do not contribute to economic growth at all
are less useful to the society because they do not make direct contribution to economy
are similar to medical and social services in their way of promoting economic growth
should develop only when they are good for economic growth
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What will the correspondent bank do in the settlement according to this passage?
A.It will make payment in dollars against the banker's draft.
B.It will send the draft to the bank in Britain.
C.It will issue a documentary credit.
D.It will have an agreement with the bank mentioned.
第2题:
D
When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well ad the social environment it came influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive(情感的)meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form. to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
A.regardmusicasawayofentertainment
B.disagreewiththeirparentsoneducation
C.viewmusicasanoverlookedsubject
D.prefertheartstoscience
第3题:
Everyone needs friends, and if you fail to make friends, you should examine yourself and see if there is something wrong with your personality.
Maybe you have social faults such as snobbishness, talkativeness, using slang, etc., which drive away your new acquaintances. Whatever your social faults may be, look at them honestly, and make a real effort to correct them.
To be friendly you must feel friendly. Cheerfulness is the basis of friendliness. A cheerful person smiles. A smile is a magnet which draws people. Smile at someone and you are almost sure to get a smile in return.
A friendly person does his best to make a stranger feel at home, wherever he happens to be. Put yourself in the other fellow's place and make him feel welcome.
Try to remember names. It makes your new acquaintances feel happy when you call them by their names. It gives them the feeling that they have made an impression on you and that must mean something to them because you remember them.
If you do not agree with other people on a certain matter, you should appear to be friendly. Do not argue, but discuss. You always lose friends if you argue too much.
A friendly person thinks of others, and does not insist on his own “rights”. People who refuse to consider others have few friends.
Finally, don't treat people only according to their social position. Really friendly people respect everyone at all times.
(1)Those who fail to make friends may ______.
A、discuss with others rather than argue with others
B、remember the names of new acquaintances
C、insist on his own rights and fail to stand in others' shoes
D、make a stranger feel at home
(2)What does the word “magnet” mean in the third paragraph?
A、brush
B、sth. beautiful
C、sign
D、sth. attractive
(3)What can we infer from this passage?
A、Others will smile at you if you smile at them.
B、If you respect people no matter who they are, you'll make more friends.
C、Snobbishness, talkativeness and using slang are some social faults.
D、None of the above.
(4)According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT true?
A、Making friends has sth. to do with your personality.
B、Cheerful smiles can make you friendly in others' eyes.
C、Friendly people will treat others according to their social position.
D、Thinking of others can bring you more friends.
(5)The purpose of the passage is ________.
A、how to correct social faults
B、how to build good personality
C、how to feel at home with strangers
D、how to make friends
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Reading Comprehension
Directions:There are two passages iⅡthis part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.You should decide on the best choice.
Questions 56- 60 are based on Passage One:
Passage One
The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them.
The reality is very different.Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act,many of them still get paid less than men.
They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won't consider.And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.
All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government's Women's Unite.
The biggest problem isn't equal pay in workplaces such as factories.It is a sort of work women do.Make a list of the low-paid jobs, then consider who do them.
Try nurses, secretaries, cleaners, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies,and child care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there?
Yet some of those jobs are really important.Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start.
So why do we reward the people who do them so poorly? There can be only one answer—because they are women.
This is not going to be put right overnight. But the Government which employs a lot of them, and other bosses have to make a start.
It is disgraceful(可耻的) that we have gone into the 21st century but still treat women as second-class citizens.
Women should have the chance of doing the same jobs and be paid equally as Men( ).
A. after 25 years
B. according to the law
C. as a result of the Equal Pay Act
D. because women are as strong as men
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25. Which is right according to the passage?
A. The meal looks beautiful because the food on the plate is in different colors.
B. American people do not like to cook food at home.
C. American parents do not like to teach their children to cook.
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