[单项选择]AIO refers to
A. actions, involvement and options.
B. activities, interests and opinions.
C. advertising, impact and opportunities.

[单项选择]Competence refers to
A. the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.
B. the ideal knowledge of meaning of sentences.
C. what speakers can do with certain languages.
D. the realization of the language user’s knowledge in utterances.

[单项选择]Phatic communication refers to
A. language’s function of the expression of identity.
B. social interaction of language.
C. language’s function of expressing itself.
D. sociological use of language.

[单项选择]Another name for AIO measurement is
A. psychographics.
B. demographics.
C. statistics.

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Vocational Education
Vocational education refers to education for a particular occupation. Industrialized countries have seen a fall in demand for unskilled workers, and an increase in jobs in the professional, technical, commercial, and administrative sector. Vocational education is traditionally associated with trades and crafts: young people were apprentice to employers for a number of years and learned on the job. Today the focus has shifted from the workplace to secondary and higher education institutions, and from employers’ to government provision and finance. Trainees in most occupations combine workplace training with study at a technical or academic institution. In the former Soviet Union, school and work were always strongly linked from primary school. Germany provides nine out of ten young people not entering higher education with vocational training, and training is planned from national down to locate level through joint committees of government
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]The Spenserian Stanza refers to
A. a free style.
B. a nine-line verse stanza.
C. a free verse stanza.
D. nine-line poems.

[单项选择]Distinctive sound refers to（）
A. allomorph
B. phoneme
C. phone
D. minimal pairs

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Communal nutrition refers to the behavior of certain animals, birds, and insect species to forage in the interests of the entire group and not just the individual animal. This is in contrast to species whose members forage solely for their individual benefit or, more commonly, as a member of a mating couple. Two situations commonly occur among group foraging species. The first one is where every member benefits by the group activity. The other is where some individuals are actually disadvantaged by the obligation to forage for the benefit of the group.
Question: Using information from the reading and the lecture, explain how the lecture is related to the reading passage.
Now hear a talk on the same subject.

[填空题]Weather refers to atmospheric conditions during a few hours or days.

[单项选择] Automation refers to the introduction of electronic control and automatic operation of productive machinery. It reduces the human factors, mental and physical in production, and is designed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called the "Second Industrial Revolution". Labor’’s concern over automation arises from uncertainty about its effects on employment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labor has taken the view that resistance to technological change is futile. In the long run, the result of automation may well be an increase in employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, maintaining and repairing automation equipment. Unquestionably, however, there will be major shifts in jobs within plants, and displacement of labor from one industry to another. The interest of labor lies in bringing about this transition with a minimum of
A. Industrial expansion.
B. An increase in employment.
C. Displacement of labor from one industry to another.
D. An increase in unemployment.