Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.-|||-() 14.A.Because they help us see the important values of culture.-|||-B.Because they guide us in handling human relationsh-|||-C.Because they help us express ourselves more effectivel-|||-D.Because they are an infinite((无限的)source of human knowledge.-|||-() 15.A.Their wording may become different.-|||-B.The values they reflect may change.-|||-C.Thcir origins can no longer be traced.-|||-D.They may be misinterpreted occasio-|||-() 16.A.Certain values are shared by a large number of cultures.-|||-B.Some proverbs are assuming more and more importance.-|||-C.Old proverbs are constantly replaced by new ones.-|||-D.Certain values have always been central to a culture.

任务型阅读5.请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。The Cost of ThinkingDespite their many differences, all human beings share several defining characteristics. such as large brains and the ability to walk upright on two legs.The first unique human characteristic is that humans have extraordinarily large brains compared with other animals. It seems obvious that evolution should select for larger brains. Mammals(哺乳动物)weighing sixty kilograms have an average brain size of 200 cm2. Modern man has a brain averaging 1200-1400 cm2. We are so fond of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to brain power, more must be better. Unfortunately, that is not the case.The fact is that a huge brain is a huge drain—consumption of energy—on the body. I's not easy to carry around, especially when boxed inside a massive skull(倾骨). It's even harder to provides energy. In modern man, the brain accounts for about 2-3%of total body weight but it consumes 25% of the body's energy when the body is at rest. By comparison, the brains of apes(类人猿)require only 8%of rest-time energy. Early humans pad for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search food. Secondly, their muscles grew smaller and weaker. It's hardly an obvious conclusion that this is a good way to survive. A chimpanzee(黑猩猩) can't win an argument with a modern man, but it can tear the man apart like a rag doll.Another unique human characteristic is that we walk upright. Standing up, it's easier to find food or enemies. In addition, their arms that are unnecessary for moving around are freed for other purposes, like throwing stones or signaling. As a result, humans can perform very complex tasks with their hands.Yet walking upright has its disadvantage. The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head. Adjusting to an upright position was quite a challenge, especially when the bones had to support an extra-large skull. Humankind paid for its broad vision and skillful hands backaches and painful necks.We assume that a large brain makes huge advantages. It seems obvious that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature. Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.The Cost of ThinkingIntroduction• Large brains for their bodies and the ability to walk upright are two ①___________ of human beings.The ②___________ of large human brains• The larger brains may not be better because of the cost.• The big brains make it harder for the body to move around and consume more energy.• The animal brain requires less ③___________ when the body is at rest.• Large human brains consume more food, and weaken muscles.The ④___________ of walking upright• Walking upright makes it easy to find food or ⑤___________ against enemies.• Freed hands can serve some ⑥___________ purpose and perform complex tasks.• Walking upright challenges the human bone structure, and ⑦___________ the size of brains.• Walking upright results in ⑧___________ sufferings.Conclusion• With a large brain, human beings ⑨___________ other beings in terms of intelligence.• Weak and marginal, human beings remained ⑩___________ of meat-eating animals.6.“Whatever your job is, the chances are that one of these machines can do it faster or better than you can.”As innovation accelerates, thousands of jobs will disappear, just as it has happened in the previous cycles of industrial revolutions. Machines powered by narrow AI algorithms can already perform certain 3-D tasks (“dull, dirty and dangerous”) much better than humans. This may create enormous pain for those who are losing their jobs over the next few years, particularly if they don't acquire the computer-related skills that would enable them to find more creative opportunities. We must learn from the previous waves of creative destruction if we are to lessen human suffering and increasing inequality.For example, some statistics indicate that as much as 3% of the population in developed countries work as drivers. When automated cars become a reality in the next 15 to 25 years, we must offer people who will be “structurally unemployed” some sort of compensation income, training and re-positioning opportunities.Fortunately, the Schumpeterian waves of destructive innovation also create jobs. History has shown disruptive innovations are not always a zero-sum game. In the long run, the loss of low-added-value jobs to machines can have a positive impact in the overall quality of life of most workers.The ATM paradox is a good example of this. As the use of automatic teller machines spread in the 1980s and '90s, many predicted massive unemployment in the banking sector. Instead, ATMs created more jobs as the cost of opening new agencies decreased. The number of agencies multiplied, as did the portfolio of banking products. Thanks to automation, going to the bank offers a much better customer experience than in previous decades. And the jobs in the industry became better paid and were of better quality.This optimist scenario assumes, however, that education systems will do a better job of preparing our children to become good at what humans do best: creative and critical thinking. Less learning-by-heart and more learning-by-doing. Fewer clerical skills and more philosophical insights about human nature and how to cater to its infinite needs for art and culture.To become creative and critical thinkers, our children will need knowledge and wisdom more than raw data points. They need to ask “why?”, “how?” and “what if?” more often than “what?”, “who?” and “when?” And they must construct this knowledge by relying on databases as cognitive partners as soon as they learn how to read and write.Thus, the future of human-machine cooperation looks less like the scenario in the Terminator movies and more like a Minority Report-style of “augmented intelligence”. There will be jobs if we adapt the education system to equip our children to do what humans are good at: to think critically and creatively, to develop knowledge and wisdom, to appreciate and create beautiful works of art. That does not mean it will be a painless transition. Machines and automation will likely take away millions of low-quality jobs as it has happened in the past. But better-quality jobs will likely replace them, requiring less physical effort and shorter hours to deliver better results. No, artificial intelligence won’t ①__________ your children’s jobs Passage outline Supporting detailsA ②__________phenomenon With the rise of AI, machines ③__________ threaten the security of people’s current jobs, making the future of the workforce look rather dark and gloomy.An objective analysisl Those not skilled in computer using need to plan ④__________, for they are at a higher risk of losing their jobs to machines.l Drivers, faced with the increasing popularity of automated cars, need to be compensated, ⑤__________for re-employment.l ATMs, though, create well-paid jobs as well as increase customers’ ⑥__________A practical solutionl Adjustments need to be made to education systems by ⑦__________ our children for the jobs ⑧__________ creative and critical thinking.l ⑨__________of learning philosophy and change in the way of learning styles will be introduced for developing critical thinkers.A safe conclusionAI won’t cost your children their jobs. Instead, it will make them more creative and ⑩__________.7.请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。Anyone who's ever made room for a big milestone of adult life—a job, a marriage, a move—has likely shoved a friendship to the side. After all, there is no contract locking us to the other person, as in marriage, and there are no blood bonds, as in family. We choose our friends, and our friends choose us. That's a really distinctive attribute of friendships.But modern life can become so busy that people forget to keep choosing each other. That's when friendships fade, and there's reason to believe it's happening more than ever. Loneliness is on the rise, and feeling lonely has been found to increase a person's risk of dying early by 26%—and to be even worse for the body than obesity and air pollution. Loneliness damages health in many ways, particularly because it removes the safety net of social support. “When we perceive our world as threatening, that can be associated with an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.”The solution is simple: friendship. It helps protect the brain and body from stress, anxiety and depression. “Being around trusted others, in essence, signals safety and security,” says Holt-Lunstad. A study last year found that friendships are especially beneficial later in life. Having supportive friends in old age is a stronger predictor of well-being than family ties—suggesting that the friends you pick may be at least as important as the family you're born into.Easy as the fix may sound, it can be difficult to keep and make friends as an adult. But research suggests that you only need between four and five close pals. If you've ever had a good one, you know what you're looking for. “The expectations of friends, once you have a mature understanding of friendship, don't really change across the life course,” Rawlins says. “People want their close friends to be someone they can talk to and someone they can depend upon.”Application ProcessClick here to download your application formStudents must submit(提交)an application by email to confucius@carleton.ca or in person to Carleton International at 509 Tory BuildingContact Information613-520-260 ext 2628carleton.international@carleton.ca1.Who can take the program? .

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A typical large supermarket offers around 17 thousand to 20 thousand items for sale, and it wants to make sure that its customers see as many of them as possible. That’s why you’ll only find essential goods like bread, vegetables and meat in completely different parts of the store. Products with a high profit margin are always placed on shelves within easy reach of the customer, while lower margin items like sugar or flower are on the top or bottom shelves. Many people make shopping lists before they visit supermarkets. But even so, around 60% of all supermarket purchases are the result of decisions that are taken in the store. For this reason, supermarkets try to attract their customers by placing certain kinds of products next to each other. In the UK, beer will often be found next to items for babies because research shows that fathers of babies buy them on their way home from work, and will buy beer at the same time. Research has also showed that this kind of impulse-buy happens more frequently when no sales assistances are nearby. Supermarkets have made selling such a fine art that their customers often lose all sense of time. When interviewed, customers normally guess they have only spent half an hour in the supermarket even when they have been there for over 45 minutes. But that shouldn’t be too surprising. Any really profitable supermarket knows that it should keep its clocks well hidden. 1. Why are essential goods displayed in totally different parts of the supermarket? 2. Where are goods with a high profit margin usually found? 3. What does the speaker say about supermarket goers? 4. What shouldn’t be too surprising according to the speaker? 1 A To give customers a wider range of choices. B To make shoppers see as many items as possible. C To supply as many varieties of goods as it can. D To save space for more profitable products. 2 A On the top shelves. B On the bottom shelves. C On easily accessible shelves. D On clearly marked shelves. 3 A Many of them buy things on impulse. B A few of them are fathers with babies. C A majority of them are young couples. D Over 60% of them make shopping lists. 4 A Sales assistants promoting high margin goods. B Sales assistants following customers around. C Customers competing for good bargains. D Customers losing all sense of time.

1A. They offer students a wide variety of courses.B. They attract students from all over the world.C. They admit more students than they can handle.D. They have trouble dealing with overseas students.2A.Everyone will benefit from education sooner or later.F. A good education contributes to the prosperity of a nation.G. A good education is necessary for one to climb the social ladder.H. Everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential.3I. He likes students with high motivation.J. He enjoys teaching intelligent students.K. He tailors his teaching to students´ needs.L. He treats all his students in a fair manner.

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Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.-|||-9.A)The ability to predict fashion trends. C)Years of practical experience.-|||-B)A refined taste for artistic works. D)Strict professional training.-|||-10.A)Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties.-|||-B)Strengthening cooperati with foreign governments.-|||-C)Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas-|||-D)Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.-|||-11.A)She has access to fashionable things. C)She can enjoy life on a modest salary.-|||-B)She is doing what she enjoys doing. D)She is free to do whatever she wants.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world's greatest natural resource—the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. Yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world. The problem and the solution to rainforest destruction are both economic. Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield—mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for cropping by rainforest inhabitants. However, if land owners, governments and those living in the rainforest today were given a practical economic reason NOT to destroy the rainforest, it could and would be saved. Thankfully, this practical economic alternative does exist. Many organizations have demonstrated that if the medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and other resources like rubber and chicle (树胶) were harvested sustainably, rainforest land has much more economic value than if timber were harvested or if it were burned down for cattle or farming operations. Sustainable harvesting of these types of resources provides this value today as well as more long-term income and profits year after year for generations to come.The Amazon Rainforest is the world's greatest natural resource—the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. Yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world. The problem and the solution to rainforest destruction are both economic. Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield—mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for cropping by rainforest inhabitants. However, if land owners, governments and those living in the rainforest today were given a practical economic reason NOT to destroy the rainforest, it could and would be saved. Thankfully, this practical economic alternative does exist. Many organizations have demonstrated that if the medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and other resources like rubber and chicle (树胶) were harvested sustainably, rainforest land has much more economic value than if timber were harvested or if it were burned down for cattle or farming operations. Sustainable harvesting of these types of resources provides this value today as well as more long-term income and profits year after year for generations to come.56.What does the author mean by saying are both economicA) People can profit a lot from what the rainforest yields in economical ways. B) People can profit all the way since they take economy into consideration all along. C) People can profit from the rainforest in an environmental rather than a destructive way.D) People can profit from the rainforest as long as they stop destroying it.57.The key in solving the problem of rainforest destruction is ________.A) sustainable development B) medicinal development C) practical development D) economic development 58.According to the passage, how can the land owners earn most?A) By converting the land to cattle operations. B) By harvesting the renewable resources. C) By harvesting the unsustainable resources. D) By chopping down the forest for subsistence crops.59.Which of the following is said about the suggested solution to rainforest destruction?A) It is theoretical rather than practical.B) It will benefit future generations rather than the present one. C) It brings less benefit than leaving the rainforest alone. D) It is important and promising and is being implemented.60.When centering around the severe destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, the author focuses on ________.A) the description of the poor situation B) the analysis of the economic cause C) the suggestion of the economic solution D) the evaluation of the practical solution

40. This foreign ventured business declared that it would open up 10 branches in China, which could create about 10,000 job positions.A. 这桩对外生意表明十个新的分支机构将在中国建立，能填补一万个岗位空缺。B. 这次的对外贸易说明在中国将开放十个新的贸易领域，能产生一万个工作岗位。C. 这家外资企业宣称将在中国开设十家分公司，能创造一万个就业岗位。