OriginalityandFairPlay(3)

OriginalityandFairPlay（3）

Originality and Fair Play(3)

Grammar and Vocabulary

Choose one word or phrase that best completes each

sentence.

1、 However, he always distinguished between the ______ of

a service and its financing.

A. store

B. provision

C. reserve

D. supply

2、 At first, whenever he was on leave he was keen to hang

______ with his old no-good friends, but eventually he lost interest

in them.

A. up

B. about

C. on

D. over

3、 Men must pay in to the trade society to which they ______

their labour.

A. alter

B. shift

C. transfer

D. vary

4、 He was a courtly, gentle and ______ man, never known to

slight or embarrass others.

A. consistent

B. continuous

C. considerate

D. continual

5、 So to justify the extra effort needed, the demand for

fluency in Mandarin would have to be ______ above demand for,

say, French.

A. way

B. all

C. more

D. high

6、 Therefore, anyone hawking a program for a perfected

world was selling a ______ promise.

A. blank

B. hollow

C. vacant

D. bare

7、 Even before announcing his run for the presidency, Bush

was quite explicit with a biographer about the joyous prospects

of invading a country like Iraq to ______ his approval numbers and

build political capital.

A. pump up

B. make up

C. drill for

D. turn on

8、 While African Americans as a whole are less likely to

afford laptops and personal computers, Internet-savvy blacks are

more ______ to blog than whites and Latinos.

A. opt

B. apt

C. bound

D.

prostrate

9、 Many of these extinction survivors seemed to share a

common ______: They were all small.

A. trail

B. trait

C. trace

D. track

10、 Two years ago, a federal administrative law judge found

that the newspaper had bargained in bad ______ with the union

since 2007.

A. taste

B. shape

C. light

D. faith

11、 The fact that a bill which overhauls our complex health

care system was passed in mere hours without debate should

worry all of us, but Americans

are perfectly capable of buying a pig in a ______.

A. pen

B. poke

C. wok

D. field

12、 Australia's ski slopes could be completely ______ of

natural winter snow by 2050 unless concerted action is taken

against global warming.

A. bare

B. free

C. full

D.

critical

13、 Such payback means, by definition, that while we once

could float a lifestyle that cost, say, 120% of what we earned, now

we shall have to do with lifestyle that costs, say, 80% of our

income, ______.

A. with the rest go to pay down what we owe

B. with rest goes to pay down what we owe

C. with the rest going to pay down what we owe

D. the rest going to pay down what we owe

14、 They say ______ people put walls up, not because they

want to block people out, but because they want to see who

cares enough to knock them down.

A. sometime

B. sometimes

C. some time

D. some times

15、 Japan's traditional Nakizumo, or crying sumo, festival

took place Sunday as babies competed to ______ the loudest in

the arms of sumo wrestlers as a prayer to the gods for good

health.

A. bawl

B. peddle

C. vend

D. weep

16、 The ______ side is that it costs jobs, with factories

typically only needing a small proportion of the workforce

required when operated conventionally.

A. ill

B. leaky

C. flop

D. flip

17、 The promise of a scheme that can ______ 75%-90% of

your debt is not to be taken lightly.

A. write off

B. write over

C. let fall

D. stick down

18、 The 15 "recommended goods" have photos and

resumes with their "starting prices", ______ their expected

monthly pay, ranging from RMB2000-3000.

A. e.g.

B. viz.

C. n.b.

D. vs.

19、 Which of the following prepositional phrases functions

as an object complement?

A. Back at his farm, Penelope, his wife, called her suitors fools.

B. Most people did not get a first glimpse of the wonder of

television until the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York.

C. My supervisor considers his least favorite duty dealing

with customers.

D. The guidebook has announced the best place to swim

along the north beach.

20、 ______ before we depart the day after tomorrow, we

should have a wonderful dinner party.

A. Had they arrived

B. Would they arrive

C. Were they to arrive

D. Were they arriving

Reading Comprehension

In this section there are four passages followed by questions

or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers

marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best

answer.

The word on the lips of many of the 17 leaders of the

eurozone following this week's meeting of heads of state—the

18th summit, for those who are counting—is Eurobonds. The

ideas behind them, though, are out of sync. "Europe can have

Eurobonds soon," Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti insisted.

"[The] taboo surrounding Eurobonds has been lifted," European

Council President Herman Von Rompuy declared. Not so fast,

German Central Bank chief Jens Weidmann chimed in, "It is an

illusion to think Eurobonds will solve the current crisis."

So, what exactly is a Eurobond? Briefly put, it is a tool

intended to collectivize debt across all eurozone countries. Right

now, to raise funds, eurozone members have only one option:

selling national bonds. The market determines the value of these

bonds based on each country's fiscal and economic health. The

problem is that as some European countries were roiled by a

national asset bubble (Ireland) or experienced a decade of

lackluster economic growth while racking up unsustainable levels

of debt (Greece and Portugal), they became unable to tap private

markets, and their existing debt became prohibitively expensive

to pay back. To service their debt, these countries had to receive

funds from the International Monetary Fund, the European

Central Bank, and the European Commission. But with the crisis

deepening and spreading to Italy and Spain, it looks like another

solution is required: the Eurobond.

In theory, Eurobonds would allow debt-ridden countries like

Greece to borrow at more affordable interest rates. For instance,

according to the Guardian newspaper, if Eurobonds were

adopted, Portugal would see its annual debt repayments fall by

as much as $18 billion or 9 percent of GDP Other struggling

European countries, such as Italy, Spain, or even France, would

likely see similar savings.

But even as Eurobonds relieved the crisis in the periphery;

they would increase the borrowing costs of countries in better

financial health. For example, according to the same article, if

Eurobonds were introduced, Germany's borrowing costs would

rise above the current eurozone average, costing Berlin an extra

$62 billion, or 2 percent of GDP, per year to service its debt.

What prevents the wealthier countries, or more specifically

Germany, from getting to yes on Eurobonds? In a nutshell, moral

hazard: If Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were allowed

to borrow at lower rates, the market pressure to implement deep

and difficult structural reforms would disappear. The path to

European redemption, according to German leaders and the

European Central Bank, must only come through difficult reforms

and fiscal discipline, not the same sort of low-cost borrowing that

got the periphery countries into their current difficulties. This

moral hazard argument was precisely why Germany demanded a

fiscal compact treaty (which maintains strict fiscal debt and

deficit limits) in December in return for additional bailout funds.

21、 What is the main idea of this article?

A. Germany's attitude towards Eurobonds.

B. The debate of using Eurobonds to relieve European

economic crisis.

C. The EU is replete with divergences and conflicts.

D. The debt-ridden European countries are struggling to

survive.

22、 Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Germany pin their hopes on difficult reforms and fiscal

discipline.

B. Eurobonds are both a blessing and a curse.

C. Germany cannot see eye to eye with other debt-ridden

countries.

D. Germany stokes the recovery of the European economic

crisis.

23、 What is the role of Germany in the EU?

A. It plays the role of a villain.

B. It only helps itself regardless of other countries.

C. It is respected and supported by European nations.

D. Its role is too minimal to be counted.

24、 Why did the European countries fail to attract private

markets?

A. They have terrible fiscal and economic health.

B. They are characterized by internal dissension.

C. The global economy is in recession.

D. The investors are overwhelmingly pessimistic.

25、 Why is Germany against the passing of Eurobonds?

A. It imposes stress on its cost of debt and moral hazard.

B. It does not want to get involved in the troubled waters.

C. It cannot solve the root problem of European economy.

D. It wants to protect its own interests.

Lord Leveson's inquiry into the British press yesterday tackled

one of the most pressing mysteries facing government and the

media: how on earth does Rupert Murdoch ever get anything

done?

By his own, often amusing, account, the 81-year-old head of

News Corporation never asks for favours from politicians, does

not give orders to his editors and has very little charisma. Given

this, it is a puzzle how, over 43 years, he has managed to build

the UK's most powerful media company and break his way into

US newspapers, television and film.

The polite way to describe Mr Murdoch's evidence—on the

heels of his son James's disclosures about private

communications with the office of Jeremy Hunt, the culture

secretary—is implausible. It was belied by his presence—droll,

dismissive and impatient, he was not the "deaf, doddery, proud

old man" observed by Tom Watson, the Labour MR in parliament

last July. It is now obvious, despite Mr Murdoch's modesty, that

News Corp has exercised an unholy grip over British politicians,

who helped it to avoid anti-trust barriers as it bought The Times

and the Sunday Times in 1981, and British Sky Broadcasting in

1990. Those politicians were so in awe of Mr Murdoch that they

leapt to accommodate him without him needing to ask out loud.

It is also clear that cabinet ministers can be trusted to

adjudicate impartially on media mergers about as much as they

could be trusted before 1997 to set interest rates for the good of

the economy, as opposed to their parties. After the fiasco of

Vince Cable, the business secretary, "declaring war" on the

Murdochs over their attempted full acquisition 0fBSkyB comes

Mr Hunt's humiliation.

The long-term question is how to prevent another baron—perhaps a rich eacutemigreacute such as Evgeny Lebedev,

chairman of the Evening Standard and The Independent—from

pulling off the trick again. In a fluid and troubled market, roiled

by the internet and loss-making papers, there will be

opportunities similar to the ones Mr Murdoch seized.

One way for any company to rise rapidly to dominance in a

foreign market is to pay bribes to local officials, as Walmart is

accused of having done in Mexico. The New York Times reported

last weekend that Walmart paid out more than $24m in

"envelopes of cash" to mayors and city council members to be

allowed to build stores.

The other is to wield influence on elections. Humbert Wolfe's

observation that: "You cannot hope to bribe or twist the British

journalist. But, seeing what the man will do, there's no occasion

to" applies equally to a politician facing a media mogul.

26、 What is the main idea of this article?

A. How Mr Murdoch survived the crisis of his company.

B. The reason for Mr Murdoch's success.

C. The relationship between politics and media.

D. The prosperity of Mr Murdoch's media conglomerate.

27、 Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Politicians admire Mr Murdoch.

B. Mr Murdoch asks rewards from politicians.

C. The present market bears great opportunity for would-be

Murdochs.

D. The cabinet ministers have their own bias toward media

mergers.

28、 What is the meaning of "fiasco" in Paragraph 5?

A. Catastrophe.

B. Success.

C. Story.

D. Ownership.

29、 Which of the following is NOT listed as useful for a

company to thrive in a foreign market?

A. Paying bribes to local officials.

B. Wielding influence on the local elections.

C. The leaders' charisma.

D. Taking advantage of digital media while strengthening

monopoly of traditional media.

30、 Why is it important to prevent another Mr Murdoch?

A. It would be dangerous to the press freedom.

B. It would unbalance the relationship between government

and media.

C. It would give too much power to citizens.

D. It brings potential problems of monopoly.

When public sector work nosedived as the austerity drive

took hold, one company realised it would have to look elsewhere

for the construction-based work on which its fortunes relied. The

answer was clear—China.

Anthony Walker & Partners, the Newcastle-based firm of

landscape architects, found its workload halved after the

coalition scrapped a host of state school building projects in 2010.

Forced to close its Manchester office and cut staff from 24 three

years ago to 10 now, it urgently needed new business. Now, as it

prepares to open an office in the southern Chinese city of

Shenzhen, Steve Laws, director and owner of AWP, says the

Chinese market has become "almost an essential lifeline ... the

Chinese work has given us a light to work towards".

If the UK is to raise its inadequate share of exports to

emerging markets, more companies will also have to take the

plunge.

Exports are a big coalition priority. George Osborne,

chancellor, wants to double UK exports to ￡1tn a year by 2020.

On current trends, emerging markets will account for 60 percent

of global output by the mid-2020s.

British exports were up 11 percent to ￡50bn last year,

including significant increases to Brazil, Russia, South Africa,

China and India. But 70 percent still go to North America, the EU,

Japan and Switzerland, while fewer than 10 percent go to the 10

largest emerging economies.

A FTSE 100 chief executive says: "I think businesses are being

too risk averse, particularly around exports. With the level of

sterling ... you would have expected to see a bigger improvement

in export activity."

Taking the leap into emerging markets can be daunting,

especially for small companies. There are differences in language

and culture, as well as pitfalls such as avoiding Chinese

counterfeiters. Mr Laws, however, has

encountered more bureaucracy in the UK than China. "It's

very difficult for us to open doors in the UK. Sometimes public

sector tendering is quite restrictive, [with] a lot of box-ticking."

For Green Fuels, a Gloucestershire company that makes

equipment to turn cooking oil into biofuel, the switch to exports

has been dramatic.

The company, co-founded nine years ago by James Hygate,

managing director, and his father, at first grew rapidly in the UK,

where its equipment is used to make biofuel for the royal train

and Prince Charles's Aston Martin.

But, he adds: "If we can get them to understand the British

way of doing things. I think we shall do very well."

31、 What is the main idea of this article?

A. The cultural shock confronting British businessman.

B. The British companies are looking for niche in overseas

market.

C. The repercussion of austerity policy.

D. The survival of British companies.

32、 Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. British encountered less bureaucracy in the UK than China.

B. The public sector work plunged.

C. The Chinese market gives the British a promising future.

D. Emerging markets still lag behind North America in the

export proportion of UK.

33、 Why do the companies look for new overseas market?

A. The domestic market is already saturated.

B. They want to benefit from globalization.

C. Public sector work falls off with the government austerity

prevailing.

D. They are seized by ambition and greed.

34、 What does the FTSE 100 chief executive mean by saying

that in Paragraph 6?

A. The British export should outmatch the present level.

B. The British are too risk sensitive to succeed.

C. The British are not aware of their weakness.

D. The export activity is quite normal.

35、 What is the meaning of the word "counterfeiter"?

A. Businessman.

B. Public servant.

C. Heretic.

D. Forger. Here's the thing about being a brand name: What

people want most from you is a kind of comforting predictability.

Variations on a theme, sure, but when we pop open a can of Coke,

it had bloody well better taste like Coke. And so it is with Anna

Quindlen, who's as close to a brand name as a writer can be. Her

twinkling aphorisms, her gentle homespun humor, her mulling

over what might be termed White People Problems: this is what

her fans expect from her. And this is what she serves to them in

generous portions in Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. Quindlen's

latest collection of essays deals with crossing the Rubicon from

late middle age to early old age. Each chapter muses on a

different aspect of the way her life (and, by inference, ours) has

changed as she moves from her 50s toward her 60s. With

headings like "Faith", "Expectations" and "Mirror, Mirror",

Quindlen leads us to examine what we already know—and makes

us feel good for being so clever as to know it.

News flash: Solitude can be wonderful. Our girlfriends are

incredibly important to us. Society has an unacceptable view of

women's bodies. Fear is the great enemy. Having stuff is not that

important. Even though our butts have fallen, most of us would

not want to be 20 again. Life is unpredictable—or, as Quindlen

puts it, in lines that could easily be sewn into one of the samplers

she loves: "I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future,

it turns out, is not a tote bag." Huh. I've also heard that life is like

a box of chocolates. But in any case, Quindlen's readers don't love

her for giving

them news. They love her for being the person they'd like to

have a cup of coffee with. So would I. Just don't drown it in cream

and sugar.

Do I sound a little churlish? I suppose I am. I was with her

through the '80s and early '90s, when Quindlen was one of the

first, and certainly the best, to write about family and balance

outside the confines of women's magazines. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for the New York Times, she showed that

domestic issues were worthy of serious examination, and she was

a bold yet nuanced voice on topics ranging from spousal abuse

to abortion. She can still be wryly funny, as when she tells us, in

a chapter called "Push"—a perfect title for both having kids and

today's helicopter parenting—that "keeping up with the Joneses

turned into keeping up with the Joneses' kids."

36、 What is the main idea of this article?

A. Quindlen's way of life.

B. How Quindlen becomes a brand writer.

C. Book review of Quindlen's latest collection of essays Lots

of Candles, Plenty of Cake.

D. Quindlen's books make people feel satisfied with their life.

37、 Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Readers love Quindlen because they can talk about life

with her.

B. Quindlen is the first to write about family and balance

outside the confines of women's magazines.

C. Quindlen has won a Pulitzer Prize.

D. Quindlen is a serious writer without any homespun humor.

38、 Why does Quindlen become a brand name?

A. She is good at marketing her books.

B. Her books offer readers comforting predictability.

C. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

D. She is a prolific writer.

39、 What does Quindlen write about?

A. Philosophy of life, family and balance outside the confines

of women's magazines.

B. Her idea of being old.

C. Her ways of life from 50 to 60.

D. Unpredictable life.

40、 What is the meaning of the word "aphorism" in

Paragraph 1?

A. Maxim.

B. Nonsense.

C. Belief.

D. Faith. 答案:

Grammar and Vocabulary

1、B

2、B

3、C

4、C

5、A

6、B

7、A

8、

B 9、B 10、D 11、B 12、A 13、

C 14、B 15、A 16、

D 17、A 18、B 19、D 20、C

Reading Comprehension

21、B 22、D 23、A 24、A 25、A 26、B 27、B 28、A 29、C

30、A 31、B 32、A 33、C 34、A 35、D 36、C 37、D 38、B 39、A 40、A