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Katherine Ilachinsiki, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast (一阵)of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years of age, Mrs Ilachinsiki, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an executive (经理), cried sharply and set off too.
But others up and down the 110 floors, many without seeing the damage across the way and thus unclear about what was happening, were not so sure. And the 18 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.
Most people had no idea about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the south tower asked people to stay put, assuring them that the building was sound and the threat was limited to the other tower.
Some left, others stayed. Some began to climb down and, when met with more announcements and other cautions (警告) to stop or return, went back up. The decisions made in those instants proved to be of great importance, because many who chose to stay were killed completely when the second plane crashed into the south tower.
One of those caught in indecision (犹豫不决) was the executive at Fuji Bank USA.
Richard Jacobs of Fuji Bank left the 79th floor with the other office workers, but on the 48th floor they heard the announcement that the situation was under control. Several got in the lifts and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane crashed into their floor.
“I just don’t know what happened to them,” Mr Jacobs said.
小题1:From the passage, we know that the south tower was hit by the plane ________.
A.at 8:30 | B.18 minutes earlier than the north tower |
C.at around 9:06 | D.at 8:48 |
A.stay in the building | B.leave at once |
C.put everything back and then leave | D.keep silent |
A.The 91st floor | B.The 103rd floor | C.The 60th floor | D.The 79th floor |
A.more announcements had been made | B.people hadn’t used the lifts |
C.the attack had happened on a weekend | D.the people had obeyed the office rules |
答案
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:C
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I have to say that am shocked at just how bad the new music is. This cannot be the same band that produced great albums such as HTDAAB and ATYCLB! This is awful! They either do not care anymore, or have completely lost it. I never thought U2 would become irrelevant, but they have officially become one of those bands that you will now say, “Remember when they were great?”
----- Posted by Ronald Harris
February 28th, 2009 8:29 pm GMT
Total drivel, Mr Harris. The new album is great, far better than the safe, cynical HTDAAB and ATYCLB. U2 have become inventive again, like they were in the 1990s. thank goodness!
----- Posted by Dan
March 3rd, 2009 12:09 pm GMT
Agree, Dan. The new album is the best since Actung Baby. Magnificent is an anthem in the waiting, Breathe is unbelievable, and Stand Up Comedy is absolutely outstanding----- to name just three! Loving the new sound, pure class as usual.
----- Posted by Martin
March 4th, 2009 7:43 pm GMT
Totally agree with you guys. This album is unbelievable. Breathe is definitely a great song, same with Moment of Surrender. I bet their upcoming tour will be amazing. If you haven’t bought the CD yet, you should. I bought mine on Amozon.com for $3.99. I couldn’t believe it.
----- Posted by Josh Briggs
小题1:According to Ronald Harris, U2’s new album is _________.
A.pretty good | B.so bad | C.the same as before | D.completely fresh |
A.Martin’s | B.Dan’s | C.Josh Briggs’ | D.Ronald Harris’ |
A.Magnificent | B.Moment of Surrender | C.Breathe | D.Stand Up Comedy |
A.Most fans felt disappointed at the new album. |
B.The new album is available on the Internet. |
C.The people who made comments are fans of U2. |
D.U2’s upcoming tour may be a great success. |
A.a concert poster | B.a TV review | C.a newspaper | D.the Internet |
Hundreds of Norwegians sang along to Alexander Rybak’s winning song Fairytale as they walked in the country’s traditional National Day parade (游行) celebrating the Norwegian constitution.
Alexander Rybak — called “Alexander the Great” by the Norwegian media — won a great victory in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) by gaining the most votes in its 53-year history in Moscow on Saturday.
Alexander has played violin and piano since he was five years old, and he also composes his own music and sings. In 2006 he won the Norwegian talent show Kjempesjansen with his own song Foolin. Alexander has performed with one of the world’s most celebrated violinists, Pinchas Zukerman, won the Anders Jahres Culture Price and has been the concertmaster for Norway’s largest symphony orchestra (交响乐队) for youths, Ung Symfoni.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said there was clearly something special about the 23-year-old and his folk music. “This is a phenomenal performance by a young and talented musician,” Stoltenberg said in a statement.
Rybak is expected to draw a large crowd of fans to Oslo’s Gardermoen airport when he arrives next Sunday, after having invited all his countrymen from the stage in Moscow.
With Rybak’s win, Norway will host next year’s Eurovision finals, a show that reaches a television audience of over 100 million people. Norway’s Minister of Culture, Trond Giske, promised that Norway would put on a splendid show next year but without spending as much as Moscow, which spent 24 million euros this year. “I don’t think that is necessary,” he told national broadcaster NRK.
The win was Norway’s third. The Nordic country also won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1985 and 1995.
小题1:What do Norwegians usually do on the country’s National Day?
A. Sing Fairytale. B. Have a parade. C. Hold a song test. D. Watch the ESC.
小题2:Which of the following statements about Rybak is TRUE?
A. He has a lot of fans all over the world.
B. He is the first Norwegian to win the ESC.
C. He is called “Alexander the Great” when he was born.
D. He showed a great talent for music before this ESC.
小题3:The underlined word “phenomenal” in Para. 5 means “____”.
A.very unusual and impressive | B.too special to be understood |
C.with an educational purpose | D.able to draw a large audience |
A.Norway will host next year’s Eurovision finals. |
B.It doesn’t require too much money to win the finals. |
C.Norway is determined to win next year’s Eurovision finals. |
D.It doesn’t require a lot of money to make the finals splendid. |
A.the Eurovision Song Contest belongs to the world |
B.National Day is being celebrated in Norway |
C.Crazy fans expect to meet their idol at the airport in Norway |
D.Norway celebrates a Eurovision win on National Day. |
Had economists been told that oil price would barely pause at $ 100 before reaching the recent peak of nearly $ 127, they would no doubt have forecast terrible economic consequences. But the global economy, though interrupted by the high price of energy, is still chugging along. Meanwhile, inflation has picked up, but the headline rates of inflation (通货膨胀率) in most developed countries are nowhere near the levels seen in the 1970s and 1980s.
There are three explanations for the oil price’s unclear impact. The first is that nowadays developed economies are more efficient in their use of energy, thanks partly to the increased importance of service industries and the diminished role of manufacturing(制造业). According to the Energy Information Administration, the energy intensity of America’s GDP fell by 42% between 1980 and 2007.
A second theory is that the oil-price rise has been steady, not sudden, giving the economy time to adjust. Giovanni Serio of Goldman Sachs points out that in 1973 there was a severe supply shock because of the oil embargo(石油禁运), when the world had to cope with 10%-15% less crude almost overnight. Not this time.
The third explanation turns the argument on its head; rather than oil harming the global economy, it is global expansion that is driving up the price of oil.
The most important factor is the shift in favor of the developing economies. America has responded to high price in familiar fashion: UBS forecasts that demand will drop by 1.1% this year and will be no higher in 2010 than it was in 2004. But the demand from China and other emerging markets is more than offsetting(抵消) this shortfall.
小题1:What is the passage mainly talking about?
A.The prediction of economists. | B.The situation of economy |
C.The increase of oil price | D.The American response to high price |
A.Two | B.Three | C.Four | D.Five |
A.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be very high. |
B.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be higher than it was in 2004. |
C.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be as high as it was in 2004. |
D.In USA, the demand for oil in 2010 will be as low as it was in 2004. |
Cambridge ESOL says the test measures true-to-life ability to communicate in English for education, immigration or employment. The IELTS tests listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. It uses a mixture of accents and spellings, including British English and American English.
The test is used by government agencies, schools and professional organizations in one hundred and twenty countries. And, yes, that includes the United States. The many American schools that accepted the IELTS can be found on the Web at felts.org.
Some schools accept both the TOEFL and the IELTS, but the graduate school at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for example, says it prefers the IEITS.
The listening and speaking parts are the same for everyone who takes the IELTS, but people have a choice of reading and writing tests -- either academic or general training.
The listening test takes thirty minutes. There are forty questions based on a recording. The reading test takes sixty minutes. Students answer forty questions based on three written passages.
The writing test also takes sixty minutes. Students have to write two essays. One essay has to be at least one hundred and fifty words long and the other at least two hundred and fifty words. The shorter one is description of something; the longer one has to support and argument.
The speaking test takes less than fifteen minutes. The score is based on a recorded talk between the student and a test examiner.
And that"s the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. If you have a general question for our series, write to special@voanews.com. I"m Barbara Klein.
小题1:What does TOEFL stand for?
A.The Voice of America | B.The International English Language Testing System |
C.The Test of English as a Foreign Language | |
D.The Test of English as a Native Language |
A.less than 160 minutes | B.more than 165 minutes |
C.no more than 160 minutes | D.less than 166 minutes |
A.IELTS is efficient and necessary if you want to go to English-speaking countries | |
B.IELTS is completely different from TOEFL | |
C.every American needs to accept TOEFL | D.IEITS isn"t used more widely than TOEFL |
A.How can the readers write papers to the VOA programme? |
B.It talks about some ways to pass TOEFL. |
C.It introduces IELTS. |
D.How can the readers pass two kinds of tests? |
Senior Business Editor
You must:
●assist the Business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them;
●be an excellent team person who can generate ideas and think creatively, be able to rewrite totally if needed and give advice to junior staff;
●ideally be working or have worked in a position of responsibility and understand what leadership involves;
●have had at least five years’ editing experience working on editing the Business Desk and be familiar with industry software.
Business Copy-editor
You must:
●work on shifts in the Business Desk and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;
●edit or rewrite copy and give smart headlines and titles;
●have had at least two years’ editing experience working on editing desks and be familiar with industry software.
Copy-editor
You must:
●be good at editing or rewriting copy and writing interesting headlines and explanations;
●be able to work on shifts for different pages, and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;
●have had two years of editing experience working on copy desks, and be familiar with industry software.
Senior Graphic Designer
You must:
●have excellent skills in information graphics;
●be good with illustrations and freehand drawings;
●be experienced in newspaper or magazine layouts(排版);
●have a good sense of typography;
●have good news judgment;
●be well-skilled with Macintosh software: In design; Illustrator, Photoshop;
●be fluent in English.
●For enquiries or to apply, write to job @ chinadaily.com.cn
小题1:Which is NOT required about copy-editor?
A.Being familiar with industry software. |
B.Having two years of editing experience. |
C.Having a good sense of typography. |
D.Writing interesting headlines and captions. |
A.Senior Business Editor. | B.Business copy-editor. |
C.Copy-editor. | D.Senior Graphic Designer |
A.China Daily Needs New Members |
B.China Daily Is very Interesting |
C.China Daily Is an International Team |
D.China Daily Has Good Working Conditions |
A.free accommodations |
B.seven days leave without pay |
C.a return ticket to the country of residence |
D.eleven public holidays |
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