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单选题Technology Transfer in Germany When it comes to translating basic research into industrial success, few nations can match Germany. Since the 1940s, the nation's vast industrial base has been fed with a constant stream of new ideas and expertise from science. And though German prosperity (繁荣) has faltered (衰退) over the past decade because of the huge cost of unifying east and west as well as the global economic decline, it still has an enviable (令人羡慕) record for mining ideas into profit. Much of the reason for that success is the Fraunhofer Society, a network of research institutes that exists solely to solve industrial problems and create sought-after technologies. But today the Fraunhofer institutes have competition. Universities are taking an ever larger role in technology transfer, and technology parks are springing up all over. These efforts are being complemented by the federal programs for pumping money into start-up companies. Such a strategy may sound like a recipe for economic success, but it is not without its critics. These people worry that favoring applied research will mean neglecting basic science, eventually starving industry of flesh ideas. If every scientist starts thinking like an entrepreneur (企业家), the argument goes, then the traditional principles of university research being curiosity-driven: free and widely available will suffer. Others claim that many of the programs to promote technology transfer are a waste of money because half the small businesses that are promoted are bound to go bankrupt within a few years. While this debate continues, new ideas flow at a steady rate from Germany's research networks, which bear famous names such as Helmholtz, Max Planck and Leibniz. Yet it is the fourth network, the Fraunhofer Society, that plays the greatest role in technology transfer. Founded in 1949, the Fraunhofer Society is now Europe's largest organization for applied technology, and has 59 institutes employing 12,000 people. It continues to grow. Last year it swallowed up the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communication Technology in Bedim Today, there are even Fraunhofers in the US and Asia.

单选题阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 {{B}} Annual Performance Reviews{{/B}} In theory, annual performance reviews are constructive and positive interactions between managers and employees working together to attain maximum performance and strengthen the organization. In reality, they often create division,{{U}} (51) {{/U}}morale (士气) ,and spark anger and jealousy.{{U}} (52) {{/U}}, although the object of the annual performance review is to improve performance, it often has the{{U}} (53) {{/U}}result. A programmer at a brokerage (经纪) firm was shocked to learn at her annual performance review that she was denied a promotion{{U}} (54) {{/U}}she wasn't a "team player", What were the data used to make this{{U}} (55) {{/U}}? She didn't smile in the company photo. {{U}} (56) {{/U}}this story might sound as if it came straight out of a comic strip, it is a true{{U}} (57) {{/U}}of one woman's experience. By following a few tips and guidelines (准则) from industry analysis, this kind of ordeal (厄运) can be avoided. To end the year{{U}} (58) {{/U}}a positive and useful performance review, managers and employees must start the year by working together to{{U}} (59) {{/U}}clear goals and expectations. It may be helpful to allow employees to submit a list of people{{U}} (60) {{/U}}with the company who will be in a good position to{{U}} (61) {{/U}}their performance at the end of the year; these people may be coworkers, suppliers, or even customers. By checking employees progress at about nine months, managers can give them a chance to correct mistakes and provide{{U}} (62) {{/U}}to those who need it before the year is out. When conducting the review, managers should{{U}} (63) {{/U}}strengths and weaknesses during the past year and discuss future responsibilities, avoiding punishment or blame. {{U}} (64) {{/U}}, when employees leave their performance reviews, they should he focusing on{{U}} (65) {{/U}}they can do in the year ahead, not worrying about what went into their files about the past.

单选题{{B}}第一篇{{/B}} {{B}}Obesity (肥胖): the scourge (祸害) of the Western World{{/B}} Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the opening of the conference — of 2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries — 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese. Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said: "Obesity is a chronic illness. In Germany, 20 per cent of the people are already affected, but in Japan only one per cent. "But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks to the new scientific discoveries and medication. Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said: "We are living in the new age (but) with the metabolism of a stone-age man." "I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every comer. We have been overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization." Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said, "Eighty per cent of all diabetics are obese, also fifty per cent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with adipose tissue complaints." "Ten per cent more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one's weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure." Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs. "Though the health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.70 meters. One should start earlier." Ludvik said that prevention should begin in school. "Child obesity (fat deposits) correlates with the time which children spend in front of TV sets." The consequences were only apparent later on. No more than fifteen per cent of obese people lived to the average life expectancy, for their population group. scourge n. 天灾；祸害 obesity n. 肥胖症 overrun vt. 侵扰；蹂躏 obese adj. 肥胖的 diabetic n. 糖尿病患者；adj.糖尿病的 medication n. 药物疗法 adipose adj. 脂肪的；肥胖的 metabolism n. 新陈代谢

单选题The Old Gate In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive 1 but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious 2 . The Old City of London gates were all 3 by the end of the 18th century. The last of London"s gates was removed a century ago, but by a 4 of luck, it was never destroyed. This gate is, in 5 fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the 6 between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in 7 because its design was 8 it was expensive to 9 and it was blocking the traffic. The Temple Bar Trust was 10 in the 1970"s with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the 11 of the nation"s architectural heritage. Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it 12 , stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Paul"s Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be 13 , though there is a good 14 that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest 15 of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.

单选题 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。 {{B}}The difference between men and women shoppers{{/B}} Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly and chat and to everyone's satisfaction. For a man, slight problems many begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute bluntly; he does so with skill and polish: "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It happens to be the colour you mentioned. "Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on." Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She had never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provides chairs for the waiting husbands.

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单选题As aquatic plants moved millions of years ago from the ocean to the land, they underwent a number of adaptations.

单选题There was a profound silence after his remark.

单选题The Americans recognize that the UN can be the channel for greater diplomatic activity. A. place B. medium C. resort D. tunnel

单选题Gunpowder was used extensively in firearms prior to 1990.

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单选题New Product Will Save Lives Drinking water that looks clean may still contain bugs, which can cause illness. A small company called Genera Technologies has produced a testing method in three stages, which shows whether water is safe. The new test shows if water needs chemicals added to it, to destroy anything harmful. It was invented by scientist Dr. Adrian Patton, who started Genera five years ago. He and his employees have developed the test together with a British water company. Andy Headland, Genera's marketing director, recently presented the test at a conference in the USA and forecast good American sales for it. Genera has already sold 11 of its tests at $42,500 a time in the UK and has a further four on order. It expects to sell another 25 tests before the end of March. The company says it is the only test in the UK to be approved by the government. Genera was formed five years ago and until October last year had only five employees; it now employs 14. Mr. Headland believes that the company should make around $19 million by the end of the year in the UK alone.

单选题As a composer, pianist, and band leader, Duke Ellington was a key figure in the history of jazz (爵士) . A. lonely B. important C. musical D. royal

单选题Hundreds of years ago, cloves were used to remedy headaches.

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单选题The Difference between Man and Computer What makes people different from computer programs? What is the missing element that our theories don"t 1 account for? The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories for a reason: to learn more about 2 they are interested in. Computers, on the other hand, don"t. In fact, computers don"t even have interests; there is nothing 3 that they are trying to 4 when they read. If a computer program is to be a model of story understanding, it should also read for a " 5 ". Of course, people have several goals that do not make 6 to attribute to computers. One might read a restaurant guide in order to 7 hunger or entertainment goals, or to find a good place to go for a business lunch. Computers do not get 8 , and computers do not have business lunches. 9 , these physiological and social goals give 10 to several intellectual or cognitive goals. A goal to satisfy hunger gives rise to goals to find information about the name of a restaurant which serves the 11 type of food, how expensive the restaurant is, the location of the restaurant, etc. These are goals to 12 information or knowledge, what we are calling learning goals. These goals can be held by computers too; a computer might "want" to find out the 13 of a restaurant, and read a guide in order to do so in 14 way as a person might. While such a goal would not arise out of hunger in the 15 of the computer, it might well arise out of the "goal" to learn more about restaurants.