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　　As we know, it is very important that a firm should pay attention to the training of its staff(全体职员) as there exist many weak parts in its various departments. Staff training must have a purpose, which is defined when a firm considers its training needs, which are in turn based on job descriptions and job specifications (规范).

　　A job description should give details of the performance that is required for a particular job, and a job specification should give information about the behaviour, knowledge and skills that are expected of an employee who works in the position. When all of this has been collected, it is possible to make a training specification. This specifies(详细说明) what the Training Department must teach for the successful performance of the job, and also the best method to use in the training period.

　　There are many different training methods, and there am advantages and disadvantages in all of them Successful training programmes depend on an understanding of the difference between learning about skills and the training in using them It is frequently said that learning about skills takes place“off the job”, in the classroom, but training in using these skills takes place“on the job”by means of such activities as practice in the workshop.

　　It is always difficult to evaluate the costs and savings of a training programme. The success of a programme depends not only on the methods used but also on the quality of the staff who do the training. A company can often check savings in time and cost by examining the work performed by the workers and technicians who have completed a training programme. The evaluation of management training is much more complex(复杂)than that.

1．The writer mainly wants to tell us ________ by the passage.

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A．why firms should pay attention to staff training

B．staff training must have a purpose

C．pruposes and methods are most important in staff training

D．how to evaluate a training programme

2．A training specification specifies ________ .

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A．the training contents(内容)and methods

B．the costs and savings of the programme

C．the performance required for a certain job

D．the behaviour, knowledge and skills expected of an employee

3．To be successful in training programmes, we must understand the difference between ________ .

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A．the purposes and the methods

B．job descriptions and job specifications

C．what is taught and how it is taught

D．learning about skills and training in using them

4．The underlined word“evaluate”means ________ .

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　　Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activities. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind, football, hockey (曲棍球) , golf, or tennis, it may be mountaineering.

　　Those who have a passion(热情、激情) for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment (惊讶、惊异). Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

　　Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football, There are, of course, rules of a different kind, which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people, Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

　　If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a“game”. We would be mistaken in this assumption There are ,it is true, no“matches”between“teams”of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

　　The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical capacities.

　　A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his prime by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less wasted effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

1．Mountaineering is a sport which involves ________ .

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2．The main difference between a sport and a game lies in origin of the ________ .

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3．Mountaineering is also a team sport because ________.

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A．it involves rules

B．it involves matches between teams

C．it requires mental and physical qualities

D．mountaineers depend on each other while climbing

4．Which of the following is TRUE?

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A．Mountaineers compete against each other.

B．Mountaineers compete against other teams.

C．Mountaineers compete against nature

D．Mountaineers compete against international standard.

5．What is the best title for the text?

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A．Mountaineering

B．Mountain Climbers

C．Mountaineering is Different from Golf and Football

D．Mountaineering is more Dangerous than Other Sports

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　　The space shuttle Columbia flared and broke up in the skies over Texas on Saturday, February 1,2003, killing the seven astronauts on board in what NASA and President Bush called a tragedy for the entire nation. NASA launched an investigation into the disaster and began searching for the astronauts'remains. It said that although there had been some data failures, it was too early to nail down a precise cause. The break-up, 16 minutes before the shuttle was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spread possibly toxic debris (有毒的残骸) over a wide swath of Texas and neighboring states.

　　Dramatic television images of the shuttle's descent clearly showed several white trails (痕迹) streaking through blue skies after the shuttle suddenly fell apart. It was almost 17 years to the day that the Challenger shuttle exploded on Jan 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board. Take-off and reentry into Earth's atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission. In 42 years of US' human space flight, there had never been an accident in the descent to Earth or landing. Challenger exploded just after take-off.

　　Rescue teams scrambled to search for the remains of the crew, which included the first lsraeli to fly on the shuttle, former combat pilot Collan Ramon. There were warnings that parts of a vast 120-milelong corridor of debris could be toxic because of poisonous rocket propellant (推进器).

　　“We are not ready to confirm that we have found any human remains”, Nacogdoches County Sheriff Thomas Kerrs said He added that among the roughly 1,000 calls reporting debris, some people said they had found remains of crew members.

　　“The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors,……Their mission was almost complete and we lost them so close to home……America's space program will go on,”said a grim-faced Bush in a message broadcast on television, which included condolences (吊慰) to the families of the dead astronauts.

1．The word“descent”in the passage means ________.

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2．Which is TRUE of the lsraeli astronaut Collan Ramon?

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A．He was the first lsraeli astronaut to fly on the shuttle

B．He was the first foreign astronaut to fly on the American shuttle

C．He used to be a passenger plane pilot

D．He was the only survivor in the Columbia disaster.

3．The Columbia disaster and the Challenger disaster were similar in that ________ .

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A．there were seven astronauts killed on board

B, both the shuttles exploded when they took off

C．both the shuttles exploded when they were about to land

D．no human remains were found

4．Which of the following is WRONG according to the news?

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A The U.S. A will give up the space program because of the accident

B．NASA hasn't found the cause of the Columbia disaster.

C．Before the Columbia disaster, no shuttles had exploded in the course of landing.

D．Take-off and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission.

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　　Following two major air crashes which killed 234 people, China's aviation regulators (管理者) on Monday banned late-night domestic flights and ordered an inspection of all pilots and aircraft.

　　The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) told an emergency meeting of airline executives on Saturday to learn lessons from both crashes.

　　The cause of the May 7 China Northern Airlines crash near Dalian, the second fatal accident to hit Chinese airlines in less than a month , remains under investigation.

　　So does an April 15 accident in which an Air China Boeing 767 plunged into a fog surrounded mountain near Pusan, South Korea, killing 129 people.

　　“We have ordered an immediate and through safety check to rectify (纠正) any problems.”CAAC said.

　　CAAC enacted nine new air safety measures, including banning“red-eye”flights, which typically take off after 10 pm in China. It also asked carriers to limit the addition of new flights to maintain safety standards.

　　The regulators promised to enforce security checks at all airports and levy (征收) administrative or criminal penalties against anyone found responsible for future accidents.

　　The China Northern Airlines Mc Donnell-Douglas MD-82 jet crashed into the sea about 10 km off the Chinese city of Dalian last Tuesday after the pilot reported a fire in the cabin All 112 passengers and crew died in the crash, which occurred as the plane was coming in to land.

　　The twin disasters have raised alarm bells in the industry, in the middle of a two-year consolidation(巩固) aimed at creating internationally competitive airlines.

1．________ is not included in the nine new air safety measures.

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A．To ban late-night domestic flights

B．To limit the addition of new flights

C．To ban red-eye flights

D．To levy administration penalty

2．The aircrash happened in Dalian was ________.

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A．caused by a fire in the cabin

B．still under the investigation

C．the first accident of this year

D．the bitterest lesson of year 2003

3．According to the last paragraph, we can conclude ________.

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A．the quality of the planes doesn't meet international standards

B．the management of CAAC is poor

C．the security checks are not well done

D．the pilots are not skillful

　　阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　When you are travelling,. whether on business or for pleasure, you often need to stay in a hotel. The kind of hotel you choose probably is decided above all according to how much money you want to spend. There are small hotels with very few services, where the prices are low, or there are large hotels with all the very latest comforts, where you could spend all the money you have in the bank for one very comfortable night.

　　There are several different kinds of people who go to hotels. Some want to live, rather than just stay in a hotel; the hotels which are designed to meet their needs are called residential hotels. However, most people who stay in hotels are either business people or tourists on holiday.

　　In most hotels, there are two kinds of rooms: single rooms, fox the use of one person, and double rooms, for the use of two people. In addition, in large hotels, there are also suites (套房), which include two or more rooms connected together－perhaps a bed-room and a living room. They are for people who are very rich or very important.

1．One's choice of a particular hotel is made mainly according to ________.

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A．how much one is willing to pay for a night

B．whether one is travelling on business or for pleasure

C．whether the hotel is in the central part of a city

D．how good the services of the hotel are

2．If the president of a certain country comes, he will ________.

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A．live in a residential hotel with a suite

B．stay in a single room of a hotel

C．stay in a double room of a hotel

D．stay in a suite of a modern hotel

3．If a person stays in a modern hotel with latest comforts for a night, ________.

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A．he will become poor

B．he has to pay a lot of money

C．he has to spend all the money he has in the bank

D．he has to pay some money

4．The title of the article is probably________.

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　　阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　E-mail can be a powerful new tool in improving communication(交流) between patients and doctors, according to one expert.

　　“Using the Internet, doctors can answer more questions from more patients in a shorter time,” writes Dr. Basal Pal, a famous doctor in Manchester, UK. According to Pal, nearly 40% of American patients say they used E-mail to communicate with a doctor in the past.

　　He notes, however, that although patients have such interest, only up to 2% of doctors in the United States offer E-mail service.

　　Using E-mail, doctors can make sure of their advice and point patient to patient information materials and other resources on the Internet. It's said that more than 10,000 health-oriented websites (网站) already exist now.

　　However, some people worry that widespread use of medical E-mail might set up two kinds of care-one for Internet “haves” and the other for the “have-nots”.

　　But Pal points out that “by the year 2002 nearly every library will offer Internet and E-mail services in the United States”. That allows even low-income patients to use such means. Pal also talks about other possible barriers to the acceptance of medical E-mail.

　　“Doctors may be unwilling to offer E-mail services for fear of increasing workload (工作量) and uncertainty about payment (付款) for the time they spent,” he explained, “ and patients may worry that their medical information might be read by others.” But these problems can all be solved,” he adds.

　　“E-mail may help us a lot in health care, ” Pal concludes. “Patients want to know more than they can get in normal clinics,” he points out, “and they might find communication on the information superhighway (超级公路) less fearful than face-to-face dialogue, with their doctors.”

1．The article introduces a new way of patient-doctor communication________.

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2．According to the text, some people worry that________.

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A．it might have to serve both those who have access (访问通道) to the Internet and those who don't so the workload is too heavy

B．it might meet double doubts from the doctors and patients

C．it might make trouble between those who can use the Internet and those who can't

D．it might take trouble between those who have Internet experiences and those who haven't

3．All the following points are advantages (优点) of using medical E-mail except that________.

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A．it is more convenient (方便的)

B．it is less frightening

C．it enables patients and doctors to understand each other better

D．it provides patients more choices of treatment (治疗)

4．What does the underlined word “barriers” mean?

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　　阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　HONG KONG-Students from Hong Kong and Taiwan are clamouring(喧嚣) for places in mainland universities following China's accession to the World Trade Organization, a news report said on Monday.

　　The number of students from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao applying for postgraduate courses on the Chinese mainland has leapt(跃过) 71.5 percent in 2001 to 1,828, according to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.

　　The number of Hong Kong students applying for degree places on the mainland has risen from 40 in 1992 to 252 last year, according to the territory's examinations authority.

　　The number of Taiwan applicants has exceeded(超过) 700, more than double last year's total of 296, Xinhua reported.

　　The most popular universities are Beijing's Peking University and Tsinghua University, where US President George W. Bush delivered a speech to students on February 23, Jinan University in Guangzhou, Shanghai's Fudan University and Shanghai Medical University.

　　The newspaper quoted Deng Penghuai, head of the School of International Education of Tianjin University, as saying China's WTO entry boosted(提高；促进) interest in Chinese universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

　　“Many multinational (跨国的)corporations have entered or are about to enter the Chinese mainland,” he said.

　　“They need people who know both sides of the world. Hong Kong and Taiwan students have an advantage in this respect.”

　　“So we see a lot of them now coming to the mainland to study. Many of them will then work for these companies on the mainland.”

1．The students from Hang Kong and Taiwan who come to study in mainland are mainly ________.

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2．More Hong Kong and Taiwan students have come to mainland for study mainly because ________.

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A．the territory examination is not carried out so strictly now

B．the mainland has more well-known universities

C．they want to help promote the understanding of the two sides

D．China's entry of the WTO has created more opportunities of employment

3．According to the passage, the underlined words “both sides of the world” mean________.

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A．across the Straits

B．Hong Kong and the mainland

C．capitalism and socialism

D．the poor and the rich

4．We can infer that after graduation some of the Hong Kong and Taiwan students will ________.

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A．come back home

B．work in the mainland governments

C．settle down in the mainland

D．stay and work in the multinational corporations

　　阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, ending its 15-year request to join the global trade club.

The country was accepted at WTO's fourth ministerial meeting in Doha, capital of Qatar.

　　The Chinese government hopes WTO membership will boost (推进） reform and opening up and give companies greater access (进入) to the global market.

It has promised to abide by all its commitments (承诺) during its talks with WTO members and create a steady, transparent (透明的) and fair trade environment in line with WTO requirements.

　　Already, the country has revised and got rid of hundreds of laws and regulations that were against WTO rules, and organized training courses for civil servants, business personnel and citizens.

　　Experts say China's accession to the WTO will push forward the country's market-oriented reforms and help reshape its political, economic, legal and social structures.

　　Foreign companies believe the move provides greater access to the world's largest untouched market and will help improve the country's investment environment.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has released (发布) on its website the original English version and the Chinese translation of the legal documents on China's WTO entry.

　　The People's Publishing House and the Law Publishing House have been authorized to publish two series of books on the legal documents by early next year.

1．Which of the following will be the best title of the passage?

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A．China's Accession to the WTO

B．Why does China join the WTO?

C．The 143rd Member of the WTO

D．WTO Membership Will Boost(促进) China's Reform & Opening UP

2．What can be inferred from. the passage?

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A．China's accession to the WTO will push forward the country's market-oriented reforms.

B．Two series of books on the legal documents will be published early next year.

C．The competition of educated people among companies will be more hard.

D．China is creating a steady, transparent and fair trade environment in line with WTO requirements.

3．Where can this passage most probably appear?

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A．In a newspaper.

B．In a magazine.

C．In a book on China's economy.

D．In a book on WTO.

4．In this passage, the writer tells us that ________.

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A．China has joined the WTO successfully

B．what China has done after its accession to the WTO

C．the whole country are celebrating the China's accession to the WTO

D．the importance of China's accession to the WTO

　　阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　Beijing was chosen as the host city for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games at the epic 112th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Moscow on July 13.

　　Beijing beat out four other candidate cities－Toronto, Paris, Osaka and Istanbul－with an overwhelming (压倒性的) 56 votes from the IOC members in the second voting round, bringing the first ever Olympic Games to China.

　　It is believed that combination (结合) of steady and rapid development in China, a broad Olympic vision and the country's impressive (印象深刻的) sports achievements, which saw Chinese athletes take 28 gold medals in the 2000 Sydney Games, helped the city win the hearts of the IOC members.

　　The success is undoubtedly a great compensation for the city, which narrowly lost to Sydney in 1993 for the 2000 Olympic games, although many considered Beijing a top favorite at that time.

　　The landmark (重要事件) threw the nation into great joy and weeks-long celebration but also brings a huge challenge (挑战) to the city's capacity to host such a comprehensive (综合的) sports meeting.

1．The main idea of this passage is________.

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A．Beijing's bid (申办) for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games

B．Beijing becomes a new Olympic city

C．Beijing's success in bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games

D．Beijing will hold the next Olympic Games

2．The bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games would have been unsuccessful but for the following reasons EXCEPT________.

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A．there is a combination of steady and rapid development in China

B．there is a broad Olympic vision

C．China has gained lots of attractive sports achievements

D．China was considered a top favorite in 1993

3．The underlined word “compensation” means ________.

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A．something that is worth celebrating

B．something that can make us excited

C．something that is used to make up for something

D．something that is worth mentioning

4．According to the passage, which of the following is not RIGHT?

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A．There were five candidate cities, including Beijing.

B．Beijing was chosen as the host city for the Summer Olympic Games again.

C．Beijing has won more votes than any other competing cities.

D．It's not an easy job for Beijing to host such a comprehensive sports meeting.

1．Mary, wife of Richard, doesn't like travel on a ship, nor Performance Tours, but Richard has time only in November, and doesn't care where to go for their trip. Which tour company do you suggest they ask for information?

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A．Koala Tours Inc..

B．Division of CIRI Alaska Tourism.

C．The Company in Australia.

D．The company in Valhol.

2．Jack would like to experience a wildlife trip on his summer vacation. Which telephone number should he dial for some travel information?

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3．Which of the following is not included in the group programs designed by Value Holidays?

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