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单选题{{B}}Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.{{/B}}

单选题For our bodies to function properly, we should ______.

单选题Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题Researchers have found that happiness doesn't appear to be anyone's ______; the capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself. A．hostage B．domain C．heritage D．disposal

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单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The first 10 months of last year saw more than 270,000 Chinese workers going abroad to work, the People's Daily Overseas Edition reported. Currently, about 4 million Chinese workers, or 0.3 percent of the country's population, are working in foreign countries, the newspaper said. They are living a very different and difficult life, far from home and family members. Their security and living conditions have raised concern at home and abroad. In a recent incident, five Chinese telecom workers were kidnapped in Nigeria (尼日利 [非洲中西部国家). Although they were released safely on Wednesday, the general living and working conditions of Chinese workers in that country has raised worry. There are more than 300 Chinese companies running businesses in Nigeria, involved such fields as petroleum, household appliances, and cell phones. A worker, surnamed Zhang, working for a Chinese telecom company in Nigeria, told People's Daily that his job always required him to work outdoors. He could not be sure of having three square meals a day, or even a daily bath. Worse, malaria (疟疾) was a common disease among his colleagues. Besides their work, they also had to engage in public relations activities with the local communities. In big cities like Lagos (尼日利亚的首都), due to bad road conditions, frequent power blackouts (中断), and few public places of entertainment for the Chinese, most workers chose not to go out in the evenings, the newspaper said. Chinese workers can also be found in war-stricken countries. In Baghdad, capital of Iraq, there are about 20 telecom workers besides the Chinese diplomatic staff. Hundreds of Chinese workers are also in the Kurdistan (库尔德斯坦[在西南亚]) area of north Iraq. Most of them are working for a Norwegian oil company in exploration work. They receive a monthly salary of about $1,000 and are under the protection of the Kurdistan military, making it difficult for them to socialize with the local community. Alegria too has a large number of Chinese workers. Peng Guichen, in charge of labor services in Algeria under the China State Construction International Group, told People's Daily there are more than 9,000 workers. Most of them were skilled, like electrical engineers, carpenters and bricklayers. "The reason they are working here is very simple--to make money," Peng told the newspaper. The monthly salaries ranged from US$400 to US$800. The number of Chinese workers going abroad has steadily increased since 2003, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest--growing U. S. minority. As their children began moving up through the nation's schools, it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging. Their achievements are reflected in the nation's best universities, where mathematics, science and engineering departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character. This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact that Asian-American students who began their education abroad arrived in the U.S. with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. Asians feel there will be less unfair treatment in areas like mathematics and science because they will be judged more objectively. And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an arts degree. Most Asian-American students owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. An effective measure of parental attention is homework. Asian parents spend more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps. Many researchers also believe there is something in Asian culture that breeds success, such as ideals that stress family values and emphasize education. Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of social isolation. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.

单选题A Look That Conveys a Message To tour an assembly plant in Canada, Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Chrysler, wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt. At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mr. Marchionne wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt. And at a Saturday night gala honoring Lee A. Iacocca in Los Angeles, he wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt. Mr. Marchionne, who last year earned more than 5 million euros ($6.9 million) and owns luxury houses in three countries, has donned a monochromatic (单色的) wardrobe similar to that wom by other top-flight executives. He has discovered the power of dressing down, and not just on Fridays. "The message he wanted to pass is not wearing a tie, not wearing a suit, means we are more flexible and what really matters is not the uniform but something else," said Cristiano Carlutti, the former head of used cars at Fiat, which Mr. Marchionne also heads. Today, corporate executives have a wider choice of what to wear than ever before. Stylists and personal shoppers reserve exclusive clothes, Hong Kong tailors make office visits and silk ties from France can be delivered overnight. Yet the simple personal uniform is being seen in some corner offices as the ultimate power suit. "I always used to feel sorry for them," David Wolfe, creative director of the trend-forecasting company the Doneger Group, said of the single-outfit executives. "Now I think they're smart." He added, "How do you stand out if everybody's trendy? The only way is to be beyond the trend." Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, wears hoodies and sneakers. Andrea Jung, chief executive of Avon Products, sticks with sleeveless close-fitting dresses — often red — and pearls. The television personality Simon Cowell and the fashion designer Roberto Cavalli wear jeans, T-shirts and black jackets. Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC's "Moming Joe", takes regular ribbings (笑话) about his day-in, day-outfleece (羊毛的) jacket and jeans. A Facebook group is campaigning for Michael Kors, a designer and judge on the show "Project Runway", to change his ensemble (also jeans, T-shirt and black jacket), which he has wom for nearly all eight seasons of the show. Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, wears New Balance sneakers, Levi's and black mock turtlenecks (高领衣), while Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief of Oracle, dons black mock turtlenecks, usually topped with a blazer. The motivations vary, but every uniform sends a message. Mr. Scarborough, a Republican who is the host of a program on a left-leaning cable network, may be signaling that he is a "mellow (温和的), fleece-wearing Republican that Democrats love to like," wrote New York magazine. Mr. Jobs, by most accounts, prefers the ordinary clothe as a way to de-emphasize individuality in favor of promoting a collective approach at Apple. And Thierry Rautureau, a Seattle chef who tops every outfit with a hat, wears the distinctive style for branding purposes. Mr. Wolfe, the fashion forecaster, switched to a single outfit last summer as a protest against how accessible trends had become. "It is fashion snobbery (盲从) or elitism that made me think, 'I want to make sure people know I'm not just a player in a game that too many people are playing,' "he said. While he used to go to work in "Tibetan Indian clothes, cowboy outfits, a baseball uniform one season, often street-cleaner jumpsuits and things like that," he said, he has altered his look in the last several months to wearing white L. L. Bean oxford shirts and Levi's 501s every day. "People are really coming to grips with the fact that the recession is the new normal. We're not going to get over it and go back to a wild and crazy extra message vagrant time right away. I think that's starting to affect the way people are presenting themselves to the world at large, with a very conservative fashion approach," he said. Some executives land on a statement piece that broadcasts their brand, as Mr. Rautureau did when he wore a soft hat to one of his restaurants. "A great customer of mine was sitting at the first table, and looked at me, and went, 'Oh, the chef in the hat,'" he said. "I snapped my finger and went, 'Marketing, marketing, marketing.'" Mr. Rautureau trademarked the chef-in-the-hat name, and has collected about 20 hats — straw, cowboy and felt — that he wears whenever he leaves his house. "It has been very successful in terms of, obviously, recognition and branding — I can tell you, everywhere I go, they know the guy in the hat, the chef in the hat," he said. "So it's easy to be catchy." Still, Mr. Rautureau concedes that he may have gotten too attached to his signature hat. After a fund-raiser in Cincinnati, he was mugged while walking back to his hotel, and a group of teenagers ran off with his hat. "Now, most normal people would have run away and go to the hotel, which was only like two or three blocks away," Mr. Rautureau said. "Instead, I went back, and said I need my hat back. And of course that was a dumb move because we get in a fight and they take my wallet, and blah blah blah. That was the most dangerous move I've ever made, because of my hat." For Mr. Jobs, the turtleneck-and-jeans outfit seems to be about reducing his persona to spotlight the product. "He didn't want any individual to kind of overshadow the brand, and that includes him," said Steve Chazin, a former Apple marketing executive, and the author of Marketing Apple. "He didn't want people thinking he was special." Mr. Marchionne's outfits also seemed to carry a certain message, said Mr. Carlutti, the former Fiat executive. "You have to understand that Fiat, before he joined the company, was very formal," he said, and Mr. Marchionne wanted to "break the formality", by replacing solid office doors with glass ones, for instance, and declining to dress up. Of course, by sticking to sweaters and slacks, Mr. Marchionne basically ensured that everyone else would continue to wear suits, Mr. Carlutti said. "The majority was afraid of seeming to copy the boss, so they stick to their normal dressing," he said. Indeed, when Mr. Carlutti had his job interview with Mr. Marchionne, he spent the morning debating what to wear. "That was a big dilemma, because if you wear a tie, he may consider you too formal, too rigid," he said. "If you don't wear a tie, he may think you try to imitate his casual style. So you never win, basically. In the end I wore a tie, which I usually don't." The auto chief is now spreading his style in his new city. In February, he met with the Detroit mayor, David Bing, to show Chrysler's Super Bowl commercial, "Imported from Detroit". And he presented Mr. Bing, who usually dresses in suits, with a gift: a black sweater (no oxford shirt). The mayor put on the sweater for a news conference the day he got it. But even though he admires Mr. Marchionne's style, he has no plans to adopt it, said a spokeswoman, Karen Dumas, in an e-mail message. "The mayor has his own style, with which he is very comfortable — tailored suits and custom, monogrammed shirts. It's tried, true and has worked for him this long, so he doesn't feel the need to switch up now," she said.

单选题Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题In order to get the full benefits of automation, labor will depend mostly on _______.

单选题Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题Mr. Brown is not ______ now, but he will be famous someday.

单选题He made such a ______ contribution to the university that they are naming one of the new buildings after him.

单选题Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题According to second paragraph, researchers have proved that ______.