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阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项巾为第2~5段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。
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Even Intelligent
People Can Fail{{/B}}
1 The striking thing about the innovators who
succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light,
take a photograph, watch TV, search the Web, jet across the Pacific Ocean; talk
on a cellphone (手机). The innovators who left us these things had to find the way
to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns.
2 We have just
celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success
in heating a thin line to white-hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey,
US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a
thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three
years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan,
even though only o
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阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)1~4题要求从所给的6个选项中为第
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{{B}}How to Argue with Your
Boss{{/B}}
Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss’
secretary to determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good
idea to ask him for something. Even without the boss’ secretary, there are keys
to timing: don’t approach the boss when he’s on deadline; don’t go in right
before lunch, when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don’t go in just
before or after he has taken a vacation.
If you’re mad, that
will only make your boss mad. Calm down first. And don’t let a particular
concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will
feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to
change your mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you.
Terrible
disputes can result when neither the employer nor the emplo