Pre-Reading Activities Listen to the recording and then think over the following questions: 1. Why can’t woman be ignored? 2. What price have women had to pay for their wisdom? 3. What happens to them if you try to break their will? 4. How women realized their dreams?

Text A Part I Pre-reading Listen to a song named “Big Yellow Taxi”sung by singer Amy Grant

For icaraers using he course without a teacher Aims of the course The main aim of Telephoning in English is to give you practice in understanding and making phone calls in English. The course is for peopie who are orking, or will be working, in business and whose mother tongue is not English. Most of the material gives practice in listening and speaking, but there are also writing exercises, generally in the form of note-taking or message-taking

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Crawford Hill Lab, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA: herwig@lucent.com Abstract Optical communication has advanced into the tera-era deploying 1/2 terameter of fiber and carrying several Tb/s per fiber. Remaining challenges include extending the success of point-to-point long-haul to metropolitan networks and broadband access applications. Introduction Reflecting on the past 15 years of optical communication, one can only marvel at the amazing advances in this technology and in its applications

The burgeoning demand for mobile data net￾works has highlighted some constraints on its future growth. Wireless links have always had orders of magnitude less bandwidth than their wireline counterparts. Mobile users have always chafed at this limitation, which essentially forces them to use applications in a manner reminis￾cent of wireline networks of decades past

I. Put the following sentences into Chinese: (4 points for each) 1. The current reaches the maximum value when w = w 0 , similar to the situation in a series resonant circuit. 2. With the switch on position 1, the output impedance will be maximum. 3. The greater the nuclear mass, the less of the neutron's energy is transferred to thenucleus

第一部分 交际用语 (10 分) 1 – 5 小题： 阅读下面的小对话，从 A、B、C 三个选项中选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上写出所选的字母符号。（每题 2 分，共 10 分）

Electronic Commerce Prentice Hall © 2006 2 Learning Objectives 1. Define e-marketplaces and list their components. 2. List the major types of e-marketplaces and describe their features. 3. Describe the various types of EC intermediaries and their roles. 4. Describe electronic catalogs, shopping carts, and search engines

Electronic Commerce Prentice Hall © 2006 2 Learning Objectives 1. Describe the factors that influence consumer behavior online. 2. Understand the decision-making process of consumer purchasing online. 3. Describe how companies are building one-to-one relationships with customers. 4. Explain how personalization is accomplished online. 5. Discuss the issues of e-loyalty and e-trust in EC. 6. Describe consumer market research in EC

Electronic Commerce Prentice Hall © 2006 2 Learning Objectives 1. Define exchanges and describe their major types. 2. Describe the various ownership and revenue models of exchanges. 3. Describe B2B portals. 4. Describe third-party exchanges. 5. Distinguish between purchasing (procurement) and selling consortia