问答题 Radio's got a problem. Although some 200 million people tune
in each week to hear their favorite over caffeinated DJ or catch those crucial
rush-hour traffic updates, it's getting tougher to hold listeners' attention.
Facing flat revenues and competition ranging from iPods to music phones, the
87-year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even
satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental
flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which songs they hear. If you don't like
a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dial—or turn it off.
That could change if the pioneers behind personalized radio continue to
win over music lovers who are burned out on regular radio but can't be bothered
to constantly refresh their iPods with 99￠ iTunes. On websites such as Last.fm,
Pandora.com and the new Slacker.com, personalized radio lets you train it to
understand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively
as it plays on your computer. But it's even better when you make it your own, by
marking each song as a favorite, skipping past it or banishing it from the
station's play list altogether. And despite growing concern about how proposed
new royalty fees for Internet radio stations could hamper the industry's growth,
on May 23 Sprint became the first wireless carrier to offer personalized radio
on its phones. Each customizable radio service has its own way
of assessing what you like. Pandora refers to its database of more than 600,000
major-label songs- all of which have been categorized by musical attributes such
as voice, tonality and chromatic harmony—then serves up similar-sounding tracks.
That can get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses
professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists that give you more
variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani,
for example, you'll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Bj6rk in addition to
more obvious matches such as Blondie and Madonna. And Last. fm, which is based
in London, taps into the collective wisdom of its 20 million users worldwide.
For example, if you like Beyoncé, and other Last. fm members who like Beyoncé
also listen to Mary J. Blige, then the service will put Mary on your play list
as well. Personalized radio isn't just a quirky idea for tech
geeks to fawn over and venture capitalists to gamble their millions on. Although
its revenues are minuscule compared with the $ 21 billion of the
terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the U. S. visit
Pandora and Last. fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes
them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations in the country. "It's
the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control
of what you receive," says Last. fm co-founder Martin Stiksel.
Making personalized radio portable could be the key to its long-term
success. "The biggest problem with Internet radio is that it's stuck on the PC,"
says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "What you really want is this device you can play
in your living room, in your car or in the desert walking around." In addition
to Sprint's move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a
prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and Slacker plans to sell a
$150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its
website. Unlike iTunes, music from Slacker is free. "Most people
don't want to pay for radio," says Mudd, who hopes to bring in revenue through
audio advertising spots. That model is showing some promise. The overall
Internet-radio market brought in more than $ 400 million in ad revenue last
year, according to JPMorgan Chase. About half of that came from online ads on
websites owned by conventional radio broadcasters like CBS Radio and Clear
Channel. "Internet radio, when you tie it in with our business model, I think it
works," says Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays, who is beefing up his stations' Web
presence with online videos and promotions. Even old-school DJs
see the appeal of personalized radio. Elvis Duran, who hosts a popular morning
show on New York City's Z100, says he could imagine a future in which listeners
wake up to some comedy and conversation from the show followed by three songs
tailored to their tastes. But he doesn't expect live DJs to become obsolete.
"When people wake up in the morning, it's good to hear some people who are
talking about interesting topics and who let you know, hey, the world's still
spinning and I can go out there." Good idea. No wonder Apple never built a radio
tuner in the iPod. It’s scared of the competition.
问答题西塘是一个具有一千多年历史的水乡古镇，保存完好的明清时期建筑群是其他旅游景点所无法相比的。倘佯古镇街头，游人们仿佛置身于一幅美丽的水墨画之中。河两岸高耸的粉墙和水中清晰的瓦房倒影，还有那在微风里婆娑摇曳的杨柳，似乎都在为这个古镇增添着异彩和生机。 在这个宁静的水镇里，生活的脚步似乎完全听命于那淌着潺潺流水的河流。西塘可以说是水的同义词。这里的河流是那样的蜿蜒曲折、波光粼粼，映射出一派宁静祥和的街景。夜幕降临，河岸边数千盏灯笼与晚霞一并点燃，把整个小镇映衬得灯火通明，为镇民们照亮了回家的路。
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问答题十月的上海，阳光明媚，秋高气爽，来自35个国家和地区的1300余名比赛选手参加了在沪举行的本世纪最后一届世界中学生运动会。 世界各国青少年在沪逗留的时间虽然短暂，但上海的风貌和中国的传统文化仍然给他们留下了深刻的印象。无论是参观矗立于浦江之畔的东方明珠电视塔，还是游览静卧一隅的城隍庙，他们都能感受到传统与现代的美妙结合。博大精深的中国传统文化让这些外国朋友感受到的是神秘和新奇，这种认知来自短暂的接触，但从此之后，他们不会忘记；有这样一个民族，生活在世界的东方。
问答题A proposal to change long-standing federal policy and deny citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil ran aground this month in Congress, but it is sure to resurface-kindling bitter debate even if it fails to become law. At issue is "birthright citizenship" —provided for since the Constitution's 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Section 1 of that amendment, drafted with freed slaves in mind, says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." Some conservatives in Congress, as well as advocacy groups seeking to crack down on illegal immigration, say the amendment has been misapplied over the years, that it was never intended to grant citizenship automatically to babies of illegal immigrants. Thus they contend that federal legislation, rather than a difficult-to-achieve constitutional amendment, would be sufficient to end birthright citizenship. "Most Americans feel it doesn't make any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give birth and have a new U.S. citizen," said the spokesman of the federation of American immigration reform. "But the advocates for illegal immigrants will make a fuss; they'll claim you're punishing the children, and I suspect the leadership doesn't want to deal with that./
问答题传统的中国画，不模仿自然，是以表现自然，是以表现心灵舒发性情为主体的意象主义艺术，画中意象与书法中的文字一样，是一种适于书写的极度概括抽象的象征符号，伴随着意象符号的是传统的程式表现技巧。古代的大师们创造着独自心中的意象及其程式，风格迥异，生机勃勃。
后来，多数人惯于对古人程式的模仿，所作之画千人一面。这样的画作一泛滥，雅的不再雅，俗的则更俗。近代中国画仍然在庸俗没落的模式漩涡中进退两难，阿文与当今的有识同行一样，有志标新立异，寻找自我，建立起现代的属于自己的新意象、新格局，且一直背靠着高雅的传统。
问答题我要微笑面对世界。
从今往后，我只因浮萍拐而落泪，因为悲伤、悔恨、挫折的泪水在疝块上毫无价值，只有微笑可以换来财富，善言可以建起一座城堡。
只要我能笑，就永远不会贫穷。这也是天赋，我不再浪费它。只有在笑声和快乐中，我才能真正体会到成功有滋味。只有在笑声和快乐中，我才能享受蔻的果实。如果不是这样的话，我会失败，因为快乐是提味的美酒佳酿。要想享受成功，必须先有快乐，而笑声便是那伴娘。
我要快乐。
我要成功。
问答题合营企业设董事会，其人数组成由合营各方协商，在合同、章程中确定，并由合营各方委派。董事会是合营企业的最高权力机构，决定合营企业的一切重大问题。董事长由合营各方协商确定或由董事会选举产生。董事长是合营企业的法定代表人。董事长不能履行职责时，应授权其他董事代表合营企业。 董事会会议由董事长负责召集并主持。董事会会议应当有2/3以上董事出席方能举行。董事不能出席的，可以出具委托书委托他人代表其出席和表决。董事会会议应用中文和英文作详细记录，并在会议结束后14日内送交每位董事，由出席董事会会议的各位董事签字确认。
问答题One evening, when Bagehot was at university, a student who lived next door to him fell badly ill. An ambulance was called, but its route was blocked by a pile of clothes and a gaggle of drunk, naked young men. They were members of a drinking society (roughly analogous to American fraternities). The boozy nudity at precisely this spot, they explained, refusing to budge, was an awfully important initiation rite.
This incident came to mind last month when something not dissimilar happened near Wigan, in northern England. A group of youths obstructed an ambulance and harassed the paramedics in it, whose patient died. That little act of thuggery was scarcely noticed amid the ongoing run of murders by British youngsters, by knife and sometimes gun. Most of the victims have been young too: 18 people aged 18 or under have been killed in London this year, stabbed on the street or shot in nightclubs—not many by Los Angeles standards, perhaps, but troubling by Britain"s. Not all the victims have been teenagers, a father in Warrington was beaten to death outside his home last week after remonstrating with vandals. "No street is safe any more from marauding hooligans," lamented the Sun, which recently fulminated about the yobs who urinated in drinking-water supplies delivered to flood-stricken western England.
Are British delinquents really more depraved, and more numerous, than they used to be, or than other countries" are? That university prank—as well as confirming that the posh and plebeian classes can be oddly alike—suggests that there is little new under the sun, even if the Sun says there is. Hysteria over degenerate children was even more intense in 1993, when two ten-year-olds murdered a toddler in Liverpool. From punks and skinheads, through the gangs that prowled the post-war London rubble and beyond, "yoof" has always been a concern, and always getting worse. "I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty," says a Shakespearean character, "for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." It is true that more teenage British wenches are got with child than other European ones, and that British teenagers are unusually prone to taking drugs, fighting, venereal disease and boozing: a senior policeman called this week for tighter rules on alcohol. But few who drink or smoke pot graduate to knife crime. Many do none of these things; most are better-off and better-educated than ever.
Not much has changed—and don"t generalise: those are the relaxed arguments of some sociologists, criminologists and other yoof-ologists. But an old problem still counts as a problem: that Britons have always worried about yoof doesn"t mean they are wrong to do so now. And conversations with teachers, youth workers and yoof itself suggest that in some ways the plight and behaviour of teenagers have indeed deteriorated.
Hard evidence is difficult to come by, but more British teenagers seem to be carrying knives, intended to protect but liable to endanger. More assaults than previously seem to be provoked by imagined "disrespect"; afterwards, a teenage omerta often confounds the police. Murder is still overwhelmingly a male offence, but girls seem to be committing more violent crime too. Urban gangs are pursuing rivalries and vendettas against groups from other neighbourhoods, separated by boundaries that are invisible to oblivious adults. "Happy-slapping", whereby assailants film their attacks for their later amusement, has been an unanticipated consequence of putting cameras on mobile phones.
As in America, the worst problems are often concentrated in specific communities. But they have wider costs, because adults can"t tell the sociopaths from the bored loiterers. British adults, research suggests, are less likely to intervene than other Europeans if they see youngsters up to no good, with the result that parks and squares are turned over to adolescent rule.
问答题Directions:
In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in Chinese. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into English. Start interpreting at the signal...and stop it at the signal... you may take notes while you"re listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now, let"s begin Part B with the first passage.
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国际经济司成立
近日，外交部举行国际经济司成立大会。国际经济司的正式成立，是新形势下外交服务国家经济发展的一项重要举措，此举让中国的经济外交再度引起关注。
经济外交在国际关系发展中发挥着重要作用，经济关系始终是国与国之间的重要关系，经济合作始终是国与国关系的重要纽带。我国历来高度重视经济外交工作，经济外交始终是我国总体外交的重要组成部分，在国家发展和外交全局中发挥着日益重要的作用。
外交部将以成立国际经济司为契机，继往开来，统筹规划，紧扣国际形势的变化，紧扣国家发展的需要，紧扣总体外交的目标，不断推进经济外交工作，努力开创经济外交工作新局面。
外交部将经济外交作为重要工作内容，积极稳妥地推进经济外交工作。成立国际经济司的目的，是为了在新形势下加强经济外交工作、为国家的发展服务。为此，国际经济司将从政治和外交角度参与国际经济合作和经济治理，落实互利共赢的对外开放战略，维护国家的发展利益和经济安全，同时为推动世界经济增长、实现各国共同发展作出更大的贡献。
近年来，随着中国同世界其他国家经济交往程度的深化，国际经济纠纷与摩擦也日渐增多。专家分析，国际经济司成立之后，其工作的侧重点将是协助处理中国与他国的一些经济问题，根据国内经济形势和发展需要，加强对国际经济形势、动向的跟踪与分析，促进经济领域的合作。国际经济司对于以后中国同其他国家进行经济上的沟通，包括协调处理国际经济纠纷和摩擦肯定会发生很大的作用。
问答题What contributions have Iger and Cook done to Disney Company?
问答题As manufactures continue to roll out new smart phones, luring customers to ditch their old phones, data security experts warn that improperly disposed phones can be mined for personal data by hackers in the US and abroad.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports more than 416,000 cell phones are disposed of every day and almost 40% of cell phone users fail to take any security measures such as erasing their data before disposing of it.
According to the EPA, the average American is expected to buy a new cell phone every 24 months. After new cell phones are purchased, old phones are either recycled or trashed. Over 80% of e-waste is exposed to Asia where workers break down electronic devices for metals, particularly gold and silver.
Without federal regulations on proper handling procedures, there is no way to assure customers a best practice for e-cycling. Currently the EPA does not have any data on the amount of e-waste being exported----only data on how much is being recycled, which for cell phone is less than 10%.
问答题Australia has millions of sheep. They say there are three sheep of each inhabitant of the country. Thousands of tons of wool are produced each year in Australia.
问答题For years, many Asian-Americans have been convinced that it"s harder for them to gain admission to the nation"s top colleges. Studies show that Asian-Americans meet these colleges" admissions standards far out of proportion to their 6 percent representation in the U.S. population, and that they often need test scores hundreds of points higher than applicants from other ethnic groups to have an equal chance of admission. Critics say these numbers, along with the fact that some top colleges with race-blind admissions have double the Asian percentage of Ivy League schools, prove the existence of discrimination.
The way it works, the critics believe, is that Asian-Americans are evaluated not as individuals, but against the thousands of other ultra-achieving Asians who are stereotyped as boring academic robots.
Of course, not all Asian-Americans fit this stereotype. They are not always obedient hard workers who get top marks. Their economic status, ancestral countries and customs vary. But compared with American society in general, Asian-Americans have developed a much stronger emphasis on intense academic preparation as a path to a handful of the very best schools.
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问答题The lives of most men are determined by their environment. They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only with resignation but even with good will. They are like streetcars running contentedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flivver that dashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily across the open country. I respect them; they are good citizens, good husbands, good fathers, and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I do not find them exciting. I am fascinated by the men, few enough in all conscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it to their own liking. It may be that we have no such thing as free will, but at all events we have the illusion of it. At a crossroad it does seem to us that we might go either to the right or the left and, once the choice is made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the world's history obliged us to take the turning we did.
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问答题1979年1月，邓小平应邀访美。美国总统卡特回忆说，邓小平访美是他任总统职务期间最为愉快的经历之一。他说他和邓小平的会谈既愉快又卓有成效。他说邓小平很有魅力，富有幽默感，给人留下了很好的印象。他发现中国人懂得如何表达对自己国家的自豪，却又不显得傲慢。1月29日，卡特总统有如下的日记：我们在肯尼迪中心观看了一场很轻松的演出。后来我和邓、邓的夫人卓琳、罗莎琳以及艾米一起登台与演员们见面。当邓拥抱美国演员，特别是拥抱演唱中国歌曲的小演员时，流露出真诚的感情。他亲吻了许多儿童，后来记者们报道说不少观众甚至感动得流泪了。即使那些反对中美关系正常化的参议员，在观看这次演出之后，也承认他们输了。他们说他们没办法投票反对儿童唱中国歌曲。
卡特总统还描述了另一件事：“我们在最后一个会议上签署了有关领事馆、贸易以及科学、技术、文化交流等方面的协定。那时与会的有人问邓：‘我们决定关系正常化时，中国有反对的人吗?’大家都屏住呼吸，等着邓小平的回答。邓说：‘有的。’他停了一会儿又说：‘中国有一个省强烈反对。那就是台湾。’”