If you are going to apply for a job, be prepared for the kinds of interviews you can expect. One type of interviews is the telephone interview. Here are some tips for telephone interviews:
________. Before the interview, guess and write down the questions you might be asked. Practice the answers orally until you are satisfied with yourself. The questions can be about your working experiences, skills and achievements.
Keep your notes handy. Have any key information next to the phone, including your notes about the company and the questions you have prepared for. Then you can easily get the information you need. In this way, you will sound more prepared.
Avoid salary topics. When you are asked how much money you would expect, it’s not wise if you give no response. But it’s not right to give an exact number at once. Try to be open to discussion, so you’d better say something like, “If this is the right job for me, I believe we can come to an agreement on salary.”
Push for a face-to-face meeting. At the end of the interview, don’t forget to sell yourself. You can say something like, “I am very interested in your company. If possible I’d be really happy to see some of your managers. I am free either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. Which would be better for you?”
Try to rearrange surprise interviews. If you receive an interview call without any expectation, you can politely ask them to arrange another time for the interview, so you can be better prepared. Try something like, “I am sorry but I can’t do it right now. Can I call you back tomorrow after work, at 6 p.m.?”
After the telephone interview, only a few are left for face-to-face interview, so get prepared and good luck!
1. The article is about ________.| A．how to apply for a job | B．how to make a telephone call |
| C．how to deal with a telephone interview | D．how to take telephone messages |
| A．Make a self-introduction | B．Practice working skills |
| C．Write down the answers | D．Predict the questions |
| A．easy to get | B．easy to recognize | C．easy to hold | D．easy to understand |
| A．I am expecting a salary of $5000 month. | B．My salary requirements can be discussed. |
| C．May I not answer your question? | D．I don’t mind at all. |
| A．not answer the call | B．ask someone else to answer it |
| C．ask for another interview | D．start your interview at once |
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【推荐1】Have you ever wanted to stop eating something sweet but you couldn’t? Can you eat a box of chocolate all by yourself?
Can you say “no” to sweets at parties? If you can’t, then perhaps you’re sugar addict (有瘾的人). Doctors say that people who often eat sweets can easily become addicted to sugar.
Sugar addiction is serious, because it can really damage your health and even cause (导致) death. Doctors say that we should eat healthy food, such as fruit and vegetables, and we shouldn’t eat a lot of sugar or fast food. But sugar addicts are difficult to follow the advice. Well, here is some useful advice for sugar addicts:
★ Eat some fresh fruit when you really want something sweet to eat.
★ Cut down on sweet food slowly. Don’t try to stop eating it all at once.
★ You have to tell your parents. They will help you give up (放弃) bad eating habits.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. Who can become addicted to sugar easily?
| A．People who often eat sweets. | B．People who eat lots of fast food. |
| C．People who don’t have healthy food. | D．People who eat lots of fruit and vegetables. |
| A．Be kind to. | B．Be good for. | C．Be bad for. | D．Be sorry for. |
① We should eat chocolate to keep healthy.
② We shouldn’t eat a lot of fast food.
③ We have to give up bad eating habits by ourselves.
④ We should eat fresh fruit and vegetables to keep healthy.
⑤ We’d better cut down sweet food slowly.
| A．①④⑤ | B．②④⑤ | C．①②③ | D．②③④ |
| A．Fresh fruits are the worst food for us. | B．We should eat sugar to keep healthy. |
| C．Parents may help you give up bad eating habits. | D．We can stop eating sweet food at once. |
| A．Sweet Food | B．Sugar Is Bad | C．Sugar and Fast Food | D．Sugar Addiction |
【推荐2】National parks are large areas of public land. They are designed for the protections of ecosystems（生态系统）. They give a safe home to local plants and animals. They help keep the air and water clean.
For example, Three-River-Source National Park, located（位于）on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau（高原）, is the largest national park in China. Covering 190,700 square km, it is about 14 times the area of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It is home to the sources of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, so people call it “China’s water tower”.
Giant Panda National Park, on the other hand, connects panda habitats（栖息地）in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. There are more than 1,600 wild giant pandas inside the park, accounting for more than 70 percent of the pandas in China.
China hopes the national parks will benefit the public. Nature observation（观察）activities will be held to help travelers learn about animals and plants. Local people living in the parks can also run eco-friendly businesses. In Three-River-Source National Park, more than 17 thousand local herdsmen（牧民）have found jobs, such as park rangers（护林员）since 2016. Their yearly household incomes have increased by an average（平均）of 21,600 yuan.
“A win-win situation has been realized between the ecological（生态的）protection of these areas and development,” said Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister（副部长）of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
1. The Yellowstone National Park covers about ________ square km.| A．13,620 | B．29,000 | C．37,860 | D．55,620 |
| A．Because there are many different towers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. |
| B．Because the water tower is extremely large. |
| C．Because the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers start from there. |
| D．Because people want to show their love and respect for the national park. |
| A．Sichuan | B．Shaanxi | C．Gansu | D．Guangdong |
| A．National parks will bring benefits to plants rather than animals. |
| B．Travelers cannot know more about animals and plants by observing the nature. |
| C．Many job opportunities are provided due to the national parks. |
| D．The yearly household incomes of the local herdsmen have largely decreased. |
| A．The national parks realize the win-win situation. |
| B．The national parks are harmful to human beings. |
| C．Giant pandas are the cutest animals in the world. |
| D．People should protect the ecology in China. |
【推荐3】If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.
The effect（影响）of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input alone, the researchers found. "Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction（交流）," said the study`s lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didn't have much of an effect-positively or negatively-as long as it wasn't displacing conversations between an adult and a child.
The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes（收入）and education. The researchers found that, in an average day, children hear about 13,000 spoken words from adults and took part in about 400 adult-child conversations a day.
Factors（因素）positively associated with language development included each additional（额外的）100 conversations a day and each 1,000 word increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children. When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when the three factors were put together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.
"The more a child speaks and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is," Zimmerman said. "Although it' s mostly done unconsciously（无意识地）, parents will provide more information and correct mistakes. They'll also tailor their speech to the child. Parents can give a child words by talking to them about what they're doing, such as, ‘I' m putting on your pajamas now.’ But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment," she added. "If parents can spare some conversation time—maybe at bath time or at dinner time—that's a wonderful thing.
1. The researchers also found that TV viewing______________.| A．could have a positive effect on a child's language development |
| B．had a little effect on a child's language development |
| C．affected a child's language development more negatively than positively |
| D．affected a child's language development both negatively and positively |
| A．parents should let their children talk most of the time. |
| B．children should watch TV programs alone all the time. |
| C．the conversation between parents and children should be two-way |
| D．it's no good for parents to correct their children's mistakes when they are speaking |
| A．parents should let a child repeat what he or she says |
| B．bath time or dinner time is the best chance for parents to talk to a child |
| C．parent-child conversation can be carried out at any proper time |
| D．parents should leave a child talking alone |
| A．Parents will make clothes for children as tailors |
| B．Parents will choose the topics that children are interested in. |
| C．Parents will help kids to correct their mistakes |
| D．Parents will keep quiet when they have nothing to talk. |
| A．Talk with kids, not to them |
| B．Let your children voice their own opinions |
| C．How to develop a child's language ability |
| D．The importance of early child language development |
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer who lived from 1922 to 2007. His work used dark comedy, as well as features of science fiction, to discuss the problems of life in the 20th century.
Don’t waste your readers’ time
Every character should want something
The characters in your story should want things.
A writer shouldn’t try to write for every person who might read their work. Instead, imagine one person and think about what your writing can achieve for them. Before you put your pen on the paper, try to think, “Who am I writing this for?”
Break the rules
Perhaps the most important advice Vonnegut has is that good writers don’t always follow the rules. If they did, most writing would be very boring.
| A．Write for one person |
| B．Imagine your readers |
| C．Reading something can take a long time. |
| D．If they don’t, then their story cannot move forward. |
| E．He is best known for his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. |
| F．Here are some tips Vonnegut shared with new writers. |
| G．So don’t be afraid to try something new in your writing. |
| A．Get up early in the morning on your birthday. |
| B．The passage（段落）tells you how to spend your birthday. |
| C．Say thank you to people because they are friendly to you. |
| D．Do something interesting at home on your birthday. |
| E．Do something interesting with your friends on your birthday. |
【推荐3】Almost every Chinese person can say the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work.” But sadly, many of us don’t actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don’t waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is well enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? Of course not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2015, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, plenty of people know the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired (解雇)because she took some leftover food home for her son. Many people stood by her and criticized(批评) the waste of food.
What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food? Here are some tips:
1) Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
2) Don’t be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great, but your body needs it.
3) Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. The underlined word “leftover” means________ in Chinese.| A．过期的 | B．剩余的 | C．腐烂的 | D．难吃的 |
| A．Many Chinese restaurants waste a lot of food. |
| B．Many Chinese people are kind-hearted and ready to help the weak. |
| C．Chinese people feel that they lose face if their guests eat all the food. |
| D．Many Chinese people don’t agree with the behavior of wasting food. |
| A．food comes from very hard work | B．six million children die of hunger every day |
| C．there is enough food to feed all the people | D．Chinese are hospitable and generous |
| A．Ordering more than you need at a restaurant. |
| B．Taking home restaurant leftovers. |
| C．Not knowing what you already have at home when shopping. |
| D．Not eating the food you don’t like even if it’s healthy. |
