单选题 Experts predict that China's healthcare market will have an annual growth of 6 to 8 percent in the next few years, making it one of the potentially most prosperous. In Shanghai, annual medical expenditure is estimated to be 16 billion yuan (U. S. 93 billion). With an increasingly {{U}}(31) {{/U}} population, the growing consumption power and longer life {{U}}(32) {{/U}} of local residents, the medical market has great opportunities. However l limited medical resources cannot meet people's needs {{U}}(33) {{/U}} financial deficits in State-owned hospitals. {{U}}(34) {{/U}}, there is room for a range of different medical organizations. As is the case with many State-owned enterprises, public hospitals in the past half century have learned a lot of bad habits: {{U}}(35) {{/U}} management, over-staffing and bureaucratic operating procedures. Being a member of World Trade Organization (WTO), China has to {{U}}(36) {{/U}} its promise to open the health industry to foreign capital in coming years. By then, public hospitals will be facing fierce competition from Western giants they have never prepared for. So it's quite urgent {{U}}(37) {{/U}} them to learn how to operate as an enterprise and how to survive in the competitive market economy of the future. As a {{U}}(38) {{/U}}, the healthcare sector was first opened to domestic private investors. Since the first private hospital opened in 1999, private investors from Shenzhen, Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces have been scrambling to enter Shanghai. {{U}}(39) {{/U}} show that about 20 private hospitals have been set up in the city, although this number, {{U}}(40) {{/U}} with more than 500 public hospitals, is still quite low.

单选题Customer: Could you hold the door open for a moment, please?Salesman: Certainly.

单选题Much has been written about the potential for management to become isolated from customers and employees. This phenomenon often occurs not just within top management, but also within middle management. I've seen this isolation phenomenon in many companies. The symptoms are quite apparent: Managers spend a great deal of time talking to themselves and studying operating numbers. They spend precious little time with customers or with employees, trying to understand the system of the business. And when they do spend time with them, they often do not probe deeply into needs, concerns, and opportunities. This phenomenon, often referred to as being "internally focused", can be tremendously insidious (隐伏陷害的). Although the need for understanding and spending time with customers has been well documented, I find few managers spending time in the field. The benefits of doing so are clear. A visit with your counterparts at customers' distribution centers, for example, not only builds relation ships that can prove useful when problems arise, but also uncovers numerous opportunities to enhance(增进，提高) your performance and deepen your company's linkage with those customers. There are many ways to connect with and understand employee perspectives(观点，看法). Some companies have found formal sessions in which senior managers solicit (恳求，请求) ideas from employees to be very useful. These can be run either as focus groups or as structured discussions. Managers also should exploit every opportunity to gather organizational knowledge from employees. Some successful managers collect employees' opinions by what often is referred to as "managing by walking around" or the "10-minute cup of coffee". They, may, for example, go to employees' offices and solicit their opinions. Or at lunch or when they take a cup of coffee, they "mix with the troops" and solicit their input. Rather than talk about the latest game, you can solicit employees' ideas by asking questions like: What are you working on? How's it going? What's good about our organization? What could be better? How could we better serve our customers or improve our processes? What do you think we should be doing differently? You'll be surprised at how valuable a "10-minute cup of coffee" together with a brief conversation with an employee can be. It will make you a more effective manager.

单选题In order to ______ your goals, you must work hard.

单选题As college teachers, they enjoy talking about their own ______ . A. problems B. experiences C. interests D. fields

单选题h seems oil______from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to putit right. A. had leaked B. is leaking C. leaked D. has been leaking

单选题 Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn't know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertain? That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way? Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves. There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth's atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel's report "Science never has all the answers but science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that out nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions. " Just as on smoking voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it's OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. This is a dangerous game: by the 100 percent of the evidence is in, it may be too late. With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now. Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it's obvious that a majority of the president's advisers still don't take global warming seriously. Instead of a plan of action, they continue to press for more research—a classic case of "paralysis by analysis". To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must press forward on deeper atmospheric and oceanic research. But research alone is inadequate. If the Administration won't take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial incentives for private industry is a promising start. Many see that the country is getting ready to build lots of new power plants to meet our energy needs. If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.

单选题Excitement, fatigue, and anxiety can all be detected from someone's blinks, according to psychologist John Stern (21) Washington University in St. Louis. Stern specialized in the study on these tiny twitches, using them as sensitive (22) of how the brain works. "I use blinks as a psychological measure to make (23) about thinking because I have very little (24) in what you tell me about what you are thinking." He says. "If I ask you the question, 'what does the phrase a rolling stone gathers no moss mean?' you can't tell me (25) you've started looking for the answer. But I can, by watching your eyes." Blinks also tell Stern when you have understood his question--often long before he's finished asking it--and when you've found an answer or part of (26) . "We blink at times (27) are psychologically important." He says. "You have listened to a question, you understand it, (28) you can take time out for a blink. Blinks are (29) marks. Their timing is tied to what is going on in your (30) ." Stern has found that (31) suppress blinks when they are absorbing or anticipating (32) but not when they're reciting it. People blink later, for example, (33) they have to memorize six numbers instead of two. "You don't blink," he says, "until you have (34) the information to some short-term memory store." And if subjects are cued (35) the set of numbers is coming, say, five seconds, they'll curb their blinks until the task is (36) . Similarly, the more important the information that people are taking in, the more likely they are to put their blinks on hold for (37) Pilots blink less when they're (38) for flying a plane than when they (39) their eyes from the road to the rearview mirror. But if they see the flashing lights of a state trooper behind them, their (40) will move fast to the speed-meter and back to the mirror.

单选题 For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs. Coupled with the aging of the baby-boom (生育高峰) generation, a longer life span means that the nation's elderly population is bound to expand significantly over the next 40 years. By 2040, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995. The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions, and in law and business as well. "In addition to the doctors, we're going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers," says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Gerontology (老年学). Lawyers can specialize in "elder law", which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination (岐视). Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. "Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree, will have a license to print money," one professor says. Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was "really bored with bacteria." So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that she liked it. She says, "I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying."

单选题SpeakerA: Mind if I call you Albert? Speaker B:______

单选题At last she left her house and hurried to the airport only ______ the plane flying away. A. saw B. see C. seeing D. to see

单选题But let no one think that pleasure is immoral. Pleasure in itself is a great good, all pleasure, but its consequences may be such (31) the sensible person eschews certain varieties of (32) . Nor need pleasure be gross and sensual. They are wise in their generation (33) have discovered that intellectual pleasure is the most satisfying and the most enduring. It is well to (34) the habit of reading. There are (35) sports in which you can engage to your own satisfaction after you have passed the prime of life; there are no games except patience, chess problems and crossword puzzles that you can play without someone to play them with you. Reading suffers (36) no such disadvantages; there is no occupation—except perhaps needle-work, but that leaves the restless spirit (37) liberty— which you can more easily (38) up at any moment, for any period, and more easily put (39) when other calls press upon you; there is no other amusement that can be obtained in these happy days of public liberties and cheap editions at so small a (40) . To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

单选题This must be the reason ______ he didn't come to the contest. A. in which B. with which C. that D. for which

单选题He is the only one that is senior in age ______ her so she called him old pal. A. over B. against C. to D. above

单选题It's been very cold the last few days. I think the winter's ______ already. A. set in B. set off C. set on D. set out

单选题How will NASA make its new spaceship?

单选题 　　　　　　　　　BA/BQuiet student offeredroom in private house.Share bath and kitchen.gas/electricity 　　　　　　　　　 　BB/BProfessional couple,3 children,2,4and 6,offer single room,rent-free, to student willing tobaby-sit 3 evenings weekly,occasional weekends. Live as family. 　　　　　　 　BC/BDouble room suitable 2 students sharing.Cooking facilities, share bathroom.Non-smokers only.＄70each weekly, excluding gas/electricity. 　　　　　　　　　　 BD/BTeacher going on 3-month study course abroad willing to let comfortably furnished flat in prestige block to responsible students. 2 double bedrooms, 1 single. Use of garden.Rent ＄70 each, weekly, inclusive.No late parties.

单选题If you have an unwanted recorder player, you may go to______.

单选题{{B}} Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices givenbelow. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar acrossthe corresponding letter in the brackets.{{/B}} Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They{{U}} 31 {{/U}}that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the {{U}} 32 {{/U}}man. Butthey insisted that its{{U}} 33 {{/U}}results during the period from 1740 to 1840 were widespread povertyand misery for the {{U}} 34 {{/U}}of the English population. {{U}} 35 {{/U}}contrast, they saw in the precedinghundred years from 1640 to 1740, when England was still a{{U}} 36 {{/U}}agricultural country, a periodof great abundance and prosperity. This view, {{U}} 37 {{/U}}, is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists {{U}} 38 {{/U}}history andeconomics, have {{U}} 39 {{/U}}two things: that the period from 1640 to 1740 was {{U}} 40 {{/U}}by greatpoverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved theconditions for the majority of the populace.

单选题Carter agreed to try to reduce American oil imports and control ______ in the United States.