慢性阻塞性肺病的共同特征有()

A major difference between the Japanese and U.S workforces is that______

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORMAL EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN POOR COUNTRIES IS WIDELY MISUNDERSTOOD BY ECONOMISTS AND POLITICIANS ALIK

E. PROGRESS IN BOTH AREAS IS UNDOUBTEDLY NECESSARY FOR THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THESE AND ALL OTHER SOCIETIES; HOWEVER, THE CONVENTIONAL VIEW THAT EDUCATION SHOULD BE ONE OF THE VERY HIGHEST PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES IS WRON

G. WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT IT IS, BECAUSE BUILDING NEW EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS THERE AND PUTTING ENOUGH PEOPLE THROUGH THEM TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE WOULD REQUIRE TWO OR THREE GENERATIONS. THE FINDINGS OF A RESEARCH INSTITUTION HAVE CONSISTENTLY SHOWN THAT WORKERS IN ALL COUNTRIES CAN BE TRAINED ON THE JOB TO ACHIEVE RADICAL HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY AND RADICALLY HIGHER STANDARDS OF LIVIN

G. THE FIRST EVIDENCE FOR THIS IDEA APPEARED IN THE UNITED STATES. NOT LONG AGO, WITH THE COUNTRY ENTERING A RECESSION AND JAPAN AT ITS PRE-BUBBLE PEAK, THE U.S. WORKFORCE WAS DERIDED AS POORLY EDUCATED AND ONE OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES OF THE POOR U.S. ECONOMIC PERFORMANC

E. JAPAN WAS, AND REMAINS, THE GLOBAL LEADER IN AUTOMOTIVE-ASSEMBLY PRODUCTIVITY. YET THE RESEARCH REVEALED THAT THE U.S. FACTORIES OF HONDA, NISSAN, AND TOYOTA ACHIEVED ABOUT 95 PERCENT OF THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THEIR JAPANESE COUNTERPARTS AS A RESULT OF THE TRAINING THAT U.S. WORKERS RECEIVED ON THE JO

B. MORE RECENTLY, WHILE EXAMINING HOUSING CONSTRUCTION, THE RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED THAT ILLITERATE, NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING MEXICAN WORKERS IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, CONSISTENTLY MET BEST-PRAC TICE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY STANDARDS DESPITE THE COMPLEXITY OF THE BUILDING INDUSTRY"S WOR

K. WE HAVE TO SUSPECT THAT CONTINUING ECONOMIC GROWTH PROMOTES THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION EVEN WHEN GOVERNMENTS DON"T FORCE IT. AFTER ALL, THAT"S HOW EDUCATION GOT STARTE

D. WHEN OUR ANCESTORS WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS 10,000 YEARS AGO, THEY DIDN"T HAVE TIME TO WONDER MUCH ABOUT ANYTHING BESIDES FINDING FOO

D. ONLY WHEN HUMANITY BEGAN TO GET ITS FOOD IN A MORE PRODUCTIVE WAY WAS THERE TIME FOR OTHER THINGS. AS EDUCATION IMPROVED, HUMANITY"S PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL INCREASED AS WELL. WHEN THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT PUSHED OUR ANCESTORS TO ACHIEVE THAT POTENTIAL, THEY COULD IN TURN AFFORD MORE EDUCATIO

N. THIS INCREASINGLY HIGH LEVEL OF EDUCATION IS PROBABLY A NECESSARY, BUT NOT A SUFFICIENT, CONDITION FOR THE COMPLEX POLITICAL SYSTEMS REQUIRED BY ADVANCED ECONOMIC PERFORMANC

E. A LACK OF FORMAL EDUCATION, HOWEVER, DOESN"T CONSTRAIN THE ABILITY OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD"S WORKFORCE TO SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTUR

E. ON THE CONTRARY, CONSTRAINTS ON IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY EXPLAIN WHY EDUCATION ISN"T DEVELOPING MORE QUICKLY THERE THAN IT IS.

According to the author, what role do mass media play in the relationships between communities?

A．They draw the audience's attention to prejudice.

B．They cause further social prejudice among audience.

C．They criticize prejudices between racial and political groups.

D．They have done something to lessen prejudice between groups.

Academic circles had long recognized that regulatory agencies were often "captured" by a regulated industry. The public would become aroused by the revelation of an abuse in a certain industry and a regulatory agency would be created, staffed initially by people responsive to the public interest, or at least highly critical of the industry. But eventually, public attention would turn to other problems, and only the regulated industry itself would maintain an interest in who was appointed to the agency and what decisions it rendered. In the long run, people sympathetic to the regulated industry would be appointed to the regulatory agency, and rulings would be made in the interest of the industry rather than in the interest of the public.

A、These are the allelic frequencies found in most populations.

B、These allelic frequencies maximize the proportion of homozygotes in the population.

C、These allelic frequencies maximize the proportion of heterozygotes in the population.

D、These allelic frequencies guarantee that neither allele will become fixed in a population.

E、These allelic frequencies minimize the proportion of heterozygotes in the population.

The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photography's fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art, as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.

Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves--anything but making works of art. In the nineteen century, photography' s association with the real world placed it in an ambivalent relation to art; late in the twentieth century, an ambivalent relation exists because of the Modernist heritage in art. That important photographers are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art, shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.

Photographers' disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried slaws of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting.

Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity--in short, an art.

In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with ______.

A．defining the Modernist attitude toward art

B．explaining the attitudes of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context

C．explaining how photography emerged as a fine art after the controversies of the nineteenth century

D．defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward the art and assessing the value of each of those approaches

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PART 3

Discussion topic: TV

Example questions:

— How much do you think that TV influences our lives?

— Do you think that children watch too much TV?

— Do you think that there is too much advertising on TV?

— Is there too much violence on TV in your country?

— Are many foreign TV programmes shown in your country?

请根据短文内容判断给出的语句是否正确，正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。

Good Communication Skills - Key to Success

Good communication skills are the key to success in life, work and relationships. Without effective communication, a message can turn into an error, misunderstanding, frustration, or even disaster by being misinterpreted or poorly delivered.

The steps for good communication skills:

1. Know what to say. Understand clearly the purpose and intent of your message.

2. Know how to say it. Begin by making eye contact , which shows confidence. Then pay attention to your body language.

3. Listen. After you've finished talking, you should stop, listen, and look for feedback and clues of comprehension.

4. Reach understanding. To communicate well is to understand and be understood.More tips for developing good communication skills:

1. The better you are able to express yourself, the better your ability to communicate.

2. Practice your listening skills. Be considerate of other speakers by waiting until they are done before stating your views.

3. Learn to understand and appreciate different views by being open-minded. It will in turn, gain you more cooperation and understanding.

4. Avoid trying to communicate when in an emotional state. Take time to consider your position through before speaking.

When you take the time to develop good communication skills, it means you open yourself up to better relationships, more career opportunities, and increased self-confidence.

Moreover, you reach higher levels of mutual understanding and cooperation while successfully attaining your goals.

( ) 26. A message must be understood, interpreted or delivered correctly with communication.

( ) 27. When you talk with others you can pay little attention to your body language.

( ) 28. The better you are able to understand others, the better your ability to communicate.

( ) 29. Before stating your opinions, you'd better let the speaker finish his or her talking first.

( ) 30. Don't argue or debate with others if you feel angry or displeased.