AftertheSummerOlympicsareover,-优题课

A few days ago I asked my sons’ governess（女家庭教师）Julia to come into my study. “Be seated, Julia, ”I said, “Let’s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month...”
　　“Forty.”
　　“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here two months, so...”
　　“Two months and five days.”
　　“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you. Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And three holidays... ”Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but - not a word.
　　“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven - nineteen. Take nineteen off ... that leaves. hmm.... forty one dollars. Correct？”
　　Julia’s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her nose, but - still not a word.
　　“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more, it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. When didn’t I take a loss! Then, due to your neglect （疏忽）, Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick’s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”
　　“You didn’t. ”sobbed Julia.
　　“But I made a note of it.”
　　“Well... if you say so.”
　　“Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen.”
　　Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
　　“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”
　　“Really? You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is !”
　　I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
　　“Merci （法语: 谢谢）,”she whispered.
　　I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this - ‘merci’?” I asked.
　　“For the money. ”
　　“But you know I’ve cheated you - robbed you ! I have actually stolen from you ! Why this‘merci’？”
　　“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”
　　“They didn’t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it really possible to be so spineless （懦弱）?Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws（爪）—to be such a fool?”
　　Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression,“It is possible.”
　　I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her little“merci”several times and went out. I looked after her and thought,“How easy it is to crush the weak in this world !”
While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her ________.

A．a protest	B．gratitude
C．obedience	D．an explanation

What shocked the writer was Julia’s ________.

A．nervousness in front of her boss

B．acceptance of injustice

C．shyness when talking about money

D．reluctance to express herself

The writer said, “Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?” He was actually telling the governess ________.

A．to be more aggressive

B．to be more careful in her work

C．to protect her right

D．to live independently

At the end of the story, the writer said,“ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!”to show ________.

A．his understanding of Julia’s anxiety

B．his worry about Julia’s future

C．his concern on the living condition of working - class people

D．his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited

From the story, we can tell that Julia’s employer was ________.

A．greedy but honest

B．ill - tempered but warm - hearted

C．strict but forgiving

D．none of the above

How many coins nave you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two？ A bent one？
　　With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.
　　（1） What do you do with it?
　　Go to a telephone box marked（you guessed it）“phonecard”.Put in your card, make your call and when you’ve finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.
　　（2） Now appear in a shop near you.
　　Near each Cardphone place you’ll find a shop where you can buy one. They’re at bus, train and city tube stations（地铁）.
　　Many universities, hospitals and clubs. Restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centres. At airports and seaports.
　　（3） No more broken payphones.
　　Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been vandalized（故意破坏）. There are no coins in Cardphone to excite thieves’ interest in it. So you’re not probably to find a vandalized one.
　　Get a phonecard yourself and try it out ,or get a bigger wallet.
The passage is most probably ________ .

A．a warning

B．a note

C．an advertisement（广告）

D．an announcement

There are three sections（部分） in the passage. Which section do you think is about why phonecards are good?

A．Section 1．	B．Section 2．
C．Section 3．	D．None.

Choose the right order or the steps under“How do you use a phonecard”.
　　a. Put in your phonecard.
　　b. Look at the screen to find out how many calls you can still make.
　　c. Go to a telephone box marked “Phonecard”.
　　d. Make your call.

A．a, b, c, d	B．c, a, d, b
C．a, d, c, b	D．c, d, a, b

　An explosion on Thursday killed one and injured 21 in a busy street in Tongren, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
　　The bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin in the city’s commercial hub（商业中心），where lots of shops and restaurants are concentrated.
　　The ear-splitting blast was heard around 12∶50 p.m.，said a local newspaper, citing witnesses. The power of the blast shattered（使粉碎）nearby shop windows and ripped the stainless（不生锈的）steel rubbish can to pieces.
　　One passer-by，identified（确认）only as Zhang，said she was shocked by the noise and saw a lot of pedestrians lying on the ground when she got to the scene.
　　Thirteen of the injured were taken to a local hospital after the explosion. A doctor there said five were in serious condition but already out of danger after emergency treatment. The others were just slightly hurt.
　　The cause of the explosion is still under investigation, said an officer with the Tongren police, but refused to speculate as to the cause.
　It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．All the injured were taken to a hospital

B．8 of the injured were not taken to a hospital

C．The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a restaurant

D．The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a shop

　Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．One passer- by, indentified only as Zhang, saw the man throwing a bomb into a bin.

B．Some customers in restaurants were injured.

C．The writer didn’t get to the scene.

D．All customers in shops got hurt.

In the last paragraph the underlined word“ speculate” probably means ________.

A．tell	B．guess
C．discuss	D．talk

　What of the follwing can be the best title for the passage?

A．Bomb Hidden in a Rubbish Bin

B．The Cause of the Explosion

C．A Terrible Thing

D．Market Blast Kills 1 ,Injures 21

As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex.
Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is responsible for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department(人事部) is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.
If a firm wants to adopt a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a method of job evaluation(估价) and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be successful, that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers.
In job evaluation, all the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in “points”, which are added together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their ability to solve problems.
Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without reference to an evaluation system based on points.
In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should compare the value of each job with those in the job market. It should also consider economic factors such as the cost of living and the labor supply.
It is necessary that payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simply to measure the work done, as in the work done with the hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen; for indirect workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.
If a firm wants to establish a new pay structure, it is necessary to get the agreement between________.

A．the Trade Unions and the Personnel Department

B．the Personnel Department and the Accounts Department

C．the employees and the Trade Unions.

D．the employers and the Trade Unions

What does the words “monetary encouragement schemes” in the last paragraph imply?

A．They are plans in which much payment is encouraged.

B．They are encouraging money schedules

C．They are pay systems

D．They are pay systems to encourage workers in that the more work is done, the more money will be paid.

Methods of additional payments are adopted for indirect workers because________.

A．their work is not important	B．they have low wages
C．the measurement of their work is difficult	D．the company does not have enough money

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

A．In every company only the Accounts Department takes charge of the management of wages and salaries.

B．Management work and the job done by workers can use the same evaluation system.

C．If a job is done differently, the payment for the job should be different too.

D．An evaluation system based on points is usually used to evaluate management work.

The main purpose of the passage is to________.

A．explain the responsibilities of both the Accounts Department and the Personnel Department.

B．explain not to evaluate the performance of a job by points

C．tell readers how a company should adopt a new payment system

D．convince(使确信) readers that management work is more difficult to evaluate than the work done by workers

The following form shows the result of a survey (调查) of parents from five countries, who were asked why children are important to them. They were required to choose three main reasons from seven dealing with personal interests, family relations and social responsibility(责任). Each number in the form is the percentage (%) of parents who chose that particular item(项) as one of their three reasons. Therefore, the most common for Japanese parents are strengthening family ties (Item D, 51%), learning from the experience (Item E, 60%), and raising responsible citizens (Item, G 45%).

Items	Japan	Korea	U.S.A	Britain	France
A.To see oneself continuing in future	35	32	31	17	59
B. To keep the family line	24	68	28	17	26
C. To receive care in old age	10	38	8	7	8
D. To strengthen family ties	51	25	50	55	66
E.To develop oneself through raising one’s children	60	19	54	69	35
F. To enjoy raising one’s children	20	19	50	71	39
G. To raise responsible citizens	45	40	46	28	15

According to this survey, Korean parents are most interested in .

A．continuing their family	B．obtaining care in old age
C．strengthening family relationship	D．caring for raising children

How many items are chosen by parents of more than two countries as main reasons?


A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

From the percentages in items _______, we can see the following difference between the Asian and the European countries: the Asian parents want to devote themselves to future societies through children; the European parents enjoy the course of raising children.

A．B and C

B．D and F

C．E and F

D．F and G

According to the form, which of the following is true?

A．From the main reasons shown in the form it seems that in every country parents do not expect care
from children in their old age.

B．Japanese parents share two of their main reasons with the British and American parents, and the third one with Korean parents.

C．More than half of the parents from each country chose the reason“tostrengthen family ties”and for each it was one of the three main reasons for having children.

D．The percentage of French parents selecting the reason“to see oneself continuing in future”is about as high as that of the other countries.

A．Basketball	B．Swimming．
C．Tennis．	D．Horse-riding．

A．In 1984．	B．In 1988．
C．In 1992．	D．In 2007．

A．b,d,c,e,a	B．a,d,b,c,e
C．a,d,c,e,b	D．b,d,a,e,c