As we all know , our boss has always attended to the______ of important business.A.transac
As we all know , our boss has always attended to the______ of important business.
A.transaction
B.stimulation
C.transition
D.specification
As we all know , our boss has always attended to the______ of important business.
A.transaction
B.stimulation
C.transition
D.specification
听力原文: We know that we have to pay for what we get. If we buy food, We know there will be a bill to pay. These are private bills. But there are also public bills that must be paid. Public bills are paid by the government. In turn we get these services through taxes. What would happen if everyone in the city stopped paying taxes? The water supply would stop; water might become unclean and impure. The streets might not be cleaned. There would be no police force to protect people and property. Schools would be closed. People would become sick and diseases might spread. We should not want to live in such a city. We all want pure water and food, clean streets and good schools. We want the police to prevent crime. The chief duty for every government is to protect persons and property. More than three quarters of the money spent by our government is used for this purpose. The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries. Public money is used to pay the teachers and all the public officials. A large number of public funds are also spent on roads.
The greatest part of necessary funds is raised by taxes. A tax is money that we all must pay to support the government. The law orders us to pay taxes. We have no choice in the matter. Almost everyone pays some taxes in one form. or another.
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A.By taxing public services.
B.By making people pay for private bills.
C.By providing needed services.
D.By collecting taxes.
The greatest part of necessary funds is raised by taxes. A tax is money that we all must pay to support the government. The law orders us to pay taxes. We have no choice in the matter. Almost everyone pays some taxes in one form. or another.
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A.By taxing public services.
B.By providing needed services.
C.By making people pay for private bills.
D.By collecting taxes.
听力原文: When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us that they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn't that our friends are all busy, it is just that we haven't got a television. People think that we are very strange. "But what do you do in the evenings?" they are always asking. The answer is simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don't spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign language. This is particularly useful as we always go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and am always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to music and playing chess(象棋)together.
Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us as we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends are lost--no television! --so they don't know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full as they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. Yes, life is possible without television!
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A.Because they are in a hurry.
B.Because they are strange.
C.Because they cannot watch TV.
D.Because they have other schedules.
听力原文:M: Cindy! Have you heard the news?
W: No, Steve. What do you mean?
M: You know all the classes we've missed because of the snow?
W: Uh oh...
M: Yup—we're going to have to make them up and the dean says it will have to be during spring break.
W: Steve! We have our vacation all set! What are we going to do? Do the others know?
M: I don't know but I certainly can't afford to miss five days of classes this semester, with that week I was sick...
W: But I really don't want to cancel our trip. All of us have already made our plane reservations!
M: I can try to call the travel agency; maybe they can refund our money. But before we do anything we need to speak with our professors.
W: You think they'll excuse us from class?
M: Probably not. But I was talking to Kevin this morning and he said that one of his professors told him that they could make up the class at a different time.
W: Wow—that's great! Which professor was it?
M: I don't know. But we're going to have to speak to all of them any way.
W: Why didn't they add extra days at the end of the semester before summer classes?
M: Because of the graduation date, which can't be changed.
W: Are other colleges around here doing the same thing?
M: I would imagine so—it's been such a bad winter and we've missed too many classes. We do really need to make them up.
W: I know, I know. I was just really looking forward to this vacation. The idea of the sun and the beach!
M: Oh look, there's Professor Hampton right now!
W: Come on, let's go talk to her!
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A.They may not be able to take their vacation.
B.It may snow during their vacation.
C.They me going to need more money.
D.They may miss graduation.
M: I don't know a great deal about the work.
W: But have you got any ideas about it? You must have thought about it.
M: Well, er, I suppose he has a lot of, er, what is called, policy making to do. And, um, he'd have to know how to work with people and all about the company.
W: Um.
M: Yes, I, er, should think a manager must know, er, something about all aspects of the work.
W: Yes, that's right. We like our executive staff to undergo a thorough training. Young men on our trainee scheme have to work through every branch in the company.
M: Well, if I had to do it, I suppose. But I was thinking that my French and German would mean that I could specialize in overseas work. I'd like to be some sort of an export salesman and travel abroad.
W: You know the charm of traveling abroad disappears when you've got to work hard. It's not all fun and game.
M: Oh, yes, I realize that. It's just that my knowledge of languages would be useful.
W: Now, Mr. Smith, is there anything you want to ask me?
M: Well, there's one or two things. I'd like to know if I'd have to sign a contract, what the salary is and what the prospects are.
W: With our scheme, Mr. Smith, there is no contract involved. Your progress is kept under constant review. If we, at any time, decide we don't like you, then that's that! We reserve the right to dismiss you. Of course, you have the same choice about us. As for salary, you'd be on our fixed scale starting at 870 pounds. For the successful trainee, the prospects are very good.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. How does Mr. Smith sound when asked what a manager's role is?
24. What does Mr. Smith say he would like to be?
25. What can we learn about the management trainee scheme?
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A.Confident.
B.Hesitant.
C.Determined.
D.Doubtful.
We are all addicted to falling in love. But after we' ve "fallen" a few times and broken our emotional bones, we hopefully wise up a bit. We know that the high of falling in love is not going to last. We know that sooner or later we will have to get real with each other. That is the difference between romance and partnership. Romance is an attempt to keep the addiction going. It has a very short half- life. Partnership is the dance of two ordinary people learning to live together day by day. It is a very challenging school that we enroll in. It is sometimes a lot more work than play. And it certainly requires a lot more psychological adjustment than years of therapy! We don' t just graduate from this school in a year or two. It takes many years, perhaps even a lifetime, for us to master the curriculum.
Your partners are imperfect human beings, just like you. They were not the "wrong" partners any more than you were. Probably, they reflected your own level of realism and emotional maturity. That' s usually the way it works. So don't waste your time thinking you simply made some bad choices. The only bad choice you made was forgetting who has the full time job loving you. I know that you know who this is !
We keep remembering that they are not perfect, nor we are. Love is not a game of perfection. It is a game of overwhelming imperfection. The amazing thing is that love survives all of our mistaken attempts to control our partners and our relationships.
We can conclude from the passage that______.
A.we won't forget who has the full time loving us
B.love is addictive
C.love from your partner is not enough
D.love lies in the maturity of emotion which is essential to a partnership or relationship
【B1】
Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; timber was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-terms climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.
For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone’s daily life. To know about the water table (水位) in the ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic arithmetic formulas. We need to know why all watersheds (上游源头森林地带集水区) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to yield their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, mature trees, because living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic volume above the earth. In brief, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.
第26题:The author’s attitude towards the current situation in the exploitation of natural resources is ________.
A) positive
B) neutral
C) suspicious
D) critical
听力原文: Those who use solar energy help us save our precious fuel. As you know, our supplies of oil and gas are very limited. There is just not enough on hand to meet all our future energy needs. And when Mother Nature says that's all, that's all. The only way we can delay hearing those words is by starting to save energy now and by using other sources, such as the sun.
We won't have to worry about the sun's running out of energy for another several billion years or so. Besides being an endless source of energy, the use of the sun has other advantages as well. For example, the sun does not offer pollution as other energy sources.
Furthermore, owners of solar homes will have extra protection against rising fuel costs. They will also have some protection against fuel shortage. When utility costs go up, owners of solar homes won't have to face the burdens brought about by increased costs.
With all these good points, why don't we see more of solar power? There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason is money. Until now, it was just not practical for a home owner to put in a solar unit. There were cheaper sources of energy around. Solar costs are starting to equal the costs of oil and electricity. And experts say that gas will triple in cost in the next few years. In fact, gas is in such short supply right now that, in some places, it is not sold to new customers. Some customers are even having their supplies cut back.
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A.Rising fuel costs to limit the use of it.
B.Saving energy and use other sources.
C.Having protection against fuel shortage.
D.Putting in a solar unit in every house.
A 【C13】______ of factors, both inherited and environmental, influence the development of healthrelated behaviors, and it is【C14】______ the scope of this text to discuss all these factors as they may affect any 【C15】______ individual. However, the decision to adopt a particular health-related behavior. is【C16】______ one of personal choices. There are healthy choices and there are unhealthy choices. Experts suggest that to knowingly give【C17】______ over to a behavior. that has a statistical probability of【C18】______ life is similar to attempting suicide.【C19】______ , personal health choices should【C20】______ those behaviors that are associated with a statistical probability of increased vitality and longevity.
【C1】
A.stopped
B.prevented
C.infected
D.cured