英语部分专项练习七

1、校园招聘英语部分专项练习（七）Part I Reading ComprehenDirections:his part, you will have 15 minutes to go over thepassage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. Forquestions 1-4, markY （for YES） if thesement agrees with the informationgivenhe passage;N（for NO）if the she passage;NG （for NOT GIVEN） pass

2、age.ement contradicts the information givenif the information is not givenheFor questions 5-10, complete the sentenwiththe informationgivenhe passage.What Will We Do For WorkI bevet 90% of white-collar jobshe U.S. willhe next 10beto useither destroyed or alteredrecognition15 years.ts a catastrophic

3、prediction, givent 90% ofare engaged in white-collar work of one sort or another. Even mostmanufacturing jobs these days are connected to such white-collarservias finance, human resourand engineering.I talked to an old London loader some time back. He allowedt in 1970 it took 108 guys about five day

4、s to unload a timber ship. Then came containerization. The comparable task today takeseight folks one day.t is, a 98.5% reductionan-days, from540 total to just eight.This time the productivity aims to reconstructmaketdeconstruct the white-collar world. In fact, I see afive-sided movementt will bring

5、 to my apparently fantastic“90% in 10 years” prediction.The destructive nature of the current flavor ofcompetition,company.Sure, most will fail. But the survivors will exert enormousre fast! on the Big Guys. When an Amazon or a CharlespreSchwab moveso your neighborhood, youve got moments to react.Or

6、 take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscfame. His latestdreds of billionsventure, Healtheon/WebMD,ends to squeezeof dollars of waste out of the health-care system. These new firmsaim to create nothing lessthey operate.n havoche theaters in whichSECOND Entrise software.Its a name for the toolst wil

7、l hookans hook up allup every aspect ofnel, production, t hooked-up stuffa businesss innardsernalsales, accountingand thento the rest of the “family”ofrsand thersrs and wholesalers and retailers and end users.They are your nightmare, these “white-collar robots.” Thecomplex products from German softw

8、are giant SAP will do to yourcompanysernalansexactlywhatrobotsandcontainerization did to the blue-collar world in 1960. Installingthese tools is not easy. The technical part is distressing;politics are dreadful. When the blue-collar robots arrived, unions revolted against it. This time its managemen

9、t offithethelwho are oping technological change. Why? These tools threatentheircomfortablesus,carefullycraftedoverseveralgenerations.But the robots did come. And they triumphed.THIRD OutsourcingM.I.T.s No. 1 computrofessor, Michael Dertouzos, saidcould easily boost its GDP by a trillion dollarshe ne

10、xtfew years performingcompanies. He guessed West could go south tosecret white-collar tasks for Westernt 50 million jobs from the white-collar, whose population hit 1 billion lastk. The average annualn workers: $20,000.salary for each of those 50 million newFOURTH The Web.Ford,They will single,GM an

11、d DaimlerChrysler announce a rarelink all their tens of thousands of ernet-based network. This entity willcombination.rso ainclude $250perhaps anbillion annually ofrs products（ andadditional $500 billion of thosersrs products）.In short, every penny of waste will be compressed from the hugeprocuremen

12、t system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically.Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medicals,DigitalThinkraining, CarSionhe auto-body-shop world.This is the white-hot world of B2B （ business to business ）electronic commerce, which will soonpass trillions ofdollarsranions.FIFTH Time compres.I

13、t took 37 years for the radio toThe Web got there in four. Hence my bea century to revolutionize blue-collarget to 50 million homes.ft while it took aboutjob practi, this bravenew white-collar sol system will be mostly installed in a tenthoft time10 years.Each of these five foris fact, not image. Ea

14、ch influenthe others multiplicatively. Therefore I am unwilling to withdrawmy predictions about theer of the white-collar storm bearingdown on us. Upsetting madness is in proliberating. Blue-collar robots work out o The same will happen to white-collar work.s. These forarectory and warehouse.My dad

15、did it for 41years at theBaltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say,a white-collar indentured servant（契约佣工）.The world is going through more fundamental changen ithas indreds, perhaps thousands of years. The head economistSandia National Laboratories, Arnold Baker, said its the“ biggest change s

16、ince the cavemen began bartering.” Do you wantto be player, a full-scale participant who embrachange? Hereis the opportunity to participatehe lovely, messy playgroundcalled “Lets reinventtheworld.”Heres a new role mI call Icon Woman:Sheis turned on byherwork!Thework is cool!Sheis an adventurer!Sheis

17、 the CEO of her life!My Icon Woman, of course, embraand exploits the Web.She submits her resume on the Web and keeps it pactive there.etuallyShe is recruited and negotiates and is hired on the Web.She is trained on the Web.She creates and conducts brilliant projects on the Web viaa far-fg“ virtual”

18、stable of teammates （most of whom shesnever met）.She manages her career on the Web. And she haswebsite!rsonalIn approximay 2010, she will be at home, workingforthe next several months for Ford on a cruel difficultengineering problem. Her 79-membroject team, only one of whomshes met face-to-face （she

19、 considers face-to-face as a quaidea）, comes from 14 nations. Her fully wired home is her castle.You maybe disprove. Is this“ be wild and crazy and Webby andCEO of your own life” pictureanything othereconomy?n New Age/newI think it is relevant and real rathernwild and crazyoneast two important score

20、s.Oneprofesist though my “house” is in Vermont, Iveg myal license in Palo Alto since 1981. All is breakingloose “out there/here.” These folks may sound weird, but theymay also be redefining the world.Two is back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-agedseminar participantst the quessential A

21、mericans arechanging Who are? Ben Frlin （ the father of self-helpliterature）. Ralph Waldo Emerson （self-reliance was his trait）.Walt Whitman, motivational leader Tony Robbins, and Bentonville, Arkansas Sam Walton and Bill Gates.Two is back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-agedseminar par

22、ticipantst the quessential Americans arechanging Who are? Ben Frlin （ the father of self-helpliterature）. Ralph Waldo Emerson （self-reliance was his trait）.Walt Whitman, motivational leader Tony Robbins, and Bentonville,Arkansas Sam Walton and Bill Gates.WHAT IF?Maybe the wild new-economy America is

23、 the old America. Truerto ourselves. We came here to break free, to make our records inourawkward ways.Like Grandpa, I am facing extinction, only by this new setofanderful for. I make most of my living giving live seminarstraining programs and as a management consultant. Its allgraviing to the Webgr

24、aviing. Its moving at the speedof light. I am scrambling to reinvent myself, to not just “cope”but to exploit the new communication and connection media.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。1. In U.S., the 90% of the jobs are white-collar jobs asfinance, human resourceand engineering.2. Containerizationunloading the

25、 ship.makes a 98.5% reductionan-days on3. Amazon wants todevelop the Health eon/web MD to savedollars.dreds ofbillions of4. Themanagement offil wontthe unions revolt against.e the blue-collarrobotst5. The professor Michael Dertouzos guessedtcouldincrease GDP by a trillion dollarsway of.he flowing fe

26、w years by6. The combination of Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler aims tocompress waste from .7. According to the author, it will take about toreconstruct new white-collar world.8. The head economist Arnold Baker bevedt the worldis going through the most fundamental change since .9. The new role mwork on

27、 .Icon Woman deals with everything about10. The author is changing himself to take full advantage of.Part II ReadingComprehenSection ADirections:questions orhis section, there is a short passage with 5plete sements.Read thepassage carefully. Then answer the questions orcomplete the sementsyour answe

28、rs on Answerhe fewestsible words. Please writeSheet 2.Questions 47 to 51are based on the following passage.China ishe midst of one of the most remarkable expansof higher education ever attempted. And although Yun Ying, aprofessor of physics education at Southeast University in Nanjing,may be only a

29、bit player, shes pasate about reforming scienceeducation.Yun is leading her own minirevolution. Herroductoryphysics course addresses a national priority, namely, to fostereconomic growth by producing notscientists and engineers.just more, but more creative,Those two principles underMultimedia” text

30、and CD-ROM,her “Bilingual Physics Withfreshman course she has been s been adopted by 10 Chiadevelosince the mid-1980suniversities. The course notonly teaches the Englishtstudents need to discuss physics but also requires students toresearch physics topics and present their findings to the class.ts a

31、 dramatic change from the memorization demandedroductory science courses.ypicalYuns course deviates from the traditional approach inschools, in which those who can memorize get better scoresChion testsn those who learn the text creatively. The textbookcontains standard freshman-level lessonsomentum

32、and energy,harmonic motion, and wave-particle duality. All explanations aregiven in depth in English with Chitranslationsillustratingof keyvariouspassages. The CD-ROM includesprinciples.clipsEven more unusual is the requirementt studentect atopic, research it on their own or in a small group, and th

33、enpresent their findings in a class seminarall in English. Otherstudents can ask questions, make comments, or challengethes unprecedentedconductforChiundergraduates.Despite the use of English, Yun hasnt watered downtheonecontent. Some oft may be due to Southeasts ring asof the countrys top 10 compre

34、hensive universities, with aparticular strength in engineering.Yun is pleased with theitive reaction to her course. Twoyears ago, she offered a teacher-training course for schoolsconsidering adoption of the text and CD-ROM, and now shes working on a teaching and learning guidebook. The increasing nu

35、mber offaculty members who weretrainedhe United Ses or Europehassparkederestoinreforming teachingatChiuniversities.Amester coursetakenprimarilybyengineering students may have a limited impact on Chieducation. But for those calling for an educational revolution in China, its a good place to start.注意：

36、此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。1147. A professor of Southeast University, Yun Ying is eagerto .1248. What is demanded in typicalcourses?roductory science1349. In Chiscores on tests?the traditional approach, whoget better1450. Yun hasnt reduced the content partly.because of1551. Because ofitive action to her cours

37、e,now Yun isengaged in .Section BDirections: There are 2 passageshis section. Each passageis followed by some questions or unfinished sements. For eachof them there are four choimarked A）, B）, C） and D）. Youshould decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 2 wisingle

38、line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.Geothermal energy is natural heat from theerior of theEartht is converted to heat buildings and generate electricity.The idea of harnessing Earthsernal heat is not new. As earlyas 1904, geothermaler was used in

39、Italy. Today, Earthsnaturalernal heat is being used to generate electricity in21 countries, including Russia, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland,Mexico, Ethiopia, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Philippines, andthe United Ses. Total worldwide production is approaching9,000 MW （equivalent to nine large modern c

40、oalburning or nuclearlants）-double the amount in 1980. Some 40 million peopletoday receive their electricity from geothermal energyostcompetitive withgeothermal energy used. However, attof other energy sour.In El Salvador,ithepplying 30% of the totalglobal level, geothermalelectricenergyenergyslessn

41、 0.15% of the total energy supply.Geothermal energy may be considered a nonrenewableenergysource when rates of extraction are greatern rates of naturalreplenishment. However, geothermal energy has its originhenatural heat production within Earth, and only a small fractionof the vast total resource b

42、ase is being utilized today. Althoughmost geothermal energy production involves the tapof highheatsour,peoplearealsousing thelow-temperaturegeothermal energy of groundwater in some applications.The average heat flow from theerior of the Earth is verylow, about 0.06 W/m2. This amount is trivial compa

43、red with the177 W/m2 from solar heathe surfacehe United Ses.However, in some areas, heat flow ifficiently high to be usefulfor producing energy. For the most part, areas of high heat floware assoted with plate tectonic boundaries. Oceanic ridgesystems （divergent plate boundaries） and areas where mou

44、ntainsarebeingupliftedandvolcanicislandarcsareforming（convergent plate boundaries） are areas where this natural heatflow is anomalously high.The environmental impact of geothermal energy may not be asextensive ast of other sourof energy, but it can beconsiderable. When geothermal energy is developed

45、 at a particularsite, environmental problems include on-site noise, emisgas, and disturbance of the land at drilling sites, diss ofal sites,roads and pipelines, andlants. Development of geothermalenergy does not require large-scale transporion of rawmaterials or refining of chemicals, as development

46、 of fossil fuelsdoes. Furthermore, geothermal energy does not produce theatmospheric pollutants assothe radioactive waste asso geothermal development oftented with burning fossil fuels orted with nuclear energy. However, does produce considerable thermalpollution from hot waste-waters, whiay be sali

47、ne or highlycorrosive, producing disal and treatment problems.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。16. In paragraph 1, the authorgeothermal energy byroduthe concept ofA） explaining the history of this energy source worldwideB ）unsucarguingsfullyt this energy source has been triedcomparing the production withsourdesc

48、ribing the alternatives f ert of other energyenerating electric17.worldwide?WhatistrueaboutgeothermalenergyproductionA） Because it is a new idea, very few countries aredevelogeothermal energy sourB） Only countrieshe Southern Hemisphere are usinggeothermal energy on a large scaleC） Until the cost of

49、geothermal energy it will not be used globallyes competitive,D） Geothermal energy is already being used in a number ofnations, but it is not ye a major source ofer18. In paragraph 2, the author sest geothermal energyis considered a nonrenewable resource becauseA）pro B） C） D）the production of geother

50、mal energy is a naturalsgeothermal energy comes from the Earthwe are not using very much geothermal energy nowwe could use more geothermal energyn is naturallyreplaced19. what is the meaning of Although most geothermal energyproduction involves the tapof high heat sour,people are also using the low-

51、temperature geothermalenergy of groundwater in some applications ?（line4, paragraph 2）A） High heat is the source of most of the geothermal energy but low heat groundwater is also used sometimesB） Even though low temperatures aresible, high heatis the bestgroundwater.C） Both high heat production ofre

52、source for energy production forand low heat sourare used for thegeothermal energy from groundwaterD） Most high heat sourfeothermal energy aret involve low heat intapped from applicationsgroundwater20. In paragraph 4, the author mentions the atmosphericpollution and waste products for fossil fuel an

53、d nuclear erA ） toroduce the discusof pollution caused bygeothermal energy development and productionB）to contrast pollution caused by fossil fuels and nuclear er with pollution caused by geothermal energyC） to arguet geothermal production does not causepollution like other sourof energy doD） to dis

54、courage the use of raw materials and chemicalshe production of energy because of pollutionPassage TwoQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Despite sol myths to the contrary, the best predictor of futurewealth is the familyo which youare born. Each year, thebusiness magazine Forbes pu

55、blishes alist of the“ Forbess and individuals400”hethe fourcountry.dred wealthiest famiOf all the wealth represented onthe Forbes 400 list,moren half is inherited. Those on the list who could be called“self-made”werenottypicallyofmodestorigins;mostinherited significant assets （Forbes, 1997; Sklar an

56、d Collins,1997）. Thosehe upper class with newly acquired wealreknown as the nouveau riche. Although theymay have vast amounts“old rich” circles.of money, they are often not acceptedoThe upper middle class includes thosewith highes andalshigh sol prestige. They tend to be well-educated profesor busin

57、ess executives. Their earnings can be quite highsucsful business executives can earn millions of dollars ayear. It is difficult to estimate exactly how many people fallo this group because of the difficulty of drawing lines betnthe upper, upper middle, and middle class., the uppermiddle class is oft

58、en thought of as“ middle class” because theirlifestyle sets the standard to which many aspire, but thislifestyle is simplythe United Ses.the means of a majority of people inThe middle class is hard to define; in part, being “middleclass” is moren just economicition. By far the majorityof Americans i

59、dentify themselves as middle class even though theyvary widely in lifestyle and in resourat their disal. Butthe ideato thinkt the United Ses is an open-class system leads manyt the majority have a middle-class lifestyecause,ingeneral,peopletend nottowanttorecognizeclasses middledistinctionshe United

60、 Ses. Thus, the middle classthe ubiquitous norm even though many who call themselvesclass have a tenuous hold on this classition.The lower class is comed primarily of the displaced andpoor. Peoplehis class have little formal education and areoften unemployed or workinginimum-wage jobs. Forty percent