A task for future scientists is to find out how an animal receives a warning sigrlal.A.Rig
A task for future scientists is to find out how an animal receives a warning sigrlal.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A task for future scientists is to find out how an animal receives a warning sigrlal.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A task for future scientists is to find out how an animal receives a warning signal.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
The first task which the speaker sets the students is to
A.analyse the reasons for the merger
B.make recommendations concerning the company's future strategy.
C.consider the company's responses to problems.
Task Two - Outcome
&8226;For questions 18-22, match the extracts with the outcomes, listed A-H.
&8226;For each extract, choose the outcome of the workshop.
&8226;Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the extract.
A More information will be passed down regularly.
B A topic was chosen for a future training course.
C A procedure for dealing with emergencies was introduced.
D Staff recruitment will be reduced.
E One of the participants decided to leave the company.
F A future meeting will review progress.
G Senior management was persuaded to reverse a decision.
H The company's appraisal system was abolished.
Practise discussing this task and answering the questions that follow.
Trade fair stand
Your company will soon have a stand at a trade fair abroad for the first time.
You have been given the job of organising the stand.
Discuss the situation together, and decide:
— what information and products you will need to provide on the stand
— what staffing requirements the stand will have.
Follow-up questions:
— Have you ever attended a trade fair?
— How useful do you think trade fairs can be in promoting a company's products or services?
— Might there be any problems in attending trade fairs?
— What other means are effective in promoting goods or services?
— Do you think the role of marketing will change in the future?
Practice preparing short talks on the topics below.
Task Sheet One
A WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?
Interviewing candidates for a job
- Personal qualities
- Qualifications
B WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN... ?
Conducting market research
- Competition
- Characteristics of sample
C WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?
Organising a training programme
- Availability
- Costs
Task Sheet Two
A WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?
Planning a career
- Qualifications
- Future trends
B WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN... ?
Choosing a new supplier
- Product quality
- Costs
C WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?
Delegating tasks
- Priorities
- Previous experience
Practise discussing this task, and the questions which follow it, with a partner:
STAFF TRAINING REVIEW
The organisation you work for plans to review the training it currently provides for staff and to make improvements. You are part of the team that has been appointed to contribute to the review.
Discuss, and decide together:
&8226;how to evaluate the training currently provided
&8226;how to set about meeting training needs
Follow-up questions:
&8226;Do you think all members of a company should receive training?
&8226;Are there types of training which are not appropriate for a company to provide for staff?
&8226;What training would you most like to receive?
&8226;How can the effectiveness of training be measured?
&8226;Do you think the kinds of training that companies provide will change in the future?
Second, people also learn that such【C8】______of cause and effect are probabilistic in nature. That is, the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are【C9】______, but not al ways.【C10】______, students learn that studying hard produces good grades【C11】______most instances, but not every time. Science makes these concepts of causality and probability more clear and【C12】______techniques for dealing with them more【C13】______than does causal human inquiry. In looking at ordinary human inquiry, we need to【C14】______between prediction and under .standing. Often, even if we don't under stand why, we are willing to act on the basis of a demonstrated【C15】______ability.
Whatever the primitive drives that【C16】______human beings, satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to predict future circumstances. The attempt to predict is often played in the【C17】______of knowledge and understanding. If you can understand why certain regular patterns【C18】______, you can predict better than if you simply ob serve those patterns. Thus, human inquiry aims【C19】______answering both "what" and "why" questions, and we【C20】______these goals by observing and figuring out.
【C1】
A.exhibit
B.exploit
C.release
D.expose
, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile.Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged-a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style. family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.
A)transplant
B)solution
C)gadually
D)transport
E)elemental
F)conflict
G)continually
H)mobile
I)couples
J)agricultural
k)including
L)compromise
M)requires
N)primary
O)consisting
As the life cycle【C11】______to its close, the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending(即将发生的)death.【C12】______this task is made difficult by the fact that death is almost a【C13】______subject in the United States. The mere discussion of death is often regarded as【C14】______. As adults many of us find the topic frightening and are【C15】______to think about it—and certainly not to talk about it【C16】______the presence of someone who is dying. Death has achieved this taboo【C17】______only in the modern industrial societies. There seems to be an important reason for our reluctance to【C18】______the idea of death. It is the very fact that death remains【C19】______our control; it is almost the only one of the natural processes【C20】______is so.
【C1】
A.better than
B.rather than
C.less than
D.other than