Most companies expect IT (Information Technology) managers to head an IT staff of computer

第1题

（）is usually the biggest logistic costs for most companies

A.Transportation

B.Supply

C.Procurement

D.Safety

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第2题

Many companies have a goal of becoming more environmentally sustainable. One of the m

ost importune steps they can take is controlling paper waste. Choose a company-any type, any size. imagine that you've been put in change of creating a program control paper waste for the company. Set goals and develop plans. Prepare a report for your boss (that is, your professor), outlining these goals and plans.

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第3题

When companies emerge from their home countries and become "global", they often leave behi

nd their native culture and【B1】inter national business values. Most of these values come from the United States. And【B2】the most global of companies are often【B3】influenced by Western cultural values. This【B4】a number of issues for companies recruiting in China, and for the local people who apply【B5】work for them. It is sometimes said that multinational companies have the economic power of nation states. For many Chinese people, employment in a Western company can be【B6】moving to a foreign country during working hours.

One major difference is the attitude towards the individual, and his or her【B7】to others. The Western-【B8】tend to believe that success is【B9】to individuals, whether they work together or【B10】. The Western idea of teamwork is about directing and individual's【B11】to wards a goal. Going on from this, Western style. workplaces are often "achievement oriented"【B12】than "relationship oriented". They may also value innovation over traditional methods. They【B13】change as more important than stability【B14】even prefer conflict to compromise.

If these philosophical differences are badly managed, they can lead to conflict【B15】an organization. Human resources professionals in China are【B16】familiar with the situation【B17】the Western manager cannot open his or her mouth at offending someone and【B18】constantly com plains that nothing【B19】done. Cultural differences can go deeper than relations in the workplace. They may even【B20】a company's long-term strategy.

【B1】

A．adjust

B．accord

C．adopt

D．avoid

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第4题

The term “company” has a special meaning when applied to business. A company is usually an enterprise that has limited liability. Companies with the word “Limited” or the abbreviation (缩写) “Ltd” after their name are defined as a company. Also, if you form. a limited liability partnership, or open a franchise (特许经营权), these are usually defined as companies as well. If you are not sure of the legal status of your business, you can contact a business solicitor for legal advice.

Within a company a board of directors, partners or chief executive will usually make the day-to-day decisions for their business. Most of the decisions the chief executive makes do not need to be ratified (批准), but more far reaching decisions will usually need the backing of the company’s board of directors with a majority vote.

A company can also have shareholders. How many shares an individual or investment group holds will determine how much say they have about the running

1According to Paragraph 2, within a company, who usually has the final say on the most important decisions？

A、Its business solicitor.

B、Its board of directors.

C、Its business partners.

D、Its chief executive.

2What determines how much say an individual has in a company’s decision-making？

A、The importance of the decision.

B、The state of the company’s business

C、The number of shares the person has in the company.

D、The company’s Annual General Meeting.

3How do business partners know whether they have the decision-making powers within a company？

A、Through the challenges their decisions meet.

B、Through checking with other partner companies.

C、Through consulting with a business solicitor.

D、Through the items of their partnership agreement.

4In writing this passage, the writer seems to be addressing ____________.

A、people who are laymen in business matters

B、people with much business experience

C、people who are going to start a company

D、people with power in business management

5What is the passage mainly about？

A、The way a company makes decisions.

B、The style. a company does business.

C、Development process of a company.

D、Organizational structure of a company.

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第5题

Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfini

Task 1

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.

Most insurance companies in the world are stock insurance companies or mutual insurance companies. A stock insurance company is owned by stockholders, who share in profits earned by the company. A mutual insurance company is owned by the policyholders(投保人). Profits earned by a mutual insurance company are returned to the policyholders as dividends(股息) or used to cut future insurance cost.

In addition to the private insurance organizations, certain types of insurance are provided in the U.S. by governmental organizations. A notable instance is the system of social security operated by the federal government through the Social Security Administration.

An insurance company may require a policyholder to provide proof of the ownership and the value of lost or damaged property before it pays compensation. For this reason, policyholders should have such evidence of their possessions as lists, sales receipts, appraisals(估价单), or photographs. The evidence should be kept in a safe-deposit box or other secure place outside the home.

Many companies that sell health insurance policies(保险) provide cash benefits to the insured person. A cash benefit is a fixed dollar amount for each medical expense or day of hospitalization. If the cash benefits do not cover the entire cost of medical care, the policyholder must pay the rest.

The profits earned by a mutual insurance company______.

A．are shared by the stockholders

B．are all given to the policyholders as stocks

C．are used to reduce future insurance cost

D．are used in some investment

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第6题

Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mar

k Sunner. The chief technology officer of E-mail management company MessageLabs, Sunner oversees a network that processes 4.5 million letters each day. Servers operated and maintained by MessageLabs manage mail delivery and routing for a number of companies, including Bank of England and Condé Nast Publications. In fact, all of MessageLabs’ customers are corporations whose daily E-mail output and inflow has soared with the growth of the Web. “E-mail usage has increased massively in the last couple of years,” he says. Indeed, MessageLabs estimates that it has gone from 10 a day per employee as recently as two years ago to more like 20 or 30 now.

The implications for Corporate America are equally huge. According to E-mail researcher and consultant David Ferris, companies can expect the volume of E-mail coursing through their servers to grow 60% to 80% in 2002. And as individual messages grow in size - they’re now more likely to contain memory - companies could end up paying 100% to 150% more just this year on systems to store and manage those messages. That’s why tech consultancy Radicati Group expects demand for soft ware that manages E-mail, such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, to grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005. Too much of this money will be spent in controlling pure junk. About 20% of the E-mail MessageLabs manages is unwanted, according to Sunner - who adds that about 1.25% of all the E-mail his company moves contains useless attachments. Already, the cost of handling spam（垃圾邮件）is estimated at $8.6 billion worldwide, according to a 2001 European Union study. And the barrage of pornographic spam has made some companies worried that employees might sue on grounds of disturbance arising from exposure to unwanted unpleasantness.

The first sentence of this passage “Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mark Sunner” most probably means ____.

A.Mark Sunner clearly know the E-mail is wasting resources

B.no one knows the fact that E-mail is gossip exchanging way but Mark Sunner

C.Mark Sunner does not know anything about the E-mail

D.the Mark Sunner always concentrated on the ocean of the junk E-mail

Which of the following is NOT true about MessageLabs？A.It is an E-mail management company.

B.All of MessageLabs’ customers are corporations.

C.Mark Sunner is the chief technology officer of MessageLabs.

D.The company puts the great emphasis on dealing with the junk E-mail.

The word “that” in the last sentence of the third paragraph most possibly means ____.A.it is expected that Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005

B.the junk E-mail has been overloaded in the Internet

C.the increase of individual messages needs more staff

D.the company has paid 100% to 150% for individual message storage

What is the best title for the passage？A.The E-mail Monster.

B.MessageLabs Business Introduction.

C.To Avoid E-mail Surge.

D.E-mail Destroys Everything.

The following statements about the E-mail have been mentioned EXCEPT ____.A.Sunner oversees a network that processes 4.5 million letters each day

B.according to David Ferris, companies can expect the volume of E-mail passing through their servers to grow not more than 50% in 2002

C.too much money has been spent in controlling the junk E-mail

D.some employees might take legal action in accordance with annoyance arising from exposure to some unpleasant resources

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第7题

Developing countries are unusually vulnerable to cigarette advertising. Until recently, so

me of them sold tobacco only through government monopolies, with little or no attempt at persuasion. And because most of these countries don't have effective anti-smoking campaigns, many of their people are surprisingly innocent of the link between tobacco and disease. In Manila, we even found cigarettes sold at a snack bar operated by the local Boy Scouts.

Many governments, moreover, are reluctant to wage anti-smoking wars because they're addicted to tobacco taxes. Argentina gets 22. 5 percent of all tax revenue from tobacco; Malawi, 16.7 percent.

Into this climate of naivety and neglect, American tobacco companies have unleashed not only the marketing wizardry (魔术) that most of us take for granted, but other tactics they wouldn't dare use here.

Tobacco spokesmen insist that cigarette advertising draws only people who already smoke. But an ad executive, who worked until recently of the Philip Morris account, speaking on condition of anonymity, disagrees. "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what's going on. Just look at the ads. It's ludicrous (荒唐的) for them to deny that a cartoon character like Joe Camel isn't attractive to kids."

People in developing countries are easily influenced by cigarette advertising because ______.

A．they don't know the relationship between tobacco and disease

B．they have a strong inclination to smoke

C．they have been forbidden to smoke by the governments

D．there were no institutions which persuade them not to smoke

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第8题

￡50m Print Works to OpenThe city of Reading this week landed one of the biggest and most s

￡50m Print Works to Open

The city of Reading this week landed one of the biggest and most significant investments in the city in years—a ￡50m print works that promises 1,000 jobs. The Scorpia Group, one of Europe's largest independent printing companies, has chosen a site on Compton Way for its new plant. This was the former Hartland Steelworks location.

Local leaders are delighted at the prospect of hundreds of highly skilled jobs and training opportunities being created in the Reading area. Robert Andrews, chief executive of the Reading City Investment Initiatives said, "The scale and nature of this project will give a huge boost to the local economy."

The printing plant will offer top-quality and fast color production of magazines, catalogs, and other publications. The Compton Way site is owned by Scorpia's development partner, which was asked to draw up plans for the site. The company has chosen the Compton Way site on the basis of its location, the financial grants that are available from the central government, and the local labor market.

The chief executive of Scorpia said, "The location of our new plant, with access to the road network and rail freight links, and the reputation of the workforce in the region had a big impact on our decision-making process. In addition, the attitude and cooperation of local authorities in Reading is a positive example to the rest of the country of how to attract new investments."

What is the article mainly about？

A．Job openings at a steelworks factory

B．Investment opportunities in Europe

C．The proposed site of a new plant

D．New laws enacted by the Reading City Council

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第9题

Late-night comedians had a field day in the summer of 2002 when a lawsuit accusing McDonal

d's of making two teenage customers in New York fat and unhealthy was filed.

But thousands of restaurant owners were not amused:Pelman v. McDonald's was the second time in a month that lawyers had tried to hold food companies responsible for America's obesity crisis.

Food and restaurant companies, fearing they would be hammered with enormous judgments, as the tobacco industry was. immediately began fighting back, waging an aggressive campaign to make it impossible for anyone to sue them successfully for causing obesity or obesity-related health problems.

Almost three years later, they have had astounding success. Twenty states have enacted versions of a"commonsense consumption"law. They vary slightly in substance, but all prevent lawsuits seeking personal injury damages related to obesity from ever being tried in their courts. Another 11 states have similar legislation pending.

Although plaintiffs' lawyers are confident there are ways around the new state laws, the measures, along with a class- action overhaul bill President Bush signed into law this year, will probably make it harder for lawyers in obesity cases to win the kind of large awards seen in tobacco cases.

The National Restaurant Association, based in Washington, and its 50 state organizations, which represent large chains like McDonald's and small independent businesses, led the campaign. In most states, lobbyists for food companies and restaurants helped write the legislation and did much of the legwork in state capitols.

Restaurant owners and food company executives personally visited state lawmakers, testified at hearings and steered campaign contributions to pivotal lawmakers. Executives from Kraft and Coca-Cola showed up in Texas, for instance, to lobby for that state' s commonsense consumption bill, which was signed into law by Gov. RickPerry last month.

According to data from the Institute on Money in State Politics. a nonpartisan research group based in Helena, Mont. , in the 2002 and 2004 election cycles, the food and restaurant industry gave a total of ＄5. 5 million to politicians in the 20 states that have passed laws shielding companies from obesity liability.

Adoption of commonsense consumption laws by almost half the states reveals how an organized and impassioned lobbying effort, combined with a receptive legislative climate, can quickly alter the legal framework on a major public health issue like obesity.

Consumer advocates, who knew about the state efforts but were preoccupied trying to prevent similar measures from being enacted on a national level, are not pleased. Michael Jacobson executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, calls it "shameful" that food companies are trying to get special exemptions from lawsuits.

"If someone is saying that a 64-ounce soda at 7-Eleven contributed to obesity, that person should have his day in court, "Mr. Jacobson said. "If it's frivolous, the courts are accustomed to throwing those out. "

The purpose of the "commonsense consumption" law is to_____.

A．to protect the customers' rights in obesity cases

B．to shield the food companies from obesity charges

C．to uphold the judicial justice

D．both A and C

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第10题

Accidents are caused; they don't just happen. The reason may be easy to sec: an overloaded

tray, a shell' out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than that there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune—frustration, tiredness or just bad temper—that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.

Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.

By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.

It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment—noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.

This passage might be taken from

A．a text book

B．a science fiction

C．a popular magazine

D．a report of a manufacturer

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Most companies expect IT （Information Technology) managers to head an IT staff of computer