A team of about 35 employees had come together for a team-building event. They were a young, bright and enthusiastic team. However, one of their chief problems was the fact that they wouldn't share information or solutions with each other, and the team leader thought they were too focused on themselves and not on the team. As a result, she brought them all into the cafeteria. All of the tables and chairs had been stored away, and fun decorations and hundreds of different colored balloons had been placed around the room. In the center of the room was a big box of balloons that hadn't been blown up yet. The team leader instructed everybody to pick a balloon, blow it up, and write their name on it, but they had to be careful not to burst the balloon. Although they were given a second chance if their first balloon popped, they were out of the game the second time round. In the end, about 30 team members wrote their names without their balloons popping. They were then asked to leave the room and, after five minutes, the team leader brought them back in and asked them to find the balloon with their name on it amongst the hundreds of other balloons in the room. After 15 minutes of searching, no one had found their balloon, and the team were told that they were then going to move on to the third round of the activity. In this round, each team member was instructed to find any balloon with a name on it and then give that balloon to the person whose name was on it. Within two minutes, everybody had their own balloon. The team leader summarized the activity thus: “We are much more efficient when we are willing to share with each other and much better at problem solving when we are working together, not individually”. Sometimes, members of teams create obstacles by focusing solely on their own pursuits and goals. Every member of the team should ask themselves on a regular basis what they are doing and what they can do for the team.1. What was the purpose of holding this team-building event?

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阅读理解A TEAMWORK GAMEA team of about 35 employees had come together for a team buildin

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A TEAMWORK GAME

A team of about 35 employees had come together for a team building event. They were a young, bright and enthusiastic team. However, one of their chief problems was the fact that they wouldn't share information or solutions with each other, and the team leader thought they were too focused on themselves and not on the team. As a result, she brought them all into the cafeteria. All of the tables and chairs had been stored away, and fun decorations and hundreds of different colored balloons had been placed around the room.

In the center of the room was a big box of balloons that hadn't been blown up yet. The team leader instructed everybody to pick a balloon, blow it up, and write their name on it, but they had to be careful not to burst the balloon.

Although they were given a second chance if their first balloon popped, they were out of the game the second time round. In the end, about 30 team members wrote their names without their balloons popping. They were then asked to leave the room and, after five minutes, the team leader brought them back in and asked them to find the balloon with their name on it amongst the hundreds of other balloons in the room. After 15 minutes of searching, no one had found their balloon, and the team were told that they were then going to move on to the third round of the activity.

In this round, each team member was instructed to find any balloon with a name on it and then give that balloon to the person whose name was on it. Within two minutes, everybody had their own balloon. The team leader summarized the activity thus: “We are much more efficient when we are willing to share with each other and much better at problem solving when we are working together, not individually.”

Sometimes, members of teams create obstacles by focusing solely on their own pursuits and goals. Every member of the team should ask themselves on a regular basis what they are doing and what they can do for the team.

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1. This team building event was aimed at {A; B; C}.

A. helping these young, bright and enthusiastic employees become more concentrated on their work

B. making the team members know how to share information or solutions and cooperate with each other

C. building up team morale

2. This event was held in {A; B; C}.

A. a self-service restaurant

B. a coffee shop

C. a classroom

3. About how many team members were out of the second round of the activity？{A; B; C}

A. 30.

B. 35.

C. 5.

4. Which statement below is correct？{A; B; C}

A. In the second round, every one of the team had found their balloons after 15 minutes.

B. In the third round, the team members were asked them to find the balloon with their name on it amongst the hundreds of other balloons in the room.

C. In the third round, everybody had their own balloon with help from others within 2 minutes.

5. What was the event going to teach these employees？{A; B; C}

A. Sharing and cooperating with other team members is more efficient when they are working together.

B. Focusing solely on employees' own pursuits is not allowed in workplace.

C. Failure of teamwork is caused by individual.

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第2题

What is the misunderstanding about joining a sports team?

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第3题

“Mom, can I have some money？" those are the words my mother used to hear all the

time.In return, I heard, "Why don' t you get a job？ Not to make me happy, but so that you h ve you own money and gain a bit more responsibility.So last year I a Job working about 25 hours a week.For 35 an hour, working as a salesman in a photo studio.

After I got this job, I had to do football, homework and job (1)It was really hard for me.I was burning out, falling asleep at school and failing in many courses.My teachers were made(2)me and ye led at me: why have a job？ I missed a lot of practice in football team and could only (3)back down at the match.My coach was cold at me with an unmasked question: why have a job？ I told them it was for the things I need, when actually it was for the things I wanted.Needing and wanting are different.Needing something is like your only shoes have holes in them.But wanting is to have every new brand sneaker just because you like it.I start to think about if I did a wrong thing.Slowly, I learnt to (4) wise decision (5)about what I need and what I want.(完型填空)

A.On

B.Manage

C.Sit

D.At

E.At the same time

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第4题

The football team is __________ to fail in the match if it continues to train that way.

A. bound

B. determined

C. about

D. approach

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第5题

Cathy is asked to discuss a work problem about ____________ with her boss

A.a new supervisor

B.a former team member

C.lack of efficiency

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第6题

– （)– I think our marketing team is qualified and the after－sales service is fast and effective.

A、What does your team do？

B、What are the disadvantages？

C、What about our strengths？

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Which of the following is true according to the article？A．The basketball team was often de

Which of the following is true according to the article？

A．The basketball team was often defeated so their feelings were miserable.

B．When they lost a match, they always complained about each other.

C．They were not in good relationship with each other.

D．They had a good sportsmanship even when they lost.

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第8题

Mountain climbers around the world dream about going up Mountain Everest （珠穆朗玛峰) . It

Mountain climbers around the world dream about going up Mountain Everest (珠穆朗玛峰) . It is the highest mountain in the world. But many people who have climbed the mountain have left waste material that is harming the environment.

A team of Americans is planning the largest clean-up effort ever on Mountain Everest. They will make the risky trip up the mountain next month.

The team of eight Americans will be guided by more than twenty Sherpas of Nepal (尼泊尔夏尔巴人).Their goal is to remove all the trash they see. They will spend two months cleaning up the mountain by gathering oxygen bottles, fuel containers, batteries, drink cans, human waste and other kinds of trash. They are expected to remove at least three tons of trash in large bags.

Team leader Robert Hoffman is making his fourth trip up the mountain. He says he hopes to bring Everest to the condition it was in before the first successful climb fifty years ago. He says he hopes the effort will influence other people to clean up the environment closer home.

Human waste on Everest is a major concern. So the clean-up team will take along newly development equipment to collect and treat human waste. Over the years, the waste articles have polluted the mountain. In the warm season when the ice melts, the polluted water flows to Nepali villages below. The problem has gotten worse in recent years because climbing Everest has become more popular.

When those Americans are planning the trip up Mountain Everest, they are concerned about______.

A．the success in climbing up the mountain

B．the environment pollution of the mountain

C．the equipment for their trip to the mountain

D．the risks facing the mountain climbers

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根据下列文章，回答31～35题。 In the early 1960s Wilt Chamberlain was one of only three pla

根据下列文章，回答31～35题。

In the early 1960s Wilt Chamberlain was one of only three players in the National Basketball Association （NBA） listed at over seven feet. If he had played last season, however, he would have been one of 42. The bodies playing major professional sports have changed dramatically over the years, and managers have been more than willing to adjust team uniforms to fit the growing numbers of bigger, longer frames.

The trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing. Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, today''s people- especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations- apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s. And they aren’t likely to get any taller. In the general population today, at this genetic, environmental level, we''ve pretty much gone as far as we can go, says anthropologist William Cameron Chumlea of Wright State University. In the case of NBA players, their increase in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice of recruiting players from all over the world.

Growth, which rarely continues beyond the age of 20, demands calories and nutrients–notably, protein–to feed expanding tissues. At the start of the 20th century, under-nutrition and childhood infections got in the way. But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height. Yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average height- 5′9〞for men, 5′4〞for women- hasn''t really changed since 1960.

Genetically speaking, there are advantages to avoiding substantial height. During childbirth, larger babies have more difficulty passing through the birth canal. Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs. There are some real constraints that are set by the genetic architecture of the individual organism, says anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University.

Genetic maximums can change, but don''t expect this to happen soon. Claire C． Gordon, senior anthropologist at the Army Research Center in Natick, Mass, ensures that 90 percent of the uniforms and workstations fit recruits without alteration. She says that, unlike those for basketball, the length of military uniforms has not changed for some time. And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment, Gordon says that by and large, you could use today’s data and feel fairly confident.

第 31 题 Wilt Chamberlain is cited as an example to

A．illustrate the change of height of NBA players.

B．show the popularity of NBA players in the U.S……

C．compare different generations of NBA players.

D．assess the achievements of famous NBA players.

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The average number of authors on scientific papers is sky-rocketing. That's partly because

labs are bigger, problems are more complicated, and more different subspecialties are needed. But it's also because U.S. government agencies have started to promote "team science". As physics developed in the post-World War II era, federal funds built expensive national facilities, and these served as surfaces on which collaborations could crystallize naturally.

Yet multiple authorship—however good it may be in other ways--presents problems for journals and for the institutions in which these authors work. For the journals, long lists of authors are hard to deal with in themselves. But those long lists give rise to more serious questions when something goes wrong with the paper. If there is research misconduct, how should the liability be allocated among the authors？ If there is an honest mistake in one part of the work but not in others, how should an evaluator aim his or her review？

Various practical or impractical suggestions have emerged during the long-standing debate on this issue. One is that each author should provide, and the journal should then publish, an account of that author's particular contribution to the work. But a different view of the problem, and perhaps of the solution, comes as we get to university committee on appointments and promotions, which is where the authorship rubber really meets the road. Half a lifetime of involvement with this process has taught me how much authorship matters. I have watched committees attempting to decode sequences of names, agonize over whether a much-cited paper was really the candidate's work or a coauthor's, and send back recommendations asking for more specificity about the division of responsibility.

Problems of this kind change the argument, supporting the case for asking authors to define their own roles. After all, if quality judgments about individuals are to be made on the basis of their personal contributions, then the judges better know what they did. But if questions arise about the validity of the work as a whole, whether as challenges to its conduct or as evaluations of its influence in the field, a team is a team, and the members should share the credit or the blame.

According to the passage, there is a tendency that scientific papers ______

A．are getting more complicated

B．are dealing with bigger problems

C．are more of a product of team work

D．are focusing more on natural than on social sciences

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第11题

THREE THINGS TO BRING YOU MORE FRIENDS Do you lack friends Do you want to make more fr

iends If so, you may read on… There's a certain beauty in being a lone wolf. You have more time to do the things you want to do. But if you want to make more friends, and do things together with them, please consider these suggestions on how to meet people and form. strong, lasting friendships. Spend more time around people and talk to them. If you want to make friends, you first need to put yourself out in order to meet people. Friends seldom come knocking on your door while you sit at home playing computer games. Participate in an online community. You don't necessarily need to have a lot of common interests with people in order to make friends with them. Social networking sites such as Wechat, Facebook, Twitter, and My Space are great way to meet new people and learn more about the people you meet. Join a sports team. A common misunderstanding about this is that you have to be really good at playing a particular sport in order to make friends with others on the team, but not all teams are so competitive. As long as you enjoy the sport and support your teammates, joining a local team could be a great way to make new friends.

1. How many ways the author suggests on how to make more friends()

A. Three.

B. Four.

C. Two.

2. If you want to make more friends, first you need to()

A. join a club.

B. chat on the internet.

C. put yourself out.

3. What is the meaning of the word “online” in paragraph3()

A. 直线的

B. 在线的

C. 线下的

4. What is misunderstanding about joining a sports team()

A. You have to be good at playing a particular sport.

B. You must enjoy the sport.

C. You must support your teammates.

5. The main point of this passage is about ().

A. how to talk with friends.

B. how to make more friends.

C. how to study English well.

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