Owing to a financial disagreement, the cooper...

Owing to a financial disagreement, the cooperation broke down and the two businessmen finally went their ______ ways.

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Only when the European countries’ financial system broke down_____ to take measures to deal with those problems.

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The plan _________ just because people were unwilling to cooperate (合作).

A. broke down     B. pulled down     C. turned down           D. put down

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As is known to all, the financial crisis firstly broke out in the United States,_____ the group of developed countries.

A. belonging to         B. belonged to  C. belongs to         D. is belonged to

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Cooperation at work is generally seen as a good thing. The latest survey by the Financial Times of what employers want from MBA graduates found that the ability to work with a wide variety of people was what managers wanted most. But managers always have to balance the benefits of teamwork, which help ensure that everyone is working towards the same goal, with the dangers of “groupthink” when critics are reluctant to point out a plan’s drawbacks for fear of being kept out of the group. The disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 was a classic case of groupthink. Skeptics were reluctant to challenge John F. Kennedy, the newly elected American president.

Modern communication methods mean that cooperation is more frequent. Workers are constantly in touch with each other via e-mail messaging groups or mobile calls. But does that improve, or lower performance? A new study by three American academics, tried to answer this question. They set a logical problem (designing the shortest route for a travelling salesman visiting various cities). Three groups were involved: one where subjects acted independently; another where they saw the solutions posted by team members at every stage; and a third where they were kept informed of each other’s views only intermittently.

The survey found that members of the individualist group reached the premier solution more often than the constant cooperators but had a poorer average result. The intermittent cooperators found the right result as often as the individualists, and got a better average solution. When it comes to ideal generation, giving people a bit of space to a solution seems to be a good idea. Occasional cooperation can be a big help: most people have benefited from a colleague’s brainwave or (just as often) wise advice to avoid a particular course of action.

Further clues come from a book, Superminds, by Thomas Malone of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He says that three factors determine the collective intelligence of cooperating groups: social intelligence (how good people were at rating the emotional states of others); the extent to which members took part equally in conversation (the more equal, the better); and the cooperation of women in the group (the higher, the better). Groups ranked highly in these areas cooperated far better than others.

In short, cooperation may be a useful tool but it doesn’t work in every situation.

1.The author cites the example of The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in paragraph 1 to _______.

A. prove that team players are skilled at communication

B. show that teamwork cannot always be beneficial

C. prove that critics are unwilling to challenge anybody

D. show the danger of groupthink is not very serious

2.The underlined phrase “the intermittent cooperators” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

A. those who do not cooperate but reach the best solution

B. those who are seldom informed of other’s views

C. those who cooperate with others occasionally

D. the constant cooperators with a poor average result

3.Which of the following factors makes a team cooperate better?

A. Group members cooperating all the time.

B. Group members in a good emotional state.

C. Equal distribution of men and women.

D. Equal participation in the communication.

4.Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. When Teamwork Works　　 B. What Teamwork Is About

C. How Teamwork Operates　　 D. A Useful Tool: Cooperation

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The computer system ____suddenly while he was searching for information on the Internet.

A. broke down        B. broke out             C. broke up               D. broke in

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Ever since the financial crisis ________, many workers _______from their jobs.

A. broke out; were laid off

B. has broken out; were laid off

C. had broken out; had been laid off

D. broke out; have been laid off

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Owing to the unrest in North Africa, the Chinese government is _____ efforts to withdraw its nationals from Libya and neighboring countries.

A opening up    B stepping up   C making up   D taking up

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How would you like to wear the same underwear (内衣裤) for weeks? Owing to the work that has gone into developing intelligent materials, this may not be as 41  as it sounds. Self-cleaning clothes have now been created, and these new materials provide 42  resistance to dirt as well as water. As a result, they require much less cleaning than traditional materials.

The creation of self-cleaning clothes provides an example of how nature helps scientists develop better products. This self-cleaning nature is known as the “lotus effect”. The name comes, of course, from the lotus leaves, which are famous for growing in muddy lakes and rivers while remaining almost 43

clean. By observing nature, scientists are 44  the qualities of the lotus leaves to the materials they have engineered. Because of this, some remarkable new products have been 45 . Among them are special windows that are resistant to dirt and water. A special 46  on these windows not only prevents dirt from sticking to their surfaces, but also allows dust to be easily washed off by the rain. In fact, these new windows have already been 47  to some cars. Even when traveling at high speed through rain, these cars never have to use their windshield wipers (雨刮器).

Although we have already seen some practical applications, even more dramatic 48  will be made in the future, and they will, perhaps, change our world completely. Undoubtedly, technology is an important development, and it will have an even bigger 49  on our lives.

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All flights 　　 owing to the heavy fog, many passengers could do nothing but take trains.

A. to be cancelled

B. were cancelled

C. have been cancelled

D. having been cancelled

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