They kept on trying their best to develop their business, but in such______ market competition, they had no idea if success would come along one day.
A.intense
B.military
C.remarkable
D.civilian
A.intense
B.military
C.remarkable
D.civilian
He was trying to read; ______, the phone kept ringing.
A.meanwhile
B.then
C.later
D.afterwards
He was trying to read; ______ , the phone kept ringing.
A.meanwhile
B.then
C.later
D.afterwards
A、a glimmer of
B、a series of
C、an array of
D、a trace of
A.he is much smarter than most of us
B.he still played the game when he had a fever
C.he doesn't share the same feelings with many of us
D.he kept trying when he was in trouble
A.他们努力地发展着自己的事业,但是在如此激烈的市场竞争中,成功是否会在一天来到,他们不知道。
B.他们虽然努力恪守着发展事业的想法,但在如此竞争激烈的市场中,他们抱着并不在乎成功是否到来的信念。
C.他们一直努力地发展着自己的事业,但是在如此激烈的市场竞争中,他们真不知道是否有一天成功会来临。
D.他们不断地努力,发展着自己的事业,但在竞争如此激烈的市场中,对于成功与否他们并没有把握。
Please complete the text summary with appropirate words based on your understanding of the text: The annual Australian marathon is one of the toughest races in the world, a harsh test of __________ for the world’s top athletes. Cliff Young, a __________ 61-year-old famer with rubber boots, was to take part in the race. People first assumed Cliff was there to _________ the race. When they learned of his intention, the athletes around him reacted with ____________ and ___________. The press were _________, focused the cameras on Cliff and shouted questions at him. The marathon started and Cliff was _________________with the strangest running style. Everyone was _____________ the next morning when the news showed Cliff was still in the race. Cliff , though behind others, kept running just like gathering his sheep and trying to __________________. By the fifth night, he had overtaken all the other runners and ________the record by finishing the 875-kilometer race in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes—9 hours faster than anyone before! Cliff Young became ______________________. He distributed his first prize to 5 other runners. Cliff came to ___________ again in 1997, at age 76, when he ran around Australia to raise money for homeless children. He kept running for the rest of his life and never ______________. It was not until the year 2000 when he had _____________ that he stopped running. To this day, Cliff Young remains a ____________ reminder and brilliant example of how ordinary ___________ can inherently achieve remarkable results.
Last week when I was out shopping, I saw a middle-aged Western woman in a store downtown. In Chinese, she was trying to ask a storekeeper if he sold a certain kind of chair. However, she didn’t know much Chinese and her pronunciation was quite poor, so the storekeeper didn’t understand her. She seemed to be getting more and more frustrated, so I went over and asked in English if I could help, but she just ignored me and kept trying to explain things to the storekeeper herself. The storekeeper still didn’t understand her, so I asked again if I could translate for her. This time she looked at me and said she didn’t need my help. She also said that if I wanted to practice English I should go to an English corner. Then she turned around and left the store. She sounded annoyed and didn’t look very happy, so I didn’t follow her to try again. Why was she so rude and unfairly? Did I do something wrong by asking if I could help her? Don’t Westerners ever accept help from other people ?
It might sound like very little money to worry about. But that 75 cents was the first clue Stoll had to a much bigger problem--that a hacker had broken into Stoll' s computer system. Who was it? Stoll spent the next year trying to find out. During that time the hacker used the system in Berkeley as a starting point to break into military computer systems all over the United States.
Stoll had to keep track of the hacker’s activities on the computer without the hacker' s knowing someone was watching him. Stoll even made up huge files of false information so the hacker would have lots to read. When the hacker spent long time reading, the telephone company was able to trace the lines. After a year, the hacker was traced back to his computer--in Germany. He was later caught by the German police.
Clifford Stoll was a ______.
A.student
B.hacker
C.manager
D.professor
听力原文: In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The "spiderstory" is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times to span the gap. On the seventh time, he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English.
Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked why he kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often. He replied,
"Failure? 1 have no failures. Now, I know 50,000 ways that it won' t work."
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top form. yourself? What can you change so that things may go right next time?
Second, is the goal you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some titivating about what your real goals may be. Think about this question, "If I do succeed in this, where will it gel me?" This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn' t be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it's a part of life. Learn to live with yourself even though you may have failed. Remember, you can't win them all .
(33)
A.Failure and success.
B.The "spider-story".
C.Two sides of failure.
D.The invention of the light bulb.
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: Early one morning, my husband turned on the radio. Suddenly he exclaimed, "That has to be Rod. No one else talks like that!" We listened attentively and heard the announcer say, "You've been listening to an interview with Dr. Rod Smith who has been telling you about a breakthrough in AIDS research that he and his colleagues have made."
We both had had Rod as a student and had agreed that he was absolutely the slowest student we had ever had. He spoke slowly, moved slowly, and wrote slowly. We suspected that he thought slowly. When he took an examination, he could never finish it. The unanswered questions kept him from having high marks.
During his senior year, Rod announced that he wanted to go to graduate school, but no graduate school would accept him. He kept trying and a year or so later the department of biology of a large university allowed him to enroll in a few classes on a trim basis. They discovered that he was talented in basic research. He was then allowed to enter the master's program, and later the PhD program. He cheerfully persevered. In six years he could proudly add the title of "doctor" to his name. His professional career began and we lost track of him, until we heard his slow, steady voice that morning.
Why did the couple recognize Rod's voice on the radio immediately?
A.Because Rod was the most naughty student they bad ever had.
B.Because Red now is a famous politician who always makes speech on radio program.
C.Because Rod now is a famous scientist in area of AIDS.
D.Because Rod always spoke with an unusual slow voice since he was a student.
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