题型:任务型阅读 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
江西省赣州市十四县(市)2018-2019学年高二上学期英语期中考试试卷
How to improve vocabulary fast
Your vocabulary refers to the words in a language you are familiar with. We should learn some ways to expand it.
Read every day. . Choose reading material that is slightly above your level and keep a dictionary with you to look up words you do not know.. If you do not meet with an unfamiliar word in your daily reading, use your dictionary to search for one.
Learn the correct definition and pronunciation for each new word. Pronunciation is as important as definition because in order to add a word to your active vocabulary, you must be able to use it in speech.
Elaborate (详尽阐述) on the meaning of the word. If you have just learned the word “stubborn”, think about the neighbour who will not lend you his car.
Use your new word in speech and in writing. E-mail your sister about how your cat is stubborn about sleeping on your pillow. . But the more you use it, the more fluent you will become in its use. Soon it will be a regular part of your active vocabulary.
Tell everyone you are trying to increase your vocabulary. Encourage them to ask you what your latest word is.
The more you explain the meaning of a word to someone, the more likely you are to remember it.
A. The vocabulary can be increased.
B. Find a new word every day.
C. Or let them ask for the definition of a new word you have used.
D. The more often you read, the faster your vocabulary can grow.
E. The first time you use a new word in speech it may seem strange.
F. Imagine him shaking his head, and think of him as “stubborn in his refusal”.
G. Your vocabulary contains the words you understand.
Maybe you are an average student. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here's how.
Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time.
Make good use of your time in class. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.
Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes; look at the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you'll remember it longer.
Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won't end if you don't pass a test, so don't be over worried.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} You will probably discover them after you have tried these.
A. There are other methods that might help you with your studying. B. Don't forget to set aside enough time for relaxation. C. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says. D. No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard. E. You probably think you will never be a top student. F. Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class. G. This will help you understand the next class. |
Commercial advertisement was once thought of as a technique of the marketers to inform the potential buyers about the availability of certain products. It was seen more as a medium to inform the buyers rather than persuade them to buy. The present day marketers see advertisement as a medium to damage the image of their competitors and their products. This indeed, is an undesirable and an immoral practice. Instead of speaking about their own products, these marketers speak about the drawbacks (often without any basics) of the competing products.
People watching TV advertisements would notice that there has always been an advertisement war between the marketers of different consumer goods. A few such cases are given below.
⑴Parachute Coconut Oil vs. V.V.D. Gold
Sometime back, the producer of V.V.D Gold Coconut Oil claimed in their TV advertisement that only their products were superior and the one sold in blue colour bottles (the reference was to Parachute coconut oil) was suitable only for un-natural hair.
⑵Tata Salt vs. Captain Cook
Tata salt was first iodised (碘处理) salt marketed by an Indian Company. It has been enjoying a good and steady market. Captain Cook, another producer of iodised salt, who entered the market later, had to adopt some strategy to get control of the market. The TV advertisement of Captain Cook stressed on ‘Free flow' of their salt when transferred to a container. The producer of Tata Salt retaliated (报复) by saying that the claim of Captain Cook was a trick and those who were quality conscious should deal with it with caution.
⑶Pepsi vs. Coca Cola
Coca Cola was selected as the official soft drink for the Wills World Cricket 1996. When the cricket series was on, the marketers of Pepsi constantly advertised on TV. Their advertisement gave the idea that the cricketers preferred only Pepsi and as a matter of fact there was nothing official about it.
⑷Horlicks vs. Complan
Sometime back, the TV advertisement of Complan, a health drink directly attacked Horlicks, which has been in the market for several decades. The claim of Complan was that their brand (which according to them was Brand C) has a higher percentage of ingredients compared to Brand H (reference was nothing but to Horlicks).
The above examples clearly show how the technique of advertisement is misused by some marketers to ruin the image of their competitors. This, certainly, is not a healthy trend.
Any marketer should only speak about his products and not about his competitors' products. The awareness of consumers has certainly increased over the years and they are no longer easily taken in. There are many consumer products like salt, oil, shaving blades etc. But one thing for sure is that offering the same product in a different container will not make the product different.
Mass media like Radio, Television and newspaper should not allow advertisements that tell lies. Legal regulations, in this regard, should also be made stricter.
Comparison of the past and the present | |||
In the past | A technique mainly used for offering{#blank#}1{#/blank#} | ||
At present | A trick used as a means of unfair {#blank#}2{#/blank#} | ||
Unhealthy trend of the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of advertisement | |||
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} | Products | Wrong {#blank#}5{#/blank#} | |
V.V.D. Gold | No product of the kind could {#blank#}6{#/blank#}it. | ||
Captain Cook | Captain Cook stressed on their “free flow” when their product was put into a container. | ||
Tata Salt | Tata salt warned consumers to be{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. | ||
Pepsi | Too much advertisement on TV seemed to say that Pepsi was the cricketers' {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. | ||
Complan | Complan claimed that their product was much {#blank#}9{#/blank#}in ingredients. | ||
Solutions | ●Only products of their own are allowed to be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in the advertisement. ●Stricter laws should be made to protect every producer's and consumer's benefits. |
At a meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet, on Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang said it is important to keep the social insurance premium(保险费) policy stable(稳定), which to a large extent has eased people's worries at a time when a new regulation on premium collection has aroused public concern.
The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council recently issued a reform plan for tax collection, which includes pension, medical, unemployment, occupational injury and maternity insurance will be uniformly collected by the taxation authorities from Jan 1, 2019.
In fact, the taxation authorities have been collecting social insurance premiums for more than one decade. Social insurance premiums in 19 provinces and regions are collected by the local taxation authorities.
In particular, companies have expressed concern over the uniform collection of social insurance premium by taxation authorities mainly for three reasons.
First, the new regulation indicates the reform of the collecting system as a result of institutional reform of the State Council. The companies are worried especially because they believe compulsory collection of social insurance premium will increase their expenditure on social insurance.
Second, since the taxation authorities are fully in charge of social insurance premium collection, the companies fear that the establishment of a new collection system will prevent enterprises escaping paying the social insurance premium.
Third, the media have reported that lately the local authorities in provinces such as Jiangsu, Heilongjiang and Hubei have been ordering enterprises to pay the arrears ( 欠 款 ) in social insurance premium they should have paid in the past years.
These factors have increased the companies' concern over the new premium-collection regulation. Some people assume the reform will increase the companies' cost, and some companies have even begun to lay off employees fearing that “winter is coming”.
Thanks to the current premium-collection system, the companies have managed to not pay a huge amount of social insurance premium. Take urban workers' basic pension insurance for example. It is estimated that the companies have paid only about two-thirds of the total amount of social insurance premium. Calculating on the basis of the data for 2017, this year the actual social insurance premium collection is 3.34 trillion yuan ($487.71 billion), while the total amount should be 5.08 trillion yuan. The due amount is more than one-third of the total that should have been paid.
Some background information about the social insurance It is of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to keep the social insurance premium policy stable.
The State Council issued a reform plan for tax collection, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}
premium policy | All kinds of insurance. |
The {#blank#}3{#/blank#}for the concern expressed by some enterprises | First, the companies are {#blank#}4{#/blank#}that compulsory collection of social insurance premium will increase their expenditure on social insurance. |
Second, the companies fear that the establishment of a new collection system will {#blank#}5{#/blank#}enterprises escaping paying the social insurance premium. | |
Third, the local authorities think it a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}for companies to pay the arrears in social insurance premium they should have paid in the past years. | |
The {#blank#}7{#/blank#}on some companies and people | Some companies have even begun to lay off employees fearing that “winter is coming”. |
Some people think the reform will{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the companies' cost. | |
The {#blank#}9{#/blank#}of current premium-collection system | The companies have paid only about two-thirds of the total {#blank#}10{#/blank#}of social insurance premium. |
Just as team members today have assigned doing roles, there should also be thinking roles. By knowing how other members of your learn and organization think—and by others knowing how you think—everyone can be more productive. So how should you evaluate how you and your team think? After a lot of trial-and-error, we developed a three-step method that delivers practical and meaningful results.
Focus. Do you tend to pay the most attention to ideas, process, action, or relationships? For example, in the morning do you think about the problems you need to solve, the plans you need to make, the actions you need to take, or the people you need to see? This isn't about picking one to the exclusion(排除)of the other. It's about where your focus naturally lands.
Orientation(方向). A good way to identify your orientation is thinking about what tends to bother you in meetings. Are you more likely to complain about getting dragged into the weeds or about things being too general and not specific enough? These dimensions are complementary(补充的)to personality, skills, and traditional roles.
Combination. By combing these two dimensions you can know about the thinking style at work in whatever context or setting you chose. When you know your thinking style, you know what naturally energizes you, why certain type of problems are challenging or boring, and what you can do to improve in areas that are important to reaching your goals. Once you know your style, it helps to share it with others, and have others share theirs with you. In this way, your thinking style becomes a useful tool—a kind of social currency—for the team. Imaging you put together a team to work on a new initiative(行动). Wouldn't you like to know who is energized by big-picture strategy discussions and who finds them frustrating? Who likes to work on the details of the execution? And who is energized by managing the team dynamics?
The landscape of business is changing rapidly, and we have to find new and better ways to connect and communicate. We all want to work better together, the challenge is actually making it happen. Understanding collaboration(合作)through the way of thinking rather than doing is a practical and powerful step forward.
What kind of Thinker Are You? |
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Introduction |
●Both assigned doing roles and thinking roles are {#blank#}1{#/blank#}important among team members. ●Team members knowing how each other think can {#blank#}2{#/blank#}productivity. |
Three steps in {#blank#}3{#/blank#}thinking styles |
●The first step is to identify the focus of your {#blank#}4{#/blank#}in a particular context. ●It is not about making an either-or{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, but about finding where your focus naturally lands. |
*The next stop is to identify {#blank#}6{#/blank#}your orientation swings toward the big picture or the details. *It can help others form a full understanding of you. |
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*The third step is to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}these two dimensions and see your thinking style at work. *It {#blank#}8{#/blank#}to the understanding of other team members' thinking styles. |
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In this rapidly changing world, understanding {#blank#}10{#/blank#}others think instead of what they do can help you work better together. |
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