单选题Passage Three Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题A) necessary C) possibleB) capable D) probably
单选题It's the company's conviction that its business will be expanded rapidly, though it is at a rather______ level now.
单选题Friendly ___________ between different peoples facilitate the cultural and economic interchange.
单选题A) do C) is B) does D) are
单选题Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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单选题What makes a group intelligent? You might think a group"s IQ would be simply the average intelligence of the group"s members, or perhaps the intelligence of the team"s smartest participant. But researchers who study groups have found that this isn"t so.
Rather, a group"s intelligence emerges from the interactions that go on within the group. A team"s intelligence can be measured, and like an individual"s IQ score, it can accurately predict the team"s performance on a wide variety of tasks. And just as an individual"s intelligence is malleable (可塑的) and expandable, a group"s intelligence can also be increased. Here are five suggestions on how to guide the development of smart teams:
1. Choose team members carefully.
The smartest groups are composed of people who are good at reading one another"s social cues, according to a study led by Carnegie Mellon University professor Anita Williams Woolley and published in the journal Science.
2. Talk about the "how".
Many members of teams don"t like to spend time talking about "process," preferring to get right down to work — but Woolley notes that groups who take the time to discuss how they will work together are ultimately more efficient and effective.
3. Share the floor.
In the most intelligent teams, found Woolley, members take turns speaking. Participants who dominate the discussion or who hang hack (畏畏缩缩) and don"t say much bring down the intelligence of the group. Alex Sandy Pentland, an MIT professor who studies group dynamics (团体动态), has found that in smart teams, members connect directly with one another — not just with the team leader — and they"re constantly engaging in "back channel" or side conversations that supplement the main discussion.
4. Foster (培养) informal social connections among members.
The smartest teams spend a lot of time communicating outside of formal meetings, says Pentland. He tells of a call center where team members" coffee breaks were staggered (错开的) across the workday. Changing the schedule so that all members had a coffee break at the same time led them to do their work more efficiently and feel more satisfied with their jobs.
5. Be open to external influences.
In the most successful groups, Pentland discovered, team members regularly take off on their own to explore and discover. They then bring that information back to the group, stimulating the group"s work with flesh insights fro1Tl the world outside the Conference room.
单选题 Directions: There are 20 blanks in the
following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and
D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into
the passage.
SIGG's trendy aluminum water bottles
have scored a lot of free advertising in recent years. SIGG has been
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BPA's {{U}}(70) {{/U}} safety. The Swiss brand became the must-have as
consumers rushed to find {{U}}(71) {{/U}} to plastic bottles that
{{U}}(72) {{/U}} bisphenol-A (BPA) , a {{U}}(73) {{/U}} chemical
used to harden plastics, which some studies have linked to diabetes, premature
puberty in girls and reduced sperm count in men. SIGG was one of the companies
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BPA. SIGG's reusable aluminum bottles seemed the perfect solution both
{{U}}(76) {{/U}} the health and the environment. But
many consumers are feeling {{U}}(77) {{/U}} now that the company has
been disclosed for failing to tell the public that its bottles were not
{{U}}(78) {{/U}} from BPA, at least not the ones that were manufactured
before August 2008. While there's no {{U}}(79) {{/U}} showing the
first-generation SIGGs did in fact contain BPA, there's still plenty of
complaining at the company's lack of {{U}}(80) {{/U}}. The news is
{{U}}(81) {{/U}} troubling since the company internally acknowledged the
chemical's safety problem as early {{U}}(82) {{/U}} 2006, when it
quietly decided to formulate a new, BPA- free liner. To placate
the masses, SIGG has {{U}}(83) {{/U}} to exchange those older,
BPA-laden bottles {{U}}(84) {{/U}} new ones through Oct. 31, but
people are still feeling betrayed. Like many parents, I know, a couple years ago
I tossed all the baby bottles I had-and any {{U}}(85) {{/U}}
sippers(虹吸瓶) too—and invested in SIGGs, which cost about $20 each {{U}}(86)
{{/U}} to find out we were going in the wrong
direction.
单选题After paying 1000 dollars ______, you'll all become full members of our club. [A] both [B] all [C] every [D] each
单选题Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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单选题Unfortunately sales results over the last year have failed to come up to our expectations. A number of factors have been responsible, but basically it is the result of too many companies chasing the microcomputer market which is no longer expanding as fast as it once was. Looking at the past year in detail, it must be admitted that the sales have declined considerably over the period. Our market share in wholesales has dropped from 21% to only 10%. The lack of a good local distributor in Asia has meant that our sales of the Obec series have collapsed despite the huge jump in the microcomputer market there during the past year. Our dominance of that part of the market has been lost to Strong, but once we find a new distributor we should come back strongly. Retail sales in general have been a problem. There has been a tendency for the big high street stores to concentrate on high volume turnover of a few fairly well-known makers. When they stopped promotion of the Obec 1500, sales slumped by 50%. We are negotiating a fresh marketing deal for the new Obec 1600. Once this is settled we expect a gradual rise in sales, which will be followed by a big TV advertising campaign at the appropriate time. What we are facing now is that we have not been able to push the Obec 1500 as much as we would have liked because of insufficient advertising. Most of our advertising budget went on the promotion of the Obec Extra before last Christmas. Unfortunately we have failed consistently to find the proper marketing strategy for the Extra, which has not been sold to either the leisure or the business market. The serious business market has performed worse than any other in the period under review. The main factor was the introduction of the new Legend 586 Plus, when sales reduced over a period of several months. With this background it is natural that sales of the Obec 1000 and 2000 have gone into a slide. They showed a slight upturn just after the introduction of the 586 Plus, only to crash again a few weeks later.
单选题We are told that in general British people think snakes are ______.
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单选题A new study shows that students learn much better through an active,
iterative
(反复的) process that involves working through their misconceptions with fellow students and getting immediate feedback from the instructor.
The research was conducted by a team at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, in Canada, led by physics Nobelist Carl Wieman. In this study, Wieman trained a postdoc, Louis Deslauriers, and a graduate students, Ellen Schelew, in an educational approach, called "deliberate practice", that asks students to think like scientists and puzzle out problems during class. For 1 week, Deslauriers and Schelew took over one section of an introductory physics course for engineering majors, which met three times for 1 hour. A tenured physics professor continued to teach another large section using the standard lecture format. The results were dramatic: After the intervention, the students in the deliberate practice section did more than twice as well on a 12-question multiple-choice test of the material as did those in the control section. They were also more engaged and a post-study survey found that nearly all said they would have liked the entire 15-week course to have been taught in the more interactive manner.
"It"s almost certainly the case that lectures have been ineffective for centuries. But now we"ve figured out a better way to teach" that makes students an active participant in the process, Wieman says. The "deliberate practice" method begins with the instructor giving students a multiple-choice question on a particular concept, which the students discuss in small groups before answering electronically. Their answers reveal their grasp of the topic, which the instructor deals with in a short class discussion before repeating the process with the next concept.
While previous studies have shown that this student-centered method can be more effective than teacher-led instruction, Wieman says this study attempted to provide "a particularly clean comparison...to measure exactly what can be learned inside the classroom." He hopes the study persuades faculty members to stop delivering traditional lectures and "switch over" to a more interactive approach. More than 55 courses at Colorado across several departments now offer that approach, he says, and the same thing is happening gradually at UBC.
单选题The word "ballot" (Line 2, Para.1) most probably means ______.
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单选题A) region B ) field C) place D) case