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Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She owned and operated three McDonald’s shops in Illinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she yearned for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.Her lucky moment came, strangely enough, after she was nominated in 1992 to be on the McDonald's bun committee. “The company picked me up in a corporate jet to see bakeries around the world.” She recalls. “Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!”The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to win the contract, even though she had no experience running a bakery.Harrington studied the bakery business and made sure she was never off executives’ radar. “If you have a dream, you can’t wait for people to call you,” she says. “So I’d visit a mill and send them photos of myself, in a baker’s hat and jacket, holding a sign that says “I want to be your baker.” After four years and 32 interviews, her persistence paid off.Harrington sealed the deal with a handshake, sold her shops and borrowed $13.5 million. She was ready to build the faster, most automated bakery in the world.The Tennessee Bun Company opened ahead of schedule in 1997 in time for a slump in US fast-food sales for McDonald’s. Before Harrington knew it, she was down to her last $20,000, not enough to cover payroll. And her agreement with McDonald’s required that she sell exclusively to the company. “I cried myself to sleep many nights, ” she recalls. “I really did think I am going to go bankrupt”.But Harrington worked out an agreement to supply Pepperide Farm as well. “McDonald’s could see benefit if our production went up and prices went down and no benefit if we went out of business,” she says. “That deal saved us.”Over the next eight years, Harington branched out even more: She started her own trucking business, added a cold-storage company, and now has three bakeries producing fresh buns and frozen dough—all now known as the Bun companies. Speed is still a priority: It takes 11 people at the main bakery to make out 60,000 buns an hour for clients across 40 states, South America, and the Caribbean.Grateful for the breaks she’s had, Harrington is passionate about providing opportunities to all 230 employees. “Financial success is the most fun when you can give it away, ” she says.The current economy is challenging. Some of her clients’ sales have declined, but she’s found new clients and improved efficiencies to help sustain the economy’s double-digit growth.Cordia Harrington doesn’t have to stand on her feet all day anymore. Two of her three sons now work for her. And she's married her husband, Tom, is now her CFO."This is more than a job,” says Harrington. “It's a mission. I'm always thinking. How can we best serve our employees? If we support them, they’ll do their best to look after our clients. That’s how it works here.”1.According to the passage, which of the following was most significant in Harrington’s early career?2.“Harrington .... made sure she was never off executives ‘radar’" (Paragraph Four) means that she（）.3.How did she survive the crisis of the bakery business?4.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT in describing her current business?5.According to the passage which of the following is fundamental to Harrington’s success?

Psychologists agree that I.Q. contributes only about 20 percent of the factors that determine success. A full 80 percent comes from other factors, including what I call emotional intelligence. Following are two of the major qualities that make up emotional intelligence, and how they can be developed.1.Self-awareness. The ability to recognize a feeling as it happens is the keystone of emotional intelligence. People with greater certainty about their emotions are better pilots of their lives.Developing self-awareness requires tuning in to what neurologist Antonio Dam as io calls “gut feeling”. Gut feelings can occur without a person being consciously aware of them. For example, when people who fear snakes are shown a picture of a snake, sensors on their skins will detect sweat, a sign of anxiety; even though the people say they do not feel fear. The sweat shows up even when a picture is presented so rapidly that the subject has no conscious awareness of seeing it.Through deliberate effort we can become more aware of our gut feelings. Take someone who is annoyed by a rude encounter for hours after it occurred. He may be unaware of his irritability and surprised when someone calls attention to it. But if he evaluates his feelings, he can change them.Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental of emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.2.Mood Management. Bad as well as good moods spice life and build character. The key is balance.We often have little control over when we are swept by emotion. But we can have some say in how long that emotion will last. Psychologist Dianne Tice asked more than 400 men and women about their strategies for escaping foul moods. Her research, along with that of other psychologists, provides valuable information on how to change a bad mood.Of all the moods that people want to escape, rage seems to be the hardest to deal with. When someone in another car cuts you off on the highway, your reflexive thought may be: That jerk! He could have hit me! I can’t let him get away with that! The more you stew, the angrier you get. Such is the stuff of hypertension and reckless driving.What should you do to relieve rage? One myth is that ventilating will make you feel better. In fact, researchers have found that’s one of the worst strategies. A more effective technique is “reframing”, which means consciously reinterpreting a situation in a more positive light. In the case of the driver who cuts you off, you might tell yourself: Maybe he had some emergency. This is one of the most potent ways, Tice found, to put anger to rest.Going off alone to cool down is also an effective way to refuse anger, especially if you can’t think clearly. Tice found that a large proportion of men cool down by going for a drive — a finding that inspired her to dive more defensively. A safer alternative is exercise, such as taking a long walk. Whatever you do, don’t waste the time pursuing your train of anger thoughts. Your aim should be to distract yourself.The techniques of reframing and distraction can alleviate depression and anxiety as well as anger. Add to them such relaxation techniques as deep breathing and meditation and you have an arsenal of weapons against bad moods.1.What are gut feeling?2.According to the author, the importance of knowing one’s gut feeling is that（）.3.The word “spice”（Para.6）is closet in meaning to（）.4.On mood control, the author seems to suggest that we（）.5.The essence of “reframing” is（）.

The train was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that plains of Texas were pouring eastward. Vast flats of green grass, dull-hued spaces of mesquite and cactus, little groups of frame houses, woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the horizon, a precipice.A newly married pair had boarded this coach at San Antonio. The man’s face was reddened from many days in the wind and sun, and a direct result of his new black clothes was that his brick-colored hands were constantly performing in a most conscious fashion. From time to time he looked down respectfully at his attire. He sat with a hand on each knee, like a man waiting in a barber’s shop. The glances he devoted to other passengers were furtive and shy.The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there, and with steel buttons abounding. She continually twisted her head to regard her puff sleeves, very stiff, and high. They embarrassed her. It was quite apparent that she had cooked, and that she expected to cook, dutifully. The blushes caused by the careless scrutiny of some passengers as she had entered the car were strange to see upon this plain, under-class countenance, which was drawn in placid, almost emotionless lines.They were evidently very happy. “Ever been in a parlor-car before?” he asked, smiling with delight.“No.” she answered; “I never was. It’s fine, isn’t it?”“Great! And then after a while we’ll go forward to the dinner and get a big lay-out. Fresh meal in the world. Charge a dollar.”“Oh, do they?” cried the bride. “Charge a dollar? Why, that’s too much — for us — aren’t it, Jack?”“Nor this trip, anyhow,” he answered bravely. “We’re going to go the whole thing.”Later he explained to her about the trains. “You see, it’s a thousand miles from one end of Texas to the other; and this runs right across it, and never stops but four times.” He had the pride of an owner. He pointed out to her the dazzling fittings of the coach; and in truth her eyes opened wider and she contemplated the sea-green figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil. At one end a bronze figure sturdily held a support for a separated chamber, and at convenient places on the ceiling were frescos in olive and silver.To the minds of the pair, their surroundings reflected the glory of their marriage that morning in San Antonio; this was the environment of their new estate; and the man’s face in particular beamed with an elation that made him appear ridiculous to the Negro porter. This individual at times surveyed them from afar with an amused and superior grin. On other occasions he bullied them with skill in ways that did not make it exactly plain to them that they were being bullied. He subtly used all the manners of the most unconquerable kind of snobbery. He oppressed them. But of this oppression they had small knowledge, and they speedily forgot that infrequently a number of travelers covered them with stares of derisive enjoyment. Historically there was supposed to be something infinitely humorous in their situation.“We are due in Yellow Sky at 3:42.” he said, looking tenderly into her eyes.“Oh, are we?” she said, as if she had not been aware of it: To evince （表现出）surprise at her husband’s statement was part of her wifely amiability. She took from a pocket a little silver watch; and as she held it before her, and stared at it with a frown of attention, the new husband’s face shone.“I bought it in San Anton from a friend of mine, ” he told her gleefully.“It's seventeen minutes past twelve, ” she said, looking up at him with a kind of shy and clumsy coquetry （调情；卖俏）. A passenger, noting this play, grew excessively sardonic, and winked at himself in one of the numerous mirrors.At last they went to the dining-car. Two rows of Negro waiters, in glowing white suits, surveyed their entrance with the interest, and also the equanimity, of men who had been forewarned. The pair fell to the lot of a waiter who happened to feel pleasure in steering them through their meal. He viewed them with the manner of a fatherly pilot, his countenance radiant with benevolence. The patronage, entwined with the ordinary deference, was not plain to them. And yet, as they returned to their coach, they showed in their faces a sense of escape.1.The description of the couple’s clothes and behavior at the beginning of the passage seems to indicate that they had a sense of（）.2.Which of the following adjectives best depicts the interior of the coach?3.Which of the following best describes the attitude of other people on the train towards the couple?4.Which of the following contains a metaphor?5.We can infer from the last paragraph that in the dining-car（）.

There is a certain inevitability that ebook sales have now overtaken paperback sales on Amazon’s US site. Amazon’s Kindle 2 is so light and so cheap that it’s easy to see why people have rushed to buy it. Though I’m still not keen on the design of the Kindle, it is a vast improvement on its predecessor and certainly tolerable. Beyond the device itself, Amazon has done a great job of rolling out Kindle apps, ensuring that people like me — who have an iPad but not a Kindle — can still join in the fun. Once you’re into the Kindle ecosystem, Amazon locks you in tightly — just as Apple does with its iTunes/iPod ecosystem. It’s so easy to buy from Amazon’s store and the books are so cheap that it’s not worth the effort of going elsewhere.While I remain opposed to Amazon’s DRM（数字版权管理）—indeed, I’m opposed to DRM on any ebooks — I have to admit that the implementation is so smooth that most Kindle users won’t care at all that their ebooks can’t be moved to other devices.The ebook trend is nowhere near peaking. Over the next five years we can expect to see more and more readers move away from printed books and pick up ebooks instead. But I don’t think that will mean the death of the printed book.There are some who prefer printed books. They like having shelves filled with books they’ve read and books they plan to read; they like the feel of the book in their hands and the different weights and typefaces and layouts of different titles. In other words, they like the physical form of the book almost as much as the words it contains.I can sympathize with those people. As I wrote earlier this week, my ideal situation would be for publishers to bundle ebooks with printed ones — in much the same way that film studios bundle DVDs with digital copies of films. There's no reason to think that lovers of printed books will change their minds. There will undoubtedly be fewer of them as time goes by because more people will grow up with ebooks and spend little time with printed ones. However, just as there are people who love vinyl records （黑胶唱片）, even if they were born well into the CD era, there will still be a dedicated minority who love physical books.Since there are fewer of these people, that will mean fewer bookshops and higher prices for printed books, but I don’t think the picture is entirely bleak. There is scope for smaller print runs of lavishly designed printed books and bookshops aimed at book lovers, rather than the Stieg Larsson-reading masses. With mainstream readers out of the printed book market, book lovers might even find they get a better experience.1. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?2. According to the passage, the reason why the author opposes to Amazon’s DRM is that（）.3. It can be learned from the passage that the trend of ebooks（）.4. Why does the author believe that the surging sales of books won’t mean the death of the printed book?5. What does the author say about the future of printed books?

A dynamic economy is founded on the（）of entrepreneurs, which is rewarded by profit.

Having finished their morning work, the clerks stood up behind their desks,（）themselves.

This is an enormous field of which I can touch only the（）.

You may put（）on the wheel to make it turn more easily.

The child has a good（）memory: she can repeat the stories her mother tells her exactly.

Lawyers emerged from（）in the eighteen century to become key members of the commercial colonies.

This painting perfectly（）the impressionistic style, which was so popular at the time.

In 2008 there were fears that we might enter another economic（）as bad as the 1930s.

The taste of the food was so（）that it was hardly noticeable.

The（）spread so quickly that nobody in that area survived it.

I don’t think that this question is subordinate（）the main aim of our company.

They（）the hall with pictures.

“The Last Supper” is widely regarded as Leonardo da Vinci’s（）.

The magician picked（）several from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance.

Since you are a student, you must（）by the school discipline.

What he told you is strictly（）. Don’t let anyone else know of it.

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