What does the woman care most about her cell phone?
A. Its design. B. Its special functions. C. Its practical use.
How often will the woman’s daughter take dance lesson next month?
A. Three times a week. B. Twice a week. C. Once every week.
Where are the man and the woman?
A. At a flower shop. B. At a restaurant. C. At a concert.
请阅读下面有关中国在线外卖现状调查的柱状图及相关文字，并按照要求用 英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
The scale of consumers of fast food delivery service in China
The fast food delivery service, which depends on the already-existing restaurants, can cover a larger place with more customers without taking the seats of restaurants. Under the current economic and market condition, the fast food delivery service has been the new battlefield of the fast food giants in China. Even MacDonald’s and KFC, the two international fast food giants are fighting against each other for more market share in China’s fast food delivery industry.
However, Jing Linbo, Deputy Director of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Science, thought that the fast food delivery is the new growth point of fast food enterprises. But the fast food enterprises should have certain comprehensive strengths to do this service, which is thought to be different from the traditional food industry in some aspects.
Besides, with the development of the new industry, there also emerge problems. And some observers have given their warnings. They warn that if the fast food enterprises take no notice of the hidden problems, they will lose the customers in the competitive market gradually.
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1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2. 结合上述信息，简要分析外卖盛行的主要原因；
3. 请从消费者角度谈谈你对外卖的看法及建议，用2-3个理由支撑你的观点。
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2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
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How many cabs in New York City? How many tears in a bottle of wine? These aren’t just the lyrics (歌词)to a song by the Australian musician Paul Kelly. They are the kind of questions you are likely to be asked during a job interview.
In recent years, it has become common for bosses to ask interview questions that are impossible to answer. There is no right answer to these “brainteasers”. Instead, they are supposed to help an interviewer calculate an applicant’s ability to reason. What matters is how you come to the conclusion, not what conclusion you arrive at.
Brainteasers started out in management consultancy firms. Young graduates hoping to join the company would be asked: “How many phone booths are there in Manhattan?” They weren ’ t expected to blurt out (脱 口说出)a random number — instead, they were expected to show they could solve even the most stupid problem.
As consultants swarmed across other organizations, they bought their inscrutable (难 以理解的)questions with them. Now, people applying for a job in a call centre can expect to be asked how a nuclear power plant works.
While many bosses have great confidence in how good or effective brainteasers are, a research paper published in the journal Applied Psychology found they are useless for spotting the best candidate for the job. What they are great for is to make employers feel like intellectual giants.
The study’s findings are not surprising. Studies have repeatedly found that most methods of selecting job candidates are hopelessly flawed (有缺点的).Job interviews are among the worst way of picking the right person for the job.
The results of this research raise the question: if interviews are bad at picking the right person for the job, what are they there for? One feeling I have is that many job selection processes are thinly disguised (伪装的)forms of suffering, designed to make applicants feel worthless and boost the confidence of the person asking the question.
Think about the extensive list of personal skills required for even the most lowly entry-level job. Or those painful assessment centres where you are supposed to play nice with people you are competing against to get the job. And then there are the firms that ask applicants to make a presentation to convey how awesome the firms are. All these exercises seem designed not to get the best person for the role, but to assure the boss how great they are, and remind you just how lucky you would be to get this boring job.
Passage outline | Supporting details |
Introduction to brainteasers | They are widely used in job interviews and the answers are 1. to interpretation. They focus more on an applicant’s2. skills rather than the outcomes. |
3. and popularity of brainteasers | They started out in management consultancy firms and spread to other organizations. Nowadays，a job applicant is often asked questions 4. to the job he applies for. |
Research findings | 5. to popular belief of the bosses, brainteasers are actually useless for selecting candidates. They are just meant to show off the 6. of the employers. |
In—depth Analysis | Many job selection processes make job applicants have a poor 7. of themselves and the employers more confident. Some job applicants are asked to show skills, some of which are 8. the requirements of a certain occupation. In some assessment centres, job applicants are required to play nice with their 9.. Some job applicants are supposed to make a presentation to 10. the firms. |
It was 2012, and somewhere on a cassava (木暑)and banana farm in rural Tanzania, there were four of us standing in a circle: me, two farmers named Joyce and Elijah, and the former secretary general of the United Nations，Kofi Annan.
Elijah and Joyce did most of the talking. They told us how this farm was unlike any they had worked on; how there were improved crop varieties and new tools to process the harvest. There was even a daycare centre near the farm. This way, women could spend more time selling what they grew* I rattled off (不假思索地说出)some questions. Do you sell your cassava only here一or do you ship it somewhere else? How far is the market? Have you seen a difference in your yields? Kofi, though, mostly listened.
Later, after we left the fields and walked towards the daycare centre where there was a bigger crowd, Kofi started talking. He was telling jokes, trying to put everyone at ease, and doing a very good job of it. The man had the deepest, most infectious laugh I’ve ever heard and an incredibly commanding voice. He sounded like an actor playing himself.
Kofi and I had attended a lot of the same UN events, and he’d visited our foundation’s offices in Seattle a few times, so I’d seen him charm a room before. But this day on the cassava farm was different. He was completely at home here. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised: Kofi Annan, of all the world leaders I had met, had spent the most time thinking about how to help places like this farm and people like Joyce and Elijah.
When my husband Bill and I started our foundation in 2000，we still had so many questions about the best ways to fight poverty and disease, and Kofi, it seemed, already had the answers. That year, he’d written a manifesto (宣目)about the UN’s role in the 21st century. In its final pages, he’d included a set of targets around poverty and disease reduction that he wanted the world to achieve by 2015. These became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and at first, critics dismissed them immediately. Cut extreme poverty in half? Stop the spread of HIV, malaria and TB, the three greatest killers in poor countries? At best, it was overly optimistic.
Kofi wasn’t satisfied with just setting the goals, though. He wanted to push the world to achieve them. No other secretary general was so able to connect the UN’s heart with its brain, its mission to lift up the sick and the poor with an effective plan for doing so. He was a master，too, at bringing world leaders along for the ride.
Today, there are 27 million people alive who would have otherwise died from HIV-related illness, TB or malaria And they live, in large part, because Kofi gathered the world to establish the Global Fund, which pays for medicines and things that prevent those diseases from spreading, such as mosquito nets. The world met its goal of halving the global poverty rate by 2015; in fact, it did so five years ahead of schedule, in 2010. “Development experts，” one observer wrote, “are still rubbing their eyes.
When he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001，Kofi said that “today’s real borders are not between nations, but between the powerful and powerless”. He saw Africa’s small farmers as part of the latter camp and wanted to give them a way to lift themselves out of poverty. This was what led us to that cassava farm back in 2012.
I remember that after our visit that day, Kofi thanked me for the foundation’s work. He was generous in his praise，and then he gave me a nickname. “Mama Melinda，’’ he called me.
It was a term of respect, typically given to an elder, and I felt honored but surprised. Mama Melinda? If there was one person who deserved such an honour, I thought it wasn’t me.
1.Kofi Annan’s inspection of the farm is mentioned to .
A. introduce the carefree lifestyle of African people
B. illustrate his close relationship with African farmers
C. emphasize the gravity of poverty in African countries
D. show his concern for the poverty-relief work in Africa
2.We can know from the passage that the MDG .
A. failed to win support from leaders of the world
B. was too ambitious and optimistic to be successful
C. focused more on the goals than effective measures
D. revealed Kofi ’ s extraordinary wisdom and capability
3.What can we infer from the underlined part in Para.7?
A. It was hard to see where the hope lay.
B. The success of the MDG was unbelievable .
C. The development experts were moved to tears.
D. The long-term commitment made people sleepy.
4.We can learn from Kofi’s words in Para.8 that .
A. the powerful people rule over the powerless masses
B. the powerful nations often occupy their powerless neighbors
C. the gap between the rich and the poor separates the world apart
D. the rich and the poor countries should compromise on border issues
5.Which of the following can be used to describe Kofi Annan?
A. Charming, aggressive and stubborn. B. Ambitious, easy-going and dutiful.
C. Conservative, humorous and positive. D. Bureaucratic, sympathetic and generous.
6.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Mama Melinda: a nickname with great honour.
B. The UN: an organization full of different voices.
C. Africa: a land blessed with considerable opportunities.
D. Kofi Annan: a statesman devoted to global development.
