单选题 Questions 22-25 aye based on the dialogue between a
reporter and thefoyer director of the Louvre.a world-famous museum in
Paris.
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Not all decisions are alike. Nor is
every decision made in the same manner. Although some actions you undertake
derive their basis from newly made decisions, there are other instances when
decision-making does not really take place. The latter, according to Deacon and
Firebaugh, may involve routine, programmed, impulsive or intuitive action. When
you wake up in the morning and prepare to attend class, do you consciously make
decisions about such things as which side of your hair to comb first, how to
brush your teeth, or which shoe to put on first? Probably not. Although you may
have made a conscious decision about what you were going to wear to class, you
probably didn't spend any time in making a decision about how to get ready to
at- tend class. Every individual has certain habits or routine behaviors.
Although they originated from decisions made at an earlier time in your life,
you no longer consciously make these decisions each time you undertake this type
of action. Routine plans or actions serve a useful purpose in
your daily life and management. How long would it take you to get up, get ready,
and walk to class if you had to make separate decisions for each action you
take? You use routine plans or action resources to make new decisions.
In addition to the habitual behaviors or routines you follow, you also
have certain specific actions you undertake in a given situation. These are
called programmed decisions. Programmed decisions are different from routines.
Routine plans or actions are patterns of behavioral. actions repeatedly
undertaken on a consistent and regular basis. Programmed decisions. on the other
hand, utilize your past experience in a similar situation For instance, you know
you are going to have a test. Your method of studying for this test will ha done
using your knowledge of a similar experience. The degree of success previously
achieved will be a determinant in how. when, where, and the length of time you
study for this test. Programmed decisions, like routines are a
resource in your management. When the action undertaken proves to be successful
you repeat the same action the next time when a similar situation occurs. This
successful achievement, measured by the satisfaction you received, determines
when and the extent to which you modify the original decision before employing
it again in other like situations. Both routine and programmed
decisions serve useful purposes. They act as resources by eliminating the need
to make new decisions. They also evaluate managerial action. The success you
achieve enables you to by- pass or minimize the use of the decision-making
process.
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{{I}} Questions 11-13 are based on the
following report about personality. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions
11-13.{{/I}}
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单选题The author mentions about Charlie Chaplin's early films because______.
单选题 Questions 18-20 are based on the following dialogue given by Professor Robert Watson who was answering questions on a radio phone program on the subject of learning a foreign language. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 18-20.
单选题 I admit I am a complete fool about cats, who, for
some reason I don't understand, fail to return my admiration. I will wait
minutes for cars to pass so that I can cross the road to address a black and
white cat at ease in sunshine on a low wall, either to watch the tip of a
frightened tail disappear under a neighboring gate or to be met with the most
violent cat curses or, while my hand moves gently over the smooth shining fur,
to be bitten or scratched or attacked in both ways at the same time. It makes no
difference: I continue my journey with my respect increased. After all, the
wisest men of one of the oldest civilizations worshipped the noble cat so why
should I be ashamed of following their example? I have
sometimes stayed long enough in one place to be owned by a cat and it is on
those occasions that I at last feel sympathy with parents who cannot control
their children. I have the firmest belief in discipline, especially for the cat
who adopts me and is kind enough to allow me to share her home and provide her
with food. She will have a comfortable basket and not sit on any furniture; she
will come when called or have no supper; and she will at all times behave
towards me with the respect I show towards her. And then what happens? She
refuses even to consider the basket, and, as soon as my back is turned, settles
on my favorite chair, daring me to move her on my return. At some unexpected
moment after I have sat down, she springs suddenly on to my knees and
delightedly ruins my stockings with her claws, complaining angrily, even
painfully with the sharpest of teeth, if I bend down to pick something up. I
dare not rise to change the television program, however much I dislike it, and
she watches dreamily the moving shadows on the screen. She comes not to my call,
but when she is ready, hours later, and I am so relieved to see her that her
supper is increased in amount. When put out at night (with fierce disapproval)
she waits till I am asleep and then cries noisily at my bedroom to come in. An
hour later she cries even more noisily at the bedroom door to be let out
again. If I go away on holiday, a neighbor feeds her, who
reports on my return on her sweetness, her obedience and perfect behavior. I am
the only one that she delights in defying. Dogs are pleasant
animals, friendly, faithful and intelligent. Dogs have proper respect for the
human race. You know where you are with a dog; never with a cat, who will be
selfish, vain, ungrateful and quite unreasonable. But that's just it. Who wants
to know where he is with any living thing? It is the free, the strange creature
of grace and beauty, the independent and unknown, that attracts, not the worthy,
respectful, dependable slave.
单选题The United States is presently facing serious water problems. Rain and snow do not fall
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across the country. The Northwest receives an abundance of rain, more than 80 inches each year in some areas.
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, parts of the West and Southwest
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less than ten inches per year. The Northeast and Midwest
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have had sufficient supplies of water, but recently both regions have begun to experience water
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.
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one point, while New Yorkers were worrying about having enough water in which to bathe, farmers in Iowa prayed that their crops would
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the hot summer months.
One area that has been hit especially
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by the increasing shortage of water is the Southwest. Cacti flourish across its deserts, but crops cannot grow in the dry, sandy
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there is extensive irrigation. In some areas, farmland is
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to desert because the life-giving water has run out or become too
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to pump from deep underground.
The Southwest receives its water from
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two sources: large, underground reserves of water, called aquifers, and the 1, 400-mile-long Colorado River. The aquifers, which were formed over thousands of years ago, are being consumed slowly
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surely. More water is taken out than nature can
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. The aquifers receive only 8 percent of the total precipitation; the
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92 percent either evaporates or flows
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into the ocean.
The Ogallala Aquifer stretches 800 miles form western Texas to northen Nebraska. This underground
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of fresh water, containing enough water to fill Lake Huron, is perhaps the largest in the world.
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, its water level is
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dropping. If water consumption continues at the present rate, the Ogallala may be dry in 40 more years.
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单选题It is implied in the first paragraph that Dr. Mahathir ______.
单选题Careful testing has revealed that, of the high-I. Q. people,______.
单选题What really happened to Elizabeth at 800 feet?
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单选题What does the fourth paragraph imply?
单选题We learn from the passage that passage that a storm follows a change in ______.
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单选题Which language is ______ , English, Chinese or French? [A] difficult [B] the most difficult [C] more difficult
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{{I}} Questions 11--13 are based on the
following dialogue. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions
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