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does Mr. Smith sound when asked what a manager’s role is?
24. What does Mr. Smith say he would like to be?
25. What can we learn about the management trainee scheme?
Passage One
Zoe Chambers was a successful PR ( Public Relations) consultant and life was going well -- she had a great job, a beautiful fiat and a busy social life" in London. Then one evening in June last year, she received a text message telling her she was out of work. "The first two weeks were the most difficult to live through," she said. “After everything I'd done for the company, they dismissed me by text! I was so angry and I just didn't feel like looking for another job. I hated everything about the city and my life. "
Then, Zoe received an invitation from an old school friend, Kathy, to come and stay. Kathy and her husband, Huw, had just bought a farm in northwest Wales. Zoe jumped at the chance to spend a weekend away from London, and now, ten months later, she is still on the farm.
"The moment I arrived at Kathy’s farm, I loved it and I knew I wanted to stay," said Zoe.
“Everything about my past life suddenly seemed meaningless.”
Zoe has been working on the farm since October of last year and says she has no regrets. "It's a hard life, physically very tiring.” She says. “In London I was stressed and often mentally exhausted. But this is a good, healthy tiredness. Here, all I need to put me in a good mood is a hot bath and one of Kathy's wonderful dinners. "
Zoe says she has never felt bored on the farm. Every day brings a new experience. Kathy has been teaching her how to ride a horse and she has learnt to drive a tractor. Since Christmas, she has been helping with the lambing --watching a lamb being born is unbelievable. She says, "It's one of the most moving experiences I've ever had. I could never go back to city life now. "
26. How did Zoe find her life in London when working as PR consultant?
27. What is the most important reason Zoe went to visit Kathy’s farm?
28. How does Zoe feel about the country life according to the passage?
29. What is the main idea of the passage?
Passage Two
MySpace, the social networking website, is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast
your own stories and personal information to as many people as you like. Started two years ago, it is a big source of information for and about American kids.
Teenagers and their parents feel very differently about it. Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their parents' worries. It signals yet another generation gap in the digital era.
For teenagers, it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames, birthdays, after-school jobs, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information. “MySpace is an e
asy way to reach just about everyone. I don't have all the phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace, "said Abby Van Wassen. She is a 16-year-old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. "Every time we hold a parents' meeting, the first question is always about MySpace," said Kent Gates, who travels the country doing Internet safety seminars. The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace-related-complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in Pittsburgh.
"Your profile on' MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It's like a free checklist for trouble-makers and it endangers children, Buchanan said.
30. What can we learn about MySpace from the passage?
31. Why are some parents against MySpace?
32. What can we infer from the passage?
Passage Three
The interview has been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, "Which is more important, law or love?" Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.
Employers want people who are skilled, enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicant will try to show no matter what his
or her actual feelings are. In response, employers are increasingly using the questions which try and show the applicant's true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called aptitude test.
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance, many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. "When a Chinese fills out an aptitude test, he or she will think there is a right answer but they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.”
This is sometimes called the prisoner's dilemma. Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest, but they fail because they don't understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is the honest answer.
33. What is the purpose of the passage?
34. What kind of workers do employers want to hire nowadays?
35. What do we know from the passage?
1-7: DBCABBD
8. offering discounts
9. anonymous financial instruments
10. privacy
11-15: BDBDC
16-20. DBAAA
21-25. BDBAC
26-30. ABDCD
31-35. ACDCB
36. spot
37. devastating
38. committed
39. deportation
40. noticeable
41. variations
42. taste
43. imported
44. Most damaging is
a fashion for extreme violence that has easily found a home in countries with violent histories
45. Local branches of major international gangs are involved in serious crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to kidnapping
46. The spread of the gangs has its beginnings in the conflicts that have been common in Central America during the last 25 years
47. Bigger firms have more room for maneuver
48. cautious
49. Breaches of loan agreements
50. They issue corporate debt
51. the Fed’s program to buy commercial paper
52-56. CDBAC
57-61. CDABD
62-65. ABDD
66-70. CCADB
71-75. BACBC
76-81. CADCDA
82. should be especially careful to have a well-balanced diet
83. to be completed by the end of this month
84. regretted causing the customer inconvenience
85. as a result of contract signed between the two companies
86. Being considered not very popular with all its members