Most new words are made up from other
earlier words; language-making is a conservative process, wasting little. When
new words unfold out of old ones, the original meaning usually hangs around like
an unrecognizable scent, a sort of secret.
There are two immense
words from Indo-European, gene and bheu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from
which we have constructed the notion Of everything. At the beginning or as far
back as they are traceable, they meant something like being. Gene signified
beginning, giving birth, while bheu indicated existence and growth. Gene turned
itself successively into kund jaz (Germanic) and gecynd (Old English), meaning
kin or kind. Kind was at first a family connection, later an elevated social
rank, and finally came to rest meaning kindly or gentle. Meanwhile, a branch of
gene became the Latin gens
A. how to coin new words
B. where to trace the origin of language
C. the evolution of words
D. language and nature
[填空题]The managing director made two complaints.
[单项选择] Passage Two
waking Up from the American
Dream
There has been much talk recently about the phenomenon
of "Wal-Martization" of America, which refers to the attempt of America’s giant
Wal-Mart chain store company to keep its cost at rock-bottom levels. For
years, many American companies have embraced Wal-Mart-like stratagems to control
labor costs, such as hiring temps (temporary workers) and part-timers, fighting
unions, dismantling internal career ladders and outsourcing to lower paying
contractors at home and abroad.
While these tactics have the
admirable outcome of holding down consumer prices, they’re costly in other ways.
More than a quarter of the labor force, about 34 million workers, is
trapped in low-wage, often dead-end jobs. Many middle-income and highs
killed employees face fewer opportunities, too, as comp
A. there are always possibilities offered to people to develop themselves in the society
B. Americans can always move up the pay ladder
C. American young people can have access to college, even they are poor
D. the labor force is not trapped in low-wage and dead-end jobs
[单项选择]He has made up his mind to give up smoking.
A. tried
B. attempted
C. agreed
D. decided
[单项选择]She made two copies of this poem and posted them（）to different publishers.
A. sensationally
B. simultaneously
C. strenuously
D. simply
[单项选择]Analysis of two mutual funds, a stock fund-S and a bond fund B, yields the following results: S: Expected Return=0.14 Standard deviation=0.24 B: Expected Return=0.08 Standard deviation=0.14 Covariance between rates of return for S and B=0.00672 A portfolio with equal amounts of S and B will have expected return and standard deviation of:（ ）
A. 0.11 and 0.0580.
B. 0.11 and 0.1393.
C. 0.19 and 0.1393.
[填空题]Because of a(short)（）of funds, we have to give up the project.
[单项选择]Two apparently contradictory statements are made about what Zimring thinks will be the out come of the debate about the death penalty: one, "that Americans’ ambivalence about capital punishment can never be resolved" and two, that "Americans will eventually abolish the death penalty". What can we infer about this
A. That Zimring believes that the death penalty can’t ever be abolished in America even if, in time, a majority of Americans would like it to be.
B. That Zimring is confused and doesn’t know what he thinks.
C. That Zimring is sceptical that it will ever be abolished but maybe it will one day.
D. That Zimring believes that it will eventually be abolished but that the decision will not be easily agreed and when it is it will still be deeply unpopular.
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