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messages may seem like a relic from a bygone age. Yet in East Africa,simple phones like these are changing
the face of the economy, thanks to the mobile money services that are spreading across the region.
Using the text-messaging function built into the GSM system (全球通) used by most cell phone networks,
these services allow people without a bank account or credit card to use their phone as an electronic wallet that
can be used to store. send or receive cash.
It works like this: you pay cash to your local agent who then tops up your mobile money account using a
secure form of text messaging. That money can be transferred (转账) to another person by sending a message
to their cell phone account.
For some the system is a lifeline."If I didn,t have my mobile phone. I would be very poor,"says Neyasse
Neemur, a mother of four children who lives in northern Kenya."Now I can sell fish."
Neemur took up fishing in July last year, but making money from it was a little tricky, especially as
Turkana people do not usually eat fish. A truck from Ethiopia to Tanzania passes through her village once a
week, and she arranged to have the driver transport the fish several hundred kilometres south to market in
Kisumu, where her relatives sell the fish.
"I get the money transfer immediately." says Neemur."Then I can pay for my children to go to school
and for vegetables and beans," she adds,"so I don"t need to eat fish."
According to the Central Bank of Kenya, payments worth around l billion Kenyan shillings ($13 million)
per day were transferred through Kenya,s mobile money systems in 2009, equalling the country,s credit card
transactions (业务). The bank expects mobile money transfers to overtake credit cards in 2011.
B. introduce a topic
C. describe a scene
D. offer an argument
B. They will replace the banks completely in the near future.
C. They provide a safe means for the locals to do business.
D. They can do nothing except send and receive calls or messages.
B. the mobile money service
C. the credit card service
D. the cell phone networks
B. Neemur uses her mobile phone to contact her customers
C. her relatives tricks Turkana people to eat the fish they sell
D. the Bank of Kenya helps her improve her living condition
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it. Email is a useful tool but many feel controlled by this new tool. The average business person is getting
about 80 emails per day and many feel that about 80%of the messages in their in box are of little or no value.
So, I have four suggestions to help you to become better at “Erasing Email”
1.get off the lists. The best way to deal with a problem is to never have it. If you are receiving a lot of
unwanted emails, ask to be removed from the various lists. This would include your inclusion in unwanted
lists.
2. “unlisted address”. Just as you keep an unlisted telephone number that you share only with those
whom you want to have direct access to , you might want to get a separate email address only for the
important communications you wish to receive.
3.check it once or twice per day. Many I speak with are becoming chained to their email server,
monitoring incoming email continuously. Maybe this is because email creates its own sense of urgency, but
most of the communications are not all that urgent. I respond to them a couple of times per day.
4. deal with it. As you open each email, do one of the following:
a. if it requires a quick response, respond to it and delete it.
b. if it requires a response but is not the best use of your time, try to find someone else to do it.
c. if it is going to take any serious amount of time to respond, schedule it for action in your day planner
and then download the message, save it, or print it out for future action.
I personally receive about 250 emails per day and by practising the suggestions above, I can handle that
volume in about an hour, taking advantage of this fantastic tool but not being controlled by it to make sure
I"m doing more important tasks in my day.
B. put them into unwanted lists
C. send them to a special address
D. ask to be deleted from different lists
B. have several email servers for them
C. get a separate email address for them
D. get an unlisted phone number for them
B. reply to all of them at the same time
C. handle them a couple of times daily
D. keep replying to emails all day long
B. downloading every email before you reply
C. scheduling it for later reply if it takes much time
D. asking someone else to reply to it if it"s not at your convenience
In Britain and other countries, young people sometimes take a gap year, a year off between high school
and college. This idea never gained a big following in America. Recent news reports have suggested that
interest may be growing , though there are no official numbers.
Charles Deacon, Dean of Admissions at Georgetown University in Washington, DC estimate that in the
current first-year class of 1600 students, only about 25 decided to take a year off. He says this number hasn"t
changed much over the years.
Mr.Deacon says the most common reason for taking a gap year is to have a chance to travel, but he says
inernational students may take a gap year to meet requirements at home for military duty.
Some high school graduates see a year off as a chance to recover after twelve years of required education,
but it can also give students a chance to explore their interests. Students hoping to be doctors, for example,
could learn about the profession by volunteering in a hospital. Many colleges and universities support gap-year
projects by permitting students to delay their admission. Experts say students can grow emotionally and
intellectually as they work at something they enjoy.
The Harvard admissions office has an essay on its Web site called “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next
Generation.” It praises the idea of taking time off to step back, think and enjoy gaining life experiences
outside the pressure of studies. It also notes that students are sometimes admitted to Harvard or other colleges
partly because they did something unusual with that time.
Of couse, a gap year is not for everyone. Students might miss their friends who go on directly to college ,
and parents might worry that their children will decide not to go to college once they take time off. Another
concern is money. A year off, away from home, can be costly.
Holly Bull"s job is to specialize in helping students plan their gap year. She notes that several books have
been written about this subject. She says these books along with media attention and the availability of
information on the Internet have increased inerest in the idea of a year off, and she points out that many
gap-year programs cost far less than a year of college.
B. More and more American students are choosing to take a year off.
C. It is likely that taking a gap year is becoming popular in America.
D. Americans hold different opinions towards students taking a gap year.
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
B. some famous universities encouage students to gain more life experiences
C. taking a gap year can make students free from life learning
D. the stress of studies does harm to the students" health
B. Books and media have contributed to the students" inerest in school learning
C. Parents might disagree with the program, concerned about their children"s future.
D. Experts agree taking a year off will benefit the students emotionally and physically.
itself is alive and thriving (兴盛)。As Skolnick notes, Americans are marrying people-relative to
Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s,
the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this
pro-marriage context: some 80percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far,
the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American
family consisted of a husband, a wife and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which
couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the
children are from the wife"s previous marriage, or the husband"s, or both. Sometimes these children spend
all their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former
spouses.
Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages
with children from only the present marriage; marriages with full time children from the present marriage and
part time children from former marriages. These are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters.
It is not all the unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! There are enormous changes
from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, one thing remains constant: most
Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C. there are more married couples in USA than in Europe
D. Americans are more traditional than Europeans.
B. Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D. There are no nuclear families any more.
B. most Americans prefer a second marriage
C. the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
D. marriage is still enjoyed by all Americans.
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
before.
But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when
on line 1 imagine how you"d feel if you were in the other person"s shoes.
For anything you"re about to send, ask yourself,"Would I say this to the person"s face?" if the answer is no,
rewrite and reread. 2
If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so. 3 if it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely
discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.
4 offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it"s a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about
it. If it"s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Have good manners yourself doesn"t give you license to correct everyone else. 5 at the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.
It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as age, sex, and marital status. Unless you know the
person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don"t ask such questions.
B. if you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely
C. It"s natural that there are some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online
D. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated
E. You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages
F. When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to hear
G. Repeat the process till you feel sure that you"d feel comfortable saying words to a person"s face
sand. Almost 20 percent of this area is well below sea level, and Badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280
feet below sea level and the lowest point in the United States.
Long ago the Panamint Indians called this place “Tomesha”- the land of fire. Death Valley"s present
name dates back to 1849, when a group of miners coming across from Nevada became lost in its
unpleasantness and hugeness and their adventure turned out to be a sad story. Today Death Valley has
been declared a National Monument and is crossed by several well-marked roads where good services can
be found easily. Luckily the change created by human settlement has hardly ruined the special beauty of this
place.
Here nature created a lot of surprising scenes, almost like the sights on the moon, ever-changing as the
frequent wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. One of the most astonishing and
colorful parts of Death Valley is the Devil"s Golf Course, where it seems hard for one to tell reality from
dreams. Sand sculptures stand-on a frightening ground, as evening shadows move and lengthen.
B. the death of the miners
C. the local people
D. a National Monument
B. it"s still not easy to travel across the desert
C. people can find gas-stations, cafes and hotels in the desert
D. people have changed the natural sight of the desert
B. the moon-like sights
C. the dream-like sights
D. the ever-changing sights
B. is fearful of
C. dislikes
D. is tired of
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