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A.A.profoundly
B.B.deeply
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A.gold and jewels
B.parts of ships
C.whole ships
D.all of the above
A young woman rode with her new husband in a wagon(四轮马车). They came to a log cabin(小棚屋). The mall shouted and a little boy came running out of the cabin. Sarah, the young woman, got down from the wagon, opened wide her arms and held the boy close.
"Hello, Abe Lincoln," she said. "I think we'll be good friends."
The new mother with the smiling face went to' work at once. She washed Abe and his sister and tidied(整理) their hair. And that night she threw away the boy's mattress(床垫) of leaves and gave him a soft mattress and enough blankets to keep him warm at night.
Sarah wove cloth and made new shirts for Abe. She made him new deerskin trousers and even deerskin shoes.
Maybe, if she hadn't come to the cabin, he wouldn't have lived to be a man. When Abe's father told him not to go to school any more and help on the farm, Sarah took Abe's part against his father. Abe would rather read than eat, and when his father told him to stop, Sarah said, "Let the boy read."
In 1830 the day came when Abe would leave home to work in New Salem. For the last time she had taken Abe's part against his father. For the last time she had kept the cabin quiet so that Abe could read.
More than twenty years later, when Abe, who had then become famous, was going to make a speech in a nearby town, Sarah went there just to watch him. In the crowd she tried to make herself small, but he saw her and, in front of everybody, got out of his carriage and went over and put his arms around her and kissed her. Yes, that was her Abe.
"He loved me truly," she said later.
Which of the following is not true？
A．The young woman in the wagon was Abe's new mother.
B．The man in the wagon was Abe's new father.
C．The little boy was the young woman's new son.
D．The little boy running out of the cabin was Abe.
It's unusual now for father to persue(追求)his trade of other employment at home, and his children rarely, if ever, see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father's business, and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money, and soon gains a feeling of economic independence (经济上的独立). In textile areas it has been customary for mothers to go out to work, but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now not an unusual factor in a child's home life, the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty five years. With mother earning and older children drawing wages, father is seldom the most important figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantages increase, but children lose something of great value if mother's employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from School.
The writer compares home to a workshop because ______.
A．fathers often persue employment at home
B．many families produce goods at home for sale
C．both fathers and mothers in most families are workers
D．parents have to make food and necessity themselves for their daily life
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Not long ago, there lived in Auckland a working family who dreamed about a house of their own. Anyone then could read in the newspapers about the building companies who offered to put people into a new house 51 only a $1,000 deposit. Of course, the remainder had to be paid off with interest over a period of twenty years or so.
The worker and his wife hopefully went to one of these companies 52 this wonderful offer. And the man in the office said．“Yes, sure. You bring along $1,000 and we can 53 you with a new house.” So the worker and his wife had to work hard and in twelve months’ time they returned to the building man with $1,000. But the man in the office said, “Look, I’m sorry, 54 we’ll need $1,500 now. Costs have gone up since we saw you last, you know.”
The couple thought it over and decided it would not take very long to save the extra $500 if they worked hard. In six moths they worked 55 overtime and saved the $500 in spite of the high rent they had to pay for their flat. Back to the building man they 56 with their $1,500. But to their surprise he 57 the deposit was now $3,000. Now somewhat wiser, the worker said, “And the next time, I dare say we’ll find the deposit rising once more. How have we 58 save the extra $1,500？” “Well”, said the man, “I think we can stabilize the situation for about twelve months. By the time you come with $3,000, we will have had the house 59 for you.
The couple left, sad at heart as they saw their dream house 60 . By the time they had saved the extra $1.500, no doubt the deposit would have become still higher, maybe $5,000, then $10,000 and then…!
51.
A.for
B.with
C.on
D.to
The new management team introduced a new reward scheme for the hotel managers in an attempt to motivate managers to improve the revenue and profitability of the chain. The salary package devised for each manager comprised:
– A relatively low fixed salary
– A bonus payment based on high room occupancy rate. The occupancy rate is the percentage of usable hotel beds filled every night. Managers who achieved more than 90% occupancy rate receive a significant bonus. This target is aimed at keeping the hotel full.
– A smaller bonus payment based on the net profit margin achieved by the hotel. This is aimed at improving the profitability of the hotel.
However, despite these incentives the overall performance of the company is still declining. Managers are generally achieving a high occupancy rate but are largely failing to deliver higher net margins. It is also clear that some managers have achieved a high occupancy rate by declaring that some bedrooms were unfit for use or were being used as seminar rooms.
Also, the pursuit of high occupancy and high net profit appears to be affecting the perceived image of the hotel chain.
Once regarded as a mid-market hotel chain, the chain now seems to be perceived as a budget buy. A large percentage of bookings are received through the Internet broker lastsecondhotels.com and their view of the chain is given below, together with some visitor quotes from their web site.
Comments
‘Great last minute bargain … very easy to get rooms at half the advertised rate’
‘Full of school children on a trip … will not be using this chain again’
‘No Internet connections in the rooms or public areas, very disappointing’
‘The bath was cracked and the windows were dirty. Cheap, but badly in need of a clean’
‘Receptionists were very off-hand and unable to help. Did not seem to know much about the area surrounding the hotel’
‘The staff were surly and uncommunicative. Much worse than last time we visited it. It used to be such a lovely hotel’
‘Cheap, but don’t eat there. The price for breakfast was extortionate’
‘Cheap and cheerful but don’t pay the full rate! Always lots of cheap beds available’
‘Food was expensive and dull. The serving staff were uncommunicative, the cutlery was dirty and damaged. Staff were more interested in talking to each other than to the customers’
‘Restaurant food was very expensive and of poor quality. The two nights I stayed there I was the only customer in the restaurant’
Lastsecondhotels.com says: ‘Value for money hotels with rooms always available. Perfect for those last minute breaks’
Required:
(a) Analyse the unanticipated consequences of the management reward scheme at Elegant Hotels. (15 marks)
(b) The DMAIC methodology of Six Sigma includes five steps: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control.
Evaluate the potential benefits of using the DMAIC methodology at Elegant Hotels. (10 marks)
Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing" is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses readily admit to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form. of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a, sometimes, fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves upholding sacred principles of respect for life, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive, the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents to a poll taken last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings.
Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936, when a bill was introduced in the House of Lords that would have legalized mercy killing under very tightly supervised conditions. That bill failed, as have three others introduced in the House of Lords since then.
Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, like Americans, are now living longer. Therefore, lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death. And the euthanasists argue that every human being should have the right to "die with dignity," by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization (住院治疗).
Most experts believe that euthanasia will continue to be practiced no matter what the law says.
From the passage we can see that in Holland ______.
A．a doctor who practices euthanasia will not be punished
B．euthanasia is regarded as illegal
C．euthanasia is very popular
D．active euthanasia is still illegal, but people often tolerate an experienced doctor who carries it out
Tom ______ more than twenty pounds for the dictionary.
A．spent
B．paid
C．cost
D．took
A.included
B.including
C.to included
D.to be included
A.spent
B.paid
C.cost
D.owned
______in Beijing for more than twenty years, he knows the city very well.
A．Living
B．Lived
C．Having lived
D．To live
