Text 2 Ever since John Burrows and his wife Carol opened their first hair salon in 1983, they have been taking on apprentices. "In my generation, an apprenticeship was the way to learn a trade so it was the obvious way for us to get the skilled staff we needed," Mr. Burrows says. Today, the Burrows’ salon, Upper Cut in Weston-super-Mare, employs 35 people. Of the 16 stylists, 13 progressed through apprenticeships and Mr. Burrows believes a strong culture of training is integral to the company’s success. "Without the apprenticeships scheme our business wouldn’t be anything like the size it is today," Mr. Burrows says. The high-quality training the apprenticeships provide guarantees growth. The more skills staff have, the more effective a business will become. Although Mr. Burrows is an advocate of the scheme, he concedes that occasionally he has suffered problems. They have experienced episodes of theft, poor time keeping and bad discip
A. he is very angry for many of his apprentices' failing in acquiring the NVQ certificates.
B. those who have physical defects can impossibly pass the exams for NVQ.
C. the apprentices who have got NVQ certificates always choose to leave for an other place.
D. NVQ is so difficult that he has to spend more time in teaching the youngsters.
Text 2 Ever since John Burrows and his wife Carol opened their first hair salon in 1983, they have been taking on apprentices. "In my generation, an apprenticeship was the way to learn a trade so it was the obvious way for us to get the skilled staff we needed," Mr. Burrows says. Today, the Burrows’ salon, Upper Cut in Weston-super-Mare, employs 35 people. Of the 16 stylists, 13 progressed through apprenticeships and Mr. Burrows believes a strong culture of training is integral to the company’s success. "Without the apprenticeships scheme our business wouldn’t be anything like the size it is today," Mr. Burrows says. The high-quality training the apprenticeships provide guarantees growth. The more skills staff have, the more effective a business will become. Although Mr. Burrows is an advocate of the scheme, he concedes that occasionally he has suffered problems. They have experienced episodes of theft, poor time keeping and bad discip
A. makes her free up some time to get on with other things.
B. brings many creative ideas to her for innovating her shops.
C. helps her to offer someone else the opportunity to learn a trade.
D. saves her a lot of energies to expand the business.
Text 2
Ever since John Burrows and his wife Carol opened their first hair salon in 1983, they have been taking on apprentices.
"In my generation, an apprenticeship was the way to learn a trade so it was the obvious way for us to get the skilled staff we needed," Mr. Burrows says.
Today, the Burrows’ salon, Upper Cut in Weston-super-Mare, employs 35 people. Of the 16 stylists, 13 progressed through apprenticeships and Mr. Burrows believes a strong culture of training is integral to the company’s success.
"Without the apprenticeships scheme our business wouldn’t be anything like the size it is today," Mr. Burrows says. The high-quality training the apprenticeships provide guarantees growth. The more skills staff have, the more effective a business will become.
Although Mr. Burrows is an advocate of the scheme, he concedes that occasionally he has suffered problems.
They have experienced epi
A. makes her free up some time to get on with other things.
B. brings many creative ideas to her for innovating her shops.
C. helps her to offer someone else the opportunity to learn a trade.
D. saves her a lot of energies to expand the business.
Text 2
Bobby and his master, farmer John Gray, were familiar sights in Edinburgh. Every Wednesday after a visit to market and exactly as the time-gun boomed one o’ clock, the two would enter Traill’ s Dining Room for their midday meal, a frugal lunch for Gray, and a bun for Bobby.
Then in 1858, the schedule was interrupted. Farmer Gray died. Three days after the funeral exactly at one o’ clock, Traill found him self looking into a pair of beseeching canine eyes. Bobby got his bun and disappeared. This was repeated for several days until Traill’ s curiosity got the better of him. He followed the small terrier as he left and raced to his master’ s grave. There he remained each day, fair or foul, despite the efforts of dog-loving townspeople to give him a new home. The graveyard caretaker, while sympathetic, was at first not so willing to let him in. But Bobby’ s devotion and fidelity were so great that the caretaker provide
A. Bobby had refused to live in other people' s home.
B. Bobby was devoted and faithful to his master.
C. Bobby was once arrested because he did something wrong.
D. Bobby was protected by Lord Provost William Chambers until his death.
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