单选题[Focus on the type of semantic relation] A. school/college B. move/run C. furniture/table D. mature/ripe

单选题A.B.8C.9D.10E.

单选题What is the ratio of 3/7 to the product 3(7/3)? A. 3:7 B. 1:3 C. 3:21 D. 1:7 E. 3:49

单选题Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc) and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated, organized gap student does require family back-up, financial, emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their kids; it is vicarious living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become; how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree. Gap years are fashionable, as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William toiling in Chile have helped, but the trend has been gathering steam for a decade. The range of gap packages starts with backpacking, and includes working with charities, building hospitals and schools and, very commonly, working as a language assistant, teaching English. With this trend, however, comes a danger. Once parents feel that a well-structured year is essential to their would-be undergraduate"s progress to a better university, a good degree, an impressive CV and well-paid employment, as the gap companies" blurbs (产品推介) suggest it might be, then parents will start organizing and paying for the gaps. Where there are disasters, according to Richard Oliver, director of the gap companies" umbrella organization, the Year Out Group, it is usually because of poor planning. That can be the fault of the company or of the student, he says, but the best insurance is thoughtful preparation. "When people get it wrong, it is usually medical or, especially among girls, it is that they have not been away from home before or because expectation does not match reality. " The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies. The 18-year-old, who was dispatched by his parents at two weeks" notice to Canada to learn to be a snowboarding instructor at a cost of ￡5,800, probably came back with little more than a hangover. The 18-year-old on the same package who worked for his fare and spent the rest of his year instructing in resorts from New Zealand to Switzerland, and came back to apply for university, is the positive counterbalance.

单选题Ifforallnumbersq,r,s,andt,thenA.-3B.-1C.1D.4/3E.4

单选题If pride in a good name keeps families and neighborhoods straight, a sense of shame is the ______ side of that coin.

单选题vivacity

单选题If the average (arithmetic mean) of a and b is 110, and the average of b and c is 160, what is the value of a-c? A. -220 B. -100 C. 100 D. 135 E. It cannot be determined from the information given.

单选题While she had the fever, she ______ for hours. A. raved B. sniggered C. tittered D. perforated

单选题If x, y, and z are positive integers and x2=y2+z2, which of the following must be true? Ⅰ.x＞z Ⅱ.x=y+z Ⅲ. y2+z2 is a positive integer A. Ⅰ only B. Ⅱ only C. Ⅲ only D. Ⅰ and Ⅱ only E. Ⅰ and Ⅲ only

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单选题The boss into a rage and started shouting at Robert to do as he was told

单选题Millions of people pass through the gates of Disney"s entertainment parks in California, Florida and Japan each year. What makes these places an almost universal attention? What makes foreign kings and queens and other important people want to visit these Disney parks? One reason is the way they are treated once they get there. The people at Disney go out of their way to serve their "guests", as they prefer to call them, and to see that they enjoy themselves. All new employees, from vice-presidents to part-time workers, begin their employment by attending Disney University and taking the general training. Here, they learn about the company"s history, how it is managed and why it is successful. They are shown how each department relates to the whole. All employees are shown how important their parts are in making the park a success. After passing the general training, the employees go on to more specialized training for their specific jobs. No detail is missed. A simple job like taking tickets requires four eight-hour days of training. When one ticket taker was asked why it took so much training for such a simple and ordinary job, he replied, "what happens if someone wants to know where the restrooms are, when the parade starts or which bus to take back to the campground? We need to know the answer or where to get them quickly. Our constant aim is to help our guests enjoy the party." Even Disney managers get involved in the daily management of the park. Every year, the managers leave their desks and business suits and put on special service clothes. For a full week, the bosses sell hotdogs or ice cream, take tickets or drive the monorail, and take up any of the 100 jobs that make the entertainment park come alive. The managers agree that this week helps them to see the company"s goals more clearly. All these efforts to serve the public well have made Walt Disney Productions famous. Disney is considered by many as the best mass service provider in America or the world. As one long-time business observer once said, "how Disney treats people, communicates with them, rewards them, is in my view the very reason for his fifty years of success... I have watched, very carefully and with great respect and admiration the theory and practice of selling satisfaction and serving millions of people on a daily basis successfully. It is what Disney does best."

单选题If 3(x2+x)-7=x2+2(4+x2), then x= A. 5 B. 6 C. 9 D. 15 E. 25

单选题The ability of bank to create deposits is determined by the ratio of liouid assets which they___.

单选题A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is. accountability. Accountability isn"t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences. Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on—accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law—and, ultimately, no society. My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people"s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim. "In this family certain things are not tolerated—they simply are not done!" Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him. The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it"s the criminal who is considered victimized, by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn"t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn"t provide a stable home. I don"t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.

单选题Whatistheperimeterofthefigureabove?(Note,figurenotnecessarilydrawntoscale)A.155B.185C.220D.235E.250

单选题As obvious as it may sound, the truth is there are a lot of businesses out there. The odds of not having any competition are next to impossible, and something any worthwhile business, whether big or small, has to eventually come to accept. Every one of those businesses are trying to do the exact same thing: get people to buy their products. When flooded with so many potential prospects it isn"t always easy for the customers to know which business is the best and which one has the best product. What you need to do is to help them along. Differentiating your business and your products from the competitors is by far one of the most important details when dealing with any kind of industry. Everything a company does, from the creative ads they run to the inventive promotions they produce to the full color business cards they hand out is geared towards separating themselves from the rest of the flock. If you"re going to compete with them you"re going to have to do the same, and do it more effectively. Sometimes the most effective approaches can be some of the most simple. Printing well-colored brochures gives businesses the chance to show their customers the subtle or not so subtle differences between them and the competitors, whether it is better designs, better features, or better prices. Handing them a list of all the products or services you offer allows them the ability to see exactly what they"re getting when they do business with you, and the more customers know about a business the better the odds are they"ll feel comfortable with them. But, even going beyond the products, boosting up your company can also be an effective tool to place you above the competitors. When you hand a person a business card, fully colored with a unique design you"re handing him a means to remember you. A business card can say a lot about a person and the business he run. Simple, drab colors can be off putting to the person looking for a friendlier business. The right color scheme alone can differentiate you from the competitors, and once you"ve managed to separate yourself out, you"ll be in a prime position to be whom the person favors when they need that specific product. With competition as steep as it is today, every business has its hands full trying to stay above the rest. When every little thing counts, the business the customers will take to heart will be the one who can show them just why they"re the best qualified. Printing out the right kind of colorful brochure or business card can be a valuable method of stepping away from the crowded business field.

单选题Do you think that religion is ______ with science?

单选题For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines, a never-ending flood of words. In 41 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 42 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 43 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 44 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 45 in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have 46 meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. 47 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 48 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over 49 you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 50 down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as 51 reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 52 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 53 the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The acceleratorforces the reader to read fast, 54 word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first 55 is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, 56 your comprehension will improve. Many people have found 57 reading skill drastically improved after some training. 58 Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute 59 the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can 60 a lot more reading material in a short period of time.