单选题Guests at this house are amazed by the flowers and a well-kept lawn traversed by concrete walks.

单选题Very young children with no reading experience may astound their parents with the first words they read, such as a department store sign announcing Big Sale.

单选题It sounds as if you"re hesitant to let go of some of the control you"ve established as a hands-on entrepreneur. This is a common early hurdle for companies moving to the next level of sophistication. But before you spend time and money building systems or hiring employees, you"ll need to sell yourself fully on this idea: If you don"t, even your best efforts to delegate tasks won"t work. "The first person to convince that you can have a business that works without you is yourself. If you do not have a vision of what that looks like, then how can you expect someone else to have that vision for you?" asks Brian Blomgren, owner of business coaching and training firm Action COACH in Atlanta. "Because an owner has already sacrificed so much to build the company, he or she may not be able to see their value to others outside of the role they play in their professional life. If you find yourself in this situation, take the time to create a new identity that you want to pursue and live up to," Blomgren says. Another stumbling block you may run across as you begin turning responsibilities over to your new employees is the feeling that you must constantly be busy—or even over-whelmed—with work during your day. As your employees begin taking over some of the detail work that you"ve always handled, you"ll need to step back and not indulge your tendency to micromanage and control every part in a way that is not necessary or useful. "Build a vision for yourself on what you will be doing once your business is running day to day on a self-sufficient basis," Blomgren says. Many entrepreneurial companies suffer because their leaders do not have the time to keep up with trends, check in with clients, talk to vendors and competitors, and strategize about their firms" future direction. As you let go of routine business jobs, free up some time every day, or even every week, to think about your company"s overall vision and brainstorm with key employees. Your ideas will help your firm grow in a smart, strategic manner. Once you begin hiring a staff, make sure each individual"s job responsibilities, goals, and expectations are given to them in writing. Employees are happiest when they have clearly defined tasks and some goals to strive for within a specific time frame. Blomgren recommends spelling out "positional agreements" with your employees. "Positional agreements are different from job descriptions, in that there is a definition of what the employer and employee agree to do, with key measurements defined," he says. "I can assure you that top employees want to work where they are valued in a positive work environment where achievement is recognized and rewarded."

单选题{{U}}Without question{{/U}}, people's lives in China have improved dramatically in the past two decades.

单选题Personality in Americans is further complicated by successive waves of immigration from various countries.

单选题A: What a surprise. You had your hair premed. B: Yes, and another surprise. I'm going to get married next Saturday. A: ______

单选题{{B}}Part Ⅳ Cloze{{/B}}{{B}}{{I}}Directions{{/B}}: In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}}.{{/I}} For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In {{U}}(61) {{/U}} a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend {{U}}(62) {{/U}} can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are {{U}}(63) {{/U}} readers. Most of us develop poor reading {{U}}(64) {{/U}} at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency {{U}}(65) {{/U}} in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have {{U}}(66) {{/U}} meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. {{U}}(67) {{/U}} , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to {{U}}(68) {{/U}} words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over {{U}}(69) {{/U}} you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which {{U}}(70) {{/U}} down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as {{U}}(71) {{/U}} reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an {{U}}(72) {{/U}} , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate {{U}}(73) {{/U}} the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, {{U}}(74) {{/U}} word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first {{U}}(75) {{/U}} is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but also your comprehension will improve.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Compared with their cosmologist(宇宙学家) colleagues, cosmogonists(星源学家) can sound a little old-fashioned. Edgar Allen Poe turned to the mysteries of cosmogony in an 1848 public lecture, just reprinted by Hesperus Press. And we encountered a reference to cosmogonists most recently in a new edition of Poe's prose poem Eureka. What's the difference between cosmologists and cosmogonists? Just two letters and a few billion light years. Cosmologists worry about where the Universe came from, cosmogonists with how the Solar System formed. The interesting thing is that one-and-a-half centuries after Poe, they still can't reach agreement on what happened in the nearest 5 light years of space. What's the problem? It turns out that there are a couple of competing explanations for why our neighbourhood is the shape it is, as well as several bizarre anomalies in the data. Cosmogonists know that the Solar System is essentially flat. With the exception of two tiny outliers, Mercury and Pluto, the orbits of all the other planets lie in very nearly the same plane. And most cosmogonists agree that this is because the planets themselves formed from a nebular(星云状的)disc orbiting the early Sun, which had itself coalesced out of the same cloud of gas and dust. But there's a catch. If the planets and the Sun came from the same nebular disc, then the Sun's equator should lie in the planetary plane. It doesn't. The Sun leans over at an angle of 7.25° The majority of cosmogonists insist that the angle is so close to zero that it really doesn't matter. Anyway, they add, the Sun has been losing mass for most of its life, and may have slipped a little. The remaining minority aren't having this. How can 7.25° be the same as zero? The Sun and the planets did come from cosmic dust, they say, but not from the same cloud of material. The Sun took shape somewhere in the Galaxy. Then it sailed along and picked up the planets—or perhaps the gas and dust that gave birth to them—elsewhere. Is a tilting Sun the cosmogonists' only headache? Not at all. It's also hard to agree on how the outer planets formed. Far out in the nebular disc, matter would have been so spread out that it couldn't quickly have dumped together. Some suggest planet-sized gravitational instabilities, others can find no reason for Uranus and Neptune to have formed yet. The closer you get to home, it seems, the deeper the mysteries.

单选题Woman: Thanks a lot! This scarf will be perfect with my blue jacket. Man: Made a good choice, did I? Question: What does the man mean?

单选题Nothing is less sensible than the advice of the Duke of Cambridge who is reported to have said: "Any change, at any time, for any reason is to be deplored. "

单选题As a famous leader of human rights movement, Martin Luther King detested injustice.

单选题The Labor Party's electoral strategy, based on an ______ with other smaller parties, has proved successful.

单选题"You try to get some sleep. I'll ______the patient's breakfast," said the nurse.

单选题Man: Not every woman could do the thing like her. She is extraordinary.Woman: Yeah, she is. But I'll have my moments.Question: what does the woman mean?

单选题Failure to provide ______ explanations for his frequent blunders, this young man was fired.

单选题The relatively theory is basically made up of two parts: the restricted and the general relativity theory.

单选题Man: I have to call an ambulance immediately. Woman: What's up? Question: What does the woman want to know?

单选题Jane may seem indifferent , but she really does care.

单选题{{B}}Part Ⅳ Cloze{{/B}}In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Are you single but too busy to search for love? Then you need to try the latest dating phenomenon that is sweeping{{U}} (61) {{/U}}the UK — speed dating. Speed dating{{U}} (62) {{/U}}men and women meeting in a room and finding out as much as they can about possible{{U}} (63) {{/U}}in three minutes. It's proving very{{U}} (64) {{/U}}with Britain's young people who find that they haven't got the time to meet that special one. At a speed dating event you are given three minutes to talk,{{U}} (65) {{/U}},with a member of the opposite sex. Then a bell is{{U}} (66) {{/U}}and you move to another person and start chatting again. By the end of the evening you will have spoken with up to twenty men or women! If, by the end of a conversation, you{{U}} (67) {{/U}}the person or would like to see him or her again,you write it{{U}} (68) {{/U}}on a card. Then, if the other person also fancies you, the organizers will contact you with their details. But is three minutes long enough to make an impression and{{U}} (69) {{/U}}if you want to see someone again? Research, suggests that{{U}} (70) {{/U}}can be felt within the first thirty seconds of meeting someone,and that is{{U}} (71) {{/U}}speed dating is all about, knowing quickly if you are going to like someone. And what about romance? Is it possible to make a good{{U}} (72) {{/U}}in such a short time?{{U}} (73) {{/U}},people say you can't hurry love. However, Britain will soon have its first marriage from a speed date. So, if you are on a{{U}} (74) {{/U}}to find Mr. or Miss Right, what have you got to lose?{{U}} (75) {{/U}}, you still go home on your own. But at best, the person of your dreams could be just three minutes away.

单选题The police are trying to retrieve the stolen statue.