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公共英语四级-339
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The more women and minorities make their way into the ranks of management, the more they seem to want to talk about things formerly judged to be best left unsaid. The newcomers also tend to see office matters with a fresh eye, in the process sometimes coming up with critical analyses of the forces that shape everyone’s experience in the organization.
Consider the novel views of Harvey Coleman of Atlanta on the subject of getting ahead. Coleman is black. He spent 11 years with IBM, half of them working in management department, and now serves as a consultant to the likes of AT&T, Coca Cola, Prudential, and Merch. Coleman says that based on what he’s seen at big companies, he weighs the different elements that make for long term career success as follows: performance counts a mere 10%, image, 30%; and exposure, a full 60%.
Coleman concludes that excellent job performance is so common these days that while doing your work well may win you pay increase
A. criticisms that shape everyone's experience
B. the opinions, which contradict the established beliefs
C. the tendencies that help the newcomers to see office matters with a fresh eye
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The house and carriage is a thing of the past. but love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, (21) first marriages uniting young people, are the result of mutual attraction and affection (22) than practical considerations.
In the United States, parents do not (23) marriages for their children. Teenagers begin dating in high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social (24)
(25) young people feel free to choose their friends from (26) groups, most choose a mate of similar (27)
This is due in part to parental guidance. Parents cannot (28) spouses (配偶) for their children, but they can usually (29) choices by voicing disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable.
(30) , marriages between members of different groups (interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are (31) , probab
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W: Now, Mr. Ross, we were talking last time we met about your ideas about this electronics project.
M: Well, it’s rather a simple project. It would consist of only one production line at the beginning, but we could expand it in time, of course.
W: How much of a financial outlay
M: Including loan I’d say in the area of I million US dollars.
W: I see.
M: How much would China be prepared to invest in this kind of a project if we went ahead, that is
W: As a general practice, we lay out about 51% of the total investment. This includes of course, cash, factory buildings, the right to use the sets, things like that.
M: I suppose we would be responsible for the machinery and other capital equipment. How does one arrive at the true value of the factory buildings
W: Good question. We ascertain such matters through joint assessment. Together we get an impartial assessment of property value.
M: Is there any r -
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W: It’s well-known science fiction plot to freeze a body and bring it back to life years later.
However, this may no longer be so far from the truth. Joining us from our Cardiff studio is Professor Andrew Morgan, who’s been doing some research into this subject. Professor Morgan.
M: Yes, well, I’ve been looking into the ability of certain animals to freeze themselves for a certain amount of time, and then to come back to life when the circumstances around them change. And, what I’ve been working on over the past two years is the particular process that enables them to do this.
W: What have you actually discovered
M: I think it’s a particular chemical in the animals’ bodies which begins to work under certain circumstances. And I’m now experimenting with this chemical to see if I can get other animals that wouldn’t normally be able to freeze themselves to be able to do this.
W: Have you had any
A. He is a film director of Science Fiction.
B. He is a writer of Science Fiction.
C. He is a scientist who researches on how to freeze a body and bring it back to life later.
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Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called "mall rats". Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores under one rood.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations of private security guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 mil- lion square feet. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a seven-acre park! There are park- ing spaces for 2,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People like doing all their shopping in one place. More malls were built around the country. Now, malls are like town centers where people come to do many things, th
A. One spends so much time at malls.
B. One steals at malls.
C. One sees dentists at malls.
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Today many people who live in large metropolitan areas such as Paris and New York leave the city m summer. They go to the mountains or to the seashores to escape the city noise and heat. Over 2.000 years ago, many rich Romans spent their summers in the city of Pompeii. Pompeii was a beautiful city. It was located on the ocean, on the Bay of Naples. In the year 79 A. D., a young Roman boy who later became a very famous Roman historian was visiting his uncle in Pompeii. The boy’s name was Pliny. One day Pliny was looking at the sky. He saw a frightening sight. It was a very large dark cloud, this black cloud rose high into the Sky. Rock and ash flew through the air. What Pliny saw was the eruption—the explosion—of the volcano. The city of Pompeii was at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius.
When the volcano first erupted, many people were able to flee the city and to escape death. In fact, 18,000 people escaped the terrible disaster. Unfortunately, there was not enoug -
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What is it about Paris For the last two centuries it has been the single most visited city in the world. Tourists still go for the art and the food, even if they have to brave the disdain of ticket-takers and waiters. Revolutionaries on the run, artists in search of the galleries and writers looking for the license to explore their inner selves went looking for people like themselves and created their own fields filled with experimentation and constant arguments. Would worldwide communist revolution have been conceivable without the Paris that was home to Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh Would Impressionism or Cubism have become "isms" without Paris as a place to work and as a subject to paint How Paris came to be, for such a long time, "capital of the world"
The answer lies in the city’s "myths" according to the distinguished Harvard historian Patrice Higonnet in "Paris: Capital of the World. " In his book, Paris came to stand for
A. Stanford University
B. Harvard University
C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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61. Women make up 40 percent of the world’s work force in agriculture, a quarter in industry, and a third in services. Women farmers in the developing countries grow at least 50 percent of the world’s food, as much as 80 percent in some African countries.
62. In addition to income and generating activities ( in cash and kind), women’s household activities include caring for the sick, house maintenance, and such vital work as caring for children, preparing food, and fetching firewood and water. Yet women’s productivity remains low. both in income-generating work and in home production. Improving women’s productivity can contribute to growth, efficiency, and poverty reduction. Key development goals everywhere.
63. Investing in women —in education, health, family planning--is thus an important part of development strategy as well as a matter of social justice. It is an integral part of the World Bank’s ov -
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According to psychologists, an emotion is aroused when a man or an animal views something as either bad or good, When a person feels like running away from something he thinks will hurt himself, we call this emotion fear. If the person wants to remove the danger by attacking it, we call the emotion anger. The emotions of joy and love are aroused when we think something that can help us. An emotion does not have to be created by something in the outside world. It can be created by a person’s thoughts.
Everyone has emotions. Many psychologists believe that infants are born without emotions. They believe children learn emotions just as they learn to read and write. A growing child not only learns his emotions but also learns how to act in certain situations because of an emotion.
Psychologists think that there are two types of emotions: positive and negative. Positive emotions include love, liking, joy, delight, and hope. They are aroused by something that appe
A. one thinks bad or good
B. one feels in danger
C. one faces in the outside world
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In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails. Next year, after a series of mergers are completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.
Supporters of the new super systems argued that these mergers will allow for substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of monopoly, they argue, is removed by fierce competition from trucks. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities travelling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat.
The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that only one rail company serves most shippers. Railroads typically charge such "captive" s
A. who work as coordinators
B. who function as judges
C. who supervise transactions
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[简答题]For this part, you are allowed 35 minutes to write a composition on the topic What Does the WTO Bring to China You should write at least 100 words and you should base your composition on the out-line (given in Chinese) below:
1) 加入WTO给中国带来的机遇。
2) 中国加入WTO面临的挑战。
You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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People travel for a lot of reasons. Some-tourists go to see battlefields of religious shrines. Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places, but most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.
Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconveniences for the sun because they have so little of it. Residents of cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam spend a lot of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year is in the rain. This is the reason why the Mediterranean has always attracted them. Every summer, more than 25 million people travel to Mediterranean resorts and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason, sun!
The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economies of Mediterranean countries. Italy’s 30,000 hotels are booked solid every summer. And 13 million people camp out on Frenc
A. all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists
B. every Spanish is visited by a tourist every year
C. every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist
D. every year almost as many tourists visit Spain as there are people living in that country