选词填空（15选10）10题，总分值：20分
Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once.
Somebody ought to defend the workaholic. These people are unjustly accused, abused, and 1)   teased   – often termed sick or abnormal.
 
However, some social researchers 2)   deduce   from the resources of most significant social achievements that workaholics are, in fact, the real achievers. One-third of American business and 3)   commerce   is carried on the shoulders of workaholics. There is a wide-spread feeling against excellence – even an 4)   admiration   of commonness. It is as though we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they 5)   enjoy   doing something.
 
Now, it is time for us to 6)   revive   the respect for excellence. We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is 7)   achieved   by living a so-called well-balanced life. Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud and most 8)   predecessors   in various fields had single-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. Some people say that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can 9)   exist   in the balanced life also. Consider how many normal people find, at middle-age, that they have never done anything well – they are going to 10)   regret   for being less than what they could have become. Isn’t that a pity, too?
∙A.  enjoy
∙B.  react
∙C.  administrate
∙D.  teased
∙E.  exist
∙F.  commerce
∙G.  revive
∙H.  received
∙I.  deduce
∙J.  regret
∙K.  financial
∙L.  retailer
∙M.  achieved
∙N.  predecessors
∙O.  admiration
参考答案：
1) teased      2) deduce      3) commerce      4) admiration      5) enjoy      6) revive      7) achieved      8) predecessors      9) exist      10) regret     
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长篇阅读10题，总分值：40分
Directions： You are going to read a passage with 10 statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.
The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur
 
A) UBS, a Swiss private bank with many of the world’s richest people among its clients, is conducting an interesting experiment in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. It has formed an alli
ance with Ashoka, a global organization that invests in leading “social entrepreneurs” – people who use creative business practice with the potential to solve a social problem. The alliance is offering a new prize for social entrepreneurship, to bring together two groups of people who might never meet in other cases. “As the biggest wealth manager in the region, we are at the crossroads between capital and ideas – so why not bring the people with capital together with the people who have ideas?”
 
B) The social entrepreneurs that are shortlisted (入围) must have been working successfully with Ashoka for at least three years. Winning the prize is not really the point. Simply being selected to be in the room with a bunch of wealthy people gives the social entrepreneurs great trustworthiness with potential donors, and even runners-up (第二名) have a good chance of coming away with a new financial supporter or some other form of help. Héctor Castillo Berthier, who runs an innovative project for troubled Mexican teenagers, came third in last year's Mexican prize, but still got a crucial donation and free use of office space.
 
securingC) Ashoka is not alone in bringing social entrepreneurs together with the wealthy and powerful. Social entrepreneurs now rub shoulders with the world's business and political elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ashoka was founded in 1980 by Bill Drayton, a former McKinsey consultant, who expects the rise of social entrepreneurship to generate huge benefits. He says it is now helping to bring about a productivity miracle in what he calls the “citizen half of the world” (education, welfare and so on), a sector that for three centuries has lagged behind the “business half of the world”. The emergence of more social entrepreneurs, and their improved access to growth capital as they get better connected to philanthropists (慈善家), is creating enormous productivity opportunities for the citizen sector.
 
D) The citizen sector is mainly made up of government plus the non-profit sector. Both government and non-profits have traditionally been run inefficiently. The productivity mirac
le is due both to a shift from government provision to more efficient private provision and by an increase in the efficiency of the non-profit sector.
 
E) However, the improvement the efficiency may still have some way to go. In 2004, Bill Bradley, a former presidential candidate, and two consultants claimed that, in America alone, there was a “$100 billion opportunity” for the non-profit sector to improve its efficiency through better management. But is social entrepreneurship the best way to achieve that? There is no easy answer, because nobody is sure what exactly the term means. In a book on the rise of social entrepreneurship, David Bornstein notes that most discussion of social entrepreneurship tends to revolve around “how business and management skills can be applied to achieve social ends”. He himself sees social entrepreneurs as “transformative forces: people with new ideas to address major problems who are persistent in the pursuit of their visions”.
 
F) Mr. Schramm of the Kauffman Foundation, which promotes a better understanding of entrepreneurship, says that being an entrepreneur means being a risk-taker, but a high risk of failure may be the last thing that many non-profits need. Mr. Omidyar, a philanthropist and the founder of eBay, is uncomfortable with the label either, which he feels implies a disapproval of profits that he does not share. But his fellow philanthropist from eBay, Mr. Skoll, thinks social entrepreneurship has something going for it. The mission of his foundation is “to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs”.
 
G) Among other things, Mr. Skoll has endowed the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. This is part of a growing trend for academic institutions, including nowadays most business schools. Harvard Business School started teaching a course on social enterprise 12 years ago. Mr. Schramm worries that some of these courses are more likely to turn students against capi
talism. But Mr. Whitehead, a former Goldman Sachs boss, sees it as part of a trend among the elite in many countries who want to make not just money but “a difference”.

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