[简答题]On July 10 the company will hold its first worldwide video conference (电视会议). All twenty facilities will be linked by a satellite broadcasting system so that employees can see and speak with each other. Mr. Black will begin the conference by telling us about our goals for the next five years. Next, each manager will speak about current challenges. The last hour will be devoted to questions from all locations. If it proves successful, we hope to schedule worldwide video conferences annually.

[填空题]When did the university first start its recruitment In ______

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Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the States. But it soon spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming increasingly difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music.
The best-known supplier of background music is an American company called "Muzak". This word also refers to recorded background music played continuously in restaurants, places of work, etc. The company has carded over a hundred studies which show that background music can create a pleasant atmosphere and improve productivity (生产效率). It must be used in the right way, though. If the type of "Muzak" is wrong, it may well cause an entire factory to sleep!

Which of the following statements is true（）
A. Background music is only used in the States.
B. Background music is used all over the world except the States.
C. Most shops and restaurants use background music now.
D. It is very difficult to listen to background music.

[填空题] Tennis
During the first 50 years of its history,
tennis was largely a pastime of (1) ______ 1. ______.
people. Its widespread popularity began with
the growth of (2)______. This happened 2. ______.
immediately after the major national
championships became (3) ______ events. 3. ______.
They began to accept professionals as well as
amateurs. Soon industrial firms began to
(4)______ tournaments and offer large cash 4. ______.
prizes. The turning point came in 1968, when
the British, with the final permission of the
International Lawn Tennis Federation,
transformed their Wimbledon championships to
an open event. In the same year, they went a
step further by erasing the (5)______ 5. ______.
between amateurs and professionals. Women
players’ demand for (6) ______ prize money 6. ______.
gained its first success in the United

[单项选择]Passage Five 　　The first three days of July 1863 saw the bloodiest hours of the Civil War, in a battle that spilled across the fields and hills surrounding Gettysburg, Pa. The fighting climaxed in the bright, hot afternoon of the third day, when more than 11, 000 Confederate soldiers mounted a disastrous assault on the heart of the Union line. That assault marked the farthest the South would penetrate into Union territory. In a much larger sense, it marked the turning point of the war. 　　No surprise, then, than the Battle of Gettysburg would become the subject of songs, poems, funeral monuments and, ultimately, some of the biggest paintings ever displayed on this continent. Paul Philippoteaux, famed for his massive360-degree cyclorama paintings, painted four versions of the battle in the 1880s. Cycloramas were hugely popular in the United States in the last decades of the 19th century, before movies displaced them in the public’s affection. Conceived on a mammoth scale, a cyclor
A. has regained their popularity since 1913
B. were mostly destroyed by the Civil War
C. more often than not lost than gained money
D. had been popular before movies came in