2014届高考英语基础知识总复习每日一练：20（北师大版）.docVIP

高三英语每日一练(20) Nowadays employees are supposed to make contributions to their companies.What is the 1.________(value) contribution employees make to their companies，knowledge or judgment? I say judgment.Knowledge，no matter how broad，is useless 2.________it is applied.And application takes judgment，3.________involves something of a sixth sense—a high performance of the mind. This raises interesting questions about the best 4.________(train) for todays business people.As Daniel Goleman suggests in 5.________new book，emotional intelligence，the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that clever 6.________inflexible people dont have the right stuff in an age when the suitable ability is the key 7.________survival. In 8.________recent cover story，Time Magazine sorted through the current thinking on intelligence and reported，“New brain research suggests that emotions，not IQ，may be the true measure of human intelligence.” The basic significance of the emotional intelligence that Time called “EQ” 9.________(suggest) by management expert Karen Boylston: “Customers are telling businesses，‘I dont care whether every member of your staff graduated from Harvard.I will take my business and go 10.________I am understood and treated with respect.’”1．valuable　形容词修饰名词，valuable“有价值的”。 2．until/unless　“知识除非被应用，否则是没有用的”，故用unless。 3．which　引导非限制性定语从句。 4．training　最高级修饰名词。 5．his　根据句意，“正像Daniel Goleman在书中建议的”，故此处填物主代词。 6．but　此处表转折。 7．to　the key to sth.某事的关键。 8．a　“一个”。 9．was suggested　表被动，by被动语态的标志。 10．where　where引导宾语从句。 English is an important global language，but that doesnt mean its easy to learn.Many experts have tried to make English easier for students to learn－but they werent always successful. In 1930，Professor CK Ogden of Cambridge University invented Basic English.It had only 850 words (and just eighteen verbs) and Ogden said most people could learn it in just thirty hours.The problem was that people who learned Basic English could write and say simple messages，but they couldnt un