问题:单选题The forum’s official theme this year “shaping the post-crisis world” ______.A will be handed over to the coming G20 summitB proves impracticalC is supported by the achievementD proves encouraging
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问题:问答题Practice 1 20世纪,人类取得了巨大的成就,其中科学技术的进步也许是最大的成就。可以预料,在21世纪,科学技术的迅速发展和高科技产业的兴起,将推动世界经济继续由农业经济向工业经济、进而向知识经济嬗变。世界正在发生深刻的变化:经济与科学技术的结合与日俱增;世界经济的重组加快步伐;经济繁荣不仅仅取决于资源和资本的总量,而且直接有赖于技术知识和信息的积累和应用。创新是新时代的主题,对于世界的社会经济发展至关重要。
问题:问答题Practice 3 :宣传介绍
问题:单选题The Netherlands’ highest rates in Europe of babies dying during or just after birth ______.A are the reseason why the research was carried outB have something to do with their high rates of home birthsC suggest hospital birth is a better choiceD have changed the government’s attitude towards home birth
问题:问答题Passage 6 They weren’t exactly Hollywood’s idea of a power couple: Disney CEO Robert Iger, once derided as a “suit,” and studio chief Richard Cook, who got his start as a monorail operator at Disneyland. But last week Iger and Cook dropped a bomb bigger than any of the explosions you’ll see in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” Just weeks after the record-smashing release of the sequel—soon to be the highest-grossing film in Disney history—Cook fired studio president Nina Jacobson and announced Disney was slashing 20 percent of its studio staff and cutting the number of films it makes each year by a third. As usual, Hollywood thought it was all about them. “People are concerned that if Disney is cutting back on live-action movies, then what are other companies going to do,” says Jim Wiatt, chief executive of the William Morris Agency. The unflappable Iger’s response: “We’re focused on our own issues and strategies. If it has an effect on the industry, so be it. But it really is about us.” Not bad for two guys who were considered perpetual bridesmaids. Iger and Cook both spent years toiling in the shadow of larger-than-life CEO Michael Eisner, who ran Disney like his personal kingdom. When Eisner’s reign came to a Shakespearean end after a shareholder revolt led by Walt Disney’s nephew, Iger found himself having to audition for his boss’s job. Cook, who came up through the marketing ranks, had to endure similar Tinseltown tongue-clucking from those who assumed the affable bear of a guy didn’t have teeth. No one’s saying Iger and Cook aren’t “sexy” anymore. In short order, Iger made up with shareholders and Pixar honcho Steve Jobs, who’ d had an epic battle with Eisner, even persuading Jobs to sell the animation company to Disney. Cook, meanwhile, had been turning theme-park rides into movies and getting Disney back to its family roots. “Dick and Bob go by their own beat,” says Oren Aviv, who was promoted to president of production last week. “They’ re not interested in fanfare or press or what other people think.” (Mostly not interested: Iger did tell NEWSWEEK once, “I hate being called a suit.”) What people think now is that Disney is setting the pace for the industry. The film business has been on shaky ground: U. S. box office is flat, DVD sales have stalled and the cost of making movies is soaring. Family films seem like the only sure bets these days, and Disney is in a prime position to meet the demand. “Disney is the only real brand name in the movie business around the world,” says Cook. In fact, Iger is taking the name “Disney World” quite literally. He spoke to NEWSWEEK Friday after flying home from a five-day trip to Asia, where he attended the stage premiere of “The Lion King” in Shanghai. His immediate goal is to build the Disney brand in China and India. Iger has also aggressively embraced technological advances, podcasting and Webcasting episodes of “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives,” hits on Disney’s ABC network. “I don’t see technology as a threat,” he says. “Technology allows us to be in step with the consumer.” All of which sounds pretty good to Wall Street. Last week’s cuts will save the company between $ 90 million and $100 million a year, according to Cook, and while that wasn’t enough to boost its stock price, it sure doesn’t hurt investor relations. “Iger has stated his goals and stuck to [them]; investors like that predictability,” says analyst Jason Helfstein of CIBC World Markets. “He’s widely regarded in a positive light.” Ironic, since he wasn’t supposed to have the job in the first place. 1. What was the “bomb” that Iger and Cook dropped in Disney Company? 2. What contributions have Iger and Cook done to Disney Company? 3. Why does the author say that “the film business has been on shaky ground”? (Para. 5) 4. Why do people believe now that Disney is setting the pace for the industry? (Para. 5)
问题:问答题Practice 1 In general, investment in the United States will be in the form of a subsidiary. It is possible for a non-U. S. corporation to operate a branch office in the United States, but there are significant disadvantages to a branch, particularly with respect to its tax treatment. Branches of non-U. S. corporations are not subject to federal regulation or registration requirements. However, each state will require a “foreign” corporation to “qualify” before “doing business” in that state. A corporation will be considered “foreign” if it is organized under the laws of another country or another state, and so this is not a requirement imposed only on non-U. S. investors. “Doing business” is a technical term that implies a substantial presence in the state. This would include the ownership or leasing of real property, the maintenance of a stock of goods for local sale; employees and the like. Selling products to local customers, either directly or through an independent sales representative or distributor, would not in itself constitute “doing business.” The states actually exercise little control over the qualification process other than to ensure that the qualifying entity’s name is not confusingly similar to an already registered entity and that all registration fees and taxes are paid (qualification is basically a form of taxation). In most states, qualification for a non-U.S. corporation consists of a relatively easy application, a registration fee, and a notarized or legalized copy of the corporation’s articles of incorporation English or a certified translation).
问题:问答题Practice 7 中国的传统节日文化内涵丰富,历史悠久,是我们中华民族灿烂文化的重要组成部分。我国古代的这些节日,大多和天文、历法、数学,以及后来划分出的节气有关。大部分节日在先秦时期,就已初露端倪。节日的风俗活动和原始祭拜、迷信禁忌有关;神话传奇故事为节日子添了几分浪漫色彩;还有宗教也对节日有冲击与影响;一些历史人物被赋予永恒的纪念渗入节日,使中国的节日有了深沉的历史感。节日发展到唐代,已经从原始祭拜、禁忌神秘的气氛中解放出来,转为娱乐礼仪型,成为真正的佳节良辰。
问题:问答题Practice 4 京剧中的“生、旦、净、丑”其实不过是角色分类。“生”是男性正面角色,“旦”是女性正面角色,“净”是性格鲜明的男性配角,“丑”是幽默滑稽或反面角色。每种角色又有表明身份的脸谱、扮相等,只要演员一上场,你一望便知。 在人的脸上涂上某种颜色以象征这个人的性格和品质、角色和命运,是京剧的一大特点,也是理解剧情的关键。简单地讲,红脸含有褒义,代表忠勇;黑脸为中性,代表猛智;蓝脸和绿脸也为中性,代表草莽英雄;黄脸和白脸含贬义,代表凶诈;金脸和银脸代表神秘、神妖。
问题:问答题Practice 4 知识和技术创新是人类经济、社会发展的重要动力源泉。中国将致力于建设国家创新体系,通过营造良好的环境,推进知识创新、技术创新和体制创新,这是中国实现跨世纪发展的必由之路。中国政府支持科学家在国家需求和科学前沿的结合上开展基础研究,尊重科学家独特的敏感和创造精神,鼓励他们进行“好奇心驱动的研究”。在未来50年甚至更长的时期里,中国的发展将在很大程度上依赖于今天基础研究和高技术研究的创新成就,依赖于这些研究所必然孕育的优秀人才。
问题:单选题We may infer from the second paragraph that ______.A gas price has no influence on drivers.B Toyota Yaris is not welcome in Manhattan.C Nissan Versa has already been well selling for its six-speed transmission.D Honda Fit is more economical than Chevy Suburban SUV.
问题:单选题We can conclude from the passage that “binge drinking” means ______.A a period of excessive indulgence in drinkingB group drinking in the streetC drinking for love affairD mixed strong alcohol drinking
问题:单选题The demonstrations ______.A which once supported Andry Rajoelina have been replaced by the ones against himB are spreading nationwideC are being cracked down by the militaryD show most people in Madagascar don’t accept the new president
问题:问答题Practice 4 :国际关系
问题:问答题◆Topic 9: Primary Functions of University Education Questions for Reference: 1. Most people think that teachers should teach students how to judge right and wrong and how to behave well. Please discuss this view. 2. Why do you think lots of teachers pay much more attention to teaching students academic subjects than other aspects? 3. What’s your opinion of the primary functions of university education? Why do you think so?
问题:问答题Passage 3 “Clearly there is here a problem of the division of knowledge, which is quite analogous to, and at least as important as, the problem of the division of labour,” Friedrich Hayek told the London Economic Club in 1936. What Mr. Hayek could not have known about knowledge was that 70 years later weblogs, or blogs, would be pooling it into a vast, virtual conversation. That economists are typing as prolifically as anyone speaks both to the value of the medium and to the worth they put on their time. Like millions of others, economists from circles of academia and public policy spend hours each day writing for nothing. The concept seems at odds with the notion of economists as intellectual instruments trained in the maximisation of utility or profit. Yet the demand is there: some of their blogs get thousands of visitors daily, often from people at influential institutions like the IMF and the Federal Reserve. One of the most active “econobloggers” is Brad DeLong, of the University of California, Berkeley, whose site, delong.typepad.com,, features a morning-coffee videocast and an afternoon-tea audiocast in which he holds forth on a spread of topics from the Treasury to Trotsky. So why do it? “It’s a place in the intellectual influence game,” Mr. DeLong replies (by e-mail, naturally). For prominent economists, that place can come with a price. Time spent on the internet could otherwise be spent on traditional publishing or collecting consulting fees. Mr. DeLong caps his blogging at 90 minutes a day. His only blog revenue comes from selling advertising links to help cover the cost of his servers, which handle more than 20,000 visitors daily. Gary Becker, a Nobel-prize winning economist, and Richard Posner, a federal circuit judge and law professor, began a joint blog in 2004. The pair, colleagues at the University-of Chicago, believed that their site, becker-posner-blog.com, would permit “instantaneous pooling (and hence correction, refinement, and amplification) of the ideas and opinions, facts and images, reportage and scholarship, generated by bloggers.” The practice began as an educational tool for Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard and a former chairman of George Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. His site, gregmankiw.blogspot.com, started as a group e-mail sent to students, with commentary on articles and new ideas. But the market for his musings grew beyond the classroom, and a blog was the solution. “It’s a natural extension of my day job—to engage in intellectual discourse about economics,” Mr. Mankiw says. With professors spending so much time blogging for no payment, universities might wonder whether this detracts from their value. Although there is no evidence of a direct link between blogging and publishing productivity, a new study by E. Han Kim and Adair Morse, of the University of Michigan, and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, shows that the internet’s ability to spread knowledge beyond university classrooms has diminished the competitive edge that elite schools once held. Top universities once benefited from having clusters of star professors. The study showed that during the 1970s, an economics professor from a random university, outside the top 25 programmes, would double his research productivity by moving to Harvard. The strong relationship between individual output and that of one’s colleagues weakened in the 1980s, and vanished by the end of the 1990s. The faster flow of information and the waning importance of location—which blogs exemplify—have made it easier for economists from any university to have access to the best brains in their field. That anyone with an internet connection can sit in on a virtual lecture from Mr. DeLong means that his ideas move freely beyond the boundaries of Berkeley, creating a welfare gain for professors and the public. Universities can also benefit in this part of the equation. Although communications technology may have made a dent in the productivity edge of elite schools, productivity is hardly the only measure of success for a university. Prominent professors with popular blogs are good publicity, and distance in academia is not dead: the best students will still seek proximity to the best minds. When a top university hires academics, it enhances the reputations of the professors, too. That is likely to make their blogs more popular. Self-interest lives on, as well. Not all economics bloggers toil entirely for nothing. Mr. Mankiw frequently plugs his textbook. Brad Setser, of Roubini Global Economics, an economic- analysis website, is paid to spend two to three hours or so each day blogging as a part of his job. His blog, rgemonitor.com/blog/setser, often concentrates on macroeconomic topics, notably China. Each week, 3,000 people read it—more than bought his last book. “I certainly have not found a comparable way to get my ideas out. It allows me to have a voice I would not otherwise get,” Mr. Setser says. Blogs have enabled economists to turn their microphones into megaphones. In this model, the value of influence is priceless. 1. Why does the author mention Friedrich Hayek and his famous quotation in the first paragraph? 2. Who are “econobloggers”? What kind of influence do they have? 3. According to E. Han Kim and Adair Morse, why has the internet “diminished the competitive edge that elite schools once held”? (Para. 5) 4. Paraphrase the sentence: “Blogs have enabled economists to turn their microphones into megaphones”. (Para. 9)
问题:单选题What can NOT be concluded from Brown’s visit to the US last month?A Brown was not warmly welcomed.B Obama is coming to make up for the cold reception that Brown got.C There was no formal news conference.D Brown made a speech on the American Congress.
问题:单选题Dr Iyaid Sarraj ______.A believes only a small proportion of them are interested in militant activityB thinks the generation that saw their fathers beaten by Israeli troops would grow more violentC senses more Palestinians strengthen their view that only violence can fight back IsraelD believes his rich experience will make treatment easier
问题:问答题◆Topic 3: Will petty criminals get light punishment? Questions for Reference: 1. A new prosecution guideline was recently released: people convicted of petty crimes may get light punishment if they are minors, the elderly people, and people who have slightly breached the law because of poverty. What do you think of this new law? 2. This new law is said to be a humane practice and it will help them put their lives back in order and better serve their families. Do you think it can achieve its end? 3. Some people think that if petty crimes are not punished in a timely way, more serious consequences will follow. What do you think of this argument?
问题:问答题Practice 6 :科普科技
问题:单选题It can be learned from the passage that the British author Salman Rushdie ______.A lived in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard for a decadeB had spent the decade living in Scotland Yard until 1998C lived in hiding in New York for one decadeD had moved from place to place since the publication of The Satanic Verses