试卷详情
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考研英语-606
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[简答题]You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the notice. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write your address.
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[单项选择]The attitude of most employers toward DDA amendments is
A. supportive.
B. negative.
C. optimistic.
D. pessimistic.
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What makes a city good for business Employers usually list a skilled workforce, good transport links, low property costs and good communications networks as top priorities.
(46) As computer and telephone networks become increasingly sophisticated, businesses no longer have to be tied to one place or run all their operations on one site. Most of the country now has access to broadband.
Insurance giant Norwich Union is one company which now operates from 1,200 sites nationwide, all linked up through a single network. (47) Call centres can operate as easily from Liverpool as from London and employees can be scattered across the country, working from home and keeping in touch with the office via e-mail and voice messaging systems. Businesses are global rather than local.
Relocating businesses are welcomed with open arms by regional development agencies (RDAs), set up to co-ordinate strategic planning, channel funding and work with local organisat -
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Optimation Ltd. , a polymer packaging and converting specialist, is one small company that is suffering. Its highly specialised engineering work is in great demand but a lack of qualified staff has hindered growth.
"We have a number of potential clients awaiting a visit to discuss new projects, but we are tied up on existing orders because we are short of the necessary skills on the shop floor," Helen Mitchell, the company’s founder, says.
And according to Alice Teague, the education and training officer at the Federation of Small Businesses, Ms. Mitchell’s experience is not unique. Many small businesses suffer skill shortages--particularly those at the technical craft level such as engineering and construction companies.
"Small companies tend to be more vulnerable to skill shortages because they are unable to offer the same pay or benefits as larger companies so they struggle in the recruitment market."
A. making any kind of companies to be more competitive.
B. saving the wages paid to those employees as apprentices.
C. enabling the specialists in companies to develop their skills.
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[A] Design you web page
[B] Price your product/service
[C] Contact your familiar people
[D] Perform a survey
[E] Market your product online
[F] Find your own product
If there is one thing I have learned trying to make money online, it is this: you will succeed if you have your own unique product.
This might be your own e-book or even a tangible product that you think might sell well on the Internet. As you probably know, information is what sells best online. Do YOU have unique information or a very specific area of expertise Even if you answer "yes", you must also ask yourself: Is there an online market for my product/service Otherwise, you may be putting forth a lot of time, money, and effort for little gain.
Let’s take these one at a time:
41. ______.
I had a hard time with this one; I was not really expert at anything. To me, an "expert" is a person who knows a subject so -
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Roger Michell describes his potent new film as "a thriller about love". Adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel, Enduring Love, stars Daniel Craig as Joe, a peevish and splendidly irritating social anthropologist, and Rhys Ifans as the scruffy, puppy-like God botherer who, after an accident with a hot-air balloon, becomes obsessed with him.
"As soon as Rhys’ character says, ’Let’s sit down and pray’, "chuckles the director, "you know there’s bad news ahead. In the book he is a more happy-clappy evangelist, but we toned it down."
Although clearly drawn to such eccentric characters, Michell himself is thoroughly down-to-earth. "I’m one of those boring people who knew what I wanted to do from an early age," he explains. "I started acting as a child but was completely hopeless so started directing little plays in school."
He went on to direct around 15 pla
A. he has shown the gifts as an actor when he was a child.
B. he was a drama major at Cambridge and produced many works there.
C. he still made great achievements when reverting to TV career.
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Soft money is the huge, unlimited contributions from corporations, labor union and wealthy individuals that political parties raise and spend on campaign attack ads and other (1) designed to influence elections. The soft money system undermines campaign finance laws (2) limit contributions and (3) the sources of funds that can be spent on federal campaigns. It provides corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals a way to circumvent federal election laws and (4) campaigns with tens of millions of special interest dollars, (5) corporations and unions have been (6) from contributing or spending their treasury finds to influence federal elections since 1907 and 1947, (7) . Individuals can contribute to federal (8) through parties and candidates, but only in (9) amounts.
The Democratic and Republican parties (10) $262 million in (11) money for the 1996 elections. The parties raise soft money under
A. bind
B. confine
C. reduce
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The government’s chief prosecutor has launched an outspoken attack on plans by David Blunkett, the home secretary, to try terrorists without juries and in secret.
Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, says in an article in today’s Sunday Times that plans for trials without juries of some terror suspects would undermine public faith in the criminal justice system. In his attack on proposals expected in Blunkett’s forthcoming draft terrorism bill to limit the right to jury trial for Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror suspects, Macdonald says: "To be effective against... terrorism, we need to call on legislation that is clear, flexible and proportionate to the threat."
Nobody wants to throw out the baby with the bath water; we do not want to fight terrorism by destroying precisely those things terrorism is trying to take away from us.
"Open, liberal democracies fail if they try to protect
A. no terrorists can be caught if the legislation is unclear.
B. secret trials would destroy both public faith and terrorists.
C. nobody wants to offer "minor players" some immunity.
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Since October 1, it has been illegal for any business to discriminate against disabled people, either during the recruitment process or at work, and disability rights campaigners says that employers must make better use of new technology to help them fulfil their new obligations.
Amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) require all Businesses, not just those with more than 15 employees as previously, to make "reasonable adjust ments" to workplaces to accommodate the disabled. Such adjustments include buying new equipment or modifying existing systems so that disabled people can use them.
But many employers are failing to investigate potentially useful changes or upgrades to systems. They are also failing to claim generous Access to Work grants from the Government, designed to cover ’the cost of adapting or re-equipping a workplace, extra training or hiring human assistants like sign language interpreters.
A. making the office light brighter for the deaf to lipread.
B. acquiring useful information through the voice recognition system.
C. using screen readers to tell them the telephone numbers.
D. running office telephones via a conventional exchange.