| Task One-Job ·For questions 13-17, match the extracts with the people, listed A-H. ·For each extract, decide which job each speaker was interviewed for. ·Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the extract. A marketing manager B computer programmer C secretary D personnel management assistant E engineering manager F maintenance supervisor G finance director H qual [单项选择]The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like "Paleolithic (旧石器时代的) Man", "Neolithic(新石器时代的) Man", etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label "Legless Man". Histories of the time will go something like this: in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks.
The future history books might also record that we were deprive [单项选择] In recent years, we have all watched the increasing commercialization of the campus. The numerous advertising, posters and the golden arches of fast food outlets may be an affront (侮辱) to our aesthetic sensibilities, but they are, arguably, no worse than ugly. Some of the other new features of commercialized campus life do, however, constitute a serious threat to things we rightly respect. "Privatization" and the "business model" are the potential menace.
What do these notions mean To me, they involve an increased dependence on industry and charitable actions for operating the university; an increased amount of our resources being directed to applied or so-called practical subjects, both in teaching and in research; a proprietary treatment of research results, with the commercial interest in secrecy overriding the public’’s interest in free, shared knowledge; and an attempt to run the university more like a business that treats industry and students as clients and ourselves as
A. more convenient B. rather ugly C. somewhat harmful D. no more aesthetic than before [单项选择]By no means have all of the known mineral reserves of the Third World been exploited.
A. 第三世界中已知的矿产贮备无论如何没有被开发。 B. 第三世界中已探明的矿藏并没有全部得以开发。 C. 无论如何第三世界中已有的所有的矿藏都已被开发。 我来回答: 提交
|
