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Mr John has paid much attention to his weight reduction programs. Just last year, for exam

ple, when he was the main speaker at the company dinner, he said he had put on 30 pounds instead of losing the forty he had promised he would.

The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate less food. After three months however he began making excuses about why he couldn't go there more often.

As the health club failed to work, he joined Weight Watchers but stopped going because he was the only man there. And he hates following any of the diet programs. John's latest action is to join a walking club to "walk off" the weight.

He was ______ when he spoke at the company dinner last year.

A．lighter than the year before

B．heavier than the year before

C．with the Weight Watchers

D．planning to go on diet

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Mr. John has paid much attention to his weight reduction programs. Just last year, for exa

mple, when he was the main speaker at the company dinner, he said he had put on 30 pounds instead of losing the forty he had promised he would.

The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate less food. After three months, however, he began making excuses about why he couldn't go there more often.

He was_______when he spoke at the company dinner last year.

A．lighter than the year before

B．heavier than the year before

C．with the Weight Watchers

D．planning to go on diet

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第2题

SAN FRANCISCO—The "Reading Wizard" （阅读巫题) , an 11-year-old boy, whose offer to read to

SAN FRANCISCO—The "Reading Wizard" (阅读巫题) , an 11-year-old boy, whose offer to read to children without being paid at a local library was refused by libraries will get to read to younger

kids after all.

Mayor Willie Brown last Wednesday ordered San Francisco Public Library officials to allow John O'Connor to read to preschool children to get them interested in books and stop them from watching television and video games.

"I didn' t expect this kind of attention." John said, "It's just shocking."

John has chosen his first book, "The king' s Giraffe", and made up fliers inviting neighborhood children, aged from three to six, to the Presidio Branch every Wednesday afternoon. He planned to call himself the "Reading Wizard" and wear a special hat, fake glasses and a black coat.

But his idea was refused on the phone, in person and finally with a letter from Toni Bernardi, the chief of the library's children and youth service. Using terms like "appropriate material"(适龄读物), she wrote that only library workers are allowed to read to children.

John then went to a member of the city board of supervisors(督导董事会) ,who advised him to write letters to the library officials.

Who is the "Reading Wizard"？

A．Presidio Branch.

B．The King's Giraffe.

C．John O'Connor.

D．Toni Bernardi.

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第3题

Last year mike earned ______ his brother, though his brother has a higher position. A) twice as muc

Last year mike earned ______ his brother, though his brother has a higher position.

A) twice as much as B) twice as many as

C) twice than D) twice as more as

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听力原文：W：John told me he got a second-hand Car, do you know how much he paid for it？M：We

听力原文：W：John told me he got a second-hand Car, do you know how much he paid for it？

M：Well，he said he paid 800 dollars for it. I think he got a real bargain.

Q：What does the man think of the price of the car？

(13)

A．It's quite normal.

B．It's too high.

C．It's cheap indeed.

D．It could be cheaper.

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Mr John may succeed in losing weight if______.A．he goes back to the health clubB．he stops

Mr John may succeed in losing weight if______.

A．he goes back to the health club

B．he stops worrying too roach

C．he sticks to a program long enough

D．be makes good excuses for his purposes

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______, written by John Fowles, is a masterpiece of experimentalism in British literature.

A．The French Lieutenant"s Woman

B．Nineteen Eighty Four

C．A House for Mr Biswas

D．The Winding Stair

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听力原文：M: Would you like a copy of professor Smith's article？W: Thanks, it's not too muc

听力原文：M: Would you like a copy of professor Smith's article？

W: Thanks, it's not too much trouble.

What does the woman imply？

A．She is not interested in the article.

B．She has given the man much trouble.

C．She would like to have a copy of the article.

D．She doesn't want to take the trouble to read the article.

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How to approach Reading Test Part Three•in this part of the Reading Test you read a

How to approach Reading Test Part Three

•in this part of the Reading Test you read a longer text and answer six questions.

•First read the questions. Try to get an idea of what the text will be about. Then read the text for general understanding.

•Then read the text and questions more carefully, choosing the best answer to each question. Do not choose an answer just because you can see the same words in the text.

•Read the article on the opposite page about interim managers who work for companies on short assignments and the questions below.

•For each question 15 - 20, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.

John Tiernan has spent five years trouble-shooting as an interim manager, hired on short-term assignments by a variety of companies to sort out their problems. He has no desire to return to the certainties of a permanent position, because now, whichever company he is working for, he is perpetually involved in a meaningful task that's critical to the business at that time. Though he admits that sorting out the aftermath of other people's misjudgments can be frustrating. At first he found the gaps between jobs traumatic, but now he has got used to them, so when a job ends he simply books a holiday.

Mr Tiernan is part of a relatively small pool of managers used by agency BIE. Whereas most suppliers of interim managers have large databases, which they tap into in order to match a manager's qualifications and experience with a client company's requirements, BIE tries to develop a good understanding of its managers' personalities and of hew they are likely to fit into a company through interviews and from feedback on their previous assignments. He is very happy with the way the agency treats him, though he admits that he has no idea how this compares with other agencies. One advantage he finds of being one of a small number of managers is that they can get to know each other well, through the agency's social and professional development activities.

Interim jobs are frequently highly pressured and can be uncomfortable. John Tiernan was recently brought in to improve customer service at a division of Jarvis Porter Group, a printing and packaging company. Initial resistance from staff fairly soon melted away, but then Mr Tiernan realised that the division's trading position was unsustainable, and it soon became clear that what was needed was a shutdown, not a rescue. Mr Tiernan managed the closure, in which about 250 jobs were lost.

The secret is always to keep channels of communication open. Making oneself known to the whole range of employees is useful, although it may net be enough to prove one's value to the company. Keeping the company's Chief Executive informed is essential for the interim manager's actions to be understood and accepted. Agencies, too, often like to keep track of what their managers are doing for their clients, though few have gone as far as W&S. This Dutch agency arranges .for its interims to be assisted by expert 'shadow managers' back at base, who act as a sounding board for their ideas and actions.

Client companies hire interim managers to deal with temporary situations, such as mergers or delays in filling senior posts. Although interim managers don't come cheap, inaction may be even more costly, and if the company has established a good relationship with an agency, it can trust in the latter's ability to supply someone suitable. The interim manager arrives without corporate baggage or vested interests, which may be an advantage in the effect they have on staff, but the potential downside, which deters some companies from using them, is a fear that having only a short-term commitment to the company, they might net have its long-term interests at heart.

Interim management providers' defenc

A．the opportunities to have extended holidays

B．the chance to learn from other people's mistakes

C．the contact with a number of different companies

D．the knowledge that the work he is doing is important

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The debate about problem drinking and how to stop it nowadays centres most on the working

-class young. They are【M1】______ highly visible—and inaudible—as they clog city centres on【M2】______ Saturday nights. But a chapter in a forthcoming book, Intoxication and Society, by Philip Withington, a Cambridge historian, argues that it was the educated elite whom taught Britons how to drink to【M3】______ excess. In the 17th century, England experienced a rise in educational enrolment unsurpassedly until the early 20th century. Illiteracy inclined and the universities of Cambridge and Oxford,【M4】______ as well as the Inns of Court and Chancery where barristers learned their craft, brimming with affluent young men. This was the【M5】______ crucial period which modern drinking culture was formed. Mr【M6】______ Withingtons description of 17th-century drinking practices will sound familiar to anybody who has been within a few miles of a British university. It was characterised by two conflicting aims. Men were to consume large qualities of alcohol in keeping with【M7】______ conventions of excess. Yet they also supposed to remain in control【M8】______ of their faculties, bantering and displaying wit. Students and would-be lawyers formed drinking societies, where they learned the social—and drinking—skills required of gentlemen. A market in instruction quickly emerged. Collections filled with jokes, quotes and fun facts proliferated, promised to teach, as【M9】______ John Cotgraves Wits Interpreter put it, "the art of drinking, by a most learned method". Mirroring the standardisation of language after the invention of the printing press, codes of intoxication were disseminated to many a wider audience as society became more【M10】______ literate and censorship declined.

【M1】

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第10题

My family's slave-era history has survived in rich detail, thanks to my aggressively talka

tive great-grandfather John Wesley Staples (1865-1940), who was conceived in the closing days of the Civil War and became the first freeborn black person in the Staples family line. My family has always treasured these stories, but my generation is just beginning to realize the value of the gift John Wesley left us.

Most black families have found it impossible to learn even the most basic facts about ancestors who were born as slaves. That's partly because enslaved people do not appear in the public record as full-fledged human beings-with families, addresses, surnames and occupations-until after Emancipation in 1865. Even more of their stories were lost in the early 20th century, when black families reacted to the stigma of slavery by forbidding their elderly relatives to talk about it at all.

This produced a truncated view of black American history, in which slaves were seen as anonymous victims-defined only by suffering-and the heroic roles were largely reserved for their freeborn descendants.

John Wesley spoke often of his enslaved mother, Somerville, and the stories he left behind have allowed us to locate her in the public records and to piece together the basic outlines of her life. The portrait is still sketchy. But it's already clear that she was a formidable person, who had high ambitions for herself and her Son.

Somerville was most likely born in the 1820's in Virginia. Her adolescent years would have been dominated by the upheaval that followed the bloody slave rebellion mounted by Nat Turner. Fearful of being murdered in their beds, white lawmakers curtailed the already meager fights of free blacks, with the aim of driving them out of the state. For slaves, the ensuing exodus of free blacks they knew must have seemed like the end of even the possibility of freedom.

By the 1860's, Somerville had been sold to the Lowry family in Bedford County, where she became the property of Triplett Lowry, a doctor. As was common at the time, she conceived a child by young Marshall Lowry, the farm manager, and gave birth to John Wesley, whom she named after the abolitionist theologian and founder of the Methodist Church.

In the oral tradition passed down through the generations, Marshall Lowry is named as John Wesley's father. That Somerville named him - instead of keeping his identity secret as many enslaved mothers did - suggests that the truth was more important to her than traditional plantation etiquette. As a servant in an educated household, she would have had a close vantage point to observe middle-class culture and aspirations-which may account for the fact that my great- grandfather could read and write.

Born on the Fourth of July in 1865, the year of Emancipation, John Wesley was one of those freedom babies of whom much was expected. He was still a young man in February 1886, when his mother walked into the Bedford County registrar's office to record the purchase of a little under a half-acre of land, bought for the princely sum of ＄50. By then she had married a laborer named John Staples. But she registered the property in her name only, a gesture of independence that was common among free black women of the period. This purchase of land-a momentous act in the lives of former Slaves-would have set a powerful example for her son.

John Wesley lived up to his family's expectations. He and his wife, Eliza, established a large family and a successful farm in the Virginia countryside.

They joined with two adjacent neighbors to build the one-room schoolhouse where their children were educated, and hired the teacher who worked there, partly in exchange for room and board. He drove a fancy Model T Ford-and let it be known that he paid for the car in cash-while his neighbors moved about in horse-drawn carriages. At a time when the Ku Klux Kla

A．had a pure blood son

B．was educated

C．was an ambitious woman

D．had never been emancipated

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