閱讀理解
The next society will be a knowledge society. Knowledge will be its key resource. Its three main features will be:
Borderlessness, because knowledge travels even more effortlessly than money.
Upward mobility (上進心), available to everyone getting from education easily.
The possibility for failure as well as success. Anyone can get the “means of production”, but not every one can win.
Together, those three features will make the knowledge society a highly competitive one. Information technology, though only one of many new features of the next society, has already had one hugely important effect. It is allowing knowledge to be widely known near immediately, and makes it accessible to everyone. Given the relax and speed at which information travels, every organization in the knowledge society has to be globally competitive, even though most organizations will continue to be local in their activities and in their markets. This is because the Internet will keep customers everywhere told on what is available anywhere in the world and at what price.
This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers: doctors, lawyers, teachers and chemical engineers. But the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists”. These people are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers. In fact, they usually spend far more time working with their brains. But their manual work is according to a great amount of knowledge which can be received only through formal education. They see themselves as professionals.
1. What is the most suitable title for this passage?
A. The Next Society
B. Knowledge Is All
C. The Knowledge Workers
D. The Knowledge Technologists
2. What does the phrase “means of production” refer to?
A. A kind of machine.
B. A way to make things.
C. A method for making things.
D. Knowledge required for the job.
3. Which of the following is called knowledge technologists?
A. Computer technicians. B. Teachers.
C. Lawyers. D. Doctors.
4. Which of the following statements is True?
A. Everyone can succeed easily.
B. There will be no competition.
C. Knowledge can travel less easily than money.
D. Most organizations will not move to other places.
選詞填空
從下列方框里10個單詞中選擇8個適當單詞的正確形式填入下列各句中,使其句意完整。每個單詞只使用一次。
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1. Its hard to ____ when it will happen.
2. I cant tell you ____ when I will come.
3.The children are ____ the sand into a hill.
4. He was ____ by the police after a single day.
5. Im sure a man of great ability like him will ____ reach the top in spite of some difficulty.
6. As the football match was in ____ , we kept cheering on both teams.
7. He is a responsible person and can be trusted to ____ out the plan.
8. Television has replaced motion pictures as Americas most popular form of ____ .
句子翻譯
1. 我正打算往河里跳時水里突然出現了一條蛇。
2. 我們所要乘坐的飛機下午五點飛往北京。
3. 不是所有的學生都去看電影了。
4. 在一間房住一晚上他們想要我付八十鎊。
單項選擇
1. — Come on, Peter. I want to show you something.
— Oh, how nice of you. I ___ you ___ to bring me a gift.
A. dont think; were going
B. never think; are going
C. never thought; were going
D. hadnt thought; were going
2. Youd better not call him between 7 and 8 tomorrow evening. He ___ an important meeting then.
A. will have B. would have
C. will be having D. will have had
3. — Have you known Dr Jackson for a long time?
— Yes, since she ___ the Chinese Society.
A. joins B. has joined
C. had joined D. joined
4. — How do you find my desk computer?
— Just so-so. It is ___ . Many people are using the notebook
computer.
A. on the way B. on the way out
C. out of the way D. in the way
5. Theres a color bottle on the table ___ like a flower.
A. shaped B. shaping
C. have shaped D. being shaped
6. — Tom, you didnt come to the party last night.
— I ___ , but I suddenly remembered I had homework to do.
A. had to B. didnt
C. was going to D. wouldnt
7. — Ring me at 7 am?
— No, not that early. I ___ then.
A. sleep B. will sleep
C. am sleeping D. will be sleeping
8. He had a bad cold, because he ___ in the rain on his way home after school.
A. caught B. catches
C. was catching D. was caught
9. In China, the number of cities is increasing, ___ development is recognized across the world.
A. of which B. which
C. whose D. that
10. The newly-built café, the walls of ___ are painted light green, is really a quiet place for us, especially after hard work.
A. which B. it
C. that D. what