SAS Institute 2012 rank: 1 (2011 rank: 2)Headquarters: Cary, N.C., USA Software
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Headquarters: Cary, N.C., USA
Software company SAS climbed to the top of the global list this year, edging up from the No. 2 spot it held last year. So what makes this company so great to work for? Well, for one thing, its leaders are certainly accessible. CEO Jim Goodnight hosts monthly “Conversations Over Coffee,” unscripted breakfast meetings that are open to all employees. These conversations are so popular that other division heads have begun to hold similar events for their employees.
Google 2012 rank: 2 (2011 rank: 4)
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif., USA
Google moved up by two spots in this year’s ranking of global workplaces. The highly desirable tech receives 61 times as many applicants as they have existing jobs, and for good reason. Google seems to be all about coaching. The company’s “CareerGuru” program makes 43 of its senior leaders available for one-on-one, confidential career coaching sessions with other Googlers.
Engineering employees at all levels can also get advice from “EngAdvisors”, senior engineers at Google who can discuss any number of issues, like work-life balance, conflict resolution, and performance reviews.
NetApp 2012 rank: 3 (2011 rank: 3)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif., USA
All new employees at data storage provider NetApp participate in the TOAST (“Training On All Special Things”) orientation program, which introduces new arrivals to NetApp’s senior management. The meetings are held every month and are always led by the executive team.
Microsoft 2012 rank: 4 (2011 rank: 1)
Headquarters: Redmond, Wash., USA
As part of Microsoft’s commitment to promoting women in technology, the company established its DigiGirlz program in 2000. Microsoft hosts a series of DigiGirlz Day events where female high school students meet Microsoft employees and learn about careers in technology. In 2011, some 36 Microsoft locations across the world hosted more than 2,000 girls. Microsoft also holds DigiGirlz High Tech Camps, multi-day programs where participants get hands-on experience with technology during workshops and meet with tech executives.
小题1: What helped make SAS climb to the top of the list in 2012?| A．Accessible leaders. | B．Popular divisions. | | C．Qualified employees. | D．Quality software. |
小题2:Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Microsoft employed over 2,000 girl workers in 2011. | | B．New engineering Googlers could get advice from senior Googlers. | | C．All NetApp employees had to attend a special training. | | D．All leaders in SAS had the same conversations with their employees. |
小题3:These American companies are ranked according to _________.| A．the training program each company establishes | | B．the wealth each company possesses now | | C．the level of technology each of the company reaches | | D．the number of people willing to work for the company |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D |
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试题分析：本文介绍了软件公司SAS从去年的第2位上升到首位。很重要的一点就是，公司***非常平易近人。谷歌公司（Google）在今年的全球卓越雇主排名中上升了两个位次。这家极具吸引力的科技巨头收到的求职信数量是其现有职位的61倍，这一点并不让人意外。NetApp在五个地方为3,000名员工举行了20场TOAST培训。哥伦比亚金佰利克拉克公司（Kimberly-Clark Colombia）将侧重于保证所有新进员工感受到公司对他们的热情。
小题1:细节理解题。根据Well, for one thing, its leaders are certainly accessible. 公司***非常平易近人,故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据Engineering employees at all levels can also get advice from “EngAdvisors”, senior engineers at Google who can discuss any number of issues, 各个级别的工程设计员工也可以从“EngAdvisors”那里获得建议。故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据The highly desirable tech receives 61 times as many applicants as they have existing jobs, In 2011, some 36 Microsoft locations across the world hosted more than 2,000 girls. 美国公司的排名是按为公司工作的人数，故选D。
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Taiwan-born American director Ang Lee"s win of his second directing Oscar has sparked complex feelings among Chinese audiences, who expressed their pride due to the director"s Chinese roots, but couldn"t help but reflect on why the Chinese mainland has failed to deliver more outstanding films to the world .
Lee, 58, on Sunday accepted the Academy Award for best director for Life of Pi, a 3D adventure-drama film.Lee had won the top directing award in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain and the best foreign language film Oscar in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Lee came to Hollywood"s attention after directing three Chinese-language films in the early 1990s, with an emphasis on the interactions between modernity and Chinese traditions.Some Web users called Lee "a source of pride for Chinese people," and admired him for bearing the torch of Chinese culture.
However, a large number of audience members and critics from the mainland expressed their frustrations over home-made movies: Mainland filmmakers have made numerous ambitious tries for the prestigious award but never won.
Hao Jie, a young director whose 2010 film Single Man won the Special Jury Prize in the Tokyo Filmex Festival but was never screened in the mainland for it showed complex sex lives in a village.
"Due to the censorship(审查), we are prevented from the beginning of our production, which forbids our works from mirroring realities," Hao said.
While acknowledging the system"s role in undermining(削弱) excellent works, Su Mu, a well-known film critic, argued that the atmosphere in the mainland"s film circle is also to blame."Lee produces his works with his heart, but most mainland directors now only have money in mind."
Though having obtained approval for his second film from the film authority, Hao said cinemas have kept delaying the screening of his work."This is another factor that prevents us from progressing. Cinemas won"t risk showing our film, which features no stars and is considered non-mainstream," complained Hao.
小题1:What does the underlined phrase “the prestigious award” refer to?| A．the Best Director of Oscar | | B．any of the Oscar Awards | | C．the Special Jury Prize | | D．the best foreign language film Oscar |
小题2:Which of the following statements is true? | A．Ang Lee’s films are always focusing on Chinese traditions. | | B．Chinese audiences are proud of their Chinese identity in the films. | | C．Ang Lee has won the world’s favor only by means of his three Oscars. | | D．Ang Lee is famous for his combining modernity and Chinese traditions. |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT the factor that prevents Chinese mainland films’ progressing?| A．Strict censorship. | | B．A lack of wonderful directors. | | C．The bad atmosphere in the film circle. | | D．Cinemas’ not risking showing low-cost films. |
小题4:The best title for the passage is probably_____.| A．Ang Lee-Pride of Chinese Movie-makers | | B．The Future of Chinese Mainland Film-making | | C．Bitter-sweet Feeling over Ang Lee’s Oscar Win | | D．What Can Chinese Films Do for the Oscar Awards |
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(The Guardian)More UK universities should be profiting from ideas
A repeated criticism of the UK"s university sector is its noticeable weakness in translating new knowledge into new products and services.
Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the world leaders in stem cell research unless adequate funding and legislation could be assured, despite an annual £40m spent by the Department of Health on all kinds of research.
However, we do have to challenge the unthinking complaint that the sector does not do enough in taking ideas to market. The most recent comparative data on the performance of universities and research institutions in Australia, Canada, USA and UK shows that, from a relatively weak starting position, the UK now leads on many indicators of commercialization activity.
When viewed at the national level, the policy interventions (interference) of the past decade have helped transformed the performances of UK universities. Evidence suggests the UK"s position is much stronger than in the recent past and is still showing improvement. But national data masks the very large variation in the performance of individual universities. The evidence shows that a large number of universities have fallen off the back of the pack, a few perform strongly and the rest chase the leaders.
This type of uneven distribution is not strange to the UK and is mirrored across other economies. In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities are receiving 75% of the research funding. These same universities are also the institutions producing the greatest share of PhD graduates, science citations, patents and license income. The effect of policies generating long-term resource concentration has also created a distinctive set of universities which are research-led and commercially active. It seems clear that the concentration of research and commercialization work creates differences between universities.
The core objective for universities which are research-led must be to maximize the impact of their research efforts. Their purpose is not to generate funds to add to the bottom line of the university or to substitute other income streams. Rather, these universities should be generating the widest range of social, economic and environmental benefits. In return for the scale of investment, they should share their expertise (expert knowledge or skill) in order to build greater confidence in the sector.
Part of the economic recovery of the UK will be driven by the next generation of research commercialization spilling out of our universities. On the evidence presented in my report, there are three dozen universities in the UK which are actively engaged in advanced research training and commercialization work.
If there was a greater coordination（协调）of technology transfer offices within regions and a simultaneous (happening at the same time) investment in the scale and functions of our graduate schools, universities could, and should, play a key role in positioning the UK for the next growth cycle.
小题1:What does the author think of UK universities in terms of commercialization?| A．They have lost their leading position in many ways. | | B．They still have a place among the world leaders. | | C．They do not regard it as their responsibility. | | D．They fail to change knowledge into money. |
小题2:What does the author say about the national data on UK universities’ performance in
commercialization?| A．It masks the fatal weaknesses of government policy. | | B．It indicates their ineffective use of government resources. | | C．It does not rank UK universities in a scientific way. | | D．It does not reflect the differences among universities. |
小题3:We can infer from Paragraph 5 that “policy interventions (in Paragraph 4)” refers to _____.| A．concentration of resources in a limited number of universities | | B．compulsory cooperation between universities and industries | | C．government aid to non-research-oriented universities | | D．fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions |
小题4:What dose the author suggest research-led universities do?| A．Fully use their research to benefit all sectors of society. | | B．Generously share their facilities with those short of funds. | | C．Advertise their research to win international recognition. | | D．Spread their influence among top research institutions. |
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“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen hade been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”
小题1: We learn from Paragraph 1 that __________________.| A．Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug | | B．George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug | | C．the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century | | D．both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century |
小题2: What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?| A．Explanation. | B．Finding. | C．Origin. | D．Fault. |
小题3:The passage is mainly concerned with__________________.| A．the misunderstanding of the word bug | | B．the development of the word bug | | C．the public views of the word bug | | D．the special characteristics of the word bug |
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Shoppers throughout the West, wary(警惕的) of a double-dip recession（经济衰退）, are still pinching their pennies. However, Chinese consumers are opening their wallets—big time. According to McKinsey, shop sales in China have grown by 25 percent annually from 2007 to 2009. Consumer confidence is now at its highest point since 2007 and female shoppers are leading the way.
Chinese women saved just 24 percent of their income, compared with 55 percent in 2006, according to a recent study in Women of China Magazine. What’s more, three quarters of Chinese women say that they’re the ones who control the family purse strings .That means the nation’s 650 million women are an “emerging powerhouse within the powerhouse” of China.
In the 1950s women contributed just 20 percent of household income. That rose to about 40 percent in the 1990s and then reached 50 percent last year.
In a recent study of Chinese consumer behavior, McKinsey found that women tend to shop more frequently than men, and spend more on personal-care products and food. Men, by contrast, tend to spend more of their income on gadgets(小玩意) , drinks and alcohol, dining out, and socializing. They also tend to save for the bigger-ticket items, like cars and houses.
Chinese women make up an ever-growing small part of the market—up from 20 percent a decade ago to 50 percent last year. It’s estimated that in the next five years women will account for 55 percent of the $9 billion market. “The future is female,” concludes a January HSBC(汇丰银行) report on luxury goods(奢侈品) in China.
The Chinese Market Research Group recently found that women younger than 35 are the most optimistic segment(群体) in China. A very large 80 percent of the 3,500 women surveyed saying they’ll spend more in the second half of 2010 than they did in the first half. With trends like these, Chinese women may bring new meaning to the term “the power of the purse.”
小题1:According to the passage, Chinese women _________.| A．save more of their income than before | | B．save less of their income than before | | C．make as much money as men in the 1990s | | D．spend half of their income on luxury goods |
小题2:The fourth paragraph mainly tells us that _________. | A．women go shopping more frequently than men | | B．women spent more on personal care products than men | | C．men tend to save for the bigger-ticket items than women | | D．Chinese women and men have different consuming behavior |
小题3:The underlined phrase in the first paragraph probably means_________.| A．making more money in a careful way | | B．wasting their money without hesitation | | C．spending their money in a careful way | | D．recovering the economy at a fast speed |
小题4:Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?| A．Chinese Men Go Socializing | B．Chinese Women Go shopping | | C．The Future Is Female | D．The Purse Is Powerful |
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A reader from Brazil recently wrote to us asking for some advice. He’s planning a trip to the United States, and wanted to know about the best places to travel in America. Today, we are going to give you some information which may help you when choosing your destination.
Each of the 50 states in America has interesting things to offer visitors, but some are more popular than others. Washington, D.C. is famous for its historical places, like the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. Visitors to Los Angeles, California can see the Hollywood Walk of Fame or shop the stores on Rodeo Drive where they may see a star or two. The Grand Canyon in Arizona appeals to hikers, climbers and nature lovers, as does Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
TripAdvisor is a website where people can write reviews about their travel experiences. Every year, TripAdvisor makes a list of the top 25 cities to visit in the United States. The results are based on the opinions of visitors to the website.
Brooke Ferencsik of TripAdvisor said the top picks on the list were not surprising. And it’s no secret why New York City was named the number one destination.
New York City is sometimes called “the city that never sleeps” because it can be very busy. It is an exciting place for many people because there is so much to do. But the city might be too busy for travelers looking for rest and calm. They might want something more like Myrtle Beach, in the state of South Carolina, which made it to number 21 on Trip Advisor’s list.
“A lot of people come to Myrtle Beach for great weather, it’s a wonderful family vacation spot, the beaches - got the wonderful Atlantic beaches there - there’s a lot of family-friendly parks and water parks.”
Many people take time off from their jobs in the summer to travel. Because there are many tourists visiting other places, June until August is known as “high season.” Traveling during the high season can be crowded. Hotels, restaurants, and transportation might also be very expensive.
If you want to save money on a trip, it is a good idea to plan to leave before or after the summer months. These times are known as “shoulder seasons” for travel.
“If you’re looking for value, try and think about traveling through the shoulder season if it’s possible - the shoulder season being the fall or the spring. The weather is still very good in some of these destinations, and you can get better prices.”
America’s major cities are still the most popular destinations for visitors. Ferencsik says this is because of the good quality of services they provide tourists.
“They do a great job of giving travelers what they want when they’re on vacation. I think they kind of cater to every type of traveler need. So whether you’re traveling alone, you’re traveling for business, you’re traveling with your family - whatever it is, those destinations are really tuned in to delivering amazing experiences and just a lot of different opportunities when you’re there.”
小题1:Lily has great interest in nature and American history. She can visit___________.
A. The Grand Canyon and Rodeo Drive
B. California and Los Angeles
C. White House and Arizona
D. Washington, D.C and The Grand Canyon
小题2:Which of the following is NOT true about Myrtle Beach?| A．People can enjoy a wonderful holiday with their family there. | | B．It’s a place where people can have rest and calm. | | C．It’s on the list of the top 25 cities to visit in the United States. | | D．It’s in North Carolina with great weather that attracts tourists. |
小题3:Why does the author suggest traveling through the shoulder seasons?| A．To enjoy good weather in spring and fall. | | B．To have good quality of services. | | C．To have better value of traveling . | | D．To save money and energy. |
小题4:The author write this passage to ___.
A. give some information about the top 25 cities to visit in USA.
B. talk about some American popular places and advice on traveling
C. advise tourists to visit big cities for their good service and opportunities.
D. give advice on saving money and time when traveling in America.
小题5:This passage may probably be taken from ____.| A．a travel journal | B．a magazine | | C．News Weekly | D．a website |
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