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Preston and Xerox are__________.
A．trade names of two kinds of alcohol
B．popular manes of car engines
C．liquids used for car engines
D．trade names of a kind of antifreeze
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Words like "Xerox" are formed by
A．back-formation.
B．blending.
C．coinage.
D．acronym.
A．award
B．awards
C．awarded
D．awarding
Xerox is striving hard to create an environment where
A．they can foresee problems and solve them before they become uncontrollable.
B．they can face problems fairly and solve them immediately.
C．customers are getting what they want from the company.
听力原文：W: Could you give me a hand with this file cabinet？
M: All fight. Where will. you put it？
W: Against the wall, next to the Xerox machine.
What are the speakers doing？
A．Painting a room.
B．Moving office furniture.
C．Buying an instrument.
D．Hanging a poster.
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Samuel H. Preston, a sociologist at the Universjty of Pennsylvania, studied how the American family is changing. He reported that by the time the average American couple reaches 40 years of age, they have more parents than children. This finding shows the change in lifestyles (生活方式) and duties of aging Americans. The average middle-aged couple can look forward to caring for eld- erly parents some time after their own children have grown up.
Because Americans are living longer than ever, more researchers and social workers have be- gun to study care giving to improve care of the elderly. When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use community (社区) services, such as adult (成人) daycare centres. If the care givers are adult children, they are more'likely to use such services, especially because they of- ten have jobs and other business. However, the wife of an elderly person is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home. Social workers discovered that the reason for this difference was fear of becoming poor. An ill elderly person may live for years, and medical care and nursing homes are very expensive. An elderly couple's savings can disappear very quickly. The other half, usually the wife, can be left in poor living conditions. As a result, she often tries to take care of her husband herself for as long as she can.
64. An example of changes in American lifestyles is that
[A] they prefer to have more children
[B] the elderly like living with their children
[C] the middle-aged couples have different caregiving duties
[D] the average age for American couples to have children is 40
听力原文：M: New Land Conference Information Center. David Cruise speaking.
F: Good morning. I'm Mary Keller from Preston Training Center. I am ringing to get some information about conference facilities. We are going to hold a conference in a couple of weeks. It's an international conference and there will be 300 people involved. What we need now is one large conference room which can hold about 400 people and four small ones for group discussion. We would also like to have accommodation provided.
M: Yes, I see. Apart from size, what else are you looking for？
F: Well, the hotel must be close to the city, because some participants may want to tour around the town in the evening.
M: Then I think Crystal Hotel is a better choice. It has a very big conference room and is close to the city. Actually, it provides access by road.
F: It sounds pretty good. How much is the cost？
M: It's $250 for a large conference room and $100 for a small one. Of course, it is calculated by day.
F: Well, it's too expensive for us. You know, the conference will last for 4 days. That will cost too much. Can you provide some cheaper hotels？
M: Yes, how about Capitol Square Hotel and Hotel International？ Both of them have large conference rooms but Hotel International is a bit fax from the city.
F: What's the price for Capitol Square then？
M: The hotel has a 40% discount. So it's about $150 for a large room.
F: OK, I think this is a better choice. Do I have to pay a deposit？
M: yes, $100 for that. Can I have your name, please？
F: Keller from Preston Training Center. I'll send you a check tomorrow.
&8226;Look at the form. below.
&8226;You will hear a woman calling a conference information center.
New Land Conference Information Center
Booking Form
Name: Preston (5) _________________
Facilities needed: 1 large (6) _________________ and 4 small ones
Other requirements: close to the city
Hotel to be booked: Capitol Square Hotel
Cost: $150 for a large room, at (7) _________________
(8) _________________: $100
On a recent afternoon, Mulcahy had a talk with Business Week Associate Editor Robert Byrnes.
Xerox has been hit in the press and in the stock market because the restatement of revenue was about double what had been expected. Is that reaction fair？
This accounting issue tends to be somewhat miscast. That was all about an accounting methodology that had to do with the timing of revenue, not the authenticity of revenue.
What have you changed at Xerox in light of the question raised about the company's accounting and management over the past few years？
Historically, we were trying to run the business by product, by industry, by segment and by geography. And when you are into a multidimensional approach, it tends to get a little cloudy as to who is actually responsible. So we did clean up the organizational structure so that everybody sitting at the table has a clear responsibility.
I think that has helped everyone deliver on very concrete, deliverable objectives. And then we have held people accountable, and that is critically important when you are in the midst of a turnaround where you can't afford to waste a lot of time.
Some observers have been questioning whether, as a Xerox insider, you are the right person to turn around the company. Is it hard to make the tough calls, to tell a colleague you have known for years that they are just not measuring up？
I think that in the past two years I have probably made tougher decisions than most CEOs. We have had to shut down businesses. I don't think those are easy choices. I think they are really tough to do, and I don't think I want them to get easy.
What experience have you drawn on the most in the past two years？
Customer focus has to be at the top of its list. Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
The SEC ordered you, as part of the settlement, to reevaluate your internal financial controls. What are you doing in that regard？
That's not a new project. Over the last few years there have been a lot of changes. We outsourced internal audit to Ernst & Young to bring in more skills. I do an internal controls review at every operations review I do. We have also done things like a hotline for any kind of issue that popped, and that gets reviewed regularly and also gets reviewed with our audit committee. We do training for our management team on all sorts of ethics and compliance issues.
Xerox has been criticized for having a culture of denial. The SEC criticized the company for a lack of cooperation. Has that culture changed？
When a company goes through a crisis -- and we have -- it's an opportunity to face problems squarely and address them. We must spend all our time understanding what's not working well, what our customers want to see from us that they're not getting from us, and creating an environment where we can get in front of problems and not wait for them to become glaring that we have a crisis on our hands.
Why -- in the summer of 2001, when you became CEO -- didn't you immediately settle with the SEC？
At that point in time, people were being called to court, and documents were still being subpoenaed. There were all sorts of investigations still going on. It wasn't ready for a conclusion. We reversed the accounting. I don't think it's terribly productive for us at this point to spend a lot of time dissecting the past defend
A．the timing of revenue.
B．the genuineness of revenue.
C．the restatement of revenue.
听力原文： Richard Arkwright was born on December 23, 1732, in Preston, Lancashire, to a poor family. He was taught to read and write by his cousin, and later became apprenticed to a barber. Arkwright was an ambitious man, however, and soon struck out on his own. He started a wig-making business, in the course of which he travelled widely in Great Britain, collecting hair for his wigs. On his travels he met John Kay, who had invented a new spinning machine for the burgeoning textile industry. Arkwright was so impressed by Kay's machine that he hired the man to build it for him. The new Spinning Frame. produced a thread far stronger than any- thing available at that time, and it was able to spin 128 threads at one time. Equally important, from Arkwright's point of view, the machine did not require a skilled operator to run it. Unfortunately, the size of the Spinning Frame. made hand-operation impossible. Arkwright tried using horsepower, but finally settled on using a waterwheel to power the machine. In 1771 he and his business partners Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need established a factory on the banks of the River Derwent in Cromford, Derbyshire. Arkwright was the first to successfully create a system of mass-production. His factories and his methods were widely copied throughout Eng- land and around the world.
What was Richard Arkwright well known as？
A．A barber.
B．The founder of mass-production.
C．A traveller.
D．A skilled operator.
听力原文： The time is four o'clock.
There has been a serious accident on the M6 motorway in Lancashire, in which at least six people have lost their lives. It happened early this morning near Preston when a coach carrying 45 passengers collided with a heavy lorry. Rescue operations have been going on throughout the day, and a section of the motorway has been closed to traffic.
Important talks have been taking place at 10 Downing Street today between leaders. The Prime Minister and Trade Union leaders have agreed to work together to find ways of combating level of unemployment in British industry.
Meanwhile, the Government has failed to avert a national bus strike, and the bus drivers' union has announced that no buses will run from text Monday. The decision to go ahead with strike was announced by a union spokesman at the end of a meeting earlier this afternoon during which Government representatives failed to persuade the union and the employers to agree on a new wage plan.
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A．Two.
B．Three.
C．Four.
D．Five.
