- What if he still doesn't pay up -()
A、If it's a small amount we write it off as bad debt. For larger sums we…
B、I've got to hurry.
C、I have already done that.
A、If it's a small amount we write it off as bad debt. For larger sums we…
B、I've got to hurry.
C、I have already done that.
A. He fought back
B. He run away
C. He shouted back
D. He stood still and did nothing
Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks(骗子). As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989 ,he ended his work there disgusted with his students' overwhelming lust for money. "They're taught that profit is all that matters," he says. "Many schools don't even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all."
Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. "By and large. I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAS see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest," he wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these "business-leaders-to-he". "I really feel like I failed them, "he says. "If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them."
Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could he applied to places where serf-interest flourished. What he found wash't encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom--and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.
Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there's much about business schools that he'd like to change. "A lot of the faculty teaching business tire bad news themselves. "Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that's left him shaking his head. And because of what he's seen taught in business schools, he's not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. "In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools. I suspect. "says Etzioni.
Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. "People with poor motives will always exist," he says. "Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity. "Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform. will provide more fertile soil for his longstanding messages about business ethics.
What impressed Amitai Etzioni most about Harvard MBA students?
A.Their keen interest in business courses.
B.Their intense desire for money.
C.Their tactics for making profits.
D.Their potential to become business leaders.
听力原文:M: If a customer lost his draft, will the bank still pay the draft to him?
W: The drawee bank may investigate the title of the person who holds it. If he has a good title, the draft will be paid.
Q: What will the drawee bank do after being informed of loss of a draft?
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A.The drawee bank will refuse to pay the draft.
B.The drawee bank will issue another draft to the customer.
C.The drawee bank will investigate into the case first.
D.The drawee bank will pay the draft immediately.
When he got up in the morning, it looked, as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them. While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one:three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the buildings so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. The man of the Tower told him that the fire had started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane; the baker's house had caught fire from the overheated oven and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.
What is the passage about?
A.The Great Fire of London.
B.Who was the first to discover the fire.
C.What Pepys was doing during the fire.
D.The losses caused by the fire.
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WHAT WE HAVE HERE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
It is the {weirder; weirdest; weird} thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay {connecting; connected; to connect} — with anyone.
Should you {shoot; mail; give} off an email? Tap out a text? Post a private message on Facebook? Write on their Facebook wall? Skype, poke, ping or conjure them up on a digital tin can phone?
And once you reach someone, you wonder: Is he paying attention? How do you know? Even with the techno-ease of {uncountable; countable; countless} communication devices, conversations can still be troublesome. Questions are asked and answered {out; away; within} of order. Instructions and directions go half-read. Meetings are botched. Feelings are hurt.
One day when I was about twelve years old, it occurred to me to wonder about the phenomenon of laughter. At first I thought it is easy enough to see what I laugh at and why I am amused, but why at such times do I open my mouth and exhale in jerking gasps and wrinkle up my eyes and throw back my head and halloo like an animal? Why do I not instead rap four times on the top of my head or whistle or whirl about?
That was over twenty years ago and I am still wondering, except that I now no longer even take my first assumption for granted, I no longer clearly understand why I laugh at what amuses me nor why things are amusing. I have illustrious company in my confusion, of course, Many of the great minds of history have brought their power of concentration to bear on the mystery of humour, and, to date, their conclusions are so contradictory and ephemeral that they cannot possibly be classified as scientific.
Many definitions of the comic are incomplete and many are simply rewording of things we already know. Aristotle, for example, defined the ridiculous as that which is incongruous but represents neither **er nor pain. But that seems to me to be a most inadequate sort of observation, for of at this minute I insert here the word rutabagas, I have introduced something in congruous, something not funny. Of course, it must be admitted that Aristotle did not claim that every painless in congruity is ridiculous but as soon as we have gone as far as this admission, we begin to see that we have come to grips with a ghost when we think have it pinned, it suddenly appears behind us, mocking us.
An all-embracing definition of humour has been attempted by many philosophers, but no definition, no formula had ever been devised that is entirely satisfactory. Aristotle's definition has come to be known loosely as the "disappointment" theory, or the "frustrated expectation", but he also, discussed another theory borrowed in part from Plato which states that the pleasure we derive in laughing is an enjoyment of the misfortune of others, due to a momentary feeling of superiority or gratified vanity in appreciation of the fact that we ourselves are not in the observed predicament.
第36题:Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?
[A] People don't like to be considered as one with no sense of humour.
[B] People will give you a satisfactory answer to what humour is.
[C] People would like to be a liar or a coward.
[D] People can make light of other's comment on their sense of humour.
【C1】
A.However
B.Since
C.Although
D.Unless
u know its value.
A. until B.when C. what D. that
3. He talks as if he _______everything in the world.
A.knows B.knew
C.had known D. would have known
4. Never before _______ seesuch a terrible car accident on the road!
A. I have B.have I C. I did D. did I
5. The girl sometimes hasdif6culty _________ what the teacher says in class.
A.understand B.understanding
C.to understand D.understood
6. The paint is still wet._________.
A.Be not sure to touch it! B.Be sure not to touch it!
C.Be sure to not touch it! D.Don't be sure to touch it1
7. The students ______ theirpapers by the end of this month.
A.have finished B.will be finishing
C.will have finished D.have been finishing
8. —Did the medicine make you feel better?
—No. The more ________, ________ I feel.
A. medicine I take; and the worse B. medicine I take; the worse
C. I take medicine; the worse D. I take medicine; worse
9. There was so much noise inthe classroom that the teacher couldn't make himself ______.
A. heard B.hearing C. to hear D. hear
10. This overcoat cost_________. What's more, they are _______ small for me.
A. very much; very B.too much; much too
C. much too; too much D. very much; too much
The event happened in the early morning in one of the first days when Calvin Coolidge came into power. He and his family were living in the same third-floor suite at the Willard Hotel in Washington that they had moved in several years before. The former President's wife was still living in the White House.
Coolidge awoke to see a stranger go through his clothes, remove a wallet and a watch chain.
Coolidge spoke, "I wish you won't take that."
The thief, gaining his voice, said, "Why?"
"I don't mean the watch and chain, only the charm. Take it near the window and read what is on its back," the President said.
The thief read," Presented to Calvin Coolidge."
"Are you President Coolidge?" he asked.
The President answered "Yes, and the House of Representatives gave me that watch charm. I'm fond of it. It would do you no good. You want money. Let's talk this over."
Holding up the wallet, the young man said in a low voice, "I'll take this and leave everything else."
Coolidge, knowing there was $80 in it, persuaded the young man to sit down and talk. He told the President he and his college roommate had overspent during their holiday and did not have enough money to pay their hotel bill.
Coolidge added up the roommate and two rail tickets back to the college. Then he counted out $32 and said it was a loan.
He then told the young man "There is a guard in the corridor." The young man nodded and left through the same window as he had entered.
What caused the thief to meet the President?
A.He knew the President had lots of money.
B.He knew the President lived in the suite.
C.He wanted to be a rich businessman.
D.He wanted to steal some money.
The next spring Jody __2__ again. He bought more worms, which he took good care of. When winter came, he took them inside, so they would stay warm. Many people bought his worms.
One day when Jody was twelve, he got a letter. It was from the state of New York. The letter said, " Everyone who __3__ things has to pay taxes!" Jody made only one dollar selling worms. But he still had to pay part of that money to the state. He told many people in his town what had __4__. Soon some people from a television station talked with Jody. Many people saw it and they began to write letters to the state. The letters now said that the law was __5__. Finally the law was changed. Children like Jody can now sell things without paying money to the state.
1)、
A.sells
B.tried
C.unfair
D.spring
E.happened
2)、
A.sells
B.tried
C.unfair
D.spring
E.happened
3)、
A.sells
B.tried
C.unfair
D.spring
E.happened
4)、
A.sells
B.tried
C.unfair
D.spring
E.happened
5)、
A.sells
B.tried
C.unfair
D.spring
E.happened
A.The beached whales still felt distressful
B.Moko 1ed the whales back to the sea
C.The whales were still stuck on the beach
D.Moko and the whales swam together ashore