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A.democrats.
B.republicans.
C.conservatives.
D.communists.
A.democrats.
B.republicans.
C.conservatives.
D.communists.
第1题
What can be understood by reading the e-mail?
A.Woodlock costs more than True-Bond.
B.True-Bond is not a popular product.
C.Woodman Co., Ltd. is a furniture manufacturer.
D.The entire order will be delivered on April 11, 2007.
第2题
Section C
Directions: In this section you will hear a short recorded passage. The passage has some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the blank in order of numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.
Ladies and gentleman,
It's a great pleasure to have you visit us today. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to 【11】 our company to you.
The company was established in 1950. We mainly manufacture electronic goods and 【12】them all over the world. Our sales were about $100 million last year, and our business is growing steadily. We have offices in Asia,【13】and Europe. We have about 1000 employees, who are actively working to serve the needs of our 【14】. In order to further develop our overseas market, we need your help to promote (促销) our products.
I【15】doing business with all of you. Thank you.
【11】
第3题
Mayfield Electric Cooperative
Service Summary
Account number: 8237987324-CJ
Name: Curtis Holliday
Billing Date: 10/24
Due Date: 11/15
Service Dates: 09/01-10/01
Days of Service: 31
Readings
Meter Number: AS-23987498008
Current Reading: 938493
Prior Reading: 988362
Account Activity
Previous Balance $82.92
Payments $82.92
Adjustments 0.00
Balance Forward 0.00
Facility Charge $20.00
Electricity Service $98.93
Sales Tax $3.50
Power cost Adjustment $ 1.00
Public Benefits $2.50
Due Date: 11/15
Net Due $125.93
After Due Date $127.19
Sam and Luisa,
Here is the copy of the electric bill. As you can see, our usage is higher, which means we have to pay more this month. I was hoping that our electricity bill would go down after the summer because we wouldn't be using the air conditioner as much.
We all have to pay about $42 each. Please have it to me as soon as possible so I can pay.
I'd also like to have dinner sometime this week so we can discuss this. I'll make pasta or something. Let me know what day is good for you. I'm free every evening after 6 p.m.
What is the bill for?
A.Gas
B.Water
C.Internet
D.Electricity
第4题
What is the main purpose of the message?
A.To plan for a party.
B.To explain a change in schedule.
C.To talk about a book now available.
D.To offer a free membership.
第5题
The recent announcement that GPs(全科医生)may send patients with depression away with the suggestion that they(1)_____ a "mood-enhancing" book will have entranced some(2)_____ left others bristling. When we set up our bibliotherapy service through The School of life in 2008, our(3)_____ was obvious: to show people that books, and (4)_____ novels, not only have the(5)_____ to lift spirits, but to(6)_____ fundamental psychological shifts, healing and enriching the heart, the intellect and the soul in extraordinary ways. But you could (7)_____ that someone with depression would (8)_____ to make their way to the library, (9)_____ put a spring in their stride, simply by the offer of some mood enhancing reads. One of the things we have found as bibliother-apists is that clients with depression(10)_____ a therapeutic book require a very(11)_____ prescription. Some may want a book that offers some escape—(12)_____ case the odd English humour of Dodie Smiths / Capture the Castle may(13)_____ the trick. But others may(14)_____ with impatience to anything(15)_____ seems too unlike real life. The majority of our clients do not come to us for medical reasons; most come(16)_____ they love reading, and in this day of publishing overload they want to be sure they use their reading time well. There are few greater pleasures in life than discovering a novel that(17)_____ back a world you recognise—and yet takes you into a deeper experience of that world. And research has shown that reading can be highly effective in(18)_____ stress. We find Henry James a(19)_____ way to order your mind when everything becomes too much—the literary(20)_____ of Beethoven or Bach.
(1)
A.would have read
B.can read
C.read
D.to read
第6题
听第7段材料,回答第9~11题。
Text 7
M: It's so hard for me to learn English. Why is it so easy for you?
W: I didn't know you were having problems. Maybe it's easier for me because I already speak two languages. But also, I really work at it.
M: Well, I always do my homework and go to classes. What else do you think would help?
W: Well, you might try reading newspapers. And I always talk to Americans when I get a chance, though sometimes it's hard.
M: But, how do you meet Americans? I only know other foreign students.
W: How about sitting next to an American at lunch, or have you ever thought of asking someone over to your house for dinner?
M: Those are good ideas. But I'm a little shy to speak English.
W: You won't learn if you don't try and speak. If I were you, I'd talk to your English teacher. He might have some good ideas.
Why is it easier for the woman to learn English?
A. She often talks to English people.
B. She speaks two languages already.
C. She always does her homework right after class.
第7题
听力原文: Tokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time.In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be.Of course there are too many cars.The Japanese drive very fast when they can.But in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams.Tokyo is not different when one wants to walk.At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London's Oxford Street.But the streets near Ginza in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot,and sometimes it is really difficult to walk.People are very polite;there are just too many of them.The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night.That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home.There are 35,000 night-clubs in Tokyo,and you do not often see one that is empty.Most people travel to and from work by train.Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day.At most stations,trains arrive every two or three minutes,but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains.Although they are usually crowded,Japanese trains are very good.They always leave and arrive on time.On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper.In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep,whether his joumey is long or short.
How does the speaker feel about Tokyo?
A.Convenient.
B.Clean.
C.Crowded.
D.Lovely.
第8题
Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a comer; hardly anybody talks, since to do so would be considered quite (4)_____.
(5)_____, there is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior. which, once broken, makes the offender immediately the object of (6)_____.
It has been known as a fact that a British has a (7)_____ for the discussion of their weather and that, if given a chance, he will talk about it (8)_____.
Some people argue that it is because the British weather seldom (9)_____ forecast add hence becomes a source of interest and (10)_____ to everyone.
This may be so. (11)_____ a British cannot have much (12)_____ in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are often proved wrong (13)_____ a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate—or as inaccurate as the weathermen in his (14)_____.
Foreigners may be surprised at the number of references (15)_____ weather that the British (16)_____ to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are (17)_____ by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn't it?" "Beautiful!" may well be heard, instead of "Good morning, how are you?" Although the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is (18)_____ pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. If he wants to start a conversation with a British but is at a loss to know (19)_____ to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will (20)_____ an answer from even the most reserved of the British.
A.relaxed
B.frustrated
C.amused
D.exhausted
第9题
How to approach Reading Test Part Two
&8226;In this part of the Reading Test you read a text with gaps in it, and choose the best sentence to fill each gap from a set of eight sentences.
&8226;First read the text for overall meaning, then go back and look for the best sentence for each gap.
&8226;Make sure the sentence fits both the meaning and the grammar of the text around the gap.
&8226;Read the text on the opposite page from an article about how a company reduced its transport costs.
&8226;Choose the best sentence from below to fill each of the gaps.
&8226;For each gap 9 - 14, mark one letter (A - H) on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
Route to big delivery savings
There are few areas left within the world's largest businesses where one close look can deliver instant savings of 1 per cent of sales. For Rhodia, the chemicals arm of French conglomerate Rh6ne-Poulenc, scrutiny of the company's transport costs in the UK led to just such savings. Management consultants A.T. Kearney were commissioned to review the company's operations. They scoured order books, invoices and transport logs at the company's fourteen UK sites. some transport they could not account for at all Surprising as it may seem, there were simply no records.
A.T. Kearney's initial survey found that transport accounted for 10 per cent of the company's traceable spending in the UK, and that during a 12-month period, 235 different hauliers had moved products for the company. The company were also running a 30-strong fleet of their own. (9) In a more positive light, though, they meant that the opportunity to improve was huge.
Transport buying was being dictated by the backgrounds of the buyers, rather than rational criteria. (10) Instead, they were typically former drivers or site workers who bought transport from a network of contacts built up over many years.
Even where buyers were seeking tile cheapest transport, their task was complicated by numerous different tariffs for different measures. For A.T. Kearney, the solution lay in a comprehensive, standardised tendering process. During the following weeks, all the company's existing suppliers, Rhodia's own fleet, and others were invited to tender for business. (11) Modelling of these responses began: what if this part of the business was given to X, and this part to Y - what does it do to costs?
Rhodia then went back to the most promising applicants and offered them deals for packages of business. (12) In this way the company ensured that they got the best possible arrangement. Inevitably, this process favoured large suppliers. (13) For example, a driver with his own lorry, who had been transporting goods for the company for years, submitted a tender. A sub- contracting arrangement was made for him with one of the final suppliers.
Today, Rhodia have five main hauliers, who account for 90 per cent of the company's transport spending. All rates are standardised: the whole system is a very simple one. But perhaps the most extraordinary outcome from this monumental number-crunching exercise was the bottom line impact. (14) The new set-up has delivered savings of more than 25 per cent. And the company is confident of achieving even more savings.
A Before the review, transport was eating up 3 per cent of the company's UK sales revenue.
B Nevertheless, the situation was not helped by the fragmented nature of the haulage industry.
C More than 60 did so, and their quotes were then analysed.
D Among the terms they included in these contracts were requirements for improvements in costs, flexibility and reliability.
E None had come into lo
第10题
Soviet-American Relations
In the fall of 1946. President Truman asked for a comprehensive study of Soviet- American relations,which he knew would be the central problem of American foreign policy. The result was an important state paper prepared through the Secretary of State(国务), the Secretary of War. the Attorney General(检察长). the Secretary of the Navy, Fleet Adrmiral(海军司令) Leahy (who had been Roosevelt's chief military adviser), the Joint Chiefs of Staff(参谋长联席会议主席). Ambassador Edwin W.Pauley (in charge of negotiating postwar reparations), the Director of Central Intelligence(中央情报局局长), and other persons with special knowledge of foreign affairs.The document was imposing in its scope and depth, comprising nearly a hundred thousand words and divided into an introduction and six sections. It dealt with Soviet foreign policy, Soviet-American agreements, Soviet violations of its agreements with the U. S.,conflicting views on reparations, Soviet activities affecting American security, and U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union.
This study Truman asked for was drafted on the premise (前提) that only through an accurate understanding of the Soviet Union would the U. S. be able to make and carry out policies that would re-establish international order and protect the U. S. at all times. The key, according to the study; was to realize' that Moscow's leaders adhered to the Marxist theory of ultimate destruction of capitalist states by communist states, but that they sought to postpone the inevitable conflict while they strengthened and prepared the Soviet Union for its clash with the Western democracies: The study said Moscow's main concern regarding the other nations of Western Europe was to prevent the formation of a Western bloc (集团). It noted, too, that Red Army troops and Russian planes in combat readiness outnumbered American units opposite them in Germany, Austria, and Korea in overwhelming strength, placing U.S.forces literally at the mercy of the Soviet government.
第 36 题 The text associates President Truman with_________
A.peace with honor.
B.anti-Communist sentiment
C.the long-standing Cold, War
D.Western imperialism (帝国主义)
第11题
All of 06 seems to make my daughter’s school neither fish nor fowl when 07 comes to the debate over the merits of giving formal grades to kids. At one 08 , the advantages and disadvantages are obvious. A grade system provides a straightforward 09 by which to measure how your child is progressing at school —— and how he or she is getting 10 compared to other children.
But as writer Sue Ferguson notes, “Grades can deceive,” The aim should be "to measure learning, not 11 what a student can recall on a test. ” The two aren’t the same — and if you doubt that as an adult, ask yourself whether you could sit down 12 any preparation and still pass those high-school-level examinations.
If you're old 13 , you've lived through this debate before. At one time, it was considered unfair to put children in direct competition with one another if it could be avoided. The intention 14 that may have been good, but it ignored the fact that competition, and the 15 to come out on top, are essential components of the human condition.
This time around, educators working with a no-grades approach are emphasizing different reasons. The thing is, that approach is much more 16 in the adult workplace than is the traditional pass-fail system we place on our children. Many workplaces 17 regular employee evaluations. There are usually fairly strict limits to what an employer can tell an employee in those evaluations — and even then, negative evaluations can be 18 by the employee. No matter 19 you sit in the debate over the grade system, then, the real question is this: if it's so good for kids, why isn't that also true for 20 ?
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