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听力原文：M: Excuse me, can you tell me how I can get to the Government Building？
W: Of course, go straight for two blocks, and then look to the right.
What does the woman mean？
A．The man needs to continue walking.
B．The man needs to go straight back for two blocks.
C．He has already passed the building.
D．The building is to his right.
听力原文： Good morning! I am pleased to address you today at this 2nd IT Outsourcing Conference and Expo. If my memory serves me right, I spoke on a similar occasion last year and, like you, I find that the notion of IT Outsourcing has taken on some new dimensions. I should like to share some of my thoughts with you.
Catalyzed by international trading, the business environment has become increasingly competitive nowadays. To strive for survival or sustain competitiveness in market, organizations have in work on initiatives to reduce costs and enhance efficiency. Outsourcing has been an important strategy to help achieve these organizational goals. Through outsourcing, organizations can farm out non-core functions to outsourcers, enabling the organizations to re-prioritize and re-direct their resources on their core areas of competency. With this value preposition, it is common to see outsourcing being enlisted on the standing agenda of most organizations today. In this regard, from what I can observe government departments are not immune to competitive forces. In fact, in some cases government faces some unique and more challenging situations than the private sector when it comes to outsourcing. These include the procurement framework, the business and contract models, terms of payment, and measures to address the issues arising from surplus staff as a result of outsourcing.
Let me spend a few minutes on the outsourcing landscape as we see it. Over the years, the classical model of IT outsourcing, e.g. project-by-project outsourcing, has taken on new varieties, including organizational and business process Outsourcing. With the maturity of the outsourcing market and the increasing integration between business and IT, we see there is an increasing trend for organization to consider business process outsourcing. With these additional choices, the approach to Outsourcing in a given organization has become necessarily complex and requires in some cases careful crafting of contracts and extensive due diligence exercises.
We also see a growing trend of outsourcing taking place in this part of the region too. In a recent forecast by Gartner, it predicts that the Asia/Pacific IT services market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 9 percent through 2009, outpacing the global growth rate of 5.5 percent. We see the growth mainly coming from countries such as China and India which have been actively developing their Outsourcing markets in the recent years.
？You will hear an opening keynote at the 2nd IT 0utsourcing Conference & Expo.
？As you listen, for questions 1—12, complete the notes, using up to three words or a number.
？You will hear the recording twice.
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NOTES
Outsourcing in general:
1. The business environment has become increasingly______
2. Organizations try to reduce costs and______
3. Outsourcing can help achieve these______
4. In most organizations today, outsourcing has been enlisted on the______
5. Government departments are not immune to______
6. Government faces some unique and more challenging situations than the
Outsourcing Trends:
7. Spend a few minutes on the outsourcing______
8. One classical model of IT outsourcing is______
9. There is an increasing trend for organization to consider______
10. The approach has become necessarily______
11. The Asia/Pacific IT services market will row at a rate of 9 percent through______
12. The growth mainly comes from countries such as______
It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus—＄66 million. Greece has a decent reserve of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.
In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don't mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece's problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of ＄60 to ＄70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countrysides, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here:
"Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points."
Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.
Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities, Tourism itself has jumped from approximately＄31 million to over ＄90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.
The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is ______.
A．Greek income and expenditures
B．The improving economic situation in Greece
C．The value of tourism
D．Military expenditures
听力原文：M: So, you're an architect.
W: Yes.
M: Do you work for a public or a private organization, or you're self-employed, that is working on you own？
W: I'm working for a private designing construction company.
M: How did you start your career？
W: I started it with the government.
M: Oh, did you？ What made you decide to work for the government？
W: Well, it was a matter of chances, really. I saw an advertisement for a vacant position in the newspaper and I thought "why don't you try it". In fact, I have no preferences where I work, public or private.
M: And do you still have this idea, or...
W: More or less, yes. Although I'm now working with a private firm, I worked for the government for about three years. It was all right. Of course, there is the bureaucracy that one has to put up with but that's no that had. If you don't mind bureaucratic wheels turning slowly and things not being as efficient.
M: Mm, ha, and what made you leave the public sector？
W:Money mainly. You see, I got married, and my husband doesn't work, and we wanted to start a family right away. So we thought it might be better if I moved to the private sector. This is why it's hard for me to be self-employed, because self-employed work has a disadvantage that there may be time or a period of time when you are unemployed.
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A．A newspaper.
B．The government.
C．A construction firm
D．A private company,
W: I finished it, but I ended up changing the topic.
M: Hmm, what did you finally come up with？
W: Well, I decided that state taxation was too large of an issue, so I focused on a single state. It turned out that one state stood out from the others in terms of taxes.
M: Which one was that？
W: Alaska. Alaska is the only state that pays its citizens instead of taking taxes from them.
M: What？ The people in Alaska are paid by the government？
W: That's right. Since the discovery of oil there in the 1970's, there has been enormous amounts of money spent by corporations in order to take out the oil and the state charges the companies such large taxes that the state government typically has budget surpluses.
M: But other states have industries too. They don't pay the people tax money.
W: Yes, but in proportion to the amount of people living in the state, Alaska receives an extremely high amount of taxes from its industries. In order to correct the budget surplus,it was decided that the people who lived there would get the money back.
M: Wow, maybe I should move to Alaska.
W: Not so fast, the money only goes to people who have lived there for at least ten years. By the time you live there that long, there might not be any money left.
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A．The history of taxes.
B．The state of Texas.
C．The importance of oil.
D．The taxes of Alaska.
On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration...
I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution:
"That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to victorious conclusion."
To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at many other points--in Norway and in Holland--and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to the Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy？ I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim？ I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs--victory in spite of all terrors--victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival...
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.
I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with united strength."
A. To perersuade the government to build new houses.
B. To protest about a new motorway near the town.
C. To encourage more people in the town to use Parson's Place.
D. To inform. other people about the builders' plans.
M: Really？ That's too bad. Aren't you feeling well？
W: Oh, it's nothing bad. There's going to be a public meeting down the town hall. The state senator from this area is going to be there. She has this meeting three or four times a year to speak with her constituency.
M: Is that what you'd like to do with your evening, going to listen to a politician's...
W: Actually, it's a class assignment. Prof Jackson, he's teaching that political science seminar I'm taking. He told all of us in the seminar to go to hear what the senator has to say tonight and also write up a report about the issues people bring up.
M: Oh, like medical care, and tax and...？
W: Right, as long as I'm there, I think I'd like to bring up government funding for state universities. The tuition keeps going up and it's getting harder and harder for a lot of students to afford it.
M: Tell me about it.
W: Anyway, I want to do a really good job on this report. I need to get a letter of recommendation from Prof Jackson for graduate school. So I guess I'd better show up there tonight and see what's going on.
M: Yeah, but, what about the history test？
W: Well, I already put some time in on that this morning. So I think by tomorrow afternoon, I'll be ready.
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A．She has seen a doctor recently.
B．She's concerned about medical care.
C．She's unable to attend the study session.
D．She mentions the need for some medical tests.
根据以下材料，回答题。
A Letter from Alan-
I have learnt of a plan to build three hundred houses on the land called Parson"s Place by the football ground. Few people know about this new plan to increase the size of our town. For me， Parson"s Place is special because it is a beautiful natural area where local people can relax——the small wood has many unusual trees and the stream is popular with fishermen and bird-watchers. It"s very quiet because there are few houses or roads nearby. I think that losing this area will be terrible because we have no other similar facilities in the neigh bour hood.
I am also against this plan because it will cause traffic problems. How will the people from the new houses travel to work？ The motorway and the railway station are on the other side of town. There fore these people will have to drive through the town centre every time they go anywhere.
The roads will always be full of traffic， there will be nowhere to park and the tourists who come to see our lovely old buildings will leave. Shops and hotels will lose business. If the town really needs more homes，the empty ground beside the railway station is a more suitable place.
No doubt the builders will make a lot of money by selling these houses. But，in my opinion， the average person will quickly be made poorer by this plan. As well as this， we will lose a very special place and our town will be much less pleasant.
I am going to the local government offices on Monday morning to protest about this plan and I hope that your readers will join me there. We must make them stop this. plan before it is too late.
Why has Alan written this letter？ 查看材料
A.To persuade the government to build new houses.
B.To protest about a new motorway near the town.
C.To encourage more people in the town to use Parson"s Place.
D.，To inform. other people about the builders" plans.
—Read the article below about "China Enters Cyberspace" and the questions.
—For each question 13-18, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.
China Enters Cyberspace
Although research into the Internet began in the 1980's in China, it was not until the mid 90's that the country cautiously joined the information highway. These days however, it seems that China is ready to jump onto the "Net" with both feet. Personal Computers (PCs) are the hottest selling item on the market in major Chinese cities. At night, hundreds of Chinese who don't own a PC crowd into the now familiar Internet Cafes, where Net time costs US $3.60 an hour. Web sites from around the world can be flashing on the screens of most high-tech companies, and many believe the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport China into the through the 21st century.
Even though Chinese government officials are somewhat concerned about the Western content on the Internet, it is clear they want to make use of what the superhighway has to offer. The Net is so appealing in improvement-obsessed China that usage is growing more than 40% a year. "It's a daily necessity," says a Beijing Foreign Studies University student. "I plan to get online soon. I feel like I miss a lot of things and I don't want to lag behind." It seems everywhere you go the air is buzzing with talk of how to best use this modern technology.
Possibilities
The country has 350 million children to educate what better vehicle than interactive televisions. The Finance Ministry needs to establish bank and savings accounts for China's 284 million worker—what more effective solution than smart cards？ Agricultural planners dream of more productive Chinese farms how easier to send weather and agricultural information to 323 million farmers than over the Web？
To tap these benefits, China has embarked on a series of nine "golden projects" that will require state-of-the art technology in everything from health-care to finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired with a golden smart card, all part of health and financial network.
This smart card or identification card, will contain vital statistics about each person, and will automatically take a proportion of that persons salary as government "golden tax" via a microchip. Bryan Nelson, Microsoft’s director in the region, says, "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is the Chinese seem to understand that better than some people in the West actually." The window is still small though—only 3,000,000 Chinese have access to the Internet, vs. some 25 million in the U. S.—but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China—once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline has quadrupled in 1998, the result of newly liberalized government regulations. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56 kilobit—some U.S. homes have more bandwidth than that. Now china has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and the company ATT has just been hired to make it even bigger. Will china really have 4 million citizens on line by 2000？ "Try 20 million." says Internet Cafe owner Charles Zhang, who has watched the government exceed growth targets in everything from telephones to agricultural output. The theory behind Chinese leaders' enthusiasm is that technology and competitiveness are deeply linked.
Obstacles
There are plenty Of obstacles to overcome between now and 2010. but the two biggest-limited ownership of both personal computers and the telephones—are fading. Perhaps the biggest obstacle t
A．number of people
B．university students
C．children
D．Western content
Despite that the wave of industrial development that has 【M1】______
swept much of East Asia in recent decades, the country of 80
million remains extremely poor, mismanaged and still' was 【M2】______
predominant agrarian. But the Philippines docs play a visible 【M3】______
role in the global economy, thanks largely to a single export
commodity—its people. According to the government, I mil
lion Philippines will go abroad as contract workers this year, 【M4】______
the biggest exodus ever. "The Philippines has already sur
passed Mexico as the largest source of migrant labor in the
word," says Manolo I. Abella, a migration specialist at the
International Labour Office in Geneva. In all, about 8 mil
lion Filipinos—an astounded one tenth of the country's 【M5】______
citizens—currently work overseas to support families back home.
They remit more than ＄ 7 billion annually, according to the
government, and that's only' official transfers. A recent Asian 【M6】______
Development Bank report put the real figure in the ＄ 14
billion to ＄ 21 billion range a sum that dwarfs both foreign direct
investment and aid flowing into the country, and amounts
3 2 percent of GNP. In the past, the Philippines 【M7】______
is shamed by its inability to create enough good jobs to keep 【M8】______
its people at home. But hard economic reality—a 14 percent
unemployment rate and one of the highest poverty indexes in
the world (nearly half the population subsists on less than ＄ 2
a day)—has shifted the sentiment. Today, in a move that
countries like Indonesia and Bangladesh are likely to emulate
itself, the government takes the position that, like it or not, 【M9】______
the overseas workers constitute nation's biggest comparative
advantage in an increasingly borderless world. And so Manila
makes it easy for its citizens to immigrate, and works hard, 【M10】______
through its embassies, to see that their rights as foreign workers
are protected.
【M1】
