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Directions: Read the following text and choose the best answer from the right column to complete each of the unfinished statements in the left column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.A young consultant’s life is tiring. A typical week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. A typical brain-for-hire can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, texting a distant lover. "It’s quite normal to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. An ex-McKinseyite in New York adds that 15 to 18-hour weekdays are normal and six to eight-hour Saturdays and Sundays common. It can be draining, she admits. So the job appeals to "insecure over-achievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a former employee of Bain & Company. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most drop out within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, where their experience and contacts allow them to do better than their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places like London, New York and Shanghai. Such cities are also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. "Everything that happens, happens in London," says Lina Paulauskaite of the Young Management Consultancies Association, speaking of Britain. Other countries are less unipolar, but all have a divide between the big city and the remote areas. Companies based outside the big cities also need "clever people doing clever stuff", as one consultant puts it. "But", he adds, citing a litany of dull suburban towns in which he has managed projects, "there is no way in hell I’d have taken a permanent job in one of those places." A recent graduate working at a rival firm agrees: "I wouldn’t have considered working for a firm outside London." Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from remote areas. They recruit bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so much. The system works, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not easily hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all; except enough sleep. A．holds that consultants have to travel much B．claims that everything may happen in London C．says that it is not uncommon to have long working hours D．states that consultants always worry they have done too little E．admits that it is regretful to work for a company outside London F．argues that small cities also need smart people to do smart things G．thinks that young consultants get to experience life in the real world One consultant ______.
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Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. It sounds like a real-life version of Lost: a 272-ton Boeing 777 1 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and 2 less than an hour into a flight to Beijing, disappearing from air-craft radar screens and triggering a massive search 3 high-tech warships, nimble supersonic jets, all-seeing satellites—the combined technological resources of 26 countries. Days 4 without a trace of the airliner. Big Brother looks high and low—and finds 5 . The world lost 6 with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the early hours of March 8, somewhere in no-man’s-sky 7 Malaysia and Vietnam. Every day that followed brought new theories of what might have happened as dark turned to dawn. Was the plane hijacked to some remote landing strip and, if so, where are the passengers 8 had the jet malfunctioned and 9 into the ocean-and if so, where was the debris As search team looked for answers to these questions, the millions of people worldwide who were 10 for updates about MH370 were left wondering how, in 2014, technology could come up so short, 11 a 209-ft. (64m) airliner carrying 239 people to 12 for the longest period of time in modern commercial aviation history. The 13 story of MH370 doesn’t fit into the narrative of our omniscient (无所不知的) era. The world’s intelligence agencies can watch and 14 to millions of us as we go about our lives. 15 we nonspies have plenty of tracking technology at our disposal. Pull up a web browser and with a few keystrokes we can 16 our lost iPhones, track satellites as they circle the earth, use Google Maps to explore far-off lands. How, then, with our 17 infrastructure of bits and bytes, did we fail to 18 a jumbo jet The answers are disturbing. For all the post-9/11 security protocols we submit to every time we get on a plane, much of the basic 19 that is meant to track our progress through the sky is full of holes. And even our most modern 20 can be rendered invisible by the human hand.
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