问答题Passage 2　　The USes Big Three carmakers, General Motors (GM), Chrysler and Ford, are presently fighting for their survival.　　The first two have now unveiled major new plans to see them through a period of global downturn, falling consumer demand, and l

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Passage 2　　The USes Big Three carmakers, General Motors (GM), Chrysler and Ford, are presently fighting for their survival.　　The first two have now unveiled major new plans to see them through a period of global downturn, falling consumer demand, and loss of their market share.　　They involve job and production cuts, and seeking more US government aid—and the numbers concerned are huge.　　The pair are seeking $ 21. 6bn (￡15. 2bn) in financial support, on top of the combined $17. 4bn they have already received. In return, they have promised substantial cuts, including axing 50, 000 jobs.　　The crisis comes as the Big Three have seen US market share decline from 70% in 1998 to 53% in 2008, amid fears that they will not return to viability unless North American consumer demand for cars returns.　　“The very simple take on how the US industry has got into this situation is that they have been making the wrong vehicles, having concentrated on light trucks,” Mike Tyndall, an auto specialist at Nomura in London, told the BBC website.”　　“The slowdown in light truck sales in 2008 left them in a position with nothing to do.”　　“If you look at the production mix in 2007—a total of 55% of production was in light trucks, which includes pickups and SUVs.”　　“Demand for these stopped when the gasoline price went to $ 4 a gallon in the US.”　　“Also, people in construction tend to drive pickups, and when the housing market slowed down—coinciding with a tightening of credit—then that also hit sales of these vehicles.”　　In December 2008 the US government said it would provide $17. 4bn in loans to help GM and Chrysler survive.　　At the time, President George W Bush said allowing the US car industry to fail would not be “a responsible course of action”.　　And, although demand for light trucks has risen slightly—helped by the oil price coming down—since the two carmakers went to the US government in December, overall vehicle sales have been hit by rising unemployment.　　“That is a key driver of sales,” says Mr. Tyndall. “People who are about to lose their jobs do not tend to buy new cars. So, overall, the situation is probably worse than it was in December.”　　As part of their new survival schemes both GM and Chrysler said they had examined the possibility of going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.　　However they decided that this option would be more expensive in the long run than a straightforward cash bail-out.　　“The [bail-out] requests pale in comparison to what it might cost taxpayers if GM or Chrysler go bankrupt,” warns Aaron Bragman, auto industry analyst for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight. American manufacturing.”　　Automotive jobs are also the lifeblood of manufacturing in Michigan, the state with highest unemployment, where jobless rates are well above the national average.　　And those jobless figures appear set to get bigger, with the firms planning to axe a total of 50, 000 workers in total, although more than half of those posts will be shed outside the US.　　Meanwhile, those jobs figures could potentially be higher in the end, as not everyone believes vehicle makers should be saved at any cost necessary.　　“We continue to believe that government support is not open-ended,” says Gregg Lemos-Stein, auto analyst at S&P in New York “Accordingly, in our opinion, even if this plan is approved and additional funding is provided, bankruptcy risk will remain high because of very uncertain consumer demand for light vehicles and other serious risks—for example weak credit markets, and potential supplier failures.”　　GM has outlined plans to return to break-even status in 2010 as part of a reduced production volume of 11.5 million to 12.0 million vehicles—or units as the industry calls them—for the year.　　However, analysts at Citi Investment Research predict that to also achieve a “significant recovery in unit profitability” GM will probably need improved pricing and content, as well as substantial lower raw material costs.　　“While successful product launches and an improving economy could eventually drive a unit profit recovery, such a bounce by 2010 seems optimistic,” its analysts’ note says.　　Meanwhile, a lot of work remains to be done before both GM’s and Chrysler’s drastic proposals could become reality.　　“Much as we would like to see a rapid solution, there are some very delicate negotiations with unions, and bondholders, and the government, still ahead,” says Nomura’s Mr. Tyndall.　　“So the fact that there are so many interested parties means it will take a while to resolve.”　　1. What is the strategy that has led to the difficulty of the Big Three carmakers?　　2. Briefly describe GM’s attitude toward bankruptcy? According to the outsiders, is GM likely to go bankrupt and why?　　3. List the possible ways given by analysts to help GM return to break-even status.

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第1题：

I mean I have plans and I plan to see them().

A、through

B、by

C、on

D、off

参考答案：A

第2题：

()you have entered your new office building, you probably would like to refurnish it.

A、Now that

B、So that

C、For

D、Because

参考答案：A

第3题：

Then Eagle is left with only two options: die or go through a painful process of change _____ lasts 150 days for survival.

A、who

B、what

C、which

D、it

标准答案:C

第4题：

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Health Promotion

1 World health will improve only if the people themselves become involved in planning,
implementing,and having a say about their own health and health care.But involvement
will not just happen.
2 How serious are we about involving individuals,families,and communities?Are we
prepared一mentally and professionally（专业上）一to listen to their concerns,to learn from
them what they feel is important,to share with them appropriate information,to encourage
and support them?In many cases,so far,the answer is"No".We can go on and on
developing plans:nothing will happen unless all health workers,all health managers,and
key professionals（专业人员）in other areas come to realize what is at stake. To overcome
these particular stumbling一blocks（障碍物）,I see three major requirements.
3 First,health workers must understand that the concept of primary health care involves
new roles for them , and a new outlook（观点）.Not only should we be concerned with
disease prevention and control,we must also be concerned with health promotion and care,
and not least with development in general一and with people.Our health technologies must
be based on what the people themselves want and need.
4 Second,health workers must accept their new roles.More yet:they must be keen to
try them out,to broaden their scope and to innovate（创新）in the partnership（合伙人、合
作关系）approach. Their main concern must be to find ways of helping individuals and
communities become self-dependent.
5 This brings me to my third point:health workers must have the necessary skills to
perform these new roles effectively and to make efficient use of existing knowledge.This
calls for a training force fully familiar with previous experience and keen to provide the kind
and quality of professional preparation needed.It also calls for full support from health
manaqers for such traininq.

Paragraph 3________
A:Acceptance of New Roles
B: Lack of Health Technologies
C: Urgent Need to Improve the Current Situation
D: Importance of Taking a New Outlook
E: Support of the People
F: Demand for Necessary Skills

答案：D

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第5题：

Text 3

Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault, which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earth- quakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri.'?

Between December of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe.

Buildings in the area were almost dest oyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks opened in the ground, allowing smell of sulfur to filter upward.

The Mississippi River itself completely changed character, developing sudden rapids and whirlpools. Several times it changed its course, and once, according to some observers, it actually appeared to run backwards. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquakes, probably simply because few people lived in the area in 1811; but the severity of the earth- quakes are shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks were stopped in Washington D.C. Scientists now know that America's two major faults are essentially different. The San Andreas is a horizontal boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses suddenly lurches forward.

The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical fault; at some point, possibly hundreds of millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now', the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions trigger earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern Illinois.

Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate that larger ones are probably coming, but rite scientists say they have no method of predicting when a large earthquake will occur.

31. This passage is mainly about ______.

A) the New Madrid fault in Missouri

B) the San Andreas and the New Madrid faults

C) the causes of faults

D) current scientific knowledge about faults

正确答案：B
答案：B
[试题分析]文章主旨题。
[详细解答]从文章开头就可以看出文章的话题就是美国的两个断层，而后文也正是围绕此话题展开的，井对比了两个不同性质的断层。因此，选择答案B为正确答案。

第6题：

You may get consumers who want very high quality services satisfied, but at a higher price. And the people who want no-frills service and cheap product will also get it at the other end of the market. So competition allows a range of variety to occur in a market. The benefit to society of competition is that it makes a major contribution to the fundamental economic issue, which is the scarcity of productive resources. It means that on the production side, there is maximum pressure to conserve the use of those scarce productive resources. On the demand side it also rations consumer demand appropriately, and it also tends to mean that the variety of consumer needs can be met.

1. From the first paragraph of the passage we can know that usually there are ()kinds of consumers who may get satisfied in a market.

A. two

B. three

C. four

2. What does “it” in the first sentence of paragraph 2 refer to()

A. fundamental economic issue

B. the scarcity of productive resources

C. The benefit of competition

3. The sentence in paragraph 1“So competition allows a range of variety to occur in a market” means ().

A. competition makes the market supply various products and services

B. competition makes a lot of things occur in a market

C. competition makes different things occur in a market

4. On the demand side competition also ()appropriately.

A. meets consumer needs

B. makes consumer rational

C. makes consumer satisfied

5. The best title of this passage is ().

A. Fundamental Economic Issue

B. The Benefit of Competition

C. Consumer Demand and Market

参考答案：子问题 1:A; 子问题 2:C; 子问题 3:A; 子问题 4:B; 子问题 5:B

第7题：

View the Exhibit exhibit1 to examine the series of SQL commands. View the Exhibit exhibit2 to examine the plans available in the SQL plan baseline. The baseline in the first row of the Exhibit is created when OPTIMIZER_MODE was set to FIRST_ROWS.Which statement is true if the SQL query in exhibit1 is executed again when the valueof OPTIMIZER_MODE is set to FIRST_ROWS?（）

A. The optimizer uses a new plan because none of the plans in the exhibit2 are fixed plans.

B. The optimizer uses the plan in the second row of the exhibit2 because it is an accepted plan.

C. The optimizer uses the plan in the first row of the exhibit2 because it is the latest generated plan.

D. The optimizer uses the plan in the first row of the exhibit2 because OPTIMIZER_MODE was set to FIRST_ROW during its creation.

参考答案：B

第8题：

From the passage, how many places have the name Valencia?

A. One.

B. Two.

C. Three.

D. Four.

正确答案：C
39．答案为C 此题为综合细节题。问题提出有几个地方的名字都是瓦伦西亚?在文章中数数可以知道一共是三处，故选C。

第9题：

Which two statements are correct regarding MPLS LSP establishment methods?() (Choose two.)

A. LDP uses Down Stream On Demand.

B. RSVP uses Down Stream On Demand.

C. LDP uses Down Stream Unsolicited.

D. RSVP uses Down Stream Unsolicited.

参考答案：B, C

第10题：

Paragraph 2_________
A:Acceptance of New Roles
B: Lack of Health Technologies
C: Urgent Need to Improve the Current Situation
D: Importance of Taking a New Outlook
E: Support of the People
F: Demand for Necessary Skills

答案：C

解析：

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