Many people approach a topic with ______, which afterwards turn out to be false when
A.procedure
B.assumption
C.interaction
D.specialty
A.procedure
B.assumption
C.interaction
D.specialty
Cultural differences in business entertaining include
issues such as person one entertains and where, S1.______
and how one entertains. In countries of which status S2.______
is important, it is not advisable to invite people of
different statuses to the same dinner party. Americans
will often invite people to their homes. Whereas in
some societies the home is considering too private, S3.______
unworthy, or embarrassingly small to serve as an
appropriate forum for business entertaining. In some
countries there is a "help yourself" approach to
entertain done in the home, This approach does not work S4.______
well when entertaining people whose culture teaches
them to wait to ask three times before accepting an S5.______
offer of food. In one instance, a Chinese guest went
an entire evening without eating as he was quite hungry S6.______
because he was too embarrassing to take food after S7.______
only being asked to do so once. In another case, an
American woman executive was entertaining at tea in S8.______
London. After having the tea served, the American
woman helped herself to cream and sugar rather than
waiting to be served. The English woman was embarrassed S9.______
by the implication what she was not serving S10.______
quickly enough, In many countries in Asia, it is
common to go out after work and have a meal and a
few drinks in order to establish and maintain harmonious relationships.
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Researchers stress that we need diet and exercise to drop pounds. "The most 【26】______ way to lose weight is with a combination, "says Rena Wing, head of the National Weight Control Center. 【27】______ experts also admit that many 【28】______ losers find it helps to 【29】______ on one or the other. '"A lot of people feel helpless at the thought of 【30】______ everything--diet, lifestyle," says Bess Marcus, professor of human behavior. at Brown University Medical School. "So ask yourself, ' 【31】______ do I want to start? What am I willing to focus on?'"
The 【32】______ depends on everything from what you hope to 【33】______ to how your life is 【34】______ . If you are in a big hurry to drop pounds 【35】______ dieting is the way to go. Decades of 【36】______ have shown it’s the surest and quickest method. If you are more 【37】______ with how you look than with numbers on the scale, though, 【38】______ may be the way to go. By increasing physical activity, you'll 【39】______ fat and build muscle tissue. 【40】______ often end up losing both fat and muscle tissue.
Your 【41】______ approach is one that suits your lifestyle. If you’ve tried and 【42】______ at one approach, consider the other. "A lot of people have become so disappointed that they begin to think they'll 【43】______ be able to lose weight, "says Marcus. "That’s when it’s time to try some thing new. 【44】______ a small step forward can help people 【45】______ confidence and convince them selves they can make even bigger changes."
【26】
A.active
B.effective
C.comprehensive
D.productive
The 【32】______ depends on everything from what you hope to 【33】______ to how your life is 【34】______ If you are in a big hurry to drop pounds 【35】______ , dieting is the way to go. Decades of 【36】______ have shown it's the surest and quickest method. If you are more 【37】______ with how you look than with numbers on the scale, though, 【38】______ may be the way to go. By increasing physical activity, you'll 【39】______ fat and build muscle tissue. 【40】______ often end up losing both fat and muscle tissue.
Your 【41】______ approach is one that suits your lifestyle. If you've tried and 【42】______ at one approach, consider the other. "A lot of people have become so disappointed that they begin to think they'll 【43】______ be able to lose weight," says Marcus. "That's when it's time to try something new. 【44】______ a small step forward can help people 【45】______ confidence and convince themselves they can make even bigger changes."
【26】
A.active
B.productive
C.comprehensive
D.effective
Finding a good work-at-home job is not easy. Although you see all the online advertising, there aren't that many of them. Those that are available may require that you live in a certain area or spend at least some time in the office. Others may be only part-time jobs. Keep in mind that the skills needed for home employment are similar to those needed for working in an office. You'll also need a home office with a high speed internet connection, phone, fax, computer, printer, and other basic office equipment. To get started, consider your job search as your job. Spend as many hours per week on your job search as you would spend working. If you're looking for full-time work, you should be spending fill-time hours seeking a job. Networking (人际关系) remains the top way to find a job and it does work. Develop contacts—friends, family, even the other job seekers—anyone who might have the information you need. You can take a direct approach and ask for job information or try a less formal approach and ask for information and advice. Contact everyone you know and tell them you want to work from home. You may be surprised by the people they know and the job information they can provide.
According to the first paragraph, it is not easy to find good work-at-home jobs because ______.
A、they are seldom advertised online or in newspapers
B、they may require that you live in a certain place
C、you are always asked to work full-time
D、you need to have a college degree
听力原文: Today we'll examine the role that private transportation-namely,the automobile-plays in city planning.
A number of sociologists blame the automobile for the decline of the downtown areas of major cities. In the 1950's and 1960's,the automobile made it possible to work in the city and yet live in the suburbs many miles away. Shopping patterns changed;instead of going to downtown stores,people in the suburbs went to large shopping malls outside the city and closer to the home. Merchants in the city failed,and their stores closed.
Downtown shopping areas became deserted. In recent years there's been a rebirth of the downtown area,as many suburbanites have moved back to the city. They've done this,of course,to avoid highways blocked with commuters from the suburbs. I've chosen this particular city planning problem-our dependence on private transportation-to discuss in groups. I'm hoping you will all come up with some novel solutions. Oh,and don't approach the problem from a purely sociological perspective;try to take into account environmental and economic issues as well.
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A.It eliminated many factory jobs.
B.It allowed workers to live far from their jobs.
C.It gave workers opportunity for better training.
D.It allowed workers to spend more time at home.
根据下面材料,回答题。
How to Lose Weight Properly
Researchers stress that we need diet and exercise to drop pounds. "The most ____51____ way to lose weight is with a combination," says Rena Wing, head of the National Weight Control Center.
____52____ experts also admit that many ____53____ losers find it helps to ____54____ on one or the other. "A lot of people feel helpless at the thought of ____55____ everything--diet, lifestyle," says Bess Marcus,professor of human behavior. at Brown University Medical School. "So ask yourself, &39; ____56____ do I want to start? What am I willing to focus on?&39;"
The ____57____ depends on everything from what you hope to ____58____ to how our life is ____59 .____
If you are in a big hurry to drop pounds ____60____, dieting is the way to go. Decades of ____61____ have shown it&39;s the surest and quickest method. If you are more ____62____ with how you look than with numbers on the scale, though, ____63____ may be the way go to. By increasing physical activity, you&39;ll ____64____ fat and build muscle tissue.____65____ often end up losing both fat and muscle tissue.
Your best approach is one that suits your lifestyle. If you&39;ve tried and fail at one approach, consider the other. "A lot of people have so disappointed that they begin to think they&39;ll never be able to lose weight," says Marcus. "That&39;s when it&39;s time to try something new. Even a small step forward can help people regain confidence and convince themselves they can make even bigger changes."
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A.active
B.effective
C.comprehensive
D.productive
Gift giving has its own set of protocols(礼仪).As a general rule, a small gift from your home country is appreciated.A gift that is tied to the particular interest of the individual is especially appreciated.Gifts for children are also well received.Be careful that the “hometown” gift you are bringing to Singapore was not made in Hong Kong.Because many gifts carry symbolic(象征性的) meanings, it is always best to seek advice before selecting gifts.The giving of large gifts, or payments for special services, should only be undertaken after consulting(咨询) the legal department in the home and host culture.
6.Which of the following may best summarize the main idea of the passage? ()
A.The cultural differences in business entertaining
B.Importance of gift giving in business
C.How to entertain guest
D.How to entertain guests and give gifts in business
7.What aspects should we pay attention to when we entertain our guests? ()
A.The guests’ status
B.The place
C.How to entertain
D.All of the above
8.What is the topic sentence of the second paragraph? ()
A.Gift giving has its own set of protocols
B.A gift that is tied to the particular interest of the individual is especially appreciated
C.As a general rule, a small gift from your home country is appreciated
D.It is always best to seek advice before selecting gifts
9.How many times does the host usually ask the guests to accept the offer? ()
A.One
B.Two
C.Three
D.Four
10.What is the best way to do when we select gifts? ()
A.Ask the price
B.Notice the hometown of the gift
C.Seek the advice
D.Make sure of the quality
?Read the text about the importance of qualifications.
?In most of the lines 34—45 there is one extra word. One or two lines, however, are correct.
?If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.
?If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.
The Importance of Qualifications
Young people and their parents are aware that it is increasingly necessary to
have good qualifications order to get a job nowadays. Going to university and
34. into further education is considered very important by both teenagers and their
35. parents. 63% of teenagers in full-time education want to go on to university or
36. further education, although this figure does decreases as young people
37. approach this big decision. Young women in particular wish to enter the higher
38. education with three times as many girls continuing to studying in preference
39. to going straight to work. Although family influence is still very important in
40. helping the young in make career choices. Today's careers information and
41. work experience play a mater part in decisions about his employment.
42. Over 80% of young people do not want to follow in their parents footsteps
43. by going into the same jobs and 74% of parents would rather prefer their children to
44. choose a different career to their own. Researchers were surprised by this result.
45. And young people who do the same jobs as their parents do not always live happily.
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So a project was piloted involving Bangladeshi women in inner city London, most of whom migrated to the UK in the 1960s and 1970s from a rural background. Many of these, women turned to their doctors with common symptoms of anxiety, such as headaches, sleeping difficulties, loss of appetite and lack of energy. They were usually prescribed tranquillizers(镇定剂)or even Vitamin C. Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with in creasing frequency and some were referred on to mental-health professionals.
The psychologists wanted to see how normal Western approaches to anxiety problems might work when applied across cultures. However, they found that many things in the standard approach had to be changed. They had to translate many of the usual examples -- they would normally compare learning to relax with learning to drive, for instance, which would not have been culturally appropriate. At first they asked the women to rate, on a scale one to ten, the effect of relaxation on their level of anxiety. They found numbers an odd way of expressing how they were feeling. So psychologists shifted their focus to words rand talked of five stages form. "very good" to "very bad".
As it was a pilot project, there were Shortcomings. Psychologists looked for too little back up and did not collect as much objective data as they might have done with a white group. They fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign. Perhaps racism has conditioned the professionals to a greater extent than they expected. Psychologists found that using a Western model across cultures has potential. But it needs political, financial and personal commitment.
What does the phrase "color blind" in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.Not liking people from ethnic groups.
B.Giving specialized treatment to ethnic groups.
C.Unable to distinguish certain colors.
D.Not treating ethnic groups differently.
Bilingual Education
Bilingual education in America is hundreds of years old, hardly a "new" issue. In 1837, Pennsylvania law required that school instruction be given on an equal basis in German as well as English. In fact, that example provides us with a fairly concise definition of bilingual education, the use of two languages for instruction. But, almost a century later, as America was being pulled into World War I, foreign languages were seen as unpatriotic. Public pressure routed the German language from the curriculum, although nearly one in four high school students was studying the language at the time. Some states went even further. Committed to a rapid assimilation(同化)of new immigrants, and suspicious of much that was foreign, these states prohibited the teaching of any foreign language during the first eight years of schooling.
Despite the long history of bilingual education in this country, many school districts never really bought into the concept. In districts without bilingual education, students with a poor command of English had to sink or swim (or perhaps, more accurately, "speak or sink"). Students either learned to speak English as they sat in class—or they failed school, an approach sometimes referred to as language submersion. If submersion was not to their liking, they could choose to leave school. Many did.
Bilingual education had a rebirth in the 1960s, as the Civil rights movement brought new attention to the struggles of many Americans temporarily without citizenship, including non-English speakers trying to learn in a language they did not understand. And, unlike the 1800s, by the 1960s and 1970s education had become less an option and more a necessity, the access to economic success. To respond to this need, Congress passed the Bilingual Education Act in 1968. This act provided federal financial incentives, using what some people call "a carrot approach," to encourage schools to initiate bilingual education programs. Not all districts chased the carrot.
From the start, the Bilingual Education Act was fraught with problems. The act lacked concrete recommendations for implementation and did not specify standards. Individual school districts and, in some cases, even individual schools, experimented with different approaches. In too many cases, the act simply failed to serve the students it was meant to serve.
During the early 1970s, disappointed parents initiated lawsuits. In 1974, the Supreme Court heard the case of Lau v. Nichols. This class action lawsuit centered around Kinney Lau and 1,800 other Chinese students from the San Francisco area who were failing their courses because they could not understand English. The Court affirmed that federally funded schools must "correct the language deficiency" of these students. Teaching students in a language they did not understand was not an appropriate education. The Court's decision in Lau v. Nichols prompted Congress to pass the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA). Under this law, school districts must take positive steps to provide equal education for language-minority students by eliminating language barriers.
Typically in the bilingual approach, limited English proficiency (LEP) students learn English as a second language while taking other academic subjects in their native language. The transitional approach begins by using the native language as a bridge to English-language instruction. Academic subjects are first taught using the native language, but progressively the students transition to English, to their new language. This is the most widely used approach. The maintenance, or developmental, approach emphasizes the importance of maintaining both languages. The goal is to create a truly bilingual student, one who acquires English while maintaining competence in the native language. Students are instructed in both languages. English as a Second
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B.N
C.NG