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Today, more than 45 years later, I always check out " It pays to Enrich Your Word Power" first when the Digest comes each month. I am impressed with that idea, word power. Reader's Digest knows the power that words have to move people to entertain, inform. and inspire. The Digest editors know that the big word isn't always the best word. Take just one example, a Quotable Quote from the February 1985 issue: " Time is a playful thing. It slips quickly and drinks the day like a bowl of milk. "

Seventeen words, only two of them more than one syllable, yet how much they convey! That's usually how it is with Reader's Digest. The small and simple can be profound.

As chairman of a foundation to restore the Statue of Liberty, I've been making a lot of speeches lately. I try to keep them fairly short. I use small but vivid words: words like "hope" , "guts", "faith" and "dreams". Those are words that move people and say so much about the spirit of America.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not against using big words, when it is right to do so, but I have also learned that a small word can work a small miracle—if it's the right word, in the right place, at the right time. It's a "secret" that I hope I will never forget.

The passage is mainly about______.

A．one of the many old memories

B．using simple words to express profound ideas

C．Reader's Digest and school speeches

D．how to make effective speeches

Passage Three

It's Christmas again. We live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren't much good. You can't see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth (污秽) and dirt. My children must get out of this. But how？ The money that we've saved isn't nearly enough.

The McGaritys have money, but they are show-offs with it. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of cookies while a group of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts, and when she couldn't eat any more, she threw the rest down the sewer (阴沟).

Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House (教育中心) isn’t rich, but she knows things, she understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. Everyboby else here looks away because they'rs ashamed of their lives. I'd like to see the children be like Miss Jackson when they grow up.

41. The writer suggests that her family______.

A. is extremely rich

B. is an unhappy one

C. live with nice and kind people

D. long for a change in their life

A to miss

B missing

C miss

What we can learn from the article？ (More than one correct answer)

A.The author doesn’t agree with the approach to using existing products to understand users’ needs.

B.With the iPad Apple has not provided an answer to market needs.

C.In 2008, when Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air, he didn’t think users will miss the optical drive.

D.Apple is not alone in thumbing its nose at the notion of user-centered innovation.

TQ Company, a listed company, recently went into administration (it had become insolvent and was being managed by a firm of insolvency practitioners). A group of shareholders expressed the belief that it was the chairman, Miss Heike Hoiku, who was primarily to blame. Although the company’s management had made a number of strategic errors that brought about the company failure, the shareholders blamed the chairman for failing to hold senior management to account. In particular, they were angry that Miss Hoiku had not challenged chief executive Rupert Smith who was regarded by some as arrogant and domineering. Some said that Miss Hoiku was scared of Mr Smith.

Some shareholders wrote a letter to Miss Hoiku last year demanding that she hold Mr Smith to account for a number of previous strategic errors. They also asked her to explain why she had not warned of the strategic problems in her chairman’s statement in the annual report earlier in the year. In particular, they asked if she could remove Mr Smith from office for incompetence. Miss Hoiku replied saying that whilst she understood their concerns, it was difficult to remove a serving chief executive from office.

Some of the shareholders believed that Mr Smith may have performed better in his role had his reward package been better designed in the first place. There was previously a remuneration committee at TQ but when two of its four non-executive members left the company, they were not replaced and so the committee effectively collapsed.

Mr Smith was then able to propose his own remuneration package and Miss Hoiku did not feel able to refuse him.

He massively increased the proportion of the package that was basic salary and also awarded himself a new and much more expensive company car. Some shareholders regarded the car as ‘excessively’ expensive. In addition, suspecting that the company’s performance might deteriorate this year, he exercised all of his share options last year and immediately sold all of his shares in TQ Company.

It was noted that Mr Smith spent long periods of time travelling away on company business whilst less experienced directors struggled with implementing strategy at the company headquarters. This meant that operational procedures were often uncoordinated and this was one of the causes of the eventual strategic failure.

(a) Miss Hoiku stated that it was difficult to remove a serving chief executive from office.

Required:

(i) Explain the ways in which a company director can leave the service of a board. (4 marks)

(ii) Discuss Miss Hoiku’s statement that it is difficult to remove a serving chief executive from a board.

(4 marks)

(b) Assess, in the context of the case, the importance of the chairman’s statement to shareholders in TQ

Company’s annual report. (5 marks)

(c) Criticise the structure of the reward package that Mr Smith awarded himself. (4 marks)

(d) Criticise Miss Hoiku’s performance as chairman of TQ Company. (8 marks)

Brian: Hello, Miss Zhou. I’m Brian Wilson. Glad you could come.

Zhou Yan: 1 _________.

Brian: 2 ______？

Zhou Yan: I’ve been a data entry operator for more than two years.

Brian: 3 ______？

Zhou Lan: I worked for Havana Motors.

Brian: That’s a famous company. Why did you leave your job then？

Zhou Lan: 4 ______. That will widen my experience in the field of computer technology.

Brian: Good. 5 _______.

Zhou Lan: I studied computer science in North University, and got an MS degree.

Brian: Um, and one more thing, can you work overtime？

Zhou Lan: 6 ______________.

Brian: Fine. We have a vacancy for a computer operator, working weekdays from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., with half an hour lunch break.

Zhou Lan: 7 ______________？

Brian: It will be $25,000 a year.

Zhou Lan: 8 ______________？

Brian: Yes, there’re good prospects for promotion.

Zhou Lan: I think this job should suit me well.

Brian: Can you start working next Monday？

Zhou lan: Sure.

Brian: That’s settled then. 9 ______________.

Zhou Lan: Thank you, Mr. Wilson.

Brian: Goodbye.

A. No problem. I’m in good health and hardworking.

B. Thank you for inviting me.

C. What’s the salary？ May I ask？

D. Where did you work？

E. Hope to see you on Monday.

F. What kind of education have you got？

G. Can you tell me something about your working experience first？

H. Well, I enjoy having a change.

I. Is there any opportunity for advancement？

Breakfast

1 If you have to miss one meal a day (or if you want to do so), which meal will cause you fewest health problems if you don't eat it？ If they have to make a decision of this type, most people (especially dieters or very busy people) will choose to skip breakfast

2 However, many experts in the field of health consider breakfast (the meal which "breaks" your "fast" which started the night before) to be the most important meal of the day. If we eat a good breakfast, they say, we will have the energy and nutrients we need to begin our working day with vigor and hopefully with good humor. Nevertheless, many people skip breakfast or substitute a donut and a cup of coffee for a well-balanced meal What happens if we ignore the importance of breakfast？

3 One recent study conducted in the United States tesled a large number of people Participants included both males and females who ranged in age from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given a variety of breakfast, and sometimes, they had to skip breakfast completely. Special tests, including blood tests and endurance tests, were setup to analyze how well the participants, bodies functioned when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast.

4 The results showed that if a person eats an adequate breakfast. he or she will work more efficiently and more productively than if he or she skips breakfast or eats a very poor breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a persofl,s work involves mental activity The study showed that if schoolchildren eat fruit, eggs, bread, and milk before going to school, they will learn more quickly and will be able to concentrate on their lessons for a longer period of time than if their breakfast diet is inadequate

5 The study also showed that, contrary to what many people believe, if you skip breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry if they skip breakfast that they eat so much for lunch and end up gaining weight instead of losing. So remember, if you are on a diet, skipping breakfast will not help you. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals

Questions 21-30 are based on Passage .

21. The word "dieters" means "those who restrict themselves to a special diet in order to control their weight"

22. In the word "breakfast", "fast" probably means "going without food"

23. Many experts in the field of health think that breakfast is most important in a

working day.

24. Some people will substitute a donut and a cup of coffee for a regular breakfast

25. Those participating in the experiment were all adults.

26. During the experiment, these people were given very good breakfast

27. Special tests were set up to analyze how the participants, bodies functioned when they had eaten particular breakfast

28. The results showed that if a efficiently eats a big breakfast, he or she will work

29.The study showed that if schoolchildren have adequate breakfasts before going to school

30. We can safely say skipping breakfast will help one lose weight

A.Nervousness is intimately related to underperforming.

B.When people are nervous, they tend to focus on themselves, what they’re saying, how they’re responding.

C.Being nervous is normal and it’s ok to dismiss your jitters sometimes.

D.Anxiety can be a blocker that stops you from listening, or makes you miss something vital your interviewer just asked.