【正文】 ingly haphazard affair. At school, we’re told that if wework hard and pass exams, we will do well. But a recent study by Professor Kerry Cooper of theUniversity of Manchester refutes this advice. When he studied the lives of successfulentrepreneurs, he found that nearly 60% left school early, either because they were thrown out orwere bored. Other studies suggest there is little correlation between how well children do atschool and the salary and job satisfaction they achieve as adults. The most certain route to richesis to start out wealthy. Over half the people in the most recent Sunday Time’s survey of therichest 200 people in the country inherited money. 25% of those who head large corporationswere born into affluent families.If you’re not born wealthy, you may be able to capitalize on another advantage goodlooks. Good looks make early life easier. Teachers and other children will expect you to bekinder, cleverer, and to do better than plainer peers, explains Dr. Raymond Bow of PortsmouthUniversity, expert on the effects of facial appearance. Being tall is also an advantage. Otherqualities being equal, employers are more likely to select taller and more attractive people.However, unless you want to work with children, it can be a handicap having too pretty a babyface. You’re likely to be regarded as kind, but not very efficient. You may fare better by taking tocrime. Juries are far more likely to acquit you.In a new book, Business Elites, Profess Cooper pares a number of successfulentrepreneurs with people Cooper calls “intrapreneurs”. He defines intrapreneurs as those whorise through the ranks to the top of large corporations. Cooper found major differences betweenthe two groups. Intrapreneurs tended to be the kids everyone thought would do well. Over halfwent to university. They’re good organizers, and get on well with people. But the entrepreneursoften had early reputations as trouble makers. They probably left school early, had severalbusiness disasters, and are of awkward personalities. They’re also intuitive and very determined.The most dramatic difference between entrepreneurs and corporation highfliers was that only 5%of Cooper’s entrepreneurs had both parents present throughout childhood, pared with 91%of the intrapreneurs. In some cases, the parent had died. In others, they had been absent for longperiods. Coping with disaster early in life appears to give people vital resilience later on,suggests Cooper.But even if you’re born poor and ugly, to parents who refuse to absent themselves from you,there’s still plenty you can do to influence your chance of success. A range of courses andselfhelp manuals are available to help you forge your way to the top. Go into any largebookshop, and you’ll find a section with title such as The Magic of Thinking Big, or RichesWhile You Sleep. There’s even a magazine called Personal Success, filled with ads for courses180that will unleash the power within, or transform your thinking, behavior, and relationships.Successful people, says Breen, an organizational consultant, are the ones who, when somethingdoesn’t work, try something else. Unsuccessful people keep on doing the same thing, onlyharder.【大意】本文提出了兩個(gè)概念，entrepreneur（企業(yè)家）與intrapreneur（準(zhǔn)企業(yè)家），探討“如何才能成功”這個(gè)已被廣泛討論的問(wèn)題。如果歌手服用steroid（類(lèi)固醇），則會(huì)損害發(fā)聲肌肉。文章開(kāi)宗明義提到voice abuse。對(duì)數(shù)字的考察。印巴沖突也是高級(jí)口譯常考內(nèi)容。到目前為止，巴以問(wèn)題仍然是中東無(wú)法解決的問(wèn)題之一。聽(tīng)力時(shí)需將阿爾及利亞人對(duì)精神疾病的治療方法和對(duì)普通疾病的治療方法區(qū)別開(kāi)來(lái)。人們患上不同疾病的原因分散在各個(gè)段落中。更全資料: 2005年3月年高口真題答案與解析SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPartA: Spot Dictation【答案】1. spent talking 1. works of subordinates and their superiors2. 1/3 and 90% 2. five universal rules relationships 13. Respect the other’s privacy4. informal contacts 18. in confidence with5. cooperation at work 15. favors or pliments6. job satisfaction and wellbeing 28. nobody breaks these rules7. as general markers 29. good social skills8. Through interviews with 30. never or hardly ever9. ask others to rate 31. monitor their reactions10. relationships with spouses 20. look quite frequently at the personPart B: Listening ComprehensionQuestions 1 to 5【原文】M: Yes, talking about illnesses, I’m quite surprised to see that in the UK, illnesses are verydifferent from those in Algeria, to some extent. For instance, in the UK people seem tosuffer from heart disease and stress quite a lot, whereas in Algeria, they seem to suffer frombowel problems more often than in Britain by the sound of it. The reason for the being, Ithink, is diet, is connected with diet, in the way people eat. In Algeria, they tend to eat hot,spicy food, peppery things, very hot things, which I can’t take myself. But the tendency is toeat hot food, and it seems to result in that. If you look at the pace of life in Algeria and inBritain, you’d find that this explains quite a bit of differences in terms of illnesses. InAlgeria, people I think, lead a much slower pace, because life is less hectic, less industrialfor a start. And so they don’t tend to get this type of illnesses that are related to stress, suchas heart attacks.W: Do you get … What else do you get here? You get quite a bit of cancer.M: Cancer? Well, cancer exists there as well. But I think it’s more frequent in Britain than it isthere. The reason for it, I think, is mainly to do with pollution, the levels of pollution thatBritain has. It goes again with industry, and of course, stress. Algeria is slightly developed inthe north, and that’s where we record, I think, I’m not an expert in the matter, most cancers,whereas the south is pretty healthy. So there is that kind of illness that is recorded there, butnot very frequent. Other types of illnesses that people suffer from, especially young childrenhere is asthma. There’s a lot of asthma. When it es to other types of illnesses, likepsychological disturbances and psychiatric related problems, it appears to me that in Britain