If you asked people what the most important invention has been,many would say the printing press

第1题

根据以下内容回答题：If you asked people what the most important invention has been，manv wou

根据以下内容回答题：

If you asked people what the most important invention has been，manv would say the printing press．Others(1)say the wheel．But even though it's(2)whether the appear- ance of the printing press affected the course of history more than the wheel，the printing press(3)within the top two or three inventions in history．

(4)the telephone，the television，the radi0，and the computer，the written word was the only way to(5)ideas to people too far away to talk with．Until the 6th or 7th century．all books had to be written(6)．Creating a book was difficult，and very few existed．Therefore，very few people read books．

In the 6th and 7th centuries，the Chinese invented a way to print pages by(7)characters and pictures on wooden，ivory，or clay blocks．They would print a page from the block by putting(8)on the block and pressing paper onto the ink．This(9)is called letterpress printing．The invention of letterpress printing was a great advance in communication(10)each block could be inked many times and many copies of each page could be made．Many books could now be made．Therefore，many people could read the same book．

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A.might

B.ought to

C.had to

D.should

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第2题

In most cultures, when you meet acquaintances for the first time during a day, it is norma

l to greet them. The main purpose of this greeting is to 【C1】______ a good relationship between the people 【C2】______ and each language usually has 【C3】______ set phrases which can be used for this purpose. Sometimes, though, there can be 【C4】______ differences in the type of phrases which can be used, and cultural misunderstandings can easily 【C5】______ . The following is a true example.

A young British woman went toHong Kong to work, and at the time of her 【C6】______ she knew nothing about the Chinese culture of language. 【C7】______ her way to school one day, she went to the bank to get some money. 【C8】______ , the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch. She was extremely surprised 【C9】______ such a question because in the British culture it would be 【C10】______ an indirect invitation to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also 【C11】______ the young man's interest in dating the girl. 【C12】______ this bank clerk was a complete stranger 【C13】______ the British girl, she was very much taken aback (生气), and hastily commented that she had eaten 【C14】______ . After this she 【C15】______ to school and was even more surprised when one of the teachers asked the same question. By now she 【C16】______ that it could not be an invitation, but was puzzled 【C17】______ why they asked it. 【C18】______ the following days she was asked the same question again and again. Only much later 【C19】______ that the question had no real meaning 【C20】______ —it was merely a greeting.

【C1】______

A．build on

B．build up

C．build into

D．build out

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Probably the most frequently asked question in any job interview is “Tell me about yours

elf.”

The interviewer’s purpose in asking this question is to get information related to work and job openings. Some people make the mistake of taking this request literally and answering by giving their life history. In fact, the best points to focus on when answering this question are past work experience, education, and social activities. Of these three, work experience carries a lot more weight.

Another very common question that comes up in interviews is “Why do you want to work for this company？” If you don’t have an answer ready for this question, you are letting the interviewer know that you haven’t done much research about the company or the job you are interviewing for. Candidates who can give detailed answers about the perceived benefits of working for a particular company make a much better impression on interviewers.

Two other questions that many people find difficult in interviews are “What are your strengths？” and “What is your biggest weakness？”

People have a hard time answering the first question because it feels like boasting in some ways. But an interview has no time to be shy or modest! The second question poses a problem because the answer needs to be a weakness that sounds like a strength. A good tip to keep in mind is to mention how you are trying to improve.

Along with considering these common interview questions, it is also helpful to remember the questions that should not be asked during an interview. For instance, questions related to family, health, or religion are generally off limits in an interview. If you don’t feel comfortable giving such personal information, then simply don’t.

A final suggestion for preparing for an interview is to go into the interview with your own questions to ask. By asking the interviewer question about the company, you are showing interest and enthusiasm for the job.

1）What is the passage mainly about？ ()

A . Actions to avoid during an interview.

B . Body language that interviewers watch for.

C . Interesting interview experiences.

D . Typical interview questions and responses.

2）When asked to tell about yourself, what should be your main focus？ ()

A . Your family.

B . Your past jobs.

C . Your hobbies.

D . Kinds of work you enjoy.

3）What response in the following will most impress the interviewer？ ()

A . I’ll learn more team spirit from the company.

B . The company’s philosophy is interesting.

C . I would like to find out my benefits as well.

D . I don’t know how to answer this question.

4）If you’re required to talk about your weaknesses, how would you respond？ ()

A . Try not to say too much weakness.

B . Try to talk about your strengths instead.

C . Talk about your weakness but sounds like a strength.

D . Be humble and directly tell the interviewer.

5）Why should you prepare your own questions before theinterview？()

A . Let the interview know your strong points

B . Help the interviewer feel relaxed

C . Make the interview last longer

D . Seem enthusiastic about the company

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第4题

In most cultures, when you meet acquaintances for the first time during a day, it is norma

l to greet them. The main purpose of this greeting is to 【B1】 a good relationship between the people 【B2】 and each language usually has 【B3】 set phrases which can be used for this purpose. Sometimes, though, there can be 【B4】 differences in the type of phrases which can be used, and cultural misunderstandings can easily 【B5】. The following is a true example.

A young British woman went to Hong Kong to work, and at the time of her 【B6】 she knew nothing about the Chinese culture of language. 【B7】 her way to school one day, she went to the bank to get some money. 【B8】, the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch. She was extremely surprised 【B9】 such a question because in the British culture it would be 【B10】 an indirect invitation to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also 【B11】 the young man's interest in dating the girl. 【B12】 this bank clerk was a complete stranger 【B13】 the British girl, she was very much taken aback (生气), and hastily commented that she had eaten 【B14】. After this she 【B15】 to school and was even more surprised when one of the teachers asked the same question. By now she 【B16】 that it could not be an invitation, but was puzzled 【B17】 why they asked it. 【B18】 the following days she was asked the same question again and again. Only much later 【B19】 that the question had no real meaning 【B20】 --it was merely a greeting.

【B1】

A．build on

B．build up

C．build into

D．build out

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第5题

Psychological research has focused on a number of basic principles that help memory：m

eaningfulness, organization, association, and visualization.It is useful to know how there principles work.

Meaningfulness affects memory at all levels.Information that does not make any sense to you is difficult to remember.There are several ways in which we can make material more meaningful.Many people, for instance, learn a rhyme to help them remember.Do you know the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November..."？ It helps many people remember which months of the year have 30 day s.

Organization also makes a difference in our ability to remember.How useful would a library be if the books were kept in random order？ Material that is organized is better remembered than jumbled information.One example of organization is chunking.C hunking consists of grouping separate bits of information.For example, the number 4671363 is more easily remembered if it is chunked as 467, 13, 63.Categorizing is another means of organization.Suppose you are asked to remember the following list of wor ds: man, bench, dog, desk, woman, horse, child, cat, chair.Many people will group the words into similar categories and remember them as follows: man, woman, child; cat, dog, horse; bench, chair, desk.Needless to say, the second list can be remembered mo re easily than the first one.

Association refers to taking the material we want to remember and relating it to something we remember accurately.In memorizing a number, you might try to associate it with familiar numbers or events.For example, the heigh t of Mount Fuji in Japan -12,389 feet -might be remembered using the following associations: 12 is the number of months in the year, and 389 is the number of days in a year (365) added to the number of months twice (24).

The last principle is visualizati on.Research has shown striking improvements in many types of memory tasks when people are asked to visualize the items to be remembered.In one study, subjects in one group were asked to learn some words using imagery, while the second group used repetiti on to learn the words.Those using imagery remembered 80 to 90 percent of the words, compared with 30 to 40 percent of the words for those who memorized by repetition.Thus forming an integrated image with all the information placed in a single mental pict ure can help us to preserve a memory.

1.What kind of information is easy for us to remember？()

A.Information that does not make any sense to us

B.Information that we are not familiar with

C.Information that is meaningful to us

D.Information that we are not interested in

2.Which of the following pairs are rhymes？()

A.horse—house

B.right---white

C.come----home

D.how---low

3.The second list of words in para.3 is organized according to().

A.the rhyme

B.the word category

C.th e first letters of words

D.the meanings

4.Books are kept in a library().

A.according to their size

B.in random order

C.in a jumbled way

D.in different categories

5.What method can better help form. a whole mental picture about the ti ngs to be remembered？()

A.Grouping

B.Repetition

C.Imagery

D.Association

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第6题

My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to

apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he said,"Everything." He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. He’d like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone else’s, he’d want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel people agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, he’d made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices usually avoided, afraid that next to them they’d look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever your goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go.

The author’s father applied for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company and his goal was ()

A、to be a good worker with a special knowledge about his work

B、to do everything assigned him willingly

C、to be able to do whatever job there was in the factory

D、to be a good supervisor himself in the future

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第7题

Nowadays most people decide quite【61】what kind of work they would do. When I was at school

, we had to choose【62】when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. "【63】, scientists will earn a lot of money," my parents said.【64】I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the【65】I decided that I【66】a scientist. It was a long time【67】I told my parents that I wasn't happy at school. " I didn't think you were," said my mother. "【68】," said my father. "Well, the best thing to do now is to look for a job. "

I【69】about it with my friends Frank and Lesley.【70】of them【71】suggest anything, but they promised that they would ask their friends. A few days later【72】I was still in bed,【73】telephoned. "Is that Miss Jenkins？" a man' s voice asked. "I【74】your hobby is photography and I've got a job that might interest you in my clothes factory. My name is Mr. Thomson. " He seemed pleasant on the phone【75】I went to see him. I was so excited that I almost forgot【76】goodbye. "Good luck!" my mother said to me.

I arrived【77】early and when Mr. Thomson came he asked me if I【78】waiting a long time. "No, not long. " I replied. After talking to me for about twenty minutes he【79】me a job —not as a photographer,【80】a model!

(61)

A．early

B．presently

C．soon

D．quickly

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第8题

The inner voice of people who appear unconscious can now be heard. For the first time, res

earchers have struck up a conversation with a man diagnosed as being in a vegetative (植物的) state. All they had to do was monitor how his brain responded to specific questions.

"They can now have some involvement in their destiny," says Adrian Owen of the University of Cambridge, who led the team doing the work.

In an earlier experiment, Owen's team asked a woman previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state to picture herself carrying out one of two different activities. The resulting brain activity suggested she understood the commands and was therefore conscious.

Now Owen's team has taken the idea a step further. A man also diagnosed with VS was able to answer yes and no to specific questions by imagining himself engaging in the same activities.

The results suggest that it is possible to give a degree of choice to some people who have no other way of communicating with the outside world. "We are not just showing they are conscious, we are giving them a voice and a way to communicate," says neurologist (神经病学家) Steven Laureys of the University of Liege in Belgium, Owen's partner.

Doctors traditionally base these diagnoses on how someone behaves: for example, whether they can glance in different directions in response to questions. The new results show that you don't need behavioural indications to identify awareness and even a degree of cognitive proficiency. All you need to do is tap into brain activity directly.

The work "changes everything", says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who is carrying out similar work on patients with consciousness disorders. "Knowing that someone could persist in a state like this and not show evidence of the fact that they can answer yes/no questions should he extremely disturbing to our practice."

One of the most difficult questions you might want to ask someone is whether they want to carry on living. But as Owen and Laureys point out, the scientific, legal and ethical challenges for doctors asking such questions are formidable.

"They" in the second paragraph can be replaced by "______".

A．patients in a VS

B．researchers

C．monitoring machines

D．specific questions

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第9题

Not long ago my wife sent me to the nearest market to buy something, I went there dire

ctly, and (54)a pound of sugar. Then I returned home and(55) my wife the paper bag in which there was one pound of sugar. I said to her, “Here is the(56) you want.” My wife looked into the bag, and then looked at me in a(57)way, saying very slowly, “I told you to get me a bottle of milk”. I was so(58 )my absent-mindedness that I paid(59) to my family doctor, who was both learned and kind.“Your problem,” He said, “is a(60)one and it should not(61) you at all. If you know you’re absent-minded, you’re quite all right. It’s nothing to worry about. But if you don’t know you’re absent-minded, you’re surely in(62 )“Many(63)people are absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “(64),Thomas Edison was standing(65)one day to pay taxes when he arrived(66)window, that is to say, it was his(67)to pay his money, he found that he(68)his own(69). He(70)the man next in the line and asked,” Can you tell me who I am？ The man told him.I felt(71)and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said, “How much should I pay you？” “Ten dollars for the(72).” “But, doctor, I didn’t have a check-up.” The doctor looked much puzzled. “Oh, yes,” he said, “it was that(73)before you. How absent-minded I am too!”

54. A.sold

B.ordered

C.bought

D.borrowed

55. A.handed

B.put

C.paid

D.borrowed

56. A.milk

B.sugar

C.vegetable

D.book

57. A.friendly

B.kind

C.open

D.strange

58. A.worried about

B.fond of

C.interested in

D.proud of

59. A.some money

B.taxes

C.a visit

D.great attention

60. A.difficult

B.good

C.bad

D.simple

61. A.excite

B.worry

C.interest

D.pay

62. A.need

B.future

C.trouble

D.fact

63. A.famous

B.ordinary

C.sick

D.honest

64. A.In fact

B.For example

C.At once

D.Long, long ago

65. A.among people

B.in passengers

C.in a queue

D.between two

66. A.to

B.in

C.on

D.at

67. A.moment

B.duty

C.turn

D.time

68. A.had remembered

B.had forgotten

C.thought of

D.lost

69. A.telephone number

B.name

C.address

D.age

70. A.turned to

B.looked at

C.listened to

D.passed on

71. A.even worse

B.more worried

C.much better

D.more excited

72. A.check-up

B.talk

C.medicine

D.time

73. A.me

B.your wife

C.patient

D.scientist

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第10题

"Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts," Marion Brando once said. But

for scientists, working out what is going on in an actor's head has always been something of a puzzle. Now, researchers have said actors show different patterns of brain activity depending on whether they are in character or not.

Dr Steven Brown, from McMaster University in Canada, said, "It looks like when you are acting, you are suppressing (压制) yourself; almost like the character is possessing you." Brown and colleagues report how 15 actors, mainly theatre students, were trained to take on a Shakespeare role — either Romeo or Juliet — in a theatre workshop. They were then invited into the laboratory, where their brains were scanned in a series of experiments. Once inside the MRI scanner, the actors were asked to answer a number of questions, such as: would they go to the party？ And would they tell their parents that they had fallen in love？ Each actor was asked to respond to different questions, based on two different premises (前提). In one, they were asked for their own perspective, while in the other, they were asked to respond as though they were either Romeo or Juliet.

The results revealed that the brain activity differed depending on the situation being tested. The team found that when the actors were in character, they use some third-person knowledge or inferences about their character. The team said they also found additional reduction in activity in two regions of the prefrontal cortex (前额皮质) linked to the sense of self, compared with when the actors were responding as themselves.

However, Philip Davis, a professor at the University of Liverpool, was unimpressed by the research, saying acting is about far more than "pretending" to be someone — it involves embodying (体现) the text and language.

1.How did Dr Brown's team conduct their research？（）

A.By scanning the brain activity of some actors

B.By doing a survey with some theatre goers

C.By interviewing some theatre teachers

D.By consulting some experienced researchers

2. Which of the following is Not True according to the research？（）

A. When actors are acting, they are suppressing themselves

B. The subjects (实验的研究对象)were all theatre students

C. The subjects’ brains were scanned in a series of experiments

D. The subjects’ brain activity differed depending on the situation being tested

E. The subjects were asked different questions

3.What is the finding of Dr Brown's research？（）

A.Acting is not as mysterious as people think

B.Actors' brain activity differs when they are acting

C.Acting is far more than pretending to be the character

D.Actors' brain activity is more active when they are in character

4.How did Philip Davis react to the research？（）

A.He supported it

B.He doubted it

C.He explained it

D.He advocated it

5.What is the text mainly about？（）

A.A debate of how the brain functions

B.A play written by Shakespeare

C.A research on the brain activity of actors

D.A report of the cooperation of scientists and actors

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第11题

Had you asked me yesterday,I（）you the money.

A.have lent

B.lent

C.would lend

D.could have lent

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