二、阅读理解
Passage 1
What You Might Need to Know before Starting Your Own Business?
If you are interested in starting your own business, getting a college degree can aid in that process and propel you forward. International Business administration curriculum gives you a solid foundation on which to pursue your dream. Look at these three business majors for the skills needed to become an entrepreneur.
International Business
International trade practices, international marketing and international banking and finance and just a few of the subjects you will cover with a concentration in international business. Understanding global supply chains and operating dynamics is the key if you want to start an import or export company. Many manufactured goods are produced outside of the United States because the cost is cheaper for entrepreneurs, knowing which countries to have products produced in is important for building a fledging business into a force in the marketplace.
Accounting
By majoring in accounting, you learn how to prepare and interpret financial statements. This is an invaluable skill for owner because you have to steer your company in the right direction using your financial data. Many small business owners do their own book-keeping themselves, which saves them time and money that can be reinvested into the business. Understanding Margin, Cost of Goods Sold and Ledger Maintenance gives you a better chance of succeeding.
Management
As in a management major, you learn a wide variety of subjects that give you the tools to manage people in your business. Management is critical for entrepreneurs and can mean the difference between success and failure. Knowing how to deal with your employees and get them to work in unison is critical. Management classes teach you the nuances of everything from human resources and interpersonal communication.
These three college majors are ideal for those looking to become entrepreneurs and build a sustainable company contract with additional information on getting your degree and taking your first step toward starting your business.
1. According to the passage, what can assist those who want to start their business?
A.college degree related to business administration
B.resources that can propel them forward
C.skills of pursuing their dreams
D.people with business majors
2. Which of the following subject will you learn if you major in international business?
A.International Finance
B.International Trade Practices
C.International Marketing
D.All of the above
3. What’s the benefit of learning accounting according to the passage?
A.you may use your financial data to direct your company
B.you will definitely have more money to invest in your business
C.you will be more likely to make a fortune
D.you can prepare all the statements by yourself
4. As a management major, you know ____.
A.the difference between success and failure
B.how to deal with your potential customers
C.the nuances of communication
D.how to manage people in your business
5. The writer of the passage is probably a(n) ___.
A.ambitious investor
B.marketing staff
C.new undergraduate
D.experienced entrepreneur

Passage 2
Smarter Silicon: A Brighter Future with Robots
The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with a human-like ability, but now we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure.
Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machines as complex as human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the architecture, but that too will happen.
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machine of silicon will arise first to rival then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense, they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon’s long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves as the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots match that of humans and as their costs decline through economies of scale, we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand the environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, desserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, homes to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
6. In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A.By making it work in such environments as desserts, oceans or space.
B.By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C.By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D.By re-producing it.
7. What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability?
A.He believes they will be useful to human beings.
B.He believes they will control us in the future.
C.He is not quite sure in what they may influence us.
D.He doesn’t consider the construction of such machines possible.
8. The word “carbon” in paragraph 3 stands for ___.
A.Intelligent robots;
B.a chemical element;
C.an organic substance;
D.human beings.
9. A robot can be used to expand our frontier when ___.
A.its intelligence and costs are beyond question.
B.it’s able to bear the rough environment.
C.it is made as complex as human brain.
D.its architecture is different from that of the present ones.
10. It can be inferred from the passage that ___.
A.After the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robot will be capable of self-reproduction.
B.With the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability.
C.Once we make a machine as complex as the human brain, it will possess intelligence.
D.Robots will have control of the vast, human-made world in space.

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