Our years of hard work are all in vain, ___________________ (更别提我们所花费的大量金钱了)
Our years of hard work are all in vain, ___________________ (更别提我们所花费的大量金钱了).
Our years of hard work are all in vain, ___________________ (更别提我们所花费的大量金钱了).
第3题
David ______ (将公司的成功归因于) the unity of all the staff and their persevering hard work.
第4题
According to the author, we can always find satisfaction in ______.
A.trying to make the world a better place
B.fulfilling our long-cherished dreams
C.accepting the good and evil sides of the world
D.standing up to the challenges of the world
第5题
听力原文:M: Good morning.
W: Good morning. Have a seat, please.
M: Thank you.
W: I have been looking through your application. You seem to have many qualifications needed for this position, especially experience.
M: I have been working in hotels for eight years now.
W: Oh, really. That's actually a long time. Were you satisfied with your last position?
M: To be honest, not entirely. The boss was touchy and hard to get along with. And chances for advancement were limited.
W: I see. Was it hard work?
M: No, it was an interesting job and I loved meeting people. I knew how to handle a bad-tempered guest. Anyhow I'd like to try something new.
W: But have you ever done anything to do with tour—tour guides?
M: I did work for a short time as a courier for a tour operator, taking foreigners on guided tours of London. Perhaps that's the sort of thing you mean.
W: Yes, I think it is. Do you speak any foreign languages?
M: Yes, I do. I speak German and Spanish—you see, l spent several years abroad when I was young.
W: Oh, did you? That's very interesting. Next question is salary, of course.
M: Well, I used to get $ 2,000 monthly, so I couldn't accept less than that.
W: Well, we ask for loyalty and hard work from our employees. But we pay well, and opportunities for promotion depend on merit, not just on age or seniority.
M: I'm very interested in working for your agency. And I don't mind hard work and working overtime.
W: That's fine. I have a few more applicants to interview today for this position. But at the moment, your chances look very good.
M: I'm glad to hear that. Thank you for your time.
W: Thank you for coming. We will be in touch with you shortly.
(20)
A.Interviewing a job applicant.
B.Filling a vacancy.
C.Looking for a tour guide.
D.Applying for a job.
第6题
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon’s long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
第16题:In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A) By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B) By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C) By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D) By reproducing it.
第7题
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illumination piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment (启蒙运动) to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect. In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. Because of this, we are depressed. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted.
But we are making a beginning, and there ought to be some satisfaction. There are probably no questions we can think up that can’t be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness. To be sure, there may well be questions we can’t think up, ever, and therefore limits to the reach of human intellect, but that is another matter. Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers, if we keep at it long enough, and pay attention.
第11题:According to the author, really good science ________.
A) would surprise the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment
B) will produce results which cannot be foreseen
C) will help people to make the right choice in advance
D) will bring about disturbing results
第8题
My job【C9】______ a police officer is to impose accountability【C10】______ people who refuse, or have never learned. But as every cop knows, external controls on people's【C11】______ are far less effective than【C12】______ restrains such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Yet more and more, especially in our large cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are【C13】______ .
The main cause of this breakdown is a radical【C14】______ in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was【C15】______ , society was considered victimized. Now, in a shocking reversal, it's the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn't teach him to read, by the church failed to reach him with moral【C16】______ , by the parents who didn't provide a【C17】______ home.
I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstance choose not to engage【C18】______ criminal activities. If we exempt the criminal even partly,【C19】______ accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We【C20】______ need more and more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.
【C1】
A.principle
B.criteria
C.standards
D.values
第9题
The author's general attitude towards video games is that ______.
A.video games create a world which reflect our real life
B.most video games are helpful rather than harmful to people
C.more research should be done regarding the benefits of video games
D.video games mirror a balance between reality and our own wishes
第10题
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boy friend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boy friend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating that I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't.I put the power of friendship to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boy friend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
What word best sums up Jennie's boy friend?
A.A drug user.
B.A loser.
C.A trouble maker.
D.A criminal.