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the right meaning of the underlined part according
to the context.
1. Klump was expected
to make an assessment of his boss.
A.
resolution
B.
evolution
C. devaluation
D. evaluation
2.
On the other hand, beneath a deceptive veneer of
familiarity, cultural gulfs often
remain hidden.
A. captive
B. perceptive
C.
misleading
D. Ambiguity
3.
The
U.S.
system
learns
from
best
practices
in
other
countries,
and
it
adapts
accordingly.
A. adopt
B. adept
C. abrupt
D. accommodate
4. This
mutual adjustment eventually becomes the norm
within an organization.
A. criterion
B. critic
C. criticism
D. crisis
5. Deshande also sees local context as
integral to the global big picture.
A.
inner
B. intact
C. intellective
D. ingenuous
6.
When
we
think
of
entrepreneurs,
most
of
us
imagine
dynamic,
successful,
over-achievers
like Bill Gates of Mircosoft, Richard Branson of
Virgin Airlines, Inc.
or Tim Boylle of
Columbia Sportswear, to name a few contemporary
heroes.
A. List a few examples
B. call names
C. nominate
D. say a few
words
7. Success is very personal and
subjective
A. conscious
B. instinct
C.
selfish
D. Based on
personal feelings
8. Visioning involves
development of a clear mental picture of what we
would like to
become in the next five
to ten years.
A. complicates
B. envelops
C. includes
D. absorbs
9.
According to the authors of
Canadian
Small Business
, goals should be
“SMART”,
i.e. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Realistic, and Time-oriented.
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A. particular
B.
complete
C.
special
D. explicit
10.
Generally
speaking,
four
shared
personality
traits:
conservatism
in
financing,
sensitivity to the world around them,
awareness of their identity, and tolerance of new
ideas, form the essential character of
the companies that have functioned successfully
for hundreds of years.
A.
the ability to respond to affective changes
B. allergy
C.
emotion
D. sympathy
we discovered another monthly fee
–
that eliminates most
roaming charges
and still offers
weekend freebies.
rid of
B. adds to
C.
pays off
D.
holds up
12.
Municipal bonds pay interest that is
exempt from federal income tax and often
from state tax in the states in which
they?re issued.
sed
B. decreased
C. aroused
D.
free
13.
Starting
in
2002,
you
can
write
off
the
interest
paid
on
all
qualifying
student
loans.
B. remove
C. limit
D.
Transfer
14. Redeem your mature bonds,
pays the taxes and invest in new Series EE bonds.
A. due
B. full
C.
grown
D.
Typical
iicates
of
deposit
at
online
banks
usually
have
higher
yields
than
CDs
at
brick-and-mortar banks.
ements
B. credit
C.
income
D.
reputation
ss and
destitute,
shopping bag ladies in New York City live
a miserable
life, suffering
from delusions and fantasies.
sed
B. desperate
C. poor
D. impoverish
17. School
classes were suspended for fear of spread of the
terrible epidemic.
A. dangled
B.
dismissed
C. deferred
D. debarred
18.
His
speaking
voice
was
a
beautiful,
relaxed
tenor,
not
the
contrived
basso
profundo of pompous Politicians.
A. Consisted
B. affected
C. devised
D. conspired
residents
upbraid migrant workers for the sharp rise in
urban crime rate.
B.
uphold
C. embrace
D. contain
20. Thousands of
audience listened to the speaker with rapt
admiration.
ed
B. eccentric
C.
absent
D. absorbed
21. It is the most excellent and
prestigious priests that would be raised to the
purple.
A. contemplable
B. respectful
C. contemptible
D.
reputable
is no discernable normal
lobular architecture, though vascular structures
are
present.
A. discerptible
B.
discriminable
C. separable
D. segregable
23. His conduct calls for the severest
condemnation.
A. punishment
B. conviction
C. condensance
D. Penalty
24. The force of public opinions can
help check abuse in modem politics.
ck
ctice
antage
from motorcars, the factory turns out
bicycles.
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for
3. except
C. besides
D. beside
will
do anything to undermine their
adversa
ry?s reputation.
sh
B. delist
C. mineralize
D. underline
27. He felt no animosity towards his
critics.
A. animation
B. amiability
C. enmity.
Emanation
28. He tried to keep neutral
in the conflict between his friends.
A.
impartial
B.
biased
C.
unconcerned
D. Independent
was an innocent deception meant as a
joke.
A.
Conception
B. deceit
C. decent
D. detection
30.
If you fail three times, you will not be entitled
to
the game anymore.
qualified for
B.
be accustomed to
C. be applied
to
D. be engaged
in
II.
Fill
in
each
blank
of
the
following
sentences
with
one
of
the
phrases
given
below. Make changes when necessary.
stick to
reach out to
lay off
refrain from
one on one
take in
Wear on
prospect
pull out all the stops
identify with
when it comes to
entail
to the financial crisis, the company
had to
100 men.
2.I
also
try
to
work
with
the
students
to
help
them
improve
their
English.
when participants
the
principles of fair play, can the market run
smoothly
4. When you?re
looking for a job, you could
your network.
scholar
attaches importance to getting rid of the stale
and
the
fresh.
6. She
scolding her child until the visitors
left.
7.I believe that most readers
will
the author.
8.
I am innocent. I?m going
to
to prove it.
the hours
, the labor representatives become
anxious.
10. The manager
held out bright
to me if l
accepted the position.
11
.“Women
and
men
have
fairly
similar
life
goals
love,”
the
study
reveals.
new project will
enormous expense and labor upon us.
III. Choose one word or
phrase that best completes the following
sentences.
1.
by
the old Iady?s grief eyes, he was about to seek
for help.
elmed
B. Immersed
C. Yielded
D.
Slashed
2.
Can
the
African
governments
join
together
to
the
poverty
under
this bad circumstance?
A.
abolish
B. eliminate
C.
forsake
D.
Illuminate
to
their
great
effort,
the
different
ideas
have
been
into
one
uniform
plan smoothly
A. put
C. linked
D. integrated
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4. The ABC Company has come into public
through the demagoguery
of
its employees.
A.
prominence
B.
fame
C.
notoriety
D.
sonority
5. This document is
so important that you should
the
content in your
personal computer lest
you lose it.
A. hide
B. back up
C. Lock down
D. operate
IV
. Translate
the following sentences into Chinese.
1. I understood enough of Chinese
culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront
someone in a group setting, so I waited
to have a one-on-one session with my boss.
2.
Klump?s
experience
is
a
reminder
of
just
how
complicated,
on
a
personal
level,
globalization and
managing across cultures can be.
, while average companies
in France, Germany, and Japan may all look quite
different from each other, those
countries? best
-performing
multinationals look quite
similar.
4. A commitment to being customer-
centric tends to be deeply embedded throughout
the organization.
5. The
truth is that we often fail to recognize
entrepreneurs all around us: the corner
grocery
storeowner,
the
family
physician
who
opens
a
medical
practice
in
our
neighborhood, or the young person who
delivers the morning paper.
6. Most
people spend less time planning their new business
than they do with their
family
vacation.
success means to you will
not likely be what success means to someone else.
8. Goal-setting involves developing a
list of things you would like to achieve in your
personal or professional lives
–
your goals.
9.
Understanding what success means to you and the
level of success you are willing
to
accept in life is one of the first stages of new
venture planning.
10. We literally
spent the day looking out the window as people
were leaving.
11. And ev
en
if performance issues factored into your decision,
tell the employees it?s
not
their
fault-
it?s
yours
~
and
that
you?ve
tried
to
avoid
layoffs
as
much
as
you
could.
12.
Fearing
retribution,
some
companies
have
security
escort
newly
laid-off
employees
immediately
the
door
–
perhaps
allowing
them
a
short
detour
to
their
desks to collect belongings.
13.
Many people don?t adopt a
committed, passionate, failure
-is-not-
an-option attitude
and don?t recognize
that finding a job is a numbers game.
is a tendency for people to over
inflate the ease of their ability to find a job,
based on a distorted view of the
marketability of their skills.
15.
You don?t recognize that
face
-to-face interviews are the only
things that matter.
people
are
either
not
confident
in
themselves
or
act
arrogant
in
the
interviewing process simply because
they are not as prepared as they should be.
17.45
percent
of
the
employers
surveyed
for
,
the
largest
US
online job site, said they use social
networking sites to check on job candidates, up
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from just 22 percent in a survey
conducted last year.
19.
down payment
20. appraised value
21. yard sale
22. joint
return
23.
Has
your
checking
account
been
draining
out
faster
than
ever?
Even
financial
reports have been feeling the pinch.
24. Municipal bonds pay interest that
is
exempt from federal income tax and
often
from state tax in the states in
which they?re issued.
25.
If
you
pay
someone
to
care
for
your
children
who
are
under
age
13
–
or
a
disabled
dependent
such
as
an
elderly
parent
–
while
you
work
or
look
for
work,
you?re eligible for a tax
credit.
26.A
bigger
problem
is
managing
the
scores
of
messages
that
go
back
and
forth
between colleagues collaborating on
projects every day.
27.
Even
better,
a
team
of
employees
can
collaborate
on
a
single
document
or
spreadsheet
in
real
time
–
trading
ideas
and
criticism,
adding
new
features
and
images
–
without
having to send documents and attachments back and
forth.
28. For as little as $$10 a user
per month, these beefed-up wikis can operate
behind
firewalls, integrate with
network directories, and act as the central
repository for all
company
communications-
from
telephone
lists
to
HR
forms
to
information
about
specific projects.
29.
The terrifying “runs”
that began
the year before on more than
5,000 failing banks
had stripped rural
areas of capital and now threatened to overwhelm
American cities.
30. Upstairs, FDR
would put the finishing touches on every word and
phrase.
31.
Those
who
planned
instead
to
withdraw
money
were
gently
thrown
in
with
an
unsavory lot.
general public
33. marketing campaign
34. executive director
35.
third-party endorsement
36. Most
business owners, whether they are advocates of
environmentalism or not,
hope that by
making their company more sustainable they will
attract more customers
and, ultimately,
in-crease their profit margins.
37.
“Greenwashing”
is
used
to
describe
the
attempt,
by
some
corporations,
to
convince
their
audiences,
largely
through
marketing,
that
they
are
environmentally
friendly
when they are not actually doing very much to make
a difference.
e
the
potentially
devastating
consequences
of
abusing
our
delicate
environment,
there
are
still
not
many
companies
leading
the
way
forward
when
it
comes to
green issues.
are
so
many
confusing
messages
floating
around,
usually
generated
by
journalists
and
official
figures
that
consumers
are
becoming
frustrated
and
are
looking for somebody to
provide them with the information and the answers
that they
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