课时作业19

课时作业十九

A(全员必做)

(时间：45分钟满分：100分)

Ⅰ.选词并用其适当形式填空

guarantee，ensure，approve，inform，fluent，congratulate，absent，surround，embarrass，adjust

1．He was_informed that he had to negotiate with an important company.

2．He needed to_congratulate a new firm on its opening.

3．It took my parents quite a while to_adjust to living in the apartment.

4．Surrounded by hills，our village makes itself a livable place.

5．His competence will ensure him success.

6．Making speeches in public always makes the shy girl feel embarrassed．

7．What impresses me most is that the little girl can speak English accurately and fluently．8．It is all agreed that a good education doesn’t guarantee a good job.

9．The absence of air and water makes it impossible to live on the moon.

10．Most of the officers approved of the plan put forward by Mr.Smith.

Ⅱ.完成句子

1．In_the_absence_of (……不在时) the boss，Li Hua is_always_surrounded_by (被……环绕) business.

2．Whether he was willing or_not (不管是否……)，he had to drink a lot on purpose to_ensure (以确保) the guests were pleased.

3．Provided that the business of their company gets_ahead (取得进步)，he is_ready_to_adjust_himself_to(乐意适应) such a busy life.

4．That_the_majority_of_students_will_be (大多数的学生将会) admitted into university is a trend.

5．It_is_believed_that (人们认为) practice makes perfect.

Ⅲ.联句成篇(选用练习Ⅰ、Ⅱ中的句子，根据语篇中的提示加以改写，完成语篇翻译) 老板不在期间，李华总是业务缠身。今天早上，他被通知要和一家重要公司进行谈判。然后，他需要去祝贺一家新公司的开业。中午，不管愿不愿意，他都得故意多喝酒，以确保客人满意。只要公司业务得以发展，他乐意适应这种忙碌的生活。

答案In_the_absence_of_the_boss，

Li_Hua_is_always_surrounded_by_business.This_morning，

he_was_informed_that_he_had_to_negotiate_with_an_important_company.Then，

he_needed_to_congratulate_a_new_firm_on_its_opening.At_noon，

whether_he_was_willing_or_not，

he_had_to_drink_a_lot_on_purpose_to_ensure_the_guests_were_pleased.Provided_that_the _business_of_their_company_gets_ahead，he_is_ready_to_adjust_himself_to_such_a_busy_life.

Ⅳ.阅读理解

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Bill Gates was 20 years old.Steve Jobs was 21.Warren Buffett was 26.Ralph Lauren was 28.Estee Lauder was 29.These now iconic names were all 20­somethings when they started their companies that would catapult them and their enterprises to some of the biggest successes ever

known.Conside this：many of the truly remarkable innovations of the latest generation—a list that includes Google，Facebook and Twitter—were all founded by people under 30.

“People under 35 are the people who make change happen，”said Vinod Khosla，a venture capitalist(VC) in 2011.“People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas，”Khosla，who believes that old industrialists can’t innovate because they keep“falling back on old habits”，said at the NASSCOM Product Conclave in Bengaluru，India.He wasn’t alone in his views.Silicon Valley VCs talked openly about their bias toward young industrialists.Some argued that Internet industrialists peaked at the age of 25.Khosla and those who think like him are wrong.The young may have good ideas，but there is no substitute for experience.

Venture capitalists are doing themselves a big disservice by ignoring the real innovator—older, experienced people.In 2008，I led a research team in exploring the backgrounds of 652 US-born chief executive officers and heads of 502 successful engineering and technology companies established from 1995 to 2005.

These are companies with real profits—not just the start-ups founded by the college dropouts(辍学者)．These senior managers have ideas for solving real-world problems.In addition，they not only want to build wealth before they retire，but also like the idea of being their own bosses.According to the survey，we learned that the average and median age of successful founders is 39.

In a follow­up project，we looked at the backgrounds of 549 successful entrepreneurs in twelve high-growth industries.The average age of male founders in this group is 40，and the average age of female founders is 41.The majority had two or more kids.Kauffman Foundation director of research，Dane Stangler，built his idea on our findings by analyzing Kauffman Firm Survey data and Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity，which uses data from the United States Census Bureau.He found that the average age of U．S.entrepreneurs is actually rising，shifting to the 55～64 age group.

The experience elder entrepreneurs have gained，the contacts they have made，the networks they have formed，their ability to hire good management teams and their education give them greatest advantages.Young adults fresh out of school don’t have these advantages.

Do people stop being creative as they reach middle age？Benjamin Franklin certainly didn’t.He invented the lightning rod when he was 44.He discovered electricity at 46.He helped draft The Declaration of Independence at 70，and he invented bifocals after that.Some of the most creative people of the century were also not young.

解题导语本文作者通过事实和例子证明一个人的创新能力与他的年龄无关。

1．The underlined word “disservice”in Paragraph 3 means “________”．

A．unhelpful action B．dishonest behavior

C．harmful action D．indifferent behavior

C[词义猜测题。根据第三段的内容可知，作者用实例推翻了风险投资家们所认为的年轻人才是创新主力军的看法，由此可推断出，此处disservice意为“有害的行为”，下文中的ignoring也是解题的关键。do sb.a disservice意为“损害，伤害”。]

2．What does the author think of Vinod Khosla’s statement made in India?

A．He thinks it acceptable.

B．He is not in favor of it.

C．He is indifferent about it.

D．He thinks it bears much wisdom.