简答题Which of the following is NOT true? A、Technology was supposed to free people. B、The .corn generation became slaves of technology. C、New technologies occupy much of our time. D、It is difficult to avoid the influence of technology wonders.简答题According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in employing people today? A、Connections with businesses overseas. B、Ability to speak the client’s language. C、Technical know-how. D、Business experience.简答题The word "hassles" in the passage (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means _____. A、agreements B、worries C、disadvantages D、quarrels简答题People's facial expressions may be misunderstood because __________. A、A. people of different ages may have different understanding B、B. people have different cultures C、C. people of different sex may understand a gesture in a different way D、 D. people of different countries speak different languages简答题Now with TV people can__________. A、A. discus politics at an information center B、B. show more interest in politics C、C. make theft own decisions on political affairs D、 D. express their opinions freely简答题Why did the boss send Mr.Black to China on business? A、Mr.Black had never been to China before. B、Mr.Black was an able and hard-working man. C、Mr.Black could buy something interesting for Tony.简答题The smuggler in many ways is just another international businessman and his turnover would do credit to many international corporations. His business happens to be illegal and risky, but look at the stakes involved: 1.5 billion in gold passing annually along smuggling pipelines toIndiaandIndonesia, toFranceandMorocco, toBrazilandTurkey. Perhaps half of all the watches made inSwitzerlandreach their eventual wearers by some back door. Most of this illicit trade is carried on with all the efficiency of any multinational company. Entirely legitimate businesses, such as a travel bureau or an import-export agency, are also often fronts for smuggling organizations. One of the world’s largest gold smugglers also owned and operated the franchise for a leading make of British cars in a small Middle Eastern country. He made a good profit from both activities. A smuggling syndicate operates much like any other business. The boss is really a chief executive. He makes all the plans, establishes international contacts, and thinks up the smuggling routes and method but remains aloof from actual operations. He is aided by a handful of managers looking after such specialties as financing, travel (one reason why many smuggling syndicates find it handy to have their own travel agency), the bribing of airline or customs officials, and recruitment of couriers, or mules as they are called. There may also be someone in charge of local arrangements in the countries to which the smuggled goods is going. Another similarity between legitimate business and its illegal counterpart is price fluctuation. Just as the prices of products traded legally vary with quality and market conditions such as supply and demand, so do the prices of goods go up and down in the smuggling trade. Consider the price of drugs. Heroin and cannabis, in whatever form or by whatever name, cone in several grades, each with a going price. The wholesale price at which big dealers sell to big dealers is less than the street price. When the authorities are successful in reducing the supply buy seizures, the price of all grades rises. The main idea for this passage is A、The Comparison between Legitimate Business and Its Illegal Counterpart. B、 The similarities between Legitimate Business and Smuggling. C、Smugglers May Make Great Profit from Both Activities. D、The Boss in Smuggling Syndicate is a Chief Executive.简答题With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, businesspeople ________. A、have to get familiar with modern technology B、are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations C、are attaching more importance to their overseas business D、are eager to work overseas简答题As to energy use,the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of________. A、zero-carbon homes B、the behaviour of building users C、sustainable building design D、the reduction of carbon emissions简答题Who invented the modem soccer game? A、American Indians. B、British. C、Greeks. D、Romans.简答题According to the passage, the process of writing A、depends on skillful planning. B、is predictable and methodological. C、depends on the writers' experiences. D、is disorderly and unsystematic.简答题The number of refereeing errors in the experimental matches was _______. A、slightly above average B、higher than in the 1998 World Cup C、quite unexpected D、as high as in a standard match简答题Passage four Borrowing money from a bank to buy a house is called“take a mortgage(抵押).”The bank usually lends money or gives a mortgae for twenty-five years.Houses are so expensive that many people nowadays have to borrow as much as 50 000 mortgage. How can you get a mortgage? When you find a house you like, you go to a bank.The bank will research you financial(金融的) history and decide if they think you are a good risk.They will want to know what kind of job you have,what kind of salary you make, and how long you have had the job.They will also want to know how much money you have. In addition, the banks will require a down payment. Depending on which state you live in, the bank may require as much as 30% of the-price of the house as a down payment.The bank will then lend you the rest of the money to buy the house.Many people are never able to buy a house because they cannot save enough money for the down payment. 16. If American people borrow money from the bank for 25 years,this means that the person who borrows ______. A、has twenty-five years to pay back the money B、has more than twenty-five years to pay back the money C、has less than twenty-five years to pay back the money D、has about twenty-five years to pay back the money简答题The information gap in energy use _______. A、can be bridged by feedback facilities B、affects the study on energy monitors C、brings about problems for smart meters D、will be caused by building users’ old habits简答题Which tourist attraction was ancient Athens most famous for? A、Plaka. B、Acropolis. C、Pnyx. D、Parthenon.简答题Passage One What comes to mind when you hear the word--diversity? Issues of race or gender may spring to mind．Equal rights? Or minority issues? I encourage people to look at a much wider definition of the word. I would tend to say diversity is “differentness” in any form．A goodexample of this kind of diversity has beenexperienced by every person who ever left behind the comforts of home and moved intouncharted territory．Issues of diversity are informed not only by your cultural backgroundand context，but also by your religion，age，field of work，family situation personality，and countless other factors that make us unique. Diversity affects everyone． It's for this reason that diversity has become such a buzz word．The buzz happens because it's all about how you handle it．It's very much like the job a composer has whencreating a great musical composition．If the composer understands what each unique noteand dynamic mark is capable of in combination with the other parts，the result achieved is extraordinary．If, however none of the parts is communicating with the others，we're left with a cacophony (刺耳的声音)． On a personal level．it's this understanding and acceptance of “the other” which rests atthe core of diversity．Whether we're talking about navigating through a multicultural urbanenvironment or uprooting and moving to a new foreign social context，it is necessary to setaside rigid assumptions about “the other” and put oneself in the other's shoes. So how do wemake this leap? It's often as simple as asking questions and being careful not to assume thatwhat you see is necessarily what the other side sees. Often in my workshops I give a magic lesson to the audience to illustrate this principle. Ifirst present the magic and accomplish the "impossible". The participants receive the sameprops but simply can't manage. We look more carefully at the situation and realize that theassumptions they made about it actually blocked them from achieving this feat; a feat theysuddenly are empowered to do which, moments ago, was impossible. The goal in being sensitive to diversity is to cultivate a culture of respect for people'sdifferences and understand that such an environment is beneficial to everyone involved. Diversity awareness is an evolution. We can't get there by snapping our fingers, and itisn't a matter of training people to have textbook politically correct attitudes. Instead it's a caseof looking at the big picture of how we see the world, understanding why we see it that way,and then making sure we do our part to genuinely value difference and benefit from it. According to the author, diversity is A、confusing. B、extraordinary. C、quite common. D、universal.简答题Passage One The Internet, E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights. Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOS and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, "No, quite contrary." The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a "technological renaissance" say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends--not to mention strangers. And what's more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing. The techno gurus (领袖) promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape. If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour Interact news and entertainment all seize for our attention. And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each other's electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver, Except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention. Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect? Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. ff this new technology revolution is only about hyper efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time--our sense of what it means to be a caring human being. According to the passage, corporate executives think that A、 technology renaissance should be pushed forward. B、technology has a profound impact on their lives. C、technology actually results in a decline in their life quality. D、technology should be aggressively championed.简答题"It" in Paragraph Three refers to A、diversity. B、the buzz. C、how to handle diversity. D、the formation of diversity.简答题Some people are afraid that Project Tiger _____. A、has been carried too far B、has not received enough attention C、 has failed to achieve its goal D、is not worth the money spent on it简答题Passage three Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents(洋流).Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment.However,ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way--by studying movements of random floating garbage.A scientist with many years’experience,he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States.There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear. Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes—about 60,000 in total—fell into the ocean in a shipping accident.He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back.As expected,the company told him that they didn't.Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment.If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed,he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents. The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻)because winds and currents join here,and as a result,there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area.Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed.In a year he collected reliable information on 1,600 shoes.With this data,he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents,and publish the findings of their study. As the result of his work,Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean.He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts,with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand.They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out __. A、what caused the shipping accident B、when and where the shoes went missing C、whether it was all right to use their shoes D、how much they lost in the shipping accident