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It can be inferred from the passage that a soil sample with little or no clay in it
A．will feel smooth when wet.
B．may not keep its shape when molded.
C．will be difficult to classify.
D．may be sticky if too wet.
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A．will feel smooth when wet.
B．may not keep its shape when molded.
C．will be difficult to classify.
D．may be sticky if too wet.
(i) Prefer is normally followed by to, not than: "1 prefer coffee to tea", "She preferred sewing to knitting", "We prefer going by car to traveling by train". The difficulty arises when infinitives are involved. We cannot say "She preferred to sew to to knit." In such cases we use rather than, but never than alone.
Occasionally (more often in literary than in spoken style. ) rather is brought forward and placed before the first infinitive, and than is left before the second: "He preferred rather to take the whole blame himself than to allow it to fall on the innocent".
(ii) Even with nouns rather than is permissible in a situation where a choice specifically for that occasion is involved. Thus "I prefer port to sherry" expresses a general preference.
But if the question is "What shall we have to drink？ Port？... Sherry.*", the reply might be, "I should prefer port rather than sherry". Perhaps there is a vague feeling that the infinitive to have is understood before each of the alternatives. But "I should prefer port to sherry" is also correct.
(iii) "Which do you prefer most？" is incorrect. Literally, prefer means "place before the other(s) ". It is therefore an absolute term, and cannot be modified by more or most.
According to the entry, which of the following sentences is/are correct？ (1) People here prefer to tide their own bicycles than riding the town buses. (2) People here prefer riding their own bicycles than riding the town buses. (3) People here prefer tidi
A．They are all correct.
B．They are all correct except (4).
C．Both (2) and (3) are correct.
D．Only (3) is correct.
A．drought
B．overpopulation
C．war
D．crop failure
began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician, warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Eriedrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated from the "social, legal, and economic subordination" of the family by technological developments that make possible the recruitment of "the whole female sex.., into public industry". Observers thus differed concerning tile social desirability of mechanization's effects, but they agreed that it would transform. women's lives.
Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women now seriously question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations as the spinning jenny, the sewing machine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resulted in equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation of women's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution was largely an extension of an older pattern of employment of young, single women as domestics. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880's created a new class of "dead-end" jobs, then forth considered "women's work". The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of house-work and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since before the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupations by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's house-hold labor remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that technology is always inherently revolutionary in its effects on society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of women both in the labor market and in the home.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage？
A．The effects of the mechanization of women's work have not borne out the frequently held assumption that new technology is inherently revolutionary.
B．Recent studies have shown that mechanization revolutionizes a society's traditional values and the customary roles of its members.
C．Mechanization has caused the nature of women's work to change since the Industrial Revolution.
D．The mechanization of work creates whole new classes of jobs that did not previously exist.
A．Nixon
B．Truman
C．Reagan
D．Johnson
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文：Interviewer: I'm talking to Janet Holmes who has spent many years negotiating for several well-known national and multinational companies. Hello, Janet.
Janet: Hello.
Interviewer: Now Janet, you've experienced and observed the negotiation strategies used by people from different countries and speakers of different languages. So, before we come on to the differences, could I ask you to comment first of all on what such encounters have in common？
Janet: OK, well, I'm just going to focus on the situations where people speak English in international business situations.
Interviewer: I see. Now not everyone speaks English to the same degree of proficiency. So maybe that affects the situation？
Janet: Yes, perhaps. But that's not always so significant. Well, because, I mean, negotiations between business partners from different countries normally mean that we have negotiations between individuals who belong to distinct cultural traditions.
Interviewer: Oh, I see.
Janet: Well, every individual has a different way of performing various tasks in everyday life.
Interviewer: Yes, but, but isn't it the case that in a business negotiation they must come together and work together, to a certain extent？ I mean, doesn't that level out the style. of ... the style. of differences somewhat？
Janet: Oh, I'm not so sure. I mean, there are people in the so-called Western World who say that in the course of the past 30 or 40 years a lot of things have changed a great deal globally, and that as a consequence national differences have diminished or have got fewer, giving way to some sort of international Americanized style.
Interviewer: Yeah, I've heard that. Now some people say that this Americanized style. has acted as a model for local patterns.
Janet: Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't. Because, on the one hand, there does appear to be a fairly unified, even uniform. style. of doing business, with certain basic principles and preferences -- you know, like ' time is money', that sort of thing. But at the same time it's very important to remember that we all retain aspects of our national characteristics -- but it is actually behaviour that we're talking about here. We shouldn't be too quick to generalize that to national characteristics and stereotypes. It doesn't help much.
Interviewer: Yeah, you mentioned Americanized style. What is particular about the American style. of business bargaining or negotiating？
Janet: Well, I've noticed that, for example, when Americans negotiate with people from Brazil, the American negotiators make their points in a direct self-explanatory way.
Interviewer: I see.
Janet: While the Brazilians make their points in a more indirect way.
Interviewer: How？
Janet: Let me give you an example. Brazilian importers look the people they're talking to straight in the eyes a lot. They spend time on what for some people seems to be background information. They seem to be more indirect.
Interviewer: Then, what about the American negotiators？
Janet: An American style. of negotiating, on the other hand, is far more like that of point making: first point, second point, third point, and so on. Now of course, this isn't the only way in which one can negotiate. And there's absolutely no reason why this should be considered the best way to negotiate.
Interviewer: Right. Americans seem to have a different style, say, even from the British, don't they？
Janet: Exactly. Which just shows how careful you must be about generalizing. I mean, how else can you explain how American negotiators are seen as informal and sometimes much too open？ For in B
A．English language proficiency
B．different cultural practices
C．different negotiation tasks
D．the international Americanized style
A．science fiction
B．critical review
C．science report
D．textbook
A．the federal government
B．the church
C．the state board of education
D．the local government
A．Old Norse
B．Celtic
C．Middle English
D．Old English
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