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The fact that it has become more onerous or more expensive for one party than he thought （）sufficient to bring about a frustration.
A . is not
B . is
C . will probably be
D . is one of the way by which it i
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Marry wants to create a new application on his laptop that does not have any design elements in it. Which one of the following should he do to begin his process?（）
A . select file->Database->new and give it a filename of “blank.nsf”
B . select file->Database->new,choose local as the server,and chose the blank template
C . select file->Database->new,choose local as the server,and chose the default.ntf template
D . select file->Database->new,give it a filename of “blank.nsf”,and chose the blank template&e
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The one pleasure that Einstein（）his great fame was the ability it gave him to help others.
A . resulted from
B . stirred up
C . turned out
D . derived from
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He’s always doing stupid things that end up really _______ one or more of us kids.
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Firstthings first. one washes his hands and face in the hope that he or she would befree of skin problems all year.
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He tests the ways young chess players and athletes _________ their brains while playing, so that he can evaluate each one’s potential for success.
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People select news in expectation of a reward. This reward may be either of two kinds. One isrelated to what Freud calls the Pleasure Principle， the other to what he calls the Reality Principle.
For want of better names， we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.
In general， the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news ofcrime and corruption， accidents and disasters， sports， social events， and human interest. Delayedreward may be expected from news of public affairs， economic matters， social problems， science，
education， and health.
News of the first kind pays its rewards at once. A reader can enjoy an indirect experiencewithout any of the dangers or stresses involved. He can tremble wildly at an axe-murder， shake his head sympathetically and safely at a hurricane， identify himself with the winning team， laughunderstandingly at a warm little story of children or dogs.
News of the second kind， however， pays its rewards later. It sometimes requires the reader totolerate unpleasantness or annoyance — as， for example， when he reads of the threatening foreignituation， the mounting national debt， rising taxes， falling market， scarce housing， and cancer. It has a kind of “threat value.” It is read so that the reader may be informed and prepared. When a reader selects delayed reward news， he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work. When he selects news of the other kind， he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.
For any individual， of course， the boundaries of these two classes are not stable. For example， asociologist may read news of crime as a social problem， rather than for its immediate reward. Acoach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week. Apolitician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting， not for its delayed reward， but very much as his wife reads an account of a party. In any given story of corruption or disaster， a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience， but also the
delayed reward of information and preparedness. Therefore， while the division of categories holds in general， an individual’s tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another， or
divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.
What news stories do you read？
Division of
news stories
People expect to get （71） ▲ from reading news. News stories are roughly divided into two classes. Some news will excite their readers instantly while others won’t. （72） ▲ of
the two classes
News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual （73） ▲ . Readers will associate themselves closely with what happens in the news stories and （74） ▲ similar feelings with those involved. News of delayed reward will make readers suffer， or present a（75） ▲ to them. News of delayed reward will induce the reader to （76） ▲ for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to （77） ▲ from the reality.
Unstable boundaries
of the two classes
What readers expect from news stories are largely shaped by their
（78） ▲ .
Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some
news stories and （79） ▲ themselves to the reality.
Thus， the division， on the whole， （80） ▲ on the reader.
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One witness ______that he'd seen the suspect run out of the bank after it had been robbed.
A．convicted
B．retorted
C．conformed
D．testified
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One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you？"
"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness. "He said," Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart. "As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words...
"Paid in full with a glass of milk."
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes.
The boy tried to earn money to pay for ______.
A．traveling expenses to school
B．school tuition fee
C．his meals
D．a glass of milk
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He made such a ___________ contribution to the school that they are naming one of the buildings after him.
A. genuine
B. minimum
C. modest
D. generous
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Being aware of your wide experience of the China trade and of your connections with the ______ buyers in your country, we feel that your firm is the right one to do this and we have pleasure in offering you a sole agency.
A．principle B．princedom C．principal D．princess
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One of his many faults is that he never__________any thing very long.
A.decides on
B.sticks to
C.goes over
D.makes up
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Jackie Mcleans recordings have shown that he is one of the few jazz musicians who style. of playing has kept pace with the evolution of modern jazz.
此题为多项选择题。
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Every one of us hoped that he would _____ after a few days’ treatment in the hospital.
A．pick up
B．make up
C．take up
D．look up
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听力原文： A friend of mine told me that when he was a young man, he went to work as a teacher in one of the states of India.
One day, he received an invitation to join at the ruler's palace. Very pleased, he went to tell his colleagues. They laughed and told him the meaning of the invitation. They had all been invited and each person who was invited had to bring with him a certain number of silver' and gold coins. The number of coins varied according to the person's position in the service of the government. My friend's income was not high, so he did not have to pay much.
Each person bowed before the ruler. His gold went onto one heap; his silver went onto another heap. And in this way he paid his income tax for the year.
This was the simple way of collecting income tax. The tax on property was also collected simply. The ruler gave a man the power to collect a tax from each owner of land or property in a certain area, if this man promised to pay the ruler a certain amount of money. Of course, the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler. The difference between the sum of money he collected and the sum of money he gave to the ruler was his profit.
What do we know about the speaker's friend？
A．He was once a friend of the ruler.
B．He was a tax collector.
C．He was a government official.
D．He was once a school teacher in India.
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He insisted that we all_____in his office at one o'clock.
A．be
B．to be
C．would be
D．shall be
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Gooch, who as captain of that touring party was the main target, felt under so much per______ pressure that at one stage he actually had thought of quitting his job.
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James Marshall, the President of the United States, was on his way back home from Moscow aboard the presidential jet, Air Force One. Six Russian journalists were also aboard, pretending to interview the President. Seizing the chance, the Russians hijacked (seized control of) the plane. It seemed that the President himself escaped in a special emergency pod (救生仓) . Ivan Korshunov, the leader of the terrorists (恐怖主义者) , get in touch with the White House. He told Vice President Kathryn Bemnett that unless his leader, the extreme nationalist General Radek was set free form. a Moscow prison, he would kill the passengers one by one. He made it clear that he had President’s wife and child in hand.
Marshall was actually in a hiding-place. Using his mobile (移动的) phone, he got himself connected with the White House. He told the Vice President not to talk with the terrorists in spite :of the killing. At the same time he killed one of the terrorists and at last helped most of the hostages (人质) to escape using parachutes (something for making people fall slowly and safely from a plane). However, Ivan was still holding his wife and daughter. Rather than see either killed , Moscow to set General Radek free. He and Ivan fought it out and at last Ivan was killed. Marshall rang Moscow just in time to prevent Raded getting away. He had his family succeeded in escaping at last but the plane crashed into the sea.
James Marshall didn't know what had happened to the plane until ______.
A．he boarded Air Force One
B．the six Russian journalists interviewed him
C．the plane was hijacked
D．he escaped in a special emergency pod
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Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as "all too human", with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it all too monkey, as well
The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of "goods and services" than males. Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan's and Dr. Dewaal's study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of eucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in sepa rate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their became markedly different.
In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to; accept the slice of cu cumber indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to reduce resentment in a female capuchin.
The researches suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, groupliving species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems form. the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by______
A．posing a contrast.
B．justifying an assumption.
C．making a comparison.
D．explaining a phenomenon.
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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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他感到本应属于自己的快乐被剥夺了。He felt that he had been of the pleasure that was his due.
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One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, so（Appetite) （)。
A.one should eat to ones full
B.one should preserve this keenness of ling
C.one ought to have a taste of the multitudinous flavors of different kinds of food
D.one should starve it
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If a study participant indicates that he plans to move from one residence to another during studys09 participation, site staff should.（）
A、Wait for the participant to move and hope to get the new contact information during a laterstudy visit.
B、Record the new contact information in the participant's file and advise the site's researchteam.
C、Keep sending notifications to the participant's former address after the move date.
D、Do nothing.
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Its said that hes looking for a new job, one_________ he can get more free time.
A．when
B．where
C．that
D．which
