He has won wide _____ in the field of occupational medicine.
A.recollection
B.profession
C.recognition
D.production
A.recollection
B.profession
C.recognition
D.production
第1题
A.studies
B.is studying
C.studied
D.has studied
第2题
Bell won't drive us to the train station. He has ______ to take us all.
A.too small a car
B.a too small car
C.very small a car
D.such small a car
第3题
A. not all all
B. after all
C. in genera
D. above all
第4题
Ricci is so confident that he has christened his quest "Operation Columbus" and has set his sights on discovering an American readership of 300,000. That goal may not be too far-fetched. The Italian edition of FMR - the initials, of course, stand for Franco Maria Ricci–is only 18 months old. But it is already the second largest art magazine in the world, with a circulation of 65,000 and a profit margin of US $ 500,000. The American edition will be patterned after the Italian version, with each 160-page issue carrying only 40 pages of ads and no more than five articles. But the contents will often differ. The English-language edition will include more American works, Ricci says, to help Americans get over "an inferiority complex about their art." He also hopes that the magazine will become a vehicle for a two-way cultural exchange - what he likes to think of as a marriage of brains, culture and taste from both sides of the Atlantic.
To realize this vision, Ricci is mounting one of the most lavish, enterprising-and expensive-promotional campaigns in magazine - publishing history. Between November and January, eight jumbo jets will fly 8 million copies of a sample 16-page edition of FMR across the Atlantic. From a warehouse in Michigan, 6.5 million copies will be mailed to American subscribers of various cultural, art and business magazines. Some of the remaining copies will circulate as a special Sunday supplement in the New York Times. The cost of launching Operation Columbus is a staggering US$5 million, but Ricci is hoping that 60% of the price tag will be financed by Italian corporations." To land in America Columbus had to use Spanish sponsors," reads one sentence in his promotional pamphlet. "We would like Italians."
Like Columbus, Ricci cannot know what his reception will be on foreign shores. In Italy he gambled - and won - on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it. Hence, one issue of FMR might feature 32 full-colour pages of 17th-century tapestries, followed by 14 pages of outrageous eyeglasses. He is gambling that the concept is exportable. "I don't expect that more than 30% of my reader... will actually read FMR," he says. "The magazine is such a visual delight that they don't have to." Still, he is lining up an impressive stable of writers and professors for the American edition, including Noam Chomsky, Anthony Burgess, Eric Jong and Norman Mailer. In addition, he seems to be pursuing his won eclectic vision without giving a moment's thought to such established competitors as Connoisseur and Horizon. "The Americans can do almost everything better than we can," says Ricci, "But we (the Italians) have a 2,000 year edge on them in art."
第6题
188. Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Do you sometimes oversleep? Are you often late for work or school? Yes? Then Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a special bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will get you up in the morning! Here is how it works: The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music or other pleasant sounds. A few minutes later, a second recording plays. The second recording can be loud music or unpleasant sounds. If you don’t get up after the second recording, you’ll be sorry. A mechanical “foot” is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly, the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally, the bed is vertical. You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are awake and out of bed. Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to win a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Once every two years, Honda has a contest—the “All Honda Idea Contest”. In 1996 Hiroyuki won a prize for his bed. [共5题]
(1) The purpose of the passage is ________.
(A) to praise Hiroyuki
(B) to tell a story
(C) to introduce a special bed
(D) to wake somebody up
(2) What does the special bed do first in the morning?
(A) Its tape recorder plays soft music.
(B) Its tape recorder plays loud music.
(C) It kicks you in the head.
(D) Its alarm clock rings.
(3) If you don’t wake up after the clock rings, what will happen?
(A) The bed becomes vertical and you slide off the bed.
(B) The tape recorder plays pleasant sounds.
(C) You will be late for work.
(D) The mechanical “foot” kicks you in the head.
(4) Hiroyuki made such a special bed because ________.
(A) he wanted to win the contest held by his company.
(B) he was good at inventing new things.
(C) he wanted to make money.
(D) he sometimes overslept.
(5) Who is Hiroyuki?
(A) A scientist. (B) A company worker. (C) An inventor. (D) A carpenter.
第7题
A.gather
B.generate
C.assemble
D.yield
第8题
A. This
B.What
C. That
D. It
第10题
A. It
B. This
C. What
D. That
第11题
【C1】
A.teaching
B.helping
C.looking at
D.asking