What are the three features of a thesis statement？A、It should have a narrow focus,B、It c

A.informational

B.emergency

C.warning

D.critical

E.debug

F.error

SECTION A COMPOSITION [35 MIN]

Comparison has been a part of life for many people. Males compare their careers,

accomplishments and what they have, while females compare brand clothes and families.

What do you think？

Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition o f about 200 words on the topic:

Is It Wise to Compare Ourselves with Others？

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.

In the second part, support your opinion with appropriate details.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.

Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss o f marks.

阅读理解：根据文章内容，判断正误。

WHAT DO YOU SAY IN A COVER LETTER？

A cover letter is a letter of introduction sent along with a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV). How do you write a successful cover letter？ Bear these points in mind, and you'll always make a great impression.

Keep your cover letter brief and to the point. Writing more than one page is usually unnecessary. If it is sent in an email, writing three short paragraphs is quite sufficient.

Explain why you are sending a résumé. Don't make the reader guess what you are asking for.

Tell specifically how you learned about the position or the organization – a flyer posted in your department, a web site, a family friend who works at the organization, etc.

Convince the reader to look at your résumé. The cover letter will be seen first. Therefore, it must be very well written and targeted to that employer.

Call attention to your background – education, leadership, experience – that is relevant to the position you are seeking.

Provide any information specifically requested in the job advertisement that might not be covered in your résumé, such as availability date, or references.

操作提示：正确选T，错误选F。

1. A cover letter is a letter of introduction sent along with a résumé.{T; F}

2. The cover letter is usually more than one page.{T; F}

3. There is no need to explain why you are sending a résumé.{T; F}

4. The cover letter must be very well written.{T; F}

5. Education background is irrelevant to the position you are seeking.{T; F}

阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容进行判断，正确写“T”错误写“F”。

Feedback from your customers is very important. The more information you have from them, the more competitive you will be in your field. The following techniques will help you know what the customers think of your business.

1. Ask your customers directly and cater to their wishes. This is the simplest way to find out what people want from your service or product. When hotel customers are asked what they want for their breakfast and then the hotel staff are asked what they think the customer wants, the answers are quite different.

2. Be a customer yourself and find out what your customers experience when they use your service. This is one of the most obvious but underused ways for getting feedback. For example, you can act as one of the customers in a wheelchair, and see how you’re treated.

3. Use a focus group. Focus groups are representatives of customers whose job is to provide you with information on their needs and preferences.

4. Use questionnaires and surveys. This is one of the most well-established feedback techniques. When well-conducted, they usually work well.

5. Encourage your front-line staff to build strong relationships with customers. Your front-line staff are the most resourceful and reliable, as well as the least costly, of your customer feedback sources. Their communication with the customers will become important information for improving customer care.

You may deliver the best service in the world. But if it is not what people want, you’re wasting your time. Implement one, two, three or all of the above techniques, and your service and product will improve overnight.

1. Hotel customers and hotel staff think the same about breakfast.{T、F}

2. A good or bad experience of a customer in a wheelchair in your shop shows whether your service is good or not.{T、F}

3. It’s not necessary to know about the customers’ needs and preferences. {T、F}

4. Questionnaires are useful in getting feedback from customers.{T、F}

5. Front-line staff have nothing to do with improving customer service.{T、F}

What does“meteorological experts”mean in paragraph three？_______

A．predictors

B．witch

C．weatherman

D． a kind of Englishman

A.A

B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

Dialogue Three

Interviewer: How long did you live in the States？

Interviewee: I was there for two years， in New York， and I enjoyed it tremendously. What I liked best was that I could work and still lead a normal life. I mean， the shops are open till 10: 00p. m.

Interviewer: All shops？

Interviewee: Yes， everything. Food shops， chemists， and department stores. ____ 8 ____ And on public

holidays， only the banks are shut.

Interviewer: I see， emm...Do you think New York is as multinational as London？

Interviewee: Oh， that‘s for sure. But it‘s not as mixed ____ 9 ____like there‘s Russian， the German section and China Town. But I think the major difference between these two cities was the height of the place. Everything was up in the Big Apple. We lived on the thirty-fifth floor. And of course everything is faster and the New Yorkers are much ruder.

Interviewer: Oh! In what way？

Interviewee: Well， pushing in the street， fights about getting on the bus， ____ 10 ____ And of course the taxi drivers! New York taxi drivers must be the rudest in the world!

第8题__________ 查看材料

A.nationalities stay in their own areas

B.people don"t queue like they do here in England.

C.Cultures vary from country to country.

D.Some supermarkets are open twenty-four hours a day.

A.Particle-reinforced composites

B.Fiber-reinforced composites

C.Layered composites

D.Polymer-matrix composites

Before a Roman farmer would plant his fields, he would try to get Saturn to give him good weather. He believed that if he killed an animal for Saturn, he would make Saturn happy. Then Saturn would make sure that the weather was good.

Not only did the people name a planet after Saturn but they also name a day of the week after him. They called this day “Saturn dies”, Latin words which mean “day of Saturn”. In English those words became Saturday.

(1) What was Saturn believed to be in charge of？

A.Rainfall.

B.The power of nature.

C.Farming.

D.Days in a week.

(2) Why did a Roman farmer kill an animal before planting his fields？ Because_______.

A.killing an animal would bring him good luck

B.Saturn enjoyed eating animals

C.Saturn was happy to see animals being killed

D.he wanted to please Saturn so that Saturn would make the weather good for his planting

(3) What was the correct order of what a Roman farmer did before planting his fields？

a. observing the weather

b. killing the animal

c. getting his farm tools ready

d. finding an animal

e. offering it to Saturn

f. waiting for good weather to come

A.a,b,c,d,e,f B.a,b,c,f,d,e

C.a,d,b,e,f,c D.e,a,d,b,c,f

(4) Which of the following is NOT TRUE？

A.Saturn is also the name of planet.

B.The Roman people used to believe Saturn to be their god

C.Saturn was named for the last day of the week.

D.Saturn had three meanings.

(5) What’s the purpose of the author to write this passage？

A.How the Romans worshipped Saturn.

B.Why the Romans believed in Saturn.

C.The different meanings of the word Saturn.

D.How Saturday got its name.