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their working lives, research has shown.
You won"t be surprised to learn that women spend 18 months longer than men on the phone-who only
chat for an average of three years.
Both sexes make and receive almost the same number of calls - 277,000 for men and 288,000 for women.
But women spend 13,500 more hours in total on their conversations.
More than half of those chats are work-related but people spend on average twice as long on a personal
call (10 minutes ) as on a business one.
Despite the explosion in mobile phone ownership, most people still prefer to use landlines, the poll (民意调查) found.
However, when people are tired of talking, the top excuse for getting a caller off the line is to say
"Someone"s at the door." Other favourites include "I"m cooking" and "I need to go to the toilet".
Eight out of ten phone users admitted not answering their phones on purpose if they did not want to speak
to the caller.
One in three people thought calls after 10 pm were unacceptable but a quarter of those polled said they did
not mind calls up to midnight.
Two-thirds admitted they had people in their address books who they should ring but never got round to
doing so.
Joseph Blass, managing director of telecom company Toucan, said, "As a nation, we love to chat on the
phone but it is quite astonishing when we look at the total number of calls we make in a lifetime."
B. Women make and receive the same number of calls as men do.
C. On average, work-related calls are only half as long as personal calls.
D. Usually a call made by a man is longer than one by a woman.
she probably means ________.
B. he/she wants to stop chatting
C. he/she is too tired to talk any longer
D. he/she must go to open the door for someone
B. 80% of people always refuse to answer a phone call
C. people never ring the people in their address books
D. Joseph Blass was one of the people who were polled
B. people in many countries love to chat on the phone
C. people insist on often phoning their family and friends
D. the amount of time people spend on the phone was unexpected
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试题【阅读理解。 It"s enough to give anyone an earache. Women spend an average of about】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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designed, data are analyzed, and results are evaluated and shared with other investigators. Group work is
necessary, and is usually more productive than working alone.
Several times throughout the year you may be asked to work with one or more of your classmates.
Whatever the task your group is assigned, a few rules need to be followed to ensure a productive and
successful experience.
What comes first is to keep an open mind, because everyone"s ideas deserve consideration and each group
member can make his or her own contribution. Secondly, it makes a job easier to divide the group task among
all group members. Choose a role on the team that is best suited to your particular strengths. Thirdly, always
work together, take turns, and encourage each other by listening, clarifying, and trusting one another. Mutual
support and trust often makes a great difference.
Activities like investigations are most effective when done by small groups. Here are some more suggestions for effective team performance during these activities: Make sure each group member understands and agrees
to the task given to him or her, and everyone knows exactly when, why and what to do; take turns doing
various tasks during similar and repeated activities; be aware of where other group members are and what they
are doing so as to ensure safety; be responsible for your own learning, though it is by no means unwise to
compare your observations with those of other group members.
After you"ve completed a task with your team, make an evaluation of the team"s effectiveness-the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and challenges.
| Title | Working together |
| Theme | Effective performance needs highly cooperated 1 . |
| Importance | Group work is necessary, and is often more productive than working 2 your own. |
| General rules needing 3 | Keep an open mind to everyone"s 4 . Divide the group task among group members. 5 and trust each other. |
| 6 | Understand and agree to the 7 task of one"s own. Do various tasks in 8 . Show concern for others to ensure safety. Take 9 for one"s own learning. Compare your own observations with those of others. |
| Evaluating effectiveness | Analyze the 10 and weaknesses. Find out the opportunities and challenges. |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| A lot of us lose life"s tough battles by starting a frontal attack-when a touch of humor might well enable us to win. Consider the case of a young friend of mine, who hit a traffic jam on his way to work shortly after receiving an ultimatum (最后通牒) about being late on the job. Although there was a good reason for Sam"s being late-serious illness at home-he decided that this by-now-familiar excuse wouldn"t work any longer. His supervisor was probably already pacing up and down preparing a dismissal speech. Yes, the boss was. Sam entered the office at 9:35. The place was as quiet as a locker room; everyone was hard at work. Sam"s supervisor came up to him. Suddenly, Sam forced a grin and stretched out his hand. "How do you do!" he said. "I"m Sam Maynard. I"m applying for a job, which, I understand, became available just 35 minutes ago. Does the early bird get the worm?" The room exploded in laughter. The supervisor clamped off a smile and walked back to his office. Sam Maynard had saved his job-with the only tool that could win, a laugh. Humor is a most effective, yet frequently neglected, means of handling the difficult situations in our lives. It can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying "no", criticizing, getting the other fellow to do what you want without his losing face. For some jobs, it"s the only tool that can succeed. It is a way to discuss subjects so sensitive that serious dialog may start a quarrel. For example, many believe that comedians on television are doing more today for racial and religious tolerance than people in any other forum. | |
| 1. Why was Sam late for his job? | |
| A. Because he was ill. B. Because he was caught in a traffic jam. C. He was busy applying for a new job. D. Because he got up late. | |
| 2. The phrase "clamped off" in Paragraph 3 means ____. | |
| A. burst into B. tried to set up C. tried to hold back D. gave out | |
| 3. Which of the following statements can we infer from the passage? | |
| A. Sam was supposed to come to his office at 8:30. B. It wasn"t the first time that Sam came late for his work. C. Humor is the most effective way of solving problems. D. All people lose life"s battles for they are lacking in a sense of humor. | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| We have designed all our bank cards to make your life easier. How to use your NatWest Servicecard. As a Switch card, it lets you par for all sorts of goods and services, wherever you see the Switch logo. The money comes straight out of your account, so you can spend as much as you like as long as you have enough money or an agreed overdraft (透支) to cover it. It is also a cheque guarantee (担保) for up to the amount shown on the card. And it gives you free access to your money from over 31,000 each machines across the UK. How to use your NatWest Cashcard You can use your Cashcard as a Solo card to pay for goods and services wherever you see the Solo logo. It can also give you access to your account and your cash from over 31,000 cash machines nationwide. You can spend or withdraw (提取) what you have in your account, or as much as your agreed overdraft limit. Using your cards abroad You can also use your Servicecard and Cashcard when you"re abroad. You can withdraw cash machines and pay for goods and services wherever you acc the Cirrus or Maestro logo displayed. We take a commission charge (手续费) of 2.25% of cash withdrawal you make (up to &4) and a commission. Charge of 75 pence every time you use Maestro to pay for goods or services. We also apply a foreign-exchange transaction fee of 2.65%. How to use your Nat West Credit Card With your credit card you can do the following: * Pay for goods and services and enjoy up to 56 days interest-free credit. * Pay in over 24 million shops worldwide that display the Mastercard or Visa logos. * Collect one AIR MILE for every ￡20 of spending that appears on your statement (结算单). (This does not include foreign currency or traveler"s cheques bought,interest and other charges.) | |
| 1. If you carry the Servicecard or the Cashcard, _____. | |
| A. you can draw your money from cash machines conveniently B. you can use it to guarantee things as you wish C. you can spend as much money as you like without a limit D. you have to pay some extra money when you pay for services in the UK | |
| 2. If you withdraw ￡200 from a cash machine abroad,you will be charged _____. | |
| A. ￡4.5 B. ￡5.25 C. ￡4 D. ￡5.3 | |
| 3. Which of the following is TRUE about using your NatWest Credit Card? | |
| A. You have to pay back with interest within 56 days. B. You will be charged some interest beyond two months. C. You can use the card in any shop across the world. D. You will gain one air mile if you spend ￡20 on traveler"s cheques. | |
| 4. The purpose of the passage is to show you how to _____. | |
| A. pay for goods with your cards B. use your cards abroad C. draw cash with your cards D. play your cards right | |
| 阅读理解。 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 | |
| Question: I have been learning English for about 7 years. 1 And I still can"t make myself understood in English. However, I love learning English. How can I learn English well? Please help me. Answer: Many people have asked me this question. 2 Here I will give you several tips for learning English. 3 First of all, you must want to learn. If you are not interested in learning English, no class will help you and no book will help you. So you have to be honest with yourself. Ask yourself, "Do I really want to learn English?" If you can"t answer "yes" to this question, it is better for you to set English aside until you"re ready and willing to learn. Set goals(目标) To learn English well, you must set some goals. 4 It will also help you to see your progress. Ask yourself,"What are my goals? What areas would I like to improve?" Think about what your goals are, and review once in a while to see that you are making progress toward your goals. Practice, practice, and practice. After you have set your goals, you have a better idea of what you need to practice. Just like the athlete whose goal is the Olympics must train daily, you as a language leaner must practise language every day to make progress toward your goal. 5 | |
| A. Want to learn. B. I think it is not easy to learn it well. C. Make friends with some Americans online. D. Reading is a very good way to learn new words. E. The answers are as different as the people asking the question. F. The more you practise, the more progress you will make. G. Having goals will help you remember what areas you want to work on. | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in themselves, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels. The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions (服装), sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing. A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains (包 含) a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs, the first paragraph is in fact a summary (总结) of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subjects. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas (引号). Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting. | |
| 1. The easiest way to get today"s news is _______. | |
| A. to go to the cinema B. to watch a color TV C. to read today"s newspaper D. to listen to the music over radio | |
| 2. Newspaper sell well mainly because_______. | |
| A. they cost very little B. they are easy to get C. they have got pictures to go with the news D. they provide all sorts of news in them | |
| 3. If you want to get enough information about yesterday"s traffic accident within a very short time, you"d better ______. | |
| A. read the first paragraph of the news report in today"s newspaper B. start from the second paragraph of the news report in today"s newspaper C. look through the whole news report in today"s newspaper D. talk with people who have seen the accident | |
| 4. To interest more people, a news reporter ______. | |
| A. usually produces amusing news B. always writes very short news reports C. often prints pictures to go with the news D. sometimes provides long and important news | |
| 5. This passage mainly talks about ______. | |
| A. different types of reports B. news reports C. happenings to people and their surroundings D. the length of a news report |