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Too much to read!It’S impossible to find time to read today’S top business books and thousands are published each year．Yet not keeping up with those books could be a serious and expensive mistake．Often the ideas and insights they contain are available nowhere else．

But how Can you even（19）_______ which titles are worthwhile，let alone find time to read them？Fortunately，there’S a（20）_______ ：Sound view Executive Book Summaries．It really（21）_______ In fact，it"s（22）_______ o work．It is ingenious and essential．Every month， you（23）_______ two or three quick readin9，time saving（24）_______ of the best new business books．Each contains all the key points in the（25）_______ book．The big difference，instead of 200 t0 500 pages，the summary is only several pages．Instead of（26）_______ five，ten or more hours to read，it takes just l5 minutes．

Of the thousands of business books（27）_______ annually，only a（28）_______ are really worth readin9．To save your time，our Editorial Board goes over them all（29）_______ 90%．Our standards are（30）_______ ，and the criteria rigorous．

When a book meets all our tests，we prepare a summary，instead of a review or a digest．

You get a skillful distillation that preserves the content and spirit of the（31）_______ books．

The titles cover every（32）_______ 0f concem to business people today．There’S（33）

else like Sound view Executive Book Summaries ……

回答第19题。 查看材料

A.see

B.know

C.ask

D.answer

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Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know what to do when it slipped from his horse and fell ___51___ the road. The sack was too heavy for him to ___52___, and his only hope was that___ 53___ some one would come riding by and lend a hand.

It was not long before a rider appeared, but the farmer’s heart sank when he ___54___ him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby. The farmer ___55___ have dared to ask another farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come___56___the road, but he could not beg a favor of so great a man.___57___, as soon as the great man came up he got off his horse, saying "I see you’ve had bad luck, friend. How good it is that I’m here just at the___58___ time. "Then he took one___59___ of the sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse."Sir," asked the farmer, "how can I pay you？"

"Easily enough," the great man___60___ "Whenever you see anyone else in trouble, do the same for him."

__________ 查看材料

A.on

B.in

C.off

D.onto

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It is not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late．The host or hostessusually waits for all the guests to arrive before36 the meal．If someone is late, the food maybe spoiled, and so might the host or the hostess37．If you have to be late, call and tell themto 38you．It&39; s even39 to be early ! The host or the hostess will probably not be40.

If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few minutes, or just sit in your car41 theright time．Though it&39; s often important to arrive on time, yet 42, for open houses, the hostor the hostess invites guests to arrive and leave43 a certain time so you can arrive at any time 44 the time he or she gives you．

It&39; s nice to bring an empty stomach, but it&39; s even nicer to bring a small present．The presentshould not cost 45, or you might embarrass the host or hostess．Flowers, wine, or a box of46will be fine．

Never bring money as a present．In an introduction, the order of a name: the given name, thefamily name．In other words, the given name comes47．It&39; s important not only to learn andremember names, but to48 them often in the conversation．After the49, we usually callfriends by their given names．50 may want you call them by their titles and 51 such as"Mr．Jones", "Mrs．Smith", "Ms．Johnson" or "Dr．Brown"．

A maiden name is a woman&39; s family name at birth．In the United States and Canada, after awoman marries, she52 the family name of her husband53 her maiden name．It is nowbecoming common, 54, for women to keep their maiden names55 they get married．

第36题应选 查看材料

A.making

B.cooking

C.doing

D.serving

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Washington Irving was America’s first man of letters to beknown internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in Englandand in the United States. He was, in fact; one of the most successful writersof his time in the country, and at the same time winning the admiration offellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the UnitedStates. The respect in which he was held partly owing to the man himself, withhis warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, hisartistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackeray describedIrving as "a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, wasmost finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refinedEuropeans. " In England be was granted an honorary degree from Oxford anunusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation and he received themedal of the Royal Society of Literature. America made him ambassador to Spain.

Irving’s background provides little to explain his literaryachievements. A gifted but delicate child, he had little schooling. He studiedlaw, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to hisslrict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and thetheater.

The main point of the first paragraph is that WashingtonIrving was________ 查看材料

A.America’s first man of letters

B.a writer who had great success both in and outside his owncountry

C.a man who was able to move from literature to politics

D.a man whose personal charm enabled him to get by withbasically inferior work

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A Success Story

At 19， Ben Way is already a millionaire， and one of a growing number of teenagers who have（51 ） their fortune through the Internet.（52） makes Ben"s story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic， and was（53） by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write（54）."I wanted to prove them（55）"，says Ben， creator and director of Waysearch， a net search engine which can be used

（56） find goods in online shopping malls.

When he was eight， his local authorities provided him with a PC to help with school work.Although he was（57） to read the ，manuals， he had a natural ability with the computer，and（58） by his father， he soon began（59） people ~ 10 an hour for hisknowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he（60） up his own computer consultancy， Quad Computer， which he ran from his bedroom， and two years later he left school to（61） all his time to business.

"By this time the company had grown and ! needed to take on a（62） of employees to help me"， says Ben. "That enabled me to start doing business with（63） companies. " It was his ability to consistently.（64） difficult challenges that led him to win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the same year that he formed Waysearch， and he has recently signed a deal（65） 25 million with a private investment company， which will finance his search engine.

请在第__（51）__处填上正确答案。 查看材料

A.taken

B.made

C.put

D.done

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A Bad Idea

Think you can walk, drive, take phone calls, e-mail and listen to music at the same time？

Well, New York&39;s new law says you can&39;t___ 46____ The law went into force last month, following research and a shocking number of accidents that involved people using electronic gadgets (小的机械) when crossing the street.

Who&39;s to blame？ ___47____ "We are under the impression that our brain can do more than it often can, " says Rene Marois, a neuroscientist (神经科学家) in Tennessee. "But a core limitation is the inability to concentrate on two things at once."

The young people are often considered the great multi-taskers.___48____ A group of 18-to 21-year-olds and a group of 35- to 39-year-olds were given 90 seconds to translate images into numbers, using a simple code.___49 ____But when both groups were interrupted by a phone call or an instant message, the older group matched the younger group in speed and accuracy.

It is difficult to measure the productivity lost by multi-taskers. But it is probably a lot.

Jonathan Spire, chief analyst at Basex, a business-research firm, estimates the cost of interruptions to the American economy at nearly $650 billion a year ___50____ The surveys conclude that 28 percent of the workers&39; time was spent on interruptions and recovery time before they returned to their main tasks.

第46题__________ 查看材料

A.And you"ll be fined $100 if you do so on a New York City street.

B.Talking on a cell-phone while driving brings you joy anyway

C.The estimate is based on surveys with office workers.

D.The younger group did 10 percent better when not interrupted.

E.However， an Oxford University， research suggests this perception is open to question.

F.Scientists say that our multi-tasking （多任务处理） abilities are limited.

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Scientists know that there are two basic approaches to prolonging life（延长寿命），one approache is the elimination of the diseases that generally affect older people—diseases such as cancer，heart attack and stroke．（1）is the delay of the process of growing-old the（2）of the body． In recent years scientific researchers（3）much time in the study of the process of aging．They believe that，within a few years，they will develop the knowledge and the（4）to delay the aging process for lo to 15 years．The result will be that more people will live longer，more healthful lives．At present，scientists believe that with the right diet，exercise，medical（5），and mental attitude many people can live to he l00 years old． Gerontologists（老年学专家），people who（6）studies of the problems of growing old，are investigating（7）body cells slow down and（8）die．They feel that delaying this slowing down process（9）help postpone death．In a number of American universities，scien-tists are studying the activity of cells，the effects of diet and internal body temperature on aging．If their studies are successful，the results should help（10）the quality of life for older people in the next few years，as well as increase the life span of the next generation．

1.

A.Others

B.Another

C.The other

D.One more

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Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Sometimes it is better not to know the56of a country that you are visiting57it is to know just a little of it. The58is this:the natives of your59country will often rush to 60you if you seem completely lost and helpless. But they will usually misunderstand your small61to speak their language. They will think that you know62more than you do.

For example, I once asked three people63carefully memorized phrasebook Spanish how to get to a bus station in Mexico City.64each of them poured out a flood of65Spanish.

The result was66I didn' t understand a word and67around for an hour before I found

the station. 68I had missed the bus. The next time I encountered a(n)69like this in an-other city, I was a lot70, so I acted dumbly. Trying to look very pitiful, I71a stranger and asked simply, "Bus station？" He 72told me how to get there; he showed me to the 73walking three blocks out of his74to help a poor, dumb and helpless75.、

材料题请点击右侧查看材料问题

A.conventions

B.customs

C.people

D.language