Trade, industrialization and especially globa...

Trade, industrialization and especially globalization in the past few decades 　　 many languages to disappear.

A.had caused B.caused C.have caused D.causes

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The health and welfare of every person in America will be affected by global warming, especially children, the elderly and the poor, according to a new White House science report.

The report said every region (地区) of the country will suffer worse health from heat waves and drought. All but a handful of states would have worse air quality and flooding. It predicts an increase in diseases spread by tainted (腐烂的) food, bad water and bugs (臭虫).

The report concludes that climate change causes real risk to human health and human system that supports the way of life in the United States.

Man-made global warming is caused by greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels. At current emission (放射) levels, global temperatures are likely to rise by about 2 degrees by midcentury and about 7.5 degrees by the end of the century.

The most vulnerable (脆弱的) Americans — the poor, elderly, sick, very young and immigrants — will suffer more. That’s at least 10 percent of the country’s population, probably more. It will be tougher for these people to get enough health care for climate-related illnesses, to cool down in heat waves, to escape extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina, and even to get enough food.

While every region of America is vulnerable to global warming’s health and welfare effects, more people are moving to coastal regions, which are most vulnerable to climate change because of drought and hurricanes.

1.According to the report, we learn all of the following will risk human’s health EXCEPT ______.

A. heat waves and drought

B. increase in the number of bugs

C. reduction in carbon dioxide emissions

D. global warming and climate change

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. All of states would suffer flooding.

B. Air quality in few states is not high.

C. About half of all states would have clear air.

D. Flooding would occur in almost all the states.

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Global warming is caused by human beings.

B. It is wise for the Americans to move into coastal regions.

C. Global temperatures are increasing year by year because of carbon dioxide.

D. At least one tenth of Americans are more likely to suffer climate-related illnesses.

4. The writer wrote this passage to ______.

A. explain how the phenomenon of global warming forms

B. protect the vulnerable Americans from suffering from diseases

C. provide evidence that global warming and climate change risk human’s health

D. warn every American of the danger of global warming to their health

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（E）

E．Higher Living Standard

F．Modern Life Needs Modern Traffics

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Transport is one of the aids to trade．By moving goods from places where they are plentiful to places where they are scarce, transport adds to their value．The more easily goods can be brought over the distance that separates producer and consumer, the better for trade．When there were no railways, no good roads, no canals, and only small sailing ships, trade was on a small scale．

81．

The great advances made in transport during the last two hundred years were accompanied by a big increase in trade．Bigger and faster ships enabled a trade in meat to develop between Britain and New Zealand, for instance．Quicker transport makes possible mass-production and big business, drawing supplies from, and selling goods to, all parts of the globe．Big factories could not exist without transport to carry the large number of workers they need to and from their homes．Big city stores could not have developed unless customers could travel easily from the suburbs and goods delivered to their homes．Big cities could not survive unless food could be brought from a distance．

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Transport also prevents waste．Much of the fish landed at the ports would be wasted if it could not be taken quickly to inland towns．Transport has given us a much greater variety of foods and goods since we no longer have to live on what is produced locally．Foods which at one time could be obtained only during a part of the year can now be obtained all through the year．Transport has raised the standard of living．

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By moving fuel, raw materials, and even power, for example, through electric cables, transport has led to the establishment of industries and trade in areas where they would have been impossible before．Districts and countries can concentrate on making things which they can do better and more cheaply than others and can then exchange them with one another．The cheaper and quicker transport becomes, the longer the distance over which goods can profitably be carried．Countries with poor transport have a lower standard of living．

84．

Commerce requires not only the moving of goods and people but also the carrying of messages and information．Means of communication, like telephones, cables and radio, send information about prices, supplies, and changing conditions in different parts of the world．In this way, advanced communication system also help to develop trade．

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The increase in global trade means that international companies cannot afford to make costly advertising mistakes if they want to be competitive．Understanding the language and culture of target markets in foreign countries is one of the keys to successful international marketing．Too many companies，however，have jumped into foreign markets with embarrassing results．Translation mistakes are at the heart of many blunders in international advertising．

General Motors，the US auto manufacturer, got a costly lesson when it introduced its Chevrolet Nova to the Puerto Rican market. “Nova”is Latin for “new (star)”and means “star” in many languages，but in spoken Spanish it can sound like “no va”, meaning “it doesn’t go”．Few people wanted to buy a car with that cursed meaning. When GM changed the name to Caribe，sales picked up dramatically．

Marketing blunders have also been made by food and beverage companies. One  American food company’s friendly “Jolly Green Giant” (for advertising vegetables)  became something quite different when it was translated into Arabic as “Intimidating Green ogre(吃人妖魔)”．

When translated into German，Pepsi’s popular slogan，“Come Alive with Pepsi” came out implying “Come Alive from the Grave”．No wonder customers in Germany didn’t rush out to buy Pepsi.

Even a company with an excellent international track record like Kentucky Fried Chicken is not immune to the perils of faulty translation．Many sales were lost when the catch phrase “finger licking food” became “eat with your fingers off” in Chinese translation．

A manufacturer of one laundry detergent also made an expensive mistake in the Middle East. Its advertisements showed a picture of a pile of dirty clothes on the left, a box of the company’s detergent in the middle, and clean clothes on the right．Unfortunately，the message was incorrectly interpreted because most people looked at it from right to left, the way Arabic is read．

Having awakened to the special nature of foreign advertising，companies are becoming much more conscientious in their translation and more sensitive to cultural distinctions．The best way to prevent errors is to hire professional translators who understand the target language and its idiomatic usage, or to use a technique called “back translation” to reduce the possibility of blunders. The process uses one person to translate a message into the target language and another to translate it back. Effective translators aim to capture the overall message of an advertisement because a word-for-word duplication of the original rarely conveys the intended meaning and often causes misunderstandings．

1.The underlined word “blunder” in paragraph 1 has the closest meaning to _____________．

A. dispute   B. issue    C．obvious error  D．ignorance

2.Paragraphs 2 to 6 are developed primarily by means of ______________．

A. descriptions          B．analysis

C．contrasts             D．giving examples

3.Which of the following statements BEST explains the failure of the laundry detergent ad in the Middle East?

A．The advertisement is offensive to the Arabic religious belief．

B．The advertiser is ignorant of the reading habit of the Arabs．

C．The advertisement is mistakenly translated by the Arabs．

D. The advertisement is poorly designed regardless of Arabic social customs．

4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______________．

A．Jolly Green Giant didn’t attract many customers in Arabic countries

B. advertisements must avoid jokes since what is considered funny in one part of the world may not be so humorous in another

C．marketers do not have to appreciate the values of a culture in order to capture the target market

D. word-for-word translation should be abandoned in advertisement translation

5.What is the best title for this article?

A．Cultural Importance in Advertising．

B．How to Translate Advertisement．

C. Avoidance of Culture Oversights.

D. Prevention of Translation Blunders.

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The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before—about three million pounds a week. These facts and figures are official and significant. To what is it due? In part, I suppose, to the increase in wealth. But this is, clearly, not the whole story. The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic field. Of what changes? Of the changes, I suggest, in the social position of women; of the changes in our attitude towards “the merely physical”.

Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the social functions reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the right of being more attractive. They have the right, if not to be less virtuous(有品德的) than their grandmothers, at any rate to look less virtuous. The British housewife, a creature of severe and even terrifying aspect not long since, now does her best to achieve and preserve the appearance, which was strongly opposed to in the previous time. For we have now come to admit that the body has its rights. It has, for example, a right to do the best it can for itself in the way of strength and beauty. We demand justice for the body as well for the soul.

What are the practical results of this modern cult of beauty? Are women more beautiful than they were? Do they get something for the enormous amount of energy, time and money demanded of them by the beauty-cult? These are questions which are difficult to answer, for the facts seem to be in conflict. The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a great success and a terrifying failure. It depends on how you look at the results.

It is a success as more women keep their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. This desirable consummation will be due in part to skin foods, facial surgery, and paints, in part to improved health, due in its turn to a more reasonable way of life. Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease, beauty of health. In so far as the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health, it is, up to a point, really successful. When that happy moment comes, will every woman beautiful—as beautiful as the natural shape of her futures, with or without surgical and chemical aid, permits?

The answer is definitely: No. The beauty of a porcelain(陶瓷) jar is a matter of shape, of color of surface texturing. The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime—it makes no different to its beauty or ugliness. But a woman is alive, and her beauty is therefore not skin keep. For real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self. The women’s beauty is therefore more than skin deep. The surface of a human is affected by the nature of its spiritual contents. I have seen women who were truly lovely. Their shape, their color, their surface were perfect. And yet they were not beautiful for spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through. But on the contrary, there is an inside light that can change forms that are regarded imperfect or ugly. Most importantly, the cult of beauty is supposed to touch the deepest source of beauty --- the experiencing soul. It is not by improving skin goods, by cheapening health equipment and electrical hair-removers, that the human race will be made beautiful; it is not even by improving health. All men and women will be beautiful only when the social arrangements give to every one of them an opportunity to live completely and harmoniously.

1.The most significant reason for women’s cult of beauty is _____________.

A. the changes in their status and attitude to physical beauty

B. the build-up of wealth in the economic field

C. the decrease of other fields influenced by the general depression

D. the new privilege in fulfilling social functions

2.From paragraph 3-4 we can learn that ____________________.

A. the beauty industry deserves energy and money

B. the surgical and chemical aid free women from aging

C. the healthier way of life leads to women’s staying young

D. the beauty campaign has achieved great success

3.The example of the porcelain jar illustrates __________________.

A. the importance of shape and surface

B. the gap between appearance and contents

C. the connection between inner and outer self

D. the ugliness of appearance and spirits

4.According to the author, the cult of beauty should focus on ________________.

A. giving people a good knowledge of health and disease

B. increasing people’s awareness of health problems

C. promoting the development of the body and the soul

D. encouraging people to live in harmony with nature

5.What is the real concern of the writer of this article?

A. The promising future of beauty industry

B. The praise of beauty-cult as a success

C. The understanding of physical beauty

D. The importance of inner qualities

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What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold

1.We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__

A. a way of buying and selling goods

B. a website for them to upgrade

C. a place to exhibit their own photos

D. a chance to buy things at low prices

2.Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?

A. For fun

B. To make money

C. For gathering the engineers

D. To fulfill a task of his company

3.From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_

A. did not feel lonely

B. was always hopeful

C. did not think about the past

D. became more and more successful

4.How does eBay make money from its website7?

A. By bringing callers together.

B. By charging for each sale

C. By listing items online

D. By making e-photos.

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Andrew Carneigie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted partly from his ability to sell the product and partly from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments. Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves. “He who dies rich, dies disgraced”, he often said. Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other philanthropic(慈善的) gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts. Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity. His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.

1.The author quoted(引述) “he who dies rich, dies disgraced” in the passage to show______.

A. He felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.

B. He opposed charity.

C. The wealthy die from their fortunes

D. The wealthy die from not contributing to society.

2.Carnegie’s success includes following aspects EXCEPT_____.

A. his policy of expanding.

B. his ability to sell the product

C. his ability to produce the product

D. his hard work

3.Which of the following may NOT be philanthropic gifts to society according to the passage?____

A. the Carnegie Institute of Washington.

B. the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh.

C. the steel industry.

D. the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

4.What is the meaning of “Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.” in the passage?________

A. Few Americans have touched Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.

B. Many Americans have touched Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.

C. we all enjoy Andrew Carnegie’s generosity today.

D. Many Americans were given Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.

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Friendship can never be a trade; ______, it needs the most thorough and unprofitable concept.

A. in addition B. by contrast C. in return D. by chance

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Respect is not one-way traffic but mutual, and that might be　　　　　　 we fight back in the trade friction against the USA　 .

A.where B.because C.why D.how

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I ____ in a foreign trade company for three years. Still, I don’t regret giving up the job and living with my family.

A. worked        B. have worked

C. had worked    D. have been working

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