3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who is the speaker?

A．A sales assistant.

B．A volunteer firefighter.

C．A house designer.

2. What did the speaker do for the homeowner?

A．He saved her dog.

B．He cleared up her house.

C．He got her a pair of shoes.

3. What does the speaker think of his job?

A．It’s worthwhile.

B．It’s demanding.

C．It’s easy.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When did the speaker realize something was wrong?

A．In the morning.

B．In the afternoon.

C．At night.

2. How much did the speaker think it would cost to fix her heater?

A．More than $400.

B．Less than $500.

C．About $900.

3. How long did it take the repairman to fix the heater?

A．Only one hour.

B．Two hours.

C．About three hours.

4. Which part was fine?

A．The pump.

B．The timer.

C．The water tank.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the purpose of the museum?

A．To show more computers.

B．To help school children.

C．To develop the industry.

2. What are the listeners?

A．Parents.

B．Students.

C．Teachers.

3. Why does the company invite the listeners?

A．To get some advice.

B．To sell them computers.

C．To introduce the company.

4. When will the speaker come back?

A．In half an hour.

B．In an hour.

C．In more than an hour.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who are the listeners?

A．Servers.

B．Cashiers.

C．Students.

2. Which of the following does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．Where to apply for a dotcom job.

B．Why to choose a dotcom job.

C．How to get a dotcom job.

3. What can we learn about dotcom jobs?

A．Students can make a fortune from these jobs.

B．Students are treated with respect at work.

C．Students can practice their imagination.

4. Why do some university students drop out to start their own dotcoms?

A．Dotcoms need little money and few skills.

B．Dotcoms require few formal qualifications.

C．Dotcoms demand little working experience.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why is Sarah calling?

A．To change the delivery address.

B．To delay the delivery time.

C．To cancel the order.

2. What will happen to Sarah’s package?

A．It will be left at her door.

B．It will be returned to the supplier.

C．It will be kept at the local post office.

3. How much will Sarah’s bill come to?

A．$150.

B．$160.

C．$170.

4. What will Sarah do next week?

A．Have a business trip.

B．Visit a branch office.

C．Go downtown.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I should have been content and happy. I was newly married and had a well-paid job at a stock brokerage firm (证券经纪公司). I was surrounded by good friends and lived in one of the most beautiful cities in the country. But I didn’t feel fulfilled. Every day, after coming home from work, I was depressed. The work itself was fine. My co-workers were wonderful. I just didn’t feel like I was doing what I was supposed to be doing.

After a few weeks and many discussions with my husband, he asked, “If you could do anything in the world you wanted to do, what would it be?” Without hesitation, I spoke out, “I’d be a hairstylist!”

I was a receptionist at a hair salon when I was a teenager. I loved that job! The majority of my tasks were unskilled. I folded towels, s wept hair, and wrapped the cape (披肩) around the customer. But, most of the time, I listened and talked to people all day long! Some clients talked because they lived alone and had no one else to talk to. We talked about everything. I learned about their families. Their work. Their home life. I loved it. Every bit of it.

But at the job I had, there was none of that. I worked with numbers. And computers. And papers. Lots and lots of papers.

And so it went. Every day, I went to work. Every day, I came home feeling unfulfilled. And each night, I thought more and more about switching careers. At the end of each daydream, I talked myself out of the idea. It was too much work to start a new career. I would be crazy to give up my well-paid job with health insurance. I would have to go to school again. It would take too long to build a clientele (客户群). Its disadvantages outweighed its advantages!

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I had nearly forgotten about my wish when I had a dream one night.
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On my way to work, the happy “I” in my dream kept shouting, “I am to be a hairstylist.”
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9 . At first the question was how quickly people would get back to the office. Then it was whether they would ever return. The last three years has introduced in a major change in white-collar working patterns. The office is not dead but many professionals have settled into a hybrid (混合的) arrangement of some office days and some remote days.

Hybrid working has much to recommend: flexibility for employees, periods of concentration at home, bursts of cooperation in the office. A new paper from Harvard Business School describes an experiment in which workers at BRAC, a non-profit organisation in Britain, were randomly assigned to three groups, each spending different amounts of time working from home. The intermediate (中等的) group, who spent between 23% and 40% of their time in the office, performed best on various performance measures.

But a shift on this large scale is bound to raise tricky issues. In workplaces that have moved to hybrid work, there are still plenty of open questions. One is how to handle the impact of less time in the office for new joiners and younger workers. Research by Emma Harrington of the University of Iowa shows that software engineers receive more feedback on their code when the team sits next to each other in the office, especially new engineers. According to Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, making new employees spend more time in the office can be a good way of integrating them into company culture and improving their competence. And these younger employees were most likely to quit when everyone was forced to go remote.

A second question concerns how strictly to enforce attendance on days when teams are meant to be in the office. An agreement holds that there should be agreed “anchor days” on which all the people come to work in the office; since the idea is to spend time together, as many people as possible should be there. But one person on the team might have moved somewhere else; someone else might have asked to stay home to let the repairer in. In practice, therefore, hybrid working still often means a mixture of people on screen and people in the office.

Other questions exist. How to define performance measures so managers do not spend time worrying about lazy workers at home? Do you require company-wide anchor days or team-level ones? The era of hybrid working is only just beginning, so it will take time for answers to emerge. But if there is a message from this first full year of hybrid working, it is that flexibility does not mean a free-for-all.

1. How can in-office work help new employees?

A．Giving them more feedback from senior employees.

B．Getting them to catch up with the work schedule.

C．Saving them the cost of staying at home.

D．Helping them feel part of the company.

2. What makes it difficult to enforce attendance on anchor days?

A．Young workers prefer working on screen.

B．Engineers object to the idea of anchor days.

C．Office workers can’t take a day off as expected.

D．Employees have various private matters to address.

3. Which of the following statements is the author most likely to agree with?

A．It is necessary to grant employees full autonomous rights.

B．Employers should go with the flow because new questions will emerge.

C．Allowing flexibility in work arrangements does not mean having no rules.

D．It is no easy job to arrange either company-wide or team-level anchor days.

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Hybrid working is outdated after workers’ return.

B．There are some open questions of hybrid working.

C．A shift of working patterns calls for hybrid working.

D．Fixed restrictions should be applied to hybrid working.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．The man’s failure in final exams.	B．The man’s career prospects.
C．The woman’s new employment.	D．The woman’s personal story.

2.

A．He had too few interviews because of heavy coursework.

B．He rejected the company because he disliked the boss.

C．He had waited for a month before receiving the offer.

D．He was rejected by the company and felt depressed.

3.

A．The man should read the job ads carefully.

B．The man should ask his senior friends for help.

C．The man should try to sell the products himself.

D．The man should explore the employer’s business fully.

4.

A．Memorizing financial knowledge.	B．Solving a business challenge.
C．Presenting his personal qualities.	D．Arriving early at the interview.