单选题Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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单选题 {{B}}Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.{{/B}}

单选题 Nelson Mandela was still in jail when the first street was named {{U}}62 {{/U}} him. By the time he retired as President of South Africa, hundreds of streets, squares and schools {{U}}63 {{/U}} his name, as did many more pop songs, books and movies. {{U}}64 {{/U}}, Mandela is an inspiring figure of the world. But what about {{U}}65 {{/U}} books that bear Mandela's name? {{U}}66 {{/U}} charities that use his name to {{U}}67 {{/U}} their profile? As his legend has grown ever larger, Mandela has been faced with all of these situations. Increasingly, however, Mandela's handlers are fighting back. Mandela, who will be 91 this year, {{U}}68 {{/U}}. appears in public and increasingly relies on the managers of his foundation to manage his affairs. Now they're facing with a tricky issue: {{U}}69 {{/U}} what point does a very famous man become a private brand? And is it possible to copyright history? So far, the foundation has tackled these difficult questions by trying to stop those who would {{U}}70 {{/U}} Mandela's name for {{U}}71 {{/U}} or political gain either in ways they don't like {{U}}72 {{/U}} in ways they are able to prevent. In August, the foundation {{U}}73 {{/U}} out a code of conduct {{U}}74 {{/U}} the commercialization of Mandela's name or {{U}}75 {{/U}} by his four official charities and asked the other 44 charities {{U}}76 {{/U}} which Mandela is a patron to sign {{U}}77 {{/U}} as well. Other charitable causes must get the foundation's {{U}}78 {{/U}} before using Mandela's name. In the business of protecting {{U}}79 {{/U}}, however, the choice of whether to block or {{U}}80 {{/U}} a project is often subjective or a matter of taste, and therefore brings {{U}}81 {{/U}} criticism.

单选题The Florida Virtual Global School, mostly doing business with ______, con- tributes money every year for research and development of software and teaching methods.

单选题Common reactions of parents to bad TV content are ______.

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单选题 Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题He'd like to buy a house on the top of the hill as he likes the ______ of the se

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} How many people are suffering from labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire (可怕的) consequences today as it did in the 1930s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated (减轻) the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority is from multiple earners, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies. Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is Several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffers. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another part-time working because of the inability to find fulltime work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failings in the labor market are adequately protected. As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions, and, hence, whether high levels of joblassness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debate—that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.

单选题It was a wonderful occasion which we will ________ for many years to come.

单选题The Super Bowl is one of the biggest events on the advertising calendar, as companies vie to produce the most memorable and innovative ads. The battle for the National Football League's ultimate prize attracts more viewers than anything else on American television and provides a "symbolic pulsetaking" for the advertising industry every February, says John Frelinghuysen, an analyst at Bain and Company, a consultancy. But this year the patient is in poor health. All the advertising slots(广告摊位) for the 2008 Super Bowl had been sold by the end of November 2007, despite the $ 2.6 million price of each. For 2009 the price has risen to $ 3 million, but at least, ten slots (out of 67) are still looking for a buyer. General Motors, which ran 11 ads on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2008, has already said that it will not run any in 2009. America's two other big carmakers, Ford and Chrysler, are likely to follow suit. Tellingly, Monster com, an online job-search company, said recently that it was buying a slot. Instead of the usual parade of expensive ads paying tribute to American consumerism, 2009's Super Bowl will reflect a country in recession and indicate a hard year for the advertising industry. Most forecasts for next year say that ad spending in America will decline by 5% or more. Much depends on the fate of the automotive industry: carmakers and dealers normally spend around $ 20 billion a year on advertising, but Chrysler and Ford scaled back their expenditure by more than 30% in the first nine months of 2008, and are expected to make further cuts in 2009 as they struggle for survival. The car industry's situation will hurt all media, but especially television. Analysts at BMO Capital Markets predict that total spending on television ads will fall by almost 9% next year. Only newspapers, where a decline of 12% is expected, are forecast to fare worse. Carmakers have already shifted some of their advertising spending to the Internet, and are likely to go further in 2009. Car ads make up 25% of advertising revenues for local television channels, and carmakers have been among the most consistent buyers of high-priced ads on national television. So far local stations have been most affected by falling spending oil advertising. National stations have been safer, because they operate on longer-term contracts with advertisers. But in the New Year they will also feel the chill, as companies fail to renew their contracts. Television, which has remained strong as print media have lost advertising dollars and readers to the Internet, could enter a decline of its own. "Next on the list is TV stations," says Anthony Diclemente, a media analyst at Barclays Capital.

单选题34 The famous scientist ______ his success to hard work.

单选题A.Thedesigntherecannotmeethisdemand.B.Thebarbercomplainedaboutthelowpay.C.Themancannolongeraffordthefee.D.Themanhasfoundanewbarber.

单选题In the author's opinion, why are most of the program, s so bad?

单选题It is more ______ and healthlul to live in the countryside than in town.

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