| MBA每日一练（2019/1/5） |
| 第1题：It is just one example of the growing concern over the increasing power consumption and environmental impact of computers. A、study found that the power consumption of data centers doubled between 2000 and 2005, and now accounts for 1.2% ofAmerican electricity consumption, though other estimates put the figure at 4%.Companies now spend as much as 10% of their technology budgets on energy, says Rakesh Kumar of Gartner, a consultancy. Power consumption has increased because of the rise of the internet, of course, but also because of way in which computers have historically been designed: to maximize performance at all costs.Between 1996 and 2006, the number of servers in use went from 6 million to 28 million and the average power consumption of each server grew from 150 watts to 400 watts.But things are now starting to change and the computer industry has been seized with enthusiasm for "green computing". |
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| 第2题：It remains to be seen whether the reserves of raw materials in the year 2000 will be sufficient to supply a world economy which will have grown by five hundred percent. SoutheastAsia alone will have an energy consumption five times greater than that of WesternEurope in 1970. Incidentally, if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rate as the industrialized areas, then world reserves would be exhausted by 1990. All this only goes to show just how important it is to set up a plan to conserve and divide up fairly natural resources on a worldwide scale. This is a matter of life and death because world population is expanding at an incredible rate.By the middle of the next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the first 1,500 years afterChrist. In the southern, poor parts of the globe, the figures are enough to make your hair stand on en D、Even supposing that steps are taken to stabilize world population in the next fifty years, the number of inhabitants per square kilometer will increase by from 4 in the United States to 140 in SouthEastAsi A、What can we do about it In the first hypothesis we do nothing.By the year 2000, the southern parts of the world would then have a population greater than the total world population today. Alternately we could start acting right now to bring birth rate under control within fifteen years so that population levels off.Even then the population in the southern areas would not stop growing for seventy-five years.And the population would level off at something like twice today’s figure. Finally, we could wait ten to twenty years before taking action. If we wait ten years the population of the southern area would stabilize at 3,000 million.Even today the number of potential workers increases by 350,000 people per week.By the end of the century this figure will reach 750,000; in other words, it will be necessary to find work for 40 million people per year--not to speak of foo D、 What this means in practical terms we can scarcely imagine.But clearly if we do nothing, nature will solve the problem for us.But at what cost! Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the author A、 A、worldwide plan to conserve natural resources should be worked out. B、The energy consumption of the underdeveloped countries will increase greatly. C、The world economy will have greatly grown by the year 2000. D、There will definitely be not enough raw materials in the year 2000. |
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| 第3题：下列两题基于以下题干： 有钱并不意味着幸福。有一项覆盖面相当广的调查显示，在自认为有钱的被调查者中，只有1/3的人感觉自己是幸福的。 以下哪项有关上述调查的断定如果为真，最能支持上述论证 A．绝大多数自认为有钱的人，实际上都达到中等以上的富裕程度。 B．许多感觉不幸福的人，实际上十分幸福。 C．许多不认为自己有钱的人，实际上很有钱。 D．被调查的有钱人绝大多数是合法致富。 E．被调查的有钱人中，许多是非法致富。 |
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| 第4题：The invention of both labor-saving tools and tools of intelligence is rarely accidental. Instead, it is usually the product of human need; (21) is truly the mother of invention. People usually devise tools to (22) for natural deficiencies. For example, people invented weapons to defend (23) from physically superior (24) .But (25) is only one incentive for inventions. People also invent (26) tools to (27) certain established tasks more efficiently. For instance, people developed the bow and arrow from the (28) spear or javelin in order to shoot (29) and strike with greater strength. (30) civilizations developed, greater work efficiency came to be demanded, and (31) tools became more (32) .A、tool would (33) a function until it proved (34) in meeting human needs, at which point an improvement would be made. One impetus for invention has always been the (35) for speed and high-quality results--provided they are achieved (36) reasonable costs. Stone pebbles were sufficient to account for small quantities of possessions, (37) they were not efficient enough for performing sophisticated mathematics. However, beads arranged systematically evolved into the abacus. The (38) of this tool can be (39) to the development of commerce in theEast around 3000B、C、, and the abacus is known (40) by the ancientBabylonians,Egyptians,Chinese, etC、 A、deserted B、existing C、withering D、outdated |
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| 第5题：When theAmerican economy was running full tilt two years ago, few places were as breathlessly delighted as Seattle. Its port was thronged with ships bringing goods fromAsi A、TheBoeingCompany could barely keep up with demand for its airliners. Microsoft was hiring hordes of software engineers.After each rain shower, another Internet millionaire sprang up. Here was a city that had it all--OldEconomy, NewEconomy, Not-Yet-InventedEconomy. Now it has all gone sour. The past 12 months have been a non-stop succession of disappointments.Boeing’s headquarters decamped toChicago. The Internet economy popped alike a balloon in a nail factory, taking with it once promising local ventures such as Homegrocer.com and leaving can’t-possibly-miss companies such as drugstore.com barely hanging on.And an already troubledBoeing was hit even harder after September 11th both by a steep drop in airliner orders and by losing a $ 200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin. Washington State, battered by what is happening in Seattle, now has the highest unemployment rate in the United States--6.6% compared with 5.4% in the country as a whole. Right behind it is next-door Oregon, another former boom state, with 6.5% of its workforce out of a job, the country’s second worst figure. In Oregon, manufacturing’s collapse has caused the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in a year, those hit range from Freightliner, a maker of heavy lorries, to high-tech companies such as Intel and Fujitsu. What makes the current plunge so painful is that every part of the economy seems to have stepped into an open manhole at the same time. Three years ago, whenBoeing began to remove more than 20,000 people thatBoeing expects to lay off by the middle of 2002 have to compete with unemployed workers not just from the high-tech industry but from construction work and even the retail sector. Portland now has more jobless than the other parts of Oregon: the opposite of how things were years ago. Even worse, the Pacific north west’s downturn, as well as being deeper than the rest of the country, may also last longer. One reason for fearing this isBoeing’s continuing woes. NowadaysBoeing accounts for less than 5% of employment in the Seattle area, down from 9% two decades ago.But it remains the foundation on which the rest is built. Its network of suppliers and subcontractors gives it a far stronger multiplier effect than, say, Microsoft, which is more an island of prosperity than a center of weB、The chances are thatBoeing will not really bounce back until the assumed revival in air travel persuades airline companies to start buying plenty of aircraft again.And that may not be until 2003. The sentence "After each rain shower, another Internet millionaire sprang up" (Paragraph 1) means ______. A、many people get rich quickly and easily with the NewEconomy B、it takes only the time between showers for someone to become boss C、Seattle’s development is sudden like rain showers D、Seattle has as many business millionaires as its rain showers |
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| 第6题：篮球队教练规定，如果一号队员上场，而且三号队员没有上场，那么，五号与七号队员中至少要有一人上场。 如果教练的规定被贯彻执行了，一号队员没有上场的充分条件是 A．三号队员上场，五号、七号队员没上场。 B．三号队员没上场，五号、七号队员上场。 C．三号、五号、七号队员都没上场。 D．三号、五号、七号队员都上场了。 E．三号、五号队员上场，七号队员没上场。 |
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| 第7题：大约12000年前，在气候变暖时，人类开始陆续来到北美洲。在同一时期，大型哺乳动物如乳齿象、猛玛、剑齿虎等却从曾经广泛分布的北美洲的土地上灭绝。与人类曾和动物们和平相处的神话相反，12000年前，人类的活动正是导致这些动物灭绝的原因。 上述陈述最容易受到以下哪项的批评 A．它毫无疑问地采纳了一种将人类排除在自然之外的观点。 B．在提出“人类曾与动物和平相处”的观点时，假设了所要论证的对象。 C．大型哺乳动物如乳齿象、猛玛、剑齿虎的灭绝，对早期北美的原始人来说，并不像今天对我们现代入这么重要。 D．从上文所给出的证据中，不能排除大型哺乳动物的灭绝和人类来到北美洲都是由于气候变化所造成的这种可能性的存在。 E．(E) 在北美原始人开始生活时，肯定还有除乳齿象、猛玛和剑齿虎以外的其他动物也灭绝了。 |
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| 第8题：When theAmerican economy was running full tilt two years ago, few places were as breathlessly delighted as Seattle. Its port was thronged with ships bringing goods fromAsi A、TheBoeingCompany could barely keep up with demand for its airliners. Microsoft was hiring hordes of software engineers.After each rain shower, another Internet millionaire sprang up. Here was a city that had it all--OldEconomy, NewEconomy, Not-Yet-InventedEconomy. Now it has all gone sour. The past 12 months have been a non-stop succession of disappointments.Boeing’s headquarters decamped toChicago. The Internet economy popped alike a balloon in a nail factory, taking with it once promising local ventures such as Homegrocer.com and leaving can’t-possibly-miss companies such as drugstore.com barely hanging on.And an already troubledBoeing was hit even harder after September 11th both by a steep drop in airliner orders and by losing a $ 200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin. Washington State, battered by what is happening in Seattle, now has the highest unemployment rate in the United States--6.6% compared with 5.4% in the country as a whole. Right behind it is next-door Oregon, another former boom state, with 6.5% of its workforce out of a job, the country’s second worst figure. In Oregon, manufacturing’s collapse has caused the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in a year, those hit range from Freightliner, a maker of heavy lorries, to high-tech companies such as Intel and Fujitsu. What makes the current plunge so painful is that every part of the economy seems to have stepped into an open manhole at the same time. Three years ago, whenBoeing began to remove more than 20,000 people thatBoeing expects to lay off by the middle of 2002 have to compete with unemployed workers not just from the high-tech industry but from construction work and even the retail sector. Portland now has more jobless than the other parts of Oregon: the opposite of how things were years ago. Even worse, the Pacific north west’s downturn, as well as being deeper than the rest of the country, may also last longer. One reason for fearing this isBoeing’s continuing woes. NowadaysBoeing accounts for less than 5% of employment in the Seattle area, down from 9% two decades ago.But it remains the foundation on which the rest is built. Its network of suppliers and subcontractors gives it a far stronger multiplier effect than, say, Microsoft, which is more an island of prosperity than a center of weB、The chances are thatBoeing will not really bounce back until the assumed revival in air travel persuades airline companies to start buying plenty of aircraft again.And that may not be until 2003. What can be inferred in the passage concerningBoeing A、Its headquarter has been moved fromChicago to Seattle. B、It’s to be blamed for the economic depression in Washington. C、Boeing itself is having a hard time. D、It’s expected to have a revival in the year 2003. |
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| 第9题：我可以设身处地地把一些外在符号跟内心时间关联起来，比如，将呻吟和脸的扭曲、跟痛的感受关联起来。我从痛的体验中得知，当我有痛感时，往往就会呻吟和脸扭曲。因此一旦我看到他人有相同的外在符号时，我就是理所当然地认为，他们也有与我相同的内心活动事件。毕竟我和他人之间，在行为举止和通常的生理功能方面，显然是相类似的，为什么在内心活动方面不也相类似呢 下面哪一项能够最有力地支持上面的论证 A．相似的结果一定有相似的原因。 B．痛感与呻吟和脸扭曲之间可能有密切联系。 C．行为举止与内心活动也许有某种内在关联。 D．人与人之间很多方面都是相似的。 E．人们之间的内心活动是相似的。 |
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| 第10题： The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind, with his will.Each of us wants to feel he or she has the ability to do {{U}} (1) {{/U}} that is meaningful and that serves as a {{U}} (2) {{/U}} to our inherent abilities. It is easiest to see this {{U}} (3) {{/U}} the craftsman who lovingly shapes some cheap material into an object that may be either useful or beautiful or {{U}} (4) {{/U}}. You can see the carpenter or bricklayer stand aside and {{U}} (5) {{/U}} the product of his personal skill.But even {{U}} (6) {{/U}} there is no obvious end product that is {{U}} (7) {{/U}} attributable to one person’s skill, researchers have found that employees find pride in accomplishment. Our own research in hospitals suggests that {{U}} (8) {{/U}} the housekeeping and laundry staffs take pride in the {{U}} (9) {{/U}} that in their own ways they are helping to cure sick people--and thus accomplishing a good deal. We’re often misled by the complaints {{U}} (10) {{/U}} difficult work; deep {{U}} (11) {{/U}} most people regard their own capacity to conquer the tough job as the mark of their own unique {{U}} (12) {{/U}}Complaining is just {{U}} (13) {{/U}} of working.After all, how {{U}} (14) {{/U}} do you know who you are, except as you can demonstrate the ability of your {{U}} (15) {{/U}} to control you limbs and hands and words You are, {{U}} (16) {{/U}} significant measure, what you can do. Some are deceived into thinking that people like to store up {{U}} (17) {{/U}}, to rest and save {{U}} (18) {{/U}} as much as possible. Just the {{U}} (19) {{/U}}. It is energy {{U}} (20) {{/U}} that is satisfying. |