If you are thinking about asking for a raise in salary, there are several things to keep in mind. First, consider whether you deserve a higher salary.
| A．This will help you determine what would be a reasonable amount of money to ask for. |
| B．Skills play a key role in your salary level. |
| C．A crucial point is the timing of your request. |
| D．Everyone is eager for a raise in salary. |
| E．You probably do, but you should be able to explain exactly why to your boss. |
| F．Your salary level should be based on professional considerations alone. |
| G．Then you will be better prepared when you meet with your boss. |
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【推荐1】Self confidence refers to your belief in your skills, qualities, and ability to succeed. Having confidence in yourself is not only important to your bealth and well-being-it can also affect how you are perceived by others.
Focus on Your Strengths
When you are in a situation where you want to appear confident, it can be helpful to focus on the skills and abilities you feel most confident about.
Talk Yourself Up
Look for Inspiration
Looking to confident people you admire, reading inspirational statements, or repeating a motivating mantra can also be a way to boost your confidence when you nced it.
Avoid Making Comparisons
It is important to avoid comparing yourself to other people unfavorably.
Take on New Challenges
While you might be tempted to simply avoid the situations that leave you feeling less confident, doing so can actually increase your anxiety and lessen your faith in your abilities
Research has found that practicing the things you fear can help reduce anxiety and improve self confidence
| A．Taking positive aspects into your consideration. |
| B．Choose something you know you are good at. |
| C．It is easy to promote your confidence by praising others |
| D．Unfortunately, not everyone feels confident in their abilities. |
| E．Positive self-talk has been shown to be strongly associated with success |
| F．Comparing with others can ultimately make you feel worse about yourself. |
| G．The key is to choose realistic role models or statements that reflect achievable goals |
【推荐2】How do you decide on a hobby? Here are some ways to figure out what is best suited to you.
Look at your childhood. Think about what pursuits made you happy as a child. Did you take lessons in dance, music, ice skating or art?
Go on a search for inspiration. Just walking around a craft store among the chalk, paints, scrapbooks and bric-a-brac （小摆设） might remind you of an old passion or a fun craft you always wanted to try.
Enjoy cooking. If you spend a lot of time cooking for your family, consider devoting some free time to the fun parts of cooking.
Consider the family pet.
Try home decoration. Offer to help friends decorate their homes, or go room by room in your own home and think about the projects you’d love to complete.
Find fun in organization or exercise. People find a lot of pleasure in creating scrapbooks, tracking family history, taking photos and creating video memories of family events.
For more tips, look for the “How to Find a Hobby” guide at nytimes.com/ guides.
| A．Increase your reading. |
| B．Run your own business. |
| C．All of these pursuits can be turned into adult hobbies. |
| D．And one of the healthiest ways to start a hobby is to focus on exercise. |
| E．Sometimes just enjoying new experiences can spark interest in a hobby. |
| F．Train your dog as a therapy dog and spend free time taking the dog to visit people in hospitals. |
| G．Researchers estimate that lack of exercise could be responsible for around one in ten cases of heart disease and cause most of the sub-health problems. |
【推荐3】Are you preparing for a standardized English exam? Do you find the listening section particularly challenging?
The world of standardized examinations to assess candidates’ abilities in the English language has grown rapidly, especially in the last 30 years. Most of these exams include a listening paper, in which a number of micro-skills are tested, such as listening for detailed information, understanding an author’s attitude and more. Despite the different types of exams out there, they all share many things. We can call them “skills”, as they can be applied while taking the listening test.
You need to exercise your skills to make “educated guesses” although you won’t ever have super powers. Most standardized tests give you some time to read ahead. You must use this time wisely, as this is crucial to predicting as much as possible a number of things. You should quickly ask yourself: What is their relationship? Where are they? Why are they talking? What are their tones?
By doing this, you will be able to set the situation and expect specific vocabulary which might be used in the coming listening materials. All this can be done very quickly. If the passage contains gaps that you must fill out, you should try to predict the type of word or expression (noun, adjective, verb, etc.). Do not try to read everything in detail; only focus on the key words. With practice, you will be able to predict with a certain level of precision. Even if you find it difficult, trying to make a prediction will always help you concentrate on the task, thus making it a lot more manageable and understandable.
Becoming a successful candidate takes time and practice. Unless you have had enough practice in English, you won’t probably be able to get your desired score. Keep in mind that most standardized exams are more about skills than knowledge.
1. The underlined term “educated guesses” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced with _____.| A．efforts to achieve high scores | B．quick decisions about the choice |
| C．better options using the same words | D．predictions with a certain level of precision |
| A．Skills. | B．Vocabulary. | C．Scores. | D．Knowledge. |
| A．Teachers. | B．Managers. | C．Speakers. | D．Candidates. |
【推荐1】A foreign degree was once believed to be a sure path to a well-paid job. However, more and more graduates have found that this is not necessarily true.
The number of Chinese studying abroad grew at a slower rate in 2018 compared with 2017, according to a recent report released by the Ministry of Education. In 2018, 662,100 Chinese went abroad to study, up 8.83 percent from a year earlier, while the growth rate was 11.7 percent in 2017.
A major reason for the slower growth is that more and more students have realized that overseas study does not necessarily guarantee a well-paid job, reported China Daily.
According to a 2018 report by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), about a third of graduate returnees to China earn less than 6,000 yuan a month, while 25 percent make between 6,000 and 8,000 yuan a month.
For example, Lucy Liu, a woman from Beijing, was disappointed after being interviewed by a famous film studio in Beijing. She had just finished her postgraduate (研究生) studies in documentary production at New York University in the United States.
“The pay would be 150,000 yuan for one documentary, and at best I could finish one documentary a year,” Liu told South China Morning Post.
“After spending so much on my studies, I couldn’t accept that pay,” said Liu. She spent about 1 million yuan in tuition and living expenses while studying abroad.
Worse still, it takes over four months for over 50 percent of returned students to land a job, and only 20 percent get job offers before graduation, according to Qi Bin, from Haiwei Career Services, a company that specializes in employment for returnees.
Two major reasons are that they often miss the main job-seeking season while they’re abroad and they lack internship experience, Qi told China Daily.
However, this doesn’t mean studying overseas is useless.
On the contrary, it may provide students with good language and communication skills, an independent character and a global mindset, which are important for their career development, according to Qi.
“Studying overseas cannot guarantee everything, but foreign-educated students have great potential, and at some point their break will come,” Li Qing, a researcher from CCG, told the South China Morning Post.
1. What does the report by the Ministry of Education tell us?| A．Fewer students returned to China after studying overseas in 2018. |
| B．The growth of Chinese students studying abroad slowed in 2018. |
| C．Fewer Chinese students went to foreign universities in 2018. |
| D．More Chinese students found good jobs after studying abroad in 2018. |
| A．an overseas degree doesn’t guarantee a good salary |
| B．the cost of studying abroad is too great for an ordinary family |
| C．foreign-educated students earn less than those who studied at home |
| D．it takes a long time to produce a good documentary |
| A．It is a waste of students’ time and money. |
| B．It gives students better internship chances. |
| C．It limits the possibility of students’ getting jobs that interest them. |
| D．It provides students with useful skills for their career development. |
| A．Worried. | B．Unsure. | C．Positive. | D．Challenged. |
Choosing a job takes time，and there are a lot of things you have to think about as you try to decide what you would like to do．You may find that you will have to take special courses for a particular kind of work，or you may find out that you will need to get enough knowledge for a particular job．
Fortunately，there are a lot of people you can turn to for advice and help in making your decision．At most schools，there are teachers to give you information about jobs．And you can talk over your ideas with family members and friends who are always ready to listen and to offer suggestions．
1. In the first paragraph“get round to”means ________．
| A．consider | B．go all the way |
| C．arrive at | D．remain he same |
| A．you should have ideas when you are a child |
| B．it’s impossible for you to get enough knowledge |
| C．you have to face the problem |
| D．you may enter a class to study |
| A．needs friends | B．needs time |
| C．cost money | D．cost your ability |
It’s very hard to write your own resume because a resume is a macro view of your life, but you live your life at the micro level.
But some of you will be able to do a proper job rewriting your resume on your own.
Don’t make your resume a moral statement. It’s a marketing document. Think about when a company announced the launch of their product. You need to take the same approach with your resume, because a resume is a marketing document. The best marketing documents show the product in the best light, which is to use whatever possible means to make you look good.
| A．As long as you are not lying, you will be fine. |
| B．Don’t focus on your responsibilities, focus on what you achieved. |
| C．Write what achievements you will make for the people you work for. |
| D．Anything on your resume that is not an achievement is wasting space. |
| E．So I recommend to a lot of people that they hire someone to help them. |
| F．The first thing you’ll have to do is to make some mental shifts. |
| G．So learning to write your own resume is important. |
