Long lines of woman, bent double like inverted capital Ls.
A.anti-climax
B.alliteration
C.analogy
D.simile
A.anti-climax
B.alliteration
C.analogy
D.simile
W: Look, Tony. It's still a long time before the first show. I don't expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
(13)
A.The woman will help the man remember the lines.
B.The woman will prompt the man during the show.
C.The man lacks confidence in playing the part.
D.The man hopes to change his role in the play.
W: Look, Sam, it's still a long time before the first show. And I don't expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing and I'm sure you will get them.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
(15)
A.Drop out of the play.
B.Switch parts with another actor.
C.Be patient about learning his part.
D.Have his lines memorized by tomorrow.
Woman: I want to be positive and see the current situation as a challenge. The capital requirements of Telekom's infrastructure are enormous. The recent currency turmoil is bound to slow down investment in the short term, but it is unlikely to reduce its total volume in the long term.
Man: But isn't it the case that some of your projects have been delayed?
Woman: Yes, but not cancelled. Our advisers are telling us that a temporary reduction in the number of new projects is not serious. We still have many ongoing contracts with foreign operators which do not come up for renewal until 2010.
Man: But it appears that you have several major challenges in your effort to upgrade the telecommunications network in this country.
Woman: Yes, that is true. I see three major challenges. The first is the nature of our country. We are a country of several thousand islands: this presents a unique problem for the existing technology to deal with. Secondly, there is the question of affordability. We have a relatively low GDP per capita, $1,132 by the end of 1998. And finally funds, it costs between $1,000 and $1,200 to put in a line.
Man: Yes, I believe that there are fewer than three lines per 100 people.
Woman: There are plans which will go ahead to install 6 million lines by the end of the year which will improve this figure to around five lines for every 100 people. In the West the average is about 60 lines per 100 people.
Man: So there is a long way to go. Is the government playing its part?
Woman: The government has been very supportive. By allowing the industry to become privatised there has been much progress, it acted very sensibly and compared to other countries in the region it has worked very well. Our relationship with the government and other telecommunications operators is good.
Man: You are referring to the huge international group investors?
Woman: Yes. In 1995, five international groups committed themselves to the development of the telecommunications infrastructure in five regions of the country. Each group agreed to install a target number of lines and operate them for 15 years and then return them to Telekom.
Man: And it looks as if the private sector development is also well-established in the mobile communications sector?
Woman: The number of subscribers has jumped to 562,500 from 25,000 two years ago. There are three competing suppliers. Each of these three operations is a joint venture with ourselves. This is an area which is seeing major growth throughout Asia. We are glad to be part of it.
Man: So in your view there is not too much to worry about?
Woman: There are plenty of issues that need to be resolved but I am sure that the good times will return and this can only mean that Telekom will prosper in the long run.
•You will hear an interview with Carol Vogel, the president of Telekom. She is talking about their current situation and future prospects.
•For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
•After you have listened once, replay the recording.
What unique situation does Telekom have to face?
A.The country is densely populated.
B.The country is made up of many islands.
C.The country is not over-populated.
Why Japanese people queue so often? Do they love it? Probably they do. According to Japanese people, just like an excessively high price can evoke an image of equally high quality, long waiting lines act as an indicator for popularity, reduce availability and increase the subjective value of a good. Thus, for many Japanese customers, waiting lines are probably the most effective advertisement. For example, in an article published in The Japan Times in summer 2007, a Japanese woman confessed that she enjoyed queuing outside shops and restaurants and that she usually joined the line before asking the person in front of her what kind of product was sold. Standing in line also increases and extends anticipation until—yatto! (finally!) —patience is rewarded with the desired product. But when taken to an extreme level, the product one is actually queuing for ceases to be of any importance at all.
There are also some customers who are unable to queue or who are unwilling to wait, thinking it' s a waste of time queuing in a line. What could they do? They can rent a queuer who will stand in line and purchase the desired product for them. Obviously, this service is not free of charge. Some service companies who offer all kinds of unusual service provide rentable " queuers". What' s more, in addition to providing queuers to individuals, the service companies also provide queuers to some shops to increase the image of a hard-to-get product and make customers want to join the line by forming or extending lines. Therefore, waiting lines have become a marketing tool and it would not be surprising to find professional queuers in a line. Some people view it a pure speculation, but they can't deny that it really works and the wage of a few professional queuers to keep the line in shape would be a minor investment compared with what would happen if the queue suddenly disappeared.
However, success is not always guaranteed because the attractiveness of waiting in line can easily backfire if the desired product does not meet expectations.
What is the marketing tool appears in the text?
A.Providing queuers to individuals.
B.Providing queuers to shops.
C.Hiring professional queuers to wait for oneself.
D.Hiring professional queuers to keep a line in shape.
听力原文: If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend a great deal of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are hardly concerned with important things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn't at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.
(33)
A.Change of fashion in women's clothes.
B.Change of fashion in man's clothes.
C.Change of fashion in fashion designers.
D.Women's clothes and fashion industry.
长分散重复序列(long interspersed repeated sequence,LINES)
A、Songs of Experience
B、Songs of Innocence
C、Auguries of Innocence
D、Poetical Sketches
(Annoying) at the long check-out lines, the shopper began (to sigh) loudly, tap his (foot), and (glance) at his watch.
A.Annoying
B.to sigh
C.foot
D.glance
Those who violated the rationing program ______.
A.were forced to walk, bike, or skate to work
B.were fined and possibly imprisoned
C.had to wait in long lines
D.were forced to use odd-numbered days
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