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The reading materials of the course include “Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.” “Two Kinds” “The Bluest Eye” “Professions for Women” “The Way to Rainy Mountain” “The Merely Very Good” and “Love is a Fallacy”.
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Customs authorities are responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, overseeing the goods traffic and the people entering and leaving the country.
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Which of the following is not completely forbidden, but people tend to have very strong feelings about it and it's probably not a good small talk topic?
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Which way does the following paragraph use to start a topic? Many people smoke. They smoke because they think it makes them cooler and it is a good way for them to show their manhood.
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We should try hard to develop tourism (旅游业). Tourism cr_____ jobs for local people.
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The secret agent concealed her real mission, therefore many local people were _________ into thinking that she was a good person.
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It is good for elderly people to be _________ involved in community service.honestlyB．ptientlyC．eIt is good for elderly people to be _________ involved in community service.honestly B．ptiently C．egerly D．ctively
A．honestly
B．patiently
C．eagerly
D．actively
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听力原文：W: Good morning, Mr.Tim.It's a long time since I had the pleasure of a visit for you.
M: Yes, it must be three or four years. I haven't visited you since I called about my will. You helped me with that, you remember？
W: Yes, I remember. Do you want to make any changes in your will？
M: I don't think that will be necessary, but you'll tell me if it is. I left everything, you remember, to my wife, and after her death, to my son Jerry. I've about $15,000 in shares of industrial companies. These bring in, after paying tax, about ＄1,125 a year. Well, I'm earning a good salary now, and I shall get a good pension from my employers, so my wife and I can live fairly comfortably with this extra income, I want to buy some land and build a house for my son; he will need a house when he gets married. I'm thinking of building one and giving it to him.
W: Your son's lucky. So you want my help buying the land and building the house.
M: Yes, that's right. As soon as you've done what's necessary for buying the land, Jerry and I will see an architect.
W: Have you found a plot yet？
M: Jerry was in Edinburgh last Saturday and saw a plot he likes. My wife and I went there two days ago, and we liked it, too. I'd like you to make the necessary inquiries for me.
W: I'd be pleased to do that. I shall have to write to the Local Authority and inquire whether it is allowed to build a house on your piece of land. You've not allowed to build a house without permission from the Planning Authority. And sometimes the Authority decides that a house must be built of stone, and not of brick, so that it doesn't spoil the surrounding village.
How long have they not met each other？
A．Half a year.
B．Two years.
C．Three or four years.
D．More than five years.
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Smog-choked Southern California （demands) them. It's a car for people who never want to go
Smog-choked Southern California (demands) them. It's a car for people who never want to go to (a) gas station again. But the fact is, for all the talk, selling (gas-less) machines has been a (hard-sell).
A．demands
B．a
C．gas-less
D．hard-sell
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This survey represents the life of local people.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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听力原文：M: You must be Kelly. Thanks for coming. It's hard to find a good baby-sitter on a Friday night.
W: I like watching kids, and I need the extra money. I'd like to talk to you about my new rate increases.
What does the woman mean？
A．She is asking for a higher pay.
B．She is introducing a new friend.
C．She is too busy.
D．She's got some problems.
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It takes a ______ time for me to prepare for the dinner, but the results are so good that it's worth the ______.
A．short; force
B．long; effort
C．many; labor
D．much; pains
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In today's environment, __________ people are often burned out, it's important for employees to have a personal connection with you and the work you believe in.
A: where
B; when
C; while
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1t’ s _____good feeling for people to admire the Shanghai World Expo that gives them _____pleasure
A.不填;a
B.a;不填
C.the;a
D.a;the
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Summer is winding down, but it's still not too late to put the top down and hit the road. For those of us who can't spring for a Corvette or a BMW, here's some good news: Two of the coolest convertibles on the road are also more affordable-- Volkswagen's New Beetle and Chrysler's PT Cruiser.
Both start at about $20,000, seat four, and get between 22 and 24 miles per gallon from their four-cylinder engines. Each has fully insulated cloth tops with rear windows made of real glass, which makes them comfort- able to use in winter. Front-wheel drive helps make them safer to drive over snow and ice. Both also offer high- performance turbocharged models starting at about $25,000. Both have bulging fenders and cool, retro personalities.
Beyond that, they're very different. The PT Cruiser focuses on practicality, while the Beetle is more fun to drive.
That fun comes from the car's chassis, suspension, and overall structure. Crank the steering into a turn and the Car follows like an eager puppy. The engine isn't powerful, but loves to rev, so you can downshift to accelerate.
The New Beetle Convertible has developed an unfortunate reputation as a "chick car" for its cute looks and the lack of power in the standard model. But for an extra $1,600, VW offers its turbocharged version, with a 150 horsepower, 1.8 liter engine, which gives the car some snap.
Even so, the convertible top eliminates what little practicality the New Beetle hatchback offers. To fit the folding top, the back seat was narrowed and angled so upright it's uncomfortable. And the folded top sits above a tiny trunk, with only five cubic feet of capacity and accessible through a smaller porthole.
Weekend trippers had better not have kids --or plan to rough it with more than a backpack or two. Interior storage is also minuscule. As with the New Beetle hatchback, the windshield is disconcertingly far away, and the wipers clear only a small slit of a view in front. Compared with the profile of the hatchback, however, the convertible sports a top that' s lower and a little less cartoonlike.
The PT Cruiser, on the other hand, looks its sinister best with the top up. Peeling the top off reveals its cutesy "roll hoop". (Chrysler denies the hoop offers rollover protection and calls it a light bar.) But the Cruiser, like its four-door brethren, offers all the year-round practicality the original Beetle convertible did in its day. The back seat is comfortable for two people, and the trunk is roomy.
Unfortunately, it's also hard to access because the big trunk lid gets in the way when open. So instead of standing to load or unload the car, you have to squat or kneel. But the storage space is huge --the biggest I've seen in any convertible. And the back seats fold forward in case you need to carry some long cargo. The interior offers four cup holders and several large storage bins.
The 220-horsepower turbocharged engine in the GT model makes the Cruiser seriously quick, which backs up its hot-rod looks. But after that, the driving experience falls apart. Like its hot-rod inspirations, the Cruiser is best on a straight, smooth road. Over bumps, its floppy chassis wobbles like jello. On the highway, the Cruiser I tested needed continual corrections to stay in its lane. The manual shifter on the GT proved sloppy; it was hard to be sure which gear the car was about to engage. Several times I hit fifth gear when aiming for third. Chrysler apparently anticipated this problem, as a brief warning chimes to let you know when you're in reverse.
Neither the PT Cruiser convertible nor the New Beetle is perfect. But for fun in the sun or even the fall -- what could be better？ Both cars brought constant waves, smiles, and stories from passersby.
What's a convertible about if it isn't looking good on the road and brightening your day？
Those who choose Volkswagen's Ne
A．practicality
B．fun to drive
C．prices
D．style
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Contemporary technological reporting is full of notions of electronic communities in which people interact across regions or entire continents. Could such "virtual communities" eventually replace geographically localized social relations？ There are reasons to suspect that, as the foundation for a democratic society, virtual communities will remain seriously deficient.
87. For example, electronic communication filters out and alters much of the subtlety, warmth, contextuality, and so on that seem important to fully human, morally engaged interaction. That is one reason many Japanese and European executives persist in considering face-to-face encounter essential to their business dealings and why many engineers, too, prefer face-to-face encounter and find it essential to their creativity.
88. Even hypothetical new media (e. g. advanced "virtual realities"), conveying a dimensionally richer sensory display are unlikely to prove fully satisfactory, substitutes for face-to-face interaction. Electronic media decompose holistic experience into analytically distinct sensory dimensions and then transmit the latter. At the receiving end, people can resynthesize the resulting parts into a coherent experience, but the new whole is invariably different and, in some fundamental sense, less than the original.
Second, there is evidence that screen-based technologies (such as TV and computer monitors) are prone to induce democratically unpromising psychopathologies, ranging from escapism to passivity, obsession, confusing watching with doing, withdrawal from other forms of social engagement, or distancing from moral consequences.
Third, a strength--but also a drawback--to a virtual community is that any member can exit instantly. Indeed, an entire virtual community can decline or perish in the wink of an eye.
89. To the extent that membership in virtual communities proves less stable than that obtaining in other forms of democratic community, or that social relations prove less thick (i. e. less embedded in a context filled with shared meaning and history), there could be adverse consequences for individual psychological and moral development.
90. no matter with whom we communicate or how far our imaginations fly, our bodies--and hence many material interdependencies with other people--always remain locally situated. Thus it seems morally hazardous to commune with far-flung tele-mates, if that means growing indifferent to physical neighbors. It is not encouraging to observe just such indifference in California's Silicon Valley, one of the world's most "highly wired" regions.
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To average people, they often tend to live under the illusion that English often means a good opportunity for one’s career, is this really the case？.（英译中)
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听力原文：Soil conservation efforts protect soil from wind and water that can blow or wash it away. Good soil produces food crops for both people and animals.
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Advertisement can be thought of "as the means of making known in order to buy or sell goods or services". Advertisement aims to increase people's awareness and arouse interest. It tries to inform. and to persuade. The media are all used to spread the message. The press offers a fairly cheap method, and magazines are used to reach special sections of the market. The cinema and commercial radio are useful for local market. Television, although more expensive, can be very effective. Public notices are fairly cheap and more permanent in their power of attraction. Other ways of increasing consumer interest are through exhibitions and trade fairs as well as direct mail advertisement.
There can be no doubt that the growth in advertisement is one of the most striking features of the western world in this century. Many businesses such as those handling frozen foods, liquor, tobacco and medicines have been built up largely by advertisement.
We might ask whether the cost of advertisement is paid for by the producer or by the customer. (19) Since advertisement forms part of the cost of production, which has to be covered by the selling price, it is clear that it is the customer who pays for advertisement. However, if large scale advertisement leads to increased demand, production costs are reduced, and the customer pays less.
It is difficult to measure exactly the influence of advertisement on sales. When the market is growing, advertisement helps to increase demand. When the market is shrinking, advertisement may prevent a bigger fall in sales than would occur without its support. What is clear is that businesses would not pay large sums for advertisement if they were not convinced of its value to them.
Advertisement is often used to______.
A．deceive customers
B．increase production
C．arouse suspicion
D．push the sale
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One of Microsoft's cool people, is Patrick Blackburn. As a test manager for the Product Group, Blackburn's job may sound routine; however, he says it's anything but that.
"Most people ,think of software testing as a mundane task of punching the keyboard like a monkey, trying to break the program," Blackburn says. "Part of that is true, but we write software programs called Monkeys to do that for us so that we don't have to hire real monkeys. Real monkeys are too difficult to manage and don't usually pass the personal hygiene criteria !" In reality, Blackburn says, testing responsibilities are very technically challenging and often include complete development cycles of their own. He spends most of his time coming up with creative incentives to convince his team to believe in schedules for products that don't yet exist, hiring great people to build strong teams, and pounding on the products to find bugs before the customer sees them.
According to Blackburn, the most critical thing you can do to succeed at Microsoft is to focus on what you believe is important. "It's easy to get overwhelmed with everything going on around you, so first and foremost you need to stay focused," he says. "What you focus on needs to be something you firmly believe in so that you'll pursue it and defend your mission with a passion. "
He also thinks that one of the biggest differences between his co-workers at Microsoft and those at his former workplace is the sense of ownership and the impact on the business that everyone shares. "We hire people who tend to become personally attached to the products and the success of the company, and the environment really perpetuates this," Blackburn says. "It's much easier to motivate a team at Microsoft than any other company I've been in. "
One of the most difficult parts of Blackburn's job is staying ahead of the people who report to him. "Because there are so many smart people and technology is changing so quickly, it is a constant challenge to keep up," he says. "I hope that's because I hire such great people!"
To succeed, Blackburn uses time management tactics and allocates a specific amount of time to education. "My personal goal is to spend at least 20 percent of my time learning new things through formal and informal methods. "
Patrick Blackburn thinks software testing is ______ .
A．a routine and mundane job
B．technically challenging
C．like a monkey punching keyboard
D．partly done by monkeys
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Some people claim that television is good for children because it gets children cleverer by watching it，while others think that television is bad for children．Write an article to express your point of view on this topic．
You should write no less than 250 words．Write your article on ANSWER SHEET 2．
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The dutiable price for import goods shall consist of（）which are paid before the goods are unloaded at the entering pointof the territory of the People′s Republic of China.
A、the value of the goods
B、the cost of transport
C、the charges associated with the transport of the goods
D、the cost of insurance
此题为多项选择题。
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A good leader, an effective leader, is one who has respect. Respect is something you have in order to get. A leader who has respect for other people at all levels of an organization, for the work they
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A.new z00（) in our town center next month. I think it's A.good place for the teen
A.new z00() in our town center next month. I think it's A.good place for the teenagers to see the animals.
格式：A.build
B.will build
C.will be built
D.building
答案：C
9.-- Shall we go to watch A.movie together？-No. I prefer() TV at home on such A.rainy day.
A.build
B.will build
C.will be built
D.building
答案：C
9.-- Shall we go to watch A.movie together？-No. I prefer() TV at home on such A.rainy day.
格式：A.watch
B.to watch
C.watching
D.watched
