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Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer’s photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from a traditional ukiyo-e along with the photo. The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help promote interest in letter-writing in the Internet age. "Certainly e-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way," said an official in the Posts Ministry. "We want to show young people that letters can be fun too. " While similar stamp sheets debuted in Australia in 1999 and are
A. $8.80
B. $0.88
C. $10
D. $5

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Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer’s photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from a traditional ukiyo-e along with the photo. The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help promote interest in letter-writing in the Internet age. "Certainly e-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way," said an official in the Posts Ministry. "We want to show young people that letters can be fun too. " While similar stamp sheets debuted in Australia in 1999 and are
A. They can be used normally to mail a letter.
B. They can only be used for exhibition.
C. They are used to attract more tourists.
D. They are used to post on famous buildings.

[单项选择]Yousnf Karsh, the Canadian portrait artist who photographed many of the most influential figures of the 20th century, died in a Boston hospital on July 13, 2002, after complications following surgery. He was 93.
Working from a studio in Ottawa, Karsh produced famous portraits of such subjects as Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway and Albert Einstein. Actually he has become almost as famous as his legendary subjects. In the latest edition of Who’s Who, which listed the most notable people of the last century, Karsh was the only Canadian of the 100 famous people listed—51 of whom Karsh had photographed.
Karsh was praised as a master portraitist, often working in black and white, influenced by great painters of the past. He was famous for talking to his subjects as he was getting the shot’s composition just right, asking them questions and putting them at ease. He confesses that he continues to feel more challenged when
A. American
B. Canadian
C. British
D. Armenia

[填空题]Japanese people continue to work after retirement because they need the income.

[简答题]A record number of Japanese people worked themselves to death last year despite a government campaign to ease the country’s notorious office hours.

[填空题]Who was Miss Fanny Jackson

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Directions:
Miss Wang who is in your University Placement office has suggested you to write to × × company to look for a part-time job in its Accounting Department.
The following points should also be covered in your letter:
1) introduce yourself and your personal life briefly;
2) your work-time;
3) wish to have an interview;
4) the way of contacting you.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.

[简答题]Directions:
Miss Wang who is in your University Placement office has suggested you to write to × × company to look for a part-time job in its Accounting Department.
The following points should also be covered in your letter:
1) introduce yourself and your personal life briefly;
2) your work-time;
3) wish to have an interview;
4) the way of contacting you.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.

[单项选择]The Japanese as a people are very polite. They are polite (1) each other and they are (2) polite toward foreigners. (3) . Japanese student was in the United States (4) at an American university. He did not know
English (5) and wanted very much to learn the various expressions of politeness (6) in everyday conversation. He (7) been invited to a party at the (8) of one of his (9) . He bought a book with many expressions of politeness in it, (10) he studied the expressions carefully. That afternoon at the professor’s home when the professor’s wife served him coffee and sandwiches, he got up at once, smiled happily, and (11) : "Thank you, dear Sir or Madame, as the case may be."
(12) story concerns an American who was (13) several months in Japan (14) business. He had a young Japanese servant who, (15) most Japanese, was extremely polite.
A. message
B. information
C. advice
D. letter