are either cold or very sick.

C．They may try to attract other people's attention.

D．They want to protect themselves from physical injuries.

Nurturing societies as mentioned in the passage refer to societies that ______.

A．enforce strong discipline on students who want to achieve excellences

B．treasure talent and provide opportunities for its full development

C．encourage people to compete with each other

D．promise talented children high positions

根据以下内容回答题：

People used to say，“The hand that rocks the cradle（摇篮）rules the world．” And“（1）every successful man there’s a woman．”Both these sayings mean the same thin9．Men（2）the world-but their wives rule them． Most of the American women like to take their husbands and（3）successful，but some of them want（4）for themselves．They want good jobs．When they work，they want to be（5）paid．They want to be as successful as men． The American women’s liberation movement was started by women who don’t want to （6）successful men．They want to stand beside men，with the same chance for success．They don’t want to be told that certain jobs or offices are（7）to them．They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for different pay． A（8）womari must be proud of being a woman and have confidence in（9）．If somebody says to her：“You’ve come a long way，baby．”She’ll smile and answer，“Not nearly as far as Fm going to go，baby!”This movement is quite new，and（10）American women do not agree．But it has already made some important changes in women’s lives and in men’s lives，too．

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A.Behind

B.Beside

C.Before

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Want to Be 100？ Listen to These 5 Centenarians(百岁老人)

Five neighbors at a central Missouri retirement community who are all centenarians get asked all the time: "How did you live to be 100？"

If you want to live to 100 or more, this rare group of five golden girls says the key to longevity(长寿)is working hard at a job you love and taking care of your body while you're at it.

Even though an estimated 70, 000 people in the country are currently at the century mark or beyond in age, it is unusual to find five 100-year-olds living in one place.

The average life-span(寿命)of Americans is about two or three years short of an 80th birthday party. And most people don't want to cut out coffee, soda, alcohol, cigarettes, and eat healthy food.

"People tell me all the time, ‘I don't want to live to be 100, '"said Mildred Leaver, who turned 100 in June.

"I think that's just sad. Aging is attitude and I don't feel old, "said Leaver, a former educator who still drives her Buick around town.

It doesn't take long to see that Leaver and her neighbors Mildred Harris, Grace Wolfson, Gladys Stuart and Viola Semas, have a lot more in common than their longevity and lifelong healthy habits. All are 100 except Stuart, who is 101.

Even though their sight and hearing aren't what they used to be, they've all avoided illnesses that many elderly people are stricken with. It's been 50 years since Leaver beat cancer for the first and only time.

The common thread that connects these women is the decades of service to jobs each loved as a farmer, designer, school principal, bookkeeper and secretary. In the early years of their lives, gainfully employed women like them were just as rare as 100-year-olds are today.

Currently about 70,000 people are aged 100 or above in America.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

听力原文： Many people dislike walking into the bank standing in long lines and running out of checks. They're dissatisfied with the bank's limited hours too. They want to do some banking at night and on weekends. For such people, their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home any hour of the day, any day of the week. Many banks preparing online branches or internet offices, which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers. This process is called interactive banking. On these online branches, customers will be able to view all their accounts, move money between their cards. Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically and even email questions to the bank. Banks are creating online services for several reasons. One reason is that banks must compete for customers who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive. The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep, that is people who are young, welleducated and bare good incomes, Banks also want to take advantage of modem technology since they have moved into the 21st century.

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A．Their business hours are limited.

B．Their safety measures are inadequate.

C．Their banking procedures am complicated.

D．They don't have enough service windows.

Yes to Peace—No to Violence

Permit me to say that I am deeply moved.

I wish to thank each and every one of you who have come here today to take a stand against violence and for peace. This government, which I am privileged to head, together with my friend Shimon Peres , decided to give peace a chance—a peace that will solve most of Israel's problems.

I was a military man for 27 years. I fought as long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here—and they are many.

I have always believed that the majority of the people want peace and are ready to take risks for peace. In coming here today, you demonstrate, together with many others who did not come, that the people truly desire peace and oppose violence.

Violence erodes the basis of Israeli democracy. It must be condemned and isolated.

This is not the way of the State of Israel. In a democracy there can be differences, but the final decision will be taken in democratic elections, as the 1992 elections which gave us the mandate to do what we are doing, and to continue on this course.

I want to say that I am proud of the fact that representatives of the countries with whom we are living in peace are present with us here, and will continue to be here: Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, which opened the road to peace for us. I want to thank the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan, and the King of Morocco, represented here today, for their partnership with us in our march towards peace.

But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer.

Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.

There are enemies of peace who are trying to hurt us, in order to torpedo the peace process.

I want to say bluntly, that we have found a partner for peace among the Palestinians as well: the PLO, which was an enemy, and has ceased to engage in terrorism. Without partners for peace, there can be no peace.

We will demand that they do their part for peace, just as we will do our part for peace, in order to solve the most complicated, prolonged, and emotionally charged aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict: the Palestinian- Israeli conflict.

This is a course which is fraught with difficulties and pain. For Israel, there is no path that is without pain.

But the path of peace is preferable to the path of war.

I say this to you as one who was a military man, someone who is today Minister of Defense and sees the pain of the families of the IDF soldiers. For them, for our children, in my case for our grandchildren, I want this Government to exhaust every opening, every possibility, to promote and achieve a comprehensive peace. Even with Syria, it will be possible to make peace,

This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace.

For this, I thank you.

The Science of Persuasion

If leadership consists of getting things done through others, then persuasion is one of the leader's essential tools. Many executives have assumed that this tool is beyond their grasp, available only to the charismatic (有魅力的)and the eloquent. Over the past several decades, though, experimental psychologists have learned which methods reliably lead people to concede, comply, or change. Their research shows that persuasion is governed by several principles that can be taught and applied.

The first principle is that people are more likely to follow someone who is similar to them than someone who is not. Wise managers, then, ask peers to help make their cases. Second, people are more willing to cooperate with those who are not only like them but who like them, as well. So it's worth the rune to uncover real similarities and offer genuine praise. Third, experiments confirm the intuitive truth that people tend to treat you the way you treat them. It's sound policy to do a favor before seeking one. Fourth, individuals are more likely to keep promises they make voluntarily and clearly. The message for managers here is to get commitments in writing. Fifth, studies show that people really do defer to (服从) experts. So before they attempt to exert influence, executives should take pains to establish their own expertise and not assume that it's self-evident. Finally, people want more of a commodity when it's scarce; it follows, then, that exclusive information is more persuasive than widely available data.

Experiments have confirmed the assumption of many executives.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

听力原文：W. What can I do for you？

M. It' s about the new clerks you need for the offices. I' m wondering how many people you want to employ.

W. That depends on what you would like.

M. I think I' d need about 30 hours a week, including some Saturdays. What do you think？

W: That's what I was thinking tm. We don't want someone who has never worked in an office before.

M. Yes. It might be helpful if they could speak a second language.

W: But that might prevent too many people from applying. What about pay, David？

M: What do you think we should offer？

W. I think it depends on experience. However, the lowest we could offer is about $ 9,000 per year.

What was the name of the man？

A．Dick.

B．Davy.

C．David.

e became one of the millions who write in a special short form. of English.

And you've got a sense of humor about short forms like SOHF(= sense of humor failure)to describe Internet new comers who understand you. Across the globe, every night teenagers and their elders are "talking" online — many of them all talking at the same time.

It's fast try talking to six people at once. It's brief three or four words per exchange. It takes wit (诙谐), and quick fingers.

Want to enter a conversation？ Just type PMFJI(= pardon me for jumping in).

Interested in whom you're talking to？ A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response from your pal.

If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF (= on the floor), or LOL (= laughing out loud, or combine the two into ROTFL(= rolling on the floor laughing).

And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG(got to go)or TYYL(=talk to you later). People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation (标点) is going, too.

In order to talk to several people at the same time on the Internet,______.

A．you have to speak fast and fluently

B．you should speak with wit and humor

C．one should pay much attention to the use of exact words

D．you have to express your ideas in a brief way

I also explain that there's a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You've got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer. '

The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor - paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20 - year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn't even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.

After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who die wondering. What fie. I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

The passage is meant to ______.

A．warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience

B．advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer

C．show young people it's unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame

D．encourage young people to pursue a writing career

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