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Another important reason for developing this skill is______.
A．to make a passage easier to read
B．that it shows your ability to understand
C．that it is a very good exercise for the mind
D．to separate the important from the unimportant
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Negotiation
Your company will do business with another foreign company. Since it is the first timeto do business with that company, you have been asked to submit you suggestions on how to negotiate with people from that company. Discuss, and decide together:
&8226;How important is knowing the culture of the people with whom you're negotiating？
&8226;What kinds of things should be paid more attention to in this negotiation？
W: That's good news !
M: Well, it's good news and bad news.
W: Let me hear the bad news first.
M: My wife is involved in an important project right now in her company, so she can't come to stay with me.
W: Ah, that is the bad news.
M: The good news is that my company wants me to move out of my hotel and get an apartment. They figure it'll probably save money in the long run.
W: Good deal. Your place is too small and you're always complaining about the noisy environment.
M: Yes, but now I have to start looking for a new place.
W: Hmm. If it's just for half a year, you'd better sublet.
M: What's that？
W: It means renting a place from people who are themselves renting from others. Usually it's because they are going away to another city or country and don't live in the place for a short period. One thing good is that you get a place that is already furnished. This saves your money. You don't have to buy furniture.
what's the good news for the man？
A．His company wants him to stay in New York for another half year.
B．His wife is involved in an important project.
C．His company wants him to move to an apartment.
D．He could save money in the long run.
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文： Today I'd like to talk to you about dictionaries because most of you have them, but don't use them very of- ten. Whenever I ask people what a dictionary is for, they almost always say that it's to find the meaning of a word. Well, but that's really only a small part of the answer. Sure, a dictionary will tell you the meaning of a word, and it will also give you examples to show you how the word is used in a sentence, but it will also tell you how to pronounce a word you already know the meaning of. And this is very important, because if you can't say a word correctly, then no one will understand you. Of course, learning the pronunciation symbols your dictionary use will take a little time, but it's worth it, believe me.
Now think about when you're writing something, are you always sure of the spelling of every word？ If not, what do you do？ Do you just write it the way you think it's spelled and hope it's correct？ Or, do you wait around for someone to tell you the spelling, or do you look for another word to use instead？ What you should do is open your dictionary and check to see that your spelling is correct. If it isn't, think of another way the word might be spelled and check that out. Through' guessing and checking you're sure to find the right spelling.
Another thing to help you when you're writing, the dictionary will tell you where each syllable of a word begins and ends. This is important information, because when you write in English, when you come to the end of the line on a piece of paper you cannot separate words where you want to, but only between syllables. So you can use your dictionary to find out if you're separating the word in the right place.
Which of the following statements is true according to the speaker？
A．Most people have dictionaries but don't use them frequently.
B．Most people don't have dictionaries but need them very often.
C．Most people have dictionaries and use them very often.
D．Most people don't have dictionaries and seldom need them.
One person who really knows how to be there is Elizabeth, the queen mother of England. During the air attack on London in 1940, she was asked whether the little princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would leave London for their safety. The Queen replied "The children would not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does." The Queen would not leave the country at any circumstances however. "I'll be there."
Another three-word phrase is one of the hardest to learn to say. It's "Maybe you're right". If more people would say "Maybe you're right", the marriage conciliators would go out of business. I know from experience it can have a charming effect in an argument.
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A．They can be used to do business with people.
B．They can be used to express all kinds of feelings.
C．They can be used to deliver all the messages in our life.
D．They can be used to convey our most important messages to people.
A car is made up of more than 30 000 parts. Each part in a new car is as weak as a baby. So a new car requires proper care and servicing. If you're unfamiliar with the parts, you have to read through the owner's instructions carefully. First of all, the brakes (刹车) of your car are important for safety (案例) reasons. Having them checked regularly can reduce the risks of accidents. Another important thing to consider is engine care. Always remember that the life and performance of your car engine depend on the engine oil. Replace the engine oil when recommended. If you feel the engine is very hot especially during summer it is probably because the cooling system doesn't work well. You'd better get the cooling system serviced before the start of summer. In a word, timely and proper servicing is an important task for car owners. Good servicing can not only extend the life of your newborn baby, but also ensure your safety, and the safety of those who share the road with you. 1．To get familiar with the parts of a new car, the owner should ______. A．regard the car as a new-born baby B．have the car serviced before driving it C．read through the instructions carefully D．examine all of the parts of the new car
A、A错误
B、B错误
C、C正确
D、D错误
We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practicality, Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it's no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another language well is more taxing than, say, learning to play chess well-- it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.
Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, alleviate the drudgery that a vast translation represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage too-- in French or German if you missed the cultural references behind a word you're very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to a computer.
All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world's population in the 21st century. I don't think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to be-- and that would in the end be a very bad thing.
From the first paragraph we can infer that ______.
A．English is the universal language
B．Chinese would become the universal language
C．languages always take kinds of forms
D．English has no variants, but Chinese does
W: I can't believe it.
M: Yeah. That's the first time in ten years that they've used capital punishment.
W: I just can't believe in our society today that they would actually kill another human being. Nobody has the right to take another person's life.
M: Oh, I don't agree. Listen, I think capital punishment is- it's about time it came back. I think that's exactly what killers deserve.
W: No, they don't deserve that. Because once you're killing a killer, you're the killer, too. You become a killer as well.
M: No, listen. You take a life, you have to be willing to give up your own. And also, I think that if you have a death penalty it will prevent other people from killing. I think it's a good deterrent.
W: I don't think it's a good deterrent at all. My goodness gracious. I mean, first of all, are you sure the person you've convicted to death is really guilty？
M: Well, I think that's a very rare ... very rare incidence.
W: I don't think it's rare, with all the cracker jack lawyers we have today, and the judicial system the way it is.
M: I think it's a rare incidence, and I think it's more important to get rid of the ... the bad seed, you know？
W: But you don't get rid of it. You rehabilitate somebody like that. You don't eliminate, you rehabilitate.
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A．The topic of the conversation.
B．Terrible revenge.
C．Execute death to murder.
D．An unbelievable guilty.
It wasn't the first【38】Brooklyn, with a population of 11924 and Coyne, 83, who served as mayor for 52 years,【39】the lead on driving safety. In 1966, after Coyne saw a child who was riding in the front seat of her parents' car hit her head【40】the windshield (挡风玻璃), the city passed the nation's first mandatory (立法规定的) seat-belt law.
His idea to stop cell-phone users was【41】by another accident. "In early January 1999," he says, "our chief of police【42】a car smashed (撞毁) from behind by another vehicle." The driver of the second car was talking on a cell phone and, according to die chief,【43】talking even after the crash.
The regulation【44】drivers to keep both hands on the steering wheel while talking on a cell phone. First-time offenders are fined $3, then the fine jumps【45】$100.
Coyne doesn't own a cell phone. "I'm not that important," he says.
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A．fault
B．illegal
C．incorrect
D．mistaken
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Languages will continue to diverge. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different forms. Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals which doesn't vary hugely alongside a large number of variants used by local peoples;
We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practicality. Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it's no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another language well is more taxing than, say, learning to play chess well -- it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.
Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, alleviate the drudgery that a vast translation represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic the context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage too -- in French or German if you missed the cultural references behind a word you're very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to a computer.
All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world's population in the 21st century. I don't think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to be -- and that would in the end be a very bad thing.
From Paragraph 1 we can infer that ______.
A．English is the universal language
B．Chinese would become the universal language
C．languages always take kinds of forms
D．English has no variants, but Chinese does
In any field it's important to have ambition and drive. But having worked as a psychologist with athletes, executives, artists and young people, I've learned that those who rise to the headiest heights in any field aren't necessarily the ones with the greatest natural talent. They're the diligent few who put in the hours. They work hard. And then they work harder. Recent research by fellow psychologists bears out the significance of focused hard work. In 1988, K. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University in Tallahassee and colleagues in Germany compared the careers of two groups of young musicians. The ten members of the first group were identified as potential topflight international performers. Another ten were identified as merely "good". Ericsson also included ten violinists performing in orchestras of international reputation, such as the Berlin Philharmonic. Both student groups kept diaries of their current practice schedules, and all three groups provided estimates of their earlier schedules. Of the student musicians, Ericsson found, by the age of 20, the "good" group had practiced 7500 hours － an impressive total. But the potential world-class performers had practiced a staggering 10 000 hours － the equivalent of more than a year of hard work. "It's the difference between a college freshman and a junior," Ericsson says. Moreover, the top group's total practice time matched almost exactly that of the symphony performers at the same age. Of course, there's a difference between hard work and drudgery. Keeping your nose mindlessly to the grindstone will only get you abraded nostrils. It's important to put in the hours. But it's not just the hours that count. For hard work to really pay off, you need to work effectively. 1. According to the author, the most important quality for one desiring the greatest achievements is ________.
A、ambition
B、hard work
C、drive
D、the greatest natural talent
听力原文： Many days seem to bring numerous tasks and responsibilities. All of which apparently must be tackled right away. You spend a day putting out files, but by the end of the day, you haven't accomplished any of the really important things you set out to do. In desperation, you draft a to-do list, but most days, you can make little progress with it.
When you look at the list each morning, a big fat cloud of doom is right at the top. Those difficult, complex, important tasks, that are so crucial to get done, and so easy to avoid. Plenty of us create a to-do list to address feelings of being overwhelmed, but we rarely use these tools to their best effect. They wind out being guilt-provoking reminders of the fact that we're over-committed and losing control of our priorities.
According to Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Carlton University in Ottawa, people often draw up a to-do list, and then that's it. The list itself becomes the day's achievement, allowing us to feel we've done something useful without taking on any real work. In fact, drawing up the list becomes a way of avoiding the work itself. Too often, the list is seen as the accomplishment for the day, reducing the immediate guilt of not working on the tasks at hand by investing energy in the list, says Pychyl. When a list is used like this, it's simply another way in which we-lie to ourselves.
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A．They often feel insecure about their jobs.
B．They are unable to decide what to do first.
C．They are incompetent to fulfill their responsibilities.
D．They feel burdened with numerous tasks every day.
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