[单项选择]Passage Four
Like everyone else at eBay’s San Jose, Calif., campus, John Donahoe sits in a cubicle (隔间). Though this is one of the Internet company’s oldest commonplaces, the company’s 6-ft. 5-in. new CEO really does use the tiny space as his office.
Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native’s eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay’s 16,000 workers worldwide.
Although you’d think that eBay’s flagship marketplace business, a site where people go to buy and sell stuff, would flourish in a downturn, it has stopped growing. It’s still unclear how badly the credit crisis and buying slowdown will affect an e-commerce value site like eBay, which does half its business outside the U.S. During the 2001 recession, eBay’s marketplace contin
A. everyone in eBay works in a tiny space
B. it’s common for people to work in a cubicle
C. Internet companies have a similar tradition
D. John Donahoe is the first CEO ofeBay

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[单项选择]Passage Four
Like everyone else at eBay’s San Jose, Calif., campus, John Donahoe sits in a cubicle (隔间). Though this is one of the Internet company’s oldest commonplaces, the company’s 6-ft. 5-in. new CEO really does use the tiny space as his office.
Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native’s eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay’s 16,000 workers worldwide.
Although you’d think that eBay’s flagship marketplace business, a site where people go to buy and sell stuff, would flourish in a downturn, it has stopped growing. It’s still unclear how badly the credit crisis and buying slowdown will affect an e-commerce value site like eBay, which does half its business outside the U.S. During the 2001 recession, eBay’s marketplace contin
A. laying off the personnel
B. shaking things up
C. acquiring companies
D. assuming the top job

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Passage 4

Everyone in Britain has the right to religious freedom -- in teaching, worship and observance -- without interference from the community or the State. Religious organizations and groups may own property, run schools, and promote their beliefs in speech and writing. There is no religious bar to the holding public office.
Britain has a long tradition of religious tolerance. Freedom of conscience in religious matters was achieved gradually from the seventeenth century on words. The laws discriminating against, minority religious groups were gradually administrated less harshly and then finally repealed.
The past 30 years have seen the acceptance of a wide variety of religious beliefs and traditions of large numbers of immigrants are made at places of work to allow the members of non--Christian religio
A. The community or the State has the right to interfere in religious freedom.
B. There are still tile laws discriminating against minority religions groups.
C. The religious beliefs have little effects on the social status of British.
D. Immigrants of different nationalities haven’t their own religious beliefs in Britain in the previous days.

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[单项选择]Passage OneWhy was everyone interested in time by 1900
A. Everyone needed to measure their spare time.
B. Everyone wanted to be punctual.
C. Efficiency meant much more money.
D. Efficiency was closely related to time.

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Passage Two
One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation up on success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真者) instead of a businessman, that’s all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God’s love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settleD. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. Here was the de- termination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what bad been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the
A. success is highly valued in American society
B. success surely brings material rewards
C. success equals measurable recognition
D. people agree on what success means

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[单项选择]Passage Two
Everyone knows how the story of Cinderella ends, but did you ever really think about how she spent her days before she met the prince Her daily routine was not fascinating. She did everything from sweeping the floor to cooking the meals. If someone had asked Cinderella, "Are there any kinds of household work that you particularly hate " she probably would have answered, "Why, none, of course. Housework is my duty!" In the real world, however, most people have definite dislikes for certain sorts of household work. Two of these tasks are ironing clothes and washing dishes.
Ironing clothes is most hated because it is not a task that can be completed quickly or thoughtlessly. Each piece of clothing must be handled individually, so ironing a basket of laundry can take hours! After ironing a piece of clothing with great caution, which requires smoothing out the fabric, and following the seams, you need to place it on a hanger as soon as possible.
A. know how to iron certain clothes material
B. spare no care through all the procedures
C. find some proper hangers for the ironed
D. pay special attention to the seams

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