We should find _____ equipment for people who could not hear well.

Newspapers, along with reporting the news, educate, entertain, and give opinions. An important way of reading a large, big-city newspaper is to put it into different sections. Can you find these separate sections: world news, national and local news, sports, business, entertainment, opinions, ads？ Does your paper have other sections？
News stories give facts, not the reporter's opinions. Some newspaper editorials (社论) come out with the writer's name, but many newspapers only carry editorials without putting the writers' names on.
You can be a better reader if you know what to expect in a newspaper. For example, you can expect headlines to leave out unnecessary words. You can expect to find the most important facts in the leading paragraph (the first paragraph) of a news story. You can expect important news items to be on the front page. You can expect less important items to be on the inside pages.
Most of all, the more you know about news of the present time, the more you will understand what is in the newspaper; important stories are generally presented one day and followed up on following days. So, an important way to read newspapers is reading one frequently.
1)、A good way to read a newspaper is to find separate sections and read according to your needs.
A.T
B.F
2)、To design ads might NOT be a newspaper reporter's work.
A.T
B.F
3)、From the text we know that newspaper headlines are what readers expect to read.
A.T
B.F
4)、If you are reading for major facts in the news stories, you should read the front page.
A.T
B.F
5)、The writer's suggestion to us is that we should read one newspaper frequently.
A.T
B.F

Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways. It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist's failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.
We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.
Some people hate everything that is modern because ______.
A．they are aged
B．they find it hard to accept modern things
C．they take their standards of perfection from the Greek
D．they look at things by the standards of the past

Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by som
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Unfortunately sales results over the last year have failed to come up to our expectations. A number of factors have been responsible, but basically it is the result of too many companies chasing the microcomputer market which is no longer expanding as fast as it once was.
Looking at the past year in detail, it must be admitted that the sales have declined considerably over the period. Our market share in wholesales has dropped from 21% to only 10%. The lack of a good local distributor in Asia has meant that our sales of the Obec series have collapsed despite the huge jump in the microcomputer market there during the past year. Our dominance of that part of the market has been lost to Strong, but once we find a new distributor we should come back strongly.
Retail sales in general have been a problem. There has been a tendency for the big high street stores to concentrate on high volume turnover of a few fairly well-known makers. When they stopped promotion of the Obec 1500, sales slumped by 50%. We are negotiating a fresh marketing deal for the new Obec 1600. Once this is settled we expect a gradual rise in sales, which will be followed by a big TV advertising campaign at the appropriate time. What we are facing now is that we have not been able to push the Obec 1500 as much as we would have liked because of insufficient advertising.
Most of our advertising budget went on the promotion of the Obec Extra before last Christmas. Unfortunately we have failed consistently to find the proper marketing strategy for the Extra, which has not been sold to either the leisure or the business market.
The serious business market has performed worse than any other in the period under review. The main factor was the introduction of the new Legend 586 Plus, when sales reduced over a period of several months. With this background it is natural that sales of the Obec 1000 and 2000 have gone into a slide. They showed a slight upturn just after the introduction of the 586 Plus, only to crash again a few weeks later.
What purpose does this passage possibly serve？
A．A company introduction to its employees.
B．A market analysis for a specific industry to inform. a client.
C．An annual report of a company to direct its future decision.
D．A marketing strategy proposal for discussion.

请帮忙给出正确答案和分析，谢谢！

THE RIGHT WAY TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES

It's important for a CEO to be passionate and enthusiastic,but there's a line of professionalism that must

always be maintained.

According to a report from the technology website Venture Beat,PayPal CEO David Marcus wrote a critical letter to his employees blaming them for not using PayPal products and encouraging them to leave if they didn't have the passion to use the products they work for.

According to the website,part of the leaked letter reads:

It's been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 17 last week,some of you refused to install the PayPal app,and others didn't even remember their PayPal passwords.That's unacceptable to me,and the rest of my team,everyone at PayPal should use our products where available.That's the only way we can make them better,and better.

In closing,if you are one of the folks who refused to install the PayPal app or if you can't remember your PayPal password,do yourself a favor,go and find something that will connect with your heart and mind elsewhere.

While not obvious at first,the letter reveals a problem of morale and culture at PayPal.As an executive,you certainly want your employees to use and promote your products.However,when faced with a situation where staff isn't embracing what they make,you need to investigate the root of the problem-not threaten.

When faced with internal problems,good executives start by asking why.They reach out to their executive team first and then to the entire staff to find the root of a problem and how to fix it.Sending out a one-sided note about the problem is not leading,it's retreating.

Leadership starts by listening.Good executives need to get out among the staff and ask questions and listen without judgment or reaction.The fact that company employees are not embracing and using its products is a failure of leadership that Marcus needs to address by self-reflection.At the end of the day,if his employees have to be forced to use the app,how can he expect consumers to want to willingly pay to use it? Marcus should have focused on three questions:

Why are you not using the app?

What is it that we can do to ensure you use our app?

What do you need from me?

1.A CEO only needs to be passionate and enthusiastic.

2.It is not professional that PayPal CEO blames his employees not to use PayPal or forget PayPal passwords.

3.A one-sided note refers to the root of PayPal's problem.

4.When faced with internal problems,good executives find the root of a problem in their executive team first.

5.Good executives need to give feedback immediately when they are listening to the staff.

A relationship with your customer is like any relationship: It【C1】______time to earn their trust and moments to【C2】______it. Customers want the truth, because without it they cannot make【C3】______decisions. For example, suppose you go out to dinner and the restaurant you choose has people waiting. When you put your name in, the host will tell you how long it is. If the host is doing his job, you will actually wait less than【C4】______you were told. If you are told the wait is 15 minutes and you are still waiting at the 30-minute mark, are you a happy customer？ At one level, it is just【C5】______. In some cases, it could【C6】______other plans: If you miss your movie because you were not【C7】______for dinner, you really are not a happy customer.
Unfortunately, many salespeople are【C8】______to tell the truth. They【C9】______some in formation, or share partial truths, or just plain lie. They do it in the【C10】______that customers will buy when they hear【C11】______they want to hear. It is true that customers want to hear certain things but【C12】______they are true. Let's go back to the restaurant.【C13】______the wait is not 15minutes-it is 90 minutes. It is not what we want to hear. Still, we can decide to stay or not to stay. If we do not stay, we will be hack. But if we【C14】______told 30 minutes and it became 90, that【C15】______the last time we ate there. Sooner or later, customers al ways find out the truth. If the truth is different than what they have been told, you have lost their trust.
Truth is【C16】______accuracy. It includes a willingness to stand behind what you say. In other words, are you willing to put your money【C17】______your mouth is？ If you are working with others, part of their【C18】______is that when something goes wrong you will stand with them. If an order is delayed, for example, how will you help them【C19】______their business commitments？ Part of earning their trust is having a backup plan in place should your【C20】______systems fail.
【C1】
A．takes
B．spends
C．lasts
D．relies

This is not the world we know. This world is controlled by computers. Men and women can be seen, but they are following the orders given to them by machines. The machines were designed by mad scientists, but at some point even the mad scientists were taken over by their super-inventions.
Does this sound familiar？ You have probably read something like it in magazines or books, or seen it in a film. Why is it so popular？ One of the reasons is that it reflects the fears of many people; fear of the unknown fear of what is not understood or, at least, fear of something that is not completely understood.
The fact is that every day it seems that computers take control of another area of our lives. Some
factory jobs are now done by robots and the robots are controlled by computers. Our bank accounts are managed by computers. At the airport, our tickets are sold by a computer. Certainly, many of these operations are made more
efficient by computers, but our admiration is sometimes mixed with unsafe feelings. And this lack of safety is caused by the fact that we do not know how computers do these things, and we really don't know what they might do next. But we can find out how computers work, and once we understand them, we can use computers instead of worrying about being used by them. Today, there is a new generation of computer wizards who know exactly how computers get things done. These young men and women, usually university students, are happy to sit for hours, sometimes for days, designing programs, not eating, not sleeping, but discovering what can be done by these wonderful slaves which they have learned to control. These computer wizards have learned to use the computer and search for new tasks for their machines.
(1)、According to the passage, our present world is under the control of ______ .
A：mad scientists
B：men and women
C：the unknown fear
D：some super-inventions
(2)、The reason why many people are afraid of computers is that ______ .
A：they don't know anything about computers
B：they haven't really understood computers
C：there are so many computer games
D：computers are often down
(3)、The author mentions computer wizards in order to point out that ______ .
A：computers can be controlled by man
B：there should be more people devoted to computers
C：only young people are interested in computers
D：more time and energy is required to control computers
(4)、This passage is probably written to suggest that ______ .
A：some day computers can deal with all human problems
B：computers can be used in place of traveling to our jobs
C：people should not fear computers
D：computer technology will not meet people's needs in various situations
(5)、The author's attitude towards widely used computers is __.
A：positive
B：anxious
C：worried
D：serious

阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。Stress around inte
阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
Stress around interviews is often influenced by our assumptions we make to ourselves about the process. Countering anxiety-provoking thoughts can help to lower levels of anxiety. “I just messed up that answer, and there’s no hope.” One poor answer normally does not knock a candidate out of consideration. An interview is like a test, getting an 85 or 90 might be good enough to get the job.
Visualizing success can improve performance and help ease anxiety. Always try imagining positive interactions with your interviewer, particularly in the hours just before your interview.
To some extent, relaxation techniques, such as progressive muscle relaxation or breathing exercises, can manage anxiety. If your anxiety around interview is excessive, you might consider seeing a doctor to develop effective countermeasures.
1. What often influences the stress around interviews according to the passage？ {A、B、C}
A. Interview process
B. Anxiety-provoking thoughts
C. Interviewers’ assumptions
2. Does one poor answer in an interview influence a candidate to get a job？ {A、B、C}
A. Yes.
B. No.
C. Not given.
3. Can imagining success help a candidate to lower levels of anxiety？ {A、B、C}
A. Yes.
B. No.
C. Not given.
4. How can we reduce our stress around interviews？ {A、B、C}
A. Breathe deeply
B. Meet friends
C. Have a big meal
5. When should we go to see a doctor according the author？ {A、B、C}
A. When we lose confidence in an interview.
B. When we find effective measures against anxiety round interview.
C. When we have too much stress around interview.

长篇阅读：A) Looking back on too many yearsof education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

　　ThePerfect Essay

　　A) Looking back on too many yearsof education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me,and my intellectual life, even when I didn’t. Her expectations were highimpossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother.

　　B) When good students turn in anessay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the samecondition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page:”Flawless.” This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade. Ofcourse, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I wasonly slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of14. Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off tospread the good news. I didn’t get very far. The first person I told was mymother.

　　C) My mother, who is just shy offive feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasionwhen she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset bymy hubris(得意忘形) or by the fact that my Englishteacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In any event, my mother and her redpen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be. At the time, I amsure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions(过渡), structure, style. and voice. But what I learned, and what stuckwith me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson aboutthe nature of creative criticism.

　　D) Fist off, it hurts. Genuinecriticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leavesan existential imprint(印记) on you asa person. I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticismpersonally. I say that we should never listen to these people.

　　E) Criticism, at its best, isdeeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do. Theintimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able togive it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mentallife is getting in the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are also thepeople who care enough to see you through this painful realization. For me ittook the form. of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer’s block—I wasnot able to produce anything for three years.

　　F) Franz Kafka once said:” Writingis utter solitude(独处), the descentinto the cold abyss(深渊) ofoneself. “My mother’s criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the coldabyss, and when you make the introspective (内省的) decent that writing requires you are out always pleased by whatyou find.” But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggestedthat Kafka might be wrong about the solitude. I was lucky enough to find acritic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “Itis a thing of no great difficulty,” according to Plutarch, “to raise objectionsagainst another man’s speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a betterin its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in thelater years of high school without my mother’s guidance, but I can’t recallthem. What I remember, however, is how we took up the “extremely troublesome”work of ongoing criticism.

　　G) There are two ways to interpretPlutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce “a better inits place.” In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must bemore talented than the artist she critiques(评论). My mother was well covered on this count. But perhaps Plutarch issuggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to MarcusCicero’s claim that one should “criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better onthis own terms—a process that is often extremely painful, but also almostalways meaningful.

　　H) My mother said she would helpme with my writing, but fist I had myself. For each assignment, I was write thebest essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so ifshe found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start fromscratch. From scratch. Once the essay was “flawless,” she would take an eveningto walk me through my errors. That was when true criticism, the type thatchanged me as a person, began.

　　I) She criticized me when Iincluded little-known references and professional jargon(行话). She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures ofspeech. “Writers can’t bluff(虚张声势) theirway through ignorance.” That was news to me—I would need to find another way tostructure my daily existence.

　　J) She trimmed back my flowerylanguage, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value ofrestraint in expression. “John,” she almost whispered. I learned in to hearher:”I can’t hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting andbluffing, and slowly my writing improved.

　　K) Somewhere along the way I setaside my hopes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I missed somethingimportant in my mother’s lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps thepoint of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willinglyfinish. Whitman repeatedly reworded “Song of Myself” between 1855 and 1891.Repeatedly. We do our absolute best wiry a piece of writing, and come as closeas we can to the ideal. And, for the time being, we settle. In critique,however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we hadachieved for the chance of being even a little bit better. This is the lesson Itook from my mother. If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating.

　　46. The author was advised against theimproper use of figures of speech.

　　47. The author’s mother taught him avaluable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

　　48. A writer should polish his writingrepeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.

　　49. Writers may experience periods of timein their life when they just can’t produce anything.

　　50. The author was not much surprised whenhis school teacher marked his essay as “flawless”.

　　51. Criticizing someone’s speech is said tobe easier than coming up with a better one.

　　52. The author looks upon his mother as hismost demanding and caring instructor.

　　53. The criticism the author received fromhis mother changed him as a person.

　　54. The author gradually improved hiswriting by avoiding fact language.

　　55. Constructive criticism gives an authora good start to improve his writing.

听力原文：W: Hello.M: Hi, Sally, this is Phil.W: Great to hear from you Phil! How have you
听力原文：W: Hello.
M: Hi, Sally, this is Phil.
W: Great to hear from you Phil! How have you been doing？
M: To tell you the truth, I'm very worried about our final examinations next month. For one thing, I can't sleep.
W: I sympathize! I went through the same thing last year.
M: That's exactly why I'm calling you. Do you have any suggestions for coping with anxiety？ You know how I hate exams!
W: Well, last year the university offered a stress-management course at about this time. Have you been in contact with the student health services？
M: No, I haven't had time!
W: Funny, isn't it？ Just when students need help most, we can't afford the time to get it!
M: Well, perhaps I should find out more about this stress-management course. Things have got to get better!
W: I suggest you call the health services tomorrow. They open at nine a. m.
M: Thanks, ally. I'll let you know how it goes.
W: Best of luck! And have a good night's sleep!
M: That's easier said than done!
(20)
A．Anxiety.
B．Truth.
C．Sympathy.
D．Time.

When we listen for a particular purpose, to find information we need to know, the kind of listening we are involved in is called _______ listening.
A. central
B. focused
C. bottom-up
D. top-down