1 . Memorandum (备忘录)
TO: Leona Guo, President of English Salon FROM: Jarod Lu, Team Leader, Department of Education Promotion ( DEP) Division of English Salon DATE: Jul. 13th, 2011 SUBJECT: Confirmation of Future Career Plans Thank you, Ms. Guo, for the chance to sit down with you last Friday afternoon and discuss my career objectives and contributions to English Salon’s staff training program. If I am correct, we have agreed on the following matters: 1. Within six months or less, my job title will be changed to Vice President of English Salon. 2. My assignments will include all I am now doing; additionally, I will be allowed to sit in on administrative meetings and voice ideas about curriculum plans. 3. My salary will be raised to $26 ,000 at the time I assume this new title. 4. I’ll be given a car allowance of $75/ month to cover trips to outlying centers. If I’m correct about our agreement, would you sign this memo and return it to me for my files? |
TO: Jarod Lu, Vice President of English Salon FROM: Leona Guo, President of English Salon DATE: Dec. 18th, 2011 SUBJECT: Leave of absence Realizing everything you’ve been through these past few months, Jarod, we’ve decided to approve your request for a two-month leave of absence. Needless to say, it won’t be easy without you around here, but we, are willing to make the added investment in you. So, take off at 5:30 today and we’ll see you in two months. I wish you the best. |
TO: Leona Guo, President of English Salon FROM: Jarod Lu, Vice President of English Salon. DATE: Mar. 3rd, 2012 SUBJECT: Larger coffee machine The rapid growth of our department has resulted in an increase of coffee consumption. The original budget for coffee has been exceeded and our machine simply does not have the capacity to handle the increased usage. In short, we need a new and larger coffee machine. I hope you will approve this request in a timely and forthright fashion. |
1. In the first memo, Jarod Lu intends to confirm that ________ .
| A．he will be allowed to have more business trips |
| B．he can get promotion within half a year or less |
| C．some of his responsibilities can be handed over |
| D．his salary will be raised the moment the memo is signed |
| A．find another person to take the place of Jarod Lu . |
| B．refuse Lu’s request for a two- month leave of absence |
| C．require Lu to build a new team |
| D．wait for Lu to rejoin the company in two months |
| A．the old machine can no longer meet the needs of coffee consumption |
| B．the old machine does not work properly |
| C．the price for the new machine has dropped dramatically |
| D．the quality of the new machine is desirable |
Ten years ago, after 2 years as a postdoc(博士后), I found myself wondering whether I should take a different road. Up to that point, I had stuck to a pretty traditional path investigating cancer genetics, but I was losing interest in the research. At the same time, federal funding had flattened, which added to my dissatisfaction.
As I was considering my options, I found inspiration in my first graduate school research tutor, whose work reminded me that scientists’ efforts away from the bench can be incredibly powerful. But I still didn’t know exactly what I should do.
Looking back at these 10 years, I realize how much my work on this campus has helped me grow, both as an academic and a tutor. I’m grateful that I stepped away from a traditional career path and found a way to serve both the student and research communities in my own way, modest though it may be.
| A．However, my work has its challenges. |
| B．Then a second bit of inspiration came my way. |
| C．Distressed as I was, I resolved to pursue my interest in research. |
| D．Besides the spiritual reward, there are other less apparent benefits. |
| E．So I decided to leave the academic path to find a better match. |
| F．Here, at last, was a way to combine my interest in science with my passion for teaching. |
3 . A. Associate Product Manager — New Grad — Beijing
Responsibilities include working with engineers to define products, understanding user needs, researching markets and competitors, and predicting future product directions. As you gain more experience, there’s an opportunity for promotion within the organization .
Requirements:
☆ Bachelor’s degree and more than one year of job experience.
☆Strong organizational and analytical skills .
B. Director of Education — Sylvan Learning Centers — Long Beach, California
Job description: As a successful director of education, your primary responsibility will be to champion the Sylvan developed curriculum, ensure the quality of the education standards and teaching staff as well as grow the business in your center.
We require:
☆ Bachelors degree and at least 2 years of teaching experience.
☆ Managerial experience.
C. Area Export Manager — Beijing Import Export Corporation — Beijing
Highly dynamic company is looking for bright, experienced salesperson who will be responsible for the export of frozen seafood and other commodities between China and the USA, Australia, and Canada.
Qualifications:
☆ Excellent level of English, spoken and written
☆Excellent communication and organizational skills .
☆Experienced salesperson with proven results in fast-moving consumer goods essential, preferable in frozen seafood market.
D. Subeditor — MEDIA CONTACTS — London
Working in the fascinating world of law and enforcement (执法), you will be making sure that you are meeting the exceptionally high standards of copy for this company. As part of a team of six, you will be meeting tight deadlines on a daily basis and ensuring regular flow of articles onto the website. Must have a keen eye for detail and confidence in working with challenging copy. Proven track record in subediting, and a practical knowledge of publishing law are required.
E.
Job title | Casual trainer (first aid) |
Employer | Medilife |
Location | Sydney, NSW Australia 2150 |
Job type | Part-time |
Job description: Medilife requires able, reliable trainers who can demonstrate the qualities of flexibility and loyalty and join their young, fun-living team. Successful applicants will receive excellent hourly rates. Suitable training will be provided for the right applicant.
1. Which of the following are specially required to most of the positions in the ads?| A．Experience and responsibilities. | B．Experience and special skills. |
| C．Special skills and English. | D．Responsibilities and a bachelor’s degree. |
| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．write articles for website | B．copy data from the Internet |
| C．enforce publishing laws | D．examine other people’s writing |
1. If Angela’s Pet Shop is open for 8 hours every day, the assistant will get $
2. Angela’s Pet Shop is looking for an assistant who can work for it every
3. The assistant’s duties include taking care of pets and dealing with
4. One who has
5 . Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62 - 74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-educated well-off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individuals and society, are profound (深刻的).
The world is facing an astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling (扩大的) ranks of pensioners (领养老金者) will create government budget problems.
But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle (不工作的) old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.
Policy is partly responsible. Many European governments have abandoned policies that used to encourage people to retire early. Even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated. Technological change may well reinforce (加强) that shift: the skills that complement (补充) computers, from management to creativity, do not necessarily decline with age.
1. What is happening in the workforce in rich countries?| A．Younger people are replacing the elderly. | B．Well-educated people tend to work longer. |
| C．Unemployment rates are rising year after year. | D．People with no college degree do not easily find work. |
| A．Longer life expectancies. | B．Rapid technological advance. |
| C．Profound changes in the workforce. | D．A growing number of the well-educated. |
| A．Unskilled workers may choose to retire early. |
| B．More people have to receive in-service training. |
| C．Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement. |
| D．People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from pension plans. |
| A．Computers will do more complicated work. |
| B．More responsibility will be taken by the educated young. |
| C．Most jobs to be done will be the creative ones. |
| D．Skills are highly valued regardless of age. |
6 . A young man has just returned from a terrific first date. He wants to send flowers to let his date know he enjoyed being with her, but he's not sure what to send. A dozen red roses? No, too formal for a first date. A bouquet of wild flowers, perhaps? Still not sure, he picks up the phone and calls a florist for advice. The next day his date calls, thanking him for the beautiful yellow roses.
Florists enjoy helping people express themselves with flowers. Flowers can help, people share all sorts of feelings. For instance, flowers help people say "Congratulations!" to a friend who gets promoted. Flowers can also express feelings hard to put into words. They help say "I'm sorry" to the wife whose husband forgot her birthday. From birth to death, and the holidays in between, flowers add color and meaning to life. That's why florists' services are always in demand.
In the past, florists just sold flowers to customers, who arranged them on their own. But today's florists are skilled designers, arranging flowers in ways that best express their customers' feelings.
Formerly, florists learned on the job. Today, however, many florists earn diplomas in floral design in as few as 75 hours of classes. They gain a knowledge of flower varieties and develop an artist's touch. These skills help florists make arrangements that fit customers' tastes and meet their budgets.
Compared to most start-up businesses, opening a flower shop takes little money. As a result, many florists open up their own shops soon after earning their diplomas.
One of their first priorities is establishing good customer service. Their customers have come to expect same-day delivery. So florists must be able to work quickly, especially during holiday rushes. But florists don't mind. For them, the more arrangements they make, the more people they touch-with flowers.
1. Compared with florists today, florists in the past___________.| A．arranged flowers as customers requested |
| B．didn't just sell flowers to customers |
| C．didn't necessarily have diplomas in floral design |
| D．had a better knowledge of flower varieties |
| A．Congratulations. | B．Apology. |
| C．Deep love. | D．Good impression. |
| A．A florist delivers flowers within the same day of ordering. |
| B．A florist arranges flowers with an artistic touch. |
| C．A florist understands customers' needs and fits their tastes. |
| D．A florist helps customers express their feelings through flower language. |
7 . Much discussed and rarely achieved in full, work-life balance is an elusive prize in modern professional culture. While it can depend greatly on the priorities and values of an individual and their manager, some jobs provide strong opportunities for those looking to combine a fulfilling career with a thriving personal life.
“Work-life balance is not a situation anymore where you’re at work and then you’re at home, it’s more this balancing between the two,” said Lauren Griffin, senior vice president of Adecco Staffing U.S.
Topping the list of jobs that provide strong work-life balance is data scientist. According to IBM, “A data scientist represents an evolution from the business or data analyst role.” IBM notes that while the formal training in computer science and applications, modeling, statistics, analytics and math for these jobs is similar, “What sets the data scientist apart is strong business acumen, coupled with the ability to communicate findings to both business and IT leaders in a way that can influence how an organization approaches a business challenge.”
Stan Ahalt, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill, said that the strong demand for data scientists, coupled with the anemic supply of these professionals currently available in talent pipelines, is likely creating a situation where companies will go above and beyond to attract the right talent.
“The demand for people who are able to analyze massive amounts of data and extract actionable decisions has really blossomed,” said Ahalt. “The people who are being hired are being highly sought-after, so I suspect they’re getting relatively good offers, and offers that include flexibility in their hours and locations simply because there are many more jobs than there are people.”
The list is also diverse and representative of a broad spectrum of occupations, with part-time and seasonal jobs like lifeguard and substitute teacher holding spots, as well as corporate jobs and skilled trades.
And for job-seekers or those planning a career change who want to prioritize work-life balance in their next role, Griffin said the most important step is identifying your greatest personal commitment so you can target a job that’s accommodating by nature, or an employer that will work with you to reach a solution.
“You need to define what’s non-negotiable for you,” said Griffin. “What’s that specific thing that you know you need some balance for, is it dropping your kids off, or taking your mother to a doctor’s appointment twice a month? What are those key points for you? Because then you can have a more open conversation with your employer.”
1. A job of work-life balance is suitable for those ____.| A．who gain a prize in professional culture |
| B．whose managers care about their priorities and values |
| C．who expect satisfaction from both career and personal life |
| D．who prefer to work anytime and anywhere at their wills |
| A．in the list which provide strong life-work balance |
| B．of the data scientists, the business analyst and the data analyst |
| C．that require strong business sense and communication skills |
| D．that influence new business challenge of an organization |
| A．are professionals likely to create a new situation in talent pipelines |
| B．can analyze massive amounts of data and extra actionable decisions |
| C．have relatively good offers including flexibility in their hours and locations |
| D．are more demanded than part-time lifeguards and substitute teachers |
| A．must be very committed to the targeted job personally |
| B．have to support employers decisions without negotiation |
| C．should first decide what the balance is needed for |
| D．should drop kids off on time and take care of mothers |
Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?”
There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time
This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself. If the lad had gone home to ponder （考虑） his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well. Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs（美差）.When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying.
| A．It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. |
| B．People find jobs in an infinite number of ways. |
| C．it’s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisement in newspapers. |
| D．Take for example the young man who wanted to be a sailor. |
| E．But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company’s faults. |
| F．He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved. |
9 . People worry that developments in Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., will bring about a point in history when A. I. overtakes human intelligence, leading to an unimaginable revolution in human affairs. Or they wonder whether instead of our controlling artificial intelligence, it will control us.
The situation may not arise for hundreds of years to come, but this doesn’t mean we have nothing to worry about. On the contrary, The A. I. products that now exist are improving faster than most people realize and promise to fundamentally transform our world, not always for the better. They are only tools, not a competing form of intelligence. But they will reshape what work means and how wealth is created.
Unlike the Industrial Revolution and the Computer Revolution, the A. I. revolution is not taking certain jobs and replacing them with other jobs. Instead, it is believed to cause a wide - scale elimination of jobs -- mostly lower - paying jobs, but some higher - paying ones, too.
This transformation will result in enormous profits for the companies that develop A.I., as well as for the companies that adopt it. We are thus facing two developments that do not sit easily together; enormous wealth concentrated in relatively few hands and enormous numbers of people out of work. What is to be done?
Part of the answer will involve educating or retraining people in tasks A.I. tools aren’t good at. Artificial intelligence is poorly suited for jobs involving creativity, planning and “cross - field” thinking. But these skills are typically required by high - paying jobs that may be hard to retrain displaced workers to do. More promising are lower - paying jobs involving the “people skills” that A.I. lacks: social workers, barmen, doormen -- professions requiring human interaction. But how many barmen does a society really need?
The solution to the problem of mass unemployment will involve “service jobs of love.” These are jobs that A. I. cannot do, that society needs and that give people a sense of purpose. Examples include accompanying an older person to visit a doctor, helping at an orphanage and serving as a sponsor at charity organization. The volunteer service jobs of today, in other words, may turn into the real jobs of the future.
Other volunteer jobs may be higher - paying and professional, such as compassionate medial service providers. In all cases, people will be able to choose to work fewer hours than they do now.
1. In what aspect is the| A．I. revolution different from the Industrial or the Computer revolution? A. The A.I. revolution will finally become one beyond human’s control. |
| B．A. I. is believed to lead to a point in history when it takes over human intelligence. |
| C．Higher - paying jobs will take the place of lower-paying ones in the A.I. revolution. |
| D．It may bring about mass unemployment to matter how much employees are paid. |
| A．promotional | B．demanding |
| C．guaranteed | D．potential |
| A．It is sensible to encourage people to take volunteer jobs. |
| B．People should be instructed to do less demanding jobs. |
| C．The problem of job loss can be solved by creating lower-paying jobs. |
| D．Jobs requiring knowledge in different fields are suitable for displaced workers. |
| A．The A.I. Revolution Creates New Job Opportunities. |
| B．Challenges the A. I. Revolution Brings to Job Market. |
| C．A Double - edged Sword: the A.I. Revolution. |
| D．Interrelationship between A.I. and Unemployment. |
10 . For most dog owner, the expression “Work like a dog” doesn’t make much sense. The lovely pets usually live a life of leisure. They go from the simple days of childhood directly to the relaxation of retirement, skipping the working part of life completely.
But some dogs happily perform very difficult jobs for much of their life. They put in a full day’s work just like the rest of us. Guide dogs, one of the most familiar kinds of working dog, provide an important service to humans. During the Beijing Paralympics, guide dogs received much attention as they helped their masters--those blind athletes--get from place to place safely.
Dogs were first used to guide blind people in 1819. In 1916, Dr. Gerhard Stalling set up a school to train dogs to help German soldiers who had been blinded in World War I. As time passed, trainers began to recognize which kinds of dogs are best for guide work. Today, Golden Retrievers, Labradors and German Shepherds are favorites because they are smart and work hard.
Guide dogs help blind people get around in the world. To do this, they must know how to:
1. Keep on a direct route.
2. Keep a slow, even pace.
3. Stop at all curbs(路边) until told to start moving again.
4. Turn left and right and move forward and stop when told.
5. Recognize and avoid obstacles that the handler won’t be able to deal with.
6. Lie quietly when the handler is sitting down.
7. Help the handler to get on and move around buses, subways and other forms of public transportation.
As a guide dog, gets more experience with its handler, it may be able to take on even more responsibilities. For example, many guide dogs that have worked for years know all of places their master usually goes. All the handler has to tell them is “go to the office” or “find the coffee shop”, and the guide dog will follow the complete route!
1. In Para. 2, the writer mentioned the guide dogs in Beijing Paralympics in order to _______.| A．arouse readers’ interest in reading the rest part |
| B．emphasize the importance of their hard work |
| C．compare the job of guide dogs with that of humans |
| D．tell the difference of the guide dogs and lovely pets |
| A．avoid leading the handlers to some obstacles impossible to handle |
| B．keep a proper pace that is easy for the handlers to follow |
| C．assist the handlers when taking a bus, subway or train, etc. |
| D．look for some quiet places for the handlers to have rests |
| A．responsible | B．careful |
| C．obedient | D．approachable |
