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From: Keith Wilson
Date: Thursday, October 23
Subject: Mr. Charlie McGreger's resignation
Thank you all for a very productive meeting this morning. This message confirms our agreement on the main points of the media report Santos Ltd. will release to the press at 5 P.M. this afternoon.
The report will be brief and to the point. It will announce Mr. Charlie McGreger's resignation and the appointment of his replacement. There will be no references to Mr. Charlie McGreger's reasons for resigning his position. Mr. Charlie McGreger has asked us to respect his privacy and we intend to do that.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Keith Wilson
President, Santos, Ltd.
Change in Leadership at Santos, Ltd.
Press release
October 23, 17:00
Santos, Ltd. has just announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer Charlie McGreger, effective immediately.
Since taking over leadership of Santos, Ltd. 8 years ago, Mr. Charlie McGreger has built relationships with major film and broadcast studios, including its recent collaboration with Morin Film Works.
Mr. Norman Winter, Head of Human Resources Department at Santos, Ltd., said, "Mr. Charlie McGreger led our company through considerable progress. We owe a lot of business success to him. And we'll be forever grateful for his insight and initiatives."
Ms. Jackie Johnson, a Creative Director of Breaking Entertainment, will assume the position vacated by Mr. Charlie McGreger. Prior to Breaking Entertainment 5 years ago, Ms. Jackie Johnson worked at Grimm Brother' s marketing and advertising departments. After appointed to Santos, Ltd., she will focus on expanding television, radio and finance industries. A short biography of Ms. Jackie Johnson and a list of her professional achievements can be found at web site www.santos.com.
What is the main purpose of Mr. Keith Wilson' s e-mail?
A.To plan collaboration with film studios
B.To confirm details of an announcement
C.To gain employee feedback on a broad range of current issues
D.To announce new positions at the company
When did Egypts Cabinet submit its resignation to the military-led government?
A.On Sunday.
B.On Monday.
C.On Tuesday.
D.On Wednesday.
A.away
B.for
C.with
D.to
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文: Lebanon's staunchly pro-Syrian president said he intends to remain in office, rejecting opposition demands for him to step down in the wake of the slaying of an anti-Syrian journalist.
The anti-Syrian opposition stepped up calls for President Emile Lahoud's resignation after journalist Samir Kassir was killed last week by a bomb that destroyed his car. The opposition blamed Damascus, along with the president and pro-Syrian elements in the Lebanese security services, for Kassir's death.
The opposition had planned a march Monday but postponed the demonstration Sunday until parliamentary elections are over.
Lebanon is in the midst of parliamentary elections that the anti-Syrian opposition hopes will end Damascus' control of the legislature. Beirut voted on May 29 and southern Lebanon on Sunday. The process runs for another two Sundays.
Lahoud, who has condemned the killing of Kassir, lashed out at the accusations against him Sunday, saying the attacks were "political campaigning par excellence, part of electioneering whose perpetrators know no limits."
"I have pledged to the Lebanese...Lebanon's unity, sovereignty, its independence and the safety of its land," he said. "I affirm this pledge until the last minute of my constitutional term, exactly as I pledge to re spect public freedoms, first and foremost the freedom of expression and belief."
Demands for the long-serving president to resign intensified after Syria pulled its troops out of Lebanon in April, ending three decades of political and military control. The withdrawal followed mass protests and heavy international pressure on Damascus after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
From the report, we can infer that the parliamentary election lasts at least ______.
A.one day
B.two days
C.one week
D.two weeks
The mistake made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT has led to
A.an experience of humiliation.
B.the resignation of head of the Board.
C.more or less a crisis of trust.
D.the breakdown of computer systems.
Present Kibaki has called for patience of the investigation of the scandals because
A.he didn't want to approve the resignation of Education Minister.
B.the resigned officials wanted the opportunity to prove their innocence.
C.he thinks corruption hasn't reached high levels of the government.
D.John Githongo gave testimony to visiting Kenya members of Parliament.
10. Motion of No Confidence A motion of no-confidence, or a vote of no confidence, or confidence motion, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility (government, managerial, etc.) is no longer deemed fit to hold that position, perhaps because they are inadequate in some aspect, are failing to carry out obligations, or are making decisions that other members feel detrimental. As a parliamentary motion, it demonstrates to the head of state that the elected parliament no longer has confidence in (one or more members of) the appointed government. In some countries, if a no confidence motion is passed against an individual minister they have to resign along with the entire council of ministers. A censure motion is different from a no-confidence motion. Depending on the constitution of the body concerned, "no confidence" may lead to dismissal of the Council of Ministers or other position-holders, whereas "censure" is meant to show disapproval and does not result in the resignation of ministers. The censure motion can be against an individual minister or a group of ministers, but depending on a country's constitution, a no-confidence motion may be more directed against the entire cabinet. Again, depending on the applicable rules, censure motions may need to state the reasons for the motion while no-confidence motions may not require reasons to be specified. There are a number of variations in this procedure between parliaments. In some countries a motion of no confidence can be directed at the government collectively or at any individual member, including the prime minister. In Spain, it is presented by the prime minister after consultation. Sometimes motions of no confidence are proposed even though they have no likelihood of passage, simply to pressure a government or to embarrass its own critics, who may for political reasons decide not to vote against it. In many parliamentary democracies, there are strict time limits for no-confidence motions: they may only be allowed once every three, four or six months. Thus, the timing of a motion of no confidence is a matter of political judgement; a motion of no confidence on a relatively trivial matter may prove counterproductive if a more important issue suddenly arises which actually warrants a motion of no confidence, because such a motion cannot be proposed if one has been voted on recently. Sometimes, the government will choose to declare that one of its bills is a "motion of confidence" in order to prevent dissident members of their own party voting against it. 20. A no-confidence motion adheres to strict time limits, which proves not longer than____?
A、three months
B、four months
C、five months
D、six months
The pop music about war in 2006 is different from the former ones in that______.
A.it searches for peace
B.it protest against the war
C.it has a tendency of resignation
D.it stresses the continuous presence of the war
Our South America correspondent Eliot Gotkin reports from La Paz:
In presenting his resignation an emotional President said that he bad gone as far as he could go. He blamed his decision on the intransigence of the protesters. For weeks they have blocked roads and paralyzed La Paz. Violence has grown and fuel in Bolivia's main city has pretty much run out. Mr. Mesa described the protestors as a minority trying to impose their will on the majority. He said they had taken advantage of his promise not to use force to crush the demonstrations. It is still unclear whether Congress will accept the President's resignation. The last time he presented it in March Parliament refused.
When did Bolivian president Carlos present his resignation to Parliament last time?
A.in February
B.in March
C.in April
D.in May
Time is our tyrant. We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be. There are trains to be caught, clocks to be punched, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by fractions of a second, machines that set the pace and have to be kept up with.
Another time-emphasizing entity is the factory and its dependent, the office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantities of goods made in a certain time. The old artisan worked as it suited him with the result that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from him. The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. The machine revolves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many pieces produced each hour. Result: the factory worker (and the same is true of the office worker) is compelled to know time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such compulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.
Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with resignation, even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine art of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, is wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
This brings us to a seeming paradox. Acutely aware of the smallest constituent particles of time--of time, as measured by clock-work and train arrivals and the revolutions of machines--industrialized man has to a great extent lost the old awareness of time in its larger divisions. The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time. Of natural, cosmic time, as it is measured out by sun and moon, we are for the most part almost wholly unconscious. Pre-industrial people know time in its daily, monthly and seasonal rhythms. They are aware of sunrise, noon and sunset; of the full moon and the new; of equinox and solstice; of spring and summer, autumn and winter.
Industrialism and urbanism have changed all this. One can live and work in a town without being aware of the daily march of the sun across the sky; without ever seeing the moon and stars. Even changes of season affect the townsman very little. He is the inhabitant of an artificial universe that is, to a great extent, walled off from the world of nature. Outside the walls, time is cosmic and moves with the motion of sun and stars. Within, it is an affair of revolving wheels and is measured in seconds and minutes--at its longest, in eight-hour days and five-day weeks. We have a new consciousness; but it has been purchased at the expense of the old consciousness.
The thesis of the essay is that ______ .
A.urbanism could affect natural environment
B.machines have brought about establishment of offices
C.modern technology has transformed our notion of time
D.science could promote human individuality and dignity
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