John used to be such a computer buff that he spent a large part of his income ______ his c
A.imbibeing
B.modifying
C.increasing
D.upgrading
D
解析:upgrade升级,提升;imbibe吸收;modify如更改,修改。
A.imbibeing
B.modifying
C.increasing
D.upgrading
D
解析:upgrade升级,提升;imbibe吸收;modify如更改,修改。
A.When value is inherent in money.
B.When metal currency becomes a token.
C.When cash can't be used anonymously.
D.When Moore's law begins to work.
W: Yeah, you can say that again. He is not what he used to be.
Q: What can we infer from the conversation?
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A.John used to do quite well in his studies.
B.John is always good at studies.
C.John didn't like studies before.
D.John studies as hard as before.
(文)When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, (约翰和维多利亚-福斯到达纽约市准备暂住一年,)they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses. What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy. One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
A.Selling home furnishings
B.Renting furnished apartments
C.Selling used furniture
D.Renting home furnishings
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers. young married couples-people Whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. (33)They are saved a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don't like to tell others about it. (34)The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.
(33)
A.Selling home furnishings.
B.Renting furnished apartments.
C.Selling used furniture.
D.Renting home furnishings.
Early or Later Day Care
The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.
Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, (he father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone -- far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.
Which of the following statements would Bowlby support?
A.Statistical studies should be carried out to assess the positive effect of day care for children at the age of three or older.
B.Early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.
C.The first three years of one's life is extremely important to the later development of personality.
D.Children under three get used to the life at nursery schools more readily than children over three.
听力原文: People management skills are the most important skills a manager can develop. What differentiates a leader from a manager is that the leader has acquired not just the technical and strategic skills but the interpersonal skills to make things happen.
No doubt on your way up through the ranks, you have come across managers who are lacking in interpersonal skills, though they may be good at other aspects of their jobs. And you know, their future will be affected greatly by this lack of human skills.
Our program is totally devoted to developing those managerial skills in people on their way to the top. It covers motivating, assessing, rewarding, leading and developing people. Very simple models of interpersonal relationships are used to focus attention on understanding one's own behavior, its impact on others, understanding the goals of others and integrating a group into a winning team.
Professor John Hunt, Program Director, deliberately limits the number of people on this program to guarantee personal attention between tutors and participants. To match the content precisely to your needs, we ask you to do some pre-course work which includes a survey of those who work with you. This data is linked to our own large databank on how effective managers operate. We then work with you to develop your own specific goals as a manager.
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A.Managers who want to strengthen their leadership.
B.Managers who want to improve their strategic and technical skills.
C.Managers who lack managerial skills in general.
D.Managers who lack human management skills.
For instance,among people who are used to a writing system,there is one adjustment everyone makes:they speak one way and write another way.Speakers can stop in the middle of a conversation and repeat themselves if they sense that they are being misunderstood;writers often go back over their writing to see that it is clear,which is,however,before the communication occur.Once writers have passed their writing to someone else,they cannot change it. Speakers can use intonation(语调),stress(重音),and pauses to help make their meaning clear.A simple sentence like “John kept my pencil” may mean,by a shift in the stress and intonation patterns,either John rather than someone else kept the pencil,or John kept rather than just borrowed the pencil,or it was a pencil rather than anything else that he kept.Writers,on the other hand,have their special tools of various punctuation(标点) marks,capitals,italic(斜体) letters,and so on.Skillful writers could also change the word order of a sentence.So“Cindy only had five dollars” could be turned into “Cindy had only five dollars” to mean Cindy had no more than five dollars,or into “Only Cindy had five dollars” to mean nobody but Cindy had five dollars.
1The main purpose of the first paragraph in this passage is to _______.
A.summarize the passage
B.introduce the topic of the passage
C.use examples to illustrate the first sentence of the paragraph
D.use examples to illustrate the last sentence of the paragraph
2According to Paragraph 1,we must adjust our behavior. because _______.
A.we should appear happy at weddings and sad at funerals
B.we should listen to our employers more than to our friends
C.our manners should be different in different places
D.our behavior. should be acceptable to others around
3Language as mentioned in Paragraph 2 is considered _______.
A.a kind of behavior
B.an act found in all situations
C.an adjustment everyone makes
D.situations
4both spoken and written 4 According to Paragraph 2 speakers and writers differ mainly in _______.
A.the amount of time they spend on the communication
B.the number of times they stop while communicating
C.how they can make sure that they are not misunderstood
D.when they decide to begin the communication
5According to Paragraph 3 speakers can use such tools as _______ to make their meaning clear.
A.intonation patterns and word order
B.stress patterns and word order
C.pauses and punctuation marks
D.pauses and shifts in stress patterns
A.She is sure John is joking.
B.She believes John may sell his shop.
C.She thinks John wants to go into business.
D.She thinks John has already studied some profession.
A.can John go
B.John can go
C.could John go
D.John could go
But compelling as that slogan was, in truth the shopper was cheated of the crown. Although manufacturing efficiency boosted the variety of goods and lowered prices, advertising provided most information about products. Through much of the past century, ads spoke to a captive audience confined to just a few radio or television channels or a limited number of publications. Now media choice has exploded too, and consumers select what they want from a far greater variety of sources-- especially with a few clicks of a computer mouse. Thanks to the internet, the consumer is finally seizing power.
As our survey in this issue shows, consumer power has profound implications for companies, because it is changing the way the world shops. Many firms already claim to be "customer-driven or consumer-centric". Now their claims will be tested as never before. Trading on shoppers' ignorance will no longer be possible: people will know-- and soon tell others, even those without the internet-- that prices in the next town are cheaper or that certain goods are inferior. The internet is working wonders in raising standards. Good and honest firms should benefit most.
But it is also intensifying competition. Today, window shopping takes place online. People can compare products, prices and reputations. They can read what companies say about products in far greater detail, but also how that matches up with the opinions of others, and-- most importantly of all-- discover what previous buyers have to say. News, groups and websites constantly review products and services.
This is changing the nature of consumer decisions. Until recently, consumers usually learned about a product and made their choice at the same time. People would often visit a department store or dealership to seek advice from a salesman, look at his recommendations and then buy. Now, for many, each of these steps is separate. For instance, Ford is finding that eight out of ten of its customers have already used the internet to decide what car they want to buy-- and what they are willing to pay-- even before they arrive at a showroom. When that happens consumers will truly be kings, and only those firms ready and able to serve these new monarchs will survive.
What is the meaning of "revolutionary concept"? (Line 3, Para. 1)
A.Some customers are the shareholders of a store.
B.Department stores offer more service for customers.
C.Customers think they are kings.
D.Customers are respected as a king in business circle.