1 . My students frequently ask me how I planned out my career to become president of Fidelity Investments. I always tell them, “There was no grand plan; I backed into my career one step at a time.” In this tough economy and ever-changing world, it is more important than ever to smartly evaluate each step in your career. To prepare for whatever surprises lie ahead, try to make choices today that will maximize your options in the future.
Gaining transferable (可转移的) knowledge begins with the choices you make at school. You want your education to provide you with the necessary skills and expertise to succeed in a wide variety of jobs.
Once you have finished your formal education, search for jobs that will allow you to further expand your transferable knowledge—to help you find your next job. Let’s say you take a job putting together airplane leases. Within a few years, you could become the world’s expert on the subject.
Remember gaining transferable knowledge is only one piece of the puzzle.
Of course, you can build your network to some degree without changing jobs.
A.You can make yourself more attractive. |
B.Gain transferable expertise and form close bonds with your colleagues. |
C.Your next step should help you expand your web of personal relationships. |
D.This later helped me evaluate and start business units throughout the world. |
E.You can attend conferences or participate in committees at trade associations. |
F.This means that you need to make smart choices about the courses you will follow. |
G.However, this narrow expertise probably won’t help you in any other line of work. |
2 . Security guard, truck driver, salesperson—year after year, these jobs appear on lists of the unhappiest careers. Although many factors can make a job
Psychologists have long said that connecting with others is central to our well-being, but just how much conversation we require is under
However, don’t just consider small talk
Small talk can also help us feel connected to our
Of course, some of us are better than others at turning small talk into something bigger. In one study, people who were rated “less curious” by researchers had trouble getting a conversation
Therefore, go ahead—small talk needn’t be idle, and nosiness isn’t all bad.
1.A.rewarding | B.depressing | C.exhausting | D.challenging |
A.stand out | B.turn up | C.give off | D.put forward |
A.negotiation | B.construction | C.investigation | D.examination |
A.divided | B.entitled | C.imposed | D.cataloged |
A.figured out | B.made up | C.look over | D.added to |
A.worthless | B.essential | C.boring | D.ridiculous |
A.occupy | B.satisfy | C.brighten | D.spoil |
A.emotions | B.heart | C.customers | D.surroundings |
A.purposefully | B.briefly | C.continuously | D.generally |
A.responsibility | B.security | C.belonging | D.achievement |
A.Consequently | B.Oppositely | C.Unexpectedly | D.Similarly |
A.approached | B.attached | C.addressed | D.attended |
A.breaking | B.pausing | C.rolling | D.stopping |
A.evolving | B.substituting | C.adapting | D.transforming |
A.interaction | B.standard | C.impact | D.involvement |
1. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
A.Boss and secretary. | B.Teacher and student. | C.Interviewer and interviewee. |
A.English. | B.Spanish. | C.Italian. |
A.A Spanish teacher. | B.A manager assistant. | C.A company secretary. |
A.She does well in typing. |
B.She works in a company now. |
C.She expects to get a driving license. |
1. What made the man decide to study medicine finally?
A.His own experience. | B.His teachers’ advice. | C.His parents’ influence. |
A.Took her to the hospital. |
B.Walked back to his dormitory. |
C.Gave her mouth-to-mouth breathing. |
A.In a university. | B.In a television studio. | C.In an emergency room. |
A.First aid methods. | B.Some happier moments. | C.His work in the hospital. |
5 . Perhaps at one point in time, it was acceptable to start any letter or e-mail with “To Whom It May Concern.”
Grammarly uses the example of needing to write a letter of recommendation, for a colleague who will have to make several copies to distribute to interviewers,
If you do happen to find that using “To Whom It May Concern” is appropriate, don’t make grammar mistakes, for example, letters or punctuation.
A.However, it maybe interesting. |
B.Those times have changed, though. |
C.Making mistakes in writing will surely get you low scores. |
D.It’s also very impersonal, which some employers might not appreciate. |
E.In that circumstance, sending and receiving letters is more of a formal greeting. |
F.You might want to take note of other common errors you might be committing, too. |
G.But according to Grammarly, there are four times when it’s OK to use this greeting. |
It’s an awkward scene. Attrition(损耗) has always been expensive for companies, but in many industries the cost of losing good workers is rising, owing to tight labor markets. Thus companies are making greater efforts to predict which workers are at high risk of leaving so that managers can try to stop them. Methods range from electronic monitor to sophisticated analyses of employees’ social media lives.
Some of this work may be a reason to let employees to quit. In general, people leave their jobs because they don’t like their boss, don’t see opportunities for promotion or growth, or are offered a higher pay; these reasons have held steady for years.
New research conducted by CEB, a Washington-based technology company, looks not just at why workers quit but also at when. “We’ve learned that what really affects people is their sense of how they’re doing compared with other people in their peer group, or with where they thought they would be at a certain point in life, says Brian Kropp, who heads CEB’s HR practice. “We’ve learned to focus on moments that allow people to make these comparisons.”
Technology also provides clues about which star employees might be eyeing the exit. Companies can tell whether employees using work computers or phones are spending time on (or even just opening e-mails from) career websites, and research shows that more firms are paying attention to these things. Large companies have also begun tracking badge swipes(浏览痕迹)—employees’ use of an ID to enter and exit the building or the parking garage—to identify patterns that suggest a worker may be interviewing for a job.
1. From the first paragraph, we can infer Linkedln is ________.
A.an e-mail |
B.a job from the Internet |
C.a professional social network |
D.a world-famous company |
A.The cost of losing good workers is rising. |
B.Companies are stricter with workers than before. |
C.Measures have been taken to find the potential workers who want to quit. |
D.Finding new jobs has been a trend for most workers. |
A.They don’t like their bosses. |
B.Workers are always doing comparisons. |
C.Not seeing opportunities for promotion. |
D.To find a higher-paid job. |
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1. 词数100左右;
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯;
3. 开头已经给出,不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,
I’ve read your advertisement for an assistant teacher for a children’s winter camp.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua