The following card includes a brief summary and a short assessment of a research paper. It can provide a guide for further reading on the topic.

Trevor, C. O., Lansford, B. and Black, J. W., 2004, "Employeeturnover (人事变更) and job performance: monitoring the influences of salary growth and promotion", Journal of Armchair Psychology, vol. 113, no.1, pp. 56-64.

In this article Trevor et al. review the influences of pay and job opportunities in respect of job performance, turnover rates and employees' job attitude. The authors use data gained through organizational surveys of blue-chip companies in Vancouver, Canada to try to identify the main cause of employee turnover and whether it is linked to salary growth. Their research focuses on assessing a range of pay structures such as pay for performance and organizational reward plans. The article is useful as Trevor et al. suggest that there are numerous reasons for employee turnover and a variety of differences in employees' job attitude and performance. The main limitation of the article is that the survey sample was restricted to mid-level management, thus the authors indicate that further, more extensive research needs to be undertaken to develop a more in-depth understanding of employee turnover and job performance. As this article was published in a professional journal, the findings can be considered reliable. It will be useful additional information for the research on pay structures.

1. The research paper published is primarily concerned with    

A. the way of preventing employee turnover

B. methods of improving employee performance

C. factors affecting employee turnover and performance

D. pay structures based on employee performance

2. As is mentioned in the card, the limitation of the research paper mainly lies in that      .

A. the data analysis is hardly reliable

B. the research sample is not wide enough

C. the findings are of no practical value

D. the research method is out-of-date

3. Who might be most interested in this piece of information?

A. Job hunters.

B. Employees in blue-chip companies.

C. Mid-level managers.

D. Researchers on employee turnover.

 

单词拼写 (共10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分)

1.He is in good shape as a result of the ____________ （多样性）in the diet with different nutrition.

2.The article was carefully ___________（润色）and checked before handed in.

3.I feel ____________（背叛）by my friend Hannah, because she hasn’t kept her promise that she will not tell others about my failure in math.

4.Unlike some teachers who are quiet and serious, Mr Guo has a sense of h__________, and is well-received by his students.

5.We were such good friends that we are to share joys and s__________.

6.Mr Qian Liwei is a business development c____________, to whom we can turn if we have any questions.

7.Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been s___________ built for him.

8.They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while p___________ truant, travelled 1,600 miles.

9.An ancient bus stopped by a dry river bed and a party of famous actors and a___________ got off.

10.It was not long before a helicopter arrived on the scene to rescue the s__________ of the plane crash.

 

No one knows yet the accurate number of lives which have been lost in this terrible fire .But reports suggest that it is more than one hundred .

A wall of flames fifty feet high and at least one hundred and fifty miles wide is now racing towards the forests and rich farmlands of southern Victoria . Towns less than one hundred miles from Melbourne will be in danger unless the wind changes . People are rushing excitedly into the streets . The police have warned them not to see the fire but many people are doing so .

The cause of the fire is unknown . No rain has fallen in this part of Australia for three months , and the hot , north-west wind from the great central desert is blowing at more than thirty miles an hour .

The firefighters are travelling to the fire by road , rail and air . But it is not easy to get there . Flames and fallen trees have cut off or blocked roads and railway lines . The thick smoke often prevents them from finding the air strips (飞机跑道).

It is said that the fire has brought the greater danger to the country since the Second World War .

1.By the time the article was written , the fire        .

    A．had just broken out      B．had been put out

    C．was spreading violently D．was coming to an end

2.The writer wrote this article mainly to tell people        .

    A．the fire was terrible and dangerous

    B．it was impossible to put out the fire

    C．more than one hundred people died of the fire

    D．to join in the fight against the fire

3.In the 4th paragraph , the writer suggested that        .

    A．the fire would soon be controlled by the firefighters

    B．it would be very difficult to put out the fire

    C．the government was paying great attention to the fire

    D．the fire had caused great losses and the airport was in ganger

4.The underlined word “ accurate” in the first sentence has the same meaning as        .

    A．recent   B．whole    C．rough         D．exact

 

根据照句子结构的语法性，在下面空格处填入一个适当的词语或使用括号中词语的适当形式填空, 并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~45的相应位置上。

31. Liu Xiang was proud to have won _______ gold medal in the 110-meter hurdle in the 28^th Olympics.

32. When she was a child, her ambition was _______(admit) to a famous university.

33. Tom feels that _______(accept) by others is a great pleasure for him.

34. The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle _______ online popularity is headed straight to the history books.

35. The 16th Asian Games will be held from November 12th to 27th, 2010, _______ many reporters will be there to cover the events.

36. Day dreaming again, Ellison? Now _______ you need to do is to work hard.

37. Many scientists hold the belief _______ cloning may lead to many important scientific breakthroughs and medical treatments.

38. Newspapers keep us ________(inform) of what is going on around the world.

39. Poorly ________ (write), the article was turned back by the editor.

40. The rescue team members ________ (search) the lost for a week, but about 20 students are still missing.

41. As it is known to all, eating fruit and vegetables is ________ (benefit) to our health.

42. -- I have finally passed the driving test!

   -- _______(congratulate)!

43. Candy only played a small part in one movie, but she fancied _______ as a famous actress.

44. She sings as ______(merry) as a little bird.

45. Don't drink and drive. You know _______ is dangerous to drink and drive.

In the atmosphere , carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror or the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allows the sun’s rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping.

   According to a weather expert’s prediction, the atmosphere will be 3 ℃ warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rate. If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt, thus raising sea level several meters and severely flooding coastal cities. Also, the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere(半球), possibly resulting in an alteration of the earth’s chief food growing zones.

   In the past, concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet. But the weather experts are now paying more attention to West Antarctic, which may be affected by only a few degrees of warming, in other words, by a warming on the scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels.

   Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing. The evidence available suggests that a warming has taken place. This fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth

   However, most of the fuel is burnt in the northern hemisphere, where temperatures seem to be falling. Scientists conclude, therefore, that up to now natural influences on the weather have gone beyond those caused by man. The question is: Which natural cause has most effect on the weather?

   One possibility is the variable behavior of the sun. Astronomers at one research station have studied the hot sports and ‘cold” spots( that is, the relatively less hot spots) on the sun. As the sun rotates(使旋转), every 27.5 days, it presents hotter or colder faces to the earth, and different aspects to different parts of the earth. This seems to have a considerable effect on the distribution of the earth’s atmospheric pressure, and consequently on wind circulation. The sun is also changeable over a long term: its heat output goes up and down in cycles, the latest trend being downward.

   Scientists are now finding shared relations between models of solar weather interactions and the actual climate over many thousands of years, including the last Ice Age. The problem is that the models are predicting that the world should be entering a new Ice Age and it is hot. One way of solving this theoretical difficulty is to assume a delay of thousands of years while the solar effects overcome the inertia(惯性) of the earth’s climate. If this is right, the warming effect of carbon dioxide might thus be serving as a useful opposed balance to the sun’s fading heat.

It can be concluded that concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would ____.

A. mean a warming-up in the Arctic.              

B. raise the temperature of the earth’s surface.

C. prevent the sun’s rays from reaching the earth’ s surface.

D. explain the cause of great changes in the climate in the northern hemisphere.

The article was written to explain____.

A. the greenhouse effect.          B. the solar effects on the earth.

C. the causes affecting weather.     D. the models of solar weather of solar weather interactions.

Although the fuel consumption is greater in the northern hemisphere, temperature there seems to be falling. This is ____.

A. mainly because the levels of carbon dioxide are rising

B. partly due to changes in the output of solar energy

C. possibly because the ice caps in the poles are melting

D. only due to the effect of the inertia of the earth’s climate

On the basis of their models, scientists are of the opinion that     .

A. the climate of the world should be becoming cooler

B. the new Ice Age will be delayed by the greenhouse effect

C. the man-made warning effect helps to increase the solar effects

D. it will take thousands of years for the interia of the earth’s climate to take effect.

If the assumption about the delay of a new Ice Age is correct, ___.

A. ice would soon cover the northern hemisphere.

B. the greenhouse effect could work in favor of the earth.

C. the best way to overcome the cooling effect would be to burn more fuels.

D. the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could warm up the earth even more quickly.