A:Reservations.HowmayIhelpyouB:______.A．
A: Reservations. How may I help you B: ______. A．OK, my name is David Johnson. My telephone number is 4210888.
B．Thank you. Gould you connect me to 4210888
C．I'm afraid you can't help me. Thank you anyway.
D．I'd like to confirm a room for next Saturday.
Sometimesthemessagesareconveyedthroughde
Sometimes the messages are conveyed through deliberate 'conscious gestures', other times, our bodies talk without our even knowing it. A．definite
B．intentional
C．interactive
D．delicate
Daltonwonderedwhytheheavierandlightergas
Dalton wondered why the heavier and lighter gases in the atmosphere did not separate as oil and water do. He finally concluded that the constituent (61) must exist in the form of tiny particles or atoms and that these (62) be completely mixed together in the atmosphere. This threw a new light in (63) law of definite proportions. It was only necessary to suppose that the atoms (64) combine into small groups of uniform (65) and so form more complex substance; (66) the mystery of this law was (67) .Dalton suggested, for example, that carbon monoxide (68) formed by the one with one (69) of atoms of carbon and oxygen, (70) carbon dioxide results from a single (71) of carbon uniting with two atoms of oxygen.Assuming this to be true, (72) the definite proportions of Prout’s law (73) all chemical compounds the different constituents (74) enter in unvarying proportions would naturally (75) the relative weights of the many different kinds of atoms.
A．putting
B．pairing
C．placing
D．preparingIfsomeonejuststudiesafewrecentcorporater
If someone just studies a few recent corporate recruitment advertisements, there will be at least one thing he or she will find common in almost all. of them. The recruiters are putting much emphasis on hiring a one-team man rather than a one-man team, in the management category at least.
In accordance to this shift, the office atmosphere is changing too.CEOs of the companies at present are accessible to general employees move than’ ever before. The visual distance is cut short. Office decorations are changing with more and more interlinked and free sitting
arrangements.At this age, one can never ignore the psychological affect on human beings created by the respective surroundings.
The corporate houses these days are spending huge amounts to unite the workforce into an active team.Active and spontaneous participation of employees in both internal and external affairs of the company and even in the decision making process are regarded as the path of progress.
The main problem in the corporate team building process namely ’distancing’ is predominantly inherent in employees’ as well as in the employer’s psyche. It is one of the basic instincts of human beings.
The primary team building process is constantly fighting to throw away ’distancing’ to a great distance. The ideal corporate team building events concentrate on bringing together employees who do not always get the chance to come in close, if not in personal contact with each other.
The prime ideological stand is that, if an employee does not know his or her co-workers then he or she cannot actively participate to boost up the company profile and morale as a whole. It is all about fixing the SELF, not into the category called OTHER, but under the umbrella named WE、
The corporate event management companies divide the employees into various groups.Apparently, it seems that the process is breaking the basic notion of team building activities, but in fact, it just adds to the notion.
The participants here never feel rivalry among themselves. They are conscious that it is merely a game though they need to win. Thus, they fail to concentrate on the issue that it is a part of the team building exercise tailored by the company. This lack of concentration on the subtle issue ultimately does the trick. The idea of the team is built in the consciousness of the participant that excludes the visual divisions.
What is NOT a typical team-building eventA、meeting that all corporate employees participate in.
B．A、brainstorming activity.
C．A、group discussion with people having personal contacts.
D．A、conference aims at cutting distance among employees.Afterwatchingmymotherdealwithourfamilyof
After watching my mother deal with our family of five, I can’t understand why her answer to the question, "What do you do " is always, "Oh, I’m just a housewife." JUST a housewifeAnyone who spends most of her time in meal preparation and cleanup, washing and drying clothes, keeping the house clean, leading a scout troop, playing taxi driver to us kids when it’s time for school, music lessons or the dentist, doing volunteer work for her favorite charity, and making sure that all our family needs are met is not JUST a housewife. She’s the real Wonder Woman.
Why is it that so many mothers like mine think of themselves as second-class or something similar Where has this notion come from Have we males made them feel this way Has our society made "going to work" outside the home seem more important than what a housewife must face each day
I would be very curious to see what would happen if a housewife went on strike.Dishes would pile up. Food in the house would run out. No meals would appear on the table. There would be no clean clothes when needeD、High boots would be required just to make it through the house scattered with garbage. Walking and bus riding would increase. Those scout troops would have to break up.Charities would suffer.
I doubt if the man of the house would be able to take over. Oh, he might start out with the attitude that he can do just as good a job, but how long would that last Not long, once he had to come home each night after work to more household duties. There would be no more coming home to a prepared meal; he’d have to fix it himself. The kids would all be screaming for something to eat, clean clothes and more bus fare money. Once he quieted the kids, he’d have to clean the house, go shopping, make sure that kids got a bath, and fix lunches for the next day. Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to crawl into an unmade bed and try to read the morning newspaper. No, I don’t think many males are going to volunteer for the joB、I know I don’t want it. So, thanks, mom! I’ll do what I can to create a national holiday for housewives. It could be appropriately called Wonder WomanDay.
The main idea of the passage is about______.
A、housewives, the wonder women
B．what would happen if housewives went on strike
C．the replacement of women by men as housewives
D．the setting up of a national holiday for housewivesMetropolitanMuseumofArtislocatedinNewYor
Metropolitan Museum ofArt is located in New YorkCity. It is one of the largest and most (1) art museums in the worlD、
In 1866 a group ofAmericans in Paris, France, gathered at a restaurant to (2) theAmerican IndependenceDay.After dinner, John Jay, a (3) lawyer gave a speech proposing to create a "national institution and gallery of art. "During the next four years, he (4) American civic leaders, art collectors, and others to support the project, and in 1870 the Metropolitan Museum ofArt was founded, but it was (5) in two different locations in New YorkCity. In 1880 the museum moved to its present location inCentral Park on FifthAvenue. Many additions have (6) been built around this building. The north and south (7) were completed in 1911 and 1913, (8) Six additional wings have been built since 1975 to house the museum’s (9) collections, to expand gallery space and educational (10) .
The museum has collected more than three million objects in every known artistic (11) , representing cultures from every part of the world, from ancient times to the present.
Popularly known as the Met, the museum is a private (12) . The museum is one of the most popular tourist (13) in the city and about five million people visit it each year. It is also a major educational institution, offering various programs for children and adults. (14) , scholars of archeology and art history (15) advanced research projects at the museum.
A、repeatedly B、relativelyC、respectively D、respectfullyUnabletobreakdowntheopposition,thepresid
Unable to break down the opposition, the president had to resign to bring order to the country.A．overcome
B．digest
C．undermine
D．dominatePersonalityinAmericansisfurthercomplicat
Personality in Americans is further complicated by successive waves of immigration from various countries.A．uninterrupted
B．successful
C．forceful
D．overwhelmingManytheoriesconcerningthecausesofjuvenil
A．contrarily
Most theories of juvenile delinquency have focused on children from disadvantaged families, {{U}} (60) {{/U}}the fact that children from wealthy homes also commit crimes. The latter may commit crimes for lack of adequate parental control.All theories, however, are tentative and are{{U}} (61) {{/U}}to criticism.
Changes in the social structure may indirectly{{U}} (62) {{/U}}juvenile crime rates. Families have also{{U}} (63) {{/U}}changes these years. More families consist of one parent households or two working parents;{{U}} (64) {{/U}}, children are likely to have less supervision at home,{{U}} (65) {{/U}}was common in the traditional family{{U}} (66) {{/U}}. This lack of parental supervision is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates. Other{{U}} (67) {{/U}}causes of offensive acts include frustration or failure in school, the increased{{U}} (68) {{/U}}of drugs and alcohol, and the growing{{U}} (69) {{/U}}of child abuse and child neglect.All these conditions tend to increase the probability of a child committing a criminal act,{{U}} (70) {{/U}}a direct causal relationship (因果关系) has not yet been establisheD、
B．consequently
C．similarly
D．simultaneouslyDoyouknowthatallhumanbeingshavea"comfort
Do you know that all human beings have a "comfortable zone" regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures.
Greeks, others of theEastern Mediterranean, and many of those from SouthAmerica normally stand close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. NorthAmericans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that they tend to feel most comfortable at about 21 inches apart. In much ofAsia andAfrica, there is even more space between two speakers in conversation. This greater space subtly lends an air of dignity and respect. This matter of space is nearly always unconscious, but it is interesting to observe.
This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent which they lean over one another in conversation, how they move as they argue, or make an emphatic point. In the United States, for example, people try to keep their bodies apart even in a crowded elevator; in Paris they take it as it comes!
Although NorthAmericans have a relatively wide "comfortable zone" for talking, they communicate, a great deal with their hands--not only with gestures but also with touch. They put a sympathetic hand on a person’s shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around him in sympathy~ they nudge a man in the ribs to emphasize a funny story; they pat an arm in reassurance or stroke a child’s head in affection, they readily take someone’s arm to help him across a street or direct him along an unfamiliar route. To many people—especially those fromAsia or the Muslim countries—such bodily contact is unwelcome, especially if inadvertently done with the left-hanD、 (The left hand carries no special significance in the U. S. ManyAmericans are simply left-handed and use that hand more. )
What does the passage mainly concernA．It concerns distance and bodily contact.
B．It concerns body language.
C．It concerns cultural differences between theEast and the West.
D．It concerns hand signals.最近的一项调查表明，中国读书和杂志的人数比1998年降低了8.7%，而且总人口中
最近的一项调查表明，中国读书和杂志的人数比1998年降低了8.7%，而且总人口中只有5%的人经常读书。然而这一调查结果并不需要我们过分担心。读书人数的减少反映了人们生活方式的变化，人们获取信息的渠道已不再仅限于出版物了。越来越多的人承认他们一般都是通过上网而不是通过读书和杂志来获得信息的。Inmosthighschools,boysandgirlsattendthes
In most high schools, boys and girls attend the same classes, except in health education, where they are segregated. A．classified
B．organized
C．decomposed
D．separated
Geneticallymodified(GM)foodstuffsarehere
Genetically modified (GM) foodstuffs are here to stay. That’s not to say that food produced by conventional agriculture will disappear, (61) simply that foodbuying patterns will polarize. It may even be that GM food will become the food of (62) because consumers come to appreciate the health benefits of reduced pesticide use.
The reason GM food will not go away is that we need a three-fold increase in food production by the year 2050 to keep (63) with the world’s (64) population growth to ten or eleven billion. It’s not just a question of more mouths to feed either. (65) is often forgotten is that all these extra people will take up space,reducing the overall land (66) for agriculture.
It may well be that in the long term it is the developing world (67) benefits most from GM foods. It’s true that for the next ten years or so GM crops may be (68) expensive.But the lesson of personal computers is applicable here—once the technology has been developed for money spinning crops, (69) maize, soy beans and cotton,it will become (70) for all.
This doesn’t mean, unfortunately, that families will (71) , but severity and duration will be helped by an (72) ability to produce and distribute fooD、
(73) we move into this new era of agriculture we’re embarking on a journey the world has seen many number of times with experiments before. We have been refining species of wheat for several thousand years. Genetic engineers like me are not doing anything as (74) as making a cabbage into a cauliflower (75) has been done by plant breeders in the past.
We’re simply tapping into the whole gene pool, rather than concentrating on one species at a time.
A．that
B．it
C．as
D．allAmericansocietyisnotnap(午睡)friendly.Infa
American society is not nap (午睡) friendly. In fact, saysDavidDinges, a sleep specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. ’"There’s even a prohibition against admitting we need sleep. " Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work. To quote a proverb: "Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven, laziness nine and wickedness eleven. "
Wrong. The way not to fall asleep at work is to take naps when you need them. "We have to totally change our attitude toward napping," saysDr. WilliamDement of Stanford University, the godfather of sleep research.
Last year a national commission led byDement identified an "American sleep debt" which one member said was as important as the national debt. The commission was concerned about the dangers of sleepiness, people causing industrial accidents or falling asleep while driving. This may be why we have a new sleep policy in the White House.According to recent reports, presidentClinton is trying to take a half hour snooze (打瞌睡) every afternoon.
About 60 percent ofAmerican adults nap when given the opportunity. We seem to have "a midafternoon quiet phase" also called "a secondary sleep gate. " Sleeping 15 minutes to two hours in the early afternoon can reduce stress and make us refresheD、Clearly, we were born to nap.
We Superstars of Snooze don’t nap to replace lost shut eye or to prepare for a night shift. Rather, we "snack" on sleep, whenever, wherever and at whatever time we feel like it. I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in libraries, offices and museums.
The second sentence of the last paragraph tells us that it is______.
A、preferable to have a sound sleep before a night shift
B．good practice to eat something light before we go to bed
C．essential to make up for cost sleep
D．natural to take a nap whenever we feel the need for itOnecanunderstandothersmuchbetterbynoting
One can understand others much better by noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and______to expressed thoughts. A．dilemmas
B．countenances
C．concessions
D．junctions
MoreAmericanmothersthaneverareworking,an
MoreAmerican mothers than ever are working, and more workers are mothers. Yet their march into the world of paid work continues to cause suspicion. One recent survey found that 48 percent ofAmericans believe that preschoolers suffer if their mothers work, while another found that 42 percent of employed parents think that working mothers care more about succeeding at work than meeting their children’s needs.
All mothers deserve our support--those who care for children at home and those who have joined the work force.But many working mothers continue to believe that they are shortchanging (少找钱)their children. They shouldn’t. Research tells us that kids do just fine when mothers work.
SuzanneBianchi a scientist of the University of Maryland, has found that mothers today spend as much if not more time with their children than they did in 1965, even though the percentage of mothers who work rose from 35 percent to 71 percent. Then there are the obvious financial benefits. For many children, these earnings are the difference between living in poverty—or out of it.
The kids are all right. Studies conducted by the University of Michigan have consistently demonstrated that a child’s social or academic competence does not depend on whether a mother is employeD、In my research four out of five children (nine out of ten in single parent families) told me that having a working mother was their preferred arrangement. My study found that children with working mothers are no more likely to drop out, take drugs, break the law, or experiment with sex prematurely than children with non-employed mothers.Children have taken their mothers’ example to heart. Ninety percent of the young women I interviewed said they hoped to combine work with motherhood, while two-thirds of the men said they wanted to share parenting and work.
Sadly, children support working mothers more than we do as a society. Parental leave and child-care benefits in the United States remain inadequate, particularly when compared to what’s offered in other countries.Children thrive when their mothers have satisfying, well-paid jobs when they can count on other caretakers to share the loaD、The challenge facing us is thus not whether good workers can also be good mothers, but whether we can create the conditions that enable working mothers and fathers to be good parents.
What do theAmericans need in solving the problem of working mothers
A、They need the support of males.
B．They need the understanding of other members of their families.
C．They need young people to be well-prepared to work both in and outside their homes.
D．They need especially the powerful support of the society for working mothers.{{B}}PassageThree{{/B}}Thewanderingshipw
{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}}According to Green Peace spokesmanBryanBence, the crisis in garbage stem in part from ______.A．the fact that we produce too much garbage
New York, like other communities throughout the world is running out of space to put its trash.As throwaway societies, the US and other industrialized countries expect their garbage to be picked up by trucks that magically transported the refuse to some out-of-sight incinerator
(焚化炉) or dump.But in the developing counties ofAsia,Africa and LatinAmerica, thousands of tons of trash collected daily are thrown into open dumps, where it feeds huge populations of rats that swarm through poor neighborhoods.
"The world is literally swimming in garbage," says a scientist. "Communities worldwide are being forced to confront the problem." Green Peace spokesmanBryanBence adds, "The crisis in garbage stems in part from the fact that we’ve ignored long-term disposal problem in favor of cheap quick fixes."
The garbage glut (过剩) has inspired many communities in the U.S., Japan and WesternEurope to start recycling programs. Once considered a curious counter culture activity recycling has moved firmly into the mainstream.
Recycling involves separating usable products from trash, processing them so they can be substituted for more expensive raw materials and returning them to the marketplace as parts of new products. Many countries now have mandatory recycling programs, and others plan to follow the trend soon. Most notably, Japan has stood out as a model and leader of the waste management trend, recycling an estimated 65 percent of its waste. "That’s what we should do, to the garbage crisis", saysDavidAntonioli, a staff member with the New York Public Interest ResearchCorp. "The earth is not a dump!"
B．the fact that we’ve ignored long-term effect of disposal problems
C．the fact that the world is actually swimming in the garbage
D．the fact that we spend a lot of money disposing the garbageNowabouthalfofthewomenwhoworkinsocialwel
Now about half of the women who work in social welfare are part-time, as compared to 38% in the private sector.A．guarantee
B．farewell
C．well-off
D．well-being