Passage FourNot so long ago almost any student who successfully completed a university degree could, find a good career quite easily. Companies toured the academic institutions, competing with each other to select graduates. However, those days are gone, even in Hong Kong, and nowadays graduates often face strong competition in the search for jobs.Most careers organizations highlight three stages for graduates to follow in the process of securing a suit- able career: recognizing abilities, matching these to available jobs and presenting them well to possible employers,Job seekers have to make a careful assessment of their own abilities. One area of assessment should be of their academic qualifications, which would include special skills within their subject area. Graduates should also consider their own personal values and attitudes. An honest assessment of personal interests and abilities such as creative skills, or skills acquired from work experience, should also be given careful thought.The second stage is to study the opportunities available for employment and to think about how the general employment situation is likely to develop in the future. To do this, graduates can study job and position information in newspapers, or they can visit a careers office, write to possible employers for information or contact friends or relatives who may already be involved in a particular profession. After studying all the various options, they should be in a position to make informed comparisons between various careers.Good personal presentation is essential in the search for a good career, job application forms and letters should, of course, be filled in carefully and correctly, without grammar or spelling errors. Where additional information is asked for, job seekers should describe their abilities and work experience in more depth, with examples if possible. They should try to balance their own abilities with the employer% needs, explain why they are interested in a career with the particular company and try to show that they-already know somethingabout the company and its activities.When graduates go to an interview, they should prepare properly by finding out all they can about the possible employer. Dressing suitably and arriving for the interview on time are also important. Interviewees should try to give positive and helpful answers and should not be afraid to ask questions about anything they are unsure about. This is much better than pretending to understand a question and giving an unsuitable answer. In the last paragraph, the writer seems to suggest that ().
A. interviewees should appear humble if they ean’r give an answer
B. dressing properly is more important than being able to give an answer
C. it is better for interviewees to be honest than to pretend to understand
D. it is a good idea for interviewees to be boastful in their answers
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Directions:For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.How does water scarcity affect people First of all, it (31) their health. It is not that they will die of thirst; rather, the poor quality of the water (32) for cooking and drinking may make them ill.(33) our bodies require water to treat waste products, plentiful water is required for proper sanitation (卫生)—water that for much of mankind is simply not available. (34) people without adequate sanitation rose from 2.6 billion in 1990 to 2.9 billion in 1999. And sanitation is literally a matter of life and death. In a (35) statement, United Nations officials warned:"When children lack water that is fit for drinking and sanitation, virtually every aspect of their health and development is (36) ."Food production is dependent on water. Many crops, of course, are watered by rain, but in recent times irrigation has become the key (37) the world% booming population. Today percent of the world’s harvest depends on irrigation.If plentiful water flows out of every tap in our home and if we have a clean toilet (抽水马桶) that conveniently washes out waste, it may be (38) to believe that the world is running out of an adequate supply of water. We should remember, however, that only 20 percent of mankind enioy such (39) .In Africa many women spend as much as six hours a day (40) water. 36()
A. at a loss
B. at all costs
C. at worst
D. at risk
Passage ThreeCould the bad old days of economic decline be about to return Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $ 26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979 1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this timeThe oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economics are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so lesssensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP(in constant prices) rich economics now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in itslatest Economic Outlook that, it oil prices averaged $ 22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economics by only 0. 25%~0. 50/oo of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economics-to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizableportion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%. We can draw a conclusion from the text that ().
A. oil-price shocks are less shocking now.
B. inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.
C. energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.
D. the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software engineering process. which captures many of best practices in modem software development. The notions of (71) and scenarios have been proven to be an excellent way to capture function requirements. RUP can be described in two dimensions-time and content. In the time dimension, the software lifecycle is broken into cycles. Each cycle is divided into four consecutive (72) which is concluded with a well-defined (73) and can be further broken down into (74) -a complete development loop resulting in a release of an executable product, a subset of the final product under development,which grows incrementally to become the final system. The content structure refers to the disciplines, which group (75) logically by nature.
A. artifacts
B. use-cases
C. actors
D. workers
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software engineering process. which captures many of best practices in modem software development. The notions of (71) and scenarios have been proven to be an excellent way to capture function requirements. RUP can be described in two dimensions-time and content. In the time dimension, the software lifecycle is broken into cycles. Each cycle is divided into four consecutive (72) which is concluded with a well-defined (73) and can be further broken down into (74) -a complete development loop resulting in a release of an executable product, a subset of the final product under development,which grows incrementally to become the final system. The content structure refers to the disciplines, which group (75) logically by nature.
A. orientations
B. views
C. aspects
D. phases