[简答题]We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or ploughed the field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest ill s in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, hut they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.

[简答题]We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or ploughed the field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest ill s in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, hut they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.

[简答题]We all know talented people who never seem to reach their potential. These people often have great early success, then seem to fade into averages. Those who lack persistence start out with the best intentions, but they eventually drift. This trait is quite characteristic, for example, of people who are constantly changing careers. They become enthusiastic about their new job and feed off this momentum for a while to perform well. But when this newness wears off and they realize they aren’t incredibly committed to sticking with that job in the long term, their success begins to wane and they start to fail.

[单项选择]Questions 21-25 We are not who we think we are. The American self-image is suffused with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable-a place where brains, energy and ambition are what counts, not the circumstances of one’s birth. The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research initiative led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: "The ’rags to riches’ story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top. That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom fifth of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap the
A. Children from low-income families are unable to bootstrap their way to the top.
B. Hollywood actors and actresses are upwardly mobile from rags to riches.
C. The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality.
D. The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.

[简答题]Chien and Thang are young motor mechanics who set up an unlimited partnership to service and repair motor vehicles. Chien is single and has few personal responsibilities. He is able to live comfortably from his share in the profits of the partnership. By contrast, Thang has family commitments and has experienced financial difficulties. Chien has discovered that Thang has been returning to their rented workshop after normal business hours to work on vehicles in his own time. Thang has been offering his services at a substantial discount to the partnership’s usual hourly rates for labour. When confronted by Chien, Thang said that what he did in his own time was his own affair. He refused to reveal the true extent of the work that he had done in a private capacity. As a result of this disagreement, Chien has decided that he no longer wishes to work with Thang and will engage Hien as a partner to replace Thang. Required:(a) Explain the actions that Chien can take against Thang. (6 mark

[单项选择]Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (31) about 85% of all youth murderers, and in those cases about 90% fall within a pattern (32) the line from bad parenting and bad (33) to murder is usually clear. Their lives start with abuse, neglect and (34) deprivation at home. Add the effects of poverty and drug, and it is not (35) that in a violent society like ours, (36) children become deadly teens.
(37) what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have (38) parents and are not poor Are their parents to blame when these kids become (39)
Most children do fine while young enough to be (40) by loving parents, but change as adolescents subjected to peer competition and rejection, (41) in big high schools. Today it becomes hard for parents to (42) between what in a teenager’s talk, dress and taste in music a
A. symptom
B. sign
C. mark
D. token