Before winning the Nobel, what award did he win twice?A.The Booker PrizeB.Le Prix de Flo
A.The Booker Prize
B.Le Prix de Flore
C.The Pulitzer Prize
D.Governor General Award
A.The Booker Prize
B.Le Prix de Flore
C.The Pulitzer Prize
D.Governor General Award
第1题
What can we know about the package of incentives?
A.They aimed at winning the Londoners' support.
B.Athlete training is included in the package.
C.Transport costs are not covered in them.
D.The package is launched 10 weeks before the declaration of the hosting place.
第2题
What will the Stonebark Company do on March 1?
A.Announce a new contest.
B.Open its first branch in another country.
C.Give customers a special discount.
D.Expand its business into Asia.
第3题
When the heart beat increases, the body produces chemicals called endorphins which make you feel good. Dr. Griffiths thinks that regular gamblers lose this good feeling soon after a game and need to play again quickly to regain the pleasure.
He has also discovered that regular gamblers have different psychological reactions (心理反应) from non-regular gamblers. In an experiment where regular and non-regular gamblers thought aloud while playing, regular gamblers had far more unreasonable thoughts. In their minds they turned losses into near-wins. Dr. Griffiths thinks that nearly winning gives the gambler a high n the same way that a win would do.
Based on Dr. Griffiths' research, doctors suggest that one way to help regular gamblers to give up gambling is to give them beta-blockers — drugs that stop them getting a high in the first place.
Dr. Griffiths' research helps you find out______
A.which group of gamblers played the game better
B.a chemical to increase gamblers' heart beat
C.a way to help gamblers give up gambling
D.when gamblers should be given drugs
第4题
Section A
(89) Having reached the final in 1930, Argentina had to wait a while before winning the FIFA World Cup, which they eventually did on their own soil in 1978. The great support for the home team helped carry them to victory over the Netherlands in final.
(90) Argentina was outplayed by Italy in the opening round group games, but charged back to reach the final with a 6-0 win over Peru. In Daniel Passarella, Osvaldo Ardites and Mario Kempes, top scorer with six goals, they had outstanding players. They beat the Dutch 3-1 after extra time in the final.
A long-awaited success
Rarely has the run-up to a FIFA World Cup been so filled with controversy as the 11 th tournament (比赛), held in Argentina. Football, in fact, took a back seat as many nations were debating whether or not to boycott the tournament in protest against General Videla's totalitarian regime (极权主义政权) and its violation of human rights. (91) Finally, however, despite a widespread call to stay away, the world's footballing nations all made the trip to Argentina. All, that is, except those that had failed to qualify, such as England (for the second time running), Yugoslavia and the USSR. (92) Other "minor" footballing nations such as Iran and Tunisia had their first outings and France was back in the world's top football competition after twelve years in the wilderness.
But for its reappearance at the highest level, the French team--coached by Michel Hidalgo--made an unexceptional comeback, beaten 1-2 by both Italy and Argentina. (93) Michel Platini and his team-mates failed to reach the second round despite defeating Hungary_ 3-1 in their last game.
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第5题
A.excellent performance often goes with well-trained players
B.excellent performance often goes with positive comments
C.high-tech methods help players avoid unforced errors
D.high-tech methods increase players’competitiveness
第6题
听力原文: When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a feeling of sheer delight, and those feelings seem to get rarer the older we get.
For a child, happiness has a magical quality. I remember making hide-outs in newly cut hay, playing cops and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at such peaks of pleasure as winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved.
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it is conditional on such things as excitement, love, popularity and whether that red spot will clear up before party night. I can still feel the agony of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. But I also recall the details of being invited at another event to dance with a John Travolta look-alike.
In adulthood the things that bring profound joy—birth, love, marriage—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last, sex is not always good, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated.
While happiness may be complex for us, the solution is the same. Happiness is not about what happens to us, it is about how we perceive what happens to us. It is the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. It is not wishing for what we do not have, but enjoying what we do possess.
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A.Happiness at different stages of life.
B.The concept of happiness.
C.Experiences of all kinds of happiness.
D.How to find happiness.
第7题
Glynis Davis:
I first piled on the pounds when I was in the family way and I' couldn't lose them afterwards. Then I joined a slimming club. My target was 140 pounds and I' lost 30 pounds in six months. I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked. But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating habits. I told myself I'd lose the weight at slimming classes in the New Year... but it didn't happen. Instead of losing the pounds, I put them on. I'd lost willpower and tried to believe that the old bag of fish and chips didn't make any difference — but thescales don't lie.
Roz Juma:
To be honest, I never weigh myself any more. I've learnt to be happy with myself. It seemed to me that I would feel sorry about every spoonful of tasty food that passed my lips. My idea is simple. You shouldn't be too much thinking about food and dieting. Instead, you should get on with life and stop dreaming of a super thin body. This is obviously the size I'm meant to be and, most of all, I'm happy with it.
Lesley Godwin:
I was very happy at winning Young Slimmer of the year. I'd look in the mirror unable to believe this slim lady was me! That might have been my problem — perhaps from then on I didn't pay any attention to myself. Winning a national competition makes everything worse, though, because you feel the eyes of the world axe fixed upon you. I feel a complete failure because I've put on weight again.
Ros Langfod:
Before moving in with my husband Gavin, I'd always been about 110 pounds, but the pleasant housework went straight to my waist and I put on 15 pounds in a year. Every so often I try to go on a diet... I'm really good on a few days, then end up having the children's leftovers or eating happily chocolate — my weakness. I'd like to be slim, but right now my duty is the
children and home. I might take more exercise when my kids are older.
What do you think the four women were all talking about?
A.Their own slimming matter.
B.Their life after marriage.
C.Their work as a housewife.
D.Different diets they prefer.
第8题
Operatunity
1.Operatunity is a TV talent show for amateur opera singers. The winners get the chance to sing with the English National Opera. When two housewives, Denise Leigh and Jane Gilchrist won in 2002, their lives changed forever, As they sang Verdi?s Rigoletto at the Coliseum(音乐厅) in Rome, they were transformed from working mothers into opera celebrities(名人)。
2.“I live in the village I was born in,” says Denise, who is blind. “Lots of my neighbours are family, and my life is all about my three children.- Jane, who worked as a cleaner and a shop assistant, was in a similar situation. She says, ”AII l had to look forward to was seeing my four children grow up, and I love that, but .…… you think ?there must be more to life?。 Winning Operatunity has opened up avenues I never knew existed.“ .
3.“This last year has been amazing,” Denise continues. “Last month was Paris, before that we were recording at Abbey Road, in London, and. recently we had our album launch at the Royal Opera House.。 ”We?ve been treated like princesses,“ laughs Jane. ”。……champagne, chocolates, five-star hotels .……“
4.But it wasn?t all so easy. For Denise, the worst part was waiting at the beginning. “After l’d sent in my application form. I worried for a month. Then I had to wait ten days after my first audition(试唱)。 That was awful.” Even when they won the competition they were allowed to tell their close family but they weren?t allowed to tell anyone else until later. Denise and Jane also found the travelling difficult. They couldn/t take their children
with them while they were away singing .so they had to organise childcare. However, there’s 6 been no problem with the physical side of singing: “We didn?t have to worry about
that as we’ve had lots of help and wonderful voice training,“ says Jane. They also had to learn to deal with the media.- ”The kids loved the fact that they could stay up and watch us on TV, but ljust couldn?t understand why some newspapers were more interested in the fact I divorced at 21, rather than the fact I had just sung at the Coliseum, says Denise.
Paragraph 1______
A.Advice
B.Living the new life
C.The competition
D.Becoming famous
E.Their lives before
F.The difficult parts
Paragraph 2______
A.AdviceB.Living the new lifeC.The competitionD.Becoming famousE.Their lives before F.The difficult parts
Paragraph 3______
A.AdviceB.Living the new lifeC.The competitionD.Becoming famousE.Their lives before F.The difficult parts
Paragraph 4______
A.AdviceB.Living the new lifeC.The competitionD.Becoming famousE.Their lives before F.The difficult parts
Operatunity may help ordinary people to______.
A.help others out
B.take care of their children
C.deal with the media
D.raise their children
E.realize their dreams
F.see the world
Before becoming famous, Denise and Jane worked in order to______.
A.help others outB.take care of their childrenC.deal with the mediaD.raise their children E.realize their dreamsF.see the world
While traveling, Denise and Jane had to ask someone to______.
A.help others outB.take care of their childrenC.deal with the mediaD.raise their children E.realize their dreamsF.see the world
Being celebrities, Denise and Jane had to learn to______.
A.help others outB.take care of their childrenC.deal with the mediaD.raise their children E.realize their dreamsF.see the world
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
第9题
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day…
Executives who say they'd love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fall back on a variety of perfectly legitimate rationales for why it's not yet time: I need to acquire more (19) ,to figure out how financing really (20) , and so on. While they are waiting for everything to fall into (21) ,managers are acquiring big-company habits that can hurt them when they finally make the (22) .
Long tenures in corporate jobs keep executives from becoming the "jack-of-all-trades" that new ventures generally (23) .They get used to having HR specialists take care of HR issues, finance aces prepare reports, and IT whizzes (24) the company infrastructure. (25) people in big companies are successful "because they can manage a (26) ,"says Barry Nalls, the founder of Masergy, a Texas-based Telecom. But "in an early-stage company, there is no such thing as a manager. Everyone is a (27) ,including the CEO, " he says. Entrepreneurs are more effective at building ventures from (28) once they have attained a certain level of maturity and self-knowledge, but they can achieve that without spending most of their working lives in corporate jobs. In my research on thousands of founders of high-potential ventures that had succeeded in (29) capital from professional investors, 76% had worked for 20 years or less before founding their first ventures—they had (30) the leap by the time they were in their early forties.
And there is another point in favour (31) leaping sooner rather than later: executives who stay around the corporation until they achieve senior positions may be aging themselves out of what could be a satisfying life in start-ups.
Waiting for the perfect time to jump is usually futile, for there is no moment that's (32) perfect。So even if you are early in your corporate career, when a winning new-business idea comes along and sparks an entrepreneurial (33) in you, carpe diem.
(19)
A.credits
B.credentials
C.credibility
D.credulity
第10题
Winning a scholarship starts with getting excellent grades. (翻译)