Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to【C1】 1staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly prized language, but Spanish and Mandarin speakers are more in【C2】 2than in the past. Katja Hall, deputy director-general of Confederation of British Industry(CBI), said that, given the EU was the UK' s largest export market, it was no surprise to see European languages so【C3】 3valued. "But with China and Latin America seeing solid growth, ambitious firms want the language skills that can【C4】 4the path into new markets," she said. The 2014 annual education and skills survey by the CBI and Pearson, the educational publisher that owns the Financial Times, found that 41 percent of the 291 companies surveyed across the UK believed knowledge of a foreign language was【C5】 5to their business. European languages—French, German and Spanish—still topped the list in【C6】 6of desirability, but these were closely followed by Mandarin and Arabic. However, the number of students studying foreign languages has【C7】 7in the past decade. Ms Hall said it was unclear whether recent government【C8】 8to encourage language learning in schools would have any impact. "It has been a worry to see foreign language study in our schools under pressure with one in five schools having a【C9】 9low take-up of languages," she said. "Young people considering their future subject choices should be made more【C10】 10of the benefits to their careers that can come from studying a foreign language."A) slumped B) risen C) initiatives D) highlyE) agencies F) demand G) pressure H) accidentallyI) aware J) persistently K) harmful L) beneficialM) recruit N) smooth O) terms 【C1】
近年来，中国硕士研究生
招收
(recruitment)规模不断扩大，致使本科生报考硕士研究生的人数逐年增加。除了大学毕业生对学术的追求以及社会对
高端人才
(top-level talent)的需求增加外，就业压力大也是造成
考研热
(postgraduate craze)的关键因素。基于人才市场竞争日益激烈，工作岗位供不应求，很多大学生毕业后选择继续深造而不是就业。虽然考研热在某种程度上反映了社会需求，但是也给大学生带来了巨大的心理压力。因此。中国高校需向学生提供适当的就业指导。
在竞争激烈的现代社会，拥有高技能、高素质的人就有更多的优势，因而种类繁多的培训班便应运而生。
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科举制度
(the imperial examination)是中国
帝制时期
(imperial China)选拔官员的制度，具有1300多年的历史。它将阅读、考试和选拔政府官员三者紧密结合起来，是一种公平和公开的人才选举方法，是中国选举史上的一大突破。它为中国发现、培养了大量人才，对知识的普及起到了相当大的推动作用。同时也增强了阅读气氛。然而，科举制度也有缺陷，其考试内容局限于
儒家
(Confucius)经典，文章的结构和字数都要符合
“八股文”
(the eight-part essay)的要求。因此，这极大地限制了人的眼界、创造力以及独立思考的能力。
When we worry about who might be spying on our private lives, we usually think about the Federal agents. But the private sector outdoes the government every time. It's Linda Tripp, not the FBI, who is facing charges under Maryland's laws against secret telephone taping. It's our banks, not the Internal Revenue Service(IRS), that pass our private financial data to telemarketing firms. Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will. As an example of what's going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, the bank supplied a telemarketer called MemberWorks with sensitive customer data such as names, phone numbers, bank-account and credit-card numbers, Social Security numbers, account balances and credit limits. With these customer lists in hand, MemberWorks started dialing for dollars—selling dental plans, videogames, computer software and other products and services. Customers who accepted a "free trial offer" had 30 days to cancel. If the deadline passed, they were charged automatically through their bank or credit-card accounts. U.S. Bancorp collected a share of the revenues. Customers were doubly deceived, the lawsuit claims. They didn't know that the bank was giving account numbers to MemberWorks. And if customers asked, they were led to think the answer was no. The state sued MemberWorks separately for deceptive selling. The company denies that it did anything wrong. For its part, U.S. Bancorp settled without admitting any mistakes. But it agreed to stop exposing its customers to nonfinancial products sold by outside firms. A few top banks decided to do the same. Many other banks will still do business with MemberWorks and similar firms. And banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products, including things of little value, such as credit insurance and credit-card protection plans. You have almost no protection from businesses that use your personal accounts for profit. For example, no federal law shields "transaction and experience" information—mainly the details of your bank and credit-card accounts. Social Security numbers are for sale by private firms. They've generally agreed not to sell to the public. But to businesses, the numbers are an open book. Self-regulation doesn't work. A firm might publish a privacy-protection policy, but who enforces it? Take U.S. Bancorp again. Customers were told, in writing, that "all personal information you supply to us will be considered confidential." Then it sold your data to MemberWorks. The bank even claims that it doesn't "sell" your data at all. It merely "shares" it and reaps a profit. Now you know.
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Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessaybasedonthepicturebelow.YoushouldfocusontheimpactoftheInternetslangonstudents.Youarerequiredtowriteatleast150wordsbutnomorethan200words."Myteacherhas'tqualifiedtoteachspelling!ShespellsU'y-o-u'.ShespellsBRB'r-e-s-r-n'.ShespellsBFN'g-o-o-d-b-y-e'."
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When global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance(异乎寻常地). In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet, flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrate inland. Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically in North America, Europe and Asia. After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. The adaptation was farming: the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened more than 10,000 years ago. As environmentalists convene in Rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global climate of the future, earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how climate has changed in the past—and how those changes have transformed human existence. Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating picture of the powerful geological and astronomical forces that have combined to change the planet's environment from hot to cold, wet to dry and back again over a time period stretching back hundreds of millions of years. Most important, scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes have had a major impact on the evolution of the human species. New research now suggests that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turning point in human evolution: from the dawn of primates(灵长目动物)some 65 million years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs, from the huge expansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture. Indeed, the human history has not been merely touched by global climate change, some scientists argue, it has in some instances been driven by it. The new research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio. Among other things, the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothing new for planet Earth. The benign(宜人的)global environment that has existed over the past 10,000 years—during which agriculture, writing, cities and most other features of civilization appeared—is a mere bright spot in a much larger pattern of widely varying climate over the ages. In fact, the pattern of climate change in the past reveals that Earth's climate will almost certainly go through dramatic changes in the future— even without the influence of human activity.
汉字蕴含古代中国人的智慧，体现中国悠久的历史。
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互联网在中国被用于公共服务大约有二十年。目前，中国网民人数已经超过5．9亿。互联网在中国被广泛使用，已经渗透到了生活的各个方面。中国使用最多的互联网业务是电子邮件、新闻、搜索引擎、网页浏览、在线音乐、即时消息、在线娱乐等。互联网正逐步改变着人们的消费理念、娱乐方式、社交模式、以及思维方式。现在互联网信息技术比人类历史上的任何一项科学发明都更加深刻地影响着人们的生活。
Question: My ninth-grade art teacher doesn't give any grade above 94% because, she says, "There's always room for improvement." In previous years, I earned a 99% and a 100%. The 94 I received this term does not reflect the hard work that I put into this course. Because of her "improvement" theory, I got a lower grade than I deserve. Is her grading philosophy ethical (符合职业道德规范的)? Answer: Your teacher's grading system may be unwise, but it is not unethical. A teacher deserves wide latitude in selecting the method of grading that best promotes learning in her classroom; that is, after all, the prime function of grades. It is she who has the training and experience to make this decision. Assuming that your teacher is neither biased nor corrupt and that her system conforms to school rules, you can't fault her ethics. You can criticize her methodology. A 100 need not imply that there is no possibility of improvement, only that a student successfully completed the course work. A ninth grader could get a well-earned 100 in English class but still have a way to go before she writes as well as Jane Austen. What's more, grades are not only an educational device but are also part of a screening system to help assign kids to their next class or program. By capping her grades at 94 while most other teachers grade on a scale that tops out at 100, your teacher could jeopardize a student's chance of getting a scholarship or getting into a top college. What it is wrong to condemn her for is overlooking your hard work. Your diligence is worthy of encouragement, but effort does not equal accomplishment. If scholars suddenly discovered that Rembrandt had dashed off "The Night Watch" in an afternoon, it would still be "The Night Watch." I could spend months sweating over my own "paintings", but I'd produce something you wouldn't want to hang in your living room. Or your garage. One feature of a good grading system is that those measured by it generally regard it as fair and reasonable—not the case here. Simmering (难以平息的) resentment is seldom an aid to education. And so your next step should be to discuss your concerns with your teacher or the principal.
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