【推荐1】Sales Representative—Immediate Hiring

Do you like meeting new people? Do you enjoy closing deals every day? Are you looking for a dynamic and high energy industry? THIS COULD BE THE CAREER(职业)FOR YOU!

Fast Growing and Very Successful Credit Card Processor is looking for a dynamic outside salesperson to sell credit products and check processing services in the local area.

What we need you to do：

·Attend 3－5 appointments daily

·Sell into small­sized to middle­sized businesses.

·Work closely with the sales manager in Dallas TX(by phone)

·Have the ability to manage paperwork

We offer：

·Medical benefits eligibility(资格)after 90 days

·One of the strongest compensation programs in the industry

·Monthly bonuses

·A jump start bonus of up to $750

Successful applicants often have experience in customer services，inside sales，outside sales，sales support，management roles，or other customer­facing positions.

We are an equal opportunity employer.We do not discriminate on the basis of race，religion，color，sex，age, national origin or disability.

Please reply with a resume today!

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1. According to the text，the sales representative the company is looking for should ________.

A．sell into big businesses

B．be able to manage paperwork

C．meet over 5 customers each day

D．see the sales manager in Dallas TX frequently

2. If hired，you can ________.

A．receive a monthly salary of $750

B．get a special customer­facing position

C．enjoy a strong compensation program

D．gain medical benefits eligibility within 90 days

3. Which of the following can help you apply successfully?

A．The experience in shopping.

B．The experience in management.

C．The experience of using a credit card.

D．The experience of talking with a sales manager.

【推荐2】In today’s difficult economic time, it’s natural to rethink your goal of studying abroad. Does the benefit outweigh the cost? The answer, in fact, is yes, when you look at the road ahead.

When the economy becomes more challenged, competition for the workforce increases, and employers look for employees with the best credentials（资力）. Having an overseas degree — from a university where strong English skills are required — can make all the difference. The added expertise of a foreign degree, along with more cultural experience, can make you more qualified for many jobs.

A 50-year study of 3,400 students shows that studying abroad is usually a defining moment in a young person’s life and continues to impact the participant’s life for years after the experience.

82% said that they acquired skills that influenced their career path. 70% stated that it ignited（点燃）an interest in a career direction that they pursued after the experience.

And the effect on one’s career can be equally strong. A study by the Queensland, Australia government showed:

61% of employers stated overseas studying experience was positive on a graduate resume. 72% of employers felt that a second language made a graduate a more attractive employee.

Still, there’s the question of how to pay for studying overseas. But the cost doesn’t have to be as high as you think. Scholarships may be available to cover some or all of these costs. And, there are plenty of ways to further offset（抵消）the cost — through financial tips, advice and grants（补助金）.

1. The second study shows that studying abroad       .

A．helps one to get a job	B．affects one’s whole life
C．affects one’s career direction	D．helps one to make more money

2. The author tries to prove his idea by       .

A．giving examples	B．answering questions
C．listing facts and numbers	D．offering advice and solutions

3. What does the author think about the university fees?

A．Financial tips must increase the university fees.

B．Scholarships can cover some of the costs.

C．Money is a serious problem for studying abroad.

D．There are few ways for the students to earn money.

4. What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?

A．Studying abroad is easy.	B．Studying abroad is rewarding.
C．The effects of studying abroad.	D．The problems with studying abroad.

【推荐3】During the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines（封锁和隔离）. And remote work may have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19.

Many companies have asked employees to work from home. Remote work is enabled by technologies including virtual private networks（VPNs）, voice over internet protocols'（VoIPs）, virtual meetings, cloud technology, work collaboration tools and even facial recognition technologies that enable a person to appear before a virtual background to preserve the privacy of the home. In addition to preventing the spread of viruses, remote work also saves commute time and provides more flexibility.

Yet remote work also imposes challenges to employers and employees. Information security, privacy and timely tech support can be big issues. Remote work can also complicate labor law issues, such as those associated with providing a safe work environment and income tax issues. Employees may experience loneliness and lack of work-life balance. If remote work becomes more common after the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may decide to reduce rents and hire people from regions with cheaper labor costs.

Laws and regulations must be updated to accommodate remote work, and further psychological studies need to be conducted to understand the effect of remote work on people.

Further, not all jobs can be done from home, which creates disparity. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 25% of wage and salary workers worked from home at least occasionally from 2017 to 2018. Workers with college educations are at least five times more likely to have jobs that allow them to work from home compared with people with high school diplomas. Some professions, such as medical services and manufacturing, may not have the option at all. Policies with respect to data flows and taxation would need to be adjusted should the volume of cross-border digital services rise significantly.

1. Why is remote work especially important during COVID-19?

A．It saves time.	B．It blocks viruses.
C．It saves money.	D．It preserves privacy.

2. What is the purpose of the third and fourth paragraphs?

A．To emphasize importance.

B．To sadden employers and employees.

C．To demonstrate challenges.

D．To compare benefits and drawbacks.

3. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by ________.

A．gaps	B．challenges
C．options	D．prejudices

4. What is the author's tone when talking about remote work?

A．Critical.	B．Objective.
C．Subjective.	D．Suspicious.

【推荐1】The new study shows that we spend more time using the mobile Internet to read newspapers and magazines or do some other things. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau（IAB），the average European spends 4.8 hours reading newspapers and magazines but 1.6 hours more using the mobile Internet per week.

The IAB questioned 15,000 people in 15 European countries, looking at how people were using the Internet and its influence on their everyday lives. It found that the mobile Internet is increasingly finding its way into the public awareness. Over 71 million Europeans now have Internet access on their mobile phones. In the UK, 10 million people now access the Internet through their mobile phones and spend 6.3 hours doing so per week averagely.

Unsurprisingly, young generations in the UK are leading the way, with nearly half of the country's 16-to 24-year-olds and a quarter of 25-to 34-year-olds using the Internet, spending 6.5 and 6.2 hours online each week.

Entertainment plays a main role in our mobile Internet lives，with one in five British people using their phones for online games，a third listening to the online radio and 39 percent watching films，TV or other videos at least once a week. One third of those using an Internet phone said they received videos，images or other multimedia on their mobile，and 61percent said they passed on the contents they had received.

From a communication point of view，80 percent of those questioned agreed that the Internet had made it easier for them to stay in touch with friends and family.

Alison Fennah，director of the IAB，said the use of the mobile Internet had come to the point that marketers should be looking to strategies（策略）that connect them with consumers more effectively. "Better tools as well as improved consumer motivation that start coming together in 2011 can make a great difference to extending the online experience，" Fennah said.

1. How long does a European spend on the mobile Internet per week according to the IAB？

A．6.4hours.	B．6.2hours.
C．4.8hours.	D．1.6 hours.

2. What do people mainly use the mobile Internet for？

A．Communication.	B．Entertainment.
C．Study.	D．Advertising.

3. It can be known from the passage that __________.

A．more than half of the people in the UK use the mobile Internet

B．the Internet is the most effective way to stay in touch with friends and family

C．the UK has the largest number of people who use the mobile Internet in Europe

D．better tools and improved consumer motivation help extend the online experience

4. The author wrote the passage to tell us __________.

A．how to use mobile phones to surf the Internet

B．newspapers and magazines will disappear soon

C．more and more people use the Internet in Europe

D．how the Internet influences our daily lives

【推荐2】请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。

The Age of Envy: How to Be Happy When Everyone Else's Life Looks Perfect

We live in the age of envy. Career envy, kitchen envy, children envy, food envy, upper ay envy, holiday envy. You name it, there's an envy for it. Human beings have always felt what Aristotle defined in the 4^th century BC as pain at the sight of another's good fortune, stirred by the feeling of 'those who have what we ought to have'.

But with social media, says Ethan Kross, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, 'envy is being taken to an extreme. ' We are constantly bombarded by 'photoshopped lives, ' he says, 'and that exerts a toll on us the likes of which we have never experienced in the history of our species. '

Clinical psychological Rachel Andrew says she is seeing more and more envy in her consulting room, from people who 'can't achieve the lifestyle they want but which they see others have. ' Our use of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, she says, amplifies (放大) this deeply disturbing psychological discord (失调), 'I think what social media has done is make everyone accessible for comparison, ' she explains. 'In the past, people might have just envied their neighbors, but now we can compare ourselves with everyone across the world. '

And those comparisons are now much less realistic. Andrew has observed among her patients that knowing they are looking at an edited version of reality is no defense against the emotional force of envy. 'What I notice is that most of us can intellectualize what we see on social media platforms—we know that these images and narratives that are presented aren't real, we can talk about it and rationalize it—but on an emotional level, it's still pushing buttons. If those images or narratives tap into what we aspire to, but what we don't have, then it becomes very powerful. '

According to Dryden, a cognitive behavioral therapist, when it comes to the kind of envy inspired by social media, there are two factors that make a person more vulnerable (易受伤害的): low self-esteem and deprivation intolerance, which describes the experience of being unable to bear not getting what you want. To overcome this, he says, think about what you would teach a child. The aim is to develop a philosophy, a way of being in the world, which allows you to recognize when someone else has something that you want but don't have, and also to recognize that you can survive without it, and that not having it does not make you less worthy or less of a person.

We could also try to change the way we habitually use social media. Kross explains that most the time, People use Facebook passively and just idly, lazily reading instead of posting, messaging or commenting. 'that is interesting when you realize it is the passive usage that is supposed to be more harmful than the active. The links between passive usage and feeling worse are very robust—we have huge data sets involving tens of thousands of people, he says. While it is less clear how active usage affects well-being, there does seem to be a small positive link, he explains, between using Facebook to connect with others and feeling better.

Dryden differentiates between unhealthy envy and its healthy forms, which, he says, 'can be creative. ' Just as hunger tells us we need to eat, the feeling of envy, if we can listen to it in the right way, could show us what is missing from our lives that really matters to us, Kross explains. Andrew says, 'It is about naming it as an emotion, knowing how it feels, and then not interpreting it as a positive or a negative, but trying to understand what it is telling you that you want. If that is achievable, you could take proper steps towards achieving it. But at the same time, ask yourself, what would be good enough? '

The Age of Envy: How to Be Happy When Everyone Else's Life Looks Perfect
Introduction	●    1     is the feeling that you wish you had something that someone else has. ● It was     2     by Aristotle as the pain of seeing another's good fortune, stirred by the feeling of 'those who have what we ought to have'.
New problems with envy in the age of social media	● Social media is taking envy to an extreme by making everyone accessible for       3    . ● People are so much disturbed by envy that an increasing number of them have to consult doctors. ● Full knowledge of false comparisons still can't     4     people from envy, and those with low self-esteem and deprivation intolerance are more likely to fall     5    .
Possible ways to     6     the pain	● Learn to recognize that it's     7     that someone else has something you want but don't have. ● Learn to recognize that without the thing you can still survive and you are still a useful person. ● Change the way we use social media from just passively reading to     8     posting, messaging or commenting.
Conclusion	● We should distinguish unhealthy envy from its healthy forms. ● When envy appears.     9     we can listen to it properly, it won't show us what really matters to us. ● We should take proper steps to feel and understand envy instead of     10     it arbitrarily.

【推荐1】Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady. Plants in the deep darkness of a thick forest, where natural supplies are not very great in amount, won’t attempt to top their neighbors in growth as those in moderate (中度的) shade do. In deep shade conditions, it would be a waste of energy and harmful to survival because green shoots would never be able to top their larger neighbors in growth.

So how do plants prevent such growth in deep shade conditions? The secret lies in the clocks inside them, say scientists from the John Innes Centre and the University of Bristol.

They have discovered that when plants notice deep shade, this changes the expression of genes in certain parts of the circadian clock (昼夜节律时钟) — the internal daily timer found in plants and other living things. These clock components perform an additional role in preventing plants from lengthening and overtopping neighbors.

The work identifies a previously unknown role of the circadian clock in controlling plant development, and the findings may have possible effects on both natural plant populations and crops. Professor Antony Dodd of the John Innes Centre said, “The biological clock of plants plays a big part in their development and fitness. This work casts new light on a new role of the circadian clock in adapting plants to competition with other plants in their environments.” “It also gives us new insights into how plants adapt to very deep shade, where resources are very limited,” said Professor Kerry Franklin at the University of Bristol.

This work provides evidence for the stability of the circadian clock in stressful environments, and information that may be useful in developing new generations of crops in a challenging climate.

1. What do plants normally do in moderate shade?

A．Struggle to preserve energy.	B．Compete for limited resources.
C．Try to outgrow their neighbors.	D．Depend on each other to survive.

2. How does the circadian clock affect plants?

A．By changing their gene expression.	B．By making them realize light change.
C．By helping them adapt to the darkness.	D．By controlling their growth in deep shade.

3. Why does the author write the text?

A．To share a new discovery about plants.	B．To introduce the role of the circadian clock.
C．To explain plants’ secret of living in forests.	D．To compare plants living in certain conditions.

4. Which of the following could be the best title for the text?

A．How plants face a challenging climate

B．Why plants respond to different shade levels

C．Why the circadian clock is vital to plants’ growth

D．How plants become good neighbors in deep shade

【推荐2】Professional courses, such as Masters in International Business or MIB, have been taken by many students in the last two decades. They are choosing new-age unconventional courses that guarantee a better future. MIB is a specialized course that teaches the international business. There are solid reasons for so much popularity of MIB course.

The course content and teaching methods of MIB differ from a normal MBA or Master of Business Administration. It has been designed with the objective of developing professionals with an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the international trade. The course offers various advantages over the conventional MBA degree course.

The massive increase in the international business and foreign trade gives excellent job prospects to the new generation. Acquiring a degree of MIB offers outstanding growth of job opportunities. Those who want to pursue in the field of marketing also have a good future after completing the degree from a MIB college with a good reputation. Big multinational organizations look for talented people who can handle the job of International Marketing Manage, and people with MIB degrees are preferred. The job needs an in-depth understanding of the overseas markets, because it is the strategic post from the aspect of company’s international business growth.

Since business finance and economics are covered at length in the courses of MIB, students have great job offers in the field of finance as well. Typically, organizations offer the position of international finance controllers to those who complete MIB with the specialization of finance. The specialization covers aspects of international taxes, accounts, budgeting and so on. People in this field are well-paid, and growth prospects are unlimited. After completing degree course from a reputed MIB college, there is a good opportunity in the banking and finance field as well. International banks appoint people who have an excellent grasp over the international banking policies, currency exchange, and international policies. Thus, MIB is the golden key to success with brilliant job opportunities in national and multinational areas.

1. How is the second paragraph mainly developed?

A．By analyzing causes.	B．By proving definition.
C．By making comparisons.	D．By providing examples.

2. Why do more and more people intend to acquire a degree of MIB?

A．It is required in the colleges.

B．It contributes to great job offers.

C．It appeals to most of the graduates.

D．It helps to start up one’s own business.

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．People earn more in business field than in finance field.

B．The international finance controller is a high-quality job.

C．MIB holders are more promising in all careers than others.

D．International banks only accept employees from MIB colleges.

4. What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?

A．To predict the future trend of the MIB course.

B．To describe the development of the MIB course.

C．To promote the professional MIB course worldwide.

D．To explain why the MIB course is gaining popularity.

【推荐3】Getting married can be one of the happiest moments in a person's life. Across the globe, weddings are very important events. Let's look at some interesting wedding customs from different countries.

For African Americans, it is a tradition for the married couple to jump over a broom covered with flowers. This represents the beginning of family life. It is interesting to note that African slaves who were brought to the USA started this tradition. African-American couples were not allowed to have a legal marriage, so instead they had a ceremony (仪式) where the bride (新娘) and groom (新郎) jumped over a broom 'into marriage'. Today, some African-American weddings still include the old tradition of 'jumping the broom'.

Making jokes about the bride and groom is a wedding tradition in both France and Germany. In France, this includes making loud noises with pots; in Germany, wedding guests break dishes. Weddings in Germany often last three days. On Thursday, there is a simple ceremony at a government office noting the official marriage of the couple. Then the couple will have a dinner with family and close friends. On Friday there is a party. This is when guests break dishes to represent the start of a new life. Then on Saturday, there is a ceremony in a church, followed by another party when the bride and groom celebrate the wedding with friends and relatives again.

In Greece, couples tie a doll to their wedding car if they want to have a daughter, or a toy bear if they want to have a son.

The USA also has some interesting wedding customs. The bride usually carries flowers during the wedding ceremony. After the ceremony, the single women get together and the bride throws the flowers. The woman who catches the flowers is supposed to be the next person to get married.

In England, it is a tradition for little girls to throw flowers on the ground on the way to the wedding ceremony. The bride and groom walk on the flowers. This represents the hope that the couple will follow the path that leads to a happy life.

1. What is the article mainly about?

A．Weddings and their origins.	B．Funny stories to do with weddings.
C．Different wedding customs.	D．Special weddings across the globe.

2. African-American weddings have much to do with the ________.

A．wealth

B．history

C．location

D．religion

3. How do you find people's attitude to marriages in Germany?

A．Doubtful.

B．Reserved.

C．Serious.

D．Negative.

4. A single woman longing for a marriage will probably choose to attend ________.

A．Greek weddings	B．German weddings
C．British weddings	D．American weddings

5. What do all the wedding customs have in common?

A．Loud noises.	B．Good wishes.
C．New brooms.	D．Teddy bears.