1 . It goes without saying that everyone has bad days at work. You hit an unexpected problem with a project you’ve been working on for weeks.     1    You are severely criticized by your boss in the company. Whatever your workplace problem is, one effect it has is to make you feel more alone. There are times when you feel as though your colleagues are upset and you can only rely on yourself.     2    

When you’re feeling upset about a problem at work, take a minute to think of someone in your life that you’re grateful to and write a sentence or two on a notepad about what you appreciate.     3     Why does it have such power? Gratitude is often a positive emotion you   feel when someone else has gone out of their way to do something helpful for you that they didn’t have to do. That person has done something selfless in order to make your life little---or perhaps a lot---better.

    4     It might be a relative who took care of you when you were little, a teacher who   helped you out in a tough situation or a colleague who put you up for a great opportunity.

Picking one of those folks out and reminding yourself of why you’re grateful to them has two benefits.     5     It also reminds you of the deep social connections you have so that you   don’t feel quite as isolated anymore.

A．You have a quarrel with your beloved.

B．In those moments, a little gratitude can help

C．Here are some reasons to explain these situations.

D．All of us have people in our lives who fit that bill.

E．Research shows practicing gratitude can make you happier.

F．You forget the appointment with a VIP customer and keep him waiting.

G．For one, it gets you thinking about something positive and lifts your mood

2 . ※Project Management Assistant

Responsibility:

—Provide service for the project in Tianjin.

—Provide assistance to the project manager for everyday work.

—Responsible for file management, customer service for students & parents.

Requirements:

—College degree and above.

—Good English and computer skill.

—Related working experience in an international organization.

—Patient, careful, supportive. Have strong team work spirit.

※English Teacher

Responsibility:

—Conduct English teaching according to British education system.

Requirements:

—University degree and above in English major or normal English.

—Eager to learn and open-minded with creativity.

—With deep understanding for different cultures.

(Warmly welcome the fresh graduates to apply for this position.)

※Marketing Assistant

Responsibility:

—Responsible for the local management of marketing & sales activities according to the instructions from the head office.

—Collect related information to the head office.

—Develop relationship with local media and customers.

Requirements:

—College degree and above with good English (speaking & writing).

—With basic idea of sales and marketing,related experience is preferred.

—Working experience in the international organizations is a must.

—Good communication and presentation skills.

※Accountant

Responsibility:

—Accountant work for Tianjin office and project.

—Perform the finance management locally according to the rules & policy of the company.

Requirements:

—College degree and above in finance area.

—Good English and good computer skill.

—Have sense of finance management.

—At least 2 years' experience as an accountant in an international organization is a must.

—Self-management, hardworking, independent and able to deal with pressure.

You can go to http://www.51job.com for more information.

Please mail or fax your resume(both in English & Chinese), diploma, training certificates and expected salary to the following address within two weeks. No personal visit or telephone call before that. Your materials will be kept in ACE files.

Add: Room 1806 Plaza Building Hexi District Tianjin300221

Fax Number: 022-3728428

Email: lircarehxtj@sina.com

1. If you want to get the position as the project management assistant in your resume you'd better say ________.

A．you always have new ideas

B．you can decide everything for yourself

C．you are good at becoming a good leader

D．you are always ready to listen and help carry out good decisions

2. If you have just graduated from a university, you should apply for the position as ________.

A．a project management assistant	B．an accountant
C．a marketing assistant	D．an English teacher

3. If you want to apply for a position, you can ________.

A．make a telephone call at any time

B．tell the company how much money you want for your position

C．go to the company

D．write about yourself either in English or in Chinese

3 . 假定你是李华，你从网上得知某英语报社要在你所在的城市招募一名中学生记者。请你结合自己的情况，用英语写封求职信，内容主要包括：
1. 写信目的；
2. 个人情况；
3. 致谢并表达希望。
注意： 1. 词数80词左右；     
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . 假如你是李华，你的美国朋友George发来邮件，想了解你未来想做什么职业。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 你未来想从事的职业；2. 你选择该职业的原因；3.……
注意：
1. 词数80字左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 划横线部分不计入总字数。
Dear George,
I’m more than delighted to hear from you.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5 . Do you like the idea of running your own business from home? Most of you do, and the first things you say you like about it are being your own boss, having flexible hours and working in your pajamas.    1    

Being your own boss is definitely one big advantage.    2     You must commit to work on your business regularly to make profits. If not, you will find that your income becomes non-existent.So, have set office hours where you productively work on building your business.

    3    Doctors’ appointments and family commitments can simply be worked into your schedule. Again, you need to arrange your appointments carefully and try to book them together. This way you can get all of your running around done in one day.

Working in your pajamas may seem appealing initially. But it can also prevent you from actually getting your work done.     4     After that, just walk into your office and start your day’s work. Being too casual means getting less work done on a regular basis.

In order to run a successful business from home you need to have a good mindset.    5    

Taking off too many hours each week will damage your financial stability and long-term success. Set goals and limits on your time. Build your business first, before taking advantage of what working from home offers.

A．But it can also become your downfall without care.

B．Flexible hours are another huge plus of working from home.

C．Once it's achieved, you'll have more opportunities to develop business contacts.

D．You may find it more efficient to get up, exercise, then shower and dress for work.

E．This includes realizing that you and only you are responsible for your own income.

F．One of the biggest drawbacks is that it is so easy to allow yourself to have excuses.

G．While these benefits sound great, the reality of working from home can be a little different.

6 . If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis(静止): if our lives were ever in balance—parents happy, kids taken care of, work working—then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.

Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life—just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.

We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.

Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric (织物) of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.

The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love”column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.

Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance?

A．Doubtful.

B．Disapproving.

C．Supportive.

D．Neutral.

2. “Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that __________.

A．arouse your passion	B．satisfy your desires
C．improve your motivation	D．require your efforts

3. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.

B．Recording activities helps create positive feeling.

C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.

D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.

7 . What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Friends.

B．Boss and employee.

C．Salesman and customer.

8 . It’s pretty common to feel like we’re in a position or career where we’re just going through the motions, trying to get to that next paycheck or the next vacation. Yet, it is __________ to hope for or to expect better from those we work for after we have __________ what we have been assigned to do.

St. John Properties just __________ $10 million in holiday bonuses to their employees! This incredible __________ came during the company’s holiday party where all 198 employees were __________ with a sealed envelope. Then, the company owner Edward St. John took to the stage and said each envelope __________ a bonus check based on the time with the company, at a(n) __________ of $50,000 per employee. When St. John was asked what __________ him to give away such sizable bonuses, he simply said, “They’re the ones who make the boat go.”

Sometimes, it may feel like our __________ at work or at home may go unnoticed so that’s why it’s important to __________ them on a personal level. In doing so, it helps us better appreciate our colleagues or __________ members for their own efforts. When we show our __________ , not only during the holiday season but every chance we get, we __________ to improve morale and team spirit. __________ , it helps to remind us of our potential, both __________ and collective, and leads us to the opportunities we deserve.

1.

A．impossible

B．strange

C．ridiculous

D．acceptable

2.

A．refused

B．adjusted

C．accomplished

D．delayed

3.

A．handed down

B．gave out

C．handed in

D．gave up

4.

A．impact

B．gift

C．policy

D．notice

5.

A．awarded

B．inspired

C．presented

D．impressed

6.

A．contained

B．cashed

C．represented

D．covered

7.

A．expense

B．average

C．loss

D．rate

8.

A．disturbed

B．allowed

C．forced

D．caused

9.

A．positions

B．roles

C．efforts

D．achievements

10.

A．value

B．recognize

C．admit

D．encourage

11.

A．family

B．society

C．group

D．union

12.

A．determination

B．knowledge

C．appreciation

D．view

13.

A．choose

B．tend

C．try

D．expect

14.

A．Otherwise

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Furthermore

15.

A．individual

B．physical

C．mental

D．hidden

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who does the woman want to see?

A．Mrs. Jones.

B．Mr. Smith.

C．Mrs. Johnson.

2. Why is the woman there?

A．To visit a friend.

B．To buy a computer.

C．To interview for a job.

3. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．In an office.

B．In a hospital.

C．In a computer store.

10 . Countless people’s first jobs were part-time positions. This is partly because full-time jobs are more difficult to obtain, and part-time jobs require less responsibility in general. Employers like to hire people for part-time jobs, as they often do not require them to hand out benefits. My first official part-time job was working at my community college as a writing and English tutor.

I still got poor grades in English and writing in high school. It was only in college that I began to flourish (起色) with a pen and paper. By my second year of college, I was often getting “A” grades or hearing praise from my professors. I think this transformation happened due to my enthusiasm for written word, and this excitement assisted me in overcoming my difficulties.

What astonished me most in my part-time job was that the ESL (English as a second language) students were often better writers than the native people I tutored. I think this was due to the fact that they seriously studied English grammar, punctuation and composition, whereas the native speakers took English for granted. What also surprised me was how people-friendly I could be. In high school, I was mostly a loner, and found comfort in books, my chess board and my computer. But in college, I became increasingly outgoing through my job.

I believe this experience is not only a great step forward towards full-time office work, but it’s also taught me that I love teaching and interacting with people of various backgrounds. In addition, I’ve learned the joy of working around my own schedule. Through having several part-time jobs, I can say that this type of work allows one to be happier, healthier, and have a better outlook on one’s assignments.

1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Part-time jobs are harder to acquire than full-time jobs.

B．Part-lime jobs are win-win for both applicants and employers.

C．Teaching people from different cultures was too demanding.

D．The writer suffered a lot from the tight schedule as a tutor.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The benefits of excellent writing.

B．The difficulties in learning to write.

C．The writer's writing courses in college.

D．The writer's experience in leaning to write.

3. What did the writer find in his pant-time job?

A．Efforts were often in vain for ESL learners.

B．Many native speakers were talented writers.

C．He became more easy-going and sociable.

D．He was addicted to reading and chess-playing.