To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university held a series of activities includin
A.signify.
B.celebrate.
C.symbolize.
D.suggest.
A.signify.
B.celebrate.
C.symbolize.
D.suggest.
A.upswing
B.downswing
C.steady
The group once disbanded following that completion of its 1983 "Synchronicity" tour.
A.正确
B.错误
&8226;Which company does each sentence (11-15) describe?
&8226;For each sentence, mark one letter (A - H) on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
MARKET SHARE (%)
TURNOVER (£ MILLION)
MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM SHARE PRICES (£) 2006--2007
This company's share price ended the period lower than it started, its market share declined sharply, and its turnover also dropped.
in a space level (i.e. the complement of a mark) for one element period. This element is called the start bit and has a duration of T seconds. The transmitter then sends the character, l bit at a time, by placing each successive bit on the line for a duration of T seconds, until all bits have been transmitted. Then a single parity bit is calculated by the transmitter and sent after the data bits. Finally, the transmitter sends a stop bit at a mark level (i.e. the same level as the idle state) for one or two bit periods. Now the transmitter may send another character whenever it wishes.
At the receiving end of an asynchronous serial data link, the receiver continually monitors the line looking for a start bit. Once the start bit has been detected, the receiver waits until the end of the start bit and then samples the next N bits at their centers, using a clock generated locally by the receiver. As each incoming bit is sampled, it is used to construct a new character. When the received character has been assembled, its parity is calculated and compared with the received parity bit following the character. If they are not equal, a parity error flag is set to indicate a transmission error.
(1).When the transmitter wishes to send data, it first sends().
A.a character at the same time
B.a character to the line
C.the start bit
D.a mark level to the line
(2).The transmitter then send the character, for a duration of T seconds().
A.each bit
B.all bits
C.successive bits
D.a start bit and a character
(3).Finally, the transmitter sends a stop bit at the same level as for one or two bit periods().
A.the space level
B.the mark level
C.the complement of the mark level
D.another character
(4).At the receiving end of an asynchronous serial data link, the receiver().
A.does not monitor the start bit
B.waits until the beginning of the start bit
C.samples the start bit at its center
D.generates a local clock
(5).When the received character has been assembled, its parity().
A.is set to indicate a transmission error
B.is compared with the received character
C.is an error flag
D.may be equal to the received parity
When two hands meet, we pass on something of ourselves. After 【26】______ to Mark Twain, Helen—who was both deaf and blind—commented, "I can feel the twinkle of his eye 【27】______ his handshake." In some indefinable way, Twain had 【28】______ his charm to Keller.
And that's probably been true of the handshake all the 【29】______ back to its earliest days, — 【30】______ no one can tell its actual 【31】______ . A common explanation is that 【32】______ early man encountered a stranger, he 【33】______ out his hand to show he had no weapon. From this, supposedly, 【34】______ the handshake.
Not so, says historian Brian Burke. He believes, the handshake 【35】______ "putting your blood behind your breath." He explains that ancient people 【36】______ the spoken word alone, and they used the handclasp to signify that their 【37】______ was backed up by the 【38】______ of their heart—i, e. , their blood. 【39】______ , the handshake suggested trust.
That 【40】______ of trust has survived to this day. People in business often 【41】______ agreements simply by declaring, "Let's shake 【42】______ it."
Perhaps the most 【43】______ handshake took place on July 17, 1975, during the Apollo-Soyuz get-together in space. After the two crafts came together, American astronaut Thomas Stafford 【44】______ the extended hand of Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. The 【45】______ to the world was one of friendship and peace.
【26】
A.introducing
B.introduced
C.being introduced
D.having introduced
?Read the article below about how to read a balance sheet.
?Choose the best word from A, B, C or D to fill each gap.
?For each question 21-30 mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
HOW TO READ A BALANCE SHEET
A balance sheet is not like a Profit and Loss ac- count, which is a record of the activity transacted in a year and the profits (or losses) produced as a result. A balance sheet can be (21) of as a photograph, a moment (22) time, (usually the last day of the company's financial year), which shows exactly what the business owns. These may be buildings, cash, stocks or debts, i.e. amounts of money (23) to the business by customers.
A balance sheet may change from one Year to the next if, for example, a company sells one of its factories, if it (24) more money from its shareholders, if it repays some debt to the bank, or if it builds up its inventory of (25) goods.
But whatever happens to the composition of the assets of the business, any overall change in as- set (26) is reflected in me balance sheet. There is one further (27) to be made. Although the principle of a balance sheet is to have assets on one side and liabilities on the other, the fact is that-especially for public companies-shareholders want to be able to see What their (28) in the company is worth.
So a tradition bas (29) up which has meant that 'Creditors' is actually moved to the assets side as a negative amount. Structuring the balance sheet like this is simply a matter of (30) There is no commercial reason for presenting it in this way.
(21)
A.treated
B.thought
C.imagined
D.consider
Questions 29-24
•Read the newspaper article below about the creation of new jobs.
•Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B or C.
•For each question (29-40), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.
NEW JOBS
A new clothing company is hoping to create as (29) as 500 jobs in its factory and nationwide chain of stores. The company, New Trend, was set (30) by Peter Dalton, a 36-year-old businessman (31) Liverpool.
The company, (32) is due to start production early next year, will provide employment (33) 300 people in its factory on the edge of Liverpool. In 12 months' time, (34) will be a further 200 jobs, as the company begins opening shops in towns in (35) parts of Britain.
Peter Dalton is also (36) to open a shop in New York. He hopes that (37) this shop proves successful, the chain (38) expand across the whole of North America.
“This project has (39) me over four years to finalize,” says Peter Dalton, “and (40) that it's finally getting started, I'm really excited.”
(29)
A.much
B.many
C.lot
?Read the article below about decision rights in a company.
?Choose the correct word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C, or D.
?For each question 21—30, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound (21) on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the (22) line.
Consider the experience of one global conglomerate that recently shifted to its U. S. headquarters final decision (23) for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based (24) would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time needed to (25) the relevant information to headquarters, and for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely (26) Alert to this change, a European (27) added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients and winning new business as a result.
Such a scenario "happens all too often, "says Michael Jensen, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and managing director of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Group's organizational strategy practice. "Allocating decision rights in ways that (28) organizational performance is an extraordinarily difficult and controversial management task."
And therein lies a big problem, because how effective an organization is at making high-quality decisions (29) with its mission and objectives, the experts note, is a prime determinant of its ability to compete in the marketplace. It is found that though the (30) to effective decision-rights distribution can be high, several best practices promise to lower them.
(21)
A.result
B.effect
C.consequence
D.conclusion
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiate, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any people function in the lives of the individuals.
Now customs has been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior. at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior. more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays inexperience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
According to the passage, we can say that anthropology______.
A.can reveal an enormous diversity of traditions
B.can deal with human beings as one group of the creatures in the living world
C.can provide insights into the relationship between human beings and nature
D.can distinguish the human race from other creatures