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[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Picasso’s art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them realize that beauty can have a diversity of forms. "Now is the time in this period of change and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before." That was Picasso’s idea. Believing it is the artist’s function to discover new forms of expression, he liberated art and made our feelings about it more acute.
Picasso keeps all of art alive. His work encompasses ’all of the past and foretells the future of art. His early paintings were sober and sensible, in the academic style. But Picasso was among the first
A. It is the world of dreams experienced by Picasso.
B. It expresses the painters’ good will for world peace.
C. It had never been explored by anyone before Picasso.
D. Guernica was the best illustration of the surrealist world.
[单项选择] Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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There are no black rats in Europe today because
A. they got plague in the Middle Ages.
B. they live in America, Asia and Africa now.
C. men killed them all with diseases.
D. brown rats took their place.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
When Toyota Motor Corp. moved one of its divisions into an environmentally friendly, or“green”, building in Torrance three years ago, it expected to save on its energy bills. The building offered natural lighting, electricity-generating rooftop solar panels and water recycling.
But something else also happened. Employee morale jumped while absenteeism(旷工) fell. The overall energy and worker productivity savings more than offset the added cost of making the facility environmentally friendly. “The lighting is easier on the eyes and on the nerves, ”Toyota employee Mary Jo Moutsios said. “I take a sense of pride in working in this building. It’s pleasant and feels more productive. ”
Results like Toyota’s are helping to spark a budding“green revolution”in American workplaces. The movement is starting to change how office buildings are designed and could render thousands of existing offices obso
[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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What is man’s intelligence decided by
A. A large brain,
B. A small brain.
C. The environment.
D. Not precisely mentioned here.
[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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It can be inferred that Scott was a hero because
A. he was a sea captain.
B. he crossed a river full of ice.
C. he saved the boat almost at the price of his life.
D. he saved many people with a tugboat.
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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When Rod Laver got behind, he would
A. play a "safe" game.
B. become nervous.
C. forget what the score was.
D. play a relaxed game.
[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have created a "beauty machine" they say can turn a woman’s photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button. The goal is not just to toy with pictures. Sure, the new computer software could help editors distort magazine cover photos even more than they already do. But it could also guide plastic surgeons (整形医师) in efforts to achieve some perceived level of perfection in a patient. Or the software might even be incorporated into future digital cameras to make us all appear gorgeous, the researchers suggest.
Attractiveness—for men or women--can be objectified by a computer and boiled down to a function of mathematical distances or ratios, Cohen-Or said, admitting that the work is likely to be controversial. "Beauty can be quantified by mathematical measurements and ratios. It can be deigned as average distances between features, which a majority of people agree are the mo
A. To know more about beauty.
B. To collect numbers.
C. To create an algorithm.
D. To optimize the machine.
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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What’s the difference between human beings and other animals when shedding tears
A. Human beings can control their tears shedding much better than animals.
B. Only human beings respond to emotions by shedding tears.
C. Only human beings shed tears to get rid of irritating stuff in their eyes.
D. The animals’ tears are the response to physical or chemical stimulation.
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face the bleak prospect of losing their jobs as a global recession starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut.
Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian firms try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will stem unemployment and may help keep Asian economies afloat at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for firms to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, leaving some experts predicting a Western shift to Eastern flexibility.
"In the Confucian mindset, the right thing to do is to share the burden. There’s that sense of collective responsibility whereas in the West, it’s more about individual survival," said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational
A. The Eastern employees will experience more pains.
B. The Eastern employees will lose their jobs as the Westerns.
C. The Eastern employees will get fewer incomes.
D. The Eastern employees won’t get any pay in one year.
