Who has a similar identity to Bakhtin£¿

A¡¢Shklovsky

B¡¢Foucault

C¡¢Eliot

D¡¢Dostoevsky

A¡¢A.Novel

B¡¢Epic

C¡¢Drama

D¡¢Verse

Which of the following English sayings does not have a similar connotation in Chinese language?

A.Spread money like water.

B.Man proposes, God disposes.

C.Walls have ears.

D.Two wrongs don¡¯t make a right.

It has often been said that a guarantee is the easiest form. of security to take but the most difficult to realize because of the following reasons except that______.

A£®the guarantee has intrinsic value which is difficult to realize

B£®the guarantor's financial position may deteriorate without the bank's knowledge

C£®guarantors never expect to pay and often refuse to do so, making realization a difficult and lengthy process

D£®there may be a reluctance to enforce the security where the guarantor is a valued and influential customer of the bank

Government-subsidized insurance available to homeowners makes it feasible for anyone to build a house on a section of coastline regularly struck by hurricanes. Each major storm causes billions of dollars worth of damage in such coastal areas, after which owners who have insurance are able to collect an amount of money sufficient to recoup a high percentage of their losses. The passage provides the most support for an argument against a government bill proposing

A£®that power companies be required to bury power lines in areas of the coastline regularly struck by hurricanes.

B£®an increase in funding of weather service programs that provide a hurricane watch and warning system for coastal areas.

C£®renewal of federal funding for emergency life-support programs in hurricane-stricken areas.

D£®establishment of an agency committed to managing coastal lands in ecologically responsible ways.

E£®establishment of a contingency fund protecting owners of uninsured houses in the coastal areas from catastrophic losses due to the hurricane damage.

ÌýÁ¦Ô­ÎÄ£º For anyone who hasn't heard already, our Communications Director, Nikki Anderson, will relocate to the East Coast next year. She's going to help out our division in Boston. I know all of us will be sad to see her go. Employees in the Communications Department shouldn't be alarmed; she'll still operate as Communications Director from Boston until the end of the year. Also, we are actively seeking someone to take her place. Of course, this won't be easy. Ms. Anderson is a great director. We wish her all the best and we will have a farewell party at the end of the year, so we'll keep you posted.

Where is Ms. Anderson moving?

A£®To Boston

B£®To Chicago

C£®To Seattle

D£®To Los Angeles

ÌýÁ¦Ô­ÎÄ£º A significant effort will be waged this year to bring more state-owned land used for non-agricultural purposes into paid land-use contract which will boost land available for agriculture. These lease or contracts agreements will regulate land use while bringing the State income that went uncollected previously.

To avert the misuse or loss of State land during the transformation, the State Land Administration (SLA) and its local agencies will appraise land use rights before contracting leases, share purchases or other usage agreements. This effort will not only add to the State revenue and improve the management of the land, but will ensure the best use of land resources and control its redistribution.

Over the past year, some 714,000 hectares of cultivated land have been taken over by industrial and residential development, 14% more than in the previous year. The figure matched the 1992 total, the worst year of China's farmland shrinkage in the last five years.

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A£®How to increase farm land.

B£®What is the biggest problem in agriculture.

C£®How to satisfy the needs of the farmers.

D£®A solution to problems in land use.

So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the sign that what a man does is of social value is that he is paid money to do it, but a laborer today can rightly be called a wage slave. A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family.

The antithesis to labor is play. When we play a game, we enjoy what we are doing, otherwise we should not play it, but it is a purely private activity; society could not care less whether we play it or not.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his own point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk, a laborer. Which a man is can be seen from his attitude toward leisure. To a worker, leisure means simply the hours he needs to relax and rest in order to work efficiently. He is therefore more likely to take too little leisure than too much; workers die of coronaries and forget their wives' birthdays. To the laborer, on the other hand, leisure means freedom from compulsion, so that it is natural for him to imagine the fewer hours he has to spend laboring, and the more hours he is free to play, the better.

The best title for the passage could be ______.

A£®Work, Labor and Play

B£®Ways Leading to Happiness

C£®The Most Desirable Job in the World

D£®The Necessity of Leisure

So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the sign that what a man does is of social value is that he is paid money to do it, but a laborer today can rightly be called a wage slave. A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family.

The antithesis to labor is play. When we play a game, we enjoy what we are doing, otherwise we should not play it, but it is a purely private activity; society could not care less whether we play it or not.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his own point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener: or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer, which a means can be seen from his attitude toward leisure. To a worker, leisure means simply the hours he needs to relax and rest in order to work efficiently. He is therefore more likely to take too little leisure than too much; workers die of coronaries and forget their wives' birthdays. To the laborer, on the other hand, leisure means freedom from compulsion, so that it is natural for him to imagine that the fewer hours he has to spend laboring, and the more hours he is free to play, the better.

What percentage of the population in a modem technological society are, like myself, in the fortunate position of being workers? At a guess I would say sixteen percent, and I do not think that figure is likely to get bigger in the future.

Technology and the division of labor have done two things: by eliminating in many fields the need for special strength or skill, they have made a very large number of paid occupations which formerly were enjoyable work into boring labor, and by increasing productivity they have reduced the number of necessary laboring hours. It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. Indeed, the problem of dealing with boredom may be even more difficult for such a future mass society than it was for aristocracies. The latter, for example, ritualized their time; there was a season to shoot grouse, a season to spend in town, etc. The masses are more likely to replace an unchanging ritual by fashion which it will be in the economic interest of certain people to change as often as possible. Again, the masses cannot go in for hunting, for very soon there would be no animals left to hunt. For other aristocratic amusements like gambling, dueling, and warfare, it may be only too, easy to find equivalents in dangerous driving, drag-taking, and senseless acts of violence. Workers seldom commit acts of violence, because they can put their aggression into their work, be it physical like the work of a smith, or mental like the work of a scientist or an artist. The role of aggression in mental work is aptly expressed by the phrase" getting one's teeth into a problem".

A man is happy when______.

A£®he has to do what he does not enjoy doing

B£®what he enjoys doing is ignored by society

C£®he is compelled to take a job by the necessity of earning a living

D£®he feels free and important