单选题 Educational attitudes in a country may be a{{U}} (31) {{/U}}by which its basic cultural values are reflected. To take the American higher education{{U}} (32) {{/U}}example, university classrooms share certain identical features though they{{U}} (33) {{/U}}from course to course in some aspects. Any student,{{U}} (34) {{/U}}their ethnic and social background, is not only allowed but also encouraged to have chances for active participation in class.{{U}} (35) {{/U}}, teachers often expect independent learning{{U}} (36) {{/U}}their students. It will be most appreciated if a student can{{U}} (37) {{/U}}the initiative and complete the assignment without too much{{U}} (38) {{/U}}upon his or her instructors. These two{{U}} (39) {{/U}}features in American university classrooms actually manifest the basic American values, especially self-reliance and{{U}} (40) {{/U}}of opportunity.

单选题The population will be increasing very fast unless they ______ with new methods to deal with it.

单选题Man: How long does the journey take if I go by bus? Woman: ______. I think the Airport Express is your best bet. Man: Many thanks. A. I don't know yet B. It depends on the traffic C. Let me see D. You'll consider the distance

单选题Johnson: I got home very late last night. I hope I didn't disturb you. Landlady: ______. A. No, I heard a lot of noise. B. No, I didn't hear a thing. C. Yes, I didn't hear any noise. D. Yes, I didn't hear you.

单选题Because his health is getting worse, he has to ______ himself from drinking to excess.

单选题With temperature ______ so rapidly, we could not go on with the experiment. A. fell B. fall C. falling D. fallen

单选题Surprisingly, he preferred to stay at home ______ with us.

单选题How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child--things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well known. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong. When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.

单选题 How can a company improve its sales? One of the keys to more effective selling is for a company to first decide on its "sales strategy." In other words, what is the role of the sales person? Is the salesperson's job narrative, suggestive, or consultative? The "narrative" sales strategy depends on the salesperson moving quickly into a standard sales presentation. His or her pitch highlights the benefits for the customer of a particular product or service. This approach is most effective for customers whose buying motives are basically the same and is also well suited to companies who have a large number of prospects (可能的主顾) on which to call. The "suggestive" approach is tailored more for the individual customer. The salesperson must be in a position to offer alternative recommendations that meet a particular customer's needs. One key aspect of the suggestive approach is the need for the salesperson to engage the buyer in some sort of discussion. The salesperson can then use the information gleaned from the customer to suggest an appropriate product or service. "We tell our salespeople to be like wine stewards," says Mindy Sahlawannee, a corporate sales trainer, "the wine steward first checks to see what food the customer has ordered and then opens by suggesting the wine that best complements the dish. Most companies who use a narrative strategy should be using a suggestive strategy. Just like you can't drink red wine with every dish, you can't have one sales recommendation to suit all customers." The final strategy demands that a company's sales staff act as "consultants" for the buyer. In this role, the salesperson must acquire a great deal of information about the customer. They do this through market research, surveys, and face-to-face discussions. Using this information, the salesperson makes a detailed presentation tailored specifically to a customer's needs. "Good sales 'consultants'," says Alan Goldfarb, president of Ad Pro, Inc., "are the people who use a wide range of skills including probing, listening, analysis, and persuasiveness. The best sales 'consultants', however, are the ones who can 'think outside the box' and use their creativity to present a product and close the sale. The other skills you can teach. Creativity is innate. It's something we look for in every employee we hire." More and more sales teams are switching from a narrative or suggestive approach to a more consultative strategy. As a result, corporations are looking more at intangibles such as creativity and analytical skills and less at educational background and technical skills. "The next century will be about meeting individual customer needs," says Goldfarb, "the days of one size fits all are over."

单选题What were the Mars' seasonal changes in color believed to be?

单选题There was no tickets ______ for Friday's performance.

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单选题A: Do you think living in the country has advantages? B: ______.

单选题There are several ways you can find out about the countries and places you wish to visit. You can talk to friends who (41) to the places, or you can go and see a (42) film about them, (43) you can read travel books. (44) would seem that there are three kinds of travel books. The first are those that give a personal, (45) account of travel which the author has actually (46) himself. If they are informative and have a good index, (47) they can be useful to you when you (48) your travel. The second kind are those books (49) purpose is to give a purely objective (50) of things to be done and seen. If a (51) , cultured person has written such a book, then it is even more useful. It can (52) as a selective guide book. The third kind are those books which are called a "guide" (53) some place or other. If they are good, they will, (54) their factual information , give an (55) or an interpretation. Like the first kind, they can be inspiring and (56) , but their primary function is to (57) the reader who wishes to plan in the most practical way. Whatever kind of travel book you choose, you must make sure that it does not describe everything (58) marvellous, fabulous or magical. You (59) also note its date of publication, because travel is a very (60) affair and many things change quickly in the 20th century. Finally you should make sure that the contents are well-presented and easy to find.

单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as a consequence of new technological developments?

单选题Roy's steps died away, and there was a moment of ______ silence.

单选题He has two children, but the elder is ______ of the two. A. clever B. cleverer C. cleverest D. the cleverer

单选题The professor can hardly find sufficient grounds ______ his argument in favour of the new theory. A. for which to base B. on which to base C. which to be based on D. which to base on

单选题A: Excuse me. Could you show me the way to the nearest post office? B: ______ A. OK. I'd like to go with you. B. No problem. It's my pleasure to direct you. C. Sorry. I'm busy now. Go away. D. Of course. Go down this street and turn left.

单选题Is it possible that the ideas we have today about ownership and property rights have been so universal in the human mind that it is truly as if they had sprung from the mind of God? By no means. The idea of owning and property emerged in the mists of unrecorded history. The ancient Jews, for one, had a very different outlook on property and ownership, viewing it as something much more temporary and' tentative than we do. The ideas we have in America about the private ownership of productive property as a natural and universal right of mankind, perhaps of divine origin, are by no means universal and must be viewed as an invention of man rather than an order of God. Of course, we are completely trained to accept the idea of ownership of the earth and its products, raw and transformed. It seems not at all strange; in fact, it is quite difficult to imagine a society without such arrangements. If someone, some individuals, didn't own that plot of land, that house, that factory, that machine, that tower of wheat, how would we function? What would the rules be? Whom would we buy from and how would we sell? It is important to acknowledge a significant difference between achieving ownership simply by taking or claiming property and owning what we tend to call the "fruit of labor." If I, alone or together with my family, work on the land and raise crops, or if I make something useful out of natural material, it seems reasonable and fair to claim that the crops or the objects belong to me or my family, are my property, at least in the sense that I have first claim on them. Hardly anyone would dispute that. In fact, some of the early radical workingmen's movements made (an ownership) claim on those very grounds. As industrial organization became more complex, however, such issues became vastly more intricate. It must be clear that in modem society the social heritage of knowledge and technology and the social organization of manufacture and exchange account for far more of the productivity of industry and the value of what is produced than can be accounted for by the labor of any number of individuals. Hardly any person can now point and say, "That--that right there--is the fruit of my labor." We can say, as a society, as a nation--as a world, really--that what is produced is the fruit of our labor, the product of the whole society as a collectivity. We have to recognize that the right of private individual ownership of property is man-made and constantly dependent on the extent to which those without property believe that the owner can make his claim, dependent on the extent to which those without stick.