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What is the paradox of American culture according to the author？
A．The American road to success is full of nightmares．
B．Status symbols are not a real indicator of a person’s wealth．
C．The American Dream is nothing but an empty dream．
D．What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs．
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A、continuous and aligned
B、discontinuous and aligned
C、discontinuous and randomly oriented
D、discontinuous and particially oriented
A、the marketplace guiding the self-interests of market participants into promoting general economic well-being.
B、the fact that social planners sometimes have to intervene, even in perfectly competitive markets, to make those markets more efficient.
C、the equality that results from market forces allocating the goods produced in the market.
D、the automatic maximization of consumer surplus in free markets.
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whether a person who lacks charisma(capacity to inspire devotion and enthusiasm) can become a leader, and what makes leaders fail. Warren G. Bennis, possibly the world's foremost expert on leading, has, together with his co-author, written two best-sellers on the topic. Generally, researchers have found that you can't explain leadership by way of intelligence, birth order, family wealth or stability, level of education, race, or sex. From one leader to the next, there's enormous variance in every one of those factors.
The authors' research led to a new and telling discovery: that every leader, regardless of age, had undergone at least one intense, transformational experience what the authors call a "crucible" (severe test). These events can either make you or break, you. For emerging leaders, they do more making than breaking, providing key lessons to help a person move ahead confidently.
If a crucible helps a person to become leader, there are four essential qualities that allow someone to remain one, according to the authors. They are: an "adaptive capacity" that lets people not only survive inevitable setbacks, heartbreaks, and difficulties but also learn from them; an ability to engage others through shared meaning or a common vision; a distinctive and compelling voice that communicates one's conviction and desire to do the right thing; and a sense of integrity that allows a leader to distinguish between good and evil.
That sounds obvious enough to be commonplace, until you look at some recent failures that show how valid these dictums (formal statements of opinion) are. The authors believe that former Coda Cola Co. Chairman M. Douglas Ivester lasted just 28 months because "his grasp of context was sorrowful." Among other things, Ivester degraded Coke's highest-ranking African-American even as the company was losing a $200 million class action brought by black employees. Procter & Gamble Co. ex-CEO Durk Jager lost his job because he failed to communicate the urgent need for the sweeping changes he was making.
It's striking, too, that the authors found their geezers(whose formative period, as the authors define them, was 1945 to 1954, and who were shaped by World War II) sharing what they believed to be a critical trait the sense of possibility and wonder more often associated with childhood. "Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks (who came of age between 1991 and 2000, and grew up 'virtual, visual, and digital')—open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, and eager to see what the new day brings", the authors write.
The text indicates that leadership research ______.
A．has been a controversial study for years
B．predicts how a leader comes to be
C．defines the likelihood to be a leader
D．probes the mysteries of leadership
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Many now have been breathing hot flames at our industry and so I thought it would be time to say my piece this week, after all, we in the business cannot deny that it has been a rough spring for newspaper editors and reporters. Ethical scandals great and small have soiled news- rooms from coast to coast. Everyone knows about the profound deceits of Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and the "Writergate" controversy involving Rick Bragg, which led to the departure of the two top editors at the paper. Other misdeeds have ranged from two reporters at The Salt Lake Tribune selling information to The National Enquirer, to a food writer for The Hartford Courant fired for plagiarizing recipes. Are newspaper standards going to pot?
Some say ethics are worse than ever—or are they? The past is filled with people running photos of wrestlers in the sports section in exchange for money. In fact, ethical breaches may be less of a problem than 20 years ago. A lot of newspapers are cutting corners, but the standards in the business have improved. There were things going on in the past such as reporters writing speeches for politicians they covered and taking bribes from lobbyists but people back then were quietly moved out or they left on their own. There was no public display.
The industry as a whole is in trouble because, due to media concentration, people at the top are taking out too much money and driving the profits up. The perception is that the real customers are not those who read the paper but those who buy the stock, which damages the profession. Some of this is about resource pressure. Copydesks are overloaded and there is not enough time and more reporters are having to report by phone. The larger the size of news- papers, the less communication between divisions there tends to be. Reporters don't climb the Stairs anymore, they are highly trained people who sit in their offices and write term papers and won't sully themselves going to a greasy housing project or stand out in the rain for a few hours. The economics of journalism along with technological changes has created an atmosphere of trying to get enormous amounts of information as rapidly as possible. The important thing is to make sure the ownership understands the value of a news organization with integrity and every paper needs to slow down and remind ourselves that we have nothing to sell if the readers don't believe us.
The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.
A．newsrooms are suffering from a decline in standards
B．there a. re too many ethical scandals going on in newspapers
C．there is a perception that newspapers should do more to correct mistakes
D．this has been a rough time for newspapers and many are wondering what is wrong
A．submerged
B．dipped
C．twisted
D．haunted
A) aggressive
B) enthusiastic
C) considerate
D) ambitious
A) in place of
B) on account of
C) in terms of
D) on behalf of
Legal protection is provided for the __66__of intellectual property. The three common types of legal protection are patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Patents provide exclusive use of inventions. If the US patent office __67__ a patent, it is confirming that the intellectual property is __68__. The patent prevents others from making, using, or selling the invention without the owner’s__69__ for a period of 20 years.
Copyrights are similar to patents __70__that they are applied to artistic works. A copyright protects the creator of an __72__artisitic or intellectual work, such as a song or a novel. A copyright gives the owner exclusive rights to copy, __72__ display, or perform. the work.. The copyright prevents others from using and selling the work, the __73__ of a copyright is typically the lifetime of the author__74__an additional 70 years.
Trademarks are words, names, or symbols that identify the manufacturer of a product and__75__it from similar goods of others. A service mark is similar to a trademark__76__is used to identify services. A trademark prevents others from using the__77__or a similar word, name, or symbol to take advantage of the recognition and__78__of the brand or to create confusion in the market place__79__registration, a trademark is usually granted for a period of ten years. It can be__80__fo additional ten-year periods indefinitely as__81__as the mark’s use continues.
62. [A]retrieves [B]deviates [C]results [D]departs
63.[A]services [B]reserves [C]assumptions [D]motions
64. [A]for [B] with [C]by [D]from
65. [A] sound [B] partial [C] due [D] random
66. [A] users [B] owners [C] masters [D] executives
67. [A] affords [B] affiliates [C] funds [D] grants
68. [A] solemn [B] sober [C] unique [D] universal
69. [A] perspective [B] permission [C] conformity [D] consensus
70. [A] except [B] besides [C] beyond [D] despite
71. [A] absolute [B] alternative [C] original [D] orthodox
A) consent
B) admiration
C) respect
D) pleasure
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