【正文】 it was inconvenient to watch news only at the dinner hour, as was mon before CNN. Turner’s solution was to create a cable channel dedicated to news 24 hours a day. The news establishment reflected conventional wisdom at the time, and predicted his idea would fail because no one wanted to watch the news all day. However, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that viewers don’t have to watch the news all day for the CNN to work. Viewers just have to watch when they want to get information. Due to conventional thinking, the critics failed to recognize the opportunity that was clear to Ted. They assumed that only what was familiar to them could work in the future. Conventional wisdom prevents creativity, flexibility and risktaking, so unconventional leaders enthusiastically break from it. To survive, thrive and maintain petitive advantage, panies must be flexible when reacting to change. 32. DEC has disappeared probably because ___________. A. the consumers didn’t like its products B. the leaders lacked the sense of security C. the CEO stuck to the conventional ideas D. the employees took many risks with changes 33. The founding of CNN is used as an example to prove _________. A. missing opportunities could lead to failure B. changing could contribute to business success C. watching news at the dinner hour is convenient D. conventional wisdom influences business success 34. What does the underlined part probably mean? A. Rocket scientists can ensure the CNN works properly. B. Most of the viewers don’t like to watch the news at work. C. It’s easy to know people needn’t watch the news all the time. D. It’s necessary to understand when people watch the news. 35. The passage is mainly written to tell us that ______. A. old methods are changing with time B. opportunities lead to business success C. successful panies need wise leaders D. conventional wisdom limits innovation 第二節(jié) (共 5小題；每小題 2分，滿分 10分 ) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填人空白處的最佳選項。re really happy about the program. They are really happy that I can preserve my culture and my language, and that I can speak it fluently in school. The New York schools also offer duallanguage programs in seven other languages: Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, Polish and Spanish. There are plans to add even more languages in the future. While these duallanguage programs are popular, some anizations in the . say teaching English es first. . Studies show that children who learn English early will be more successful later. 25. Who may not quite agree with duallanguage programs? A. Milady Baez B. Kequing Jaing C. Anastasia Hudikova’s parents D. some anizations in the 26. Which one of the following is true according to the article? A. Most students in New York public schools are not native English speakers. B. A duallanguage program is carried out to help overe the language barrier. C. The duallanguage program contributes to preserving a foreign student’s own culture. D. Seven languages are adopted in the program at present. 27. The author writes the passage in order to_________. A. encourage us to learn more languages B. introduce duallanguage programs in New York schools C. advertise the duallanguage programs D. inspire more students to study in New York C Does happiness have a scent? When someone is happy, can you smell it? You can usually tell when someone is happy based on seeing them smile, hearing them laugh or perhaps from receiving a big hug. But can you also smell their happiness? Surprising new research suggests that happiness does indeed have a scent, and that the experience of happiness can be transmitted through smell, reports . For the study, 12 young men were shown videos meant to bring about a variety of emotions while researchers gathered sweat samples from them. All of the men were healthy and none of them were drug users or smokers, and all were asked to abstain from drinking or eating smelly foods during the study period. Those sweat samples were then given to 36 equally healthy young women to smell, while researchers monitored their reactions. Only women were selected to smell the samples, apparently because previous research has shown that women have a better sense of smell than men and are also more sensitive to emotional signaling—though it39。 they are going to be municating with people from all over the world. This will open doors for them. Middleschoolers might not have jobs on their minds yet. For Kequing Jaing, she likes keeping up her first language, Mandarin.It makes me feel that I am home because I can speak in Chinese, learn in Chinese, while learning in English. So it makes me feel better and makes me understand more about the task I39。 A My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, is hesitant to try new things. When with close friends, she bees a leader who laughs loudly and chants, ―Girls rule, boys drool.‖ But when that fort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous. T