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考研英语-451
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[单项选择]Women, according to Chairman Mao, hold up half the sky—but in California some are better rewarded for this effort than others. According to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California, Asian women born in the United States outstrip all their sisters in terms of earning power.
The average hourly wage for American-born Asian ladies in 2001 (the latest year with reliable figures) was $19.30, with American-born whites coming next. On the bottom rungs of the ladder came Latinas: if born abroad, they earned a mere $10.40 an hour (though this was comfortably above California’s then $6.25 minimum wage); if born in America, they managed $15.10 an hour.
Education is the biggest reason for the ethnic disparities. Some 55% of California’s American-born Asian women have at least a bachelor’s degree, and an impressive 84% of them either have jobs or are looking for them. By contrast, only 14% of American-born Hispanic women have a bachelor’s degree and only 74% of the
A. Some women in California earn more than men.
B. Some women in California earn more than women in other places.
C. Some women in California earn more than other people.
D. Some women in California earn more than ordinary peopl
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In brand-new offices with a still-empty game room and enough space to triple their staff of nearly 30, a trio of entrepreneurs is leading an Internet start-up with an improbable mission: to out-Google Google. The three started Powerset, a company whose aim is to deliver better answers than any other search engine—including Google—by letting users type questions in plain English. And they have made believers of Silicon Valley investors whose fortunes turn on identifying the next big thing.
Powerset is hardly alone. (41) . And Wikia Inc, a company started by a founder of Wikipedia, plans to develop a search engine that. like the popular Web-based encyclopedia, would be built by a community of programmers and users. (42) . It also shows how much the new Internet economy resembles a planetary system where everything and everyone orbits around search in general, and around Google in particular.
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[单项选择]Where is the second centre of Hollywood film making in Europe. after London*. Paris. or perhaps Berlin Try Prague. Last year, Hollywood spent over $200m on shooting movies, commercials and pop videos in the Czech capital. This year. all the big studios will be in town. MGM has "Hart’s War" starring Bruce Willis; Disney is shooting "Black Sheep" with Anthony Hopkins; and Fox has just finished filming "From Hell", a Jack the Ripper saga starring Johnny Depp.
Praguers take Tinseltown in their stride. Old ladies looked only slightly confused last month when the cobbled streets of Mala Strana, Prague’s old quarter, were cleared of real snow and sprayed with a more cinematically pleasing chemical alternative for Universal’s "Bourne Identity", a $50m thriller starring Matt Damon. The film’s producer, Pat Crowley, reckons a day filming in Prague costs him $100.000, against $250,000 in Paris. Czech crews, he says, are professional, English-speaking and numerous. They are also a bargain—40%
A. Ifs a gathering place for big studios to make film-stars.
B. It’s the Czech capital.
C. It’s a very popular place for Hollywood film making.
D. It’s an attractive place for both film makers and the stars.
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[单项选择]The elephants of Thailand used never to be short of work hauling timber. But most of the country’s forests have been cut down, and logging is now banned to save the few that are left. The number of domesticated elephants left in the country is now only 2,500 or so. down from about 100,000 a century ago. Though being the national animal of Thailand earns an elephant plenty of respect, this does not put grass on the table. Thai elephants these days take tourists on treks or perform in circuses, and are sometimes to be seen begging for bananas on the streets of Bangkok.
Some of the 46 elephants living at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre, a former government logging camp near Lampang, have found a new life in music. The Thai Elephant Orchestra is the creation of two Americans, Richard Lair, who has worked with Asian elephants for 23 years, and David Soldier, a musician and neuroscientist with a taste for the avant-garde. They provided six of the center’s elephants, aged 7 to 18,
A. they are trained to take tourists on trek
B. they are trained to play music
C. the forest-cutting is illegal
D. there is not enough timber for them to haul
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[简答题]Directions:
Study the picture above carefully and write an essay entitled "The Adaptation of the Classical Literature". In the essay, you should (1) describe the picture; (2) interpret its meaning; (3) give your opinion about the phenomenon.
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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[单项选择]Even to his contemporaries, Rochester was a legendary figure One of the youngest and most handsome courtiers of the restored Charles Ⅱ. he was the favorite of a king whose wit, lasciviousness and serious intellectual interests he shared. He was banished from court several times, but Charles’s pleasure in his conversation always resulted in his recall. His authentic adventures included the attempted abduction of an heiress (whom he later married), smashing a phallic-shaped sundial in the royal gardens during a drunken celebrity, and a violent quarrel with the watch at Epsom in which one of his companions was killed.
Quite apart from his reputation as a poet. he was feted in the writings of his friends, notably in Sir George Etherege’s comedy, "The Man of Mode". Just before he died in 1680. at the age of 33. destroyed by alcoholism and syphilis. Rochester’s legend took a surprising turn. After a series of conversations with an Anglican rationalist divine. Gilbert Burner, the skeptic
A. a troublemaker
B. a fictional legendary figure
C. an excellent Solomon
D. the favorite of Charles Ⅱ
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Stop worrying about recession. That is the message from America’s R-word index. For each quarter, we (1) how many stones in the New York Times and the Washington Post include the word "recession". (2) bells were set (3) by the sharp jump in the "R-count" in the first quarter of this year. at a rate that in the past has (4) the start of a recession. In the second quarter. (5) . the number of articles (6) by more than one-third. A conspiracy theorist might suggest that newspaper editors, (7) about dwindling advertising revenues, have (8) the R-word.
The Economist has found that (9) the past two decades, the R-word index has been good at (10) mining-points in the American economy. (11) GDP figures which appear (12) after a lag, the numbers are instantly available. But how does the index perform in Germany, (13) there have also been (14) fears of recessi
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Genoa is on the Italian Riviera, but its steelworks, container parks and oil terminal are not the usual charms of a millionaires’ playground. Even so. for many wealthy people it was the place to be last weekend, to see the Salone Nautico’s fabulous display of luxury boats and yachts.
(47) With some 350,000 visitors, the event is a shop-window for Italy’s boatbuilders who lead the market in providing the super-rich with boats stretching beyond 24m (79ft). Italy’s boatyards make more than a third of all the floating palaces around the world. At this year’s show, Azimut-Benetti and Ferretti-Riva, the two leading producers, displayed their latest and most opulent models.
Italy builds all kinds of pleasure craft and two-thirds, worth eurol.7 billion ($2.1 billion) last year, are exported. (48) According to Paolo Vitelli, chairman of the Italian boatbuilders’ association, the winning combination at the very top of the