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time that Easter Islanders had met people from the outside world. The strangers were about to discover
something very strange themselves -that they were on an island with hundreds of huge stone statues (雕像). The Dutch explorers wondered where the Islanders had come from and why and how they had built
the statues. Now science is putting together the story.
The first people to arrive on the island came there around A.D. 700. The society that developed there
was based on fishing and farming to feed the population, which grew to 12,000. Its success showed itself
in a way that has become the island"s trademark (标记): hundreds of huge stone figures -the moai.
None of the moai was standing when scientists first arrived. People put them back up later; but how
had a Stone Age society ever made, moved and set them up there in the first place? And why?
There are nearly 900 moai on Easter Island, and while the questions about them remain unanswered, no one doubts the years of effort that must have gone into making them.
The real killer of the Easter Islanders came from across the ocean. After 1722, it became popular for
explorers to visit Easter Island, bringing diseases. The final blow (打击) came in 1862, when slave traders came from Peru and took away 1,500 people, one-third of the population.
B. they knew where Islanders had come from
C. they discovered something dangerous
D. the huge stone statues were upright
B. were surprised by what they saw
C. set many of the moai on the island upright
D. fished and farmed
B. the moai must have taken a great effort to make
C. the Islanders mainly died of diseases brought by explorers
D. the explorers helped the Islanders live better lives
B. the Dutch explorers discovered how the moai had been built
C. in 1862, before slave traders came, about 4,500 people were living on Easter Island
D. the natives of Easter Island have been there for about 1,200 years
B. the scientists
C. the explorers
D. the moai
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试题【阅读理解。 On Easter Day, 1722, Dutch explorers (探索者) landed on Easter Island (复活】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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their jobs as a global recession(衰退) starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more
likely to come through a pay cut.
Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to
preserve jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies
survive at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies
to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff,
but build up a more loyal and devoted group.
"In the Confucian mindset(儒家思想), the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the
sense of collective(集体的)responsibility. While in the West, it"s more about individual survival,"
said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management
University (SMU).
In contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off
workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian
groups, job cuts will probably be less severe.
Japan"s jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong
Kong"s was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent
last month from below 5 percent in January.
Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the
gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the
best practices of rivals from abroad.
B. scene
C. future
D. place
B. it costs the company less money to survive
C. it will keep the experienced and skilled workers
D. it can form a team working harder and more loyally
A. human rights
B. sharing responsibility
C. personal profits
D. individual survival
B. A small Japanese company.
C. A German branch of a Korean multinational.
D. A Hong Kong"s unit of a French company.
B. the cultural differences between Eastern and Western world at present
C. the ways to cut down the cost of the companies in economic downturn
D. the different labor solutions of Asian and Western in global recession
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| The International Red Cross and Red Crescent(弯月) Museum was opened in Geneva in 1988. 1 tells the story of men and women who, in the course of the major events of the last 150 years, have given assistance 2 victims of wars and natural disasters. The organization 3 (found) in 1863, and was based on an idea by a Swiss businessman called Henry Dunant. He had witnessed too many 4 (die) and wounds at the Battle of Solferino in Italy four years 5 (early), in which 40,000 people were killed, wounded or missing. He had seen the lack of medical services and the great suffering of many of the wounded, 6 simply died from lack of care. The International Red Cross/Red Crescent exists 7 (help) the victims of conflicts and disasters regardless oftheir nationality. 8 symbol of the organization was originally just the red cross. It has no religious significance; the founders 9 the movement adopted it in honor of Switzerland. However, the original symbol, the red cross, could hurt Muslim soldiers" feelings, 10 a second symbol, the red crescent, was used. Both are now official symbols. | ||
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| The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world-are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only cleft (穿过) in Northern California"s 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive(庞大的)suspension bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world"s longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, and was designed to withstand(经受住)winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft. Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie(阴森森的) quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely. You can either drive or walk across. The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge"s towers, but the half-hour walk across it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead. Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides(自***) a month who choose this spot, 260ft up, as their jumping-off spot. Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap. In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1000, police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious(令人怀疑的)distinction of being the thousandth person to leap. Perhaps the best loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious (幸运的)place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city"s entire population); the winds were strong and the huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break. | ||
| 1.The underlined word "buckle" here means _____ . | ||
| A. collapse B. crash C. bend D. shake | ||
| 2.The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in _____ . | ||
| A. 1922 B. 1995 C. 1937 D. 1959 | ||
| 3.Which of the following is TRUE? | ||
| A. The Golden Gate is the longest bridge in the world. B. So far about 1000 people killed themselves from the Golden Gate. C. It took the workers 52 months to build the Golden Gate. D. San Francisco had a population of about 750,000 in 1987 | ||
| 4.If you want to enjoy the views of San Francisco from the bridge, you"d better cross the bridge ______. | ||
| A. by train B. on foot C. by car D. by ship | ||
| 阅读理解。 阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。(请注意问题后的字数要求)。 | ||
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