单选题If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses" convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table himself. "Who is that?" The new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that"s God," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he"s a doctor." If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it"ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman"s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn"t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently oK-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it"s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark. Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don"t succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

单选题Greg sells gaskets. On three sales, Greg has received commissions of $385, $70, and $190, and he has one additional sale pending. If Greg is to receive an average (arithmetic mean) commission of exactly $220 on the four sales, then the fourth commission must be: A. $135 B. $155 C. $220 D. $235 E. $645

单选题The manager has always attended to the _____ of important business himself

单选题Ittooksometimetofigureoutjusttherightshoppingcomplex,offjusttherighthighwayinterchangeandjusttherightdistancefromSeoul,thatcouldaccommodatea624,000-square-footstore—thatistosay,onemorethanthreetimesthesizeoftheaverageWal-MartSupercenter.Ittookmoretimetosolvecertainmysteries,likehowbigtomakethestore"schildren"ssectioninacountrywherekidsareoftengivenamplespaceinthefamilylivingquarters.Ittookmoretimetofigureouthowtoshowcasekitchensthatincorporatekimchirefrigerators,auniquelyKoreanappliance—andevenmoretimetountanglenuancesofthemarket,liketheSouthKorean"spreferenceformetalchopsticks.Inall,ittookaboutsixyearsforIkeatounveilitsinauguralstoreinSouthKorea,inGwangmyeong,startingfromthefirstscoutingtrip.ThelagwastypicallyIkean.Butsixyears?"Themoreglobal,themorecomplexitgets,"repliesMikaelPalmquist,theregionalmanagerofretailforAsiaPacific."Weneedtogetthesethingsrightorwewillneverbetakenseriously."TodaytheGwangmyeongstore,whichisthecompany"slargestintheworldbyshoppingarea,isontracktobecomeoneofIkea"stop-performingoutletsfor2015.Thesuccessishardlyafluke.Ikea,itseems,isageniusatsellingIkea—flatpacking,transporting,andreassemblingitsquirkySwedishstylingallacrosstheplanet.ThefurnitureandfurnishingsbrandisinmorecountriesthanWal-MartandCarrefour.China,whereIkeahaseightofits10biggeststores,isthecompany"sfastest-growingmarket.AnoutletinMoroccoiscomingsoon,andtherearehintsthatBrazilmaynotbefaroff.Meanwhile,IkeaisgoingmeatballsoutinIndia,whereitplanstoinvestabout$2billionoveradecadetoopen10stores.GettingitrightinemergingmarketslikeChinaandIndia,whereIkeaiswell-positionedtocapitalizeonagrowingmiddleclass,isakeyfactorinitsgoalofhitting50billioninsalesby2020.That"supfrom28.7billioninitsfiscal2014andalmostdoubleits2005saleslevel.TodaytheIkeaGrouphas318stores,notincludingthebrand"ssomefourdozenfranchisedlocations;it"saimingforaround500by2020.

单选题Aninvestorbought200sharesofstockinABCDcompanyin1990.By1992,theinvestmentwasworthonlyofitsoriginalvalue.By1995,the200shareswereworthonlyoftheirvaluein1990.Bywhatpercentdidthevalueoftheinvestmentdropfrom1992to1995?

单选题The MegaTek Corporation is displaying its distribution of employees by department in a circle graph. The size of each sector of the graph representing a department is proportional to the percentage of total employees in that department. If the section of the circle graph representing the manufacturing department takes up 72° of the circle, what percentage of MegaTek employees are in manufacturing? A. 20% B. 25% C. 30% D. 35% E. 72%

单选题British cancer researchers have found that childhood leukemia is caused by an infection and clusters of cases around industrial sites are the result of population mixing that increases exposure. The research published in the British Journal of Cancer backs up a 1988 theory that some as yet unidentified infection caused leukemia—not the environmental factors widely blamed for the disease. "Childhood leukemia appears to be an unusual result of a common infection," said Sir Richard Doll, an internationally-known cancer expert who first linked tobacco with lung cancer in 1950. "A virus is the most likely explanation. You would get an increased risk of it if you suddenly put a lot of people from large towns in a rural area, where you might have people who had not been exposed to the infection." Doll was commenting on the new findings by researchers at Newcastle University, which focused on a cluster of leukemia cases around the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria in northern England. Scientists have been trying to establish why there was more leukemia in children around the Sellafield area, but have failed to establish a link with radiation or pollution. The Newcastle University research by Heather Dickinson and Louise Parker showed the cluster of cases could have been predicted because of the amount of population mixing going on in the area, as large numbers of construction workers and nuclear staff moved into a rural setting. "Our study shows that population mixing can account for the (Sellafield) leukemia cluster and that all children, whether their parents are incomers or locals, are at a higher risk if they are born in an area of high population mixing," Dickinson said in a statement issued by the Cancer Research Campaign, which publishes the British Journal of Cancer. Their paper adds crucial weight to the 1988 theory put forward by Leo Kinlen, a cancer epidemiologist at Oxford University, who said that exposure to a common unidentified infection through population mixing resulted in the disease.

单选题The mice ______ when the cat came. A. rambled B. lingered C. sauntered D. scampered

单选题There is a battle going in Australia between Aborigines and archaeologists. The Aborigines say that ancient bones and other artifacts should be reburied. The archaeologists say that to do so would mean the end of archaeology. Rocky Satiny, president of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, wants all archaeological excavation in Tasmania stopped. Sainty told The Bulletin: "Aboriginal people know how long we"ve lived here. We know how we trade. The sites that have been excavated are very significant to us. We couldn"t expect someone to go and dig up graves of the Whites at the back of Hobart, well, we have the same feelings." Last year, Sainty and the council took two La Trobe University archaeologists to court in an effort to have excavated material returned. University of Western Australia archaeologists had already returned some excavated material. The artifacts, 17,000 years old, had been dug up in the King River Valley. After the material was returned to them, the Aborigines scattered it over the lake "to heal the site". The La Trobe archaeologists, Jim Allen and Tim Murray, were shocked. They refused to hand over the artifacts they had collected until they had finished their analysis. The courts, however, ordered Allen and Murray to return the material to Tasmania. A track was needed to transport the 500,000 items. Allen is angry. "This decision means I will never again excavate on a site in Australia, because it would carry at least the potential problem we"ve encountered there. It would be unethical to take any material out of the ground knowing that it could be vandalized in this way somewhere down the track." His colleague, Tim Murray, believes the irony of the current situation is that the work of archaeologists has given Aborigines a new sense of pride. "Archaeologists provide a service both to Aboriginal people and the general Australian public," Murray says. "We found the way of making meaningful a whole history of this country before the arrival of Europeans. If that becomes more and more difficult, then the kind of silence that existed before the development of Aboriginal history will return."

单选题Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news. And they were right. For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace. We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace. However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked. There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time. This figure is now 830,000 (4. 4 percent) above its year ago level. Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare, it is worth making an important distinction. Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs. They take part-time work because this is all they can get. An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet. There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been down. Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9percent) from several years ago. We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us. The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week. If the answer is "yes", they are classified as worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice. They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week. The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because One of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For many people, especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions, before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance. However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.

单选题If x dollars are invested at 12 percent for one year and y dollars are invested at 8 percent for one year, the annual income from the 8 percent investment will exceed the annual income from the 12 percent investment by $64. If $5,000 is the total amount invested between x and y, how much is invested at 12 percent? A. $1,680 B. $1,997 C. $3,003 D. $3,320 E. $3,500

单选题In theory, Ecuador could be a major exporter of shrimp. In actuality, it is not. The explanation is that 80 percent of the country's rich estuaries are owned by the government. This hurts Ecuador's shrimp production, because the government does not have the flexibility necessary for efficient shrimp farming that private industry possesses. The answer to which of the following questions would be most relevant to evaluating the adequacy of the explanation given above? A. Who owns the 20 percent of estuaries that are not owned by the government? B. What percentage of Ecuador's production of shrimp is consumed domestically? C. Has the government stated any plans to sell any of its estuaries to private industry, provided that the price is sufficient? D. Is Peru, Ecuador's neighbor to the south, actually better suited for commercial shrimp farming than Ecuador, which is a substantially smaller country? E. How does Ecuador's shrimp production on government-owned estuaries compare to that on comparable land owned by private industry?

单选题Amandoesnotknowthedifficultyofanything_________hedoesitpersonally.

单选题Four categories of Maxims in Grice's Cooperative Principle include all the following EX- CEPT ______. A. Manner B. Relation C. Qualification

单选题Whatistheratioof?A.9B.3C.1D.1:3E.1:27

问答题What are the major criteria for good language tests? Please explain with examples.

问答题信、达、雅

问答题Classify the following pairs of antonyms. innocent—guilty parent—child hospitable—unfriendly true—false

问答题Explain and comment on the following pair of sentences a and b: a. John is easy to please. b. John is eager to please.

问答题What are the major types of language test?