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The swimming pool is so（）that it's safe for small children.
A . stable
B . smooth
C . superficial
D . shallow
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It's generally considered unwise to give a child _____he or she wants.
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When Lucky was first learning Chinese, he heard back a saying. It's ( ).
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It's stated in the fourth paragraph that ______.
A．Einstein was popular in America
B．Einstein enjoyed reading about wars
C．Einstein headed a research institute
D．Einstein was a famous chemist
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Blackburn says that it's important for a manager to
A．lead their staff by example.
B．put ambition above everything else.
C．demand high standards from their workforce.
D．move as quickly as possible up the corporate ladder.
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It's vital that enough money ______ collected to get the project started.
A．is
B．be
C．must be
D．can be
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Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful？ This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you're "hot. "That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body tem-perature is at its peak (顶峰). For some people, the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: "Get up, John. You'll be late for work again. " The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-an-ener-gy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives real-ize what these energy cycles mean and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Dr. Kleitman believes that habit can help. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually stay-ing up later than you want. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam (振作精神) and work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn (打哈欠) and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. When-ever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
According to the writer, if a person finds getting up early a problem, most proba-bly ______.
A．he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
B．he is a lazy person
C．he is not sure when his energy is low
D．he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening
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听力原文：W: I wonder if Tom will come. It's already 10: 00, and he was supposed to come at 9:00.
M: He told me he would start 30 minutes earlier. Maybe something happened to him.
Q: How long have the man and the woman been waiting？
(14)
A．1 hour.
B．30 minutes.
C．1.5 minutes.
D．2 hour.
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It's high time that he settled down in the country and （） a new life.
It&39;s high time that he settled down in the country and （） a new life.
A．starting
B．started
C．start
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It's not the money that matters, but the sense of self-worth
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It's often a mistake to______appearance: that poor-looking individual is anything but poor. In fact, he is a millionaire.
A．go over
B．go by
C．go against
D．go for
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It's upsetting when a person gets_____for a crime that he didn't commit.
A．punished
B．punishing
C．punish
D．punishes
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Do you know ____ he is？ It's said he is a doctor.
A. who
B. which
C. what
D. whom
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It's necessary that he _____ in time to attend the meeting .
A.come
B.came
C.comes
D.will come
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It's strange that she _____ in the exam.
A．A.failed
B．B.fails
C．C.should have failed
D．D.had failed
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听力原文：The trouble is that when things seem to go wrong, it may be too late to fix them, because you actually built the problem in from the start. It's vital that each member of the team knows exactly what it is he or she is supposed to contribute. You won't get a good whole if the parts aren't put together properly. If members are from different departments, they'll have different expectations, which need to be dealt with.
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Peter: ______ Diane: No, not all memories are correct, but they all tell us something about the person who is doing the remembering. The memory may tell us what the person likes or dislikes, what he or she wishes, and it may also tell us about his or her fears. Peter: ______ Diane: That's a good question. It's easier to remember things that have emotional meaning to you. It's also easier to remember information that you practice and use a lot. Repetition also reinforces memory; the more you repeat something, the better you remember it.
A．Are all memories accurate？ ; What kind of things are easier for people to remember？
B．Are there different kinds of memory？ ; What makes it easier for people to remember certain things？
C．What makes it easier for people to remember certain things？ ; Are all memories accurate？
D．What aspects of brain biology interest you？ ; Are all memories accurate？
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Attention to details is something everyone can and should do--especially in a tight job market. Bob Cross Icy, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves," he says.
"Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake. I eliminate the candidates," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job？"
Can we pay too much attention to details？ Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the tree." Says Charles Garfield, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."
Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo Il moon launch was lightly off-course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield. "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary." Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.
Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected ______.
A．because they eliminated their names from the applicants' list themselves
B．because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume
C．because they failed to give a detailed description of their background in their applications
D．because of their carelessness as shown in their failure to present a clean copy of a resume
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We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. "Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen？ " "When I got that great job, did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend？ Or did he envy my luck？" When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad. But when we look back, it's too late.
Why do we go wrong about our friends, or our enemies？ Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. And if we don't really listen we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, "You're a lucky dog." That's friendly. But "lucky dog"？ There is a bit of envy in those words. Maybe he doesn't see it himself. But mentioning the "dog" puts you down a little. What he may be saying is that he doesn't think you ought to have your luck.
"Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for" is another noise that says one thing and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of your life as a whole. But is he？ Wrapped up in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn't important. It's telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven't got a date for Saturday night.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone's words？ One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks？ Does what he says agree with the tone of voice？ His posture (姿态)？ The look in his eyes？ Stop and think. (47) If you spend one minute thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you, you may avoid another mistake.
This passage is mainly about______.
A．how to interpret what people say
B．what to do when you listen to others talking
C．how to avoid mistakes when you communicate with people
D．why we go wrong with people sometimes
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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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It's high time that you（)（study) hard.
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It's high time that he settled down in the country and start a new life.()
对
错
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The speaker thinks it's a pity that there are too many French people there
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About distributed practice and practice testing, it's true that（）
A．many students have benefited a lot from them
B．they were first put forward by John Dunlosky
C．only a small number of experts know about them
D．psychologists are studying whether they are effective
