单选题· Read the information about Telecommuter.· Choose the correct word to
fill in each gap, from A, B or C below.· For each question 29-40, mark one
letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.
{{B}}Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax{{/B}}
Jennifer Porter is the managing editor of Healthcare, a publication of the
American Pharmaceutical Association. {{U}}(29) {{/U}}her private office
in her Virginia home, she assigns{{U}} (30) {{/U}}to ten articles for
each issue of the magazine. The writers send her their stories on a computer
disk, usually{{U}} (31) {{/U}}means of an overnight delivery service.
Porter checks than and then sends them{{U}} (32) {{/U}}the designer's
office in New York. Porter's biggest problem{{U}} (33)
{{/U}}electronic publishing is training her writers. One sent the story on a
wrong-sized disk; {{U}}(34) {{/U}}used a disk that my computer couldn't
read; a third used software I couldn't decipher. The disk
problems should improve on the next issue{{U}} (35) {{/U}}. Porter has
recently invested in a modem{{U}} (36) {{/U}}writers can send their
stories directly to her computer. Porter says she is a skeptical
technical consumer. I like a computer the same way I{{U}} (37) {{/U}}a
pencil. They are both tools that must work. {{U}}(38) {{/U}}son, thing
goes{{U}} (39) {{/U}}with my electronic equipment out here in the middle
of Virginia, I have to put it in the car and{{U}} (40) {{/U}}it
someplace.
单选题● Listen to the conversation.
● For each question 23--30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
● After you have listened once, replay the recording.
单选题The Inspiron is bigger than other notebooks
单选题EVENTS Bicycle tour and race A bike tour and race will be held on July 26 and 27(Sat. & Sun.). At 4:30 a. m. , the riders will leave Tian' anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometers as a training leg. Then the next 55-kilometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive(竞争性的) part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli. The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside at Nandaihe, coveting a distance of 20 kilometers. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing. Cost: 200 yuan Telephone: 4675027 Brazilian footballers The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guoan Team at the Workers Stadium on July 26. The club has several national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star Romario who has promised to play for at least 45 minutes. Ticket prices: 60 yuan, 100 yuan, 150 yuan Time/Date : 4: 30 p. m., July 26 (Sat.) Telephone : 5012372 Rock climbing The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on July 26~27 at the Huairou Mountain Climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition of climbing. Free for spectators (观众). Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou. Time/Dates :9~12 a. m., July 26 and 27 Telephone : 7143177, 7144850, Wang Zhenghua
单选题Mr Hilon is used to giving presentations to large audiences.Mr Hilon ______ . A. Doesn't give presentations to large groups any more. B. often gives presentations to large groups. C. often gave presentations to large groups in the past.
单选题Which of the following reflexive pronouns (反射代词) is used as an
appositive (同位语)?
A. He promised himself rapid progress.
B. The manager herself will interview Mary.
C. I have nothing to say for myself.
D. They quarreled themselves red in the face.
单选题 Lord Leveson's inquiry into the British press
yesterday tackled one of the most pressing mysteries facing government and the
media: how on earth does Rupert Murdoch ever get anything done?
By his own, often amusing, account, the 81-year-old head of News Corporation
never asks for favours from politicians, does not give orders to his editors and
has very little charisma. Given this, it is a puzzle how, over 43 years, he has
managed to build the UK's most powerful media company and break his way into US
newspapers, television and film. The polite way to describe Mr
Murdoch's evidence—on the heels of his son James's disclosures about private
communications with the office of Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary—is
implausible. It was belied by his presence—droll, dismissive and impatient, he
was not the "deaf, doddery, proud old man" observed by Tom Watson, the Labour MR
in parliament last July. It is now obvious, despite Mr
Murdoch's modesty, that News Corp has exercised an unholy grip over British
politicians, who helped it to avoid anti-trust barriers as it bought The Times
and the Sunday Times in 1981, and British Sky Broadcasting in 1990. Those
politicians were so in awe of Mr Murdoch that they leapt to accommodate him
without him needing to ask out loud. It is also clear that
cabinet ministers can be trusted to adjudicate impartially on media mergers
about as much as they could be trusted before 1997 to set interest rates for the
good of the economy, as opposed to their parties. After the {{U}}fiasco{{/U}} of
Vince Cable, the business secretary, "declaring war" on the Murdochs over their
attempted full acquisition 0fBSkyB comes Mr Hunt's humiliation.
The long-term question is how to prevent another baron—perhaps a rich émigré
such as Evgeny Lebedev, chairman of the Evening Standard and The
Independent—from pulling off the trick again. In a fluid and troubled market,
roiled by the internet and loss-making papers, there will be opportunities
similar to the ones Mr Murdoch seized. One way for any company
to rise rapidly to dominance in a foreign market is to pay bribes to local
officials, as Walmart is accused of having done in Mexico. The New York Times
reported last weekend that Walmart paid out more than $24m in "envelopes of
cash" to mayors and city council members to be allowed to build
stores. The other is to wield influence on elections. Humbert
Wolfe's observation that: "You cannot hope to bribe or twist the British
journalist. But, seeing what the man will do, there's no occasion to" applies
equally to a politician facing a media mogul.
单选题What point does Jackman make about his staff?
单选题You will hear one word read from each group. Circle the correct one after
listening and then read all the words correctly.
单选题{{B}}In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished
statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
one that you think is the best answer.{{/B}} Like many
unhappily married couples, Yahoo! and Alibaba have not found it easy to divorce.
The American online firm owns roughly 40% of the Chinese e-commerce giant, but
both sides have had misgivings about the relationship for years. All of Yahoo!'s
many recent chief executives have tried to find a clever way to sell off the
stake. Jack Ma, Alibaba's flamboyant boss, for his part, has been dreaming of
winning outright control of the firm he founded from Yahoo! and Softbank, a
Japanese firm that controls about 30% of Alibaba. But there always seemed to be
something—tax issues, valuation—that got in the way of a deal.
On May 21st, the two sides at last announced an agreement that will allow the
two firms to separate amicably, albeit slowly. In a first step, Yahoo! will sell
half of its stake (about a fifth of Alibaba) for $6.3 billion in cash and some
$800m in newly issued Alibaba shares. Because this is a taxable transaction,
Yahoo! will end up with only around $4.2 billion. The second
part of the deal prescribes how Yahoo! will dispose of another quarter of its
holdings in Alibaba—and sets the stage for an initial public offering (IPO) of
the Chinese firm. It has long downplayed rumours of such a move, but the
agreement with Yahoo! certainly pushes Alibaba in this direction. The final
quarter of the American firm's holdings (another tenth of Alibaba) can be sold
later, whenever Yahoo! wants to. All this raises two important
questions. The first is what Yahoo! intends to do with the proceeds. The firm
has made it clear that the money will make its way to its long-suffering
shareholders. The second big question is whether this deal will really unshackle
Alibaba so that it can pursue a flotation of the whole group.
For a start, Mr. Ma now has a freer hand. Yahoo! agreed to give up its option
for an unfilled fifth board seat and some of its voting rights. The deal also
reduces the stake held by the American firm and Softbank to 49.9%. What is more,
Yahoo!'s obligation to hold onto the last quarter of its original stake and to
sell it at Alibaba's hypothetical IPO expires by the end of 2015. That is a
powerful incentive to act. The flotation will not happen
immediately. Indeed, the Chinese firm is not bound by a specific timeline. But
it appears that Alibaba is at last headed for an IPO. That could prove to be an
event even bigger and more {{U}}ballyhooed{{/U}} than the flotation of
Facebook—though both Alibaba and Yahoo! will hope that it will be rather more
successful than the social network's listing has been thus far.
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单选题Two years ago, a federal administrative law judge found that the
newspaper had bargained in bad ______ with the union since 2007.
A. taste
B. shape
C. light
D. faith
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