1 . How to Read Candidates’ Body Language in an Interview
Body language matters, especially in interviews.
Reading body language during interviews can provide valuable insights into a candidate’s personality.
Observe extreme behaviour. A candidate’s harmless action doesn’t mean they won’t fitin well at your company. But be careful about extreme behaviours, like a person constantly checking their phone.
Connect the dots.
Candidate experience greatly depends on an interviewer’s body language. Positive body language can make candidates relax and open up. Negative body language can spark (引发) defensive and reserved reactions.
A.Spot the difference. |
B.Ask detailed questions. |
C.It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. |
D.They don’t necessarily act the same way all the time. |
E.However, understanding body language isn’t an exact science. |
F.You can’t always tell what a specific gesture means on its own. |
G.Be aware of mistakes to preserve a positive candidate experience. |
2 . Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate — languages like Babanki, spoken in Cameroon.
And some of the places where rare languages are the most concentrated are also most vulnerable (易受影响的) to climate change. Especially, linguists call global warming the final nail in the coffin (致命一击) for more than half of humanity’s language disappearing.
Let’s take Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, for example. It’s very small, but it has 110 languages spoken there, which is the highest density (密度) of languages in the world. It is also one of the countries most at risk of sea level rise and climate change. There, you can often see perfect hurricanes.
So if rising seas or storms force people in Vanuatu to move to Australia, what happens to the language they speak? Well, what often happens is that they aren’t necessarily displaced with the same people in their community, and also, even if they are displaced with other people in their community, they and their children will often adopt the language of Australia, the dominant language there because it’s economically advantageous for them to speak the new language, the dominant language. And their language dies.
However, there is so much culturally lost when a language dies. It is because the language carries so much local knowledge and culture.
In fact, in the 1970s, it was something like 2,000 native speakers of Hawaiian remained. But activists launched some schools where children are taught from birth, usually by kind of grandparents, and now more than 18,700 people speak it. And the same thing happened in New Zealand in the 1970s. Only 5% of young Maori people spoke the language, but now something like 25% now speak it.
1. What do we know about Vanuatu?A.Its most languages have died out. |
B.It is sensitive to climate change. |
C.It witnesses various disasters every year. |
D.It is the highest density of population in the world. |
A.They lose their advantages in economy. |
B.They have few chances to speak their own language. |
C.They fail to contact people in their previous community. |
D.They willingly teach their kids the language of Australia. |
A.Favourable. | B.Concerned. | C.Doubtful. | D.Unclear. |
A.More languages are faced with dying out. |
B.It’s a must for kids to learn their mother tongue. |
C.Grandparents play a vital role in passing down languages. |
D.More efforts have been made to save endangered languages. |
1.表述该成语的内容和含义;
2.为何喜爱该成语。
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The Chinese idiom I like best
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A.In two days. | B.In four days. | C.In five days. |
A.She does it for fun. | B.She is learning the language. | C.She wants to sing it for the man. |
5 . When it comes to travel, sometimes wandering is one of the most exciting things you can do. In a time when travellers are both more adventurous and eco-conscious than ever, it’s no surprise that there’s a wealth of new vocabulary to describe how we travel, when we travel and how the experience makes us feel. Here are eight of our favourite travel words that you may not have heard before.
We’ve kicked off a blog with the staycation, “a holiday in one’s own country”. The term first became popular in the mid-2000s, when the global financial crisis meant people had less income to spend on flash holidays and instead searched for cheaper local choices. Since 2020, the staycation is experiencing a revival (复兴). Benefits of staycations include cheaper travel costs, no spending hours in the airport and, of course, no need to worry about whether your passport expired (过期) last year.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to meet new people on your travels, you could stay at a hostel or with a host on Airbnb. Now, you can couch surf. And not just in “the staying at various friends’ houses until you find a new place to rent” sense: couch surfing is quickly becoming a hot new travel trend. Travellers can now choose to couch surf all across the world via a website which treats travel as a cultural exchange, allowing people to connect with willing hosts and crash on their sofas.
Given that single-use and climate strike were selected as the Collins 2018 and 2019 Words of the Year respectively, it’s clear that the climate crisis is very much on everybody’s mind. This desire to make more sustainable choices is also affecting the way we spend our vacation days. Ecotourism is another popular travel trend, defined as tourism that is designed to contribute to the protection of the environment. Examples of ecotourism include ditching short-haul flights, staying at eco-friendly resorts, or booking a staycation.
1. When did the staycation become popular firstly?A.About in 2018. | B.About in 2019. | C.About in 2005. | D.About in 2010. |
A.Two. | B.Three. | C.Four. | D.Six. |
A.The eco-friendly travel ways. | B.The cheap ways to get around. |
C.The changing words of travel. | D.The spread of history and culture. |
A.The other new travel words. | B.Ways to protect environment. |
C.Other examples of ecotourism. | D.Experiences of reaching culture. |
6 . 假定你是李华。几个月前,你由于英语学习进步缓慢而感到沮丧,外教Mr. Smith给予了帮助。请你给他写一封邮件,内容包括:
1.表示感谢;
2.回顾Mr. Smith对你的帮助;
3.你的感受。
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Mr. Smith,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
7 . Cultural intelligence, or cultural quotient (CQ) is the ability to manage cultural diversity.
If you’re unfamiliar with the culture, chances are you’re not going to adapt well to it. So the first practical aspect of CQ you need to improve is your CQ drive.
After you’ve motivated yourself to get a bit more familiar with the culture, it’s time to go one step further.
Lastly, you need to use what you have learned and come up with a strategy that will help you improve your CQ. You can expose yourself to various media. This is a useful and easily accessible way to learn about how culture affects behavior. Again, it helps if you learn the language of the culture. This may open a whole new world for you.
A.You should broaden your CQ knowledge. |
B.There are many benefits of having high CQ. |
C.To be culturally intelligent is no easy matter. |
D.This means your motivation to learn about a different culture. |
E.Seek out opportunities to interact with people from other cultures. |
F.This ability is not limited to your cultural sensitivity and awareness. |
G.It can help you better understand people from other cultures as well. |
8 . There are close to 7, 000 languages spoken on Earth. However, it’s estimated that by the end of this century, up to 50% of them may be lost.
It’s commonly thought that majority languages tend to be valued for being useful and for promoting progress, while minority languages are seen as barriers to progress, and the value placed on them is seen mainly as sentimental (感情用事的). But is sentimentality really the only motivation for preserving language diversity?
Speakers of endangered languages often live in remote areas with unique landform. It is quite common for these languages to distinguish between hundreds more types of plants and animals than those known to modern science. For example, in Southeast Asia, some tribes have discovered the medicinal properties of over sixty-five hundred plant species. This has led to many of landmark achievements in medicine.
It was once believed that the limits of one’s language defined the limits of one’s thought. This theory, called the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis (假说), has been largely rejected in favor of the improved version, which assumes that the language we speak does not set the limits of our thoughts, but it does direct our focus in certain ways. For example, English is a tense-based language. It’s nearly impossible to talk about doing something without specifying the time — i. e. I went to the party(past), I’m going to the party(present), or I’ll go to the party (future). This differs from Chinese, where it’s perfectly reasonable to say, “I go to the party” without defining the “when”. Thus, part of the richness of language is that it allows us to organize the world in so many unique ways.
Some languages categorize the world in ways so different from our own that they are difficult to conceptualize (概念化). The United States employed native Navajo speakers to create a system of message coding during the Second World War. The Japanese were never able to break it, and the “code talkers” are often cited today as having helped decide the outcome of the war.
As we’ve already seen, minority languages are valuable for many practical reasons. In conclusion, I’d say the short answer is yes — dying languages are certainly worth saving!
1. What do people tend to think of minority languages?A.Valueless. | B.Time-honored. | C.Informal. | D.Stable. |
A.We can discover drugs in a much safer way. |
B.We don’t have to rely on modern medicine. |
C.We can acquire a broad knowledge of nature. |
D.We can learn how to protect plants and animals. |
A.To correct the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis. |
B.To prove the value of minority languages. |
C.To show wars’ role in preserving a language. |
D.To explain ways to conserve some languages. |
A.Are majority languages worth valuing? |
B.Are we willing to save dying languages? |
C.Should endangered languages be saved? |
D.Is the future of minority languages bright? |
9 . Translation is an essential tool for effective communication. A common way of getting any translation done is to turn to human translators. However, machine translators have developed rapidly in recent years. Many people claim that they will replace human translators soon.
Machines may fail to understand culture properly. Different cultures have different words that are unique to that specific culture. Machines cannot understand or recognize idioms, slang, and allusions (典故).
It is difficult to localize machines for different languages. New phrases are being developed in almost all languages.
It’s difficult for machines to distinguish style and tone. Every written document has a different style and tone. A document can have poetic, funny or persuasive style and tone. Machine translators may lose the intended style and tone existing in the original document.
A.Machines can’t relate words to the context. |
B.Machines can’t remember words of all languages |
C.It doesn’t actually hold up for some reasons. |
D.Thus the result is a flat and soulless translation. |
E.Machine translators are unable to catch these changes in time. |
F.This is one challenge they may find very difficult to overcome. |
G.Machine translators are becoming more and more popular these days. |
The Chinese writing system has been one of the main factors for the
At the beginning, written Chinese was a picture-based language,
Over the years, there was a time when the Chinese people were divided geographically, leading to many
Nowadays, Chinese writing system is still