6：has one full-year quality guarantee with another five years limited warranty？ 6. ______

Wal-Mart Tries to Find Its Customer

For all its success in the United States--and there is plenty of it--Wal-Mart Stores is still struggling to figure out its performance at home, where sales growth at individual stores has dropped, its customers routinely flirt with rivals like Target for clothing and its advertising has often failed to inspire.

The retailer's plans to fix the problems became clearer yesterday, when Wal-Mart executives pledged to remodel (装饰) nearly half of its United States stores over the next 18 months, beef up its marketing division and expand a bold line of clothing across much of the chain.

The changes, explained in Wal-Mart's fourth-quarter earnings announcement yesterday, threw a spotlight on the increasingly important role of one man: Eduardo Castro-Wright, the new chief of Wal-Mart's United States stores. Mr. Castro-Wright is a popular figure in the company because of his success in transforming the retailer's Mexican division into one of its most profitable units.

Mr. Castro-Wright, 51, has proved to be an aggressive innovator, overseeing a change in regional store management that will put more supervisors in the field rather than in the company's hometown of Bentonville, Ark., and encouraging experimentation, like a new pharmacy station that brings customers closer to pharmacists.

"Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months counts on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro-Wright does," said Robert F. Buchanan, a retail analyst at A. G. Edwards ＆ Sons. "He is the man on the hot seat."

Bill Dreher, a retail analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities, called Mr. Castro-Wright a rising star and a very strong candidate to succeed the chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., providing that he can fix what analysts say is broken in the United States--namely a shopping experience that Wal-Mart executives concede has become inconsistent and, at times, unpleasant because of cluttered aisles and outdated decoration.

Sales at Wal-Mart stores open for at least a year grew, on average, 3.6 percent a month in fiscal(财政的)year 2005, compared with a 5.8 percent gain for Target, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, a trade group.

And as yesterday's earnings--or perhaps more accurately, investors' reactions--showed, managing Wal-Mart is no simple task. Profit rose 13 percent in the quarter, but Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, predicted that full-year earnings would fall below Wall Street's expectations.

As a result, Wal-Mart's shares fell as much as 1.5 percent in morning trading. Shares closed down 36 cents, or less than 1 percent, at ＄45.74.

Wal-Mart said it was optimistic about 2006 despite' the financial burdens--among them higher energy prices--facing its predominantly working-class shoppers.

The company forecast full-year earnings yesterday of ＄2.88 to ＄2.95 a share, compared with analysts' estimates of ＄2.98. Wal-Mart pointed out that the Wall Street estimates did not reflect higher interest costs and share repurchases.

Mr. Scott said the retailer finished strong in its fourth quarter, which ended Jan. 31. Net income rose to ＄3.6 billion, or 86 cents a share, for the quarter, from ＄3.2 billion, or 75 cents a share, a year ago. Sales increased 8.6 percent, to ＄89 billion from ＄82 billion, but overall revenue of ＄90.1 billion was below analysts' estimates.

In a conference call this morning, Mr. Castro-Wright outlined his plan to improve the uneven shopping experience at Wal-Mart's American stores, which accounted for 67 percent of the company's ＄312 billion in annual sales last year.

Perhaps the most ambitious part of the plan is the proposed renovation of 1,800 stores over the next 18 months. The remodeling is intended to bring the chain's oldest outlets in line wi

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ntists developed a new concept called "sub-health", a status【52】health and illness. The concept of sub-health has become【53】because it has helped to explain many health problems.【54】one study, only 5. 6% of people in the overall population are actually sick,【55】the sub-healthy group consists of about 60%, and the【56】population is considered healthy.【57】of one's sub-health will help one to be alert to the underlying disease and remain healthy. Sub-health is a state in which the body is【58】turning from health to illness or from illness to health. Our bodies are actively【59】the conditions of health, sub-health and disease. Factors【60】aging, internal or external toxicity (毒性), and body or mind exhaustion may cause sub-heath, but taking good care of the body can change a sub-healthy status to a healthy one.

(51)

A．Besides

B．However

C．Meantime

D．Therefore

below to make the sentences in the following paragraph arranged in a logical and coherent way.

A.thereforeB.obviouslyC.bothD.andE.howeverF.the sameG.because ofH.includingI.alsoJ.in which

(1) ________ (2) ________(3) ________(4) ________(5) ________(6)________(7) ________(8)________(9)________(10) ________

Translation research concerns the problems involved in transferring meaning from one culture to another.

(1) not all cultures interpret situations in (2) way; perceptions can differ enormously, and words carry connotations which do not have exact equivalence in another language.Translation scholars are (3) occupied with many of the same concerns which interest writing researchers in other areas.Despite this, (4) , translation is often an invisible practice, and has tended to exist on the periphery of intellectual activity in applied linguistics.Translation study is a field (5) both theory and reflection on cultural, methodological and social issues are vital.(6) this a number of questions central to writing more generally have emerged, (7) the nature of context and situationality, the role of interpretation in cross-cultural communication, the challenge of rendering idiomaticity (8) the part played by audience.Translation has (9) expanded beyond its established literary and technical areas.(10) machine translation and computer-assisted translation represent rapidly expanding domains of practice and flourishing research areas.

听力原文： Crime has its own cycles，a magazine reported some years ago. Police records show a surprising relation between changes in the season and crime patterns.

The pattern of crime has changed very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August，as do other violent attacks. Murder，in addition，is more than seasonal；it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 P. m. and 6 a. m. One is most likely to be robbed between 6 P. m. and 2 a. m. on a Saturday night in December，January，or February. Except for one strange statistic，May is the least criminal month of all.

Apparently our intellectual season cycles are completely different from our criminal patterns. Professor Huntington made a lot of studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books，attend scientific meetings，and make the highest scores on examinations. In all examples，he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand，Professor Huntington's studies showed that June is the peak month for suicides and for admitting patients to mental hospital. June is also a peak month for marriages!

Possibly，high temperature and humidity bring on our strange and surprising summer actions，but police officers are not so sure. “There are，of course，no proof of a relation between humidity and murder”，they say. “Why murder's high time should come in the summer time we really don't know”.

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A．Different kinds of crimes。

B．Increasingly high crime rate in the U.S.

C．Seasonal changes in the natural environment．

D．The relations between changes in the season and crime patterns．

gh.Fox discovered the gene (基因) that causes cystic fibrosis (膀胱纤维症) (CF).Many geneticists consider it 's one of the most significantdiscoveries in human genetics.Theresults of Fox work have helped scientists developtests that identify carriers of the CFgene.They hope his research could cure CF.a testhas been developed to identify peoplerrying the cystic fibrosis gene.The test isbased on knowing where the gene is locatedhe CF gene is a recessive gene.Thismeans a person can carry one copy of the gene andstill not be affected by the disease.However if this person has children with anothererson who carries the Cf genethere is a 25 chance that their children will inherit twoopies of the gene and sufferfrom the disease.The test identifies whether pat for cysticrents carrythe defective CF gene.Researchers are also using Fox discovery to find a curefibrosis.They areworking to produce a drug that will change the activity of the Cf geneId alsoattempting to replace the defective gene with one that functions properly.Itdifficultto produce a drug that changes the Cf gene but does not affect the 100000thergenes of human.But Fox discovery has at least given a chance for the cure othe CF

1.A person with () of a harmful recessive gene will be affected

A.one copy

B two opies

C.no copies

D three copies.

2.We can find answers to the following questions in the passage except ()

A.Do people with CF live longer than they did in the past.

B Describeused to treat CF

C.Evaluate the current methods used to treat CF

D.Describe the drugs used to treat CF

3.The following statements are true except ()

A Only one quarter of people will have chance to have the disease.

B.Fox discovery help scientist develop tests that identify carriers of the CF gene

C.Scientist has already produced a drug to CF

D.To produce a drug is not easy because it should changes the CF gene but notaffectothers

4.The word “recessive” (line 6) probably means ()

A.hidden

B concealing

C.faint

D covered

5.The best title for the passage would be ()

A.Why People Have CF

B.The Drugs Used to Treat CF

C.The Methods of Curing CF

D.TheSignificance of the DiscoveryCystic Fibrosis Gene

Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1)_____ of a writer, for example, is (2)_____ a slightly crazy-looking person, (3)_____ in an attic, writing away furiously for days (4)_____ end. Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5)_____ which he could not produce a readable word.

Nowadays, we know that such images bear little (6)_____ to reality. But are they completely (7)_____？ In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not. Dame Muriel Spark, who (8)_____ 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not (9)_____, and she doesn't work in an attic. But she is rather particular (10)_____ the tools of her trade.

She insists on writing with a (11)_____ type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain stationer in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (12)_____ is she that, if someone uses one of her pens by (13)_____, she immediately throws it away. And she claims she (14)_____ enormous difficulty writing in any notebook other than (15)_____ sold by James Thin. This could soon be a (16)_____, as the shop no longer stocks them, (17)_____ Dame Muriel's supply of 72-page spiral bound is nearly (18)_____.

As well as her "obsession" about writing materials, Muriel Spark (19)_____ one other characteristic with the stereotypical "writer": her work is the most (20)_____ thing in her life. It has stopped her from marrying; cost her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.

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B．image

C．description

D．illustration

ual report in the upcoming census due to be taken on November 1st.

"Any action which may put down the accuracy of the census is forbidden and will receive severe punishment. "Lin Changsong, deputy director of the office, said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

Almost all the preparations for the census have been finished, 6 million census workers have been selected and trained and initial residence registration has been accomplished.

The census will start at midnight on November 1st.

During the first 10 days of November, census takers will work from door to door.

In order to get accurate (精确的) data on the population, the central government has permitted households who have not registered their children who are "more than family-planning policy allows" to apply for lasting residence during the census.

China's family-planning policy encourages urban citizens to have one child per family and rural families with one girl child may have a second child. The policy is more flexible among ethnic(种族的) minority (少数) people and is dependent upon the local autonomous regional government.

People who violate (违反) the regulation have to pay a fine in order to make up for the government's expenditure (支出) in bringing up and educating the extra children.

According to statistics available to China Daily, China's population reached 1.26 billion in 1999. And the central government expects that the figure will be below 1.3 billion in the census.

According to the passage, who are (is) going to take up the upcoming census？

A．The government.

B．Special census workers.

C．Citizens and peasants.

D．Statistician.

阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容进行判断，正确为“T”，错误为“F”。

The world’s longest high-speed railway route, running from Beijing to Guangzhou, has been in operation for a few years. It cuts travel time between the two cities from 22 hours to only 8 hours. With comfortable seats and quiet cabins, this high-speed line offers a pleasant journey for thousands of travelers.

The high speed railway connects Beijing with five provincial capitals. Part of the line, from Zhengzhou to Guangzhou, was in operation before the whole line was connected. The opening of the Beijing to Zhengzhou section has connected the entire line. It covers a total length of 2,298 kilometers.

The Beijing-Guangzhou line connects one third of China’s population and more than 40 percent of its economic power. Travelers benefit from the efficient network, and find that their hometowns are not that far away.

As the American publication _Newsweek_ puts itA、China is now engaged in a “railway revolution”. These 350 kilometer per hour high-speed railway trains have made the country’s vast territory “substantially smaller”, and changed the country economically.

1.The world’s longest high-speed railway route, running from Beijing to Guangzhou, has been in operation for a few years.{T、F}

2.It cuts travel time between the two cities from 22 hours to only 6 hours.{T、F}

3. The opening of the Beijing to Zhengzhou section has linked with the total route.{T、F}

4.The Beijing-Guangzhou line connects one third of China’s population and more than 40 percent of its economic power.{T、F}

5.These 350 kilometer per hour high-speed railway trains have made the country’s vast territory “considerably smaller”, and changed the country economically.{T、F}

died for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns, The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal, it is a weekend crime. It is also a night-crime 62 percent of murders are committed(干，犯) between 6 p. m. and 6 Am.

Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, robbing has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2am. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. The month with least crimes of all is in May except for one strange fact. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.

Clearly our seasonal cycles of knowledge are completely different from our tendencies for crimes. Professor Huntington made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings and get highest results on examinations. In all cases, he found a spring high and autumn high separated by a summer low.

Possibly, high temperature and high humidity(湿度)cause our strange and violent summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder," they say," Why murder's high time should come in the summer time we really don't know."

A good title of the passage would be ______.

A．Crime Cycles

B．Summer Crimes

C．A Time for Murder

D．The Most Peaceful Month