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To: ＜norman@santos.com; roger@santos.com; jackie@santos.com＞

From: Keith Wilson ＜keith@santos.com＞

Date: Thursday, October 23

Subject: Mr. Charlie McGreger's resignation

Thank you all for a very productive meeting this morning. This message confirms our agreement on the main points of the media report Santos Ltd. will release to the press at 5 P.M. this afternoon.

The report will be brief and to the point. It will announce Mr. Charlie McGreger's resignation and the appointment of his replacement. There will be no references to Mr. Charlie McGreger's reasons for resigning his position. Mr. Charlie McGreger has asked us to respect his privacy and we intend to do that.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Keith Wilson

President, Santos, Ltd.

Change in Leadership at Santos, Ltd.

Press release

October 23, 17:00

Santos, Ltd. has just announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer Charlie McGreger, effective immediately.

Since taking over leadership of Santos, Ltd. 8 years ago, Mr. Charlie McGreger has built relationships with major film and broadcast studios, including its recent collaboration with Morin Film Works.

Mr. Norman Winter, Head of Human Resources Department at Santos, Ltd., said, "Mr. Charlie McGreger led our company through considerable progress. We owe a lot of business success to him. And we'll be forever grateful for his insight and initiatives."

Ms. Jackie Johnson, a Creative Director of Breaking Entertainment, will assume the position vacated by Mr. Charlie McGreger. Prior to Breaking Entertainment 5 years ago, Ms. Jackie Johnson worked at Grimm Brother' s marketing and advertising departments. After appointed to Santos, Ltd., she will focus on expanding television, radio and finance industries. A short biography of Ms. Jackie Johnson and a list of her professional achievements can be found at web site www.santos.com.

What is the main purpose of Mr. Keith Wilson' s e-mail？

A．To plan collaboration with film studios

B．To confirm details of an announcement

C．To gain employee feedback on a broad range of current issues

D．To announce new positions at the company

Swedish Academy have this lunchtime announced their decision to award this year’s Nobel prize for Literature to the British playwright, author and recent poet, Harold Pinter and not, as was widely anticipated, to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk or the Syrian poet Adonis.

The Academy, which has handed out the prize since 1901, described Pinter, whose works include The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter and his breakthrough The Caretaker, as someone who restored the art form. of theatre. In its citation, the Academy said Pinter was "generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century," and declared him to be an author "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms."

Until today’s announcement, Pinter was barely thought to be in the running for the prize, one of the most prestigious and (at (作图)1.3m) lucrative in the world. After Pamuk and Adonis, the writers believed to be under consideration by the Academy included Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth, and the Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer, with Margaret Atwood, Milan Kundera and the South Korean poet Ko Un as long-range possibilities. Following on from last year’s surprise decision to name the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek as laureate, however, the secretive Academy has once again confounded the bookies.

Pinter’s victory means that the prize has been given to a British writer for the second time in under five years; it was awarded to VS Naipaul in 2001. European writers have won the prize in nine out of the last 10 years so it was widely assumed that this year’s award would go to a writer from a different continent.

The son of immigrant Jewish parents, Pinter was born in Hackney, London on October 10, 1930. He himself has said that his youthful encounters with anti-semitism led him to become a dramatist. Without doubt one of Britain’s greatest post-war playwrights, his long association with the theatre began when he worked as an actor, under the stage name David Baron. His first play, The Room, was performed at Bristol University in 1957; but it was in 1960 with his second full-length play, the absurdist masterpiece The Caretaker, that his reputation was established. Known for their menacing pauses, his dark, claustrophobic plays are notorious for their mesmerising ability to strip back the layers of the often banal lives of their characters to reveal the guilt and horror that lie beneath, a feature of his writing which has garnered him the adjective "Pinteresque." He has also written extensively for the cinema: his screenplays include The Servant (1963), and The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981).

Pinter’s authorial stance, always radical, has become more and more political in recent years. An outspoken critic of the war in Iraq (he famously called President Bush a "mass murderer" and dubbed Tony Blair a "deluded idiot"), in 2003 he turned to poetry to castigate the leaders of the US and the UK for their decision to go to war (his collection, War, was awarded the Wilfred Owen award for poetry). Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry, declaring on BBC Radio 4 that. "I think I’ve stopped writing plays now, but I haven’t stopped writing poems. I’ve written 29 plays. Isn’t that enough？"

In 2002, Pinter was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus and underwent a course of chemotherapy, which he described as a "personal nightmare". "I’ve been through the valley of the shadow of death," he said afterwards. "While in many respects I have certain characteristics that I had, I’m also a very changed man." Earlier this week it was announced that he is to act in a production of Krapp’s East Tape by Samuel Beckett as part of the 50th anniversary celebrat

A．Narration.

B．Description.

C．Persuasion.

D．Exposition.

one outside of New Mexico had ever heard of Alamogordo. In 1960 its population numbered 21,723. Ever since 1898, when the town had been built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, Alamogordo had been a lonely town. The land around it was largely desert, and largely empty.

Because it was isolated and because the weather was almost always clear and peaceful, a spot of desert near Alamogordo was chosen as the last site for the first atomic bomb ever exploded. The secret name of the test was Zeo.

At dawn on July 16, 1945, the atomic bomb was set off. Observers agreed that they had witnessed something unlike anything ever seen by men before, a huge, colorful fireball, more brilliant than the sun flashing as it rose for miles into the air. Never before had men released so much power at one time, nor had any nation ever possessed weapon as terrible and destructive as the atomic bomb.

For several weeks, the test was kept secret. When an atomic bomb was dropped from an American plane on Hiroshima, Japan, newspapers and radio stations all over America told of the test of the bomb in New Mexico. Almost everybody was amazed to learn where the bomb had been made and tested; the deserts of the Southwest had hidden the secret well.

When news of the atomic bomb and its destructiveness was announced, people all over the world wondered what other new weapons were being prepared in the New Mexico desert. Some people doubted that the secret of making atomic bombs could be kept from other countries. Some even doubted the wisdom of using so powerful a weapon. But no one doubted that a new kind of war—and a new kind of world—had begun at Alamogordo, one summer morning in 1945.

第36题：What is the main topic of this passage？

A) The secret of Alamogordo.

B) A new kind of war.

C) The destructive force of the first atomic bomb.

D) The selection of the test site for the first atomic bomb.

A. The route is not announced.

B. The route is announced with community 90:1 added.

C. The route is announced with community 100:1 added.C.The route is announced with community 100:1 added.

D. The route is announced with communities 90:1 and 100:1 added.D.The route is announced with communities 90:1 and 100:1 added.

Footsteps ______ his return.

A、pronounced

B、declared

C、claimed

D、announced

_______ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.

A to announce B announced C announcing D was announced

The police announced that there will be an official () into the mysterious death.

A、inscription

B、input

C、inquiry

D、irony

A.announced

B.spoke

C.named

A.announced

B.said

C.spoke

D.told