With the unveiling this week of the Wall-E-like Asus Zenbo, this is the year that science-fiction could turn into science-fact, introducing home assistants that can talk to you, control your electronics and help out with the chores.The latest robot to offer help around the home is Asus’s Zenbo, which, at 599, costs about the same as a smartphone. Designed to be a do-it-all smarthome assistant, Zenbo can drive itself around your place, using various cameras to keep it from bumping into the walls. A touchscreen face allows it to emote, while speakers and microphones allow it to respond to voice commands and have a chat. It will control the gizmos in your home, keep an eye on older people and alert care givers in case of accidents. It will even entertain the kids with a song-and-dance number.1.What is the news mainly about?A) Customer service of Asus’s Zenbo.B) Special functions of Asus’s Zenbo.C) Suggestions of using Asus’s Zenbo.D) Merits and demerits of Asus’s Zenbo.2.What do we know about Asus’s Zenbo from the news?A) It’s used to warn the old of dangers at home.B) It can help people with almost all housework.C) It costs 599, even lower than a mobile phone.D) It’s the first smarthome assistant in robot history.

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B　　Running your small business requires good staff. Once you find them, you don't want to let them go elsewhere.　　During an employee's time with a company, there are a number of forces that influence his or her behavior. I like to refer to them as "push" and "pull" . You're either pushing an employee towards the door, or pulling them deeper into your organization.　　Suppose that you've made a good hire and you want to keep the employees, the trick is to recognize individual needs of employees and satisfy those needs, within reason, in order to keep pulling them away from the door. Even if you can't pull them away from the door, at least don't do things to push them out of the door.　　Recognize that some employees will lose interest and need something fresh to keep their interest. If you can't continually provide challenges, opportunities for promotion and other interesting and rewarding opportunities, then you'll have some employees leave through no fault of your own.　　The important thing is to identify your key employees and make certain they are being treated well. Communicate with them on a regular basis to make certain that you understand what makes them behave in a particular way, and be aware of concerns they may have about job satisfaction.To keep your employees, you are advised to _____.A. recognize and meet their needsB. identify and overcome their faultsC. offer them a salary as high as possibleD. provide them with a better working conditionAccording to the passage, when is it possible for some employees to lose interest?A. The company is located in a remote area.B. They have no rewarding opportunities.C. They make many mistakes in their work.D. The company is not big enough for development.How should you deal with your key employees according to the last paragraph?A. Make them behave well. B. Meet with them every day.C. Pay regular visits to their family.D. Make sure they are well-treated.The passage is mainly about _____.A. how to keep your employeesB. the importance of key employeesC. how to challenge your employeesD. the difference between“push”and“pull”

When invited to lunch,dinner,or supper,it is very impolite to arrive late,as it is usually planned to have the meal at the exact hour given in the invitation.By arriving late,you will not only keep the other guests waiting,but greatly inconvenience the hostess and spoil the dinner.Western cooking is not,like Chinese,served up at the last minute,dish by dish from the frying pan.The dishes are all cooked,and planned to be ready exactly on the hour for which you are invited.If you are twenty minutes late,the meat will be overdone,the cauliflower(花椰菜) will have lost its freshness,the French fried potatoes their crispness(脆),the other guests their tempers,and the hostess her good opinion of your manners.5It is just as important not to arrive too early.Your hostess may be still dressing or busy arranging the table or cooking the dinner,and not prepare to meet you.One should plan to arrive not more than five minutes before the appointment time --- just in time to remove one’s wraps and meet the other guests before dinner.5When you arrive,the hostess or some member of the family will probably meet you at the door and take your coat and hat.In the winter time you should dress more lightly than usual,as you may expect the rooms to be warmer than in most Chinese homes.It is bad manners to open a window or a door in another person’s home without first asking permission,and before you do that,you should consider the comfort of the other people present.Your hostess will accompany you into the room where the guests are assembled and introduce you to anyone you may not already know.Then she may indicate a seat for you,or you may find one to suit yourself.There is no order of importance of seats,so it does not matter where or when you sit down,except that a gentleman never sits when any lady is still standing.As later guests arrive you will rise to be introduced to them if you are a gentleman; if a lady,you will not rise except for older ladies or persons of special importance.4.Which of the following is the main reason that you shouldn’t arrive too early?5A.Your hostess may not yet come back from shopping.5B.Your hostess may think you are too eager to have the dinner.5C.You will find no guests there to talk to.5D.Your hostess may still be busy working.5.What’s the proper time for a guest to come to a dinner?A.Just before the table is set.B.A few minutes before the appointed time.C.Right after all the other guests have arrived.5D.When the dinner is ready to begin.

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2. What does Duckworth say about talent?A. It is a new concept much too overrated.B. It proves necessary for big achievements.C. It plays a lesser role in one's success.D. It is a guarantee for real success in life.

({B)}TEXT B({/B)} At 5:30 in the morning we are deep in a dark forest on an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. We’ve been out walking for only 15 minutes, but I’m already soaked in sweat. As a colleague and I plod along, my head lamp picks out the occasional trail marker, but mainly the light seems to operate as a major local landmark for insects. Several mosquitoes have already discovered the delights of the soft parts of my ears, while others are slowly working their way between my socks and legs to be discovered later after much scratching. Suddenly a deranged roaring and barking starts 25m above my head and builds chaotically and intensity before slowly quieting after several minutes. Similar mad choruses respond from other areas of the forest. Hearing the dawn cacophony of howler monkeys always given me a deep sense of pleasure -- the joy of being back in the tropics. It may be a hot, humid place where insects, plants and fungi rule, but the phone and fax won’t find me here. I’m free to watch monkeys, collect data and try to tease out a tiny piece of the great puzzle of life’s diversity. That diversity faces disaster, and every biologist has a horror story to tell. Each year many of us return to the field after a cold winter’s teaching to discover that-our research sites have been destroyed and our experiments and study organisms have disappeared. We can see with our own eyes the mass extermination of the world’s animal and plant life as forests, savannas and wetlands give way to farmland, housing developments and shopping malls. If current rates of habitat destruction continue, it is likely that we will condemn from a quarter to half the world’s currently living species to extinction within the next 100 years. Nowhere is life more diverse than in tropical rain forests, and nowhere is the assault on life more tragic. Scientists are only beginning to understand the complex webs of interdependencies among various species. Increasingly, ecological research in the tropics in revealing how dependent humans are on forests for a wide variety of important services, particularly regulation of the earth’s atmosphere and climate. We may owe as much to the residents of the rain forests as we do our cattle, corn and wheat. Much of our understanding of tropical-forest biology comes from research on Barro Colorado Island, a 1,600-hectare dot in the middle of the Panama Canal. B.C.I. , as the island is affectionately known to the biologists who work there, is covered with dense tropical forest, which was declared a nature reserve in 1923. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute facility on B. C. I. , established in 1946, is a Mecca for tropical biologists, who work to uncover the complex links between the large variety of species that live in forests and to demonstrate the importance of these woodlands as sources for medicines and other products of incalculable value to humans. The atmosphere at the research station is probably similar to that at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the 1940s when a group of the world’s top physicists were cloistered together trying to design the atom bomb. The justified the creation of a nuclear weapon by assuming it would provide the ultimate deterrent that could be used to reinforce peace in a democratic world. Similarly, the longer-term future of human civilization on earth is dependent on the earth’s forests, which act as its lungs, livers and kidneys. That is why scientists on B. C. I. are struggling to unravel the mysteries of the forests before they disappear. At first the forest in Panama just looks like a wall of green. Then you start to notice differences between plant species, and the sheer diversity seems suddenly overwhelming. Variations between plants are often subtle and only apparent for the short period of time that a species bears flowers or fruit. Slowly you begin to identify specific types and family groups such as the palms, heliconias and fig trees. Yet each of these families contains many species, every one of which has a subtle variation on an evolutionary theme that has found a slightly different way of competing for limited light and nutrients, or escaping from predators and diseases. The fig trees provide a spectacular example of the complex interaction of species that enables forests to function. Of more than 1,000 species of figs in the world, at least 20 are found in Panama. Most tree species on B. C.I. bear fruit only seasonally, producing an abundance of it at the beginning of the rainy season in May and June. This is all consumed by variety of birds, monkeys and bats, and by the end of the rainy season, in October through December, there is a major shortage of food in the forest. Saving the day are the fig trees, which may bear fruit at any time. Why do fig trees follow a different fruiting strategy from that of other trees It turns out that figs are pollinated by tiny insects called fig wasps. The female wasp enters the fig flowers when they appear, lays her eggs and then dies. In the process she brings in fig pollen, which fertilizes the flower and spurs development of the fig fruit. Meanwhile the wasp’s eggs develop within the flower into larvae, which feed on some of the fruit before metamorphosing into adults and mating within the fruit. The males then die, while the females, by now covered in pollen, leave the fig in search of a new flower in which to lay their eggs, thus keeping the pollination going. Research by Allen Herre and colleagues at B. C.I. has shown that adult female fig wasps live for only two days and that each species of the fig wasp is specific to species of fig. Thus there always has to be a fig in flower while one is in fruit to ensure that the cycle continues. Since a fig-tree population must bear fruit all year because of the wasp’s short lifespan, the figs keep fruit-eating mammals alive during the fry season when other food sources are scarce. The fig tress are in turn dependent on these fruiteaters as dispersers of their seeds. Of course, the fruit-eaters also disperse the seeds of other plant species that produce fruit during the rainy season. This creates a long-term dependence of the other plants on the presence of figs. All this suggests that a minimum number of fig trees is essential for a healthy tropical forest. Furthermore, studies from a variety of other habitats indicate that the disappearance of just one or two keystone species can lead to extinctions throughout the local community. In some cases it may take decades before trouble starts to show up. Ultimately the forest has the vast potential of time to recover from almost anything we do to it. Like a large green heart, it has often expanded and contracted on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, while simultaneously fostering the diversity of species that inhabit the planet, including our own species. Unfortunately our human ability to understand our relationship to the forest and other habitats has to be mustered on a much faster time scale. Luckily scientists trying to demonstrate the dependence of humans on natural communities are making huge strides. History will show that their long-term contribution to the quality of life far exceeded those of other scientific endeavors such as the bombmaking at Los Alamos. It will also be far easier to justify their work to our grandchildren.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage A．Forests could not function without the fig wasp.B．Forest will recover no matter what we do to them.C．If man does not acquire an understanding of his relationship to the forest and other habitats there will be an ecological disaster.D．Scientists’ long-term contribution to the quality of life depends on their fig wasp research.

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