As if 2016 hadn’t been hard enough for China’s workforce, a yearly survey has revealed that more than half of the country’s white-collar employees got no year-end bonus ahead of the upcoming and costly lunar(农历的) New Year holiday. The survey of 11,500 workers by Chinese employment agency Zhaopin found that 50.9 per cent did not get an annual bonus at the end of 2016. Another 9.6 percent were told their bonuses had been delayed until after the New Year holiday.
Before the slowdown that began in 2014, employers in China had been less ungenerous with cash bonuses, which can total well over a full month’s pay and send employees back home for the holiday with plenty of cash for gifts to elders and other family members or to put away as savings. The impact of weak growth on year-end bonuses may have reached the highest point in 2015, however, when 66 per cent of white-collar workers received no year-end bonuses. And the 2016 level actually represents an improvement from 2014, when 61 per cent had to go without.
But that recovery has also seen the size of bonuses drop: last year the average bonus was Rmb 12,821（$1,861）, about Rmb 2,000 more than that in 2015 but still about Rmb800 below the 2014 average. More than a quarter of those surveyed who saw their bonuses drop last year blamed the drop on poor company performance.
Differences among the 34 cities surveyed were still greater, as the average bonus of over Rmb 15,800 in Beijing was more than three times than that in the lowest-paying city of Shenyang. Employees of state-owned firms also expressed more satisfaction with their bonuses than those at private companies — and little wonder, as the average bonus at the former was Rmb 17,318, or about Rmb 6,000 more than what private companies’ employees could expect.
But the impact of companies’ stinginess(吝啬) can go beyond simply ruining employees’ New Year holiday, possibly coming back to affect employers: 39 percent of respondents said they would look for work elsewhere if their year-end bonus was not returned to normal, an increase of 2.3 Percentage points from 2015.
1.Which is the right order of the year of year-end bonuses’ receiving percentage according to the passage?
A. 2016>2015>2014 B. 2016>2014>2015
C. 2015>2016>20I4 D. 2014>2015>2016
2.What can we know from the passage?
A. Some employees think poor company performance is a reason for the bonus drop.
B. Small bonus differences exist in the 34 cities surveyed in China.
C. The average bonus in Shenyang is over Rmb5500.
D. Private firms’ workers can get more bonuses than those in state-owned firms.
3.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Bonus Differences between State-owned Firms and Private Firms
B. The Importance of Bonuses for White-collar Workers in China
C. A Hard Year for China’s White-collar Workers
D. A survey of China’s Workforce’s Year-end Bonuses
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As if 2016 hadn’t been hard enough for China’s workforce, a yearly survey has revealed that more than half of the country’s white-collar employees got no year-end bonus ahead of the upcoming and costly lunar(农历的) New Year holiday. The survey of 11,500 workers by Chinese employment agency Zhaopin found that 50.9 per cent did not get an annual bonus at the end of 2016. Another 9.6 percent were told their bonuses had been delayed until after the New Year holiday.
Before the slowdown that began in 2014, employers in China had been less ungenerous with cash bonuses, which can total well over a full month’s pay and send employees back home for the holiday with plenty of cash for gifts to elders and other family members or to put away as savings. The impact of weak growth on year-end bonuses may have reached the highest point in 2015, however, when 66 per cent of white-collar workers received no year-end bonuses. And the 2016 level actually represents an improvement from 2014, when 61 per cent had to go without.
But that recovery has also seen the size of bonuses drop: last year the average bonus was Rmb 12,821（$1,861）, about Rmb 2,000 more than that in 2015 but still about Rmb800 below the 2014 average. More than a quarter of those surveyed who saw their bonuses drop last year blamed the drop on poor company performance.
Differences among the 34 cities surveyed were still greater, as the average bonus of over Rmb 15,800 in Beijing was more than three times than that in the lowest-paying city of Shenyang. Employees of state-owned firms also expressed more satisfaction with their bonuses than those at private companies — and little wonder, as the average bonus at the former was Rmb 17,318, or about Rmb 6,000 more than what private companies’ employees could expect.
But the impact of companies’ stinginess(吝啬) can go beyond simply ruining employees’ New Year holiday, possibly coming back to affect employers: 39 percent of respondents said they would look for work elsewhere if their year-end bonus was not returned to normal, an increase of 2.3 Percentage points from 2015.
1.Which is the right order of the year of year-end bonuses’ receiving percentage according to the passage?
A. 2016>2015>2014 B. 2016>2014>2015
C. 2015>2016>20I4 D. 2014>2015>2016
2.What can we know from the passage?
A. Some employees think poor company performance is a reason for the bonus drop.
B. Small bonus differences exist in the 34 cities surveyed in China.
C. The average bonus in Shenyang is over Rmb5500.
D. Private firms’ workers can get more bonuses than those in state-owned firms.
3.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Bonus Differences between State-owned Firms and Private Firms
B. The Importance of Bonuses for White-collar Workers in China
C. A Hard Year for China’s White-collar Workers
D. A survey of China’s Workforce’s Year-end Bonuses
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—If it hadn’t been raining so hard, I might have been home much earlier.
—It’s too bad you _____ it. Nancy _____ here and she _____ to see you.
A. didn’t make; is; was
B. won’t make; will be; wants
C. didn’t make; was; wanted
D. wont’ make; would be; wanted
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--- Congratulations!
---Thank you. If it hadn’t been for your help, we ____ in the experiment.
A. will never succeed B. wouldn’t have succeeded
C. mustn’t have succeeded D. can’t have succeeded
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If it hadn’t been for the help of my English teacher, I the first prize in the English Writing Competition.
A. would not win B. would not have won C. would win D. would have won
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If Becky hadn’t missed the bus, she ______late for the lecture.
A. would have been B. wouldn’t have been
C. had been D. wasn’t
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If Becky hadn’t missed the bus, she ______late for the lecture.
| A．would have been | B．wouldn’t have been |
| C．had been | D．wasn’t |
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We hadn’t been out for long _________ she felt sick.
A．as B．while C．after D．before
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I’ve been living in China for a while — long enough to observe the long-term deterioration (退化)of my own native language abilities, as well as those of my fellow English speakers. This deterioration can take different forms, one of which is the non-standard usage of the words. Its source is, specifically, Chinese culture, and its target is native English speakers. Below I give some of the common ways that the Chinese environment strikes down the native speaker’s linguistic competence (语言能力) .
Net bar: In Chinese, they’re called “网吧”, This is fine. We generally call them “Internet café” in English. The Chinese seem to think that “网吧” should be translated as “net bar” in English, and many careless foreigners have even been misled by this idea.
Name card: In the English-speaking world, business people have lots of business meetings to discuss business. On these occasions, business people exchange specially printed pieces of paper known as business cards. In China everyone calls them “name cards”, because in Chinese they are called “名片” and “name card” is a more direct translation .
Bean curd. It’s called “tofu,” OK! This English word comes from Chinese. I know all dictionaries sold in China will tell you “豆腐” is “bean curd” in English and that may represent the two characters nicely, but “bean curd” is more a definition than a comfortable translation. And yet some foreigners start saying “bean curd” rather than tofu. Deplorable (可悲的)！
I think you see the pattern. The normal native way of saying something is replaced by a more unnatural way of saying it using other English words.
If you’ve been living in China for a while and find yourself using all of these, you might be on dangerous ground. You’re going to start making a fool of yourself back home. Look out! Resist Chinglish attempts at destroying your own command of your mother tongue!
1.Which of the following expressions is more native?
A．Bean curd B．Tofu C．Name card D．Net bar
2.How does the writer support his main idea?
A．By comparison B．By examples
C．By reasoning D．By refutation (反驳)
3.What is the main cause of the non-standard usage of the words by native English speakers?
A．Chinese culture
B．Chinese tradition
C．English flexibility(灵活性)
D．Chinese polluted environment
4.The mentioned Chinglish words are created in the way ________.
A．that is generally accepted by native English speakers
B．that is often misunderstood by native English speakers
C．that sounds reasonable to native English speakers
D．that sounds natural to some Chinese
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Before I came to China, I had been somewhat unlucky in love. Days before my ___for Shanghai in 2016, my cousin made a ___without the slightest bit of irony（讽刺）,“You’ll fall in love in China.”
I met my husband at a Chinese ___.It was an embarrassing place to meet him approaching me ___I attempted to lift free weights. He spoke English poorly, trying to correct my form. I more or less ___him, figuring such a relationship was ___as we had little means to communicate. But I was very much ___.He ran after me for the next couple weeks and his persistence（坚持不懈）___won me over, and I was head over heels in love with him.
The challenges we faced were ___—deciding where to live, ___over visas, dealing with my parents’ doubts. In time, these problems got settled without too much work on our part. When others would ___on how tough it must be to marry someone from a foreign country, I quickly made my ___,trying to convince my questioner that marrying cross-culturally is really no different from ___within one’s own circle.
Our son was born in the spring of 2018. He was a very easy baby to care for—he cried little and slept well at night. My struggles in caring for a newborn were unimportant ___the other pressures I faced. By Chinese tradition, I was ___from taking the baby outside until he was 100 days old, for reasons I still don’t fully understand.
Since giving birth, I’ve learned that compromise（妥协）is more ___than it seems. If you give up too much of yourself, you may ___resentful（怨恨的）. If you compromise too little, you may be ___in a frequent battle. In a relationship, our values or beliefs often ___with our partner’s, but with patience, most difficulties can be overcome. For that reason, I keep on working to better understand his background and beliefs while ___forgetting my own.
1.A. plan B. departure C. reservation D. destination
2.A. decision B. suggestion C. request D. prediction
3.A. gym B. cinema C. restaurant D. museum
4.A. since B. as C. unless D. before
5.A. thanked B. admired C. ignored D. praised
6.A. priceless B. worthless C. pointless D. faultless
7.A. broken B. beaten C. drunken D. mistaken
8.A. gradually B. eventually C. simply D. keenly
9.A. natural B. legal C. typical D. international
10.A. worrying B. arguing C. looking D. taking
11.A. comment B. decide C. insist D. focus
12.A. remark B. conservation C. apology D. defense
13.A. adjusting B. dating C. wandering D. behaving
14.A. in relation to B. in addition to C. in comparison to D. in response to
15.A. protected B. disabled C. excused D. forbidden
16.A. constant B. challenging C. cautious D. cultural
17.A. end up B. put up C. turn up D. take up
18.A. taken B. absorbed C. stuck D. resulted
19.A. deal B. meet C. conflict D. combine
20.A. therefore B. finally C. yet D. never
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It’s 3 o’clock and you’ve been hard at work. As you sit at your desk, a strong desire for chocolate overcomes you. You try to busy yourself to make it go away. But it doesn’t. Here is another situation. Perhaps you are not feeling well. The only thing you want to eat is a big bowl of chicken soup, like your mum used to make when you were sick as a child. Food cravings are a strong desire for a specific type of food. And they are normal.
Scientists at the website How Stuff Works compare hunger and cravings (渴望) this way. Hunger is a fairly simple connection between the stomach and the brain. They even call it simply “stomach hunger”. When our stomachs burn up all of the food we have eaten, a hormone (激素) sends a message to one part of the brain for more food, which regulates our most basic body functions such as thirst, hunger and sleep. The brain then produces a chemical to start the appetite and you eat. Hunger is a function of survival.
A craving is more complex. It activates brain areas related to emotion, memory and reward. These are the same areas of the brain activated during drug-craving studies. Because of this, some scientists call food cravings “mind hunger”. People often crave foods that are high in fat and sugar. Foods that are high in fat or high in sugar produce chemicals in the brain. These chemicals give us feelings of pleasure.
In a 2016 study, researchers at Cambridge University found that dieting or restricted eating generally increases the possibility of food cravings. So, the more you deny yourself a food that you want, the more you may crave it. However, fasting (禁食) is a bit different. They found that eating no food at all for a short period of time lessened food cravings.
So, the next time you crave something very specific, know that your brain may be more to blame than your stomach.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true when “stomach hunger” appears?
A.The part of brain which regulates some functions of our body works.
B.A chemical is produced by the stomach to start the appetite.
C.All the food we have eaten has been exhausted.
D.A hormone delivers a message to the brain for food.
2.What do we learn about food cravings?
A.It means the stomach functions well.
B.It ensures a person survives hunger.
C.It shows food is linked to feelings.
D.It proves the brain decides your appetite.
3.What’s the likely result of dieting?
A.The increase of food desire. B.The decrease of chemicals.
C.The refusal of fat and sugar. D.The disappearance of appetite.
4.What is the best title of this passage?
A.Dieting: It Makes You Crave More
B.Fasting: It Lessens Food Cravings
C.Food Cravings: They are All in Your Brain
D.Hunger: It is a Function of Survival
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