2 . It’s a high-risky, multibillion-dollar industry with tight deadlines, demanding customers and lives in danger.
The business is ____ And it’s booming.
The number of jobs for translators and interpreters doubled in the past 10 years while their wages steadily ____ before, during and after the recession. During a period of stagnating (停滞的) wages across the labor market, the language-service industry with its 50,000 jobs is a ____ spot in the jobs outlook.
Lillian Clementi is a French translator working in corporate communications from her home in Arlington, Massachusetts and is routinely on tight deadlines to hand in translated material. “The risks can be huge,” said Clementi, “There’s tons of ____ pressure.”
In some cases, a(n) ____ translation or interpretation is also vital. If a user’s guide for medical equipment is not translated well, it could lead to ____ during an emergency. Soldiers in conflict areas require excellent interpreters to speak with community members. Any change of tone or context could put lives ____
Translators’ and interpreters’ immunity (免疫力) to the nation’s economic downturn also ____ the growing demand for people who can speak several languages in an increasingly globalized economy, experts said.
“Good translators who ____ a particular subject and become really good at it can really make six-digit figures annually,” said Jiri Stejskal, spokesman for the American Translators Association.
Multinational corporations, U.S. demographic (人口的) changes and the Internet economy raise the need for translated and localized information. Companies increasingly want their content ____ to the tongue of the town, even between dialects of the same language.
“As more people ____ the worldwide economy, that’s going to drive more commerce, and that’s going to drive more language services,” said Bill Rivers, executive director of the National Council for Language and International Studies in the Washington region.
____, qualifications for translators and interpreters are not as simple as they may seem. Speaking two languages does not mean a person can work in the language-service industry, experts said. Learning how to translate or interpret is a ____ skill beyond knowing the language.
Furthermore, the most successful translators and interpreters maintain a ____, such as legal documents, quarterly earnings reports or a special knowledge of industry.
Technological advances may cut jobs in some industries, but online translation services like Google Translate ____ raise demand for human translators and interpreters, experts said. Online sales companies also drive demand for translation.1.

A．tourism

B．language

C．technology

D．economy

2.

A．shrank

B．changed

C．grew

D．remained

3.

A．bright

B．scenic

C．historic

D．tough

4.

A．money

B．peer

C．blood

D．time

5.

A．proper

B．quick

C．direct

D．innovative

6.

A．disease

B．depression

C．violence

D．confusion

7.

A．in order

B．at risk

C．under control

D．out of state

8.

A．highlights

B．understands

C．increases

D．resists

9.

A．set up

B．depend on

C．specialize in

D．object to

10.

A．limited

B．accustomed

C．related

D．tailored

11.

A．agree with

B．have access to

C．are confident of

D．insist on

12.

A．Instead

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Otherwise

13.

A．separate

B．genetic

C．learnable

D．worthwhile

14.

A．certificate

B．diploma

C．strategy

D．specialty

15.

A．automatically

B．respectively

C．actually

D．immediately

4 .

A．He found it unbelievable.	B．He was not surprised about it.
C．He was proud of it	D．He found the truth unacceptable.

5 . Questions are based on the following dialogue.
1.

A．Medicine.	B．Education.
C．World history.	D．Foreign commerce

2.

A．Because she wants her daughter to be a doctor or a teacher.

B．Because few people choose foreign commerce as their major nowadays.

C．Because she has seen the bankruptcy of many big companies.

D．Because the world is under economic crisis and commerce is not hot any more.

3.

A．A life in which she can enjoy people’s respect.

B．A life without stress and worry.

C．A life in which she can foresee her future.

D．A life full of different chances.

4.

A．He thinks it is hopefully on the way of recovery.

B．He thinks it is getting worse sooner or later.

C．He thinks nobody can foresee how the world economy will be.

D．He thinks the world economy is not bad at all.

6 . Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts (工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 a.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’ s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
1. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______

A．she wanted to earn more money to support her family

B．she had suffered a lot of mental pressure

C．she needed the right time to look after her children

D．she felt tired of taking care of patients

2. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because Margaret feels_______.

A．they never clean their offices

B．they look down upon cleaners

C．they never do their work carefully

D．they always make a mess in their offices

3. When at work, Margaret feels _______.

A．light-hearted because of her fellow workers

B．happy because the building is fully lit

C．tired because of the heavy workload

D．bored because time passed slowly

4. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．

A．help care for her children

B．regret what they had said

C．show sympathy for her

D．feel disappointed in her

7 . Directions: Complete the passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

An open letter to the GE staff

Dear fellows,

I wanted to write you today about news that GE is being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). The DJIA is a 100 year-ago index(指数) that is meant to be a(n)    1     sample of American business. It is a largely symbolic index and our inclusion is a function（函数） of our share price relative to others.

That said, GE is the longest-standing member and that is something I have always been proud of. I know all of you have been, too. While we were not aware of the announcement, it is not a total surprise. I have tried at every step to share with you our     2     but also the things we need to improve. That is what we are working on most. Our membership in the Dow is something that     3     our past, not our future.

Let me tell you how I am thinking about this. When I first heard the news, I had the same     4     as all of you probably did. But it quickly triggered my     5     side—the side of me that is deeply rooted in my love and respect for the company.

As a company     6     to technology and making an impact on the world, I would put us up against any company in the world. We     7     1/3 of the world’s electricity and two out of every three flights take off with GE engines. We have the largest install base of life-saving imaging equipment. We are a fundamental part of the day to day life across the globe. The world counts on GE and we are there to answer that     8     .

We have been making hard decision about our company. In life there are only two ways to deal with hard things. One is to give in and give up and the other is to fight. I am more than up for the fight. This is our chance to show the world what we can do—stare into the face of skepticism（怀疑主义） and cynicism（吹毛求疵） about GE and meet it with confidence, pride in the company and a(n)    9     amount of hard work and resolve.

I said two things in my annual letter to shareowners: first, it is the people inside the company who shape GE, not the people outside and second, people who bet against us to do so as their own     10     .

Let us use to remind the world that GE is a company that matters to the world. We are going to win this flight.

Thanks for your dedication and hard work.

8 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there two more sentences than you need.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

When I was a kid, I felt anxious about the question, because I never had a good answer. Adults always seemed terribly disappointed that I wasn’t dreaming of becoming something grand or heroic, like a filmmaker or an astronaut.

In college, I finally realized that I didn’t want to be one thing. I wanted to do many things. So I found a workaround: I became an organizational psychologist. My job is to fix other people’s jobs. I get to experience them indirectly—I’ve gotten to explore how filmmakers blaze new trails(开创先河)and how astronauts build trust.       1    

My first complaint with the question is that it forces kids to define themselves in terms work. When you’re asked what you want to be when you grow up, it’s not socially acceptable say, “A father,” or, “A mother,” let alone, “A person of integrity(诚实正直)”. This might be of the reasons many parents say their most important value for their children is to car about others, yet their kids believe that top value is success.     2    

The second problem is the implication that there is one calling(使命感) out the everyone. Although having a calling can be a source of joy, research shows that search one leaves students felling lost and confused. And even if you’re lucky enough to stum a calling, it might not be a viable(切实可行的) career. My colleagues and I have form callings often go unanswered:     3    

If you manage to overcome those obstacles, there is a third hurdle: Careers rarely your childhood dreams. In one study, looking for the ideal job left college seniors feeling more anxious, stressed, overwhelmed and depressed throughout the process satisfied with the outcome.       4     Sure, you might be a little less excited to take it, but on average you end up more productive and less likely to quit.

I’m all for encouraging youngsters to aim high and dream big. But take it who studies work for a living: those aspirations should be bigger than work . As they want to be leads them to claim a career identity they might never want invite them to think about what kind of person they want to be -- and about things they might want to do.

A．Many career passions don’t pay the bills, and many of us just don’t have the talent.

B．Extensive evidence shows that instead of painting a rosy picture of a job, you’re better off having a realistic preview of what it’s really like.

C．People who graduate from college during a recession(经济衰退) are more satisfied with their work three decades later.

D．I have become convinced that asking youngsters what they want to be does them harm.

E．When we define ourselves by our jobs, our worth depends on what we achieve.

F．Your job is not always going to fulfill you.

10 .

A．He’s going to visit a photo studio.	B．He’s just had his picture taken.
C．He’s on the way to the theater.	D．He’s just returned from a job interview.