题目
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More and more people are turning to an utter deception(欺骗) like this to land their first job or to move head in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars(注册主任)at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One lvy League school refers to them as “special cases”, One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”.
To avoid complete lies, some job seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with” a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being as sociated with” a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
小题1:The writer mainly wants to tell us that _______.
A.college degrees can now be purchased easily |
B.it is very hard for people to find jobs |
C.lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem |
D.employers are no longer interested in applicants’ actual performances |
A.thorough | B.careful | C.incomplete | D.spoken |
A.keep the records of them | B.drive them out of college |
C.avoid direct conflicts with them | D.accuse them of such behavior |
A.US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities |
B.University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school |
C.people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in the US easily |
D.people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
小题1:推理判断题。根据第二段More and more people are turning to an utter deception(欺骗) like this to land their first job or to move head in their careers.可知,越来越多的人开始撒谎关于学历。
小题2:猜测词义题,根据第四段的to avoid complete lies可知,此处utter意为complete
小题3:事实细节题,根据第三段的 most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly可知,大部分大学选择不直接冲突。
小题4:事实细节题,根据第二段For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools可知。
核心考点
试题【You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; le】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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“It’s next ‘wow’ vehicle,” said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh. “Anybody can buy a Ferrari, but as we say, Ferraris don’t fly.”
The car-plane has wings that unfold for flying-a process the company says takes one minute-and fold back up for driving. A runway is still required to take off and land.
The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both. The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.
The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly. They say it saves you the trouble from trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports: You drive the car to the airport and then you’re good to go. When you land, you hold up the wings and hit the road. There are no expensive parking fees because you don’t have to store it at an airport-you park it in the garage at home.
The car-plane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds, including fuel and passengers. Thrrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowing pilots to drive under the bad weather instead of flying into marginal(临界的) conditions.
The Transition’s price tag: $194,000. But there may be additional charges for options like a radio, , a transponder or a GPS. Another option is a full-plane parachute.
“If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option.” Gersh said.
So far, the company has more than 70 orders with deposits. “We’re working very closely with them, but there are still some remaining steps,” Brown said.
小题1:We can learn from the first two paragraphs that _________.
A.car-planes will be popular in 2012-4-6 |
B.people might drive a car-plane in 2012 |
C.both the Transition and Ferrari can take off and land |
D.Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts |
A.fold and unfold its wings | B.unfold wings for flying |
C.land in the airport | D.meet flying safety regulations |
A. The car-plane needs a runway to take off and land.
B. To meet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.
C. The car-plane may fly as high as normal planes.
D. People can park the car-plane in the garage at their home.
Renting textbooks is a relatively new idea for everyone. Back in the old days, the idea of renting one never existed since the books are affordable or readily available in libraries. But the time has changed and with the changes in educational system and various economic challenges happening across the globe, the price of textbooks increased.
Given such fact, textbook renting is now a new fashion among college students. Research was made to find out if renting helps one save money and time rather than buying new textbooks and realized that it really is. Let’s examine carefully further and see why renting books is a cost-effective way to still get to have your textbooks without shelling too much money from your pocket.
Gives value for your money
You don’t have to buy all of your textbooks. Those non-major subjects, are better acquired through renting. It saves one money and helps you give out the money you save on some other personal possessions you need in college.
Renting textbooks allows you to save at least 50% off the standard retail (零售) price for each item. You can tell, with a little research, that renting is a lot cheaper compared to buying used books aside from looking way better than the former.
Saves time
You can save a great deal of time when renting a textbook. Instead of browsing your way for hours trying to look for better deals online, you can simply go to a popular book renting marketplace online and just order away. There is literally no need to skimming for hours and see where you can find a great deal. Often, the rental company gives you prepaid postage slip just to get you going and do the same when you decide to return the book.
This process not only saves you time, it also saves other resources like gas if you decide to go to the nearest bookstore to buy books or spend hours using electricity just to find a good deal.
User Friendly
Aside from being able to save money and time, renting textbooks brings convenience to all users. Imagine trying to scan the virtual bookshelf and checking on comments of previous users and figuring out which ones got bad comments and which had great ones. It could be fun at first but if you are short of time, the process can become annoying.
If you rent books, you will only be needing the book’s ISBN number and find it right away. No more time-wasting site search. Type in the ISBN number, order the book, and wait for it to get shipped to your home.
小题1:The reason why people haven’t the habit of renting textbooks in the old days is that ______.
A.the educational system has not changed by now |
B.people can afford books or get books easily in libraries |
C.different economic challenges happen across the world |
D.the price of textbooks is much higher than that of nowadays |
A.saving | B.spending | C.removing | D.wasting |
A.One can save a great deal of time in browsing for better deals online |
B.It brings convenience to all the users apart from saving money and time |
C.The process saves other resources if you don’t go to the nearest bookstore |
D.It saves one money and helps him spend money on what he need most in college |
A.renting textbooks allows you to save a lot of money |
B.renting a textbook can also save you a great deal of time |
C.textbook renting was a relatively new fashion among college students |
D.textbook renting is a money-saving, fun, and, convenient way for college students |
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some degree something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligent. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two twins, they are very likely to be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in touch with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.
小题1:If a child is born with low intelligence, he can ______.
A.become a genius |
B.not reach his intelligence in his life |
C.reach his intelligence limits in rich surroundings |
D.still become a genius if he should be given special education |
A.if we pick any two persons |
B.if we take out two different persons |
C.if we choose two persons who have relations |
D.if we choose two persons with different intelligence |
A.the part that birth plays |
B.the importance of their relations |
C.the importance of their intelligence |
D.the role of environment on intelligence |
A.Surroundings | B.Intelligence |
C.Dependence on Environment | D.Effect of Education |
When we walk through the city, we all experience a kind of information overload but we pay attention only to those that are important to us. We don’t stop, we keep our faces expressionless and eyes straight ahead, and in doing so, we are not just protecting ourselves but are avoiding overloading other people as well.
We make use of stereotypes as convenient ways to make quick judgments about situations and people around us. They may not always be accurate, and they can often be dangerously wrong, but they are used regularly.
The problem with the stereotypes is that they restrict experience. By using limited clues to provide us with a rapid opinion of other people or places we may choose to limit our communication. We may decide not to go to certain places because we believe they will not offer something we enjoy.
In the city, styles of dress are particularly important with regard to self-presentation. Different groups often use clearly identifiable styles of clothes so that they can be easily recognized. It is becoming increasingly common for brand names to be placed on the outside of clothes, and this labeling makes it easy to send out information about fashion and price instantly, and lets other tell at a distance whether an individual has similar tastes and is a suitable person to associate with.
In England, where social grouping or class continues to make social distinctions, clothes, hairstyles, people’s pronunciation and the manner of speaking are all clues to our social group. Class distinctions tend to be relatively fixed, although in the city where greater variety is permitted, they are more likely to be secondary determining factors of friendship and association.
小题1:People walking in cities ignore the surroundings because _________________.
A.they do not wish to talk to other people |
B.everyone else is expressionless |
C.the environment is already familiar to them |
D.there is too much information to get |
A.are likely to lead us into dangerous situations |
B.may make us miss some pleasant experience |
C.can rarely be relied on |
D.make us mentally lazy |
A.stereotypes can help to understand people fully |
B.people are becoming more interested in fashion |
C.dressing can send messages about individuals |
D.stereotypes can do more harm than good to people |
A.might be less important in making friends in a city |
B.is mainly determined by his pronunciation |
C.plays less of a role than it did in the past |
D.is something that can be changed easily |
Shopping is not as simple as you think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.
Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packages in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive foods, like chocolates, are gold and silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging.
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”
小题1:Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?
A.The cost of its package. |
B.The price of the product. |
C.The color of its package. |
D.The brand name of the product. |
A.attracted the customers strongly |
B.had weak effect on the customers |
C.tricked the customers into shopping |
D.caused the customers to lose interest |
A.Choice of Good Products |
B.Disadvantages of Products |
C.Effect of Packaging on Shopping |
D.Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
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