单选题Several of the washing machines are out of order and they______

单选题The crowd ______ into the hall and some had to stand outside.

单选题 Nothing succeeds in business books like the study of success. The current business-book boom was launched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search of Excellence. The trend has continued with a succession of experts and would-be experts who promise to distil the essence of excellence into three(or five or seven)simple rules. The Three Rules is a self-conscious contribution to this type of writing; it even includes a bibliography of 'success studies'. Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed work for a consultancy, Deloitte, that is determined to turn itself into more of a thought-leader and less a corporate repairman. They employ all the tricks of the success books. They insist that their conclusions are 'measurable and actionable'—guides to behaviour rather than analysis for its own sake. Success authors usually serve up vivid stories about how exceptional businesspeople stamped their personalities on a company or rescued it from a life-threatening crisis. Messrs Raynor and Ahmed are happier chewing the numbers: they provide detailed appendices on 'calculating the elements of advantage' and 'detailed analysis'. The authors spent five years studying the behaviour of their 344 'exceptional companies', only to come up at first with nothing. Every hunch(直觉)led to a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end. It was only when they shifted their attention from how companies behave to how they think that they began to make sense of their voluminous material. Management is all about making difficult tradeoffs in conditions that are always uncertain and often fast-changing. But exceptional companies approach these tradeoffs with two simple rules in mind, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. First: better before cheaper. Companies are more likely to succeed in the long run if they compete on quality or performance than on price. Second: revenue before cost. Companies have more to gain in the long run from driving up revenue than by driving down costs. Most success studies suffer from two faults. There is 'the halo(光环)effect', whereby good performance leads commentators to attribute all manner of virtues to anything and everything the company does. These virtues then suddenly become vices when the company fails. Messrs Raynor and Ahmed work hard to avoid these mistakes by studying large bodies of data over several decades. But they end up embracing a different error: stating the obvious. Most businesspeople will not be surprised to learn that it is better to find a profitable niche (隙缝市场) and focus on boosting your revenues than to compete on price and cut your way to success. The difficult question is how to find that profitable niche and protect it. There, The Three Rules is less useful.

单选题 Questions6-9 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

单选题It is a treasure hunt with a difference: conducted not with metal detectors, but by negotiation. Italy is at last reaping the benefits of a two-year campaign to regain smuggled antiquities. Five American museums have been talked into returning works that they claim to have acquired in good faith. Almost 70 of the finest are now on display in Rome—and they have just been joined by the only known intact work by Euphronios, an Athenian vase-painter. New ground is also being broken with the return of nine items from the private collection of a New York philanthropist, Shelby White. This is the first pact negotiated with an individual. Francesco Rutelli, the culture minister, met Ms White twice in America before the deal was done. She has always maintained that she and her late husband had no idea that the pieces were suspect. A tenth item from their collection, also by Euphronios, is being sent back to Italy in 2010. Under Italian law, any classical artefacts found on Italian soil belong to the state, even if (like Euphronios" vases) they originated in Greece. A former head of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and an American art dealer have been on trial for almost three years in Rome, charged with trafficking in illegally excavated objects. Both deny wrongdoing. Their charge was followed by a deal that officials say is crucial for efforts to curb the traffic in smuggled antiquities. Switzerland has undertaken to require importers of classical artifacts to produce proofs of origin and of legal export. The deals with the museums have all involved give-and-take. In exchange for works claimed by Italy, the museums have been given others on long-term loan. "Italian lovers of art and archaeology will get back what has been stolen, while others abroad will profit from the exhibition of sometimes even more beautiful works," says Mr Rutelli. The deal with the Getty museum was the hardest to do but also the most productive. 40 of the works on show in Rome come from there. But they do not include the "Getty bronze", which the Italians had hoped to retrieve. This third-century BC statue, attributed to Lysippos, Greek sculptor, was caught by Italian fishermen in 1964. The Getty insists that it was found in international waters. The Italians say it was still illegally exported.

单选题An employer has several choices he can consider when he wants to hire a new employee. First, he may look within his own company. But if none of the present employees are suitable for the position, he will have to look outside the company. If his company has a personnel office, he can ask them to help find qualified applicants. There are other valuable sources the employer can use, such as employment agencies, professional societies and so on. He can also advertise in the newspapers and magazines and ask prospective candidates to send in resumes. The employer has two kinds of qualifications to consider when he wants to choose from among applicants. He must consider both professional qualifications and personal characteristics. A candidate's professional qualifications include his education, experience and skills. These can be listed on a resume. Personal characteristics must be evaluated through interviews.

单选题If you don't ______ the children properly, Mr. Chiver, they'll just run riot.

单选题Up until the age of 18, I read very little. I 1 myself to what was necessary for a secondary-school 2 . I was always busy either playing soccer or falling in love. Then came the day when, as a young columnist, my main 3 was to read. And I got to like it. My head spun! An unknown passion took 4 of me. What happened? For me, it was the 5 of a new state of being in love. I began to take possession of books and to annotate them. 6 I would tell them, in an only slightly 7 way, how much I liked them or didn"t. Today, 25 years later, I 8 through my books from those days and it"s magic, finding myself face to face with the young man I once was. Sometimes I 9 him. Other times I find him 10 Certain remarks seem 11 to me now. Others make me happy. I was right about that, I sometimes say to myself. Twenty-five years later I find the 12 trace of my thoughts, my 13 of that time. That"s why I never lend out my books. I give 14 the ones of which I have two 15 and the ones I"ve never read. But the ones I"ve 16 up cannot 17 : they have become my journals, my 18 . To let someone read them would be 19 myself up to scrutiny. I would be allowing others to break into me like a 20 breaks into a house.

单选题He never gave much thought to the additional kilograms he had ______ lately.

单选题The team really looks good tonight because the coach had them ______ every night this week.

单选题All the key words in the article are printed in ______ type so as to attract readers" attention.

单选题The most ______ students do additional reading to supplement the material in the textbook.

单选题-- ______ do you play tennis? -- Twice a month.

单选题I remember her face but I cannot ______ where I met her.

单选题The author's primary purpose in writing this passage is to ______.

单选题{{B}}Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.{{/B}} During the Olympic Games, people from all over the world come together in peace and friendship. The first Olympic Games that we have {{U}}(21) {{/U}} of were in Greece in 776 B.C. The games lasted one day. The only {{U}}(22) {{/U}} in the first thirteen Olympic Games was a race. Men ran the length of the stadium. In 1896 the games were {{U}}(23) {{/U}} again in Athens, Greece. The Greeks {{U}}(24) {{/U}} a new stadium for the competition. 311 {{U}}(25) {{/U}} from thirteen countries {{U}}(26) {{/U}} in many events. The {{U}}(27) {{/U}} became national heroes. After 1896, the games were held every four years during the summer in different cities around the {{U}}(28) {{/U}}. In 1908, in London, England, the first gold {{U}}(29) {{/U}} were given to winning athletes. The Olympic Winter Games {{U}}(30) {{/U}} in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Athletes competed in {{U}}(31) {{/U}} events such as skiing, ice skating and ice hockey. Today the Winter Games take place {{U}}(32) {{/U}} four years. Until recently, Olympic competitors could not be {{U}}(33) {{/U}} athletes. All of the athletes in the Olympic Games were amateurs. Today, {{U}}(34) {{/U}}, many of the Olympic athletes are professionals who play their sports {{U}}(35) {{/U}} money during the year. Some people disagree with this idea.

单选题This selection is primarily concerned with ______.

单选题It is often more difficult______than to get financial support for scientific research.

单选题To study the distribution of disease within an area, it is useful to plot the cases on a map.

单选题Even after ten years her name conjures up such beautiful memories.