M: Can I possibly get an appointment today for a massage？ F: Today … not likely. ______

听力原文：M: Could I possibly make an appointment with your director? Say, two o'clock?

W: I'm afraid not. He has a meeting then.

Q: What will the director do at 2 o'clock?

(2)

A．He will have a meeting.

B．He will meet the man.

C．He will make a decision.

D．He will go traveling.

A．He is late tot the appointment with his advisor.

B．He is late 1bt the biology class.

C．He hasn't finished the outline assigned by the advisor.

D．He is not able to complete the outline next week.

Workplace 2020

—By Susan Paynter

It's a summer morning in the year 2020 and not yet 7: 30 a.m. Jane Han son, flushed from her early morning run along the river, sets down in her work station at home. She is still in her sweats, and this is the first day all week she has slid her knees under a desk.

For Jane and millions of other so-called knowledge workers, the job is wherever she is. Today, it's at home. A graphics designer, Jane has a current assignment to develop a new logo for a sports shoe for a client. She's delight ed to have the project, since it gives her a chance to work with Aki, her in ternational partner inYokohama (横滨), Japan. Today, Aki's face pops up on her computer screen as she checks "see-mail," a type of communication that replaced E-mail a few years ago. With a click, Jane can call up the video image and voice of each person who left her a message the previous night.

This morning, Jane calls Aki back and they see and hear each other via video phone. They collaborate on an interactive screen almost as if they are standing side by side at the same drawing board.

Jane's husband, George, can often be found working at home as well. "Going to the office" has become an option, not a necessity, with the advent of the wireless computer. George teaches at a nearby university, and often broadcasts his lectures via satellite. But this morning he is at an on-campus seminar. The kids are also out of the house today attending classes at a nearby language and science lab. Jane is grateful to have the house to herself today as she and Aki work on the logo.

The Virtual Office

Twenty years from now, as many as 25 million Americans—nearly 20 percent of the workforce—will stretch the boundaries between home and work far beyond the lines drawn now. Technology has already so accelerated the pace of change in the workplace that few futurists are willing to predict hard numbers. But nearly all trend-trackers agree that much of the next century's work will be decentralized, done at home or in satellite offices on a schedule tailored to fit worker's lives and the needs of their families. Even international boundaries may blur as the economy goes truly global.

Between 1990 and 1998, telecommuting doubled from about 3 percent to 6 percent of the working population—or about 8.2 million people. The numbers are expected to double again in far less time, with as much as 12 percent of the population telecommuting by the year 2005, says Charlie Grantham, director of the Institute for the Study of Distributed Work in Windsor, California.

Wireless computers and seamless communications systems are already in the works and fueling the trend. The video phone is not far off, an advance that many futurists believe will make even more companies comfortable with employees working from home. "Now, we communicate at the level of radio," says Gerald Celente, author of Trends 2000 and director of The Trends Research Institute of Rhinebeck, New York. E-mail and the telephone are primitive, he argues, and make people feel cut off from co-workers. But once everyone can see each other on the screen, long-distance relationships will feel more intimate.

What about the office? "Today's offices are a direct descendant of the factory," says Gil Gordon, a consultant based in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, who has spent nearly two decades advising companies on how to institute telecommuting and more flexible work patterns. "They may be better lighted, but they're much the same."

Still, Gordon does not think the office building will vanish altogether. Rather, the office of 2020 will be just one place

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

听力原文：W: Hi, Jack, have you finished Professor Smith's assignment?

M: The assignment? No, not yet.

W: But tomorrow's the deadline.

M: Anna, take it easy. I can always pull it together in no time.

W: Hey, don't you think playing PC games takes up too much of your time?

M: Oh, computer games represent the latest technology. You can't simply ignore them.

W: I know. You can play as much as you like during the holiday, but not now. It's affecting your studies.

M: It's not. I feel I'm getting smarter day by day, and my reaction time is much quicker.

W: You only become alive and alert at those war games. In class, I saw you doze off.

M: It's not my fault. The textbooks are boring and the lectures are tedious. I dislike those teachers who love to call the roll. But the games are interesting, challenging and can broaden my mind as well.

W: I didn't say the games are all bad, but you can't play games all the time. Have you ever considered what you will do if you fail the exams?

M: well…

W: I know it's not easy to resist the temptation, but self-discipline is essential to one's success. It's part of one's character. Look at yourself in the mirror. You look pale and haggard. See, you have nothing but half a life.

M: Really? Oh, heavens!

(20)

A．Teacher and student.

B．Mother and son.

C．Classmates.

D．Brother and sister

听力原文： Social Security is one of the great moral achievements of American government. For almost 70 years, it has kept millions of elderly citizens out of poverty and assured young Americans of a secure future. The Social Security system is essential, yet it faces a long-term problem.

While benefits for today's seniors are secure, the system is headed towards bankruptcy down the road. Each year there are more retirees taking money out of the system, and not enough additional workers to support them.

In the 1950s, there were about 16 workers paying for every Social Security beneficiary. Today, there are about three. And eventually, there will only be two workers per beneficiary. These changes signal a looming danger. In the year 2018, for the first time ever, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than the government collects in payroll taxes. And the gaps will grow larger each year leading to the bankruptcy of the system.

Therefore, Social Security is not a personal savings plan. Benefits paid to today's retirees come directly from the taxes paid by today's workers. The crisis in Social Security can be avoided by emphasizing several principles. First, nothing will change for those who are receiving Social Security and for those who are near retirement. Secondly, payroll taxes will not increase, because higher taxes would slow economic growth. More efforts must be made to use the power of compound interest, by giving younger workers the option to save some of their payroll taxes in a personal account, which government cannot take away.

(30)

A．Around 1930.

B．Around 1940.

C．Around 1950.

D．Around 1960.

听力原文：M: I must admit I had expected more than a passing grade from Prof. John son. Do you think he will change his mind after I talk to him this afternoon?

W: Some hope, he is a hard nut to crack.

Q: What does the woman mean?

(15)

A．She will help the man to make an appointment to meet the professor.

B．The professor will probably change his mind.

C．She hopes the professor will change his mind.

D．The man can not convince the professor.

听力原文：W: I want to know if it is possible to see the apartment before we rent it?

M: You bet, it's vacant.

Q: What does the man mean?

(14)

A．No one lives there now.

B．You can see it after your vacation.

C．You'd better make an appointment.

D．It's a beautiful place.

A、The individual organisms have neither lost nor gained any genetic material.

B、An inversion can break a gene into two parts and separate each to different locations.

C、The expression of the gene may be altered due to the positional effect.

D、The inversion mutations will not likely have pronounced phenotypic effects since there is no loss of genetic material.

E、Individuals heterozygous for inversions may end up producing abnormal gametes.

You are the network administrator for Your network consists of two Active Directory domains in a single forest. All network servers run Windows Server 2003. Currently, you use more than 1,000 security groups.A member server named TK1 contains a folder named Testing. This folder contains resources required by users in the engineering department.A written security policy states that engineering users must have the approval of the management group before they can be assigned the Full Control NTFS permission on Testing.You need to discover whether any engineering users currently have the Full Control NTFS permission on Testing. You must complete this task by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.What should you do?（）

A. Use Active Directory Users and Computers to view the access level available to engineering users.

B. Use the Find Users, Contacts, and Groups utility to view the membership of each group that has access to Testing.

C. In the properties of Testing, view the Effective Permissions tab.

D. Write an ADSI script to search for members of all groups that have access to testing