| ( )1. A. teachers ( )2. A. found ( )3. A. depend on ( )4. A. it ( )5. A. understand ( )6. A. more important ( )7. A. poisonous ( )8. A. takes ( )9. A. use ( )10. A. undone ( )11. A. who ( )12. A. using ( )13. A. stop ( )14. A. Happily ( )15. A. Seldom ( )16. A. take ( )17. A. harm ( )18. A. worried ( )19. A. writers ( )20. A. get off | B. writers B. sold B. work out B. them B. think B. still worse B. wonderful B. spends B. sight B. unknown B. what B. making B. forbid B. Luckily B. Always B. share B. good B. puzzled B. teachers B. come into | C. readers C . printed C. look like C. children C. believe C. even better C. interesting C. pays C. common C. much C. whoever C. spending C. separate C. Unfortunately C. Hardly C. get C. favour C. surprised C. parents C. break down | D. students D. put D. act as D. young people D. know D. very good D. useful D. costs D. return D. less D. whatever D. wasting D. leave D. Badly D. Sometimes D. hold D. wrong D. disappointed D. readers D. get rid of |
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| As more Americans go to mainland China to take jobs, more Chinese and Americans are working side by side. These cross-cultural partnerships, while beneficial in many ways, are also highlighting tensions that expose differences in work experience, pay levels and communication. In the last few years, a growing number of Americans in their 20s and 30s have been heading to China for employment, attracted by its faster-growing economy and lower jobless rate. Their Chinese co-workers are often around the same age. But the two groups were raised differently. The Americans have had more exposure to free-market principles. "Young Americans were brought up in a commercial environment," said Neng Zhao, 28, a semor associate at Blue Oak Capital, a private firm based in Beijing. "We weren"t. So the workplace is a unique learning process for my generation." Managers hiring workers in China appear to be paying for Western experience. Foreigners tend to earn 10 to 15 percent more than their Chinese counterparts (persons working in similar positions), said Michael Norman, senior vice president at Sibson Consulting, an American firm. That imbalance does not go unnoticed by Chinese workers. "There is definitely the belief that Americans get paid more for the same work," said Ting Wang, 25, an associate at WildChina, a travel company based in Beijing. On the other hand, Chinese workers have a deeper understanding of the influences, like Confucianism"and Communism, which play a part in their country"s culture and economy. It is important and necessary for Americans working in China to adjust, said Mr. Norman, who works on management and work force issues for multinational companies operating in Asia. "In the West, there is such a bonus on getting things done quickly, but when you come to work in China, you need to work on listening and being more patient and understanding of local ways of doing business," he said. | |||
| 1. What is mainly talked about in the passage? | |||
A. Cross-cultural conflicts. | |||
| 2. More Americans go to China to take jobs because _____. | |||
| A. they want to experience different cultures B. Chinese workers are easier to cooperate C. they can"t find proper jobs in America D. the economy of China is developing rapidly | |||
3. What does the underlined word "imbalance" in Paragraph 3 refer to? | |||
| A. Unfair pay levels. B. Different working experience. C. Unequal opportunities. D. Different upbringing environment. | |||
| 4. What can we learn from the passage? | |||
A. Americans benefit more from working in China. | |||
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| MySpace, the social networking website, is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast your own stories and persona information to as many people as you like. Started two years ago, it is a big source of information for and about American kids. Teenagers and their parents feel very differently about it. Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their parents" worries. It signals yet another generation gap in the digital era. For teenagers, it is a reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames, birthdays, after-school jobs, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information. "MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don"t have all the phone numbers of all my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace." said Abby Van Wassen. She is a sixteen-year-old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. "Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace," said Kent Gates, who travels the country doing Internet safety seminars (研讨会). The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace-related complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in Pittsburgh. "Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It"s like a free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children," Buchanan said. | |||
| 1. From the passage we can learn that MySpace ____. | |||
| A. brings about the generation gap B. is very careful about people"s privacy C. encourages you to list your personal information D. lists the telephone numbers of your friends | |||
| 2. Why are some parents against MySpace? | |||
| A. Because MySpace has a bad influence on their children. B. Because they don"t want to pay so much money for MySpace. C. Because it takes up too much of their children"s spare time. D. Because troublemakers can easily approach their children through the site. | |||
| 3. What can we infer from "Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace"? | |||
| A. MySpace has become a top issue troubling parents. B. MySpace often holds parents meetings. C. MySpace is quite popular-with parents. D. Parents have lots of questions about the website. | |||
| 4. The writer"s attitude towards MySpace is ____. | |||
| A. negative B. positive C. optimistic D. objective | |||
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| A few days ago my wife sent me out to buy something. When I came home, I handed her a paper bag and said, "Here are the apples you wanted." She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. "I told you," she said slowly, "to buy some eggs." I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man "I have seen many people like you. It"s nothing to worry about," he said "If you know you are absent-minded, you are all right.But if you do not know you"re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble." "Many famous people were absent-minded," the doctor told me. "Thomas Edison was standing in line one day to pay his taxes. When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name. He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was." I felt much better and got up to leave. "Thank you, doctor," I said. "How much do I have to pay you?" "Ten dollars for the check-up," the doctor said. "But doctor, I did not have a check-up!" For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, "Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had a check-up. How absent-minded I am!" | |||
| 1. The doctor took Edison"s story for example ____. | |||
| A. to show absent-mindedness is common among people B. because he liked telling stories C. to make the author laugh D. to make fun of Edison | |||
| 2. The underlined word "absent-mindedness" in the second paragraph probably means ____. | |||
| A. a feeling of anger B. a feeling of sadness C. an emotion (情绪) of excitement D. a trouble in which people often forget this or that | |||
| 3. According to the passage, who was absent-minded? | |||
| A. Only the author. B. The author"s wife. C. The doctor alone. D. The author and the doctor. | |||
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| In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. Now this is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member. Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we send them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminal (晚期的) patients-even when those patients are their parents. This deprives (剥夺) the dying patient of family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience. Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed about 500 terminal patients in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential (潜在的) outcome. It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients" communication in order to truly understand their needs, fears and fantasies (幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their great need to be informed, to be kept up-to- date on their medical condition and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the coming of detach and finally to reach a true stage, of acceptance before death. | |||
| 1. The elders of today"s Americans ____. | |||
| A. are often absent when a family member is born or dying B. are unfamiliar with birth and death C. usually see the birth or death of a family member D. have often experienced the fear of death as part of life | |||
| 2. Children in America are deprived of the chance to ____. | |||
| A. visit a patient at hospital B. visit their family members C. learn how to face death D. look after the patients | |||
| 3. The need of a dying patient for people to accompany him shows ____. | |||
| A. his wish for communication with other people B. his fear of death C. his unwillingness to die D. he feels very upset about his condition | |||
| 4. It may be concluded from the passage that ____. | |||
| A. dying patients should be truthfully informed of their condition B. dying patients are afraid of being told of the coming of death C. most patients are unable to accept death until it can"t be avoided D. most doctors and nurses understand what dying patients need | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada. In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have falling eyesight. Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by people"s attitude towards them. Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or to visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or onto buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice (偏见) can be even harder to break down and ignorance (无知) inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability, not their disability, that counts. | |||
| 1. The key word in Paragraph 4 is _____. | |||
| A. disability B. ignorance C. prejudice D. barriers | |||
| 2. The last word of the passage "counts" most probably means _____. | |||
| A. being most important B. being considered C. being included D. being numbered | |||
| 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? | |||
| A. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older. B. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK. C. The whole society should pay due attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people. D. There no longer exists prejudice against the disabled. | |||
| 4. It can be concluded from the passage that _____. | |||
| A. we should try our best to prevent disablement B. both physical and mental barriers are hard to break down C. we must take a proper attitude towards the disabled D. the able-bodied people will never fully understand the disabled |