Who of the hundreds of people knew that Charlotte had played the most important part of all？

听力原文： Of all the methods of discovering new ideas, Disney during the Eisner years had one of the most unconventional. Modeled after a 1970s television program, Disney's "Gong Show" was a big hit with managers and ordinary employees alike.

Three times a year, Eisner and two of his top assistants would devote a day to listening to anybody and everybody — secretaries, set designers, theme park employees — who wanted to propose an idea. As many as 40 people were allowed to perform, present or otherwise sell their idea until a loud gong would signal that time was up. Then, after all the ideas were expressed, Eisner and his managers would discuss each one and make a decision.

According to Peter Schneider, president of Disney features at the time, most of Disney's cartoon movies originated from these sessions, as did the idea for Disney's retail stores. Most organizations don't invite ideas with such insight, nor do they give instant feedback or make quick "yes or no" decisions.

"In most companies there is no obvious strategy for selecting or even evaluating ideas," concludes the American Management Association's survey of 1,356 global managers. Nearly half of respondents reported that their firms "don't have a standard policy for evaluating ideas". And only 17% said they use an independent review process to evaluate ideas.

An effective, transparent selection process is essential to systematic innovation. Without one, ideas have no path toward gaining funding and resources and implementation. This power resides in the top of the organization, and associates are reluctant to assert themselves. An established review process invites participation by those whose job is not specifically innovation. It connects your "idea funnel" to your "idea pipeline" and accelerates the flow of ideas.

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. What's the purpose of Disney having the "Gong Show"?

34. What do we learn about Eisner?

35. Compared with Disney, what do most organizations do?

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A．To show its new movies.

B．To have more innovations.

C．To invite more people to its parks.

D．To give incentives and bonus to all its employees.

听力原文： Have you ever played the game of five stones?. To play it you can use any small pebbles which may be lying around, but, for one of your stones, you would certainly not use a Diamond worth hundreds of pounds. Yet this is what the son of a South African farmer did in the year 1866. When he picked up what he thought was a stone, he did not know that he had become the first person to find a diamond in South Africa.

A few years later, thousands of miners were at work there. They rushed from all over the world to seek their fortunes. Most of the miners dreamed of finding one of the large stones, perhaps one like the famous Cullinan Diamond, which was found in 1905 and was as big as a man's fist. This great stone was cut into several small gems, some of which can now be seen amongst the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

The modem world, however, has found more important uses for its diamond than the making of jewellery. They have been put to work; for diamond is the hardest mineral foud in our earth. It can cut or polish the hardest steel or grind its way through solid rock. Only a diamond is hard enough to cut another diamond, and it is not the big stones which are needed for the drills, saws and grindingwheels. Only factories now demand the diamond dust which the early miners looked upon as useless.

Yet it is a strange fact that nature makes its hardest mineral from exactly the same sub- stance as one of its softest. This soft mineral is graphite, which is very easily broken up and is used to make the "lead" in your pencil. The name "lead" should not really be used, because graphite consists of nothing but carbon—just the same as a diamond.

What was the dream of the early miners.-

A．They wanted to get as much diamond as they could.

B．They wanted to make their fortunes.

C．They wanted to find a large diamond.

D．They wanted to find the Cullian Diamond.

One of the most important results of research into ageing has been to pinpoint the significance of short-term memory. This faculty is easily (1)_____ as ageing advances. What seems to (2)_____ is that information is received by the brain, (3)_____ scans it for meaning in order to decode it at some future time. It looks as if the actual (4)_____ of the short-term memory itself may not change too much (5)_____ age. A young man and a man in his late fifties may (6)_____ be able to remember and repeat a(n) (7)_____ of eight numbers recited to them. But what (8)_____ change is that when the older man is asked to remember anything (9)_____ between the time he is first given the numbers to memorize and the time he is asked to (10)_____ them, he will be much less likely to remember the (11)_____ numbers than the young man. This is because the scanning stage is more easily (12)_____ by other activities in (13)_____ people.

In (14)_____ living one experiences this as a fairly minor (15)_____—a telephone number forgotten while one looks (16)_____ an area code, or the first part of (17)_____ street directions confused with the last because the last 'turn lefts' and 'turn rights' have interfered (18)_____ remembering the first directions. In more formal learning, however, the (19)_____ of short-term memory is more than just a mild social embarrassment. It can be a serious bar to further (20)_____ or indeed to any progress at all.

A．discovered

B．strengthened

C．displayed

D．disturbed

What is TRUE according to the article?

A．The general knew that Mishima had longed to die a hero's death.

B．The general was greatly taken aback by Mishima's suicide attempt.

C．Some soldiers surrendered after Mishima's speech.

D．One of Mishima's aides was killed by the soldiers.

A．He was told that he had boarded the wrong plane.

B．He was not allowed to board the plane he should take.

C．He arrived at the airport without ticket or luggage.

D．He found it difficult to explain why he arrived so early.

Of the six states in New England,______is considered the most important one with the largest population.

A．Massachusetts

B．Rhode Island

C．Maine

D．Vermont

Man must eat in order to live. One of the most important concerns of man during his life on the earth has been to makecertain that he has enough food to eat when he needs it.

Prehistoric (史前的）had little choice in what he ate. He ate what he could find: roots, eggs, fruits and the meat of smallanimals. Early man had no way to control his food supply. If there was no rain, or the weather was too hot or too cold,plants would not grow, and he would have little or no food. When he ate all the food in one place, he had to move to anotherregion for food.

Man’s life changed when he learned to grow plants and to raise animals. He also learned to use fire to prepare his food. Later, he learned to make tools and weapons, and to make containers to store his food. Man could now live in one place andproduce his own food. So civilization (文明）began. Great civilizations slowly developed in regions where food wasplentiful — along the Nile River in Egypt, and by the Yellow River in China.

The kinds of plants which are raised by man are different in each geographical region. In the colder regions very fewplants can be grown; in the warmer parts of the world great varieties of plants are found. In Asia, rice has become the mostimportant crop. In North America, the most important grains are wheat and com. In Europe and North Africa, wheat is themain crop. In the tropical (热带的）regions of the world，many kinds of fruit grow naturally or arc planted by man.

With the development of methods of keeping food fresh, it became possible to send most food products from one partof the world to another. Today foods are kept fresh in many ways and sent all over the world. Man no longer depends on thefood he grows in his own area only.

As man has learned more about plants and animals, the production of food has become a more technical process. In thefuture, it seems possible that vast quantities of food may come from the ocean. Food may also be produced in new ways.

According to the first paragraph.man has to ensure________

A.the amount of food he needs

B.the quality of the food he needs

C.the quality of his lifeon theearth

D.the number of people livingon the earth

If the weather was extremely bad, early man would?A.raise new crops

B.suffer from hunger

C.raise small animals

D.suffer from diseases

From Paragraph 3 we know that civilizations developed in areas?A.where the weather was good

B.where there was enough rain

C.where there was a large amountof food

D.where there were a great numberof animals

Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 4?A.There are few plants in colder regions.

B.Corn is the most important crop in Asia.

C.There are few plants in hotter regions.

D.Rice is the main crop in Europe.

As man’s knowledge about plants and animals increases,.A.fewer plants will be needed

B.fewer animals will he available

C.more and more land will be

D.more and more food will he available

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