Mr. Morgan can be very sad ______ , though in public he is extremely cheerful.A.by himself
Mr. Morgan can be very sad ______ , though in public he is extremely cheerful.
A.by himself
B.in person
C.in private
D.as individual
Mr. Morgan can be very sad ______ , though in public he is extremely cheerful.
A.by himself
B.in person
C.in private
D.as individual
第1题
Peter: Excuse me, are you Mr. Henry Smith?
Henry: Oh, you must be Peter.
Peter: () Mr. Smith.
Henry: Nice to meet you, too.
Peter: How was your journey?
Henry: ()
Peter: Our car is in the parking lot. Shall we go to the hotel first?
Henry: Yes. I really need a good rest. And, Peter, could you do me a favor?
Peter: Yes, of course.
Henry: I wonder if you could help me take my suitcase and box to the car. ()
Peter: My pleasure, sir. (Trying to lift the box) You've put the whole of America into your box. They are really very heavy, ha-ha! Please stay here while I get a cart.
Henry: By the way, do you know where I can get mints here? It seems there's no store around.
Peter: I know where the store is. Would you like me to get some mints for you?
Henry: ()
Peter comes back, and they walk out of the gate.
Henry: Oh, it's good to see the sun! I'm always worried about Beijing's haze.
Peter: Yes, () That'll be a nice change, won't it? A big improvement on what we've been having.
Henry: That's great! I think all this sunshine is just too good to be true!
选择合适的单词或短语完成句子。
A. Pretty good, but a little tiring.
B. It seems to be clearing up.
C. They are too heavy for me to carry.
D. That's very kind of you.
E. Nice to meet you.
第2题
听力原文:W: Hello, Mr. Black's office.
M: Hello, may I speak with the educational advisor?
W: I'm sorry. Mr. Black's not here this morning, I'm his secretary. May I help you?
M: Yes, I would like some information about English-language schools in the United States. I'm graduating from Kuwait University this year and I want to study for my master's degree in America.
W: Have you been accepted by an American university yet?
M: Yes, I've just been accepted at the University of Chicago, but the university wrote me that I have to take an intensive English course before entering their program.
W: Well... there are many schools in the U.S. that offer English courses. Perhaps you should come down and talk to Mr. Black.
M: Ok. Could you make an appointment for me?
W: Yes, would nine o'clock tomorrow be all right?
M: No, I'm sorry. I can't come then. I have an exam at that time. Could I come the day after tomorrow at ten o'clock?
W: Yes, that will be fine, I think. May I have your name and phone number?
M: Sure, my name is Suleiman Mohammed and my phone number is 6536667.
W: Thank you, Mr. Suleiman. We'll see you Wednesday, June ninth, at ten o'clock.
M: Thank you. Good-bye.
W: Good-bye.
(20)
A.Mr. Black's secretary.
B.Mr. Suleiman.
C.The educational advisor.
D.A teacher at the University of Chicago.
第3题
Doctor: Have you lost weight recently, Mr. Bush? Bush: No, doctor. Actually, ______.
A.I've become three pounds fatter
B.I've got three pounds weight
C.I've added to three pounds
D.I've put on three pounds
第4题
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
It has been a wretched few weeks for America's celebrity bosses. AIG's Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has been dramatically ousted from the firm through which he dominated global insurance for decades. At Morgan Stanley a mutiny is forcing Philip Purcell, a boss used to getting his own way, into an increasingly desperate campaign to save his skin. At Boeing, Harry Stonecipher was called out of retirement to lead the scandal-hit firm and raise ethical standards, only to commit a lapse of his own, being sacked (it seems) for sending e-mails to a lover who was also an employee. Curly Fiorina was the most powerful woman in corporate America until a few weeks ago, when Hewlett-Packard (HP) sacked her for poor performance. The fate of Bernie Ebbers is much grimmer. The once high-profile boss of World-Com could well spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction last month on fraud charges.
In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same, welcome conclusion: that the imbalance in corporate power of the late 1990s, when many bosses were allowed to behave like absolute monarchs, has been corrected. Alas, appearances can be deceptive. While each of these recent tales of chief-executive woe is a sign of progress, none provides much evidence that the crisis in American corporate governance is yet over. In fact, each of these cases is an example of failed, not successful, governance.
At the very least, the boards of both Morgan Stanley and HP were far too slow to ad dress their bosses' inadequacies. The record of the Boeing board in picking chiefs prone to ethical lapses is too long to be dismissed as mere bad luck. The fall of Messrs Green berg and Ebbers, meanwhile, highlights the growing role of government—and, in particular, of criminal prosecutors—in holding bosses to account: a development that is, at best, a mixed blessing. The Sarbanes-Oxley act, passed in haste following the Enron and WorldCom scandals, is imposing heavy costs on American companies; whether these are exceeded by any benefits is the subject of fierce debate and many not be known for years.
Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney-general, is the leading advocate and practitioner of an energetic "law enforcement" approach. He may be right that the recent burst of punitive actions has been good for the economy, even if (as is surely the case) some of his own decisions have been open to question. Where he is undoubtedly right is in arguing that corporate America has done a lamentable job of governing itself. As he says in an article in the Wall Street Journal this week: "The honour code among CEOS didn't work. Board oversight didn't work. Self-regulation was a complete failure." AIG's board, for example, did nothing about Mr. Greenberg's use of murky accounting, or the conflicts posed by his use of offshore vehicles, or his constant bullying of his critics—let alone the firm's alleged participation in bid-rigging—until Mr. Spitzer threatened a criminal prosecution that might have destroyed the firm.
The phrase "save his skin"(Paragraph 1) denotes
A.protect skin.
B.use cosmetics.
C.escape misery.
D.save energy.
第5题
In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same, welcome conclusion: that the imbalance in corporate power of the late 1990s, when many bosses were allowed to behave like absolute monarchs, has been corrected. Alas, appearances can be deceptive. While each of these recent tales of chief-executive woe is a sign of progress, none provides much evidence that the crisis in American corporate governance is yet over. In fact, each of these cases is an example of failed, not successful, governance.
At the very least, the boards of both Morgan Stanley and HP were far too slow to address their bosses' inadequacies. The record of the Boeing board in picking chiefs prone to ethical lapses is too long to be dismissed as mere bad luck. The fall of Messrs Greenberg and Ebbers, meanwhile, highlights the growing role of government—and, in particular, of criminal prosecutors—in holding bosses to account a development that is, at best, a mixed blessing. The Sarbanes-Oxley act, passed in haste following the Enron and WorldCom scandals, is imposing heavy costs on American companies; whether these are exceeded by any benefits is the subject of fierce debate and may not be known for years.
Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney-general, is the leading advocate and practitioner of an energetic "law enforcement" approach. He may be right that the recent burst of punitive actions has been good for the economy, even if some of his own decisions have been open to question. Where he is undoubtedly right is in arguing that corporate America has done a lamentable job of governing itself. As he says in all article in the Wall Street Journal this week: "The honour code among CEOs didn't work. Board oversight didn't work. Self-regulation was a complete failure." AIG's board, for example, did nothing about Mr. Greenberg's use of murky accounting, or the conflicts posed by his use of offshore vehicles, or his constant bullying of his critics—let alone the firm's alleged participation in bid-rigging—until Mr. Spitzer threatened a criminal prosecution that might have destroyed the firm.
In the opening paragraph, the author introduce his topic by
A.citing America's celebrity bosses.
B.listing a number of America's celebrity bosses.
C.depicting the plight of some reputed American bosses.
D.writing some most powerful persons in American firms.
第6题
The standard retort to such arguments is that outsourcing abroad is too small to matter much. So far fewer than lm American service-sector jobs have been lost to off-shoring. Forrester Research forecasts that by 2015 a total of 3.4m jobs in services will have moved abroad, but that is tiny compared with the 30m jobs destroyed and created in America every year. The trouble is that such studies allow only for the sorts of jobs that are already being off-shored, when in reality the proportion of jobs that can be moved will rise as IT advances and education improves in emerging economies.
Alan Blinder, an economist at Princeton University, believes that most economists are underestimating the disruptive effects of off-shoring, and that in future two to three times as many service jobs will be susceptible to off-shoring as in manufacturing. This would imply that at least 30% of all jobs might be at risk. In practice the number of jobs off-shored to China or India is likely to remain fairly modest. Even so, the mere threat that they could be shifted will depress wages:
Moreover, says Mr. Blinder, education offers no protection. Highly skilled accountants, radiologists or computer programmers now have to compete with electronically delivered competition from abroad, whereas humble taxi drivers, janitors and crane operators remain safe from off-shoring. This may help to explain why the real median wage of American graduates hat fallen by 6% since 2000, a bigger decline than in average wages.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the pay gap between low-paid, low-skilled workers and high-paid, high-skilled workers widened significantly. But since then, according to a study by David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Melissa Kearney, in America, Britain and Germany workers at the bottom as well as at the top have done better than those in the middle-income group. Office cleaning cannot be done by workers in India. It is the easily standardised skilled job? in the middle, such as accounting, that are now being squeezed hardest. A study by Bradford Jensen and Lori Kletzer, at the Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C., confirms that workers in tradable services that are exposed to foreign competition tend to be more skilled than workers in non-tradable services and tradable manufacturing industries.
To offshore services that were once non-tradable results from ______.
A.the blue-collar job market
B.the geographic location of the Underdeveloped worlc1
C.the fierce competition among skilled workers
D.the dive of telecoms fee
第7题
The study, by Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, followed thousands of smokers and nonsmokers for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003, studying them as part of a large network of relatives, co-workers, neighbors, friends and friends of friends.
It was a time when the percentage of adult smokers in the United States fell to 21 percent from 45 percent. As the investigators watched the smokers and their social networks, they saw what they said was a striking effect—smokers had formed little social clusters and, as the years went by, entire clusters of smokers were stopping en masse. So were clusters of clusters that were only loosely connected. Dr. Christakis described watching the vanishing clusters as like lying on your back in a field, looking up at stars that were burning out. "It's not like one little star turning off at a time," he said,"Whole constellations are blinking off at once. "
As cluster after cluster of smokers disappeared, those that remained were pushed to the margins of society, isolated, with fewer friends, fewer social connections. "Smokers used to be the center of the party," Dr. Fowler said, "but now they've become wallflowers." "We've known smoking was bad for your physical health," he said,"But this shows it also is bad for your social health. Smokers are likely to drive friends away. "
"There is an essential public health message," said Richard Suzman, director of the office of behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging, which financed the study. "Obviously, people have to take responsibility for their behavior," Mr. Suzman said. "But a social environment," he added, "can just overpower free will. " With smoking, that can be a good thing, researchers noted. But there also is a sad side. As Dr. Steven Sehroeder of the University of California, San Francisco, pointed out in an editorial accompanying the paper, "a risk of the marginalization of smoking is that it further isolates the group of people with the highest rate of smoking—persons with mental illness, problems with substance abuse, or both. "
Which of the following statements is true according to the opening paragraph?
A.Smokers have been prevented from quit smoking for years.
B.It is rare that smokers make a decision to quit.
C.It is preferable to abstain from smoking in groups.
D.Nonsmoker could be affected because of the ripple effects.
第8题
A、Thank you, Ms. Lin. I’ve come to see your packing for our woolen gloves.
B、Hello, my name is John Taylor, but just call me John.
C、This is John Taylor.
第9题
The description of Mr. Kozeny's case shows
A.corruption will not be granted bail.
B.foreigners can be difficultly extradited to their own country.
C.Mr. Kozeny will be extradited to Czech.
D.extradition can be easier for people like him.
第10题
- Can I speak to Mr. Rose?
- _________ Can I take a message for him?
A.This is he.
B.I am afraid he is not in.
C.Who are you?
D.Sorry. Do you know him?