Everyone will go through life's stages of ups and downs, ________ selfrespect plays a key role in the maturity(成熟) of a person.
A. when B. which C. as D. that
The quality of education in this small school is better than ______ in some larger schools.
A.that B.one
C.it D.this
Animals are obviously ______ lower form of life than _______ man.
A. a ; / B. the ; the C. a ; the D. / ; /
--I really thought I’d be offered the job.
--Oh, well, ________, Clark.
A. you are fight B. best wishes
C. congratulations D. better luck next time
请阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
WeChat is testing a new feature that allows public bloggers to add paywalls to their posts, the company said Wednesday.
Qualified bloggers can charge readers up to 208 yuan($30)for each article, and WeChat will charge the bloggers a technical service fee.
WeChat, the most popular social media app in China with 1.15 billion monthly active users, said the feature aims to motivate original content publishers to produce more posts with higher quality.
Public blogging accounts, which can be tun by individuals or companies, currently make money from in app advertisements, which are negotiated directly between advertisers and blog owners, with WeChat not taking a cut. Readers can also voluntarily tip bloggers directly via a function called Zan Shang.
Android users can pay with WeChat Pay, Tencent's mobile payment method. Users with iOS, however, must use Apple's in app purchase service, meaning that Apple will take a cut of as much as 30% for each transaction.
It's unclear how bloggers and readers will respond to the new feature as Chinese users are used to large amounts of free content shared on the social media platform.
（写作内容）
1.用约30个单词概括上述信息的主要内容；
2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：
（1）支持或反对这种收费；
（2）用2-3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
（写作要求）
1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3.不必写标题。
（评分标准）
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
The story of the emperor’s new clothes is one of Andersen's best-known fables. Conmen fool the monarch into believing they have made him a fabulous suit that the unworthy will be unable to see. Courtiers dare not say that the emperor is naked; it takes a child to point out the obvious.
The moral is that people are often too hidebound (迂腐的) by social convention o state their views. How many companies have ploughed ahead with expensive projects that were favoured by the chief executive, even when other managers have had doubts? In his new book Rebel ldeas: The Power of Diverse Thinking, Matthew Syed argues that the key to dealing with this problem is “cognitive diversity”, in other words, assembling a team of people with different perspectives and intellectual backgrounds. It is not just about selecting people for teams from both sexes and various ethnicities. Hire only Cambridge politics graduates or Harvard MBAS or Stanford software engineers and they will have studied under the same professors and absorbed similar world views regardless of their gender or skin colour.
There is another element to selecting a good team: ensuring that those viewpoints are heard and respected. That may not happen if those in charge are overbearing(专横的). A study of over 300 projects by the Rotterdam School of Management found that those led by junior managers were more likely to succeed than those led by senior managers maybe because other team members were less scared about pointing out potential dangers to someone lower down the pecking order(权势等级).
The ability to speak up within an organization, without fear of punishment, is known as “psychological safety”. Mr. Syed cites a study of teams at Google, which found that self-reported psychological safety was by far the most important factor behind successful teamwork at the technology giant.
One way to overcome shyness while brainstorming, for instance, is for everyone to write down their ideas but ensure their names are never known. That way opinions about thoughts are less closely tied to the seniority of the thinker and can be tested against each other with less fear or favour.
Increasing the number and range of ideas on offer may be the secret of success. As Mr. Syed writes, the willingness to share knowledge pays off in a world of complexity. Another advantage of diversity is that outsiders can spot profitable opportunities that insiders may miss. Immigrants account for 13% of the American population but 27. 5%of those who start a new business. By their nature, migrants have more get up and go than the average person otherwise they wouldn't move Some may start businesses because existing ones won't hire foreigners, but Mr. Syed is probably right that experiencing more than one culture is a competitive advantage.
The Power of Diverse Thinking | |
Main points | Detailed information |
Two1. to introduce the problem | When the emperor is convinced that he's wearing a fabulous suit, none but a child dares to point out the fact 2. of being regarded as the unworthy. 3.to the situation in the story, many managers don’t dare to voice their doubts about some projects, which are being pushed ahead with just because of the chief executive's favour. |
Mr. Syed’s solution to the problem: cognitive diversity | A team of people with diverse viewpoints and intellectual backgrounds should be 4.. 1. People of both sexes and various ethnicities don't 5. compose a good team while those with different academic backgrounds are more likely to. 2. Make sure different viewpoints are heard and respected, which may possibly happen when someone less6. is in charge. 3. Some special approaches like ensuring people to express ideas 7. their names unknown to others can be adopted to increase members' psychological safety. |
Some 8. of diverse thinking | The more ideas are collected and the 9. their range is, the higher the chance of success is. 10. profitable opportunities is a relatively easy job for people with diverse thinking. |
