1 . Perhaps at one point in time, it was acceptable to start any letter or e-mail with “To Whom It May Concern.”     1     Starting your cover letter or e-mail for a job this way might give off the impression that you didn’t do your research on who you’re writing to.     2     After all, people who address other people by their names when writing and speaking to them tend to be more pleasant.

    3     It can be used in letters of recommendation or reference, formal complaints（抱怨）made to a company, letters of introduction, and letters of interest.

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,     4     “In most cases, though, try to narrow your focus rather than cast a broad net,” notes Grammarly.”Ask yourself. Who does this e-mail concern? If you can honestly answer ‘Anyone, ‘then feel free to use “To Whom It May Concern.” （These are the things you should never say in your cover letter.）

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.     5    

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.

2 . We’re Hiring Shift Workers for Our Production Plant

Looking for a career with a company that values its employees, and promotes them from within? Then Black Cat Blades is the company for you!

Cutting Operators

CNC Operators

Heat Treat Operators

Full training provided, starting at ﹩14．50 per hour, with the potential to move to ﹩18．16 in one year．

We also require a Skilled Welder(焊接工), to work 12-hour rotating shifts (轮班) in our cutting department．The successful candidate must be a registered journeyman(熟练工) within the Province of Alberta or with a Red Seal．

We offer a great benefit package, including health and RRSPs． Desirable welfare: Profit Sharing, Pay for Years of Service, Fitness Program Allowance, and fun social events for you and your family．

Apply in person, and we'll take you on a tour of our production equipment or forward your personal information by fax or e-mail．

Black Cat Blades Ltd

HR@ blackcatblades． com

5604-59 St．, Edmonton, AB T6B 3C3

Fax: (780)465-9595

1. What is the most attractive about the company?

A．Charged training	B．Desirable welfare
C．Working time	D．Free travelling

2. Who can be admitted as a skilled welder?

A．An experienced operator	B．A person without a Red Seal．
C．A registered journeyman in Alberta	D．A clerk from Black Cat Blades

3. How many kinds of work does the company offer?

A．Three．	B．Four
C．Five	D．Six

3 . Many people think only professionals—engineers, accountants, teachers, etc.—have careers.    1     Even if you’ve never had a paid job, you still have a career. Your career is the sum of your life and work. It includes all your activities and experiences. Your schooling, your volunteer work, and even your relationships with your family are all big parts of your career.     2    

During your career, you will have a variety of jobs, occupations and roles. People used to think of a job as full-time, permanent, paid work done for an employer at a work site. But in our changing world, a job is a set of duties or tasks. It can be paid or unpaid.     3     Even someone who is self-employed has a job.

An occupation is a group of jobs with similar responsibilities that require a common set of skills.     4     Programmers may have permanent or temporary jobs working for specific employers, be self-employed, work full-time or part-time, be paid for their work or volunteer their services. They may change jobs or hold several jobs at one time but, until they change the type of duties or tasks they perform, they are still computer programmers.

    5     We all play a number of roles in our lives and our roles often change over time. For example, Kris works four days a week as a receptionist in a clinic and takes evening courses in social work. She also sews gymnastic wear for her neighbor who sells it at summer markets. Now Kris has at least three roles.

A．A role is a part you play.

B．Actually everyone has a career.

C．In other words, your career is your life story.

D．For example, computer programmer is an occupation.

E．As a matter of fact, a job is different from a role in some way.

F．It can be completed at a work site, at home, or somewhere else.

G．The following is about your work, your family, and your life story.

4 . Imagine that you’re looking at your company-issued smartphone and you notice an e-mail from Linkedln:“These companies are looking for candidate like you!” You aren’t necessarily searching for a job, but you’re always open to opportunities, so out of curiosity, you click on the link. A few minutes later your boss appears at your desk. “We’ve noticed that you’re spending more time on Linkedln lately, so I wanted to talk with you about your career and whether you’re happy here,” she says Uh-oh.
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

2. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?

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.

3. According to the research by CEB, which of the following might be the most probable reason for workers to quit their jobs?

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.

5 . Many managers believe that overworking is an evidence of devotion from their employees’ side. Still few others regard this custom as a threat to the workers’ work-life balance, which may negatively influence the level of productivity and efficiency.

Employees at Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen won’t be putting in much overtime. Not in the office, at any rate. That’s because every day at 6:00 pm, their desks, tables and other work surfaces, with their computers attached, are lifted to the ceiling by steel cables （绳索）normally used to move heavy props（道具）in theatrical productions. If you leave a half-eaten sandwich on your desk, you’re out of luck.

“Once the chairs and other workplace paraphernalia are cleared away, the space is free for evening and weekend use as a dance floor, yoga studio ... or anything else you can think of – the floor is actually yours, ” doctor Sander Veenendaal said.

In a way, the office space itself is working overtime for Heldergroen, bringing about lots of publicity and carrying an enlightened（有启发的）message of career-life balance far and wide.”We think that doing activities like this makes it easier for people to work here,” says Veenendaal. “You know when it is time to relax or do something else that inspires you.”

That sounds awesome. There’s just one catch. In the morning, the desks reappear and everybody has to go back to work.

1. What can we learn about the employees at Heldergroen?

A．They are unwilling to work late

B．They are discouraged from working overtime

C．They are persuaded to leave the office earlier

D．They are to put away their computers after work

2. What does the underlined word “paraphernalia” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Props.	B．Food.
C．Equipment.	D．Cables.

3. What does the author think of the Heldergroen’s office design?

A．Creative.	B．Inconvenient
C．Ordinary	D．Strange

6 . 假设你是周亮，即将从华光中学毕业。你得知某英文报社正在征文，题为“If I am a teacher, I will…”。请你给该报社投稿，内容包括：

1．你对教师这个职业的看法；

2．你会做一个什么样的教师。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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7 . 假定你是李华，计划寒假找份兼职工作。下面的招聘广告引起了你的注意，请根据要点（箭头所指内容）写一封申请信。

注意：
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

8 . It is named a kind of wooden Eiffel Tower, because of the fact that there was a large wooden platform far out in the lake on which stood an improbably high diving board. It was, I’m sure, the county’s tallest wooden structure and no one had ever been known to jump from it.
So it was quite a shock when our teacher, Mr. David, announced that he would dive off the high board that very afternoon.
Word of his questionable plan was already spreading through town as Mr. David swam out to the platform. He was just a tiny, stick figure when he got there but even from such a distance the high board seemed almost to touch the clouds. Once at the top, he paced the enormously long board, then took some deep breaths and finally stood at edge. He was going to do it.
Several hundred people had gathered at the shore to watch. Mr. David stood for quite a long time, then he raised his arms, took one massive bounce and launched himself into a perfect dive. It was beautiful. He fell with perfect style for what seemed minutes. The crowd fell silent. The only sound to be heard was the faint whistle of his body tearing through the air toward the water far, far below.
But about three quarters of the way down he seemed to have second thoughts and began suddenly to panic, waving his arms and legs like someone having a bad dream. When he was perhaps thirty feet above the water, he gave up on waving and spread his arms and legs wide, apparently hoping that it would somehow slow his fall.
It didn’t.
He hit the water at over six hundred miles an hour. The impact was so loud that it made birds fly out of their trees three miles away. I don’t think he entered the water at all. He just bounced off it, about fifteen feet back into the air. After that, he lay still on the surface, spinning like an autumn leaf.
He was brought to shore by two passing fishermen in a rowboat and placed on an old blanket where he spent the rest of the afternoon. Occasionally he accepted small sips of water, but otherwise was too shocked to speak. From head to toe, he was covered with deep red bruises.
It was the best day of my life.
1. How did the writer find Mr. David’s plan to jump from the diving board?

A．Heroic.

B．Disappointing.

C．Crazy.

D．Confused.

2. In Paragraph 3, Mr. David is described as “a tiny, stick figure” because he was ________.

A．very far away	B．very small and thin
C．tired after swimming	D．sure to be broken

3. Why did Mr. David suddenly start swinging his arms and legs during the dive?

A．He thought it was the best way to slow his fall.

B．He wanted to show his courage.

C．He was signaling the crowd for help.

D．He lost his confidence and started to panic.