1 . Ajarn Recruitment, a new and successful educational organization, mainly provides teaching jobs for people with teaching experience as well as exam preparation courses for teenagers and adults.
We are now looking for:
• 2 English speakers for part-time conversational teaching from Tuesday to Thursday at a primary school, which is only 5 minutes’ walk away from the Downtown Square. Teaching is from 3 pm to 5 pm. The hourly fee is 400 Thailand baths.
• 2 full-time English speakers for a conversational English program at a governmental school near Sao Ching Cha in Phra Nakhon district. The monthly pay starts at 28,000 Thailand baths and up depending on your performance in your work.
You must:
• have the ability to lead and encourage your students
• have at least 1 year of teaching experience for the full-time position
• have the ability to adapt yourself to the new living environment in a developing country
• be a native speaker of English, holding a passport from Australia, New Zealand or America
If interested, please send the following required information to ajarn@ ajarnexpress. Com
• your resume
• your teaching certificates
• your own photo and the photo of your passport
We will get in touch with you through e-mails only. Since we have a great number of candidates, we don’t have much time to go through your resume carefully. So we only offer chance of an interview to those candidates with a short and brief list.
TEL: 02-108-7217.
1. The passage is mainly written to .| A．advertise four job offers | B．provide exam preparation courses |
| C．encourage students to study abroad | D．introduce an educational organization |
| A．A local English teacher in Thailand |
| B．A university English teacher from England |
| C．A graduate of an American teachers’ college |
| D．An experienced English teacher from Australia |
| A．leave your phone number | B．introduce yourself in detail |
| C．make a brief self-introduction | D．call 02-108-7217 as soon as possible |
1. Which word may best describe the woman?
| A．Encouraging. | B．Dishonest. | C．Interesting. |
| A．How to speak to a woman bravely. |
| B．How to develop a real interest. |
| C．How to balance his study and work. |
| A．He has too loose a schedule. |
| B．He loves the feeling with students. |
| C．He wants to decide his future development. |
1.职业目标；2.理由；3,打算。 注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯.
3.参考词汇：career planning职业规划
Career Planning
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4 . The three phases of life are increasingly a thing of the past. Where once working lives fitted neatly into the model of education, employment and then retirement, the simplicity of that division is being challenged by changing standards of the workforce.
Increasing numbers of workers, nearing their long-imagined transition into retirement, seem to be actively postponing the moment at which they down tools. Newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that there are over a million more over 50s in part-time work than a decade ago. And with nine out of 10 employers reporting difficulties hiring workers, there’s likely to be a growing market for their talents as bosses extend their searches to older people, including those who are willing to take on part-time responsibilities.
The ending of the three phases of working life isn’t simply down to people living longer or financial necessity － though those are certainly important factors － but also to an increasing desire to maintain a purposeful life. One survey of British retirees over 50 found that 85 per cent of them felt they’d retired too young – stopping working had left a void that they subsequently regretted.
The 2015 film The Intern conveyed this human need to have value. In it, Robert De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who finds himself a fish out of water when he joins a trendy internet start-up. In the end, not only does he find the sense of belonging that he craves but his colleagues come to rely on his experience and different perspective. It’s a plot we can increasingly expect to play out in real-life offices over the decades to come as people live ever longer.
Already, we are seeing people in their 50s and 60s looking ahead to a retirement lasting 30 years, choosing instead to build second careers that they can maintain into their 70s or beyond. Freed from the financial burden of young children, they can prioritise flexibility, shorter working hours or more rewarding jobs in areas such as charity work or teaching. Many do it for no money at all, volunteering behind the till in charity shops or showing people round National Trust properties.
However, it’s the next generation where the effect of living longer will really be felt, and the financial necessity will start to bite. In the West, more than half of the children born in 2016 have a life expectancy of more than 100 years. In their book, The 100-Year Life, London Business School professors Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott suggest that acquiring sufficient funds to see oneself through a 40- or 50-year retirement will likely be beyond all but the highest earners.
Then there’s the often repeated claim that young people today are the first generation to be poorer than their parents. Certainly property prices are changing the way they plan for the future. In the mid-Nineties, the average home cost less than three times the average wage; last year, ONS stats placed that ratio at eight times wages.
The overall effect of these trends is that young people recognize that they will likely have to postpone dreams of retirement and instead strap on(绑住) more debt spread over longer spans. It’s why 44 per cent of under 30s say they expect to be working well into their 70s and why data this year from the Bank of England show that 16 per cent of UK mortgages(按揭贷款) now have terms of 35 years or more – a figure that has tripled in the past decade.
All of these factors look set to contribute to a workforce that has a significantly wider range of ages in the future. In an era of work when we’ve all learned to be more inclusive, only eight per cent of firms with a diversity programme have adapted it to go beyond gender, race and sexuality and into age. Incorporating older employees into the workforce is set to be the next big thing at the office.
If Robert De Niro has anything to teach us, it’s that this can be an enormous force for good for both employees and businesses.
1. What do the underlined words “down tools” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．stop working | B．undertake part-time jobs |
| C．learn a new skill | D．imagine the future life |
| A．a longer life | B．financial needs |
| C．a meaningful life | D．delayed retirement policy |
| A．tell us Robert De Niro is a helpful retiree |
| B．indicate that retirees can also benefit society |
| C．illustrate that retirees desire to live meaningfully |
| D．share Robert De Niro’s second career with us |
| A．Their life expectancy will be longer. |
| B．They will be richer than their parents. |
| C．They can live within their means. |
| D．They will fail to pay off their mortgage. |
| A．longing for a more purposeful life |
| B．inability to make their ends meet |
| C．a shorter term of mortgages |
| D．eagerness for experience from old employees |
| A．Different attitudes to retirement between the young and old. |
| B．Financial issues facing both old people and young people. |
| C．Age being no bar in the modern world of work. |
| D．The new standards of the workplace. |
注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
Measurement done right can transform your organization. It can not only show you where you are now, but can get you to wherever you want to go. Measurement is important to high performance, improvement, and, ultimately, success in business, or in any other area of human effort. Measuring what matters is more important than most things we do. Here are 5 ideas for how to become more conscious of what you can stop doing, in order to make the time for performance measurement.
1. Stop reporting measures that no one uses. Be daring—stop reporting what you know isn’t being used, and if anyone notices, use it as an opportunity to start a conversation about how to decide what is worth measuring and reporting.
2. Reduce your time in meetings and the number of meetings you attend. Meetings always take longer than they need to. The big time wasters are tangents, people arriving late and violent agreements that mistakenly sound like useful debates. Start on time, finish early and diplomatically manage the discussion. Reduce and Agree only to meetings that have a clear purpose that is aligned to your role and responsibilities. Don’t go to meetings out of obligation or interest alone.
3. Rank your main concerns and drop the bottom 10. List your tasks, both what you are doing and what you should be doing, and rank them in order of importance. Simply stop doing the bottom 10—they are likely to have consequences far less than failing to measure what matters. Design your weekly schedule to make time for measurement. Set a regular time in your diary that you block out for measurement related activities, and then put the remainder of your tasks around that. Put the big rocks (the important stuff) in first and you’ll fit more of the smaller rocks in anyway.
4.Bring up measurement in conversations and existing meetings. Don’t wait for measurement time. Use natural conversations that have even minor importance to performance and results as an opportunity to talk about measures that matter. Set yourself progress goals for choosing, creating and using measures, and reward yourself when you achieve them. You can get others to hold you accountable. Agree progress goals with your manager or colleagues or customers for choosing, creating and using measures. Set regular check in time with them to pat you on the back or face the music.
5.Save time by stopping when it’s good enough. Stop over processing whatever you do, and get clear about the point at which you’ve done what will work, and don’t waste time.
| Title: The key to success is MEASUREMENT | |||
| Paragraph main idea | Supporting details | ||
| Functions of measurement | ·Change | ||
| ·Important to high performance, improvement, and, ultimately, success in business and other fields. | |||
| Be daring or brave | Report measurements | ||
| Reduction | It may waste your time. | ||
| number of meetings | Reason | A waste of time | |
| Way | Attend those having | ||
| List | Way | ·List your tasks and drop | |
| ·Rank them in order of importance | |||
| ·Design your weekly schedule | |||
| ·Set a regular time | |||
| Aim | Make useful time for reasonable | ||
| measurement | |||
| Discussion | Way | ·Make use of natural conversations or | |
| ·Set clear aim you can achieve and | |||
| ·Agree | |||
| ·Ensure time to check in the progress. | |||
| Way | ·Stop when it’s good enough. | ||
| ·Know your situation well and your next plan. | |||
1. Who is the woman?
| A．A captain. | B．A passenger. | C．A hostess. |
| A．Having enough flying experience. |
| B．Mastering several languages. |
| C．Being younger than 45. |
| A．Follow the checklists. |
| B．Warm up all the engines. |
| C．Make sure there are no breaks in the wings. |
| A．Try to stop at once. |
| B．Land on a long runway. |
| C．Land after short flying around. |
| A．By ringing them. | B．By visiting them. | C．By writing to them. |
| A．He’s a tailor. | B．He’s a waiter. | C．He’s a shop assistant. |
1. Which position is open?
| A．Editors. |
| B．Reporters. |
| C．Website designers. |
| A．Chances to travel around. |
| B．Lots of money. |
| C．Free movies. |
| A．Work experience. |
| B．Good writing skills. |
| C．Access to the Internet. |
| A．The deadline. |
| B．The age limit. |
| C．The website address. |
There’s no doubt that work deadlines can be stressful. When you have too many, you can feel overcome. And nearing deadlines encourages last-minute dashes for the finish line, like when students pull ‘all-nighters’ in an attempt to achieve weeks’ worth of essay writing in a handful of hours.
Yet there’s no question deadlines can serve a positive psychological function-after all, without them, many students might never even finish their work. You can see evidence for the power of deadlines in the ‘real world’, too. For instance, in 2015, when the US National Science Foundation dropped its usual twice-yearly deadlines for grant submissions in geoscience, as part of an attempt to help the overburdened system, the effect was dramatic. Annual submissions fell by 59% without the pressure of a deadline and it seems that many scientists lacked the urgency and motivation to deliver their applications.
As new research findings shed light on the psychology of deadlines, we can learn ways that deadlines can be used to increase focus and boost perseverance.
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1. 用约 30 个单词概括上文信息的主要内容；
2. 谈谈设置”截止日期”的重要性；
3. 就 如何确保在”截止日期”内完成任务提出你的建议( 不少于两点) 。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
【评分标准】
内容完整， 语言规范， 语篇连贯， 词数适当。
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