The China Daily newspaper group is looking for English-language senior business editors，senior copy editors，copy editors and graphic designers to strengthen its international team．We offer a competitive salary package，free accommodation with utilities paid for，90 percent medical reimbursement，a seven-day paid leave，eleven-day public holidays and a return ticket to the country of residence．
Senior Business Editor
You must：
·assist the business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them；
·be an excellent team person who can generate ideas and think creatively and be able to rewrite totally if needed and mentor junior staff；
·ideally have been working or have worked in a position of responsibility and understand what leadership entails；
·have had at least five years’ editing experience working on editing the Business Desk and be familiar with industry software．
Senior Copy Editor
You must：
·work on shifts in the Business Desk and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print；
·edit or rewrite copy and give smart headlines and captions；
·have had at least two years’ editing experience working on editing desks and be familiar with industry software．
Copy Editor
You must：
·be good at editing or rewriting copy and writing smart headlines and captions；
·be able to work on shifts for different pages，and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print；
·have two years of editing experience working on copy desks，and be familiar with industry software．
Graphic Designer
You must：
·have excellent skills in information graphics；
·be good at illustrations and freehand drawings；
·be experienced in newspaper or magazine layouts；
·have a good sense of typography；
·have good news judgment；
·be skilled in Macintosh software，including in Design，Illustrator and Photoshop；
·be fluent in English．
For enquiries or to apply，write to job @ chinadaily.com.cn．
1.What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To describe the positions of the China Daily newspaper group．
B. To describe the working conditions of the China Daily newspaper group．
C. To advertise for hiring some good employees．
D. To tell you how to become good editors and designers．
2.What is not required about Graphic Designer?
A. Being good at Photoshop．
B. Having excellent skills in information graphics．
C. Having a good sense of typography．
D. Writing smart headlines and captions．
3.How many positions need editing experience?
A. Two． B. One．
C. Three． D. Four．
Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, also wrote a children’s book with his daughter. Hawking said the book would be “a bit like Harry Potter” but without the magic. “It explains the wonders of the universe,” said Hawking, while he was on a visit to Hong Kong over 10 years ago.
Hawking, is probably the world’s most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He is an expert on black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and the end) of the universe. “My goal is simple,” Hawking once said. “It is to completely understand the universe, why it is as it is and why it is there at all.”
Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time, he had no way to communicate except by blinking.
Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer’s mouse. He selects his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer.
“I have had the disease for most of my life,” Hawking once said. “Yet it has not stopped me from being successful at my work.”
Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements. He has received many awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is the highest achievement in theoretical physics.
1.In the first paragraph, the book that Stephen Hawking wrote is_____.
A. the same as Harry Potter B. is quite different from Harry Potter.
C. about the magic D. about science
2.From the text we can learn _____.
A. Hawking is more famous than Einstein
B. Hawking is less famous than Einstein
C. Both Hawking and Einstein are very famous
D. Neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous
3.What does the underlined pronoun “It” in the second paragraph stand for?
A. The goal. B. The magic.
C. The universe. D. The book.
4.According to the text, which of the following statements is the fact?
A. Hawking has received many awards and prices except the Albert Einstein Award.
B. The illness keeps him from moving and talking.
C. He communicates with others by speaking.
D. The illness stopped him from being successful.
假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Smith 来信说对中医感兴趣，想来中国学习。请你给他写回信，内容如下：
1. 支持他的决定；
2. 简单介绍中医及其优点。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Smith,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有l0处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从笫11处起)不计分。
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to this year English speech competition. As an annual activity, it is popular with students, the purpose of the English speech competition is to help us improve our ability of communicating in English. In addition, it can also help to develop the good habit of reading. I'm surely we can make progresses in our listening, speaking, reading and writing through the competition.
A topic of the speech of this year is The English Novel I Like Best. Anyone who will take part in the competition can chose any novel you consider it the best. Then you can introduce it to the others. In the speech you should also explain the reason why you like the novel best in fluent English within five minutes. Remembering that correct pronunciation required in the competition too.
We sincerely hope the competition will be a success.
Thank you!
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this1. other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and 2.（hold）conversations with imaginary persons, and I think 3. the very start my literary ambitions 4.(mix) up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a 5.(nature) ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this6. (create)a sort of private world 7. I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
However, 8. quantity of serious writing which I produced all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about 9. except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth”--- a good enough 10.(express).
I am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.
I met him many years ago while doing my internship (实习期) in the country prison. He was ________ a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was always ________ new ways to bring hope and help to these men and their ________.
One of his favorite ________ was the Toy Drive. He would run every Christmas for the children of the prisoners. He did this for twenty years ________ his sudden death. As last Christmas ________，I decided that this tradition had to be ________，for the children as well as the ________ of my friend.
But the file where he kept the names of the people who had been helped by him over the years was ________. I had to start anew(重新) and with very little ________! I started making phone calls, explaining about the project and my ________. I prayed every night that the event would, ________, be worthy of my friend. To my great ________, individuals, churches and businesses began to come on board and, ________, I had enough toys to give to all the children of the prisoners with some left over for the local community ________!
When Christmas Eve finally arrived, I felt very happy, thinking I had done all I could do and reflecting on what a(n) ________ it had been for me. I was bagging up the remaining toys ________ if there was anyone left who might like them. Then my phone rang.
It was my daughter. She ________ to explain about a woman she knew in Kentucky who had five children, one seriously ill, no husband, no heating in the home, no toys! Oh! How could we not?
My daughter and I drove all night, from New York to Kentucky, and those children woke up in a nice warm house with plenty of ________!
My friend’s ________ of kindness lived on that year, reaching all the way to Kentucky!
1.A. recording B. directing C. attending D. improving
2.A. putting up with B. keeping up with C. coming up with D. catching up with
3.A. family B. group C. company D. club
4.A. events B. sports C. hobbies D. games
5.A. after B. until C. because D. since
6.A. arrived B. approached C. followed D. finished
7.A. carried out B. lived on C. lived out D. carried on
8.A. benefit B. pleasure C. memory D. favor
9.A. active B. extra C. missing D. hiding
10.A. pressure B. time C. energy D. confidence
11.A. atmosphere B. impression C. importance D. difficulties
12.A. somehow B. however C. otherwise D. though
13.A. curiosity B. disappointment C. thought D. relief
14.A. absolutely B. occasionally C. eventually D. generally
15.A. as well B. in particular C. once more D. at first
16.A. burden B. pity C. honor D. discovery
17.A. predicting B. realizing C. evaluating D. wondering
18.A. called B. came C. returned D. drove
19.A. chocolates B. candies C. flowers D. toys
20.A. position B. spirit C. courage D. attention
