When can you exaggerate the facts in the article?
A、When you're trying to draw in readers
B、When it's a feature stroy
C、When you want to cultivate a source
D、None of the above
A、When you're trying to draw in readers
B、When it's a feature stroy
C、When you want to cultivate a source
D、None of the above
•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the opposite page.
•For each question 19-33, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
Benefits of Business Intelligence
One of the most effective uses of business intelligence is within the enterprise, disseminating key business metrics to knowledge workers and information stakeholders at every level. The benefits of business intelligence, however, (19) beyond the walls of the enterprise.
Customers can (20) from the sharing of information like how effective the company has been in meeting delivery (21) and product quality objectives. Perhaps more importantly, providing (22) to this information sends a powerful (23) to the customer base that the company will live up to its (24) .
Business intelligence can help improve the performance levels of suppliers by providing them with metrics such as competitiveness of bids, ease of (25) , timeliness of delivery, accuracy of invoicing or any other important (26) Providing suppliers these (27) typically creates for them powerful (28) to improve performance where (29) .
Effective business intelligence solutions ensure that you are able to share the data from these solutions with all of these (30) Business intelligence solutions enable you and your employees to make better, more (31) decisions that will have a (32) impact on your company. They also enable your company to (33) its partnerships with customers and suppliers, which, in return, makes your business even stronger.
(19)
A.expand
B.enlarge
C.grow
D.extend
•For each question 13--18, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.
HOW THE CREDIT CARD CAPTURED AMERICA
The proliferation of platinum American Express cards in the 1980s spawned rumors of an ultimate, highly exclusive, never publicized "Black Card". Carried by billionaires, it reportedly allowed holders to demand private shopping sprees at the world's most exclusive shops and to summon helicopters in the middle of Sahara. American express vehemently denies the existence of such a charge card. But the persistence of the myth suggests the social importance credit cards have for so many Americans. As one business writer puts it, "to have one's credit cards canceled is now akin to being excommunicated by the medieval church."
America's love affair with the credit card began in 1949, when businessman Frank X. McNamara finished a meal in a New York restaurant and then discovered he had no cash. In those days, gasoline and store charge cards were common, but cash was standard for almost everything else. The embarrassed McNamara called his wife, who rushed over to bail him out. His predicament gave him the idea for Diners Club. Within a year some 200 people carried the world's first multi-use credit card.
The problem was to persuade enough people to carry the cards. Diners Club turned to promotions. It gave away a round-the-world trip on a popular television show. The winners charged their expenses and made it "from New York to New York without a die in their pockets".
Banks, sensing among less affluent a pent-up desire to spend, began issuing cards of their own. The first to turn a profit was Bank of America's Bank Americard. Bankers from all over the country descended on its California headquarters to learn the secret of its success--so many that in 1966 Bank Americard, today known as Visa, began forming alliances with banks outside the state. The Bank Americard network soon faced a competitor when Wells Fargo Bank joined with 77 others to create what became Master Charge. After scooping up 1.3 million more "Everything Card" holders from what was then First National City Bank, Master Charge--today's Master Card--became for a while the biggest bank card in the country.
Five million holiday credit-card shoppers would have created a bonanza for the banks, but in the rush to market, the hanks had been less than cautious in assembling their lists. Some families received 15 cards. Dead people and babies got cards. Even a dachshund named Alice Griffin was sent one that promised she would be welcomed as a "preferred customer" at Chicago's finest restaurants.
Hundreds of Chicagoans discovered they could use or sell a car they "found", and by law, the person whose name appeared on it was liable for the charges--even if he or she had never requested or received the card.
When the prime rate hit 20% in 1981, the banks found that consumers didn't mind paying rates of 18--22% on their credit-card balance. High interest rates helped attract new players into the credit-card area, including sears' Discover Card and Visa. Airlines, car and insurance companies, even long-distance phone companies allied themselves with banks to offer credit cards. Experts estimate there are from 15, 000 to 19, 000 different cards available in the country.
Of course, credit cards have not only replaced cash for many purposes, but also in effect have created cash by making it instantly available virtually everywhere. The credit-card advance is becoming as ubiquitous as the automated teller machine.
What is the rumor of "Black card"?
A.The holder can spend freely at the best shops.
B.The credit card allows holders to pay their check without cash.
C.The holders can summon helicopters in desert.
D.The credit card is very important in American society.
A、What's the big idea
B、What's the matter
C、What's wrong
D、What's up
It’s a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—because there’s 2 to be gained from talking to the strange r standing by you. But you wouldn’t know it, 3 into your phone. This universal armor sends the 4 :“Please don’t approach me.”
What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach We fear rejection,or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as“creep,”We fear we’II be 7 We fear we’II be disruptive Strangers are inherently 8 to us,so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances To avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our phones.“Phones become our security blanket,“Wortmann says.”They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .”
But once we rip off the bandaid,tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up,it doesn’t 12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment,behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14 . "When Dr.Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York Times summarizes. Though the participants didn&39;t expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, "not a single person reported having been snubbed.”
18 , these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those sans communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thrive off of social connections. It&39;s that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.
1
A.ticket
B.permit
C.signall
D.record
2
A.nothing
B.link
C.another
D.much
4
A.message
B.cede
C.notice
D.sign
8
A.unreasonable
B.ungreatful
C.unconventional
D.unfamiliar
9
A.comfortable
B.anxious
C.confident
D.angry
10
A.attend
B.point
C.take
D.turn
1
A.dangerous
B.mysterious
C.violent
D.boring
12
A.hurt
B.resis
C.bend
D.decay
13
A.lecture
B.conversation
C.debate
D.negotiation
14
A.trainees
B.employees
C.researchers
D.passengers
15
A.reveal
B.choose
C.predictl
D.design
16
A.voyage
B.flight
C.walk
D.ride
17
A.went through
B.did away
C.caught up
D.put up
18
A.In turn
B.In particular
C.In fact
D.In consequence
19
A.unless
B.since
C.if
D.whereas
3
A.beaten
B.guided
C.plugged
D.brought
20
A.funny
B.simple
C.Iogical
D.rare
5
A.under
B.beyond
C.behind
D.from
6
A.misinterprete
B.misapplied
C.misadjusted
D.mismatched
7
A.fired
B.judged
C.replaced
D.delayed
•Choose the correct word to fill each gap, from A, B or C on the next page.
•For each question (29-40), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.
TEAM-BUILDING THROUGH ACTIVITIES
Nowadays, company bosses are increasingly trying to find unusual team-building events as part of their training programme. An activity park (29) Fast-track has just opened to offer (30) events. It specializes (31) events to attract the corporate entertainment market, (32) is growing all the time.
The park is situated just a few kilometres outside the city centre (33) it provides events that (34) entertain as well as train.
Clients can try outdoor attractions such as sailing or climbing, (35) availability clearly depends entirely (36) the weather. Activities of (37) kind are perfect team-building exercises.
"I'd (38) been to an activity park before," explained James Black, a company manager. "Before we came, I didn't think we (39) enjoy ourselves so much and I didn't expect the tinge difference that Fast-track's programme has (40) to my team. Now we work better together than we did before."
(29)
A.calling
B.calls
C.called
•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.
•For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
The nation's supply of vaccine for the impending flu (19) took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory.
The company said it will hold up shipment of about 50 million shots—about half the supply U.S. health (20) had hoped to have on hand this year—while it (21) what went wrong and determines whether the vaccine is safe to use.
"There's no product (22) is going to go into the arms of the American public that will not have been (23) to have met the highest standards of (24) " chief executive Howard Pien said.
Pien said the company hopes to ship between 46 million and 48 million doses by early October, about month later than (25) .
About 1 million doses have already been shipped, but no vaccines have yet reached the (26) Pien said. Vaccinations usually begin in September and (27) through the flu season.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which oversees the nation's flu vaccine (28) , did not immediately return calls for (29) .
Chiron would not give (30) on the (31) of the contamination, which Pien said was found in a small number of (32) at the company's factory in Liverpool, England.
The company supplies about half the nation's flu vaccine. Aventis Pasteur supplies most of the (33) .
(19)
A.time
B.period
C.season
D.year
A、In the lead
B、In the nut graf
C、To show that someone is the victim of an action
D、At the finish
A、Strong action verbs
B、Adjectives
C、Adverbs
D、Concept nouns
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