高二2013第一学期英语期中考试试卷(3)

69. If one wants to become a policeman, he MUST ______.

A. serve in the army B. take some required courses

C. be a law-observing citizen D. be a player in a sports team

70. Before the applicants are interviewed, the police wants to test them on their qualities EXCEPT their _____.

A. total honesty B. examination ability

C. healthy personality D. physical condition

(C) (4’)

Retirement is frightening. It is a new, uncertain journey — at a time when peace in life is treasured. Personal financial security is a powerful motivator to keep control of the business. The inability to “” is even more difficult for those who founded their businesses at a time of unemployment or family poverty.

For many who build successful enterprises, their business is their identity. It is said of one woman business owner, still in control in her 90s, that “work is her oxygen.” Some entrepreneurs （企业家） started their businesses at least in part to prove themselves to former bosses who had rejected or doubted them. We find that they cling to their creations more strongly than most.

For these reasons and others, too many business founders refuse to retire. They insist that only they are capable of running the business. Jealousy or insecurities relating to declining power generate interpersonal conflicts that spoil succession (接替；继位) planning or even the performance of potential successors.

If an executive has not quite achieved what he had hoped, he often wants the opportunity to stay in the game. Rather than a graceful transition, the succession process can become a war. The parties to such a combat, however, should remember Winston Churchill’s warning to the House of Commons: “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

Fortunately, many business owners manage to face succession planning — courageously, openly, and early. And because entrepreneurial succession is perhaps the most critical issue for family-business continuity, we’re keenly interested in the makeup and background of those who do.

Our conclusion: It’s all a matter of outlook or attitude. Business owners who can plan

succession and who can let go don’t come necessarily from larger or smaller businesses. They don’t come from businesses that are more or less fragile or that require more or less hands-on involvement. They don’t necessarily even have more or less qualified successors to whom they can turn over their creations. They just have a different outlook or attitude toward the subject. For them, the glass is half full, not half empty.

71. The underlined expression “

A. to dismiss the successor

C. to explore another field B. to close the business D. to pass the business to the successor

72. What makes some of the business owners willing to retire?

A. Their family background.

B. The scale of their business. D. The ability of their successor. C. Their attitude towards retirement.

73. According to the passage, people with the sound attitude to retirement think that ________.

A. old people are certain to rest

B. retirement means new opportunities and new life

C. as business owners, they are most important to the business

D. their business was bought as part of management

74. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is ________.

A. to make clear the widespread beliefs held by those who cannot conclude succession planning

B. to offer some practical tips to those who are not able to cope with fear of retirement

C. to urge society and the individual to take retirement more seriously

D. to illustrate the different attitudes toward retirement in different situations

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. (4%)

There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy, the other becomes unhappy. This arises from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon their minds.

People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things － the pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine, the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society, offend many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its possessors．The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when those who have it realize its bad

effects on their interest and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.

Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on themselves public objections, no one will defend or excuse them, and many will join to criticize their wrongdoings. They should change this bad habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, without worrying needlessly about themselves and others. If they do not, it …… 此处隐藏：5437字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……