试卷详情
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考研英语-813
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[单项选择]
With the rapid spread of the internet eye where in the world, and the (1) number of users, one of the most exciting developments on the internet is E-commerce -- (2) commerce. E-commerce has two forms, (3) business-to-business, or B-to-B, and business-to-consumer, or B-to-C.
B-to-C was the first of these developments. It grew (4) from the first days when people started to buy things from their homes without going to a shop. First came "catalogue shopping" (5) you choose what you want from a catalogue (6) pictures and other details of everything that is (7) sale. You then send an order with a check by (8) and the things you have chosen sent to your home. Then (9) "television shopping", where (10) a catalogue, the items for sale are shown or (11) on television to attract the customer. (12) , the customer sends a check and the item is delivered to his or her home. B-to-C
A. regarded as
B. known as
C. esteemed as
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Text 1
At an office in Hampton, Virginia, in the east of the United States, a team of ten net savvy workers sources the web for sexual content, from basic sex education to sex acts. This "quality assurance" team is making sure that the blocking component of Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2000 computer program remains effective. This is because there is widespread parental concern about blocking websites with sexual content from children.
Website blocking is nothing new -- services like Net Nanny and programs like Cyber Patrol and Guard Dog have been around for a few years now, protecting children and reassuring parents that only wholesome websites are accessed by the youngsters. Net Nanny and Cyber Patrol will prevent access to any questionable sites when the program is in place,
Now Symantec says it has created a new category in consumer software with a package that combines website blocking with a "firewall", protect
A. sex sites.
B. violence site.
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June was part of a team that had struggled hard to finish a difficult assignment. "I wanted to call it a day and get home as much as anyone," she recalls. But she found herself saying, "I’m sorry, but we need to do some more work on this."
Suddenly she was the most unpopular person in the room. No one agreed with her, and some were openly angry that she was rocking the boat. "But I stuck to my guns," she says. "When the report was presented we were commended for picking up on the very thing I said we’d missed. I was right and everyone had to respect that."
(41) The popularity trap.
Respect versus popularity -- it is the old conflict between being professional and being personal. We want to do a good job, but we want to be friends with everyone, too. The truth is, you can’t always be liked if you do your job properly. And the desire to keep everyone happy can become a weakness.
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Text 2
An Asian engineer is assigned to a U. S. laboratory and almost suffers a nervous breakdown. A U.S. executive tells his staff he’s going to treat them fairly -- and creates dissension. A Japanese manager is promoted by his American president, but within six months asks for a transfer.
Each of these real-life cases involved people who were regarded as superior employees, but were ill-equipped to cope with the complexities and dangers of intercultural management.
"Multinational companies have studied everything else, now they’re finally looking at culture", says Clifford Clarke, founder and president of the California-based IRI International Inc. "Never show the shoe to an Arab, never arrive in time for a party in Brazil, and in Japan, don’t think ’yes’ means ’yes’," advise U. S. consultants Lennie Copland and Lewis Brown Griggs, who have produced a series of films and a book to help
A. balcony.
B. nonsense.
C. feat.
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[简答题]
(46) The English language is being destroyed by a "deadly virus of management-speak" which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush, a leading UK journalist said recently.
The British Prime Minister and his ally the U.S. President are mangling the language, destroying its meaning by avoiding the use of verbs, twisting nouns into verbs, and endlessly repeating phrases until they become "zombified".
"It’s deeply depressing," says John Humphrys, one of Britain’s leading political journalists and the author of a new book "Lost for Words". Humphys’book laments the growth of "cliched, dumbed-down, inflated and bogus management-speak" which he says now passes for English.
(47) In particular he criticizes political leaders for being sucked into using meaningless phrases and unimaginative words to disguise policies or protect themselves from resp -
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Text 3
Living standards soared during the twentieth century, and economists expect them to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we humans can look forward to increasing happiness
Easterlin admits that richer people are more likely to report themselves as being happier than poorer people are. But steady improvements in the American economy have not been accompanied by steady increases in people’s self-assessments of their own happiness. "There has been not improvement in average happiness in the United States over almost a half century -- a period in which real GDP (gross domestic product) per capital more than doubled," Easterlin reports.
The explanation for this paradox may be that people become less satisfied over time with a given level of income. In Easterlin’s word: "As incomes rise, the aspiration level does too, and the effect of this increase in aspirations is to invalidate the expected growth
A. Easterlin agreed with Maslow.
B. Easterlin's theory contradicts with Maslow's.
C. Easterlin's theory is more popular than Maslow's.
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[简答题]
After being involved in an accident, you were sent to a hospital by another person. Write a letter to express your thanks.Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points)
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Text 4
Defenders of special protective labor legislation for women often maintain that eliminating such laws would destroy the fruits of a century long struggle for the protection of women workers. Even a brief examination of the historic practice of courts and employers would show that the fruit of such laws has been bitter: they are, in practice, more of a curse than a blessing.
Sex-defined protective laws have often been based on stereotypical assumptions concerning women’s needs and abilities and employers have frequently used them as legal excuses for discriminating against women. After the Second World War, for example, businesses and government sought to persuade women to vacate jobs in factories, thus making room in the labor force for returning veterans. The revival or passage of state laws limiting the daily or weekly work hours of women conveniently accomplished this. Employers had only to declare that overtime hours were a necessary condit
A. such laws are often too weak to be effective at protecting the group in question.
B. employer's compliance with such laws results in increased tension among workers.
C. such laws exert no pressure on employers to eliminate hazards in the workplace.
D. compliance with such laws is often costly for employers.