Mark Zukerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, an extremely popular social working website that started in the United States.
Now, millions of student users visit Facebook daily and the website is one of the top ten widely visited sites on the Internet worldwide. College and high school students use Facebook to communicate with friends and share both information and pictures for free. The company earns money through advertising.
Many other companies have been rumored(谣传）to be interested in buying Facebook. Just a few years after Mark started the company, he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo. Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning. He knows the value of the company could fall down; however, he is in this to build something unbelievable, not be bought out by another company.
Maybe he was smart. Now Facebook is rumored to be worth billions of dollars and bigger companies like Microsoft or Google want a share of the company. Some private firms are also interested. Facebook could sell 15billion dollars if Mark decides to sell it at all. Perhaps Mark will just keep working from his California office to continue his dream of building something cool.
小题1:.Facebook makes money from _____ .| A．members | B．advertisements | C．pictures | D．students |
小题2:.Terry Semel was the CEO of _______.| A．Microsoft | B．Facebook | C．Google | D．Yahoo |
小题3:.Which of the following words best describes Mark Zukerberg according to the passage?| A．Determined | B．Humorous | C．Gentle | D．Selfless |
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小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A |
试题分析：
小题1:.B 细节题。根据第一段最后一句The company earns money through advertising.说明B正确。
小题2:D 细节题。根据第三段第二行he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo说明D正确。
小题3:A 推理题。根据第三段2,3,4行Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning.说明他坚持自己的理想，不想出售Facebook。故A正确。
点评：文章介绍了著名的社交网站Facebook的CEO Mark Zukerberg坚持自己的理想创办Facebook的故事。告诉我们做任何事情都要坚持，坚持自己的理想不放送就会有很好的结果。本文考查的细节题较多，不能以自己的观点代替作者的观点，推理的根据来自于上下文，同时根据词义关系推断具体细节。 |
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We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed — no examination is perfect — but to have no tests or examination would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them — a form of favouritism will replace equality at the moment. The bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defense of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
小题1: The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that .| A．bright children also need certificates to get satisfying jobs. | | B．poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets. | | C．children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs. | | D．children attending ordinary schools achieve great success. |
小题2:. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author?| A．Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. | | B．There would be more opportunities and excellence. | | C．Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. | | D．Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation. |
小题3:. The opponents of the examination system will agree that .| A．jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection | | B．computers should be selected to take over many jobs. | | C．special classes are necessary to keep the school standards | | D．schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
小题4:. The passage mainly focuses on .| A．schools and certificates | B．examination and equality | | C．opportunity and employment | D．standards and reputation |
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Holiday Inns and McDonald’s. both saw unmatched growth in the 1960s. Their growth opened another direct business operation—franchising.
These operations have the same general pattern. The franchisor, the parent company, first establishes a successful retail business. As it expands, it sees a profit potential in offering others the right to open similar business under its name. The parent company’s methods and means of identification with consumers are included in this right. The parent company supplies skill, and may build and rent stores to franchisees. For these advantages the franchisee pays the franchisor a considerable fee. However, some of the advantages and disadvantages are different.
By extending a “proven” marketing method, a parent can profit in several ways. First, the franchisee’s purchase price gives the parent an immediate return on the plan. Then the sale of supplies to the franchisee provides a continuing source of profits. As new businesses are added and the company’s reputation spreads, the values of the franchise increases and sales of franchises become easier. The snowballing effect can be dramatic. Such growth, too, bring into play the economies of scale. Regional or national advertising that might be financially impossible for a franchisor with 20 franchises could be profitable for one with 40.
The parent, then, finds immediate gains from the opportunity to expand markets on the basis of reputation alone, without having to put up capital or take the risk of owning retail stores. Added to this advantage is a less obvious but material one, Skilled, responsible retail managers are rare. People who invest their capital in franchises, though, probably come closer to the ideal than do paid managers. In fact, the franchisee is an independent store operator working for the franchisor, but without an independent’s freedom to drop supplies at will. Of course the factory’s costs of selling supplies are less. But also certainly the franchisee buying goods that have had broad consumer acceptance will not casually change supplies, even when the contract permits. If the hamburger is not what the customer expected, they may not return. Having paid for the goodwill, the franchisee won’t thoughtlessly destroy it.
小题1: Franchising refers to a business operation in which a successful parent company .| A．sells name-brand goods to a private investor | | B．rents proven ideas and techniques for investment | | C．sells the right, the guidance to a business under its name | | D．takes no advertising responsibility for individual investors |
小题2:. The advantages of franchising to the parent company are all the following EXCEPT .| A．an immediate investment return | | B．the profit from the sale of supplies | | C．the ownership of additional retail stores | | D．the possibility of profitable advertising |
小题3: The passage mainly tells the reader .| A．the advantages and disadvantages of franchising | | B．the benefits of franchising to the franchisor | | C．the unmatched economic growth in the 1960’s | | D．some regional and national business operation |
小题4:. What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?| A．More advantages of franchising. | | B．Negative aspects related to franchising. | | C．The standard of consumer acceptance. | | D．Risks of investment besides franchising |
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Recently, a professor of philosophy in the U. S. has written a book called Money and the Meaning of Life. He has discovered that how we 41 money in our day-to-day life has more meaning than we usually think. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to 42 every penny they spend for a week. 43 they spend their money, they can see what they really 44 in life.
He says our relation with others often becomes clearly 45 when money enters the picture. You might have 46 with somebody and you think that you are very good friends. But you will 47 him only when you ask him to lend you some money. If he does, it brings 48 to the friendship that seems stronger than ever before. Or it can suddenly 49 the friendship if he doesn’t.
Since money is so important to us, we consider those who possess a lot of it 50 very important. The author interviewed some millionaires for 51 . Question: What is 52 thing you have discovered about being rich, because you are a self-made man? Answer: What makes me surprised most is how people give me 53 . I am nothing. I don’t know much. All I 54 money
People just 55 making more and more money, but what is it 56 ? How much do I need for a given purpose in my life? In his book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society: to bring back 57 that money is an instrument 58 the end． 59 plays an important role in the material world, but expecting money to give happiness may be 60 the meaning of life.
| 小题1: | | A．get through | B．deal with | C．give away | D．look after |
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| 小题2: | | A．keep a record of | B．run out of | C．keep up with | D．use up |
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| 小题3: | | A．In this way | B．By this means | C．By the way | D．From the way |
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| 小题4: | | A．insist | B．value | C．dream | D．offer |
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| 小题5: | | A．doubtful | B．uncertain | C．definite | D．distrustful |
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| 小题6: | | A．poor relation | B．a quarrel | C．words | D．wonderful friendship |
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| 小题7: | | A．know | B．recognize | C．respect | D．admire |
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| 小题8: | | A．everything | B．nothing | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题9: | | A．strengthen | B．weaken | C．threaten | D．protect |
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| 小题10: | | A．is | B．to be | C．being | D．is to be |
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| 小题11: | | A．his family | B．his friends | C．much money | D．his book |
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| 小题12: | | A．the most surprising | B．the less surprising | | C．the most surprised | D．a most surprising |
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| 小题13: | | A．so less respect | B．so much respect | | C．so much money | D．so much envy |
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| 小题14: | | A．have is | B．am has | C．have but | D．am to be |
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| 小题15: | | A．pay no attention to | B．make no sense of | | C．have an idea of | D．lose consciousness of |
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| 小题16: | | A．against | B．by | C．beyond | D．for |
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| 小题17: | | A．the design | B．the idea | C．the plan | D．the argument |
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| 小题18: | | A．rather than | B．more than | C．other than | D．less than |
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| 小题19: | | A．Spirit | B．Friendship | C．Money | D．Character |
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| 小题20: | | A．missing | B．getting | C．receiving | D．understanding |
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Spring is a wonderful season to celebrate rebirth and new life. The long, cold winter is over. The weather is warmer and sunnier. The trees again have leaves and the flowers are blooming. The season represents hope, joy and beauty. At this time, many people think of this classical music piece — Spring, which shows happiness. Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi wrote it in the seventeen hundred.
However, not all songs about spring are happy. This song written and sung by K.D. Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places. She recorded I Dream of Spring in 2008.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote It Might as Well Be Spring for the movie State Fair in 1945. Frank Sinatra sings it. It is a feeling of restlessness or excitement brought on by the coming of spring. Richard Rodgers also wrote Spring Is Here, this time with Lorenz Hart. Ella Fitzgerald sings this song about feeling lonely during this season.
Frank Loesser wrote the sad song, Spring Will be a Little Late This Year. Why has the season been delayed? Because the singer’s lover has left her. Sarah Vaughn released(发行) her version of the song in 1953.
By now you may be thinking, “Enough with the sad songs, already!” Ok, then how about a cowboy song? Gene Autry was one of America’s most famous singing cowboys. He recorded When It’s Springtime in the Rockies in 1937.
And finally, we’ll leave you with a sunny song called Up Jumped Spring. Freddie Hubbard wrote this jazz song in 1977 and Billy Taylor Trio performs it.
小题1: If you are in a bad mood, you’d better listen to _____.| A．Up Jumped Spring | B．I Dream of Spring | | C．Spring Is Here | D．Spring Will be a Little Late This Year |
小题2: It Might as Well Be Spring is a song that ______.| A．is also called State Fair | B．is sung by Ella Fitzgerald | | C．has a lonely feeling | D．was written by two people |
小题3: According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Most songs about spring are written by Italian composers.
B. K.D. Lang was good at writing happy songs.
C. Sarah Vaughn sang the song Up Jumped Spring first.
D. Gene Autry was a famous cowboy singer before K.D. Lang.
小题4: Which of the following songs was first written or recorded?| A．Spring. | | B．I Dream of Spring. | | C．When It’s Springtime in the Rockies. | | D．Spring Will be a Little Late This Year. |
小题5: What’s the purpose of the author to write the passage?| A．Introduce some songs about spring. | | B．Introduce some wonderful music. | | C．Introduce some famous singers. | | D．Express his/ her love to spring. |
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The history of modern art begins with Impressionism, a movement started in Paris in the mid-1800’s. At that time many artists painted in a very traditional way that involved spending hours in a studio, painstakingly (辛苦地) creating paintings that were extremely detailed. These paintings were sometimes of people or landscapes or historical events. In 1863, Edouard Manet exhibited his painting “Dejeuner sur l’erbe” at the Salon des Refuses. The painting caused a commotion (***动), thus starting the Impressionist movement. Although Edouard Manet is the declared leader and founder of the group, he was not present at the first group exhibition or any of the other eight collective Impressionist shows. The movement gained more attention in the April of 1874 when Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Jean-Frédéric Bazille formed Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and began exhibiting outside of the official salon. The same year, the term Impressionism was invented by criticizing (批评的) journalist Louis Leroy to describe their paintings, who worked for the magazine Le Charivari.
The Impressionists often paint out of doors and want to show how light and shadow fall on objects at particular times of the day. Their works are sometimes described as “captured moments” and are characterized by short quick brushstrokes (笔) of colour which, when viewed up close looks quite messy and unreal. If we step back from the Impressionist paintings, the colours are blended together by our eyes and we are able to see the painters’ subjects which often show colourful landscapes, sunlight on water as well as people busy with outdoor activities.
小题1:Before Impressionism, the works of artists were .| A．quite abstract | B．very confusing | | C．very detailed | D．quite controversial |
小题2:Who first started Impressionism? ___________| A．Claude Monet. | B．Edouard Manet. | | C．Auguste Renoir. | D．Alfred Sisley. |
小题3: The works of the Impressionists are best viewed .| A．with imagination | B．at a distance | | C．outdoors | D．in a studio |
小题4:The second paragraph is mainly about ______.| A．the painting style of the Impressionists | | B．how to describe the Impressionist paintings | | C．the influences of the Impressionist paintings | | D．the subjects of the Impressionist paintings |
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