What is the latest proposal mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. To give more severe punishment to those responsible for health scares.
B. To create a new agency to handle food safety issues.
C. To grant more administrative power to Food and Drug Administration.
D. To keep a closer eye on the leading companies.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:M: My niece has been to Thailand and Iran as well as all of Europe.
W: By the time she's twenty, she will have been almost everywhere!
Q: Where hasn't the man's niece been?
(12)
A. Thailand.
B. Italy.
C. Brazil.
D. Iran.
What do some relationship experts think about male-female friendships?
A. They can only be friends in the workplace.
B. Their friendships would finally turn into romances.
C. It is totally possible that friendships exist between males and females.
D. Men and women can't be real friends.
The actual reasons for becoming a workaholic are quite varied. It might involve a need in someone to always stay a step ahead of their co-workers or anyone else they perceive as a competitive threat. It could be a desire to never leave the office at night without tying up any loose ends such as returning an email, writing a memo or getting a package out. It might be a single-minded commitment to being successful, gaining promotion after promotion, no matter what the cost.
Workaholics Anonymous—a "fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from work holism"—lists 20 questions to ask yourself if you think you may be a workaholic, including whether you get more excited about work than anything else and work more than 40 hours per week.viscusi said a good indication that you're a workaholic is if you are constantly electronically connected to the office, whether by cell phone, BlackBerry or laptop.
Workaholism’s effects on the family can be devastating, Viscusi said, with the consequences eventually manifesting themselves, as they would with any other addiction, in broken marriages and broken homes. Brian Robinson, a professor at the University of North Carolina, told "20/20" in 1999 that children of workaholics developed the same disorders as children of alcoholics, such as depression and anxiety, that crippled them later in life.
Viscusi offered the following tips for workaholics trying to make a change. Don't take on every project. Don't say yes to everyone. Learn the art of saying "I can't handle any more." Also, doesn't it seem like exercise is good for everything? It is recommended as part of every self-help regime— well, this is no difference. Exercise and yoga help you, and it's the hardest place to get any workdone. No cell phones allowed! Similar to a hobby, doing something without asking for any payment in return lets you focus on something other than work or your job. It can give you a different perspective and a different way to meet new people.
Which one of the following is NOT mentioned as reasons for workaholic?
A. Efforts to gain competitive edge over colleagues.
B. Desires to leave the office only when everything is done.
C. Attempts to avoid family problems.
D. Commitments to get success and promotion.