56. He is an a _______member of this club and takes part in every performance organized by the club.

55.________ Jack, a boy student from Thailand, is looking for a room whose rent is less than ￡200. He hopes to share with easygoing boys, and get along well with the landlord, which can help him to be free from home sickness.

A

Housemate Wanted! One person is required(preferably male)to live in a luxurious house with 5 girls and 2 boys. The house is in an ideal and safe location being only a 10-minute walk from University Park and Jubilee. The rent will only be ￡65 per week. The house has two bathrooms, 4 toilets, a larger furnished living room, central heating, a kitchen fully furnished with dishwasher and microwave, etc.

B

Room To Let! A modern, comfortable house with large rooms is immediately available at 27 Warwick Street Dunkirk. It has been recently refurbished with broadband Internet access. It’s only 5 minutes’ walk from University Campus. Great location! You will pay only ￡235 per month to share with 3 other people.

C

Three large rooms are available in a massive luxurious house within 10 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent is very cheap, only ￡175 per month! The sound and young landlord can make you feel at home. You’ll share with 2 easygoing brothers(one is a student nurse and the other is an engineer).

D

A nice 3-bedroom house is immediately available and will last for one academic year(till next June or longer)in a quiet and safe area in Beeston. It is in good location next to a big shopping market within 7 minutes’ walk from West University Entrance. It has a nice fully furnished kitchen, big bedrooms, big shower rooms, TV, washing machines and broadband access. Easygoing and clean people are welcome to share the house.

E

Housemate wanted! One person is required to live in a fully furnished house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, three toilets, central heating, a kitchen with a fridge and a microwave, and broadband Internet access, located in a safe and quiet area being only a 10-minute walk from North University Entrance. The rent will only be ￡56 per week.

F

Chinese student wanted! A Chinese student(preferably female)is required to live in a luxurious house with 5 Spanish girls who are learning Chinese as their second foreign language. They need to practice Chinese twice a week with the help of the Chinese student who will get ￡350 per month in return for her work. The house is located near QMC which is within 5 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent will be ￡325 per month.

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54.________ Liu Ying, a Chinese girl from a city in the west of China, is studying in the University of Nottingham. She is looking for a place which is near University Campus and she hopes to do a part-time job to earn some money for the rent.

53.________ Li Ming, an easygoing Chinese boy from Beijing, is studying English literature in the University of Nottingham. He is a handsome boy who always keeps himself and his room clean. He hopes to find a room near West University Entrance.

52.________ Mike, a Brazilian boy who has just come to study English in Jubilee Campus, the University of Nottingham, needs a room with central heating in a safe area being only a 10-minute walk from Jubilee.

51.________ Lily, a Spanish girl studying in the University of Nottingham, is looking for a house with large rooms, with broadband access located in an area within 5 minutes walk from the university.

49. Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?

A. He is now still an IBM employer.

B. He has worked for IBM for 37 years.

C. India honors him highly.

D. The US pays much attention to his quality advice.

48. What country has more highest-rating companies in the world than any other country has?

A. India.　　　　　　　 B. The US.　　　　　　 C. Brazil.　　　　　　 D. Germany.

47. Visitors sometimes find Americans behave in a strange, confusing or unbelievable way, probably because　　　　　 .

A. Americans are hard to understand

B. Americans have values which are entirely different from their own

C. they view Americans according to the values in their own society

D. it is difficult to understand any people when you first encounter them

D

If U.S. software companies don't pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U.S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.

Already, of the world's 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That's largely because they have used new methods rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U.S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S -- but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In U.S. factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.

Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing(evaluating)and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.

Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India. Let's hope that U.S. lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.