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公共英语五级-72
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It was a moment most business executives would pause to savor: late last year, German sporting goods pioneer Adidas learned that after years of declining market share, the company had sprinted past U. S. Reebok International to take the second place behind Nike in the race for worldwide sales. But Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the rumpled Frenchman who now runs Adidas, and didn’t even stop for one of his trademark Havana cigars in celebration, worried that the company would grow complacent. Instead, he and a group of friends bought French soccer club Olympic de Marseille "Now that’s something I have dreamed about since I was a kid. " Louis-Dreyfus says with an adolescent grin.
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With sales in the first three quarters of 1996 at 2.5 billion, up a blithering 30.7% over 1995, it’s hard to recall the dismal shape Adidas was in when Louis-Dreyfus took ever as chairman in April 1993. Founded in 1920 by Adi Dassler, the inventor of the firs -
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As you all know, log structures are gaining popularity. They are no longer just the simple country homes which we think of as the traditional log cabin. Some upscale homes now incorporate natural round logs in sealing beams and walls. People seem to think that the rounded logs give their homes a cozy warm atmosphere. And even people who want to build a traditional log cabin on their own can buy a kits with precut logs that fit together like pieces of jigsaw puzzle. Before showing you some slides of modern log houses, I’d like to introduce a little historical background on the subject. Log cabins were first built in the late 1600s along the Delaware River Valley. The European immigrants who settled there brought centuries old traditions of working with logs. And in this heavily wooded area logs were the material in hand. Log cabins were the most popular in the early 1800s with the settlers who were moving west. They provided the answer to the pioneer’s need for a
A. Traditional European architecture.
B. Techniques for building log cabins.
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Good morning! Um… As Managing Director of our company I’ve been asked to say a few words to you today about the way the company is organized. So what I’ve done is to make a sort of table… you know … to show how it is all arranged. It’s in your books. Can you find it OK. Now, not all compaines are organized in the same way, of course. They all have more or less the same bits and pieces, but they put them together in different ways. In fact, some Managing Directors are always changing the organization, which can be very disturbing for everybody else and sometimes causes awful hold-ups. Sometimes it’s necessary, of course, like when you start making something different or join up with another company or something. Anyway, I think the organization of my company is fairly typical, so let’s take a look at how we have arranged it. At the top of the scheme, above me, there’s the Board of Directors. Their job is to administrat
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Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the introduction of 3 African countries in the following world atlas.
Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once.
{{B}}A=Uganda B=Kenya C=Zaire
Which country…{{/B}}
{{B}}Uganda{{/B}}
Uganda is in the central part of Africa, near the equator. It became independent in 1962. Until then it had been a British protectorate. The area of Uganda is 93,981 square miles. About ten million people live there.
Uganda is a land of mountains, lakes and plains. Mount Ruwenzori is in a mountain range with peaks above 16,700 feet. The chief rivers are the Victoria Nile and Albert Nile, branches of the great Nile River.
Almost all of the people of Uganda are African black people of various tribes. The Buganddas are most pow
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Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzbery, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations spend only 22 per cent of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings
There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been largely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings.
The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given rise to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings.
It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the
A. They provide a clear history of the firm and its evolution.
B. They concentrate scattered memos and directives in one synthetic document.
C. They reflect decision-making and control over company life.
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In your university work, you will be expected to give oral presentations in the form of re- ports or simply in the form of answers to questions. There are several things you can do to make your oral presentations clear and easy to understand. The Cumdamental point to realize is that speech and writing are different. If you want to be best understood, you can’t simply read your written report aloud. The biggest difference between spoken and written language is that readers can look back over the printed words when they don’t understand. In spoken language, however, listeners can’t go back and check the words. They can rely only on memory. So the first principle to keep in mind when you’re planning to speak in public is that you have to help the listener’s memory. This means that an oral report can’t deliver information as rapidly as a written report. That is, you can’t have as many pieces of new information packed into the same number of w
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Painting your house is like adding something to a huge communal picture in which the rest of the painting is done either by nature or by other people. The picture is not static; it changes as we move about, with the time of day, with the seasons, with new planting, new buildings and with alterations to old ones. Any individual house is just a fragment of this picture, nevertheless it has the power to make or mark the overall scene. In the past people used their creative talents in painting their homes, with great imagination and in varied but always subtly blending colors. The last vestiges of this great tradition can still be seen in the towns of the extreme west of Ireland. It has never been recognized as an art form, partly because of the physical difficulty of hanging a street in a gallery and partly because it is always changing, as paint fades and is renewed. Also it is a communal art which cannot be identified with any person, except in those many cases where great artists
A. making a picture of your house using paint
B. putting paint on the outside of your house
C. painting pictures in your house
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M: Have you settled in W: Yes, I feel myself quite at home now. I have’t got used to the food yet but I’m enjoying the life on campus. M: Good. Now we’d better make sure you enjoy your studies. We offer a very wide range of options on the foundation course, as you know; but you can only take six courses. Do you know what you want to do yet M: Well, that’s quite a difference. Let’s see …you’ve selected to do: physical sciences, basic electronics, art and design, CAD … that’s computer aided design and English. W: Yes, five courses. M: Well, that’s quite a range. Don’t you to do maths or computer programming, for example W: Well, I’m interested in electronics—in computers—especially in writing computer games. I’d like to produce educational software, educational games, eventually. I’ve taught myself a lot of programming and I was good at maths. I don’t think I need either of them.
A. Student advisor.
B. Course teacher.
C. Admissions officer.
D. Department secretary.- [单项选择]
One theory of human evolution is that our ancestors were semi-aquatic apes. They spent much time in water that they lost their body hair, which makes swimming difficult. Daedalus points out that in fact, water is a deadly environment for human beings—not by drowning; but by chilling. Our alleged aquatic ancestors should have grown even thicker, longer fur to minimize heat transfer. Indeed, in a maritime accident, it is worth putting on all the clothes you can find; you will live that much longer in the water. As for swimming—forget it. It stirs away all the body heat it generates
Sadly, many sea disasters happen so suddenly that there is no time to look for spare clothes. So Daedalus is devising a nautical uniform which reacts with water to form an ideal survival garment. His first inspiration was the absorptive acrylate polymer used in bandages, and babies’ nappy. It can take up hundreds of times its weight of water, expanding into soft jellylike stuff
A. he has too thick clothes on
B. he can not swim
C. he does not have waterproof clothes
D. he loses too much of body heat in the water- [简答题]{{B}}Writing{{/B}} Some people claim that television is good for children because it gets children cleverer by watching it, while others think that television is bad for children. Write an article to express your point of view on this topic. You should write no less than 250 words. Write your article on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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Today I am going to introduce to you a well-known name Damrosch in the music world. The spelling of Damrosch is D-A-M-R-O-S-C-H. Damrosch is a German name. The name Damrosch was borne by three men who were important in American music. They were a father and his two sons. Leopold Damrosch, the father, was born in Posen, Prussia, in 1832. He studied medicine in Germany and became a doctor, but he decided to make music his profession. He had already become an important orchestral conductor in Germany before he went to New York in 1871. In New York he founded the Oratorio Society and the Symphony Society, and was the conductor of both. He also conducted the Philharmonic Society. He died in 1885. Frank Heino Damrosch, elder son of Leopold, was born in Breslau, Germany. He came to America with his father when he was twelve years old and became an American citizen. He was a choral conductor of exceptional ability, and after several successful years in Denver, Colorado, he became chorus
A. 1871
B. 1862
C. 1885
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Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
You may say that the business of marking books is going to slow down your reading. (31) probably will. That’s one of the(32) for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of(33) is a measure of our intelligence. There is(34) such thing as the right(35) for intelligent reading. Some things should be(36) quickly and effortlessly, and some should be read(37) and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence(38) reading is the ability to read(39) thing differently according to their worth. In the(40) of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, {{U}}(41) how many cart you get through-bow many you can(42) your own. A few friends are(43) than a thousand acquaintances. If this be your goal, {{U}}(44) it should be, you will not be impatient if it takes more time and effort to read a great book than it(- [简答题]
In the following article some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 66~70, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A - F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
It was a moment most business executives would pause to savor: late last year, German sporting goods pioneer Adidas learned that after years of declining market share, the company had sprinted past U. S. Reebok International to take the second place behind Nike in the race for worldwide sales. But Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the rumpled Frenchman who now runs Adidas, and didn’t even stop for one of his trademark Havana cigars in celebration, worried that the company would grow complacent. Instead, he and a group of friends bought French soccer club Olympic de Marseille "Now that’s something I have dreamed about since I was a kid. " Louis-Dreyfus says with an adolesc
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