I. Associate Product Manager -- New Grad-- Beijing

    Responsibilities include working with engineers to define products, understanding user needs, researching markets and competitors, and planning future product directions. As you gain more experience, there’s an opportunity for promotion within the organization.

Requirements:

☆Bachelors degree and more than one year of job experience.

    ☆Strong organizational and analytical skills.

II. Director of Education -- Sylvan Learning Centers -- Long Beach, California

Job description:

  As a successful director of education, your primary responsibility will be to champion the Sylvan developed course, ensure the quality of the education standards and teachings staff as well as grow the business in your center.

We require:

    ☆Bachelors degree and at least 2 years of teaching experience.

    ☆Managerial experience.

III. Area Export Manager -- Beijing Import＆Export Corporation -- Beijing

    Highly developing company is looking for bright, experienced salesperson who will be responsible for the export of frozen seafood and other goods between China and the USA, Australia, and Canada.

Qualifications：

    ☆Excellent level of English，spoken and written.

    ☆Excellent communication and organizational skills.

    ☆Experienced salesperson with proven results in fast-moving consumer goods essential，preferable in frozen seafood market.

IV. Subeditor---Media Contacts----London

Working in the amazing world of law and enforcement（执法）, you will be making sure that you are meeting the exceptionally high standards of copy for this company. As part of a team of six, you will be meeting tight deadlines on a daily basis and ensuring regular flow of articles onto the website. Must have a keen eye for detail and confidence in working with challenging copy. Experience in subediting, and a practical knowledge of publishing law are required.

V. Casual trainer---Medilife --- Sydney，NSW Australia

    Medilife requires able, reliable trainers who can demonstrate the qualities of flexibility and loyalty and join their young, fun-living team. Successful applicants will receive excellent hourly rates. Suitable training provided to the right applicant．

1. Which of the following are specially required to most of the positions in the ads？

A. Experience and responsibilities        B. Experience and good English.

   C. Special skills and English                        D. Responsibilities and bachelor’s degree

2. The positions are offered in _____ different countries.

   A. three                 B. four               C. five               D. six

3. Which position is possible for a fresh university graduate to apply to？

   A. Education director  B. Associate product manager C. Casual trainer D. Export manager.

4. From Passage IV we can infer that a subeditor’s work is to _____.

   A. write articles for website                B. copy information from the Internet

   C. enforce publishing laws                 D. examine other people’s writing

 Early in _______ morning_______ word came that Mr. Black had been elected _______ president of the company.

       A. the; a; /      B. the;/ ; /       C. /; a; the      D. /; /; the

 Once he ______ his mind, nothing can be done to ________ his mind.

A. made up; change  B. has made up; change C. changed; make up D. has changed; make up

．The work is not very profitable ____ cash, but I am getting valuable experience from it．

       A．in terms of          B．according to     C．in relation to         D．in view of

In my experience, one of the greatest reasons of unhappiness is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are．When we see something we don’t like, we wish it could be different–we cry out for something better．That may be human nature, or perhaps it’s something that has been grown in our culture．

The root of the unhappiness isn’t that we want things to be different, however, it’s that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place．We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It’s not bad or good, but it just is．”

Here is an example．I have written a paper, A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind．Quite a few people think it bad after reading it because I think people should expect things to go differently than you planned, and that you should accept that, instead of encouraging people to change themselves or the environment as much as possible．You could accept it as the way the world works–as the way things actually are．And try to understand why that is, and follow it, as it is．

This can be useful to whatever you do: whether it be how other people act at work, how politics works and how depressing the news media can be．Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why they’re that way．

It’ll save you a lot of sadness because you’ll no longer say, “Oh, I wish things didn’t go bad!”

If you really understand what I mean, you can try a different way to live in this world:accept, and understand．It might lead to some interesting results．

1．What is the major reason why we feel unhappy in the writer’s opinion?

A．We are never satisfied with ourselves and the environment around us．

B．When we see something that makes us unhappy, we don’t know what to do．

C．We feel hard to accept the way things happen themselves．

D．No matter how happy we are, we never want to be happy．

2．What do you think the writer may say to himself when he meets something unhappy?

A．How could I have made such a stupid mistake?

B．I should have done better．It’s all my fault．

C．Why is it all against my plan? It can’t be so bad．

D．Well, I know all is what it is meant to be．Take it easy．

3．Why do some people think badly of the writer’s new paper after reading it?

A．The writer hasn’t shown an encouraging attitude in his paper．

B．The writer asks people to try to make things better．

C．The writer reminds the people that things will go exactly as you’ve planned．

D．The writer doesn’t think it a good idea to accept the things go naturally．

4．The statements below are based on the writer’s points of view, EXCEPT_______

A．Unhappiness may be caused by human nature that we always want things to be better．

B．Why we don’t like the thing is that we have regard it as bad in the beginning．

C．The news media shouldn’t be so depressing if the reporters worked harder．

D．The best way to avoid feeling unhappy is to accept the things as they are．

    Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population growth-but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

    Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

    As Martine puts it, among other things, soap operas and installment plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

    "Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package."

   Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction," says Martine.

1 According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth        .

     A. by chance

     B. by educating its citizens

     C. by careful family planning

     D. by developing TV programs

2. What is probably Brazil's present population growth rate according to para.2?

    A. 2.99%      B.1.93%       C.2.7%      D. lower than 1.93%

3. Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil's birth rate because        .

    A. they keep people sitting long hours watching TV

    B. they have gradually changed people's way of life

    C. people are drawn to their attractive package

    D. they popularize birth control measures

4. What's the author's purpose to write this passage?

    A. To call on developing countries to learn from Brazil's experience of controlling population growth rate.

    B. To account for the reasons why Brazil succeeded in controlling its population growth rate.

    C. To tell us how Brazil benefited from its successful control of population growth rate.

D. To raise people's awareness of controlling population growth rate.

Play, often seen as________activity for kids, is still important in______development of teenagers.

   A. the; the          B. an; the      C. an; 不填     D. the; 不填

 Could you lend me 50 pence? ______, I’ll have to change a ￡10 note into coins.

A. Therefore                B. Instead                    C. Otherwise                 D. Yet

．Several hours later, with the help of the police , the students managed to escape from the dangerous place, ______．

A．hungry and frightened                         B．hungrily and frightening

C．hungry and frightening                          D．hungrily and frightened

．______ he works hard, I don’t mind when he finishes the experiment．

A．As long as                     B．As well as               C．So far as                 D．As soon as