of the following statements is true?
gulf between the costliest and cheapest cities had been reduced by 15%. 'd better travel to those cities with scores around 50 or below. survey was carried out in 144 countries as well as those in Asia. York scored top points while Hong Kong points. Passage 14
Nanning:With the number of college graduates climbing to a record high this year—some million are entering the job market,an increase of 670,000,or percent,over last year,manypeople are asking if China's first “McDonald's
generation\place in the job say this will be a test of both China's job market and its carefree younger generation. “Do not 'll get whatever we want\they tell each other to ease their own anxiety. Born in the early days of the country's reform and opening to the outside world,growing up in the market economy,the youngsters,familiar with McDonald's and Mickey Mouse,love to eat hamburgers,and wear foreignbrand jeans and Tshirts andworship Bill pared with their parents,they enjoy more freedom in looking for a job—and with that freedom come burdens.
These college graduates are seen scouring recruitment information in newspapers and journals,the Internet and job markets nationwide.
Shortly after hotel management major Hao Wenhua,a young woman from Chongqing in Southwest China,failed the recruitment test of a fivestar hotel in Guilin,South China's Guangxi huang Autonomous Region,She appeared at a job market in Nanning,approximately 300 kilometers from Guilin,looking rather tired.
Many businesses and companies say that they would take on experienced staff rather than the new graduates who are short of the experience of how to succeed in today's fastpaced society.
of the following groups of people belongs to China's first McDonald's generation? who were born in the early days of China's reform and opening to the outside world. who like to eat hamburgers and wear foreignbrand clothes. who admire Bill Gates.
who lack the experience of how to succeed in today'sfast changing world. of the following explanation is closest in meaning with the underlined word“scouring\
can we infer from the story of Hao Wenhua in the passage? We caninfer———— . there are many chances to find jobs in Guangxi huang Autonomous Region hotel management is not a good major in college there is intense competition in the job market
many businesses and companies don't like new college graduates is the best title for the passage? Competition in the Job Market. 's Generation Has Grown up. 's Generation Faces Job Hunting.
Number of College Graduates Climbs to the Highest Point.
Passage 15
President Jiang emin's state visits to Thailand,Australia and New ealand have ushered(引导)China's relations with these countries into a new stage of development,Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said yesterday.
During his visits from September 2 to 16,President Jiang had an indepth exchange of views with leaders of the three countries on bilateral(双边的)ties and important international and regional issues and reached extensive(广阔的)common ground on the issues discussed,Yang told reporters aboard a special plan on their way to home yesterday,Yang accompanied President Jiang during the visits.
All the leaders expressed their satisfaction over the recent development of bilateral relations and called for further progress in their relationship in the new century,Yang and Thailand have decided to establish(建立)and develop a good neighbourly and closer relationship of all round cooperation oriented towards the 21st century while
China and Australia,and China and New ealand have agreed to foster a 21st centuryoriented relationship of longterm stability,healthydevelopment and all round cooperation,he said.
Jiang and other APEC leaders have also decided to strengthen highlevel dialogues and visits,create regular meeting mechanism(机构)and further develop traditional trade,Yang added,China and Australia signed five agreements on consulate
matters,mining,energy,crackdown on crime and other areas. Reports fromChina Daily on Oct 5,1999
emin visited these states this time except——-. ealand
and other APEC leaders.————
with the recent development of bilateral relation to strengthen highlevel dialogues
extensive common ground on the issues discussed ,B and C are all correct
main idea of the passage is.———— emin has visited three states signed five agreements of China leaders decided to visit China soon 's visits strengthen foreign relations 4.“foster”(in means.————
Passage 16
Controlled fires sometimes burn out of fire in this story was in Northern California last Bureau of Land Management crew started wanted to burn brush(灌木),which might winds blew the fire out of 2,000 acres and 23 homes burned.
People wondered why they did a burn in these kinds of area had a week of over a hundreddegree weather,and it had been windy for a whole government said the Bureau of Land Management was at failed to look at the ,it didn't have a backup plan to protect homes inside the controlled burn BLM(Bureau of Land Management) quickly
admitted it was their fault and started paying the owners of the homes.
This should have been a lesson to the people who set the is very sudden change in the wind can make the fire burn out of control.
However,fire managers say many years of keeping fire from burning on public lands means they are ready to scientists think these systems are going to burns the past these forests burned every four,five,seven,eight years.
Two months ago the Los Angeles County Fire Department started using its new brushcrusher(灌木碾压机).It is a 10ton roller that stamps(压)down makes controlled burns fire scientists say taking out brush does not work as well as say controlled burns are needed to avoid big fires in the areas near needs to be increased when burning near controlled fires can be risky,they're not as risky as doing nothing.
wondered why BLM did a burn because ———— couldn't understand why brush had to be burnt people knew little about controlled fires
was easy to see that fires would break out easily in such weather conditions people had never done a burn before
do fire scientists think about the controlled fires? fires can be replaced by taking out brush. fires are not as dangerous as doing nothing.
is important to keep any fire from burning on public lands. is not dangerous even if controlled fires burn out of control. of the following statements is TRUE according to the text? from BLM refused to admit that the fire was their fault.
the BLM had made a plan against any possible danger,there wouldn't have been so manyhomes burnt.
main reason to burn brushes is that they grow too quickly.
new machine began to be used to control the fire when burning brushes. can be concluded that the text is most probably part of a———— paper on controlled fire
document which record all the big fires report
story about a fire Ⅳ.故事类 Passage 17 “I've changed my wanted to have a telescope,but now I want my daddy back.\Lawrence's letter to Father Christmas written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his school gate,must have touched every went on to say that without his father he couldn't see the stars inthe those who we love depart from us,we cannot see the stars for a while. But Lucien,the stars are still there,and one day,when you are older and your tears have gone,you will see them ,in a strange way,I expect that you willfind your father is there too,in your mind and in your find that my parents,long dead now,still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did
when they were still live to please them and I'm still surprised by their remember that when I became a professor,I was so proud,or rather so pleased with myself,that I couldn't wait to cable my
reply was a long time in coming,but when it did,all Mother said was“I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!\parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors(挑衅者),and to lay down my life for those in my care?How many people would want me back for Christmas?It's a serious thought,one to give me pause.
I pray silently,sometimes,in the dead of night,that ancient cry of a poet“Deliver my soul from the sword(剑)，and my darling from the power of the dog\I know the death comes to us all,and sometimes comes must therefore plan to live forever,but live as if we will die live on,I'm sure,in the lives of those we loved,and therefore we ought to have a caref or what they will remember and what they will more parents knew this in their hearts to be true,there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
1According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph—— Aputs forward the subject of the text Bshows the author's pity on the kid
Cacts as an introduction to the discussion
Dmakes a clear statement of the author's views
2In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us ———— Ahow much he misses his parents now
Bwhy his parents often appear in his dream Cwhen Lucien will get over all his sadness Dhow proud he was when he succeeded in life
3What feeling did the author's mother express in her reply? AProudBHappyCDisappointedDWorried.
4In the author's opinion,the value of a person's life is Ato leave behind a precious memory to the people related Bto have a high sense of duty to the whole society Cto care what others will remember and treasure Dto share happiness and sadness with his family
5What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem? ACall on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns. BAdvise parents stay with their children safely at home. CSpend every day meaningfully in memory of the death. DTry to keep violence and murder far away from society. Passage 18
Our little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper,and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing his mom dried her hands on an apron(围裙),she read it,and this is what it said:
For going to the store for you $
For cutting the grass in the garden $ For cleaning up the yard this week $ For cleaning up my room this week $
For setting the table for meals this week $
For baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping $ For getting a good report card $ Total owed:$ Well,I'll tell you,his mother looked at him standing there with expectation,and boy,I could see the memories flashing through her ,she picked up the pen,turned over the paper he had written on,and this is what she wrote:
For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me,No the nights that I've sat up with you,doctored you and prayed foryou,No all the trying times and all the tears that you've caused through the years,there's No Charge.
When you add it all up,the cost of my love is No Charge.
For all the nights that were filled with fear,and for the worries I knew were ahead,No the toys,food,clothes,and even wiping up your nose,there's No when you add it all up,the full cost of real love is No Charge,Son.
Well,friends,when our son finished reading what his mother had written,there were great big old tears in his eyes,and he looked straight up at his mother and said:“Mom,I sure do love you.\he wrote：“PAID IN FULL\
might the mother be doing when the boy came into the kitchen? the dishes readyepairing the cooker. the the table for supper.
many members in this family were mentioned in the story?
to the boy's bill,his mom owed him ———— for his helping with the housework. A.$.$.$.$
writer's purpose of writing this story is to———— real love is housework is endless the mother is wise the boy is selfish Passage 19
A lot of us lose life's tougher battles by starting a frontal(正面的)
attack—when a touch of humor might well enable us to win. Consider the case of a young friend of mine, who hit a traffic jam on his way to work shortly after receivingan ultimatum(最后通牒) about being late on the job. Although there was a good reason for Sam's being late—serious illness at home—he decided that this bynowfamiliar excuse wouldn't work any longer. His supervisor was probably already pacing up and down preparing a dismissal speech.
Yes, the boss was. Sam entered the office at 9∶35. The place was as quiet as a locker room(更衣室); everyone was hard at work. Sam's supervisor came up to him. Suddenly, Sam forced a grin and stretched out his hand. “How do you do!\“I'm Sam Maynard. I'm applying for a job, which, I understand, became available
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