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by side. These cross-cultural partnerships, while beneficial in many ways, are also highlighting tensions
that expose differences in work experience, pay levels and communication.
In the last few years, a growing number of Americans in their 20s and 30s have been heading to China
for employment, attracted by its faster-growing economy and lower jobless rate. Their Chinese co-workers
are often around the same age. But the two groups were raised differently. The Americans have had more
exposure to free-market principles. "Young Americans were brought up in a commercial environment," said
Neng Zhao, 28, a semor associate at Blue Oak Capital, a private firm based in Beijing. "We weren"t. So the
workplace is a unique learning process for my generation."
Managers hiring workers in China appear to be paying for Western experience. Foreigners tend to earn
10 to 15 percent more than their Chinese counterparts (persons working in similar positions), said Michael
Norman, senior vice president at Sibson Consulting, an American firm. That imbalance does not go unnoticed
by Chinese workers. "There is definitely the belief that Americans get paid more for the same work," said
Ting Wang, 25, an associate at WildChina, a travel company based in Beijing. On the other hand, Chinese
workers have a deeper understanding of the influences, like Confucianism"and Communism, which play a
part in their country"s culture and economy.
It is important and necessary for Americans working in China to adjust, said Mr. Norman, who works
on management and work force issues for multinational companies operating in Asia.
"In the West, there is such a bonus on getting things done quickly, but when you come to work in China,
you need to work on listening and being more patient and understanding of local ways of doing business,"
he said.
A. Cross-cultural conflicts.
B. Cross-cultural partnerships.
C. Multinational companies in China.
D. Different pays for the same work.
B. Chinese workers are easier to cooperate
C. they can"t find proper jobs in America
D. the economy of China is developing rapidly
3. What does the underlined word "imbalance" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
B. Different working experience.
C. Unequal opportunities.
D. Different upbringing environment.
A. Americans benefit more from working in China.
B. Chinese and American employees have the same experience.
C. Young Chinese can benefit from cross-cultural partnerships.
D. More Americans working in China causes higher jobless rate.
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other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast your own stories and persona information to as
many people as you like. Started two years ago, it is a big source of information for and about American kids.
Teenagers and their parents feel very differently about it. Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their
parents" worries. It signals yet another generation gap in the digital era.
For teenagers, it is a reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames,
birthdays, after-school jobs, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information.
"MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don"t have all the phone numbers of all my
acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace."
said Abby Van Wassen. She is a sixteen-year-old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace.
"Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace," said Kent Gates, who
travels the country doing Internet safety seminars (研讨会). The National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children has received at least 288 MySpace-related complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in
Pittsburgh.
"Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even
lists this information by birthplace and age. It"s like a free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children,"
Buchanan said.
B. is very careful about people"s privacy
C. encourages you to list your personal information
D. lists the telephone numbers of your friends
B. Because they don"t want to pay so much money for MySpace.
C. Because it takes up too much of their children"s spare time.
D. Because troublemakers can easily approach their children through the site.
B. MySpace often holds parents meetings.
C. MySpace is quite popular-with parents.
D. Parents have lots of questions about the website.
B. positive
C. optimistic
D. objective
and said, "Here are the apples you wanted." She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. "I told you,"
she said slowly, "to buy some eggs."
I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man "I have
seen many people like you. It"s nothing to worry about," he said "If you know you are absent-minded, you
are all right.But if you do not know you"re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble."
"Many famous people were absent-minded," the doctor told me. "Thomas Edison was standing in line
one day to pay his taxes. When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name.
He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was."
I felt much better and got up to leave. "Thank you, doctor," I said. "How much do I have to pay you?"
"Ten dollars for the check-up," the doctor said.
"But doctor, I did not have a check-up!"
For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, "Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had
a check-up. How absent-minded I am!"
B. because he liked telling stories
C. to make the author laugh
D. to make fun of Edison
B. a feeling of sadness
C. an emotion (情绪) of excitement
D. a trouble in which people often forget this or that
B. The author"s wife.
C. The doctor alone.
D. The author and the doctor.
generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never
experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we send
them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminal (晚期的) patients-even when those patients
are their parents. This deprives (剥夺) the dying patient of family members during the last few days of his
life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed about 500 terminal patients in order to find
out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of
their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their
serious illness were quite aware of its potential (潜在的) outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients" communication
in order to truly understand their needs, fears and fantasies (幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another
human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them
shared with us their great need to be informed, to be kept up-to- date on their medical condition and to be
told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were
better able to cope with the coming of detach and finally to reach a true stage, of acceptance before death.
B. are unfamiliar with birth and death
C. usually see the birth or death of a family member
D. have often experienced the fear of death as part of life
B. visit their family members
C. learn how to face death
D. look after the patients
B. his fear of death
C. his unwillingness to die
D. he feels very upset about his condition
B. dying patients are afraid of being told of the coming of death
C. most patients are unable to accept death until it can"t be avoided
D. most doctors and nurses understand what dying patients need
is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total
population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that
happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have falling
eyesight.
Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities.
Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer
time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period
of disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by people"s attitude towards them.
Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or to visit friends,
imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or onto buses and trains. How would you cope
if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice
(偏见) can be even harder to break down and ignorance (无知) inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier
of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it
is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability, not their
disability, that counts.
B. ignorance
C. prejudice
D. barriers
B. being considered
C. being included
D. being numbered
B. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK.
C. The whole society should pay due attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.
D. There no longer exists prejudice against the disabled.
B. both physical and mental barriers are hard to break down
C. we must take a proper attitude towards the disabled
D. the able-bodied people will never fully understand the disabled
almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents. By contrast, only one in eight
university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years ago, research from the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) shows.
It also found that grown-up sons are twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with their parents
in their late 20s.
With nearly a quarter of men approaching 30 still living at home, the findings are bound to lead to claims
of a "generation of mummy"s boys".
Rising housing prices, increasing student debts and the effects of depression on the job market have
forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age when they would normally
_____.
Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been called the"boomerang generation" because
of the trend toward returning to the family home.
Recent research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice as likely to choose to live with their
parents in their late 20s than their counterparts elsewhere in Europe.
But experts warned that the phenomenon may have more to do with young people facing dark future than
simply a desire to save money.
While the percentage of those of university or college age moving out from the family home has continued
to rise in the last 20 years, among those in their mid and late 20s the trend has reversed.
Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents, including more than
760,000 in their late 20s, the ONS figures suggest.
______________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? The survey showed that the number
of young men living in the family home probable doubles that of young women in their late 20s.
______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please
answer within 5 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
4. List three factors that have driven young people back home again based on the passage.( Please answer
within 5 words each).
______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into Chinese.
______________________________________________________________________________________
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