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Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829． 62 He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847．Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his brother"s dry goods business．This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention．After the gold rush of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes．
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals．Instead, he knew he could make a good living by selling supplies to the miners．At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth．63 When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners．These pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make more．
In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets（铆钉）．This made the pants last a long time．Because Davis did not have the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent． 64 ．
By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion．
65 The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss" company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the world．
| A．As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United States． |
| B．Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable． |
| C．He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since． |
| D．However, he did not get much business for those products． |
F．Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture．
G．As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it．
答案
小题1: F
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:C
小题1:E
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试题【For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn 】；主要考察你对数词等知识点的理解。[详细]
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此题要求改正所给短文中的10处错误。从11处不计分。按下列情况改正：
多一个词，把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉，缺一个词；在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），写出该加的词。错一个词，在错的词下画一条横线，在该词上写出改正后的词。
Many animals have our own languages.They use signals which has meanings. For example, when a bee has found some foods, it goes back to its home .It is impossible for a bee tell the others bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it can do a little dancing ,that tells the bees the information about the food. Some animals show how they feel by make sounds. It is not difficulty to tell whether a dog is angry or not .Birds make several different sounds, and every has its own meaning. Humans make sounds in a same way .
| Today is Sunday. I’ve been in Canada for two maonths. | |
| This is the first time that I’ve been away my family for such a | 小题1: |
| long time. With the help of Katia,a roommate of me, I’ve | 小题2: |
| soon got used to live without my parents around. Katia, like | 小题3: |
| many other Russian girls, are nice and lively. We become | 小题4: |
| friends shortly after we meet each other. Although her English | 小题5: |
| is a little hardly to understand, we enjoy charting and we | 小题6: |
| usually talk a lot about our own. We are both surprised | 小题7: |
| that Chinese culture or Russian culture are so different. Now, | 小题8: |
| we are planning a small party for the next Sunday. There, Katia | 小题9: |
| will introduce me to some of her friends, one of who has been | 小题10: |
| to China several times. I just cant wait. | |
How would you like to wear the same underwear (内衣裤) for weeks? Owing to the work that has gone into developing intelligent materials, this may not be as 41 as it sounds. Self-cleaning clothes have now been created, and these new materials provide 42 resistance to dirt as well as water. As a result, they require much less cleaning than traditional materials.
The creation of self-cleaning clothes provides an example of how nature helps scientists develop better products. This self-cleaning nature is known as the “lotus effect”. The name comes, of course, from the lotus leaves, which are famous for growing in muddy lakes and rivers while remaining almost 43
clean. By observing nature, scientists are 44 the qualities of the lotus leaves to the materials they have engineered. Because of this, some remarkable new products have been 45 . Among them are special windows that are resistant to dirt and water. A special 46 on these windows not only prevents dirt from sticking to their surfaces, but also allows dust to be easily washed off by the rain. In fact, these new windows have already been 47 to some cars. Even when traveling at high speed through rain, these cars never have to use their windshield wipers (雨刮器).
Although we have already seen some practical applications, even more dramatic 48 will be made in the future, and they will, perhaps, change our world completely. Undoubtedly, technology is an important development, and it will have an even bigger 49 on our lives.
| A. Manufacturing industry in information economy B. News in the age of information C. Argument about individual accounts and their reliability D. Be your own investigative journalist E. Don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers. F. Information is presented in an entertaining way. |
小题1:______
With the arrival of the age of “information economy”, intellectual work is becoming a more important source of wealth than manufacturing. Organizations in all walks of life are doing more to spread their information. So people of the Public Relations are hired to speak for them. A lot of our news is actually collected from press releases and reports of events intentionally staged for journalists. In the information age, journalists spend their time, not investigating, but passing on the words of a spokesperson.
小题2:______
There is a joke in the novel Scoop about the newspaper’s owner, Lord Copper. The editors can never disagree with him. When he’s right about something they answer “definitely”, and when he’s wrong they say “to some extent, Lord Copper.” It seems reasonable to suppose that, in the real world, the opinions of such powerful people still influence the journalists and editors who work for them.
小题3:______
In countries where the news is not officially controlled, it is likely to be provided by commercial organizations who depend on advertising. The news has to attract viewers and maintain its audience ratings. I suspect that some stories get air-time just because there happen to be exciting pictures to show. In Britain, we have the tabloid newspapers which millions of people read simply for entertainment. There is progressively less room for historical background, or statistics, which are harder to present as a sensational story.
小题4:______
There is an argument that with spreading access to the internet and cheap technology for recording sound and images we will all be able to find exactly the information we want. People around the world will be able to publish their own eye-witness accounts and compete with the widely-accepted news-gatherers on equal terms. But what it will mean also is that we’ll be subjected to a still greater amount of nonsense and lies. Any web log may contain the latest information of the year, or equally, a made-up story that you will never be able to check.
小题5:______
Maybe the time has come to do something about it, and I don’t just mean changing your choice of TV channel or newspaper. In a world where everyone wants you to listen to their version, you only have two choices: switch off altogether or start looking for sources you can trust. The investigative journalist of the future is everyone who wants to know the truth.
Sociologists have long recognised that organisations of less than 200 individuals can operate through the free flow of information among the members. Once their size goes beyond this figure, the organizations are getting less flexible. So it seems necessary to prevent total disorder resulting from failures of communication.
One solution to this problem would, of course, be to structure large organisations into smaller units of a size that can act as a group. By allowing these groups to build reliance on each other, larger organizations can be built up. However, merely having groups of, say, 150 will never of itself be a complete solution to the problems of the organization. Something else is needed: the people involved must be able to build direct personal relationships. To allow free flow of information, they have to be able to communicate with each other in a casual way. Maintaining too formal a structure of relationships inevitably prevents the way a system works.
The importance of this was drawn to my attention two years ago by the case of a TV station. Whether by chance or by design, it so happened that there were almost exactly 150 people in the station. The whole process worked very smoothly as an organization for many years until they were moved into purpose-built accommodation. Then, for no apparent reason, the work seemed to be more difficult to do, not to say less satisfying.
It was some time before they work out what the problem was. It turn out that, when the architects were designing the new building, they decided that the coffee room where everyone ate their sandwiches at lunch times was an unnecessary luxury and so did away with it. And with that, they accidentally destroyed the close social networks that strengthened the whole organization. What had apparently been happening was that, as people gathered informally over their sandwiches in the coffee room, useful information was casually being exchanged.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)
小题1:What size of an organization may lead to communication failures?
小题2:What are the two solutions to the communication problem within a large organization?
小题3:After the TV station moved into new accommodation, its operation ___________________________.
小题4:From the case of the TV station, we can conclude it is ____________________________________ that make(s) an organization more successful.
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