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Later on, in the bar our European acquaintance commented that we were indeed considerably better off than the local people --- though perhaps not three times as well off, which is what the difference in room prices suggested.

Finally he lowered his eves in a show of respect and said, "That room is reserved for honored guests from rich countries." I was so shocking that I didn't know how to reply.

I reminded him that we had asked for an ordinary room, not a special room, and when I inquired what is unusual about our room, he seemed not to want to answer.

The short, smiling man who introduce himself as the manager denied that we had paid more than other people, though he did admit that we had been put in a “special” room.

The clerk I spoke with insisted over and over that we had been charged the normal rate for the hotel room, so I asked to speak with his manager.

I tried to control my temper and focus on our business, but in the end I decided that I had to discuss about the matter with the people who had overcharged us.

At first I did not aware this, but when I found out the next day from another foreign guest at the hotel, a European, I couldn’t believe my ears.

When the people at the front desk of the hotel near the oil filed heard that my colleague and I were from China, they let us pay a higher price for our rooms than local people.

1. I met the Canadian ambassador2. As you can see from this map, the Rockies3. Hand me that hammer4. Did he explain5. The company has announced its decision to invest6. I asked him7. We had no sooner arrived in the capital8. In the 1860s detachments of scientifically trained soldiers,9. JW Powell was the first European-American10. It says in the e-mail that the undergraduates are

Ann Withington got a（1） with a major insurance firm a few monthsafter she（2） from university. （3）she received little encouragement（4） her new boss, she worked hard and soon became very good at her tasks and duties. Thanks to her sunny temperament and willingness to help her colleagues, she soon became quite（5） as well. In her first five years with the company she was（6） twice, and （7）time her salary went up substantially.But then her career took a turn for the worse. Her first director, a man in（8）fifties, was（9） with a younger woman who seemed to regard Ann as a rival. She constantly（10 ） her work but never offered any（11） about how it could be improved. Weeks passed and Ann tried her（12）to please the new director, but there was no change in the latter’s（13）towards her.Eventually Ann's mood darkened, and she began to look into other possibilities. When her request for a （14）to the company’s Seattle office was blocked by her boss, she decided it was time for action. She began an ambitious job hunt that led to a tentative offer from one of her employer’s competitors. Just as she was getting（15） to announce that she was quitting her job in a month, she was called into her boss’s office and abruptly（16） . This was a great（17）. Admittedly, her relations with her boss were poor, but she had always（18） out her duties conscientiously.After thinking over her situation, she decided not to （19）about theunfairness of her director's decision. The tentative job offer from the other company was soon （20） ; Ann accepted it and never looked back.句意:安•威辛顿在大学毕业后几个月就在一家较大保险公司找到了工作。虽然她的新老板并没有给予她多少鼓励，但是她工作勤勤恳恳，很快就适应了工作。由于她的脾气好且乐意帮助人，不久后她就变得很受大家欢迎。在她进入这家公司的头五年里，她被提拔了两次，每次工资都涨了很多。但是这之后她的事业就开始走下坡路。她的第一任主管，一位50多岁的男性，很满意将安视为竞争对手的一个更年轻的女员工。她不断批评她（即Ann）的工作，但却未就如何改进工作给出任何建议。数周过去了，安尽最大的努力去让这位新主管满意，但是后者对她的态度没有任何改变。最终，安的心情也变得一片灰暗，于是她开始寻求新的出路。她申请到公司在西雅图的分支机构工作，这一请求被老板拦下。她认为是时候采取行动了。她满腔热情地开始寻找工作，最后从公司的竞争对手那里获取得到了一份工作机会。正当她准备宣布在一个月后辞职时，她被老板叫到了办公室，然后被突然告知自己被解雇了。这是个极大的侮辱。诚然，她与老板的关系很差，但是她依然认真地履行她的职责。再三思考之后，她决定不去抱怨她的主管决定的不公。不久，新单位的入职通知书到了，安头也不回地离开了。

These days people get their news from many different（1） . Some people still read an old-style printed daily newspaper, while（2） read newspapers on（3）. Many people no （4）read a newspaper at all, instead relying（5） the internet for short news articles, or visiting favorite websites that circulate pieces from other websites. Another group of people get most of their news from TV or radio broadcasts. Many Western intellectuals regard the decline of the greatdaily newspapers as a negative （6）that will lead to a （7）understanding of world affairs. They are alarmed by the growing number of people who largely （8） the outside world, focusing on their own society or small personal sphere.句意:现在人们可以通过多种出处获取新闻。一些人仍然阅读老式的纸质日报，而另一些人则在网上看报纸。许多人不再在网上看报纸，相反只是依赖网络去关注短消息，或浏览自己喜欢的网站。还有一群人是通过电视或收音机获取大部分消息。许多西方知识分子把伟大的日报的衰落视为一种负面的现象，它将导致人们对世界事务了解的匮乏。他们惊讶地发现，越来越多的人只会把注意力放在自我世界之中，关心自己的事，而忽视外面的世界。

I went to see a movie last night. The film was a British comedy that had been（1） to me by a number of my friends. It turned （2）to bejust as funny as they’d said it would be. I（3） so hard that there weretears in my eyes, especially at the climax toward the end. The film is without （4）the funniest that I’ve ever seen. When you get a（5） , youshould see it （6）.句意:昨晚我去看了一部电影。这是一部英国喜剧电影，由很多我的朋友向我推荐。它证明是如他们所说的那样有趣。我笑得那么厉害，以致我的眼泪都出来了，尤其是在接近尾声的高潮时。这部电影无疑是我曾经看过的最有趣的电影。如果你有机会的话，你也应当去看看。

After （1）about it for several weeks, we decided to do our fieldwork in an area of southeastern Yunnan （2）along the border with Vietnam. The （3）with our choice was that the area was closed, so we had to ask for official（4）to work at the site we had in mind. （5），the officials we spoke with were very open to our arguments, after we（6） our reasons for wanting to do fieldwork near the border, they quickly approved our request. We finished our fieldwork in 2005. Last month I went（7） to the area for the first time and discovered that things have changed greatly （8）then. The area is now completely open and there is a brisk trade in manufactured goods in the towns on sides of the border.句意: 在开始工作几个星期后，我们决定去云南东南部一个沿途与越南接壤的地方进行我们的野外作业。我们选择存在的一个问题是这个地方是关闭的，所以为了去在我们所想的地方作业，我们不得不去寻求官方的许可。幸运的是，与我们谈话的官员们非常乐意接受我们的推理。在我们解释完我们选择在临近边境地方做野外工作的原因后，他们很快就同意了我们的请求。我们在2005年完成了我们的野外工作。上个月我独自第一次去了那个地方，发现情况从那时起己发生很大变化。这个区域现在是完全开发的，边境两边城镇里的制成品生意很兴隆。

How are your wedding plans going?I’d （1）not talk about them, if you don't （2）.Oh, Pm sorry, I didn’t mean to pry句意:你的婚礼筹备的怎么样了？如果你不介意的话，我宁愿不讨论这个。哦，不好意思啊，我不是想要打听的。

A Oh, Professor Donaldson, it’s such （1）honor to meet you! I’ve read all your books and as many of your articles as I could get my hands on.B You’re not Zhang Qing, are you?A , （2）but how do you know my name?B Prof. Li told me to be sure to meet you when I visited the campus. He said you were very interested in our research.A That’s true, and I've been（3） forward to meeting you ever since I heard you were coming to Beijing.句意:哦，唐纳森教授，非常荣幸见到你！我己拜读过您所有的书籍，且阅读了大量我所能接触到的你的文章。你不是张青吗？我就是，但您是怎么知道我的名字的？李教授让我务必在参观校园时与你见面。他说你对我们的研宄很感兴趣。是的，自从听说您要来北京后，我就一直期盼着与你见面。

A Have you seen my dictionary? I can’t find it（1 ） .B Is that it over there by the door?C It is! I （2）have left it there yesterday afternoon as we were leaving for the day.句意: 你有看见我的字典吗？我到处都找不到它。在门口的那个是你的字典不？是的！在昨天下午我们放学时，我有可能把它放在那里了。

Even though cultures widely assume that boys are stronger and sturdier than girls, basic biological weaknesses are built into the male of our species. First of all, human males seem to be slowly disappearing. Mother Nature has always acknowledged and compensated for the fragility and loss of boys by arranging for more of them: 106 male births to 100 female newborns over the course of human history. But in recent decades, from the United States to Japan, from Canada to northern Europe, wherever researchers have looked, the rate of male newborns has declined. Examining US birth records for the years between 1970 and 1990, they found 1.7 fewer boys per 1,000 than in decades and centuries past; Japan's loss in the same decades was 3.7 boys.Boys are also more than two-thirds more likely than girls to be bom prematurely before the 37th week of pregnancy. And, despite advances in public health, boys in the 1990s faced a 30 percent higher chance of death by their first birthday than girls; in contrast, back in the 1750s, they were only 10 per cent more likely than girls to die so early in their lives. Once they make it to childhood, boys face other challenges. They are more prone to a range of neurological disorders. Autism 自闭症 is notoriously higher among boys than girls: now nearly five times more likely, as tallied by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are more susceptible than girls to damage from very low-level exposure to lead. Yet another problem: boys suffer from asthma at higher rates. There's also a stronger link between air pollution and autism in boys.Why do boys face such a burden of physical challenges? The answer is that the male’s problems start in the womb: from his more complicated fetal development, to his genetic makeup, to how his hormones work. The nine-month transformation from a few cells to an infant is a time of great vulnerability. Many chronic illnesses are seeded in the womb. In our species, the female is the default gender, the basic simpler model: Humans start out in the womb with female features (that is why males have nipples). The complicated transformation in the womb from female to male exposes the male to a journey packed with special perils. When the first blast of testosterone 睾酮 from the Y gene comes along at about the eighth week, the unisex brain has to morph into a male brain, killing off some cells in the communication centers and growing more cells in the sex and aggression centers. The simpler female reproductive system has to turn into the more complex male reproductive tract, developing tissues such as the testis and prostate 前列腺.Further, it takes a greater number of cell divisions to make a male; with each comes the greater risk of an error as well as the greater vulnerability to a hit from pollutants.On top of that challenge, the human male’s XY chromosome 染色体 combination is simply more vulnerable. The two XXs in the female version of our species offer some protection: In disorders where one X chromosome has a genetic defect, the female’s healthy backup chromosome can take over. But with his single X chromosome, the male lacks a healthy copy of the gene to fall back on. The X chromosome, which never shrank, is also a larger chromosome “with far more genetic information than the Y chromosome，’’ finds Irva Hertz-Piciotto, a University of California at Davis autism researcher, “so there may be some inherent loss of key proteins for brain development or repair mechanisms in boys.” This is a clue to the higher autism rate among boys, she asserts.Females also have a stronger immune system because they are packed with estrogen 雌激素，a hormone that counteracts the antioxidant process. “Estrogen protects the brain,” explains Theodore Slotkin, professor of neurobiology at Duke University's School of Medicine. “It repairs and replaces, even after neural injury,” Low estrogen even leaves boys more sensitive to head injuries. The male brain “is simply a more fragile apparatus, more sensitive to almost all brain insults,” says lead poisoning expert Herbert Needleman.It is the high levels of testosterone in the womb at critical times in gestation, according to British psychopathologist Simon Baron-Cohen, that are responsible for what he calls “the extreme male brain” -- the kind exhibited by autistic boys - low in empathy, high in systematizing. And in fact US researchers in recent decades have found unusually low estrogen and high testosterone levels among boys with autism. If the balance of hormones is out of whack in males, what made that happen? Researchers are coming up with some clues. In the New York City neighborhoods near Columbia University's Center for Children’s Environmental Health, families for years routinely sprayed their apartments with a popular insecticide, chlorpyrifos, until it was banned from household use in 2001. The researchers found that prenatal exposure to the chemical seemed to have more of an effect on reducing the IQs of boys than girls. Disruption of their male hormones may be the reason, “One possible explanation for the greater sensitivity of boys to chlorpyrifos is that the insecticide acts as an endocrine disruptor 肉分泌'干扰素 to suppress sex-specific hormones,” said study leader Megan Horton of Columbia.Similarly, pregnant mothers' exposure to phthalates 邻苯二甲酸酉旨一used in making some vinyl 乙矯基 products and toys as well as some personal care products - has been linked to bigger changes in the behavior, such as aggression and attention problems, of their sons than their daughters. Phthalates also may feminize male genitalia.Boys also seem to be more vulnerable to bisphenol A, an estrogenic substance used to make polycarbonate plastics as well as the linings of food and beverage cans. Boys, but not girls, exposed to higher bisphenol A levels in the womb or during childhood had more hyperactivity, aggression and anxiety problems, according to a University of California at Berkeley study. In addition, pregnant women exposed to higher levels of the chemical gave birth to baby boys with lower thyroid hormones 甲状腺激素.No such effect was detected in the baby girls. No one knows what these lower levels may mean for the boys’ health because they remained within normal boundaries, but it could have important effects because thyroid hormones guide brain development.Some of these chemicals act like fake estrogens, others like fake testosterone, but both types seem to disrupt normal development. Animal tests show that a dose of these chemicals inflict the most damage when it hits a fetus. And, because of their biological vulnerabilities, it is boys who may experience the most effects. While not forgoing the push for fairness and equality, it seems wise to accept the scientific reality of male weaknesses. This likely won't mean the end of men, but their vulnerability to environmental contaminants and diseases could have serious ramifications for the future of the entire human race unless we find ways to protect them from harm.1.If text B is accurate, then the evidence for the assertion that human males are gradually disappearing is（） .2.Compared with girls, boys are（） .3.Nipples in humans are found on the（） .4.In paragraph 10 the author asserts that chronic diseases（） .5.Backup in paragraph 11 means something that （）.6.The levels of thyroid hormones in new bom males, mentioned in paragraph 16, （）.7.Imagine that environmental pollution continues at current or higher levels in China. If the information in text B is correct, then Chinese doctors should expect to observe （）.

1. Twelve months ago, Lululemon Athletica was one of the hottest brands in the world. Sales of its high-priced yoga gear were exploding; the company was expanding into new markets; experts were in awe of its “cult-like following.” As one observer put it, “They’re more than apparel. They’re a life style.” But then customers started complaining about pilling fabrics, bleeding dyes and, most memorably, yoga pants so thin that they effectively became transparent when you bent over. Lululemon's founder made things worse by suggesting that some women were too fat to wear the company’s clothes. And that was the end of Lululemon’s charmed existence: the founder stepped down from his management role, and, a few weeks ago, the company said that it had seen sales “decelerate meaningfully.”2. It’s a truism of business school thinking that a company's brand is its “most important asset,” more valuable than technology or patents or manufacturing prowess. But brands have never been more fragile. The reason is simple: consumers are supremely well informed and far more likely to investigate the real value of products than to rely on logos. Absolute Value, a new book by Itamar Simonson, a marketing professor at Stanford, and Emanuel Rosen, a former software executive, shows that, historically, the rise of brands was a response to an information-poor environment. When consumers had to rely on advertisements and their past experience with a company, brands served as proxies for quality; if a car was made by General Motors, or a ketchup by Heinz, people assumed that it was pretty good. It was hard to figure out if a new product from an unfamiliar company was reliable or not, so brand loyalty was a way of reducing risk. As recently as the 1980s, nearly four-fifths of American car buyers stayed loyal to a brand.3. Today consumers can read reams of research about whatever they want to buy. Thisstarted back with Consumer Reports, which published objective studies of products, and with JD Power's quality rankings, which revealed what ordinary customers thought of the cars they had bought. But what has really weakened the power of brands is the internet, which has given ordinary consumers easy access to expert reviews, user reviews and detailed product data, in an array of categories. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that 80 percent of consumers look at online reviews before making major purchases, and a host of studies have logged the strong influence those reviews have on the decisions people make. The rise of social media has accelerated the trend to an astonishing degree: a dud product can become a laughingstock in a matter of hours. In the old days you might buy a Sony television set because you had owned one before, or because you trusted the brand. Today such considerations matter much less than reviews on Amazon and Engadget and CNET. As Simonson told me, “each product now has to prove itself on its own.”4. It has been argued that the welter of information will actually make brands more valuable. As the influential consultancy Interbrand puts it, “In a world where consumers are often overwhelmed with information, the role a brand plays in people’s lives has become all the more important.” But information overload is largely a myth. “Most consumers learn very quickly how to get a great deal of information efficiently and effectively,” Simonson says. "Most of us figure out how to find what we’re looking for without spending huge amounts of time on line." And this has made customer loyalty pretty much a thing of the past. Only 25 percent of American respondents in a recent Ernst & Young study said that brand loyalty affected how they shopped.5. For established brands this is a nightmare. You can never coast on past performance — the percentage of brand-loyal car buyers has plummeted in the past twenty years — and the price premium that a recognized brand can charge has shrunk. If you are making a better product, you can still charge more, but, if your product is much like that of your competitors, your price needs to be similar too. That is the clearest indication that the economic value of brands — traditionally assessed by the premium a company could charge — is waning. This isn’t true across the board: brands retain value where the brand association is integral to the experience of a product (Coca-Cola, say), or where they confer status, as with luxury goods. But even here the information deluge is transformative; luxury travel, for instance, has been profoundly affected by websites like TripAdvisor.6. For consumers this is ideal: they are making better choices, and heightened competition has raised quality and held down prices. And they are not the only beneficiaries; upstarts now find it easier to compete with the big boys. If you build a better mousetrap, people will soon know about it. A decade ago, personal-computer companies like Asus and Acer had almost no brand identity outside Taiwan. Now they are major players. Roku, a maker of streaming entertainment devices, has thrived even though its products have to compete with similar ones made by Apple (which is usually cited as the world's most valuable brand). And the Korean carmaker Hyundai has gone from being a joke to selling four million cars a year. For much of the 20th century, consumer markets were stable. Today they are tumultuous, and you are only as good as your last product. For brands like Lululemon there is only one consolation: make something really great and your past sins will be forgotten.1.According to text A, which was published recently, within the past year Lululemon Athletica（） . 2.The best opposite of the verb to decelerate (used in paragraph 1) is to （）.3.A company's brand is its “most important asset”'(paragraph 2). Text A （）.4.American consumers used to be loyal to brands （）.5.In paragraph 3, social media are mentioned（） .6.Based on the evidence presented in text A,（）7.To judge from what he writes, the author of text A（） .8.The author cites Hyundai as an example of a firm that（） .

As the article points out, one of the things that limit the appeal of this year’s new TV shows most damaginglv is that they lack of innovation.

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