I was being interviewed by a senior mana

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I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a big company, I told him honestly that the principal reason that I was interviewing with them was my need to keep my family in Boston. My wife had recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some pain for my 16-year-old daughter and me. It was important to me to keep her present high school.

Bruce, the interviewer, was politely kind, but he didn’t search any further. He acknowledged(承认) my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of interviews, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had 3 children. I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had and it was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a loved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, should I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help.

From that one act of kindness, when he had no idea if we could ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of life’s greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview process into an act of caring and supporting for another person in a time of extreme need.

小题1:According to the passage, the interviewer, Bruce, was very _______.

A.generous

B.kind

C.happy

D.mean小题2:The underlined word "principal" in the first paragraph probably means _____.

A.main

B.unimportant

C.necessary

D.possible小题3:Which of the following statement is NOT true?

A.The writer’s daughter was studying in Boston at that time.

B.Both the writer and the interviewer experienced the same pain.

C.Bruce was a senior manager of a big firm.

D.Bruce wanted to make friends with him because he gave him his business card and home phone number.

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董小宛是哪里人?

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认为正确或错误的意识都是对物质的反映是( )

A.诡辩论
B.唯心主义
C.不可知论
D.唯物主义

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A.控制员工流动

B.提高员工工作积极性

C.让员工迅速熟悉工作环境

D.了解员工是否有发展潜力

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Although no longer slavers after the Civil War, American blacks took no significant part in the life of white America except as servants or laborers. Many thousands of them emigrated from the war-ravaged South to the North from 1865 to 1915 in the hope of finding work in the big industrial cities. Whole communities of blacks crowded together into ghettos in New York City, Chicago and Detroit, where once the poor white immigrants had lived. These ghettos, neglected by the city authorities, became slums. The schools to which black children went were hopelessly inadequate. Unemployment in black ghettos remained consistently higher than in white communities.
41. Serious problems with black ghettos. ______
Stable family life was difficult to maintain.
42. The extreme poverty of the blacks. ______
In the late 1970s, nearly a third of all blacks still belonged to the so-called "underclass", they are so " under-privileged " and poor that they cannot seize the opportunity for advancement.
43. Efforts to put an end to racial discrimination. ______
Race relations in the USA continue to be a thorny problem.
44. Improvements in lives of the blacks. ______
Despite some setbacks, race relations are improving.
45. Prevailing violence in solving racial problems. ______
It is said that television had an enormous influence on frustrated and bitter blacks, for it showed them bow much better whites on the whole lived than blacks. At the end of the 1960s, there were serious riots in many cities.
The violence quickly died down. Blacks began to use their votes to exert political pressure. Cities like Atlanta (Georgia), Gary (Indiana), and Los Angeles (California) elected black mayors. Integration of schools, despite resistance from white groups, goes on, and the proportion of blacks in American colleges has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. There are reasons to maintain a cautious optimism that progress in race relations will continue.
[A] It has been estimated that there are more than 20 million Americans in this category, 10% of the population, including many millions of whites.
[B] Blacks are gaining in self-confidence. In more and more areas, they are winning control of their communities, and their standard of living is going up faster than that of the poor whites. It is still a hard struggle. There is still prejudice and even some hatred, but in most walks of American life there are now more blacks than ever before.
[C] The era of blatant discrimination ended in the 1960s through the courageous actions of thousands of blacks participating in peaceful marches and sitins, to force Southern states to implement the Federal desegregation laws in schools and public accommodations. Down came the " whites only" notices in bused, hotels, trains, restaurants, sporting events, restrooms and on park benches that once could be found everywhere throughout the South. Gone were the restrictions that prevented blacks voting. Gone, too, were the hideous lynchings, which since the Civil War had caused the death of thousands of innocent blacks-- hanged without trial by white mobs. However, even today, poor, uneducated lacks do not always receive the same degree of justice that the more affluent and better educated can expect.
[D] Many blacks chose to keep silent about their unfairness instead of resorting to violence. But their silence was also problem provoking: on the one hand, silence would build up a lot of complaints and hatred in their minds, thus resulting in a negative approach to life and everything; on the other hand, silence would give the whites an impression that the blacks take the reality for granted and put more racial discrimination on them.
[E] Unemployed fathers would on occasion walk out of their homes and never return. Children neglected by their parents turned in some instances to drugs and crimes. There are more than 700 murders a year in cities like New York, Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston, and most of these deaths are of blacks killed by blacks. The black ghettos are dangerous both for blacks and non-blacks.
[F] Radical blacks like the Black Panthers demanded a free black state within the Union, and advocated violence to achieve that end and to protect themselves against what they felt was police brutality toward blacks. For a while, violence overshadowed the influence of the greatly respected pacifist black, Martin Luther King, Jr. , who had provided the inspiration and leadership for those devoted to a peaceful change and whose murder in 1968 stunned America.

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