For which group of the workers were the health care costs the highest?
第1题
What does that mean?
A.He isn't sure of the membership fee.
B.He can't decide which group to join.
C.He can't remember the phone number.
D.He doesn't like to visit the advisor.
第2题
Which of the following is TRUE?
A.People's blood types decide their life.
B.People's blood types decide their personality.
C.A person of blood group O does well in thinking.
D.A person of blood group AB is good at dealing with problems.
第3题
Which statement is true?
A.Many detainees in Guantanamo Bay have been held for more than 2 years
B.U.S government doesn't permit Wilner to discuss their cases
C.Some of the Kuwaitis are members of Taliban
D.Human rights group are deeply concerned about the situation of the detainees
第4题
Which statement is not true, according to Enlightenment thinkers?
A.People are first a human being, then a social member
B.Common humanity will conflict with the membership of a particular group
C.Humanity is above the particularity of race, religion and so on
D.Particularism and its divisiveness don't belong to today's world
第5题
A.When he studies for a test, he doesn't begin until the night before or the morning of the test.
B.Cleaning the room even takes precedence over homework, not to mention sleep.
C.They sit in the place farthest from the teacher, and they usually group together.
D.They will leave college with little education and few social skills.
第6题
听力原文: A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to give a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter.
During his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time. At last he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, after which all the students laughed loudly.
After the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."
"I didn't tell the story at all," the interpreter answered with a smile. "I just said, 'The honorable lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please. '"
(23)
A.To tell a story to a group of students.
B.To translate some books.
C.To act as an interpreter.
D.To give a lecture at a university.
第7题
Nowadays it's my job to know what's happening in the market so every day at work I have financial reports to read. I only get the chance to look at other things - for example business magazines - when I travel abroad.
We invest customers' money in many areas of the market. Traditionally we've invested in property and in manufacturing. However, an industry that is doing very well at the moment is high-tech companies so we plan to increase investment in that area.
Some of our competitors concentrate on achieving a friendly service. This is important but I think that, on the whole, our customers prefer lower charges which is what we guarantee.
Although we encourage our staff to achieve a maximum return on investments, we have strict procedures to make sure that risks are avoided where possible. Some companies may put profits first but it's important that our customers see us as a safe investment.
Next month The Thorpe Group will merge with Chart well Associates which means our company will be relocating to new offices. Most things, however, won't change - for example we won't lose any staff and there are no plans to invest in different areas of the market.
We are a market leader because of our experienced staff. When we take on staff we look for people who will perform. well in a team. Since we train staff in many of the skills they need, a financial background is not essential.
?Look at the notes below.
?Some information is missing.
?You will hear Peter Dudley, Chief Executive of the Thorpe Group, giving a talk about his work to a group of business students.
?For each question 16-22, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using one or two words.
?After you have listened once, replay the recording.
Peter Dudley
Chief Executive of the Thorpe Group
Peter Dudley's first job: (16) ______
At the office Peter Dudley reads: (17) ______
The Thorpe Group will invest more in (18) ______ industry.
The Thorpe Group promise to customers: (19) ______
The Thorpe Group staff follow rules to reduce (20) ______ for its customers.
Result of merger: company will move to (21) ______
The Thorpe Group recruits staff who work well in (22) ______
(16)
第8题
W. Ibsley was too ill to attend the meeting.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn"t say
第9题
听力原文:M: You've worked in a university before, haven't you?
W: Yes, in.Britain.
M: What, urn, how do students go about getting jobs when they graduate?
W: Well, most universities have a Careers Advice Service. I used to know the people in the Careers Service in Newcastle University and they, in fact, seem fairly successful in finding jobs for students. They are able to get jobs for 30-40% of new graduates.
M: That seems a fairly low percentage.
W: Urn... well., it's not if you consider the various other options which people take up. For example, there are a fair number of people, who go into further study, who carry straight on into master's degrees, either at the same university or another university~ Then there is a second group of people who decide not to take a career job immediately after university. Instead, they decide to take time off, maybe see the world, and.., and.., well, there is a third group who can't actually get the jobs they want immediately, and who may take something else while they wait for a job they really want. So when I say 30-40% find jobs through the Careers Service, that doesn't mean that only that number find jobs. A lot of other people find jobs through the newspaper.
M: So it is quite high really, yes?
W: Oh, I think so, relatively, yes. And quite a lot 0i other people, of course, look in newspapers and the particular journals or magazines which advertise jobs in the fields they're interested in.
What is the percentage of college graduates getting jobs through university Careers Service?
A.30-40%
B.20-30%.
C.40-50%
D.20-40%.
第10题
Apparently, overuse of salt causes high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such an uproar that salt was banned from baby food.Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Because doing so would cost manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn't the only harmful ingredient in food.If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content, why not require him to list every ingredient and specify which are harmful to our health? Cigarettes have a warning printed on them. Shouldn't the same type of warning appear on canned foods that are notoriously over- salted?
There are endless ifs and buts in the controversy, but the most telling of these is the questionable proof of salt's effect upon the blood pressure. True, people who cut their salt intake lowered their blood pressure, but where is the scientific proof that something other than salt didn't do the trick? The most common means of providing dubious proof that salt causes hypertension is to compare societies that use little salt with those that use mountains of salt in their daily diets. Which group has the higher rate of hypertension? Whose blood pressure is lower? What happens when salt is introduced into a group where salt is a novelty? Does the blood pressure rise significantly? Studies of the Japanese indicate that as the world's greatest salters, they suffer the most from hypertension. On the other hand, the simple, salt-free cooking of several tribes in the Solomon Islands has kept older tribesmen and women from developing hypertension and high blood pressure, ailments traditionally killing their peers in America.No account is taken of the effects of inflation, recession, pollution, crime, and sundry (多种多样的) other ills to which Americans, unlike people on primitive islands, are exposed.
To salt or not to salt? That is the question. Now that the question has arisen, it must not be treated with levity(轻率) but, rather, with searching scientific investigation so that those of us who are preoccupied with both savory(薄荷) food and longevity may decide which of the two is worth its salt.
The attitude of the author of this passage toward the salt controversy is that______。
A.we must stop eating salt immediately
B.she is not convinced that salt is harmful
C.the Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors
D.soon there won't be anything tasty left to eat
第11题
The first regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published weekly. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant(current), which didn't appear until March 1702.
In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. The paper was called Publick (public) Occurrences, hath forreign (foreign) and domastick (domestic). The local government, however, didn't approve of the paper and stopped its publication after the first issue. In 1704, John Campbell started the Boston Newsletter, the first newspaper to be published daily in the American colonies. By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1 800 daily papers in America.
Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation all over the world. The largest circulation for an individual newspaper, however, is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which sells more than eleven million copies each day.
How long is it since the first newspaper was printed?
A.700 years.
B.Over 2 000 years.
C.About 1 300 years.
D.About 380 years.