1. Who lives on the west side of the street?
A.An old woman. | B.A family of five. | C.A brother and a sister. |
A.They have children. |
B.They have early jobs. |
C.They have health problems. |
A.By 9:00 p.m. | B.By 10:00 p.m. | C.By 11:00 p.m. |
A.There will be games. |
B.There will be food served. |
C.There will be a movie. |
2 . I often thought carefully and seriously about what my mother had said. At thought of my past conduct, a blush (脸红) of
It was not long after this that an
Glad to
“What do you
“Sir, you paid me two bills, instead of one.” said I,
“Two bills? Did I? Let me see; well, so I did. Well, I am glad you are
I returned home with a
A.shame | B.pleasure | C.nervousness | D.excitement |
A.bravery | B.pride | C.selfishness | D.carelessness |
A.design | B.follow | C.change | D.disobey |
A.accident | B.event | C.opportunity | D.example |
A.take | B.pay | C.offer | D.receive |
A.playing | B.bargaining | C.cooking | D.drawing |
A.request | B.answer | C.order | D.choice |
A.sadly | B.nervously | C.impatiently | D.quietly |
A.escape | B.finish | C.settle | D.reply |
A.key | B.sheet | C.paper | D.bill |
A.knew | B.thought | C.wondered | D.discovered |
A.dangerous | B.unexpected | C.puzzling | D.unsatisfactory |
A.remembered | B.heard | C.repeated | D.understood |
A.she | B.you | C.I | D.they |
A.went | B.walked | C.ran | D.wandered |
A.do | B.like | C.have | D.want |
A.trembling | B.keeping | C.getting | D.moving |
A.careful | B.brave | C.honest | D.friendly |
A.beating | B.broken | C.warm | D.lightened |
A.lessons | B.principles | C.regulations | D.moments |
1. When should the landlord be informed of the leaving?
A.A month earlier. | B.13 days earlier. | C.3 days earlier. |
A.The tenant doesn’t pay in advance. |
B.The tenant doesn’t sign a contract. |
C.The tenant doesn’t keep a contract. |
A.Single bathrooms. | B.Big yards. | C.Shared bedrooms. |
A.You’ll have to pay more. |
B.Your neighbors will complain. |
C.You’ll be forced to leave the house. |
In today’s world, most workers are highly specialized, but this specialization can come at a cost — especially for those on the wrong team. New research by Harvard’s Growth Lab uncovers the importance of teams and coworkers when it comes to one’s productivity, earning potential, and stays of employment. The research analyzed administrative data on the 9 million inhabitants of Sweden. It found that to earn high wages and returns on education, workers must find coworkers who complement(互补), but not substitute, them.
The research offers a tool to assess the right and wrong coworkers in fields of expertise. The right coworkers are those with skills you lack, yet needed to complete a team. The wrong coworkers are those who replicate(重叠) your skillset and eventually lower your value to the employer. For example, those with a degree in Architecture are best assisted by workers with engineering, construction, or surveying degrees, and negatively impacted by those with landscape or interior(室内) design degrees.
“We tend to think of skills as something personal that individuals can market to a company,” said Frank Neffke, Growth Lab Research Director. “However, this vision of skills is too simplistic. One person’s skills connect to another person’s skills, etc., and the better these connections, the more productive workers will be, and the more they will earn.” Neffke adds that the benefits of working with complementary coworkers are not the same for all workers. Those with higher levels of education seem to benefit much more from working in complementary teams than workers with lower levels. Over the past 20 years, workers with college degrees or higher have been increasingly able to find better matching coworkers.
Complementarity also drives careers. The research shows that people tend to stay longer in organizations with many complementary workers and tend to leave those with many workers who substitute them. These results hold true for up to 20 years of one’s career.
The research also supports several well-known facts, such as cities and large firms pay higher wages. Workers are more likely to find better fitting teams in cities, and large firms often allow workers to specialize.
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5 . A scientist
Now the question is why the monkey was unable to understand
A.kept | B.rose | C.fed | D.caught |
A.moving | B.removed | C.discovered | D.covered |
A.happily | B.anxiously | C.hurriedly | D.instantly |
A.suddenly | B.accidentally | C.occasionally | D.quickly |
A.as | B.that | C.what | D.until |
A.But | B.When | C.Therefore | D.Thus |
A.directions | B.explanations | C.performances | D.instructions |
A.effort | B.strength | C.power | D.force |
A.expecting | B.interesting | C.satisfying | D.desired |
A.what | B.how | C.why | D.which |
A.Probably | B.Likely | C.Simply | D.Nearly |
A.put | B.send | C.pay | D.shift |
A.gesture | B.mouth | C.hand | D.eye |
A.taken away | B.taken off | C.taken over | D.taken on |
A.that | B.the | C.those | D.this |
6 . Amazon.com Inc. is checking out of China’s fiercely competitive domestic e-commerce market. The company told sellers on Thursday that it would no longer
The decision marks an end to a long
Amazon has been in talks to
In a written statement, Amazon said it remained
When Amazon first entered China in 2004 with the
Amazon China commanded just 6% of gross market volume in the niche(细分的)cross - border e-commerce market in the fourth quarter of 2018, versus NetEase Kaola’s 25%
Chinese consumers are becoming more fascinated with
A.assist | B.expand | C.operate | D.tailor |
A.As a result | B.By contrast | C.For example | D.In addition |
A.criticism | B.negotiation | C.struggle | D.resolution |
A.interact | B.withdraw | C.split | D.survive |
A.associate | B.combine | C.exchange | D.supply |
A.time - consuming | B.long - suffering | C.ever - lasting | D.consumer - facing |
A.talks | B.businesses | C.competitions | D.instructions |
A.related | B.accustomed | C.exposed | D.committed |
A.automatically | B.directly | C.regularly | D.secretly |
A.breakdown | B.improvement | C.purchase | D.participation |
A.refund | B.payment | C.sponsorship | D.trade |
A.complicated | B.critical | C.original | D.insignificant |
A.share | B.budget | C.volume | D.maximum |
A.foreign | B.luxurious | C.domestic | D.fashionable |
A.dealt with | B.forgot about | C.got through | D.came across |
7 . Concerns about the harm caused by “too much” screen time—particularly when it is spent on social media—are widespread. But working out what a “healthy”
Some negative experiences on social media—like
Consider the picture painted by a UNICEF review of existing research into the effects of digital technology on children’s
The UNICEF report highlighted a 2017 study that examined 120,000 UK 15-year-olds. Among those teenagers who were the lightest users, it was found that increasing the time spent using technology was linked to
A broader look at evidence provided by some other high quality studies again suggests the story is not
So how much time should our children spend looking at screens? It is difficult to be
A.amount | B.comparison | C.experience | D.medium |
A.accounting for | B.boasting of | C.commenting on | D.worrying about |
A.general | B.particular | C.private | D.public |
A.domestic | B.material | C.physical | D.psychological |
A.complex | B.dramatic | C.harmless | D.predictable |
A.improved | B.maximum | C.relative | D.small |
A.As a rule | B.In contrast | C.On the whole | D.Worse still |
A.convincing | B.definite | C.probable | D.true |
A.estimating | B.experiencing | C.reducing | D.tracing |
A.connection | B.power | C.promotion | D.risk |
A.balanced | B.independent | C.precise | D.subjective |
A.agree | B.forget | C.object | D.remember |
A.equally | B.readily | C.reluctantly | D.weakly |
A.emotion therapy | B.social media | C.TV broadcasting | D.video game |
A.confident | B.optimistic | C.rough | D.wild |
8 . The notion of building brand personality is promoted by Starbucks as a part of company culture to embed meaning in their products and thus attract more customers.
Starbucks literally changed the definition of “a good cup of coffee”. For Starbucks, the brand had three elements: coffee,
Almost all Starbucks stores were corporately owned and controlled. Starbucks prided itself on the “Starbucks Experience”,
The green Starbucks logo is a mermaid that looks like the end of the double image of the sea. It was designed by Terry Heckler, who got the
Starbucks makes the typical American culture gradually broken down into elements of
But the
A.people | B.managers | C.customers | D.clients |
A.assured | B.promised | C.ensured | D.predicted |
A.emergency | B.environment | C.employment | D.customer |
A.consisted of | B.benefited from | C.contributed to | D.headed for |
A.going beyond | B.coming across | C.making up | D.depending on |
A.With regard to | B.In addition to | C.Compared with | D.In terms of |
A.general | B.reasonable | C.legal | D.fascinating |
A.committed | B.alerted | C.subjected | D.required |
A.negotiate | B.perform | C.conceal | D.escape |
A.imagination | B.inspiration | C.patent | D.philosophy |
A.creates | B.cultivates | C.credits | D.conveys |
A.brand | B.logo | C.possession | D.experience |
A.greedily | B.gently | C.persistently | D.indifferently |
A.busy | B.easy | C.miserable | D.energetic |
A.product | B.vision | C.essence | D.importance |
9 . A robot created by Washington State University (WSU) scientists could help elderly people with dementia (痴呆) and other limitations live independently in their own homes.
The Robot Activity Support System, or RAS, uses sensors installed in a WSU smart home to determine where its residents are, what they are doing and when they need assistance with daily activities. It navigates (定位) through rooms and around obstacles to find people on its own, provides video instructions on how to do simple tasks and can even lead its owner to objects like their medication or a snack in the kitchen.
“RAS combines the convenience of a mobile robot with the activity detection technology of a WSU smart home to provide assistance in the moment, as the need for help is detected,” said Bryan Minor, a postdoctoral researcher in the WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Currently, an estimated 50 percent of adults over the age of 85 need assistance with every day activities such as preparing meals and taking medication and the annual cost for this assistance in the US is nearly $2 trillion. With the number of adults over 85 expected to triple by 2050, researchers hope that technologies like RAS and the WSU smart home will relieve some of the financial strain on the healthcare system by making it easier for older adults to live alone.
RAS is the first robot researchers have tried to incorporate into their smart home environment. They recently published a study in the journal Cognitive Systems Research that demonstrates how RAS could make life easier for older adults struggling to live independently.
“While we are still in an early stage of development, our initial results with RAS have been promising,” Minor said. “The next step in the research will be to test RAS’ performance with a group of older adults to get a better idea of what prompts, video reminders and other preferences they have regarding the robot.”
1. How does RAS serve elderly people?A.Through sensors. | B.Through objects. |
C.Through a mobile robot. | D.Through their daily activities. |
A.It is the first robot used in daily life. | B.Its function remains to be tested. |
C.It can locate people and do any task. | D.It can cook for owners on its own. |
A.Doubtful. | B.Negative. |
C.Optimistic. | D.Uncertain. |
A.Elderly people leave the nursing home. |
B.Smart Home Tests first elder-Care robot. |
C.RAS, the first robot to make home smart. |
D.Older adults have benefited from RAS. |
10 . Ring! Ring! Ring! It was early in the morning and I knew who was
Still, I answered the phone and
As the class started, the students
The results were
I remembered something that I once read: “Every day is a new opportunity to
A.bothering | B.calling | C.knocking | D.playing |
A.pay | B.impress | C.support | D.provide |
A.waited | B.asked | C.looked | D.headed |
A.please | B.test | C.persuade | D.surprise |
A.patient | B.honest | C.satisfied | D.angry |
A.want | B.need | C.choose | D.hesitate |
A.refused | B.received | C.took | D.completed |
A.manage | B.pretend | C.expect | D.afford |
A.agreed | B.decided | C.appeared | D.started |
A.in time | B.at last | C.at once | D.once again |
A.strict | B.worried | C.mad | D.disappointed |
A.clear | B.useful | C.fun | D.difficult |
A.strange | B.funny | C.important | D.amazing |
A.changed | B.divided | C.returned | D.disappeared |
A.again | B.even | C.finally | D.nearly |
A.confused | B.happy | C.tired | D.upset |
A.check | B.settle | C.discover | D.begin |
A.chance | B.choice | C.risk | D.goal |
A.spend | B.forget | C.waste | D.save |
A.learning | B.trying | C.asking | D.thinking |