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SAS Institute 2012 rank: 1 (2011 rank: 2)
Headquarters: Cary, N.C., USA
Software company SAS climbed to the top of the global list this year, edging up from the No. 2 spot it held last year. So what makes this company so great to work for? Well, for one thing, its leaders are certainly accessible. CEO Jim Goodnight hosts monthly “Conversations Over Coffee,” unscripted breakfast meetings that are open to all employees. These conversations are so popular that other division heads have begun to hold similar events for their employees.  
Google 2012 rank: 2 (2011 rank: 4)
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif., USA
Google moved up by two spots in this year’s ranking of global workplaces. The highly desirable tech receives 61 times as many applicants as they have existing jobs, and for good reason. Google seems to be all about coaching. The company’s “CareerGuru” program makes 43 of its senior leaders available for one-on-one, confidential career coaching sessions with other Googlers.  
Engineering employees at all levels can also get advice from “EngAdvisors”, senior engineers at Google who can discuss any number of issues, like work-life balance, conflict resolution, and performance reviews.
NetApp 2012 rank: 3 (2011 rank: 3)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif., USA
All new employees at data storage provider NetApp participate in the TOAST (“Training On All Special Things”) orientation program, which introduces new arrivals to NetApp’s senior management. The meetings are held every month and are always led by the executive team.  
Microsoft 2012 rank: 4 (2011 rank: 1)
Headquarters: Redmond, Wash., USA
As part of Microsoft’s commitment to promoting women in technology, the company established its DigiGirlz program in 2000. Microsoft hosts a series of DigiGirlz Day events where female high school students meet Microsoft employees and learn about careers in technology. In 2011, some 36 Microsoft locations across the world hosted more than 2,000 girls. Microsoft also holds DigiGirlz High Tech Camps, multi-day programs where participants get hands-on experience with technology during workshops and meet with tech executives

  1. 1.

    What helped make SAS climb to the top of the list in 2012?

    1. A.
      Accessible leaders
    2. B.
      Popular divisions
    3. C.
      Qualified employees
    4. D.
      Quality software
  2. 2.

    Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Microsoft employed over 2,000 girl workers in 2011
    2. B.
      New engineering Googlers could get advice from senior Googlers
    3. C.
      All NetApp employees had to attend a special training
    4. D.
      All leaders in SAS had the same conversations with their employees
  3. 3.

    These American companies are ranked according to _________

    1. A.
      the training program each company establishes
    2. B.
      the wealth each company possesses now
    3. C.
      the level of technology each of the company reaches
    4. D.
      the number of people willing to work for the company
ABD
试题分析：本文介绍了软件公司SAS从去年的第2位上升到首位。很重要的一点就是，公司领导人非常平易近人。谷歌公司（Google）在今年的全球卓越雇主排名中上升了两个位次。这家极具吸引力的科技巨头收到的求职信数量是其现有职位的61倍，这一点并不让人意外。NetApp在五个地方为3,000名员工举行了20场TOAST培训。哥伦比亚金佰利克拉克公司（Kimberly-Clark Colombia）将侧重于保证所有新进员工感受到公司对他们的热情。
1.细节理解题。根据Well, for one thing, its leaders are certainly accessible. 公司领导人非常平易近人,故选A。
2.细节理解题。根据Engineering employees at all levels can also get advice from “EngAdvisors”, senior engineers at Google who can discuss any number of issues, 各个级别的工程设计员工也可以从“EngAdvisors”那里获得建议。故选B。
3.细节理解题。根据The highly desirable tech receives 61 times as many applicants as they have existing jobs, In 2011, some 36 Microsoft locations across the world hosted more than 2,000 girls. 美国公司的排名是按为公司工作的人数，故选D。
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So the evening turned to night, and the night turned to morning. And before I knew it , the SAT was before me. I wasn’t sure  if I was ready, but I knew one thing: I wanted to get it over with.
SAT for the students is like tooth pulling. For those smart Asian kiddos, it’s like walking through the park: easy and carefree. For me, a Chinese American, …it’s: walking through the park and then tripping on a stone.
As I arrived outside of the dining hall, already a mob of students were sitting, talking, or standing silently waiting to get in. Jones students are lucky not only to have such a testing center at school, but also the feeling of their home school where it feels comfortable and familiar.
“ID, please,” my former math teacher asked at the door.
“Okay.” She looked over my ID, checked off my name on her list, and pointed towards the dining hall tables inside.
With hesitation, I picked up my feet and was directed to a large round table in the middle of the dinning hall. At least fourteen people could sit at this table but only four were allowed to take their test here.
“I’m glad it’s multiple choices.” I heard one student say. All the questions on the test have five choices except for one math section where they have only four. If you get an answer wrong, you don’t get any point, plus you get a penalty of a 1/4 point. If you don’t answer a question, you don’t get any point, nor penalties.
When everyone had a seat and the actual SAT I booklet in front of them, the proctor of the test called for our attentions. “In front of you, you should have a SAT I test and a scantron（答题卡）. Please do not open the test booklet until I say so.” He then went on to talk about the procedures, the amount of time, signature of honesty, etc. After thirty minutes of instruction reading, he gave us all a solemn expression before saying, “You may begin now. Good luck.”
I could hear a hundred booklets being opened and pencils scratching the surface. I looked to my right, I looked to my left, I did a quick prayer for whoever was in charge up in the heavens, and started my test. At least I wouldn’t know my score until summer time

  1. 1.

    How did the author feel before the test?

    1. A.
      Confident
    2. B.
      Carefree
    3. C.
      Confused
    4. D.
      Nervous
  2. 2.

    Jones students are lucky because __________

    1. A.
      they can take the test in a dining hall
    2. B.
      they can talk during the test
    3. C.
      they can take the test in their home school
    4. D.
      they have their math teacher supervising the test
  3. 3.

    By the underlined sentence, the writer intends to say that_________

    1. A.
      the test would be so difficult that she might not pass it
    2. B.
      the test seemed easy but she still needed to be careful with it
    3. C.
      the test would be much easier for her than for the other Asian students
    4. D.
      she found herself not as smart as the other Asian students
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Fourteen students sat around a large round table, taking the test
    2. B.
      There were four math problems on the test
    3. C.
      You will lose more points if you get the answer wrong than if you give up the question
    4. D.
      The proctor announced the instructions as soon as the test began

For many writers, writing stories or plays is a part-time job: to support themselves they take on other jobs, such as teaching. It is one sign of August Wilson’s success that for many years he has been able to make a living only by writing plays.
Wilson was born in Pittsburgh and dropped out of school in the ninth grade. He was a good reader, however, and continued his education by reading library books, learning about black nationalist movements of the time, and closely observing(观察) the lives of the poor people.
In the late 1960’s Wilson set up a theater company called Black Horizons and began to think of ways to describe African-American life on the stage. He had the idea of a cycle of plays, each of which was set in a different decade(十年) of the 20th century, showing how African-American life has developed.
The first successful play of this series was Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom about black musicians in Chicago in the 1920s, who are not accepted by white society. Other plays in the series include Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, about blacks in the 1910s who had moved north to Pittsburgh in search of a new identity; Fences, which focuses on a father–son conflict(冲突) in the1950s; and The Piano Lesson, about a 1930s family that was uncertain about whether to sell the family’s treasure. For the last two of these plays Wilson was awarded Pulitzer Prizes.
Wilson has written eight plays in his cycle, the most recent being King Hedley the Second, a play set in the 1980s. His plays are enjoyed by both the blacks and the whites and engage anyone who is interested in African-American experience

  1. 1.

    Wilson won Pulitzer Prizes for ______.

    1. A.
      The Piano Lesson & Fences
    2. B.
      Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom & Fences
    3. C.
      The Piano Lesson & King Hedley the Second
    4. D.
      King Hedley the Second & Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
  2. 2.

    It is possible that in his series of the 20th –century plays, Wilson plans to write ______.

    1. A.
      no more
    2. B.
      two more
    3. C.
      three more
    4. D.
      four more
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “engage” in the last paragraph means ______.

    1. A.
      award
    2. B.
      benefit
    3. C.
      please
    4. D.
      attract
  4. 4.

    What’s the passage mainly about?

    1. A.
      The life of August Wilson
    2. B.
      The growth of August Wilson
    3. C.
      A cycle of plays of August Wilson
    4. D.
      August Wilson’s theater company

University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and it’s one of the top university in the world. There is no clear date when the university started, but teaching began at Oxford in some forms in 1096 and developed quickly from 1167.
There are 39 independent(独立的) colleges at Oxford, attracting students and learned men from across the world. There are over 100 libraries for the students and learned men to use. At University of Oxford, they also provide a number of money for the best students. Of course, if you want to study here, first you have to reach a certain level of English language.
College life at Oxford is very exciting but busy. The groups of college provide a friendly and welcoming home for students while the college are strict with students about their studies. Many Chinese students are studying here. The number of Chinese students at the university has grown quickly over the past 10 years.
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

  1. 1.

    What do you have to do first if you want to ask fir studying at Oxford? You have to________

    1. A.
      be independent
    2. B.
      pass a certain level test of English language
    3. C.
      study English hard
    4. D.
      be the best students
  2. 2.

    How’s the college life at Oxford? It’s full of ________ and has __________

    1. A.
      excitement; much school work to do
    2. B.
      excitement; no school work to do
    3. C.
      attraction; no school work to do
    4. D.
      attraction; a little school work to do
  3. 3.

    What’s the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      The College Life
    2. B.
      The Famous Learners at Oxford
    3. C.
      The Chinese Students at Oxford
    4. D.
      The University of Oxford

One would have to be a fool to overlook (忽视)the importance of using positive(积极的) thinking for you rather than allowing negative thinking to work against you. In recent years, research in psychopharmacology (精神药理学) has proved what many people have known over the centuries: a positive attitude is good for you, good for your health, good for your wealth, good for everything. Researchers found that a positive attitude produces a specific chemical reaction which makes people feel better, while negative thinking results in a decline of hormone (荷尔蒙) and shuts down the immune (免疫的) system. This leads to illness and depression. Positive thoughts will make you feel better. Even if you must begin by literally forcing yourself to be positive (faking it, so to speak), it will become contagious (会传播的) and the positive thoughts will generate nice little chemicals and good feelings which will reinforce the positive thoughts.
For example, if you force yourself to smile or laugh, even when you don't feel like smiling or laughing, if you keep at it for a few minutes, you will soon feel like it. Feelings can generate (导致)thoughts, but thoughts can also generate feelings. Control your thoughts and you can control your feelings. Positive thinking is important in all aspects of our lives. There is probably no single factor more important in determining your success in achieving your career objectives than your own attitude.
It's often been said that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And in the office of militant (好战) negativism, the positive workers shine like gold. You cannot control external events, but you can learn to control your reaction to those events and thereby have a positive attitude and be happy. This vital key to success is totally within your control. Use it

  1. 1.

    We can infer from the passage that______.

    1. A.
      positive thinking can cure you of your diseases
    2. B.
      positive thinking can easily be generated by anyone
    3. C.
      a decline of hormone may cause you to be depressed
    4. D.
      a specific chemical reaction is the cause of negative thinking
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, which of the following is true?

    1. A.
      Feeling and thoughts can generate each other
    2. B.
      It's easier to control thoughts than to control feelings
    3. C.
      Your success depends wholly on your attitude
    4. D.
      Keeping smiling will surely make you successful
  3. 3.

    Just like a one-eyed man in the land of the blind, you should______.

    1. A.
      control your feeling to what is happening to you
    2. B.
      be king in your office
    3. C.
      pay no attention to what is going on around you
    4. D.
      take positive attitude in the office of militant negativism
  4. 4.

    The best title to the passage is______.

    1. A.
      The Bad Effect of Negative Thinking
    2. B.
      Why Should People Think
    3. C.
      Thinking: The Vital Way
    4. D.
      Positive Thinking Benefits People

When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases—“good times”—in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.
You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body gesture to accents to drink patterns（模式）. For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces.
And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”.
New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion.
As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”

  1. 1.

    The author takes his own example of using “good times” to_______

    1. A.
      express his love for radio shows
    2. B.
      prove the popularity of the show
    3. C.
      show the influence of the hosts’ words
    4. D.
      introduce the topic of the passage
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral mimicry?

    1. A.
      A boy eats his popcorn after watching the actor eat
    2. B.
      A boy buys a Nike shirt when he finds his desk-mate has one
    3. C.
      A girl unconsciously sits straight just as others do
    4. D.
      A girl takes on the Yorkshire accent after a month’s stay
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______

    1. A.
      behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health
    2. B.
      behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior
    3. C.
      people have realized the effect of behavioral mimicry on our health
    4. D.
      It’s impossible to keep a healthy diet without knowing behavioral mimicry
  4. 4.

    What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

    1. A.
      To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows
    2. B.
      To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence
    3. C.
      To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits
    4. D.
      To advocate healthy food choices among readers

Check out all the new releases (发布) in the next four weeks.
Wednesday 16 march
Chalet Girl (12A )Watch the Trailer (预告片)
A British comedy about a girl who decides to give up her job at a fried chicken fast food place to try out being a chalet (木屋) girl in the Alps. Starring Bill Nighy and Ed Westwick.
Friday 18 March
Submarine (15)
A comedy following a teenager who wants to lose his virginity and stop his father from leaving his mother. Directed by Richard Ayoade.
Friday 25 March
Country Strong (12A) Watch the Trailer
Rising country music songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) falls in love with a fallen star (Gwyneth Paltrow), and together they plan his rising and her comeback.
A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures (3D) (U)
A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years travelling the world as it changes through global warming.
Friday 1 April
Killing Bono (15) Watch the Trailer
Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest hand in the world.
Passenger Side (D)
Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on whom you believe.
Friday 8 April
The Silent House
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Rio (3D) Watch the trailer
An animated film about a domesticated (家养的) macaw (金刚鹦鹉) from Minnesota who sets off on an adventure

  1. 1.

    If you like seeing the 3D films, you can choose to see ______

    1. A.
      The Silent House and Rio
    2. B.
      Submarine and Passenger Side
    3. C.
      A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures and Rio
    4. D.
      Killing Bono and Country Strong
  2. 2.

    If you want to see a horrible film, you can see _______

    1. A.
      The Silent House
    2. B.
      Country Strong
    3. C.
      Killing Bono
    4. D.
      Rio
  3. 3.

    Which of the following films is a love film?

    1. A.
      A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
    2. B.
      Passenger Side
    3. C.
      Killing Bono
    4. D.
      Country strong
  4. 4.

    The common point of all the films is that ______

    1. A.
      they are all set in Britain
    2. B.
      they will all be released in March
    3. C.
      they are all new films
    4. D.
      they are all produced in Hollywood

Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature (特征) for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.
In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature, though, is only found in the young.
Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws.
During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes

  1. 1.

    What is the text mainly about?

    1. A.
      Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons
    2. B.
      The relatives and enemies of hoatzins
    3. C.
      Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon
    4. D.
      The appearance and living habits of hoatzins
  2. 2.

    Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that_________ ．

    1. A.
      they look like young cuckoos
    2. B.
      they have claws on the wings
    3. C.
      they eat a lot like a cow
    4. D.
      they live on river banks
  3. 3.

    What can we infer about primitive birds from the text?

    1. A.
      They had claws to help them climb
    2. B.
      They could fly long distances
    3. C.
      They had four wings like hoatzins
    4. D.
      They had a head with long feathers on the top
  4. 4.

    Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?

    1. A.
      To find more food
    2. B.
      To protect themselves better
    3. C.
      To keep themselves warm
    4. D.
      To produce their young

Michael Jordan told me not to mention this until the season was over and I promised him at that time. Now I think it’s time.
Early last season, I wrote a column about an act of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the Stadium. After it ran ,I got a call from a man in the western suburbs. He said, “I read what you wrote about Jordan, but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw.” Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice.
A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Has Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty neighborhood?
“Not two boys,” Jordan said, “but four.”
And he named them. He said four names.
And what did they talk about?
“Everything,” Jordan said. “I’ve asked to see their grades so that I can check whether they’re paying attention to their schoolwork. If it turns out one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it.”
It’s just one more part of Michael Jordan’s life, one more thing that no one knows about, one more thing Jordan does right. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do I! When the expert reviewers begin to turn against Jordan, as they surely will, I’ll think about those boys under the streetlight, waiting for the man they know to come, for someone they can depend on

  1. 1.

    That man called after reading about what Jordan did to a disabled child because he wanted to ____

    1. A.
      become famous himself
    2. B.
      know why Jordan appeared in a poor area
    3. C.
      let the author know that Jordan was not that nice
    4. D.
      offer another example to show that Jordan was a nice man
  2. 2.

    What can we learn from this passage?

    1. A.
      Jordan is not such a great person
    2. B.
      Jordan deserves the admiration he had from others
    3. C.
      Jordan is always ready to make friends with young people
    4. D.
      Jordan is always misunderstood by expert reviewers
  3. 3.

    What does the underlined word “ran” probably mean?

    1. A.
      Published
    2. B.
      Finished
    3. C.
      Disappeared
    4. D.
      Drove
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is NOT the reason why the author wrote this passage?

    1. A.
      He would like to keep the promise he had made
    2. B.
      He thought it was time to help the disabled children
    3. C.
      He hated to see Jordan become someone else’s target
    4. D.
      He was impressed by Jordan’s deeds for the ordinary poor
  5. 5.

    What’s the purpose of the writer writing the passage?

    1. A.
      to show us the life of Jordan
    2. B.
      to tell us everybody will make mistakes including Jordan
    3. C.
      to criticize Jordan
    4. D.
      to defend Jordan against attack

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