All the time Bob was thinking of blue jeans market in England and nothing else.A.YB.NC.NG
All the time Bob was thinking of blue jeans market in England and nothing else.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
All the time Bob was thinking of blue jeans market in England and nothing else.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
What problem does the man have?
A.He found the computer center closed early.
B.He has not finished his paper yet.
C.He had to stay up late typing his paper.
D.His computer is not workin
What problem does the man have?
A.He found the computer center closed early.
B.He has not finished his paper yet.
C.He had to stay up late typing his paper.
D.His computer is not working.
Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
Bob and Annie had not known each other long before they became eager to get married: Bob because he wanted Annie and she (though she was fond of Bob in her own way) because she could at least lead a life away from her family. When Mrs. Thompson suggested that they marry and live with her in Dover Street until they could get a house of their own, Annie hesitated. Her idea of marriage had been something which brought her a husband and an orderly, well-furnished home all at once. But she soon saw the advantages of this arrangement. She would, first of all, escape from her present life into a house which was quiet and efficiently run, not like her own; and she would be able to go on working so that she and Bob could save up all money more quickly for their own house. She would also get Bob, a good enough husband for any working-class girl: good-natured and ready to be bent to her way whenever it was necessary for her ends.
Things went well until her mother-in-law's death, when Annie had to give up her job and was at home all day. Her father-in-law became just a silent figure in the house and al though Bob became used to him, Annie began to find the old man's constant presence in the house a source of growing annoyance.
"He gets on my nerves, Bob", she said one night when they were alone. "Just sitting there all day and I have to clean up around him. And he hardly says a word from getting up in the morning to going to bed".
"Well, I suppose he has the right to do as he likes", Bob said mildly. "It's his house not ours. We're the lodgers(寄宿者)." But to Annie, now looking after the house as if it were her own, it was beginning to seem the other way about.
Annie wanted to get married because she ______.
A.had known Bob for a long time
B.wanted to leave home
C.was madly in love with Bob
D.had led a lonely life
听力原文:Bob: I'm longing to hear about this tour. Janet, you must be terribly excited.
Janet: Oh, I am. I ... I've never been to America before, so I'm really looking forward to it. I thought of going fly-drive.
Bob: Fly-drive?
Janet: Yes. You know, you ... (5[A]) you can arrange for a car to be waiting for you at the airport when you arrive. You book everything this end including the plane tickets.
Bob: Sounds simple enough. Are you going to, then?
Janet: Well, I'm bit worried about driving on the other side of the road and having to, so (4[D]) I decided it would be better to go on a more organized holiday.
Bob: What do you mean by "organized"?
Janet: (4[D]) Well, everything is arranged by a tour operator. You know, you are taken around and shown where to go and what to do. I would probably miss half the sights otherwise.
Bob: Mm, where are you going anyway?
Janet: Orlando. It's in central Florida.
Bob: Sounds OK. Are you going on your own?
Janet: Yes, I don't mind that. (7[B]) There will be other people on the tour, I'm sure to make friends, You know, I like meeting new people. Here, let me show you the brochure.
Bob: (6[C]) It looks pretty packed, Do you really have time to do all these things?
Janet: Oh, yes. It's all planned.
Janet has eventually decided to go on a ______.
A.fly-drive holiday
B.car trip
C.two-city holiday
D.conducted tour
案例分析 Directions: Analyze the following TWO cases. You are required to a. describe the cultural phenomenon reflected in the case. (2 points) b. analyze or explain the phenomenon by using at least two cultural theories we have learned (6 points) c. give your own opinion on how to make necessary adjustments to achieve more successful intercultural communication. 2 (points) Case 1 Li has returned to China after a year in the States. He marries his childhood sweetheart, Wang Lan, who has never traveled and speaks very little English. When Li’s best friend in the States, Bob, comes to visit China for the first time, he is introduced to Wang Lan. “Gee, it’s great to meet you”, says Bob, “Li talked about you all the time back in Houston!”, and Kisses Wang lan heartily on both cheeks. Wang Lan is shocked. Case 2 Alan Richardson was assigned to head up the relatively new marketing treatment of his company’s off-shore office in Mexico City. With increasing competition o in Mexico, U.S. headquarters communicated to Alan that he was to bring the department in the line with those in other international offices. Alan called his fist meeting in his office on Friday afternoon with the men who had been handling market and working with all support staff. The first item on his agenda was to ask for suggestions as to how they might increase sales by using promotional campaign. After a short discussion, he then proposed that the two primary marketing researchers Eduardo and Miguel, look into a marketing research system, thinking that whoever proved to be the better researcher would be promoted to manager. He concluded the meeting by thanking them for their time and saying that the group would meet again next week to share information. The group sat silently until Alan said that he had been speaking all day. : That’s all for now, guys. Have a good weekend.” Next week at the follow-up meeting, he was surprised to find that no one in his group had anything to suggest or report on.
Jack went to a barber's shop and had his hair cut, but he was not happy with the result(结果). When his friend Bob saw him, he laughed and said, "What has happened to your hair, Jack?"
Jack said, "I tried a new barber's shop today, because I wasn't quite satisfied with my old one, but this one seems even worse."
Bob agreed. "Yes, I think you're right, Jack. Now I'll tell you what to do when you go into a barber's shop next time: look at all the barber's hair, find out whose hair looks worst, and then go straight to him."
"Why shall I go to him?" Jack asked.
"Who cut that man's hair?" answered Bob. "Just think it. He couldn't cut it himself, could he? Another barber cut it. So you know he can't be the worst barber."
Jack was not satisfied with the new barber.
A.True.
B.False.
听力原文:Richard: Hello, Bob.
Bob: Hello, Richard. How are you?
Richard: Fine, thanks, and you?
Bob: Not too bad. I'm thinking of going on holiday somewhere next month. I don't know if you've made your holiday plans yet, but if not, perhaps you'd like to come with me.
Richard: Thanks, that's very kind of you. Where are you planning to go?
Bob: I thought I might go camping in Scotland. What do you think of that?
Richard: Fine. Sounds like a good idea. And for how long—a fortnight?
Bob: Yes, I'm hoping to have two weeks' holiday next month.
Richard: Good. Well, providing I finish all my work on time, I'll be able to have two weeks' holiday, too.
Bob: Will Joyce be coming with us?
Richard: I'm not sure. Maybe. The problem is that she always gets one week's holiday, and of course she can't really afford a holiday this year.
Bob: Oh, dear! That's a pity! Well, the holiday shouldn't cost very much.
Richard: Suppose you had a lot of money, Bob, where would you like to go for a holiday?
Bob: Oh, I don't know. I think I would probably go to America or Japan.
Richard: If I had a lot of money, and 4 weeks' holiday I would go to Asia, I think, and travel.
Bob: Yes, that would be fantastic. Anyway, stop dreaming. We're going to Scotland and I hope it doesn't rain.
(27)
A.In Scotland.
B.In America.
C.In Japan.
D.In England.
听力原文:Woman: Hello, Production department, can I help you?
Man: This is Bob Black from Planning. Is Sam Wong there?
Woman: I'm afraid he's out all day on a visit. Can I take a message?
Man: Yes, please, if you would. It's about the meeting we scheduled for Wednesday.
Woman: Oh yes, about the new factory site...
Man: That's right. I've just heard from the builder that he can't come on Wednesday. I wonder if we can change the date.
Woman: That shouldn't be a problem. I'll just look in Mr Wong's diary. Right, I've cancelled Wednesday's meeting.
Man: OK, now how's he fixed on Friday...?
Woman: He's got a meeting at nine-thirty but that should be finished by ten-fifteen. What time did you have in mind?
Man: Well, the two of us can come any time that morning, so could we make it 11 o'clock?
Woman: That sounds fine.
Man: We want to discuss the new production units, so could you ask Sam to bring his plans with him.
Woman: Yes, certainly.
Man: Thanks a lot, bye.
?Look at the note below.
?You will hear a man calling to change an arrangement.
Message
To: Sam Wong
From: Bob (5)______ (Planning Dept)
Message: Wednesday's meeting with him and (6) ______
changed to (7) ______ ,at 11 am.
Please bring (8) ______ for the new production units.
听力原文:W: Well, Bob James, what a surprise! It's nice to see you again!
M: Hello, Margaret! My gosh ! How long has it been? Wasn't it a year ago Christmas, the last time we saw you?
W. You know, I think you' re right. How's your wife and the kids?
M: Oh, they' re fine. Billy fell down and broke his leg a few months ago. But other than that, there's been nothing special.
W: Wasn't Joey learning to play the violin? Seems to me I remember something about that.
M: Oh, he's given that up. He's all excited about sports now. Actually I don't mind.
W: And your wife, what is she doing these days?
M: She's going to a night school on Mondays and Thursdays. She's studying French now. But last year she studied typing and sewing. I think she just enjoys going to school. Next it'll probably be cooking.
W: How nice for her. Oh, I'm sorry, I've got to rush. But say hello to Mrs James for me, will you?
M: Sure I will, and remember me to your husband, goodbye.
When did the two people see each other last?
A.More than two years ago.
B.Last Christmas.
C.Last birthday party.
D.A long time ago.
Then came the transition to something still more awesome. The new technology of mass communication was portable, could sit on your table, and was easily replicable, and yet, paradoxically, contained more information, more systematically presented, than even the largest of cathedrals. It was the printed book. Though it provided no bells and could not tell time, the over-all superiority of the new invention was unmistakable.
In the last ten or twenty years, we have been undergoing a more or less equivalent shift--this time to a new life as a computer-using population. The gain in portability, capability, ease, orderliness, accuracy, reliability, and information-storage over anything achievable by pen scribbling, typewriting, and cabinet filing is recognized by all. The progress for civilization is undeniable and, plainly, irreversible. Yet, just as the book's triumph over the cathedral divided people into two groups, one of which prospered, while the other lapsed into gloom, the computer's triumph has also divided the human race.
You have only to bring a computer into a room to see that some people begin at once to buzz with curiosity and excitement, sit down to conduct experiments, ooh and ah at the boxes and beeps, and master the use of the computer or a new program as quickly as athletes playing a delightful new game. But how difficult it is--how grim and frightful!--for the other people, the defeated class, whose temperament does not naturally respond to computers. The machine whirries and glows before them and their faces twitch. They may be splendidly educated, as measured by book-reading, yet their instincts are all wrong, and no amount of manual-studying and mouse-clicking will make them right. Computers require a sharply different set of aptitudes, and, if the aptitudes are missing, little can be done, and misery is guaranteed.
Is the computer industry aware that computers have divided mankind into two new, previously unknown classes, the computer personalities and the non-computer personalities? Yes, the industry knows this. Vast stuns have been expended in order to adapt the computer to the limitations of non-computer personalities. Apple's Macintosh, with its zooming animations and pull-down menus and little pictures of life folders and watch faces and trash cans, pointed the way. Such seductions have soothed the apprehensions of a certain number of the computer-averse. This spring, the computer industry's efforts are reaching a culmination of sorts. Microsoft, Bill Gates' giant corporation, is to bring out a program package called Microsoft Bob, designed by Mr. Gates' wife, Melinda French, and intended to render computer technology available even to people who are openly terrified of computers. Bob's principle is to take the several tasks of operating a computer, rename them in a folksy style, and assign to them the images of an ideal room in ideal home, with furniture and bookshelves, and with chummy cartoon helpers ("Friends of Bob") to guide the computer user over the rough spots, and, in that way, simulate an atmosphere that feels nothing like computers.
According to this passage, which of the following statements is NOT True?
A.It is because the Cathedral of Norte-Dame in Paris had many bell-towers and could tell time to people that the writer regards it as an engine of mass communication.
B.From Cathedrals to books to computers the technology of communication has become more convenient, reliable and fast.
C.Every time when a new communication means triumphed over the old, it divided mankind into two groups.
D.Computer industry has been trying hard to make people accept computers.
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