Kathy has been assigned to set our secure web server to use SSL, to do this Kathy must
A.80
B.119
C.443
D.433
A.80
B.119
C.443
D.433
W: Her husband had to leave her alone in the hotel because his company assigned him an urgent mission. So she did nothing but went shopping without her husband's company.
Q: Why has Kathy been upset these days?
(19)
A.She had to work throughout her honeymoon.
B.She had nothing to do during her honeymoon.
C.She couldn't go shopping in her honeymoon.
D.She spent her honeymoon all by herself.
听力原文: Zoe Chambers was a successful PR (Public Relations) consultant and life was going well — she had a great job, a beautiful flat and a busy social life in London. Then one evening in June last year, she received a text message telling her she was out of work. "The first two weeks were the most difficult to live through," she said. "After everything I'd done for the company, they dismissed me by text! I was so angry and I just didn't feel like looking for another job. I hated everything about the city and my life."
Then, Zoe received an invitation from an old school friend, Kathy, to come and stay. Kathy and her husband, Huw, had just bought a farm in northwest Wales. Zoe jumped at the chance to spend a weekend away from London, and now, ten months later, she is still on the farm.
"The moment I arrived at Kathy's farm, I loved it and I knew I wanted to stay," said Zoe.
"Everything about my past life suddenly seemed meaningless."
Zoe has been working on the farm since October of last year and says she has no regrets. "It's a hard life, physically very tiring," she says. "In London I was stressed and often mentally exhausted. But this is a good, healthy tiredness. Here, all I need to put me in a good mood is a hot bath and one of Kathy's wonderful dinners."
Zoe says she has never felt bored on the farm. Every day brings a new experience. Kathy has been teaching her how to ride a horse and she has learnt to drive a tractor. Since Christmas, she has been helping with the lambing — watching a lamb being born is unbelievable. She says, "It's one of the most moving experiences I've ever had. I could never go back to city life now."
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. How did Zoe find her life in London when working as a PR consultant?
27. What is the most important reason Zoe went to visit Kathy's farm?
28. How does Zoe feel about the country life according to the passage?
29. What is the main idea of the passage?
(33)
A.Satisfying.
B.Tough.
C.Meaningless.
D.Boring.
In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past tow years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent—twice the national average.
For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.
“More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.
But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform. policy analyst. “The reform. in changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more important.”
Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
第56题:From the passage, it can be seen that the author ________.
A) believes the reform. has reduced the government’s burden
B) insists that welfare reform. is doing little good for the poor
C) is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reform
D) considers welfare reform. to be fundamentally successful
听力原文:W: Dave. (19)I'm going to the supermarket to pick up food and drink for Saturday's picnic later. Any suggestions?
M: Well, (19)everyone has been talking about having a barbecue down by the river, so why don't you pick up some hamburger and hot dogs?
W: Okay, but how much hamburger meat are we going to need? And hot dogs too?
M: Uh, I don't know. How about three pounds of hamburger and a couple packages of hot dogs?
W: Oh, that's not going to be enough. Do you remember the last picnic we went on? Your roommate, Jim, ate about ten hamburgers by himself!
M: You're right. (20)Let's buy nine pounds of hamburger meat and seven packages of hot dogs then.
W: And you'd better pick up some chicken for those who don't like hamburgers or hot dogs.
M: Okay. How about five or six bags of potato chips?
W: Better make that eight or so.
M: Alright. Oh, and we're going to need some hamburger and hot dog buns. How about five packages a piece? I think that sounds about right.
W: Yeah, you'd better pick up some mustard, catch up, and mayonnaise, too.
M: Okay. What else? Uh, we're going to need some soft drinks. How about ten of those big 2-liter bottles?
W: Sounds tine, but be sure to buy a variety of drinks.
M: Okay. And what about dessert?
W: Well, maybe we could ask Kathy to make a few cherry pies as she did last time.
M: Well, I wouldn't mind that, but you know, she's been very busy working two jobs, so I'd hate to ask her. (21)OK, to be honest, I have broken up with her last week, and we haven't talked since then.
(20)
A.On Saturday by the lake.
B.On Saturday by the river.
C.On Sunday by the lake.
D.On Sunday by the sea.
A.There has been an increase in the number of jobs advertised.
B.There has been an increase in the number of applicants with degrees.
C.Jobs axe becoming much more complicated nowadays.
D.The other processes of applying for jobs axe more complicated.
Where the Skylab will fall?
A) is kept secret
B) has been made public
C) has been predicted by scientists
D) can’t be predicted even by computers
A.She has been working a lot recently.
B.She has been taking care of her sick mother.
C.She has been taking two night classes.
D.She has been looking for a new job.
The suggestion has been made_________________________ (推迟篮球比赛).
A.have been dealt with
B.has come up with
C.have put up with
D.has been suspended
A.The local government.
B.The internet user.
C.Some special organization.
D.None has been mentioned.