Read the Passage Problem of Identity in Globalization, and decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the passage. The culture over-spill was seen as a greater threat than

【填空题】Read each statement and decide whether it is fact or an opinion. Write fact or opinion in front of each statement to indicate your decision. _______1. The condition known as color blindness is not found among women. _______2. Toads are ugly, frogs can jump, and snakes are slimy. _______3. If something is beautiful to you, it is beautiful. _______4. At one time, the automobile was a chief source of pollution in the U.S. _______5. Most elementary teachers are women because women are better suited to teaching at this level than men. _______6. All alcoholics were once social drinkers. _______7. India has a much larger population than Canada. _______8. Television programming made available at no cost to the viewer is a form of public service. _______9. In general, boys mature more slowly than girls. _______10. Scientific experiments have established that adding fluorine to drinking water reduces cavities. _______11. Boards of education should include students from the schools that the boards govern. _______12. The U.S. Printing Office will not disseminate material that is not factual and scientifically accurate. _______13. Algae will be an important source of protein in the future. _______14. “Buyers’ strikes” or boycotting the purchase of a given commodity can force its price down. _______15. A person’s behavior is a result of previous experiences.

Read the text and decide the function of each sentence in the text. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons. This is not something one should take personally. It happens because they will receive hundreds of applications for a job and need a way to cut that number down quickly to the twenty or so they intend to interview. The list is obviously endless, but includes major gaps, such as lack of qualifications, and minor oversights, such as spelling errors. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons.

A、supporting reason

B、topic sentence

C、example

D、summary

Read the following passage carefully and compose a “sentence outline” for it.

The Changing Workweek

In the early 1900s in the U.S.A., workers in large industries worked long days and long weeks. It was not uncommon for workers in the meat-packing companies of Chicago, for example, to work twelve to fourteen hours, for six or seven days a week. As unions started exerting their influence, however, the working conditions of American workers began improving, and the workweek was gradually shortened. Today, workers have workweek opinions that were unheard of earlier in the last century.

The five day workweek has become commonplace in American industries. However, he four-day workweek is becoming even more popular. Mary workers prefer four tea-hour days. This gives them longer working days, but it also gives them three-day weekends, an unheard-of luxury even twenty years ago. Management isn’t complaining since the same amount of work gets accomplished, and in some cases a plant can be totally shut down on the fifth day, saving the company thousands of dollars in utilities.

Another change in the workweek is the variable hours option. While American workers have traditionally worked either day or night shifts, some companies are allowing workers to set their own hours within the workweek. Flexible schedules are becoming more common in metropolitan areas with commuter-time traffic problems and in industries that are open around the clock. The advantage to the workers is that they can plan their hours around the days of their families. For example, a husband who takes each afternoon off could babysit the children while his wife works. The variable hours schedule also motivates workers because the company is letting them control their own time.

A third change in the workweek over the past twenty years is the use of overtime. While most workers do not have to work beyond a forty-hour week, many companies will pay them time and a half to do so. Although this is more expensive for the company, it is still cheaper than having to hire additional workers and providing benefits. On traditional nonworking days such as holidays, workers are often paid double-time or more to work. Overtime pay allows companies to meet their production needs without exploiting the workers. It allows workers to make extra money at a higher rate than they normally work for. Although overtime work often represents a return to longer working days and weeks, it is done on a voluntary basis and is usually negotiated willingly by the workers.

What does the future hold for American workers? As modern technology turns more and more wok to machines, the typical workweek may continue to shrink. Some companies have already gone to the thirty-five-hour week, and in the 21st century, the thirty-five-hour week may be standard. Within twenty years, the great advantage to shorter workweeks is that workers have more time off to themselves. However, given the financial demands upon American families in the future, it may also become common for workers to hold down two full-time jobs at one time. Given the American work ethic, most workers will probably fill their free time with more work instead of more leisure.

Read the text and decide the function of the 1st sentence in the text. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons. This is not something one should take personally. It happens because they will receive hundreds of applications for a job and need a way to cut that number down quickly to the twenty or so they intend to interview. The list is obviously endless, but includes major gaps, such as lack of qualifications, and minor oversights, such as spelling errors. What is the function of the 1st sentence in the text?

A、supporting reason

B、topic sentence

C、example

D、summary

Ⅱ. Direction: Read the following passage carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts. Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET.

【B1】A couple of months ago, Singaporean officials unintentionally made cinematic history. They slapped an NC-17 rating on a film--which means children under 17 cannot see it--not because of sex or violence of profanity, but because of bad grammar. Despite its apparently naughty title, Talking Cock, the movie is actually an innocuous comedy comprising four skits about the lives of ordinary Singaporeans. The censors also banned a 15-second TV spot promoting the flick. 【B2】All this is because of what the authorities deemed "excessive use of Singlish."

【B3】Given the tough crackdown, you would expect Singlish to be a harmful substance that might corrupt our youth, like heroin or pornography. But it's one of Singapore's best-loved quirks, used daily by everyone from cabbies to CEOs. 【B4】Singlish is simply Singaporean slang, whereby English follows Chinese grammar and is liberally sprinkled with words from the local Chinese, Malay and Indian dialects.

I like to talk cock, and I like to speak Singlish. It's inventive, witty and colorful. 【B5】Singlish is especially fashionable these days among the younger generation, in part because it gives uptight Singapore a chance to laugh-at itself. But the government is not amused. It doesn't like Singlish because it thinks it is bad language and bad for Singapore's image as a commercial and financial center.

【B1】

Task 5 Directions：Read the following passage. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions (No.56 to No.60) that follow. The answers (in not more than three words) should be written after the corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet. Step in Starting a Used Baby Equipment Business@ 1.Just like any other business, you have to know the market first. This will help you choose a suitable location. 2.Decide on what kind of second-hand baby equipment business you want to specialize in. This will help you advertise your store more effectively. 3.Gather the baby equipment that is still useful from your old collections. You can add to these collections by gathering the used baby equipment from other household with fair pricing. You can also collect items that are not so good, just fix it and sell. 4.Also consider the safety of the babies using the equipment, though you intend to make profit from this business. 5.Finally, your marketing strategy is also important. You can put your store online. Advertise online or you can plan promotional activities involving parents and babies such as a contest that will earn them certain baby equipment at the end if they turn out to be the winner. In addition to the these steps, you can think of many other steps to this business dependent on the kind of used baby equipment business you plan to start.

56.What is the first thing you should know in order to start a used baby equipment business? The______________________________

57.Why should you decide on the kind of business you want to specialize in?

To help______________________________more effectively.

58.How can you increase your collections of the used baby equipment?

By gathering it from______________________________with fair pricing.

59.What should you also pay attention to when staring a used baby equipment business? The______________________________of the babies using the equipment.

60.What examples are mentioned as the marketing strategy in the passage? Putting your store online, advertising online and planning______________________activities.

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then write a summary of it in English in about 120 words.

1. Europe was the first of the major world regions to develop a modern economy based on commercial agriculture and industrial development. Its successful modernization can be traced to the continent's rich endowment of economic resources, its history of innovations, the evolution of a skilled and educated labor force, and the interconnectedness of all its parts--both naturally existing and man-made--which facilitated the easy movement of massive quantities of raw materials and finished goods and the communication of ideas.

Europe's economic modernization began with a marked improvement in agriculture output in the 17th century, particularly in England. The traditional method of cultivation involved periodically allowing land to remain fallow; this gave way to continuous cropping on fields that were fertilized with manure nom animals raised as food for rapidly expanding urban markets. Greater wealth was ac- cumulated by landowners at the same time that fewer farmhands were needed to work the land. The accumulated capital and abundant cheap labor created by this revolution in agriculture fueled the development of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The revolution began in northern England in the 1730s with the development of water-driven machinery to spin and weave wool and cotton. By mid-century James Watt had developed a practical steam engine that emancipated machinery from sites adjacent to waterfalls and rapids. Britain had been practically deforested by this time and the incessant demand for more fuel to run the engines led to the exploitation of coal as a major industry. Industries were built on the coalfields to minimize the cost of transporting coal over long distances. The increasingly surplus rural population flocked to the new manufacturing areas. Canals and other improvements in the transportation infrastructure were made in these regions, which made them attractive to other industries that were not necessarily dependent on coal and thus prompted development in adjacent regions

Industrialization outside of England began in the mid-19th century in Belgium and northeastern France and spread to Germany, The Netherlands southern Scandinavia and other areas in conjunction with the construction of railways. By the 1870s the governments of the European nations had recognized the vital importance of factory production and had taken steps to encourage local development through subsidies and tariff protection against foreign competition. Large areas, however, remained virtually untouched by modern industrial development, including most of the Iberian Peninsula southern Italy, and a broad belt of eastern Europe extending from the Balkans on the south to Finland and northern Scandinavia.

During the 20th century Europe has experienced periods of considerable economic growth and prosperity, and industrial development has proliferated much more widely throughout the continent: but continued economic development in Europe has been handicapped to a large degree by its multi- national character--which has spawned economic rivalries among states and two devastating World wars--as well as by the exhaustion of many of its resources and by increased economic, competition from overseas. Governmental protectionism, which has tended to restrict the potential market for a product to a single country, has deprived many industrial concerns of the efficiencies of large-scale production serving a mass market ( such as is found in the United States). In addition, enterprise efficiency has suffered from government support and from a lack of competition within a national market area. Within individual countries there have been growing tensions between regions that have prospered and those that have not. This core-periphery problem has been particularly acute in situations where the c

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