单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}} {{B}}Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage.{{/B}} The main idea of these business—school academics is appealing. In a word where companies must adapt to new technologies and source of competition, it is much harder than it used to be to offer good employees job security and an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder. Yet it is also more necessary than ever for employees to invest in better skills and sparkle with bright ideas. How can firms get the most out of people if they can no longer offer them protection and promotion? Many bosses would love to have an answer. Sumantrra Ghoshal of the London Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School think they have one: "Employability." If managers offer the right kinds of training and guidance, and change their attitude towards their underlings, they will be able to reassure their employees that they will always have the skills and experience to find a good job—even if it is with a different company. Unfortunately, they promise more than they deliver. Their thoughts on what an ideal organization should accomplish are hard to quarrel with: encourage people to be creative, make sure the gains from creativity are shared with the pains of the business that can make the most of them, keep the organization from getting stale and so forth. The real disappointment comes when they attempt to show how firms might actually create such an environment. At its hub is the notion that companies can attain their elusive goals by changing their implicit contract with individual workers, and treating them as a source of value rather than a cog in a machine. The authors offer a few inspiring example of companies—they include Motorola, 3M and ABB—that have managed to go some way towards creating such organizations. But they offer little useful guidance on how to go about it, and leave the biggest questions unanswered. How do you continuously train people, without diverting them from their everyday job of making the business more profitable? How do you train people to be successful elsewhere while still encouraging them to make big commitments to your own firm? How do you get your newly liberated employees to spend their time on ideas that create value, and not simply on those they enjoy? Most of their answers are platitudinous, and when they are not they are unconvincing.

单选题Our Chinese tradition is quite different______we only want to defend our own country, not to invade other countries.

单选题In her bright yellow coat, she was easily ______ in the crowed. A. accessible B. identifiable C. negligible D. incredible

单选题There is a new type of advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaper classified columns. It is sometimes placed among "situations vacant", although it doesn't offer anyone job, and sometimes it appears "situations wanted", although it is not placed by someone looking for a job either. What it does is to offer help in applying for a job, "Contact us before writing your application" ,i or" Make use of our long experience in preparing your curriculum vitae or job history", is how it is usually expressed. The growth and apparent success of such a specialized service is, of course, a reflection on the current high levels of unemployment. It is also an indication of the growing importance of the curriculum vitae, with the suggestion that it may now qualify as an art form in its own right. There was a time when job seeker simply wrote letters of application. "Just put down your name, address, age and whether you have passed any exams", was about the average level of advice offered to young people applying for their first jobs when I left school. The letter was really just for openers, it was explained, and everything else could and should be saved for the interview. And in those days of full employment the technique worked. The letter proved that you could write and were available for work. Your eager face and intelligent replies did the rest. Later, as you moved up the ladder, something slightly more sophisticated was called for. The advice then was to put something in the letter, which would distinguish you from the rest. It might be the aggressive approach. "Your search is over. I am the person you are looking for," was a widely used trick that occasionally succeeded. Or it might be some special feature specially designed for the job interview. There is no doubt, however, that it is the increasing number of applicants with university education at all points in the process of engaging staff that has led to the greater importance of the curriculum vitae.

单选题A______plan needs to be considered and accepted so as to lower the prices in these cities.(20年清华大学考博试题)

单选题A scientist interested in adding to our general knowledge about oxygen would probably call his approach ______.

单选题I aim to reveal in terms of a general theory of interpretation the typical situation in which a stranger finds himself in his attempt to interpret the cultural pattern of a social group which he approaches and to orient himself within it. For our present purposes the term "stranger" shall mean an adult individual of our times and civilization who tries to be permanently accepted or at least tolerated by the group which he approaches. The outstanding example for the social situation under scrutiny is that of the immigrant, and the following analyses are, as a matter of convenience, worked out with this instance. But by no means is their validity restricted to this special case. The applicant for membership in a closed club, the prospective bridegroom who wants to be admitted to the girl's family, the farmer's son who enters college, the city-dweller who settles in a rural environment, the "selectee" who joins the Army, the family of the worker who moves into a boom town— all are strangers according to the definition just given, although in these cases the typical "crisis" that the immigrant undergoes may assume milder forms or even be entirely absent. As a convenient starting point we shall investigate how the cultural pattern of group life presents itself to the common sense of a man who lives his everyday life within the group among his fellow-men. Following the customary terminology, we use the term "cultural pattern of group life" for designating all the peculiar valuations, institutions, and systems of orientation and guidance(such as the folkways, mores, laws, habits, customs, etiquette, fashions)which, in the common opinion of sociologists of our time, characterize—if not constitute—any social group at a given moment in its history. This cultural pattern, like any phenomenon of the social world, has a different aspect for the sociologist and for the man who acts and thinks within it. The sociologist(as sociologist, not as a man among fellow-men which he remains in his private life)is the disinterested scientific onlooker of the social world. He is disinterested in that he intentionally refrains from participating in the network of plans, means-and-ends relations, motives and chances, hopes and fears, which the actor within the social world uses for interpreting his experiences of it; as a scientist he tries to observe, describe, and classify the social world as clearly as possible in well-ordered terms in accordance with the scientific ideals of coherence, consistency, and analytical consequence. The actor within the social world, however, experiences it primarily as a field of his actual and possible acts and only secondarily as an object of his thinking. In so far as he is interested in knowledge of his social world, he organizes this knowledge not in terms of a scientific system but in terms of relevance to his actions. This system of knowledge thus acquired—incoherent, inconsistent, and only partially clear, as it is—takes on for the members of the in-group the appearance of a sufficient coherence, clarity, and consistency to give anybody a reasonable chance of understanding and of being understood. Any member born or reared within the group accepts the ready-made standardized scheme of the cultural pattern handed down to him by ancestors, teachers, and authorities as an unquestioned and unquestionable guide in all the situations which normally occur within the social world. The knowledge correlated to the cultural pattern carries its evidence in itself—or, rather, it is taken for granted in the absence of evidence to the contrary. It is a knowledge of trustworthy recipes for interpreting the social world and for handling things and men in order to obtain the best results in every situation with a minimum of effort by avoiding undesirable consequences.

单选题Euthanasia is a practice of mercifully ending a person"s life in order to ______ the person from an incurable disease and intolerable suffering.

单选题______plans are made to overcome water shortages. Huge dams are built, expensive desalination plants are cultivated, and bizarre schemes to tow icebergs round the world are worked out. But the problem remains.

单选题Furthermore, if I were to leave him, he would ______, for he cannot endure to be separated from me for more than one hour. A. prevail B. preside C. perish D. persecute

单选题Scientists believe that there is not enough oxygen in the Moon's atmosphere to______plant life. A. adapt B. personalize C. sustain D. describe

单选题I don't know how to get there either, perhaps we'd better ______ a map. A. note B. mark C. consult D. draft

单选题New Zealanders colloquially refer to themselves as "Kiwis", ______ the country"s native bird.

单选题Passage 6 The Sun today is a yellow dwarf star. It is fueled by thermonuclear reactions near its centerthat convert hydrogen to helium. The Sun has existed in its present state for about 4 billion, 600million years and is thousands of times larger than Earth. By studying other stars, astronomers can predict what the rest of the Sun's life will be like.About 5 billon years from now, the core of the Sun will shrink and become hotter. The surfacetemperature will fall. The higher temperature of the center will increase the rate of thermonuclearreactions. The outer regions of the Sun will expand approximately 35 million miles, about thedistance to mercury, which is the closest planet to the Sun. The Sun will then be a red giant star.Temperatures on the Earth will become too hot for life to exist. Once the Sun has used up its thermonuclear energy as a red giant, it will begin to shrink. After itshrinks to the size of the Earth, it will become a white dwarf star. The Sun may throw off huge amountsof gases in violent eruptions called nova explosions as it changes from a red giant to a white dwarf. After billions of years as a white dwarf, the Sun will have used up all its fuel and will havelost its heat. Such a state is called a black dwarf. After the Sun has become a black dwarf, the Earthwill be dark and cold. If any atmosphere remains there, it will have frozen onto the Earth's surface.

单选题The two newspapers gave different ______ of what happened. A. versions B. editions C. productions D. texts

单选题During the nineteen years of his career, France Battiate has won the ______ of a wide audience outside Italy. A. enjoyment B. appreciation C. evaluation D. reputation

单选题In fact the purchasing power of a single person's pension in Hong Kong was only 70 per cent of the value of the ______ Singapore pension.

单选题It is dangerous to walk through a thick forest______a winter afternoon without a guide.

单选题Anything to do with old myths and legends ______ me.