【推荐2】Complete the speech with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

    1    (give) the fast pace of the job market now, 21^st century employees     2    (face) with challenges that their parents never experienced.

    3    (compare) to previous generations, standards     4    (set) higher for them and they     5    (expect) to have more qualifications and a wider range of new and essential skills.     6    (require) to innovate constantly, 21^st century employees need to be ready to adapt to new challenges and roles quickly.     7    (throw) into a hyper-connected workplace, today’s graduates will also have to     8    (prepare) to move around to jobs at different companies.

There are also plenty of advantages to this new working world.     9    (design) to be more dynamic and inspiring, working environments will be more exciting than offices of the past. Workers will happily enjoy many extra benefits, such as gyms and games rooms,     10    (provide) by companies. Alternatively, if someone prefers more independence, technology will allow for greater opportunities for self employment and starting their own business.

【推荐3】语法填空

I     1    (agree) with your plan because it is     2    (proper) to have these little children do such dangerous work. They are too young to be     3    (employ). So it is     4     (legal) to get them to work in the factory.     5     (fortunately), I found there were many children       6     (work) there. They were     7     (able) to get enough sleep and rest. It’s     8     (bearable) that they were afraid of expressing their       9     (satisfaction) to you. The government leaders had express their       10     (approve).

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

This year marks the 15th anniversary of China’s Double 11 online shopping festival.

The first Double 11 event     1     (initiate) by Alibaba on November 11 in 2009 and has become the largest e-commerce shopping gala in the world today. Every year people usually look forward to this online shopping festival at     2     many merchants will do promotional activities. The     3     (innovation) marketing model has profoundly transformed China’s     4     (consume) market and injected enormous power into the country’s economic development.

This year’s Double 11 shopping festival witnessed     5     increase in consumers’ demand and enthusiasm     6     quality products.

According to Tmall, a leading online retail platform affiliated with Alibaba, 155 brands achieved sales of over 100 million yuan ($13.72 million) as soon as the event     7     (official) started at 8 pm on October 31. 71,900 brands broke the first-day     8     (sale) record of last year in the first hour     9     business volume of 29 livestreammg rooms hit 100 million yuan at the start.

Over the past 15 years, the Double 11 festival has become the most important platform     10     (satisfy) the needs of consumers as well as promote economic development in China.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The cost of complexity in supply chains

Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism, famously thought that fair markets required a common moral framework between buyer and seller. That’s no surprise, considering that his ideas came out of the 18th-century marketplace, in     1     producers and consumers were likely to be neighbours. Advances in technology, transport and communications have taken us a long way since then,     2     (create) complex global supply chains. These     3     (reduce) consumer prices but introduced risks of their own, from labour exploitation and environmental degradation.

One of the costs of these supply chains has been the rise of powerful corporate middlemen between home buyers and sellers. These middlemen, including Big Tech platforms like Amazon, make it possible for us to buy goods made     4     the other side of the world, but this connective power is threatening accountability by creating so much separation between buyers and sellers     5     it’s impossible to match up with the real cost of convenience and low prices.

There are plenty of examples     6     (support) the case, from textiles made with child labour, to the unequal rents taken by middlemen in financial services or platform technology. In the latter, lack of information equality makes it difficult for market participants to have a(n)     7     (share) understanding of what is being bought and sold.

The two big questions are how to create system change and     8     will bear the cost of it. There are no simple answers to     9     of the questions, though technology offers new possibilities to connect buyers and sellers. Direct-to-consumer retailers and 3D printing, which     10    (allow) for shorter supply chains, are both examples of this, though neither currently provides anywhere near the scale to replace current systems of finance or manufacturing.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Yuan Tian, who wears a traditional Lao dress is preparing tea in the food and agricultural products section of the fifth China International Import Expo. As head of the exhibit booth and general manager of the company, Yuan knows too well     1     popular the Lao-produced tea is.

Eight years ago, several Chinese businessmen traveling the Bolaven Plateau of Laos found     2     their surprise that aging tea trees were being cut down by local villagers. Feeling it a great pity, they offered     3     (purchase) the treasures. The company established a factory there, taking tea leaves collected from the wild tea trees to the     4     (globe) market. Its business there then expanded to the     5     (grow) of tea trees as the natural conditions in Laos were especially suitable for cultivating tea trees.

With the launch of the China-Laos Railway, transportation costs have dropped significantly for the tea company,     6     has sold three to five tons of tea to China per year since 2019, Yuan said. So far, the company has been awarded     7     official document of origin in Laos. “At last year’s CIIE, many Chinese     8     (buy) came to our booth and the sales     9     (boost) greatly, and this year we have customers who committed     10     (they) to our brand,” Yuan said.