[简答题]Another characteristic of our landscape is its exquisite moderation. It looks like the result of one of those happy compromises that make our social and political plans so irrational and yet so successful. It has been born of a compromise between wilderness and tameness, Between Nature and Man. In many countries you pass straight from regions where men have left their mark in every inch of ground to other regions that are desolate wilderness. Abroad, we have all notice how abruptly most of the cities seem to begin; here, no city; there, the city. With us the cities pre tend they are not really there until we arc well inside them. They almost insinuate themselves into the countryside. This comes from another com promise of ours, the suburb. There is a great deal to be said for the suburb. To people of moderate means, compelled to live fairly near their work in a city, the suburb offers the most civilized way of life. Nearly all Englishmen are at heart country gentlemen. The suburban

[单项选择]Our CEO’s flamboyant style has its （）, but our profitability is more than satisfying to our shareholders.
A. critics
B. critical
C. criticize
D. criticizing

[单项选择]Food is important in our life, but its function about （　） is not mentioned by the man.
A. how clearly we think
B. how sound we sleep
C. how we deal with stress
D. how happy we are

[单项选择]Our university celebrated its 100th ______ the year before last.
A. anniversary
B. birthday
C. year
D. birth

[简答题]Our company’s most valuable resources are its employees．In they ears ahead I would like to see our efforts doubled in on-the-job training．To achieve this goal I have asked Barbara Johnson to head a new department，Human Resources and Employee Development，which will coordinate a company-wide effort．

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Passage Four
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country’s "jobs recession" finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the start of the slowdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush’s economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the "outsourcing" of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts--a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxie
A. the economic recession in November 2001
B. the forecasts of George Bush’s economists
C. the flow of job chances into developing countries
D. the rich natural resources in China and India

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Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country’s "jobs recession" finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the start of the slowdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush’s economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the "outsourcing" of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts--a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy appears
A. have been carried away with their fear of the gloomy employment prospect
B. will be able to deliver more money than value to the taxpayers
C. decide that they would lay more emphasis on value than money
D. are becoming very curious about the government’s outsourcing contracts