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Question 10 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another. I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and -- poof! -- I became invisible, absent from the conversation. The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing other people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pet their puppies. Evidently, the untethered electronic voice is preferable to human contact. The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver shushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends zooming down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a gadget designed to make communication easier. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel Every advance in communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine. As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated. Pumping gas at the station Why say good-morning to the attendant when you can swipe your credit card at the pump and save yourself the both. Making a deposit at the bank Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into the ATM Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing. I am no Luddite. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice-mall system, an e-mail account. Giving them up isn’t an option -- they’re great for what they’re intended to do. It’s their unintended consequences that make me cringe. More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mall to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier -- or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts. So I’ve put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mall pick up when I’m home. What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there’s no one in the room to hear you exclaim, "Gee whiz\ The word "Luddite" in paragraph 10 is closest in meaning to ______.
2009年8月13日早上8点左右，某加工厂工人在加工车间做起吊前的准备工作，准备在其他工作人员不在场的情况下开始吊运钢板。半个小时后，另一名工人进入了该加工车间，没有走行人安全通道，在吊物下行车，结果被吊运中的钢板碰撞成重伤，起吊机上的工人慌忙中立即停止了作业。 根据以上场景，回答下列问题： 编写本起事故调查报告。
Believe it or not, no one can afford to deny or ignore the tiny sparkle of an idea, especially in a/an (31) of knowledge explosion. Like any other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, (32) into a hobby and lately has turned into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates (33) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in the United States, started their (34) in April 1994 as a way to keep (35) of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they found that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and (36) . And gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo. During the year of 1994, they (37) Yahoo into a customized database designed to (38) the needs of the thousands of users that began to use the service through the closely (39) Internet community. They developed customized software to help them (40) locate, identify and edit material (41) on the Internet. The name Yahoo is (42) to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but David Filo and Jerry Yang insist that they select the (43) because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first (44) on Yang’s workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was (45) on Filo’s computer, "Konishiki". In early 1995 Marc Andersen, one of the (46) of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files (47) to larger computers (48) at Netscape. As a result Stanford’s computer network returned to (49) and both parties benefited from this issue. Today, Yahoo (50) organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.
Come September, the campuses of America will be swarming not just with returning undergraduates, but also with employers set on signing up the most able 10% of them. "We are seeing a far more competitive market for talent," says Steve Canale, a recruitment manager at General Electric (GE). Students who recently could have expected two or three offers in their final year are now getting as many as five. To gain a competitive edge, firms are arriving ever earlier on campus with their recruitment caravans. They also start to look at (and select) summer interns more as potential full-time empl6yees than as mere seasonal extra hands: 60% of GE’s graduate recruits in America this year, for instance, will come from its crop of more than 2,000 interns. Many interns will have employment contracts in their pockets before they even return for their final year of study. Firms are working harder to polish their image in the eyes of undergraduates. Some have staff who do little but tour campuses throughout the year, keeping the firm’s name in front of both faculty and students, and promoting their "employer brand". GE focuses on 38 universities where it actively promotes itself as an employer. Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC), an accounting firm, targets 200 universalities and gives a partner responsibility for each. PWC says that each of its partners spends up to 200 hours a year" building relationships on campus". That particular investment seems to have paid off. Each year Universum, an employer-branding consultant, asks some 30,000 American students to name their ideal employer. In this year’s survey, published recently, PWC came second (up from 4th in 2004), topped only by BWM. Yet the German carmaker, which knocked Microsoft off the top spot, steers clear of campuses, relying for its popularity, says Universum, on the "coolness" of its products. Students, it seems, are heavily influenced in their choice of ideal employer by their perception of that employer’s products and services. Soaring up this year’s list were Apple Computer (from 41st to 13th) and the Federal Bureau of Investment (from 138th to 10th). The success of Apple’s cool iPod has had a powerful effect in the firm’s ability to recruit top undergraduates. Likewise, the positive portrayal of the FBI in some recent films and TV shows has allegedly helped with recruitment. The accounting firms say that the fall of Enron and Arthur Andersen has done their recruitment no harm: instead, they claim, it has made students realize that accounting is not mere number crunching, but also involves moral judgments. The "Big Four" accounting firms are all among this year’s top 15 ideal employers. Undergraduates now do much of their research into future employments online. There seems to be a close correlation between their choice of ideal employer and their choice of most impressive website--where PWC, Microsoft and Ernst & Young win gold, silver and bronze respectively. Even so, some famous firms think they still appreciate the personal touch, and are sending their most senior executives to campuses to meet students and to give speeches. "The top attracts top," says, Claudia Tattanelli, boss of Universum in America. Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s chief executive, is a keen on-campus speaker and has visited six leading universities in the past year. In the process, he may have shaken hands with one of his successors. What can we learn from the first paragraph
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