5 Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.A absorbed F bulk K functionsB abundant G distress L hiddenC accurate H efficiently M obligedD adjusted I evidently N officialE beneficial J fictions O writtenThe Internet has made learning English much easier. English learners used to be 1) _ to spend their time in libraries looking for the books that would help them in their language learning. It was very inconvenient because a lot of materials were 2) _ in numerous textbooks and readers. But today content on a variety of subjects is only a click away. This is especially 3) _ for those who are serious about learning English.In order to achieve fluency in English, you need to be comfortable using at least 10,000 words. The 4) _ materials on the Internet make it possible for you to choose appropriate content to read and listen to. These materials can be 5) _ to your level if you input some keywords in the search engine. But how can you remember the 6) _ of unfamiliar words?In this case, the Internet 7) _ makes it easier for you to learn vocabulary. You can use online dictionaries to instantly find out the specific meanings and grammatical 8) _ of new words. The Internet helps you 9) _ build up your vocabulary based on lively and interesting language content, which greatly reduces the 10) _ caused by your inability to remember the new words. The efficiency of this vocabulary learning is one of the reasons why the Internet has become an ideal place to learn the English language.

______ it is, a dream or a scientific fact, all thinkers about the space travel have agreed on one thing: the trip is worth making.A. WhateverB. WhoeverC. WhoseverD. Whichever

For the first century or so of the industrial revolution, increased productivity led to decreases in working hours. Employees who had been putting in 12-hour days, six days a week, found their time on the job shrinking to 10 hours daily, then, finally to eight hours, five days a week. only a generation ago social planners worried about what people would do with all this new-found free time. In the US, at least, it seems they need not have bothered. Although the output per hour of work has more than doubled since 1945, leisure seems reserved largely for the unemployed and underemployed. Those who work full-time spend as much time on the job as they did at the end of World War Ⅱ. In fact, working hours have increased noticeably since 1970--perhaps because real wages have stagnated that year. Bookstores now abound with manuals describing how to manage time and cope with stress. There are several reasons for lost leisure. Since 1970, companies have responded to improvements in the business climate by having employees work overtime rather than by hiring extra personnel, says. economist Juliet B. , Scholar of Harvard University. Indeed, the current economic recovery has gained a certain amount of notoriety for its "jobless" nature: increased production has been almost entirely decoupled from employment. Some firms are even down sizing as their profits climb. "All things being equal, we’d be better off spreading around the work," observes labor economist Ronald G. Ehrenberg of Cornell University. Yet a host of factors pushes employers to hire fewer workers for more hours and, at the same time, compels workers to spend more time on the job. Most of those incentives involve what Ehrenberg calls the structure of compensation: quirks in the way salaries and benefits are organized that make it more profitable to ask 40 employees to labor an extra hour each than to hire one more worker to do the same 40-hour job. Professional and managerial employees supply the most obvious lesson along these lines. once people are on salary, their cost to a firm is the same whether they spend 35 hours a week in the office or 70. Diminishing returns may eventually set in as overworked employees lose efficiency or leave for more arable pastures. But in the short run, the employer’s incentive is Clear. Even hourly employees receive benefits--such as pension and contributions and medical insurance--that are not tied to the number of hours they work. Therefore, it is more profitable for employers to work their existing employees harder. For all that employees complain about long hours, they, too, have reasons not to trade money for leisure. "People who work reduced hours pay a huge penalty in career terms," Scholar maintains. “It’s taken as a negative signal about their commitment to the firm.” Bailyn of Massachusetts Institute of Technology adds that many corporate managers find it difficult to measure the contribution of their underlings to a firm’s well-being, so they use the number of hours worked as a proxy for output. "Employees know this,’ she says, and they adjust their behavior accordingly. "Although the image of the good worker is the one whose life belongs to the company," Bailyn says, "it doesn’t fit the facts.’ She cites both quantitative and qualitative studies that show increased productivity for part-time workers: they make better use of the time they have, and they are less likely to succumb to fatigue in stressful jobs. Companies that employ more workers for less time also gain from the resulting redundancy, she asserts. "The extra people can cover the contingencies that you know are going to happen, such as when crises take people away from the workplace. "Positive experiences with reduced hours have begun to change the more-is-better culture at some companies, Scholar reports. Larger firms, in particular, appear to be more willing to experiment with flexible working arrangement. It may take even more than changes in the financial and cultural structures of employment for workers successfully to trade increased productivity and money for leisure time, Scholar contends. She says the U.S. market for goods has become skewed by the assumption of full-time, two-career households. Automobile makers no longer manufacture cheap models, and developers do not build the tiny. bungalows that served the first post-war generation of home buyers. Not even the humblest household object is made without a microprocessor. U. S. goods are appropriate only for high incomes and long hours.Why does the writer say that employees "have reasons not to trade money for leisure" A．Increased production has led to joblessness.B．Managers estimate staff productivity in terms of hours worked.C．Benefits and hours spent on the job are not linked.D．Extra work is offered to existing employees.

Our teacher was invited to_____ (judgment) a speech contest last week.

结合虚拟语气的语法知识，选择正确的答案。They held the celebration as if ______ celebrated the Spring Festival. 译文：他们举行庆祝活动，就好像他们在过春节一样。A. they hadB. they didC. they haveD. they would

He understood that his ____ the dream was not for himself but for the people who had the same hopes and passions as himA. changingB. chasingC. cheatingD. choking

A key to being successful in business internationally is to understand the role of culture in international business. Whatever sector you are operating in, cultural differences will have a direct impact on your profitability. Improving your level of knowledge of international cultural differences in business can aid in building international competencies as well as enabling you to gain a competitive advantage.How can you build international competencies in business according to the passage?A. By improving your level of knowledge of international cultural differences.B. By improving your language abilities to overcome language barriers.C. By understanding the technical and commercial process of doing business.

结合虚拟语气的语法知识，选择正确的答案。But for Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, the civilization of the Central Plains could not ______ rapidly to the western regions through the Silk Road.译文：要不是张骞出使西域，中原文明不可能通过“丝绸之路”迅速传播到西域。A. have spreadB. has spreadC. spreadingD. be spreading

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word forA emerged B springing upC counter D On averageE evolved F mechanismG ghost-writing H opened upI troubleshoot J propertiesK stage-managed L free-associateM account for N come in handyO proofread2). Intelligent as they may be, whales have not found a way to 17.______the attacks of their deadliest enemy:human beings.

It was not ________ she took off her dark glasses ________ I realized she was a famous film star．A. when; thatB. until; thatC. until; whenD. when; then