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Lukla Airport

Lukla airport , is a small airport in the town of Lukla , eastern Nepal . A program titled Most Extreme Airports , rated the airport as the most dangerous airport in the world . The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp . High wind , cloud cover , and changing visibility often mean flights can be delayed or the airport closed . The airport’s runway is accessible only to helicopters and small , fixed-wing , short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft . The runway is only 527m with an elevation of 2,845m .

Princess Juliana International Airport

Princess Juliana International Airport is in the country of Saint Maarten . The airport is perhaps best known for very low-altitude flyover landing approaches due to one end of its runway being extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach . The thrilling approaches and ease of access for shooting spectacular images make the airport one of the world’s favorite places among plane spotters .

Gibraltar Airport

Gibraltar Airport serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar , a tiny peninsula with an area of only 6.8 square kilometers . The lack of flat space there means the peninsula’s only runway is bisected by its busiest road , the Winston Churchill Avenue that heads towards the land border with Spain . It is really scary that there is a four lane highway passing through the middle of the runway !

Kai Tak Airport

Kai Tak Airport was officially known as Hong Kong International Airport from 1954 to 6 July 1998 , when it was closed and replaced by the new one at Chek Lap Kok , 30 kms to the west . With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour , landing at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots . The low altitude manoeuvre required to line up with the runway was so spectacular that some passengers claimed to have glimpsed the televisions through apartment windows along the final approach .

25. Which of the following pictures can be a scene of Princess Juliana International Airport ?

26. All of the following can be inferred from this passage Except __________ .

A. The transportation of Winston Churchill Avenue might be affected by planes B. Lukla airport is the most dangerous airport because of extremely harsh weather C. An inexperienced pilot might have difficulty landing on Kai Tak Airport

D. People on Maho Beach may have a good chance to view the plane flying overhead 27. Which of these airports is out of business now ? A. Lukla Airport

B. Princess Juliana International Airport D. Kai Tak Airport

C

If you know exactly what you want , the best route to a job is to get specialized training . A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training .

That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers . At Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration , for example , bachelor’s degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers and plenty of chances for rapid advancement . Large companies , especially , like a background of formal education coupled with work experience .

But in the long run , too much specialization doesn’t pay off . Business , which has been flooded with MBAs , no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval . The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary in the first place , but the impact of a degree washes out after five years . As further evidence of the erosion（销蚀）of corporate faith in specialized degrees , Michigan State’s Scheetz states a pattern in corporate hiring practices , although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires , they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management . ― They want someone who isn’t limited by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture , ‖ says Scheetz .

Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are thought to have : writing and communication ski8lls , organizational skills , open-mindedness and adaptability , and the ability to analyze and solve problems . David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree , ― I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things , ‖ says Birch . Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature , history , mathematics , economics , science ,

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human behavior—plus a computer course or two . With that under your belt , you can feel free to specialize . ― A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace , ‖ says Scheetz .

28. What kinds of people are in high demand on the job market ? A. Students with a bachelor’s degree in humanities . B. People with an MBA degree front top universities . C. People with formal schooling plus work experience . D. People with special training in engineering .

29. By saying ― … but the impact of a degree washes out after five years ‖ , the author means __________ .

A. most MBA programs fail to provide students with a solid foundation B. an MBA degree does not help when it comes to promotion of higher positions C. MBA programs will not be as popular in five years’ time as they are now D. in five years people will forget about the degree the MBA graduates have got 30. David Birch claims that he only hires liberal-arts people because __________ . A. they are more capable of handling changing situations B. they can stick to fixed ways of solving problems

C. they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fields D. they have attended special programs in management 31. Which of the following statements does the author support ? A. Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists . B. Formal schooling is less important than job training . C. On-the-job training is , in the long run , less costly . D. Generalists will do better than specialists in management .

D

Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life , mostly for the better . However , social changes that are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes .

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college . Surveys on this topic suggest that parents today continue to be ― very ‖ or

― somewhat ‖ overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories . The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago . This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate .

However , greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their ― adult ‖ children .

In the context of this discussion , it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children . If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently , would this have been possible ? Probably not . On the other hand , does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago ? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier .

Furthermore , studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children . The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new ; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home . This phenomenon is neither good nor bad ; it is a fact of college life , today and in the past .

Thanks to the advanced technology , we live in an age of bettered communication . This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college . But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings . 32. The surveys inform us of __________ .

A. the means and expenses of students’ communication B. the parents’ over-protection of their college children C. the changes of adult children’s behavior D. the development of technology 33. The writer believes that __________ .

A. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages B. parents today are more protective than those in the past

C. technology explains greater parental involvement with their children