[单项选择]When Adams served as the sixth U.S. president, ______.

[单项选择]When Adams served as the sixth U.S. President, ____________.

[单项选择]In the sixth paragraph, when talking about empowerment, the writer means that ______.

[单项选择]By the sixth century AD, when few Europeans could read, the Chinese ______ paper.


A. invented
B. had invented
C. have invented
D. had been invented

[填空题]When is the old vice president retiring

[单项选择]When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the southern states broke away and formed a new nation called ______.
A. the Southern States of America
B. the Federalist States of America
C. the Confederate States of America
D. the Anti-confederate States of America

[单项选择]When the Cold War began, who was the president of U.S.A


A. Roosevelt.
B. Acheson.
C. Eisenhower.
D. Truman.

[单项选择]When do you think the President will______ you in office


A. locate
B. confirm
C. reinforce
D. qualify

[单项选择]How did John Adams make his living


A. He trained soldiers.
B. He was a smith.
C. He was a silversmith.
D. He was a politician.

[单项选择]The sentence in the sixth paragraph "no one could pass on his name" may mean that ______.


A. no one could change his name by himself
B. no one could give his name to a son
C. no one could give his name away
D. no one could give up his name

[单项选择]My father served in World War II.
A. True
B. False

[单项选择]

The Roman language served as the first model for answering the question. Even to someone with no knowledge of Latin, the similarities among Roman languages would have made it natural to suggest that they were derived from a common ancestor. On the assumption that the shared characteristic of these languages came from the common ancestor, it would have been possible to reconstruct many of the characteristics of the original common language. In much the same way it became clear that the branches of the Indo-European family could be studied and a hypothetical family tree constructed, reading back to a common ancestor. This is the tree approach. The basic process represented by the tree model is one of divergence: when languages become isolated from one another, they differ increasingly, and dialects gradually become different until they become separate languages.
Divergence is by no means the only possible te
A. the similarities among Romance languages
B. the hypothetical family tree
C. the process known as divergence
D. the common features of Roman languages

[单项选择]Adams now maintains that it is less important to save the nation （）to a perilous future.
A. had alerted them
B. from alerting it
C. as to alert them
D. than to alert it

[单项选择]According to Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip (系列漫画) Dilbert, the annual performance review is "one of the most frightening and weakening experiences" in every employee"s life. Adam"s stories and comic figures poke fun at the workplace, but his characterization of people"s feelings about the annual performance review has its serious side. Although a recent study of 437 companies indicates that effective annual performance reviews can help raise profits, most employees of those companies hate them. In theory, annual performance reviews are constructive and positive interactions between managers and employees working together to attain maximum performance and strengthen the organization. In reality, they often create division, undermine morale, and spark anger and jealousy. Thus although the object of the annual performance review is to improve performance, it often has the opposite result. A programmer at an IT firm was stunned to learn at her annual performance review that she was denied a promotion because she wasn"t a "term player". What were the data used to make this judgment She didn"t smile in the company photo. Although this story might sound as if it came straight out of Dilbert, it is a true account of one woman"s experience. By following a few ideas and guidelines from industry analysis, this kind of ordeal can be avoided: To end the year with a positive and useful performance review, managers and employees must start the year by working together to establish clear goals and expectations. It may be helpful to allow employees to propose a list of people associated with the company who will be in a good position to assess their performance at the end of the year; these people may be co-workers, suppliers, or even customers. Goals should be measurable but flexible, and everyone should sign off on the plan. By checking employees" progress at about nine months, managers can give them a chance to correct mistakes and provide guidance to those who need it before the year is out. When conducting the review, managers should highlight strengths and weaknesses during the past year and discuss future responsibilities, avoiding punishment or blame. In short, when employees leave their performance reviews, they should be focusing on what they can do better in the year ahead, not worrying about what went into their files about the past.The annual performance reviews, to be effective, must focus on ______.
A. making employees aware of their company"s future goals
B. involving employees in assessing their own performance
C. encouraging employees to achieve better future performance
D. highlighting what responsibilities employees have failed in