The problem with activists is that far too often they merely ______ the protection of vari
A.circumvent.. stability
B.abridge.. solution
C.diversify .. precedent
D.advocate .. management
E.abhor.. demise
A.circumvent.. stability
B.abridge.. solution
C.diversify .. precedent
D.advocate .. management
E.abhor.. demise
第1题
Why is it useful to carry enough 25-cent coins with you?
A.They can act as small change for the exact bus fares.
B.There is generally no problem in using them in Canada.
C.As a basic unit of money they are gradually gaining in usage.
D.They may come in handy for pay phones or laundry machines.
第2题
What Walt Lippmann means is that ______.
A.some government leaders can never run the government effectively
B.in solving any problem, leaders should first try to find out the public opinion on it
C.good leaders should learn to disregard public opinion in policy making
D.leaders should base his decisions on sound judgment and act with determination
第3题
A.exceed Mr. Obama's economic budget greatly
B.be overestimated by some environmental group
C.hetp U. S. government get closer to its climate goal
D.solve the climate problem on greenhouse gases
第4题
【C1】
A.allow
B.admit
C.present
D.grant
第5题
Company culture is the (22) personality of the organisation. It determines how members act, how energetically they (23) to teamwork, problem solving, innovation, customer service, prodactivity, and quality. It is a company's culture that makes it safe or not safe for a person, division or the whole company to (24) issues and solve problems, to act (25) new opportunities, or to move in new, creative directions. A company's culture is often at the root of difficult people-related problems such as motivation, morale, absenteeism, communications, teamwork, retention, injuries, and insurance claims.
Because a company's culture affects everything in it—including profits—culture is the real bottom line. A company with a well-developed culture, open to all that its members want to bring, easily (26) competitors. Culture and personality are similar. When people describe a national, regional, or organisational culture they use words that can (27) a person. For example we might say that a culture is "friendly" or "tough" . It might be "driven and aggressive" . It might be "active" , "analytic" , or "open" .
(28) a culture is created every time a group of people come together to form. a team, a company will have many sub-cultures that exist within its main culture. For example, the marketing and technology teams may have different worldviews, jargon, work hours, and ways to do things. A big (29) for today's company is to create a strong, (30) corporate culture that pulls all of the sub-cultures together and ensures that they can work as a unified team.
(21)
A.undermines
B.emphasises
C.underlines
D.underlies
第6题
A.Someone dumped the clothes left in the washer and dryer.
B.Someone broke the washer and dryer by overloading them.
C.Mindy Lance"s laundry blocked the way to the laundry room.
D.Mindy Lance threatened to take revenge On her neighbors.
第7题
But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of classic act of reading. It has been suggested that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise(music) in the background or a television screen flickering (闪烁的) at the comer of their field of perception. We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude(独处的状态) goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form. of pan-reading, of pan-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by bean; the expression is vital.
Under these circumstances, the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one. Ahead of us lie technical, psychic(心理的) and social transformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing. The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated. The information revolution will touch every facet of composition, publication, distribution, and reading. No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the book as we've known it.
The picture of the reading ability of the American people, drawn by the author, is ______.
A.rather bleak
B.fairly bright
C.very impressive
D.quite encouraging
第8题
Our daily existence is divided to two phases, as S1.______
distinct as day and night. We call them work and play.
And, when we have allowed the necessary minimum
for such activities as eating and shop, the rest we S2.______
spend in various activities where are known as S3.______
recreations, an elegant word which disguise the fact S4.______
that we usually do not even play in our hours of
leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive
enjoyment or entertainment—not playing football but
watching football matches; not acting
but theatre-going.
We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast
distinction not only between work and play but
equal between active play and passive entertainment. S5.______
It seems that the decline of active play—of amateur
sport—and the enormous growth of purely receptive
entertainment which has given rise a sociological S6.______
interest in the problem, If the greater part of the
population, instead indulging in sport, spends S7.______
hour of leisure viewing television programmers, there S8.______
will inevitably be a decline in health and physique.
We should live art if we would be affect by art. We S9.______
should paint rather than appreciate painting,
play piano rather than go to concerts, dance and sing
and act ourselves, engaging all our the senses in the S10.______
touch of arts.
【S1】
第9题
The recognition of a limited vocabulary of single words from a single speaker is【C4】______much a solved problem. Some systems, however, have trouble【C5】______the noise of crumpling(弄皱,变皱)paper from the sound of a human【C6】______
Independent systems【C7】______recognize the same word【C8】______spoken by many different people can be built by sampling how several people say the same words【C9】______storing several patterns for each word. But the chances for error are greater and the vocabulary must usually be【C10】______. Even more difficult is continuous speech. People【C11】______running words together and even changing some sounds when they speak, m the computer【C12】______knows when one word ends and another starts,【C13】______the process much more difficult. It was reported that it【C14】______an hour on the largest computer in【C15】______use to recognize one second of continuous speech.
Some【C16】______have been made to improve continuous speech recognition【C17】______giving the. computer some rules of grammar to restrict which words can【C18】______which other words. A device has been developed that has a 5000-word vocabulary but requires the speaker to【C19】______between words.
These devices, however crude at the moment, will represent the【C20】______applications of what is considered a promising but extremely difficult technology.
【C1】
A.build
B.make
C.get
D.develop
第10题
&8226;Read the article below about meetings.
&8226;For each question 31-40 write one word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.
How to make more of meetings
You should know what ends you want to achieve in a meeting before it starts and prepare for it by reading any papers circulated beforehand, and carefully thinking about (31) you want to say. This may sound rather boring, but solid preparation is the key to successful meetings. A great (32) of time and energy can be wasted through simple lack of planning.
The most important issues are not always given the most time in the general running of meetings. People are often unwilling (33) discuss important budgetary matters because they do not fully understand them, but (34) becomes an expert when it comes to discussing the colour of the new curtains, or what type of coffee to buy! The discussion of (35) trivial matters as these, therefore, should be saved until the end of the meeting.
During the meeting it is essential to stick to the agenda so (36) to avoid the common problem of repetition. At the same time you (37) to be sensitive to other people's ideas and feelings, and never lose your temper. Be prepared to accept (38) implement a suggestion that is contrary to (39) own ideas if it is an improvement on them; such honesty and flexibility are signs of good leadership and earn respect.
Finally, remember that when a decision is made it is important to act (40) it and to honour all the commitments you have made in the meeting.
(31)