Competition breeds excellence. Ask anyone who pays attention to the car industry and they will tell you that the family-sedan segment is just brutal, with manufacturers fighting tooth and nail over every sale. In fact, that market has become more competitive in recent years. It used to just be the Camry and the Accord fighting for supremacy, but now you have new(Hyundai)and old(Ford)competitors, among others, joining the fight, with interesting, well-made, compelling products. It's a great time to be shopping for a new family sedan. Compare that with the state of the tablet market today. Hewlett-Packard is in retreat. Research in Motion is in a holding pattern. Motorola has been sold and its tablet is now an afterthought. Samsung fights the good fight, hut it trails Apple's market share by 50 percentage points. Apple is not just ahead of the pack, it almost is the pack. Now, some would say that this is also a simple result of economic laws at work: Apple makes a superior product, therefore it gets most of the sales. But what would be really great is that, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and H. P. , locked in an epic battle for tablet supremacy, are each releasing new and better products at a furious pace, and each dropping prices substantially at a steady clip. Apple is driving innovation and creativity with each upgrade of the iPad it releases. But this isn't about whether you prefer Apple or Android for your tablet. This isn't about picking sides. As a consumer, I want there to be robust competition across the board. I want Coke and Pepsi, Target and Wal-Mart, Engadget and Gizmodo. If you're a fan of Apple, you want there to be a worthy rival push it, to keep its feet to the fire. If you don't like Apple, you want someone else in the game so that Apple doesn't suck all the air out of the room. And you want Apple to do the same pushing and foot scorching to its competitor that another company would do to it.

A. How about ThursdayB. By the way, is Dr. Johnson available on SaturdayC. I'd like to make an appointment to see the doctorClerk: Good morning. This is Doctor Johnson's office. What can I do for you? Mrs. Reed: Yes, this is Mrs. Reed.【D4】______this week.Clerk: Well, let's see. I'm afraid he is fully booked on Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Reed:【D5】______?Clerk: Sorry, but I have to say he is also occupied on Thursday. So, will Wednesday be OK for you, Mrs. Reed? Mrs. Reed: I have to work on Wednesday.【D6】______?Clerk: I'm afraid the office is closed on weekends. Mrs. Reed: Well, what about Friday?Clerk: Friday. Let me have a check. Oh, great. Dr. Johnson will be available on Friday afternoon this week. Mrs. Reed: That's fine. Thank you, I'll come then.

Write a composition in no less than 150 words on the topic: Do You Think Students Today Are Less Knowledgeable? You should write according to the outline given below, Write your composition on the Answer Sheet. 很多老师抱怨如今的学生读的书少了。他们花了更多的时间在网上浏览信息，观看娱乐节目，在社交媒体上交流，当然他们也会在网上看一些电子书。你认为如今的学生因为读书数量少了，知识量变小了吗?请说明原因，或者举例说明。

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Teachers need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and physical changes that young adults experience. And they also need to give serious【C1】______ to how they can be best【C2】______ such changes. Growing bodies need movement and exercise, but not just in ways that emphasize competition.【C3】______ they are adjusting to their new bodies and a whole host of new intellectual and emotional challenges, teenagers are especially self-conscious and need the confidence that comes from achieving success and knowing that their accomplishments are【C4】______ by others. However, the typical teenage lifestyle is already filled with so much competition that it would be wise to plan activities in which there are more winners than losers,【C5】______, publishing newsletters with many student-written book reviews, displaying student artwork, and sponsoring book discussion clubs. A variety of small clubs can provide 【C6】______ opportunities for leadership, as well as for practice in successful【C7】______ dynamics. Making friends is extremely important to teenagers, and many shy students need the 【C8】______ of some kind of organization with a supportive adult 【C9】______ visible in the background. In these activities, it is important to remember that the young teens have short attention spans. A variety of activities should be organized 【C10】______ participants can remain active as long as they want and then go on to something else without feeling guilty and without letting the other participants down.

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Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit the customer's ______rather than the company's.

Write about the Lending a Helping Hand and Full Support to People in Need in at least 150 words. You should write according to the outline given below:1．每个人在生活中都不可避免地需要他人援助；2．帮助和支持他人是每个公民应尽的义务和美德；3．助人即助己，大家均助人，大家才和谐。Write your answer on your Answer Sheet.

Excerpt 1: I saw a television advertisement recently for a new product called an air sanitizer. A woman stood in her kitchen, spraying the empty space in front of her as though using Mace against an imaginary assailant. She appeared very determined. Where others are satisfied with antibacterial-laced sponges, dish soaps, hand sanitizers and telephone wipes, here was a woman who sought to sterilize the air itself.Excerpt 2: During the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, advertising was a relatively straightforward means of announcement and communication and was used mainly to promote novelties and fringe products. But when factory production got into full swing and new products, e. g. processed foods, came onto the market, national advertising campaigns and brand naming of products became necessary. Before large-scale factory production, the typical manufacturing unit had been small and adaptable and the task of distributing and selling goods had largely been undertaken by wholesalers. The small non-specialized factory which did not rely on massive investment in machinery had been flexible enough to adapt its production according to changes in public demands.Excerpt 3: Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living.Excerpt 4: Search advertising—the small text-ads that appear alongside Google and Yahoo Searches—account for 40% of the online ad market. Another 20% goes to display ads and 18% to classified advertising. But search advertising can also work like a small ad and will increasingly challenge print classifieds as websites provide localized and more elaborate services for online users.Excerpt 5: This year the combined advertising revenues of Google and Yahoo! will rival the combined primetime ad revenues of America's three big television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC predicts Advertising Age. It will, says the trade magazine, represent a "watershed moment" in the evolution of the Internet as an advertising medium. A 30-second prime-time TV ad was once considered the most effective—and the most expensive—form of advertising. But that was before the Internet got going. And this week online advertising made another leap forward.Excerpt 6: Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of. There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing excessively fine distinctions. Of course advertising seeks to persuade. If its message were confined merely to information—and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the colour of a shirt is subtly persuasive—advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants.

A. positiveB. leftC. resultPhrases:A. afraid their countries will be【T1】______behindB. What was less visible then, however, were the new, 【T2】______forcesC. As a【T3】______ A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. 【T4】______that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments,【T5】______, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together.【T6】______, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we've ever had.

A. there's just not enough time to see them all.B. they would have to give me the money to attend the games as well.C. From all accounts,D. You're a hard person to please!Sue: Have you ever been to any of the Olympic Games?Alice: No. I've never been in a country at the time they were held.Sue: Would you have gone if someone had paid your ticket to get there?Alice: That would've been nice, but【D7】______Sue: The tickets are getting a bit expensive these days. That's true.Alice: My problem with the Olympics is; there are too many sports I want to see but【D8】______Sue: All the sports are on TV these days. You need to check the program and record the ones you can't get to.Alice: That's one way I could do it, but it probably means I would have to stay awake half the night to see the things I'd missed.Sue:【D9】______Alice: Are you going to go to the next Olympics in Beijing?Sue: I'd love to.【D10】______it's going to be a spectacular show!

A. I think you can get one in the marketB. They can make the tank more beautiful and provide food and shelter for fishC. My fish died because the tank was overcrowdedA: Do you recommend putting some plants in the tank?B: Sure.【D1】______ .A: But how did it come that some of my fish died?B: You must have put too much duckweed in the tank, which hinders aeration.A: No, I didn't.【D2】______ .B: OK, you can replace it with a larger one.A: Good. But do you know where I can buy one?B:【D3】______ .A: Are you sure?B: I think so.A: OK. Thank you.

He misled management by giving it the idea that the older and more experienced men were not an______but a liability.

Crossing Wesleyan University's campus usually requires walking over colorful messages chalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growing number of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewd references to professors' sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word nigger that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead their communities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵犯). In the process, they're butting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves on fostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional chalkings filled with four-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a potential billboard. But when chalkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not acceptable in an institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bennet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the "right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards." Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways of regulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversy was more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what they consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's Black Law Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger a review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students or faculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnicity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate says other schools have adopted similar harassment policies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restricting students from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another student continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting last week.

Write a composition of at least 150 words on the topic“My Idea of the Future World”based on the following outline．Present your argument with supporting details． 1．悲观者看到的是战争、污染、恐怖分子的袭击、非典、艾滋病…… 2．乐观者看到的是光明灿烂的世界…… 3．我的看法……

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We all know that in a situation like this a cool head is______.

Mr. Johnson evidently regarded this as a great joke.

Members of a Britain's biggest trade union walked out Friday after talks with British Airways on a______over working conditions broke down.

Tennessee's population is nearly two-fifths rural, and no single city or group of cities ________ the state.