[单项选择]What conclusion was reached about small companies’ competitive advantage
A. Small companies may be taken over by big ones.
B. Small companies employ all kinds of methods to work on strategy.
C. Small companies can also create an attractive and convincible strategy.

[单项选择] The Most Important Secret About Trust What Is Trust You know when you have trust; you know when you don’’t have trust. Yet, what is trust and how is trust usefully defined for the workplace Can you build trust when it doesn’’t exist How do you maintain and build upon the trust you may currently have in your workplace These are important questions for today’’s rapidly changing world. Trust forms the foundation for effective communication, employee retention, and employee motivation and contribution of discretionary (自由决定的) energy, the extra effort that people voluntarily invest in work. When trust exists in an organization or in a relationship, almost everything is easier to achieve. According to Dr. Duane C. Tway, Jr. in his 1993 dissertation, A Construct of Trust, "There exists today, no practical construct of Trust that allows us to design and implement organizational interventions to significantly increase trust levels between people. We
A. Y
B. N
C. NG

[单项选择]At dusk they reached （　）small village （　） east of （　）Tai Mountain.
A. a; /; the
B. a; /; /
C. the; the; the
D. the; an; an

[单项选择]Forget what Virginia Woolf said about What a writer needs-a room of one’s own. The writer she had in mind wasn’t at work on a novel in cyberspace, one with multiple hypertexts, animated graphics and downloads of trancey, chiming music. For that you also need graphic interfaces, ReslPlayer and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown University. That was where Mark Amerika—his legally adopted name; don’t ask him about his birth name-composed much of his novel Grammatron. But Grammatron isn’t just a story. It’s an online narrative (grammatron. com) that uses the capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicated knots. In the four years it took to produce—it was completed in 1997—each new advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became sort of dependent on the industry", jokes Amerika, who is also the author of two novels printed on paper." That’s unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the" technology is pretty
A. differences between conventional and modern novels
B. how Mark Amerika composed his novel Grammatron
C. common features of all modern electronic novels
D. why Mark Amerika took on a new way of writing

[单项选择]What is the conversation mainly about

What is the conversation mainly about
A．Online shopping. B．New technology. C．Computers. D．Book stores.
A. Online shopping.
B. New technology.
C. Computers.
D. Book stores.

[填空题]Worried about what people are saying about you Concerns about gossip could influence behavior, including generosity, researchers said.
"As it turns out, the act of gossip can indeed be quite powerful," said Jared Piazza of Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Piazza and Jesse M. Beringa studied the (36) of 72 college students who were asked to distribute tokens(代金卷) with a monetar3, value between themselves and someone else.
Half of the group were (37) told their decision would be discussed with a third party.
"Participants who were told that the receiver would be communicating their economic decision with the third party were (38) more generous in their allocations of the tokens than participants who were not (39) to believe that their decisions would be discussed," Piazza and Beringa said in the study published in the journal Human Behavior.
They added that the most (40) strategy fr