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| cheek, touch, represent, punish, action, approach, chest, misunderstand, curious, agreement, express, general | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. approach 2. cheek 3. chest 4. touch 5. general 6. misunderstanding 7. represents 8. action 9. express 10. agreement | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teenagers in England do much the same as children in America do. They enjoy sending messages by their mobile phones and they also like swimming, listening to the latest music, watching TV and surfing the Internet. How do teenagers in England spend their free time and holidays? Let"s follow Sally, a British teenager, and spend five days with her during her school holiday. Day One After breakfast, Sally"s mother went out and left her alone at home. She checked her mobile phone during lunch -one of her friends sent her a message early in the morning. Dinner was at 6:30 p.m. After that, she finished her English homework. Then she surfed the Internet. Day Two Sally and her mother paid a visit to their friends and went swimming together. Later, they went shopping for clothes and books, and had dinner in a restaurant. Day Three She went to the supermarket with her mother to buy fish and chips for lunch as well as some pens. After she got back home, she spent the next few hours surfing the Internet and watching TV. Day Four She surfed the Internet. Her mother took her out for lunch before she went to work. She then read stories after lunch. Day Five She woke up at 2 p.m., and so did her mother. They went to a park. Her mother met some friends there. When they got home, it was already time for dinner. Afterwards, she did her homework until 10 p.m. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Sally and her mother went shopping again to buy _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. food for lunch and pens B. some books and pens C. some fish and clothes D. food and books | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Which of the following things did Sally do on Day Four? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. She went swimming. B. She went out for breakfast. C. She read books. D. She went shopping. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. According to the passage, it can be inferred that _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. a park is the best place to meet a friend B. parents shouldn"t leave teenagers alone at home C. teenagers don"t usually do their homework during their school holidays D. surfing the Internet has become an important part of teenagers" lives | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| On Easter Day, 1722, Dutch explorers (探索者) landed on Easter Island (复活岛). It was the first time that Easter Islanders had met people from the outside world. The strangers were about to discover something very strange themselves -that they were on an island with hundreds of huge stone statues (雕像). The Dutch explorers wondered where the Islanders had come from and why and how they had built the statues. Now science is putting together the story. The first people to arrive on the island came there around A.D. 700. The society that developed there was based on fishing and farming to feed the population, which grew to 12,000. Its success showed itself in a way that has become the island"s trademark (标记): hundreds of huge stone figures -the moai. None of the moai was standing when scientists first arrived. People put them back up later; but how had a Stone Age society ever made, moved and set them up there in the first place? And why? There are nearly 900 moai on Easter Island, and while the questions about them remain unanswered, no one doubts the years of effort that must have gone into making them. The real killer of the Easter Islanders came from across the ocean. After 1722, it became popular for explorers to visit Easter Island, bringing diseases. The final blow (打击) came in 1862, when slave traders came from Peru and took away 1,500 people, one-third of the population. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Before the Dutch explorers arrived on Easter Island, _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Easter Island was separate from the outside world B. they knew where Islanders had come from C. they discovered something dangerous D. the huge stone statues were upright | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. When the first explorers arrived on the island, they _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. were frightened by the huge stone statues B. were surprised by what they saw C. set many of the moai on the island upright D. fished and farmed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. All researchers agree that _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the natives could hardly support themselves B. the moai must have taken a great effort to make C. the Islanders mainly died of diseases brought by explorers D. the explorers helped the Islanders live better lives | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. The passage implies that _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the Islanders built the moai to show off their success B. the Dutch explorers discovered how the moai had been built C. in 1862, before slave traders came, about 4,500 people were living on Easter Island D. the natives of Easter Island have been there for about 1,200 years | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. "The real killer" in the last paragraph refers to _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the slave traders B. the scientists C. the explorers D. the moai | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face a cold "prospect" of losing their jobs as a global recession(衰退) starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut. Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies survive at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, but build up a more loyal and devoted group. "In the Confucian mindset(儒家思想), the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the sense of collective(集体的)responsibility. While in the West, it"s more about individual survival," said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University (SMU). In contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian groups, job cuts will probably be less severe. Japan"s jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong Kong"s was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last month from below 5 percent in January. Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best practices of rivals from abroad. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. The underlined word "prospect" in the first paragraph most probably means _________. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. weather B. scene C. future D. place | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Compared with job cuts, pay cuts can bring the following benefits EXCEPT that _________. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. it"s helpful to the economy recovery B. it costs the company less money to survive C. it will keep the experienced and skilled workers D. it can form a team working harder and more loyally | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. According to Michael Benoliel, the Confucian mindset focuses on _________. A. human rights B. sharing responsibility C. personal profits D. individual survival | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. In which company can we infer the job cuts will be probably the most severe? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. A local American group. B. A small Japanese company. C. A German branch of a Korean multinational. D. A Hong Kong"s unit of a French company. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. The passage mainly tells us ________. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the difficulties all the companies around the world will meet with today B. the cultural differences between Eastern and Western world at present C. the ways to cut down the cost of the companies in economic downturn D. the different labor solutions of Asian and Western in global recession | ||||||||||||||||||||
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