_____ the many hours of study that he devoted to the subject, he still found the subject

段落翻译： Before you make up your mind about which way to go, take a hard, honest look at your motivation for starting a company. Too many people are looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time. None of those reasons is likely to lead to success. If you are focused on solving a customer problem or need, believe you can do what you do better than anyone else, dying to work long hours, wear many hates, and juggle endless responsibilities, then you have the right startup mindset. You also need certain personality traits. One of them is a willingness to work very hard all by yourself, at least for the first year or so (and possibly longer).

Monthly Meeting Minutes of Board of Directors

Time:2:30p.m.,March5,2015

Place:Conference Room, second floor of 3T Co. Ltd.

Participants:All the directors

Chairman:Chairman of the board, Mr. William Forest

Minutes keeper: Linda

The main activities at the meeting are as follows:

Firstly, Mr. William Forest, chairman of the board, made a report on the work and total sales of the company this season. Then the report was followed by a heated discussion.

Secondly，all the directors agreed to hold a press conference for the company next month.

Thirdly, the meeting suggested inciting experts from Canada to give a five-day training course to staff in the Sales Department.

The meeting finished at 3 : 30 p. m.

1. Who are the meeting participants？

A.The directors

B.The interviewees

C.The executive assistants

2.How many activities does the meeting have？

A.One

B.Two

C.Three

3.Mr. William Forest made a report on

A.the work and total sales of the company

B.the advertisement policies of the company

C.the training course in the Sales Department

4.What did all the directors agree to do

A.To carry out a training project in the company next year.

B.To have another board meeting of all directors next season.

C.To hold a press conference for the company next month.

5.How long did the meeting last？

A.1 hour

B.2 hours

C.3 hours

nd economics for the purpose of helping them prepare to succeed in a world economy.11 The organization is the largest of its kind.

Junior Achievement has gone through different stages in its development. 12 It was started by two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, and Senator Murray Crane in 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The organization started with a small number of children aged ten to twelve. For more than 50 years, Junior Achievement programs met after school as a group of business clubs. But in 1975, Junior Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many more young people joined the organization once it began to teach business skills as part of the school day. In 2004, Junior Achievement Worldwide was formed.

The Junior Achievement programs teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold.13 The programs also teach about the American and world economies and business operations. Young people can learn how entrepreneurship works by operating their own companies. For instance, the students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which they then sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company. It is reported that in the United States alone, there are more than 22,000 places that hold Junior Achievement events currently. According to Junior Achievement, about 287,000 volunteers support its programs around the world.

1.This passage is about Junior Achievement，an international movement to educate young people about businesses and economics.（）

2.Junior Achievement was started by two business leaders in Massachusetts.（）

3.Classes during school hours have been available in Junior Achievement for more than 60 years.（）

4.Junior Achievement has been worldwide since 1919.（）

5.Volunteers of Junior Achievement teach about the American and world economies and business operations.（）

re thunderstorms, and tornadoes begin quickly, strike suddenly, and disappear rapidly, destroying small regions while leaving neighboring areas untouched.Such event as a tornado struck the northeastern section of Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987.Total damages from the tornado exceeded $250 million, the highest ever for any Canadian storm.

Conventional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short lived local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study carefully the subtle atmospheric changes that come before these storms.In most nations, for example, weather – balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at locations typically separated by hundreds of miles.With such limited data, conventional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather conditions over large regions than they do forecasting specific local events.

Until recently, the observation intensive approach needed for accurate, very short – range forecasts, or “Nowcasts,” was not feasible.The cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely high, and the difficulties involved in rapidly collecting and processing the raw weather data from such a network were hard to overcome.Fortunately, scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problems.Radar systems, automated weather instruments, and satellites are all capable of making detailed, nearly continuous observation over large regions at a relatively low cost.Communications satellites can transmit data around the world cheaply and instantaneously, and modern computers can quickly compile and analyze this large volume of weather information.Meteorologists and computer scientists now work together to design computer programs and video equipment capable of transforming raw weather data into words, symbols, and vivid graphic displays that forecasters can interpret easily and quickly.As meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, Nowcasting is becoming a reality.

11.The word “exceeded” in paragraph I most probably means ____________.

A.added up toB.were more than

C.were about D.were less than

12.Conventional computer models of the atmosphere fails to predict such a short – lived tornado because ______________.

A.the computer is not used to forecast specific local events

B.the computers are not advanced enough to predict it

C.the weather data people collect are often wrong

D.weather conditions in some small regions are not available

13.According to the passage, the word “Nowcast” (paragraph 3) means _______________.

A.a way of collecting raw weather data

B.a forecast which can predict the weather conditions in the small area in an accurate way

C.a network to collect instant weather data

D.a more advanced system of weather observation

14.According to the passage, ___________ is the key factor to making “Nowcasts” a reality.

A.scientific and technological advances such as radar, or satellites

B.computer scientist

C.meteorologists

D.advanced computer programs

15.According to the author, the passage mainly deals with ________________.

A.a tornado in Edmonton, Alberta

B.what’s a “Nowcast”

C.the disadvantage of conventional computer models of the weather forecast

D.a breakthrough in weather forecast

ebration, held in New York City in 1882.Its promoter was an Irish-American labor leader named Peter J. McGuire.A carpenter by trade, McGuire had worked since the age of eleven, and in 1882 was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (UBCJ).Approaching the City’s Central Labor Union that summer, he proposed a holiday that would applaud “the industrial spirit – the great vital force of every nation”.On September 5 his suggestion born fruit, as an estimated 10,000 workers, many of them ignoring their bosses’ warnings, left work to march from Union Square up Fifth Avenue to 42nd Street.The event gained national attention, and by 1893 thirty states had made Labor Day an annual holiday.

The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmakers’ respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger.In the 1880s the United States was a land sharply divided between the immensely wealthy and the very poor.Henry George was accurate in describing the era as one of “progress and poverty.” In a society in which factory, owners rode in private Pullmans while ten-year-olds slaved in the mines, strong anti-capitalist feelings ran high.Demands for fundamental change were common throughout the labor press.With socialist demanding an end to “wage slavery” and anarchists singing the praises of the virtues dynamite, middle-of-the-roaders like Samuel Gompers and McGuire seemed attractively mild by comparison.One can imagine practical capitalists seeing Labor Day as a bargain: A one-day party certainly cost them less than paying their workers decent wages.

6.Judging from the passage, McGuire was ().

A.a moderate labor leader

B.an extreme anarchist in the labor movement

C.a devoted socialist fighting against exploitation of man by man

D.a firm anti-capitalist demanding the elimination of wage slavery

7.We can see from the first paragraph that the first Labor Day march ().

A.immediately won nationwide support

B.involved workers from 30 states

C.was opposed by many factory owners

D.was organized by the UBCJ

8.Which of the following is the key factor in the immediate approval of Labor Day as a national holiday？（）

A.The lawmakers’ respect for the workers

B.The workers’ determination to have a holiday of their own

C.The socialists’ demands for thorough reform

D.The politicians’ fear of the workers’ anger

9.We learn from the passage that the establishment of Labor Day ().

A.was accepted by most bosses as a compromise

B.marked a turning point in the workers’ struggle for more rights

C.indicated the improvement of the workers’ welfare

D.signaled the end of “wage slavery”

10.McGuire proposed Labor Day in order to ().

A.draw people’s attention to the striking contrast between the rich and the poor

B.make prominent the important role of the working class in society

C.win for the workers the right to shorter working hours

D.expose the exploitation of the workers by their bosses

program to get international __31__ , American officials believed they should reply the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in __32__. “The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA __33__ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After the World War Ⅱ ended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s purpose had to be changed, __34__ the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to __35__ Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was called “Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know __36__ English to completely understand its normal English broadcast. So VOA __37__ a simpler kind of English, which uses about 1,500 words and is spoken __38__ of course, it is special English.

In the opinion of most VOA listeners, the most __39__ program is the news report. News from around the world flies into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in __40__ cities and also from other broadcasts like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to prepare news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

31. A. business B. culture C. support D. information

32. A. same B. short C. English D. German

33. A. stations B. news C. announcers D. officials

34. A. if B. supposing C. considering D. in order that

35. A. reach B. satisfy C. attack D. support

36. A. American B. British C. standard D. enough

37. A. invented B. discovered C. taught D. stopped

38. A. slowly B. rapidly C. normally D. loudly

39. A. difficult B. important C. various D. common

40. A. all B. major C. American D. news

The lecture which lasted about three hours was so that the audience couldn't help yawning.

A) tedious B) clumsy C) bored D) tired

A.hourly

B.hour

C.hours

D.houry

Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ___________ during the day.

A) should have done B) may have done

C) would have done D) must have done

While elderly people 47.to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a 48.effect on their brain's performance and they would benefit from getting more, according to research.

A.replay

B.contact

C.respond

D.press