第1题:
The Winner of a Teaching Award
We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Teaching Award goes to Dr. Marie Dagenais. Dr. Dagenai graduated from Universite de Montreal in 1983. She became an Assistant Professor in the Faculty in 1988. In 2000 she was appointed as Associate Dean, a very important role in the Faculty. In 2001 she was appointed to Associate Professor and was Professor five years later. For many years she has held important roles in the Association of Teaching and Learning, including being President of this Association in 2005一06. Similarly she has been heavily involved with the American Association of Distance Education and was that Association's President during. 2008- 11. She has also held a number of leadership roles in the Commission on Lifelong Education of America, one of the most important organizations in adult education.
This is an incomplete list of some of the countless important roles Dagenai has had
both within the University and beyond in the field of distance education in America. She is a very worthy winner of the year's Teaching Award.
( )26. Marie is the winner of this year's Teaching Award.
( )27. Marie graduated from Yale University in 1983.
( )28. Marie was appointed to Professor in 2006.
( )29. Marie was the president of American Association of Distance Education during 2009-11.
( )30. Marie has done a great contribution to American distance education.
参考答案:26-30:T F T F T
第2题:
Which of the following sentences from the text BEST indicates that the teacher is very considerate?
A. In her calm,motherly voice she said,“By the end of winter,…”(Paragraph 2)
B. With the grace that only experience can bring,she struggled to…(Paragraph 4)
C. …. she still managed to look both helpful and interested. (Paragraph 4)
D. …,she managed to act as though I wasn’t an annoying little girl.(Paragraph 4)
第3题:
3 Mary Hobbes joined the board of Rosh and Company, a large retailer, as finance director earlier this year. Whilst she
was glad to have finally been given the chance to become finance director after several years as a financial
accountant, she also quickly realised that the new appointment would offer her a lot of challenges. In the first board
meeting, she realised that not only was she the only woman but she was also the youngest by many years.
Rosh was established almost 100 years ago. Members of the Rosh family have occupied senior board positions since
the outset and even after the company’s flotation 20 years ago a member of the Rosh family has either been executive
chairman or chief executive. The current longstanding chairman, Timothy Rosh, has already prepared his slightly
younger brother, Geoffrey (also a longstanding member of the board) to succeed him in two years’ time when he plans
to retire. The Rosh family, who still own 40% of the shares, consider it their right to occupy the most senior positions
in the company so have never been very active in external recruitment. They only appointed Mary because they felt
they needed a qualified accountant on the board to deal with changes in international financial reporting standards.
Several former executive members have been recruited as non-executives immediately after they retired from full-time
service. A recent death, however, has reduced the number of non-executive directors to two. These sit alongside an
executive board of seven that, apart from Mary, have all been in post for over ten years.
Mary noted that board meetings very rarely contain any significant discussion of strategy and never involve any debate
or disagreement. When she asked why this was, she was told that the directors had all known each other for so long
that they knew how each other thought. All of the other directors came from similar backgrounds, she was told, and
had worked for the company for so long that they all knew what was ‘best’ for the company in any given situation.
Mary observed that notes on strategy were not presented at board meetings and she asked Timothy Rosh whether the
existing board was fully equipped to formulate strategy in the changing world of retailing. She did not receive a reply.
Required:
(a) Explain ‘agency’ in the context of corporate governance and criticise the governance arrangements of Rosh
and Company. (12 marks)
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第5题:
30. Ruth has no friends. She is a housewife.
第6题:
____________, Miss Brown decided to take a taxi.
A、She thought she must be late
B、Being thought she must be late
C、When thought she must be late
D、Thinking she must be late
第7题:
B
Rachel’s mother,Ruth, has a busy and interesting life. Ruth usually wakes up at 6:30 am. Then she likes to lie in bed for a while and drink coffee. After about half an hour, she gets up and goes outside to work on the trees and flowers around the apart-ment. At about 8:00 she comes back inside and takes a shower. She then dresses and goes to exercise with her friends. When she finishes her exercise, She goes shopping.
She comes home at around 10: 30,cleans the house and cooks lunch. From 12:00 to 12:30,she eats lunch with her husband, Shuka. She then teaches the piano, the organ (风琴),and the accordion(手风琴)lessons to her students, until 7:30 in the evening.when she finishes, she eats dinner with her husband. In the evening, she likes to play cards or go dancing. At about 11:30 pm, she and her husband usually go to bed.
根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)。
( )26. After she wakes up, Ruth gets up at once.
第8题:
Andrea Jung, the chairman and CEO of Avon, is sitting in her office on the 27th floor of Avon’s New York headquarters considering an obvious question: What does it mean to be the first woman to lead the beauty products company in its 115-year history?
"I guess it helps,' she says wryly(表情冷漠地)."You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that." She's joking, of course, but there's some truth to what she says.
Glamorous, poised and always impeccably (无瑕疵的) dressed, Jung knows what women want and how to sell it to them.That’s what has made her one of the most successful CEOs----male or female----in recent years.And that’s what placed her at number four in the ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, an annual survey by “Fortune.” The top on the list is Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Pachard Company, a US computer hardware company.The oldest child of Chinese immigrants, Junggrew up speaking both English and Mandarin Chinese.She received a BA in English literature from Princeton University in 1979.After graduation, Jung joined themanagement trainee program at Bloomingdale’s (a world-renowned department store).She later joined I.Magnin (the premiere retail (零售) house in the US), in San Francisco, becoming senior vice president and general merchandise manager.In 1993 Jung became a consultant (顾问) for Avon, famous for selling beauty products door to door through sales representatives known as “Avon Ladies”.When Jung, now 43, took over Avon in November 1999, the company was in deep trouble.During the greatest economic boom in history, its stock was crumbling (崩溃).As fewer women wanted to go out onto the streets selling Avon products, its sales decreased.But Jung surprised a lot of people.Over the past 20 months she has overhauled (检查) nearly everything about the way Avon does business: How it advertises, manufactures, packages, and even how it sells its products.Most surprising, she has done it not by abandoning the seemingly outdated Avon Lady, but by reviving (使再流行) her.Under Jung, more Avon Ladies are signing up than ever before.6 Since Jung joined Avon, sales have risen by 30 per cent, profits by 40 per cent and the stock price has dramatically improved.And now, Avon is the second largest firm in the US headed by a woman, after Hewlett-Packard.
1.What is the truth to what Andrea Jung said?
A.A male CEO has not the ability to try on a new mascara.
B.A female CEO has to be more careful about her appearance.
C.A female CEO has to try on a new mascara each day.
D.When at home, a female CEO always tries on a new mascara
2.Which one is not true, according to the context?
A.The chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Pachard Company is a woman.
B.It seems that "Fortune" is the name of a magazine.
C.Andrea Jung is the chairman and CEO of a IB computer hardware company.
D.Avon is a beauty products company
3.What did Jung do after she graduated from Princeton University?
A.She became a trainer at Bloomingdale's.
B.She became a member of an American retail house.
C.She became president of an American retail house.
D.She became general manager of Bloomingdale's
4.What happened to Avon before Jung became CEO?
A.The stock price of Avon was Killing.
B.The sales volume increased dramatically.
C.Avon hired more women to sell its beauty products.
D.The stock price of Avon was rising
5.What measure did Jung take to make Avon a profit-making company?
A.She gave up Avon Lady that is no longer popular.
B.She did much research and obtained much information.
C.She employed more women as Avon Ladies
D.Both B) and C)
第9题:
Passage Five
Helen Keller was born a healthy normal child in Alabama in 1880. However, an illness with a high fever struck her when she was still a child. She became deaf, blind, and unable to speak. For little Helen, the world was suddenly a dark and frightening place. She was wild and stubborn. everal years later a miracle came into Helen's life when Anne Sullivan, a strong and loving person, became Helen's teacher. Miss Sullivan's teaching changed the child into a responsible human being. Through her help Helen Keller learned to communicate with those around her, and as she grew older, others benefited from her unique insights and courage. Miss Keller died in 1968, but her spirit lives on. It lives on in her articles and books and in the stories of people who were fortunate enough to meet her during her lifetime.
51. Why was Helen Keller blind, deaf and unable to speak?
A. Because she'd been born that way.
B. Because a horse had kicked her.
C. Because she'd had a very high fever.
D. Because she'd had a bad fall.
答案为 C。根据题干找到第二句,However,an illness with a high fever struck her 作出该项选择。
第10题: