The new secretary is supposed to report to the manager as soon as she ______.

A:will arrive B:arrives C:is arriving D:is going to arrive

Raymond Arth knows he should feel better about the economy. His company hasn’t returned to its pre-recession revenues selling its wares to the makers of RVs and manufactured homes, but it is making a profit again. Like too many other small-business proprietors, Arth doesn’t fully trust this economic recovery. While he says he’s "guardedly optimistic" about it, his actions are all about the first half of that phrase,
In the Labor Department’s latest snapshot of the country’s job market, the private sector added 268,000 jobs in April, the largest gain in five years and the third consecutive month of solid job growth. Yet a more sobering account of where the economy might be headed—and arguably a more accurate barometer of the near-term future—is the monthly report published by the National Federation of Independent Business. After all, it’s small businesses, which have created two out of every three new jobs the economy has added since the early 1990s, that historically have led the country out of recessions. And it’s the owners of small businesses that the NFIB surveys each month for its Small Business Optimism Index.
On that front the news is anything but good. The index is down for the second straight month. Fewer small-business owners expect conditions to improve over the next half year a drop of 18 percentage points from January. The bulk of new hiring must be happening inside larger corporations, since their smaller counterparts on Main Street say they are generally reluctant to create new jobs. That aptly sums up the sentiments of Scott Lipps, the president of the Sleep Tite Mattress Factory. Before the downturn, Lipps says, his sales were about evenly split between his medical clients (hospitals and nursing homes) and consumers buying mattresses through a factory outlet. But sales to the general public plummeted starting in 2008.
"The families affected most by the economy have stopped buying," Lipps says. "And those who say ’We have to have a new mattress’ are downgrading to a medium-quality mattress. " Despite a 20 percent drop in sales, Lipps and his partner tried to forestall the inevitable by putting up $ 70,000 of their own money. But in 2010 they laid off three of their 18 full-time employees. "It should have happened in 2009, but we let our hearts run the company instead of our billfolds," Lipps says.
In Bartlesville, Mat Saddoris is feeling relatively more upbeat. Saddoris is the third-generation owner of United Linen, a restaurant-supply company that cut its workforce by more than 10 percent during the downturn’s darkest days. Revenues are back up to pre-2008 levels, and United Linen is back to its pre-recession staffing of 135 employees. But will he take the risk of growing the company "I talk to my customers and they’re optimistic—to a point," he says. "They’ve all come back from the pits, if you will, and things have been getting better in the past six or seven months. " But, he says, "I don’t think they’re ready to announce that things have turned around. /
Why are NFIB’s reports more reliable as an index of job market

A:Because they are made by non-governmental agencies. B:Because the Labor Department’s report has exaggerated the situation. C:Because small businesses contribute more to the job market. D:Because economic development has taken a new direction.

Raymond Arth knows he should feel better about the economy. His company hasn’t returned to its pre-recession revenues selling its wares to the makers of RVs and manufactured homes, but it is making a profit again. Like too many other small-business proprietors, Arth doesn’t fully trust this economic recovery. While he says he’s "guardedly optimistic" about it, his actions are all about the first half of that phrase,
In the Labor Department’s latest snapshot of the country’s job market, the private sector added 268,000 jobs in April, the largest gain in five years and the third consecutive month of solid job growth. Yet a more sobering account of where the economy might be headed—and arguably a more accurate barometer of the near-term future—is the monthly report published by the National Federation of Independent Business. After all, it’s small businesses, which have created two out of every three new jobs the economy has added since the early 1990s, that historically have led the country out of recessions. And it’s the owners of small businesses that the NFIB surveys each month for its Small Business Optimism Index.
On that front the news is anything but good. The index is down for the second straight month. Fewer small-business owners expect conditions to improve over the next half year a drop of 18 percentage points from January. The bulk of new hiring must be happening inside larger corporations, since their smaller counterparts on Main Street say they are generally reluctant to create new jobs. That aptly sums up the sentiments of Scott Lipps, the president of the Sleep Tite Mattress Factory. Before the downturn, Lipps says, his sales were about evenly split between his medical clients (hospitals and nursing homes) and consumers buying mattresses through a factory outlet. But sales to the general public plummeted starting in 2008.
"The families affected most by the economy have stopped buying," Lipps says. "And those who say ’We have to have a new mattress’ are downgrading to a medium-quality mattress. " Despite a 20 percent drop in sales, Lipps and his partner tried to forestall the inevitable by putting up $ 70,000 of their own money. But in 2010 they laid off three of their 18 full-time employees. "It should have happened in 2009, but we let our hearts run the company instead of our billfolds," Lipps says.
In Bartlesville, Mat Saddoris is feeling relatively more upbeat. Saddoris is the third-generation owner of United Linen, a restaurant-supply company that cut its workforce by more than 10 percent during the downturn’s darkest days. Revenues are back up to pre-2008 levels, and United Linen is back to its pre-recession staffing of 135 employees. But will he take the risk of growing the company "I talk to my customers and they’re optimistic—to a point," he says. "They’ve all come back from the pits, if you will, and things have been getting better in the past six or seven months. " But, he says, "I don’t think they’re ready to announce that things have turned around. /

Why are NFIB’s reports more reliable as an index of job market（）

A:Because they are made by non-governmental agencies B:Because the Labor Department’s report has exaggerated the situation C:Because small businesses contribute more to the job market D:Because economic development has taken a new direction

{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}

The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to______.

A:compare the consequences of the earthquakes that occurred in the U. S. B:outline the history of the development of quake- resistant building materials C:report new developments in constructing quake - resistant buildings D:encourage civil engineers to make more extensive use of computers

Is the News Believable
Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one’s struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life.
For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve (痛苦减轻). Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about — on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives — was the report that a combination of two new drugs could, as the Times put it, "cure cancer in two years."
In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors’ phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines.
The time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug called tamoxifen (他莫昔芬) — and offering it to patients getting the placebo (安慰剂) — because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine (子宫的) cancer). Two weeks later came the New York Times’ report that two new drugs can shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever.
It all seemed too good to be true, and of course it was. There are no miracle cancer drugs, at least not yet. At this stage all the drug manufacturer can offer is some very interesting molecules, and the only cancers they have cured so far have been in mice. BY the middle of last week, even the TV talk-show hosts who talked most about the news had learned what every scientist already knew: that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse," Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angeles Times. "We have cured mice of cancer for decades — and it simply didn’t work in people./
The unprecedented interest in the cure of cancer was aroused by

A:a nationwide discussion of the topic. B:an announcement by the National Cancer Institute. C:a report in the New York Times. D:a medical news story in the Los Angeles Times.

There are many types of reports. A report is simply (51) of something that has happened. The commonest are (52) . We get them in newspapers, over radio and (53) television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels.
The main purpose of a newspaper (54) provide news. If you (55) a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news (56) everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very (57) .
The big (58) bold words above the news items are called headlines. Their purpose is to (59) attention so that people will troy the newspaper because they want to read (60) of the news.
A news report is usually very short, (61) when it is about something very important, but it (62) a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in (63) a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how, why. The other paragraphs give (64) of the subject. There may also be interviews (65) people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas.
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.

A:news reports B:new reports C:news report D:new report

{{B}}第三篇{{/B}}

The unprecedented interest in the cure of cancer was aroused by

A:a nationwide discussion of the topic. B:an announcement by the National Cancer Institute. C:a report in the New York Times. D:a medical news story in the Los Angeles Times.

第三篇 Is the News Believable? Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one’s struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life. For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve(痛苦减轻) . Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about--- on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives----was the report that a combination of two new drugs could , as the Times put it, “cure cancer in two years.” In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors’ phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines. The time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug called tamoxifen (他莫昔芬) ------ and offering it to patients getting the placebo(安慰剂) -----because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine(子宫的) cancer). Two weeks later came the New York Times’ report that two new drugs could shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever. It all seemed too good to be true, and of course it was. There are no miracle cancer drugs, at least not yet. At this stage all the drug manufactures can offer is some very interesting molecules, and the only cancers they have cured so far have been in mice. By the middle of last week, even the TV talk-show hosts who talked most about the news had learned what every scientist already knew : that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse,” Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angeles Times. “We have cured mice of cancer for decades---and it simply didn’t work in people.” The unprecedented interest in the cure of cancer was aroused by

A:a nationwide discussion of the topic. B:an announcement by the National Cancer Institute. C:a medical news story in the Los Angeles Times. D:a report in the New York Times.

Washoe Learned American Sign Language An animal that influenced scientific thought has died. A chimpanzee named Washoe and born in Africa died of natural causes late last month at the age of 42 at a research center in the American state of Washington. Washoe had become known in the scientific community and around the world for her ability to use American Sign Language. She was said to be the first non-human to learn a human language. Her skills also led to debate about primates and their ability to understand language. Research scientists Allen and Beatrix Gardner began teaching Washoe sign language in 1966.In 1969, the Gardners described Washoe’s progress in a scientific report. The people who experimented with Washoe said she grew to understand about 250 words. For example, Washoe made signs to communicate when it was time to eat. She could request foods like apples and bananas. She also asked questions like," Who is coming to play?" Once the news about Washoe spread, many language scientists began studies of their own into this new and exciting area of research. The whole direction of primate research changed. However, critics argued Washoe only learned to repeat sign language movements from watching her teachers. They said she had never developed true language skills. Even now, there are some researchers who suggest that primates learn sign language only by memory, and perform the signs only for prizes. Yet Washoe’s keepers disagree. Roger Fouts is a former student of the Gardners. He took Washoe to a research center in Ellensburg, Washington. There, Washoe taught sign language to three younger chimpanzees, which are still alive. Scientists like private researcher Jane Goodall believe Washoer provided new information about the mental workings of chimpanzees. Today,there are not as many scientists studying language skills with chimps. Part of the reason is that this kind of research takes a very long time. Debate continues about chimps understanding of human communication. Yet, one thing is sure-Washoe changed popular ideas about the possibilities of animal intelligence.The second paragraph mainly discusses _____.

A:a report about Washoe’s progress in learning sign language. B:the whole direction of primate research. C:new primate researches conducted by many language scientific. D:an experiment with Washoe at a research center in Africa.