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In a few years an intelligent computer will certainly be an____diagnostic.
A . indirect
B . inseparable
C . indisputable
D . indispensable
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It （）quite a few years （）the accused was declared innocent and set free．
A . was；since
B . is；that
C . will be；when
D . was；before
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After logging into a router and typing in a few show commands, you press the up arrow key. What will this do?（）
A . It will recall the previous command line
B . It will move the cursor one line up
C . It will redisplay the current command line
D . It will capitalize the command line
E . None of the above
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After stopping for a few minutes, the bus moved（）to its next stop.
A . forward
B . off
C . with
D . o
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The author is most concerned with the possibility that after a few decades__________．
A . the supply of investment capital is likely to decrease considerably
B . consumers’appetite for new products or services will lessen tremendously
C . fortunes will be made and lost many times over
D . most human interactions can be easily monitored
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Many western students go on a gap year after finishing high school.()
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The Cold War continued for only a few years.( )
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After a few weeks of classes, I noticed there were many students who spoke much better than I did. I began to feel (intimidating/intimidated).
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Jack isn&39;t ______ an actor, although he is tall and handsome and has played a dozen roles in the past few years．
尽管杰克又高又帅，并在过去的几年中演过十几个角色，但他算不上个出色的演员。
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听力原文：M: Mary worked as a secretary for three years. Then she became a reporter. After that she began teaching in a high school.
W: I know. And she has been doing nothing else ever since.
Q: What is Mary's occupation now？
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A．Secretary.
B．Reporter.
C．Teacher.
D．Shop assistant.
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Why does few. Japanese collectors buy any works of art？
A．Because they are men of moods.
B．Because they find few works of art can satisfy them.
C．Because they are discouraged by the 1990s crash.
D．Because they are so rich that they need not make profit from works of art.
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According to the author, distributed systems have been with us for quite a few years and therefore have reached their final stage of development.
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Many Japanese students finish their compulsory courses in three years because
A． they want to get married.
B． they want to stay at home.
C． they want to make money.
D． they want to study abroad.
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It is well known that a child does not reach emotional security______ a good many years after physical maturity.
A．for
B．during
C．as long as
D．until
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Every one of us hoped that he would _____ after a few days’ treatment in the hospital.
A．pick up
B．make up
C．take up
D．look up
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A record number of Japanese people worked themselves to death last year despite a government campaign to ease the country's notorious office hours.
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After resting for a few days, the British adventurer set off once again _____ his friends’ attempts to dissuade him.
as opposed to
in contrast to
in spite of
instead of
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听力原文：M: Honeybee Foods Corporation, engaged in fast food industry, has been developing rapidly and steadily in the Philippines these years, but few could imagine that it was started in 1975 as an ice cream parlor owned and run by the Chinese- Filipino Tan family. After the company President Tom Tan Caktiong (better known as TTC) realized that events triggered by the 1977 oil crisis would double the price of ice cream, Honeybee had diversified into sandwiches. The Tan's hamburger, made to a home-style. Philippine recipe, quickly became a customer favorite. A year later, the family incorporated as Honeybee Foods Corporation.
The company's name came from TTC'S vision of employees working happily and efficiently, like bees in a hive. Friendliness pervaded the organization and became one of the “Five Fs” that summed up Honeybee's philosophy. The others were flavorful food, a fun atmosphere, flexibility in catering to customer needs, and a focus on families (children flocked to the company's bee mascot whenever it appeared in public). The company's value proposition offered all of these to customers at an affordable price. The recipe of the local Filipino flavor and sound operation and management enabled the corporation to grow rapidly. Up to 1985, Honeybee had 28 chains in the Philippines.
The domestic business success of the corporation made President TTC get greatly interested in international expansion. Since 1985, Honeybee started seven chain stores respectively in Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, and Indonesia. However, except for the four extremely successful chains in Brunei, the other three all failed in the end. The major causes for the business failure included lack of full exchange and communication among different divisions, some problems in the organizational structure, and too fast development of international business.
Honeybee had opened a large number of chains in a short period of time, but owing to limited management ability, many of these chains were unprofitable. The corporation should take the development step by step and make sure that each new chain was profitable. Only in this way could the corporation guarantee sustainable development.
&8226;Look at the notes about an enterprise.
&8226;Some information is missing.
&8226;You will hear part of a presentation by the International Manager of the company.
&8226;For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space, using one or two words.
&8226;You will hear the presentation twice.
Honeybee Foods Corporation
Honeybee started originally as (16) an ______ parlor
The company's name came from (17) TTC' s vision of employees working
like ______
Honeybee's philosophy (18) “______”
Up to 1985, Honeybee had (19) ______ chains in the Philippines
In its international expansion, the successful chains were in (20) ______
The chain store of Honeybee in Singapore was (21) ______
In the future Honeybee should (22) ______ step by step.
(16)
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After World War Ⅱ the glorification of an ever-larger GNP formed the basis of a new materialism, which became a sacred obligation for all Japanese governments, businesses and trade unions. Anyone who mentioned the undesirable by-products of rapid economic growth was treated as a heretic. Consequently, everything possible was done to make conditions easy for the manufacturers. Few dared question the wisdom of discharging untreated waste into the nearest water body or untreated smoke into the atmosphere. This silence was maintained by union leaders as well as by most of the country's radicals; except for a few isolated voices, no one protested. An insistence on treatment of the various effluents would have necessitated expenditures on treatment equipment that in turn would have given rise to higher operating costs. Obviously, this would have meant higher prices for Japanese goods, and ultimately fewer sales and lower industrial growth and GNP.
The pursuit of nothing but economic growth is illustrated by the response of the Japanese government to the American educational mission that visited Japan in 1947. After surveying Japan's educational program, the Americans suggested that the Japanese fill in their curriculum gap by creating departments in chemical and sanitary engineering. Immediately, chemical engineering departments were established in all the country's universities and technical institutions. In contrast, the recommendation to form. sanitary engineering departments was more or less ignored, because they could bring no profit. By 1960, only two second-rate universities, Kyoto and Hokkaido, were interested enough to open such departments.
The reluctance to divert funds from production to conservation is explanation enough for a certain degree of pollution, but the situation was made worse by the type of technology the Japanese chose to adopt for their industrial expansion. For the most part, they simply copied American industrial methods. This meant that methods originally designed for use in a country that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific with lots of air and water to use as sewage receptacles were adopted for an area a fraction of the size. Moreover, the Japanese diet was much more dependent on water as a source of fish and as an input in the irrigation of rice; consequently discharged wastes built up much more rapidly, in the food chain.
Notes: heretic 异教徒。sanitary 卫生的。for the most part 基本上。receptacle 储存地。
According to the text, no measures were resorted to in environmental protection after World War Ⅱ in Japan because _____.
A．they were reckoned to be unnecessary.
B．they would check economic development.
C．no one was much interested in them.
D．pollution was held as inevitable at that time.
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听力原文：W: Jason worked as a secretary for three years. Then he became a newspaperman. After that he started writing novels.
M: I know. And he has been doing nothing else ever since.
What is the man's occupation now？
A．He's a secretary.
B．He's a novelist.
C．He's a newspaperman.
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听力原文：M: Have you heard that in another few years you may be able to buy a car that changes colors every day to match the outfit you are wearing？
W: Oh, please be serious! I suppose they will change shapes as well. If you want a big car to take all your friends camping, I suppose you'll just be able to snap your fingers and make it happen. Or if you want a sporty two-seater, you could just tell the car what you wanted, and it would do the rest. Is that how it will work？
M: No, I am serious. They have found a way to alter the surface of metals so that they can reflect different colors just by passing a small amount of electricity over them.
W: Oh, I see. So anything that touches the outside of the car will get a shock. That sounds lovely.
M: It's only a tiny amount of electricity. It wouldn't be enough to shock anybody.
W: Well, it sounds pretty difficult to believe.
M: Yes, it's quite amazing. The important thing you have to remember is that the color of an object is really just an illusion created by the way light bounces off its surface. Engineers have been able to produce a car that changes colors at the touch of a button by slightly rearranging the position of the particles on the surface of the metal.
W: It sounds so amazing. But I guess it could be possible.
M: It is possible today. The only problem is that it is very expensive. To produce a car with a surface that changed colors would cost almost twice as much as what a regular car costs. For that much money you could just by the car and have it repainted twenty times, so it's not very practical yet.
W: Yes, but in other ways it could be more practical. If you took your car to be painted twenty times, it would use quite a bit of polluting chemicals, and it would take a long time.
M: You're right there, but how many people really get their car repainted that many time？
W: Hmm, I suppose you're right, but I sure would love to have my car match my outfit every day.
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A．She is impressed.
B．She is doubtful.
C．She is shocked.
D．She is surprised.
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In the last few years, our company__ a great deal of attention to building up company culture（）
A．pays
B．would pay
C．is paying
D．has been paying
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Within a few years, all participants become decent ______.
A．music
B．musician
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_______ we will be ______ compete with the world’s strongest football team in a few years’ time.
A．On my money, at a position to
B．For my dough, be enable to
C．With my money, ready to
D．For my money, in a position to
