[简答题]The third International Conference on Information Engineering will be held this spring at Guangzhou University. We take great pleasure in inviting you to attend this meeting. Usually, there were about 800 scientists and experts from all over the world participating in the conference. If you have any papers to submit (提交) or topics on which you would like to give talks, please inform us as soon as possible so that we could finalize (定妥) the program soon.

[简答题]The sixteenth international AIDS conference opened on Sunday in Toronto, Canada. More than twenty-four thousand delegates from one hundred thirty-two countries are attending the six-day conference. They include scientists, health care providers, activists, political and business leaders and people living with the disease. Many people attending the AIDS conference represent private nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs.
Political scientists often describe NGOs as "pressure groups" because of their effect on world issues. They have little official power over international decision-making. However, NGOs often influence international policy.
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A broad definition of NGO is any non-profit group that is independent of government. Most of
these private organizations have one or more goals. For example, some support community development, provide social services and help poor people. Others support human rights and social justice. Still others work to protect the

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There will be three conferences this year--two in Cambridge 20 March and 11 April respectively, and one in London 5 November.
The booking fee is ￡1000 per company. For groups of six or more, the fee is ￡800. A 30% reduction is offered to groups with workshop presenters.
For further information, please contact Jean Palmer.
Tel: 144 2258 5445
Email: J. Palmer@yahoo.com
To: Jean Palmer
From: Tony Hilton
Date: 5 Feb. 2009
Subject: Conference
I’m presiding over a workshop on sustainable business in the International Business Conference this year, and five persons in total in my company will be there. I’d like to go in spring if I had not such a heavy schedule. My wife Catherine and I will be living in my cousin’s, and the rest will require single rooms. I’ll take the laptop, but I still need an OHP. Please arrange for it.