单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} When human talents are viewed as resources and even assets to a corporation, the title of Department of Personnel is changed to Department of Human Resources, or HR. HR is such a fashionable title, but few of us really understand it as it is, which refers to the individuals within the firm, and to the portion of the firm's organization that deals with hiring, firing, training, and other personnel issues. And the hiring part will be the focus of what we talk about here. The first step for hiring someone to work for a certain corporation is to analyze the job or the position, so that the kind of abilities, competencies of the ideal candidate will be determined. What should be reminded at this stage it is important to consider the factors outside of the corporation that would make a difference about the recruiting, such as current and future trends of the labor market e. g. skills, education level, government investment into industries etc.. After analyzing the job, it comes to the stage of providing a clear and easy-to-understand job description. When it comes to recruiting, several ways could be used, such as job centers, employment agencies/consultants, headhunting, and local or national media. Choosing a suitable media is crucial here, you definitely do not want to advertise your opening position on a national media if it is a position of sales manager assistant in a remote county distribution center. Though human resources have been part of business and organizations since the first days of agriculture, the modern concept of human resources began in the early 1900s. By 1920, psychologists and employment experts in the United States started the human relations movement, which viewed workers in terms of their psychology and fit with companies, rather than as interchangeable parts. Nowadays, more factors are considered when choosing a suitable employee, not only should the candidate have the proper abilities and qualifications, personalities are also evaluated to predict how well the candidate will interact with the others employees. For some important positions, like the ones in management, the recognition of the corporations' culture is also a key factor to decide who the best choice is.

单选题One day in my class, Maria shared her feelings about money, "Money worries me. I think I want to live without money because I hate it. I HATE MONEY." We were all touched by Maria''s words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us. After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems. She hesitated to accept my offer, and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve. I quickly assured her that I wouldn''t make her do more than she was able to. I told her frankly that I didn''t enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn''t burden her with guilt, judgments, or impossible tasks. All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them. Maria still resisted my offer, and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people. "I''ll never understand money," she said. "My facts are meaningless. " "I don''t deserve to have money." "I never have enough" "I have too little to manage." "My financial position isn''t worth looking at;" and the most devastating one of all, "I just can''t do it." Going home that day, I couldn''t get Maria out of my mind. Her attitude conveyed the same negativity and fear that I believed annoyed many people. I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively. My counseling has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our self-doubts and fear for survival. Many of us are terrified of handling our money because we don''t believe we can do it well, and to do it wrong would put our very existence at risk. On a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life, but sense of worth drives us to act as if it were. It locks us up in self-doubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power, our spirit.

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单选题The word "offset" in the second paragraph could be replaced by ______.

单选题At present groups of scientific workers, often (26) by their governments, spend their time in (27) the (28) of earthquakes. It is very (29) that they will be able to (30) earthquakes or influence the direction of their movements, which are determined by events far below the surface of the earth. But the facts they report and the theories (31) by those facts may enable scientists to (32) the centers of future earthquakes and even (33) the time of their (34) . It is only when the (35) of events that we call an earthquake can be seen as a pattern that predictions can be made. Part of this pattern is external and (36) or capable of being recorded by (37) instruments above the earth's surface. Scientists and engineers studied the (38) of the San Francisco earthquake. The city was re built, and new features were (39) to strengthen buildings and maintain a (40) water supply in the event of another earthquake. The water mains (=main pipes) were fitted with control valves which would enable water to travel by different routes round broken places. Large underground tanks were constructed to supply water if (41) supplies could not be tapped. Special measures were (42) to prevent fires, which often do more damage than earthquakes themselves. The San Francisco earthquake (43) scientists with important information. Since the effects of the break were visible at the surface, scientists could (44) what actually happened, and reports of the incident were an important (45) to the world's store of knowledge about earthquakes.

单选题According to scientists, people sneeze because ______.

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单选题 Questions 19—22 are based on the following passage. You now have 20 seconds to read the questions 19—22.

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单选题听下面一段对话，回答第22至第25题。

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单选题There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil)is creating a "greenhouse effect" —conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world's average temperature. If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world's temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the "advanced civilization". Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?

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单选题The phrase "build on "in the last parapraph most probably means " ______ ".