【推荐3】Although many companies offer tuition reimbursement(偿付) , most companies reimburse employees only for classes that are relevant to their positions.     1     A company that reimburses employees for all college credit courses — whether job related or not —offers a service not only to the employees, but to the entire company.

One good reason for giving employees unconditional tuition reimbursement is that it shows the company's dedication to its employees and it is important for a company to demonstrate to its employees that it cares. The best way to do this is to make investments in them.

    2     A company that puts out funds to pay for the education of its employees will get its money back by having employees stay with the company longer. It will reduce employ turnover, because even employees who don't take advantage of tuition reimbursement programs will be more devoted to their company, just knowing that their company cares enough to pay for their education.

Although companies do indeed run the risk of losing money on employees, who go on to another job in a different company as soon as they get their degree, more often than not, the employees will stay with the company.     3     Thus, throughout those years. the employer will have a more sophisticated, more intelligent, and therefore more valuable and productive employee. And, if the employee stays, that education will doubly benefit the company: Not only is the employee more educated, but now that employee can be promoted so the company doesn't have to full a high—level vacancy from the outside.     4    

Though unconditional tuition reimbursement requires a significant investment on the employer's part, it is perhaps one of the wisest investments a company can make.

A．In this way, companies will have more productive employees.

B．In today's economy, job security is a thing of the past and employees feel more and more expendable.

C．In return, this dedication to the betterment of employees will create greater loyalty.

D．This is indeed a very limiting policy.

E．Even if employees do leave, it generally takes several years to complete any degree program.

F．Open positions can be assigned to people who already know the company well.

【推荐1】On August 5 just after 7.30 pm, Mike Estepa suffered a massive heart attack. The crazy cyclist was 40 kilometres into his Sunday ride when he stopped by the side of the road to text his family saying he’d be home in about 30 minutes. Moments later, he was lying in the ditch, unconscious.

Larissa Arthur was driving back to Calgary from a hike in Field, B. C. with a friend. It was a warm and sunny day, and the two were chatting when a flush of yellow caught Arthur's eyes, She immediately pulled off the road.

As Arthur approached the figure. she feared the worst: Estepa was covered in ants and exhibited no signs of life. There was no pulse and he wasn't breathing." says Arthur. A bystander called 911 and Arthur, a registered nurse, started chest compressions. She and two other drivers took turns carrying out CPR for the next 15 minutes before medical teams arrived and whisked Estepa away.

Two days later, when Estepa woke up in the hospital, he was shocked to learn he had gone into cardiac arrest (心脏骤停). How did this happen, and ,why was he lucky enough to have survived? He was full of gratitude and needed to speak with the woman who had saved him, whom he named his "angel” .

“It was emotional,” says Arthur of her meeting with Estepa a few weeks later. Saving his life had extra importance for her: the bike she was returning from that day was one of 100 she's planned to honour her father, who died in 2017 after he fell during a hike that Arthur was meant to be on. "I couldn't save my father's life." Arthur says, "but this was a chance for me to save someone. "

1. Why did Mike Estepn stop while riding?

A．He suffered a heart attack.	B．He wanted to send a message.
C．He would like to lie in the ditch.	D．He was too far away from his home.

2. What do we know about Arthur?

A．She was an amateur nurse.	B．She was scared of ants.
C．She knew how to do CPR.	D．She went cycling with a friend.

3. What did Arthur think of her saving Estepa?

A．Grateful.	B．Lucky.
C．Significant	D．Natural.

4. What's the best title of the text?

A．A Miracle to Return to Life	B．An Angel on the Roadside
C．A Risky Cycling Alone	D．A Chance to Save Life

【推荐2】Vanessa Bryant said in an Instagram post on Monday that she was both grieving and angry over the loss of her husband, NBA star Kobe Bryant, and 13-year-old Gianna in a helicopter crash last month.

Vanessa Bryant, 37, has made few public appearances since the crash that killed her husband, daughter and seven others and said in the social media post that she had been "reluctant" to put her feelings into words.

“My brain refuses to accept that both Kobe and Gigi are gone,” she said, using a nickname for her daughter. “I can't process both at the same time. It's like I'm trying to process Kobe being gone but my body refuses to accept my Gigi will never come back to me.”

Bryant said she felt anger at losing both her husband and daughter and has to remind herself to be strong for the couple's three surviving daughters.

“God I wish they were here and this nightmare would be over,” she said. “Praying for all of the victims of this horrible tragedy. Please continue to pray for all.”

The death of Bryant, an 18-time all-star in the National Basketball Association and one of the world's most admired sports figures, prompted an outpouring of shock and grief from fans and fellow athletes around the globe.

The retired Los Angeles Lakers forward had been on his way to a youth basketball tournament in which he was coaching and his daughter and two other girls aboard the luxury chopper were due to compete.

Federal investigators have not yet determined a cause for the crash in Calabasas, California, outside Los Angeles, but have said the helicopter was flying in dense fog and that there was no evidence of engine failure.

1. How many people have died in the helicopter crash?

A．2	B．7
C．8	D．9

2. What makes it hard for Vanessa Bryant to accept the tragedy?

A．She was alone to handle the situation.

B．She was too angry to learn about the details.

C．She had to become strong for her other three daughters.

D．She couldn't process that her husband and daughter were gone together..

3. What possibly caused the accident according to the last paragraph?

A．The poor weather	B．The engine failure
C．The pilot's bad skills.	D．The wrong navigation.

【推荐3】Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monitor them for symptoms of diseases that may have been infected by animals living in the cave.

“The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are safe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit…disease,” said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports added.

Yet based on the location where the boys were trapped—more than four kilometers from the cave complex’s main entrance, past some fully submerged passages—and the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed in bat-associated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. “It’s hard to imagine bats got that deep into the cave because of all those narrow passageways, but it is possible,” says Ian Lipkin, an animal expert and professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. “It’s unlikely that there would be many animals in there,” notes Jonathan Epstein, a doctor at EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that studies diseases and how to prevent them. Bats typically like to rest in areas they can easily enter and exit, not in places that fully flood, he adds.

Bats in Thailand have been linked with a wide range of viruses that are similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—Lipkin says. But it seems more likely the boys would have been exposed to infection-causing bacteria when they swam through the dirty water with cuts and scrapes. “If you are trying to prioritize issues with respect to health care for these kids, number one would be psychological damage and second will be bacterial infections from the cuts and scrapes they may have encountered.” Lipkin says.

1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the potential symptom of the rescued team members?

A．Lacking body water.	B．Unbalanced nutrition.
C．Adequate oxygen.	D．Pain in the head and muscles.

2. The underlined word “submerged” in paragraph 3 means ________.

A．bat-associated	B．wild and dangerous
C．with animals	D．under the water

3. Which is true about the caves and the trapped people?

A．Lipkin said the victims might be infected when their body were exposed to bacterial water during the rescue.

B．Lipkin argued bats were not able to get deep into the narrow cave where the kids were trapped.

C．Jonathan Epstein thought it possible for the team members to be attacked by bats in the fully-flooded cave.

D．Lipkin believed the most important issue for the cave-trapped teenagers was infectious bacteria examination.

4. What is the text type of the passage?

A．An academic essay about bats.	B．A medical magazine.
C．A newspaper article.	D．A Thai website about sports.