NEW YORK- One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with cowo
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NEW YORK- One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Most workers attend so-called happy hours to bond with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel necessary, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder.com, an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted unprofessionally. Five percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent confessed to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attended said happy hours were good for networking, 85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attended happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least likely to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and; of those nearly a quarter go at least once a month.
The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 6,987 full-time employees between February 11 and March 13. Harris Interactive said the results had a sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.
56. Harris Interactive made the survey to find out ________.
A. how U.S. workers spend their after-work time
B. what U.S. workers do at after-work drinks
C. the relationships between U.S. workers
D. who are most likely to attend after-work drinks
57. ________ of workers who attend after-work drinks speak ill of a colleague.
A. 4 percent B. 8 percent C. 16 percent D. 10 percent
58. According to the passage, most of those surveyed believed attending after-work drinks ________.
A. benefited them a lot B. could provide information
C. only made them relaxed D. was of no help to them
59. We can learn from the text that _________.
A. workers over 55 don’t like to attend happy hours at all
B. about 75% of workers go more than once a month
C. 10.5% of male workers attend happy hours with co-workers
D. about 700 workers surveyed shared a secret about a co-worker
60. After the survey, it can be inferred that_________.
A. all the workers oppose after-work drinks
B. the workers may change their attitudes towards after-work drinks
C. all the workers support after-work drinks
D. all the workers are suggested going to attend after-work drinks |
答案
| 56. B。57. C。58. D。59. D。60. B。 |
解析
56. B。推理判断题。根据第一段“One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday. ”可知美国工人下班后经常聚会喝酒，而主要内容不是说别人坏话，就是饮酒过量。因此推断，这项调查的目的是为了弄清楚工人下班后喝酒时干什么。
57. C。细节理解题。根据第二段“16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague,”可知bad-mouthing是“说坏话”的意思。
58. D。细节理解题。根据第二段“85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position.”可知85%的人认为这种聚会没什么好处。
59. D。推理判断题。“.….. workers over 55 least likely to attend”意思是55岁以上的工人很少去聚会喝酒，并不能说明他们都不喜欢，所以A不正确。“.….. nearly a quarter go at least once a month”近四分之一的每周去一次并不意味着剩下的四分之三的人每周就去两次以上，还有些人可能不会去，所以B也不对。文章中没有确切的信息说明男工中有10.5%的人参加聚会，因此C也不对。
60. B。推理判断题。综合文章介绍的情况，85%美国工人下班后经常聚会喝酒并没有益处，因此调查者应该会改变对这种聚会的态度。A，C，D选项太绝对。 |
举一反三
Money, or the lack of it, changes everything, and that includes how people will be working out in 2010.
In these belt-tightening times 1 , cost-conscious workouts（锻炼）at home and at the gym topped the list of fitness trends for this year in a survey, followed 2 by shorter, more time-efficient regimens, such as 3 boot camp（强力集中训练） and circuit training.
"People are looking 4 for ways to accomplish as much as possible with as little 5 time and money as necessary," said Cedric X. Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE), which conducted the online poll of fitness professionals.
"Last year money was on the list but this 6 year the majority of the respondents put 7 it as one of the top," he added.
Bryant said some 600 ACE-certified fitness 8 professionals responded to the annual poll 9 , which the non-profit organization has been conducting for a decade.
Other money-saving measures 10 , such as the shift from personal training sessions to small group training 11 classes and in-home workouts 12 using smaller, more portable equipment, also made the list.
"Personal trainers are seeing they"ve got to respond to market needs 13 . Working with two to four clients at a 14 time they can charge less 15 but still get their hourly fee," Bryant said.
Boot-camp workouts and circuit training, both of which burn 16 calories while building strength and endurance（持久性）, will be among the most popular trends in 2010, as time-constrained（受压制的） consumers 17 seek shorter, more intense activities.
One bright spot is the rise of exergaming-type systems, like Nintendo"s Wii Sports, Wii Fit and the PC-based Dancetown. Bryant says the fitness-based video games are turning up 18 in health clubs and senior centers.
Functional training workouts, which are geared to improving the quality of life and the ability to perform everyday tasks, will remain strong 19 , and the use of computerized tracking and online training and scheduling tools will increase 20 in the coming year.
( ) 1. A. times B. years C. centuries D. societies
( ) 2. A. caught B. followed C. covered D. conducted
( ) 3. A. such like B. in other words C. such as D. that is to say
( ) 4. A. taking B. developing C. opening D. looking
( ) 5. A. little B. much C. many D. few
( ) 6. A. that B. next C. this D. previous
( ) 7. A. manage B. put C. try D. organize
( ) 8. A. medicine B. train C. economy D. fitness
( ) 9. A. poll B. conference C. observationD. reception
( ) 10. A. measures B. procedures C. policies D. systems
( ) 11. A. speaking B. training C. exercising D. processing
( ) 12. A. work B. workouts C. rest D. race
( ) 13. A. changes B. prices C. needs D. habits
( ) 14. A. some B. no C. any D. a
( ) 15. A. less B. fewer C. more D. much
( ) 16. A. produce B. burn C. cut D. add
( ) 17. A. professionalsB. students C. consumers D. trainers
( ) 18. A. turning up B. turning down C. turning around D. turning out
( ) 19. A. weak B. useful C. strong D. possible
( ) 20. A. decrease B. appear C. increase D. want |
1. Summer came early to Middlesbrough yesterday, as temperatures shot up to 22°C (71°F), a record for March. But local NFU agent Jim Wilkes says it could be bad news for farmers. “The crops will think it"s summer,” he told our reporter, “and start sprouting (发芽) four weeks before time.”
2. The death toll (死亡人数) of the Burnside train crash rose to four yesterday when John Phillips, 32, of Petersville died in Wallsend Hospital. Another six people are still on the danger list. Mr. Phillips, an electrical engineer leaves a wife and two children.
3. China and the United States reached an agreement on the protection of intellectual property rights (知识产权) yesterday, after difficult marathon talks.
The agreement is good news for all parties concerned. The Chinese Foreign Trade Minister described the agreement as a "turning point" in Sino-US trade relations that "promises further progress" in the future. The agreement will not only favorably influence trade relations between China and the United States. It may favorably influence the overall relations between the two countries.
小题1:What do you get to know from article 1? | A．It is as cold as usual in Middlesbrough, and the farmers are pleased. | | B．It is hotter than usual in Middlesbrough, and the farmers are pleased. | | C．It is hotter than usual in Middlesbrough, and the farmers are worried. | | D．It is colder than usual in Middlesbrough, and the farmers are worried. |
小题2:How many people have died in the train crash in article 2 ? | A．Only John Phillips has died. | | B．Ten people have died in the crash, including John Phillips. | | C．Four people have died in the crash, including John Phillips. | | D．John Phillips, his wife and children all died in the crash. |
小题3:Who are on the danger list? | A．Petersville and Wallsend. | B．An electrical engineer and John Phillips. | | C．John Phillips" wife and two children. | D．Another six people who were on the train. |
小题4:What agreement did China and the United States reach in article 3? | A．It is an agreement on a marathon race. | | B．It is an agreement on trade relations. | | C．It is an agreement on overall relations. | | D．It is an agreement on intellectual property rights protection. |
小题5:What are relations going to be like between China and the United States? | A．Relations between China and the United States are going to be sometimes worse and sometimes better. | | B．Relations between China and the United States are going to be better. | | C．Relations between China and the United States are going to be worse. | | D．Relations between China and the United States are going to remain the same. |
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Section B (10 points)
Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit
What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes---the list goes on and on.
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, at high school,he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill, and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great.com crashes of the late 1990s, eBay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.
EBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is to take an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business; the world is your market place. Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
小题1:According to the passage, what is eBay? (no more than 6 words)
小题2:How does eBay make money from its website? (no more than 10 words)
小题3: From the underlined sentence “he has never looked back”, what can we learn about Peter? (no more than 11 words)
小题4: What do you need to do if you want to start your business on eBay? (no more than 14 words) |
This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress management books have titles like “Stress Management in 60 Seconds”.
Canadian Classics Professor Margaret Visser points out that the perception that we have “no time” is one of the most strict concepts of Western culture. Visser says that “no time” is used as an excuse and also as a spur(刺激); it both stimulates us and forces us, just as a concept such as ‘honour’ did for the ancient Greeks. According to Visser, the feeling that Westerners have “no time” is abstract, quantitative, amoral(非道德性的), unarguable, bringing pressure on each person as an individual. At the same time, the “no time” excuse escapes censure by claiming to be a condition created entirely out of our good fortune.
Life offers “so many pleasures, so many choices”.
The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the “no time” trend. But more important, Visser says, is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component(成分) of our economy. Marketing of “time-saving” products causes people to buy more and work longer. So we eat out or buy prepared food to save time. The fax-it-to-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry. In our rushed and exhausted state, even the obligation(义务) to sit down to casual meal with family seems like a pressure. In comparison with the decision to act on a sudden whimz (一时的兴致) to consume a microwave mug of soup， the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event. Being in one’s own personal hurry in the West is somehow “free and preferable”
小题1:The word “censure” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “ ”| A．examination | B．force | C．blame | D．pressure |
小题2:Which of the following doesn’t contribute to feeling rushed?| A．Marketing of time-saving products. | | B．The fax-it-to-me-car technology. | | C．Eating together and not getting up until everybody has finished | | D．Longer working hours. |
小题3:We can learn from the passage that “no time” trend ___________.| A．brings pressure on the individual | | B．is very desirable to the individual | | C．is not harmful if you have no control of events | | D．has caused heart diseases and psychological problems |
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A bully(欺凌弱小的人) is a boy or a girl who acts mean (unkind) or hurtful to others, especially weaker persons bullies sometimes hit, kick, or push people, and they sometimes use words to call names or scare them. A bully might say mean things about someone, take a kid’s possessions or make fun of someone on purpose. Some bullies force people to do things they don’t want to do.
Why do bullies act so badly? Just to look for attention. They might think bullying is a way to be popular or a way to get what they want. Most bullies are trying to make themselves felt more important-when they pick on someone else, it makes them fell big and powerful. Some bullies come from families where everyone around has a normal way to act. Some bullies are copying what they’ve seen someone else do. Some have been bullied themselves.
Bullying can be a big pain, but you don’t have to let bullying get the best of you. Sometimes just acting bravely is enough to stop a bully. If you walk by and hold your head high as though you’re not afraid, a bully may be less likely to give you trouble. Bullies want a big reaction to their meanness. Acting as if you don’t notice and don’t care is like giving no reaction at all, and this just might stop a bully’s behavior. If you are being bullied, it’s very important to tell an adult. Teachers, principals, parents, and lunchroom helpers at school can all help to stop bullying. Don’t hit, kick, or push back to deal with someone bullying you or your friends. Fighting back just satisfies a bully, and it’s dangerous, too, because someone could get hurt.
小题1:Which of the following is advisable if you are being bullied?| A．Giving the bullies a satisfactory reaction. | | B．Putting up with the bullies’ behavior. | | C．Turning to grown-ups for help. | | D．Acting bravely and fight back. |
小题2:According to the writer, the bullies’ purpose of bullying others is to ____________.| A．find people to take care of them | B．shout and let out their anger | | C．make people notice them | D．show their ability |
小题3:The underlined phrase “get the best of” in paragraph 3 means __________.| A．get rid of | B．look down upon | | C．do one’s best | D．get the upper hand of |
小题4:What might be the best title for this passage?| A．Bullying those who bully | B．Getting the best of bullies | | C．Dealing with bullies | D．Caring about bullying |
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