[单项选择]Attn: Research Staff
As part of our initiative to engage more vigorously with our consumers, we have decided to conduct a number of focus groups over the next couple of weeks. Participants in the focus groups will provide feedback on issues such as our branding, our new range of products, and our prices. We hope this research work will generate a lot of ideas that we can then use to improve our products and boost sales. However, in order to run the events smoothly, we need some of you to volunteer your services.
The focus groups will run in the evenings, from 7 pm to 9 pm. Given time constraints, we hope to run five tables concurrently each evening. We will need a facilitator and a transcriber at each table, which is where you come in. We hope that you will make the most of this interesting opportunity.
The facilitator’s main tasks are to keep the conversation on track and make sure everyone in the group is contributing. Accordingly, facilitators need to have excellent i
A. 5
B. 7
C. 9
D. 10

[单项选择]Attn: Research Staff
As part of our initiative to engage more vigorously with our consumers, we have decided to conduct a number of focus groups over the next couple of weeks. Participants in the focus groups will provide feedback on issues such as our branding, our new range of products, and our prices. We hope this research work will generate a lot of ideas that we can then use to improve our products and boost sales. However, in order to run the events smoothly, we need some of you to volunteer your services.
The focus groups will run in the evenings, from 7 pm to 9 pm. Given time constraints, we hope to run five tables concurrently each evening. We will need a facilitator and a transcriber at each table, which is where you come in. We hope that you will make the most of this interesting opportunity.
The facilitator’s main tasks are to keep the conversation on track and make sure everyone in the group is contributing. Accordingly, facilitators need to have excellent i
A. They will be facilitated by employees.
B. They will be recorded on devices.
C. They will be held in the evenings.
D. They will be used to generate ideas.

[单项选择]Attn: All Staff
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Leon Fleming (141) the new director of sales and marketing. The hiring committee came to this decision after carefully examining the pool of candidates. It was agreed that Leon is the candidate with the best credentials.
Firstly, he is in his 10th year at the company, and before that he worked in the industry for five years. But it is not just Leon’s (142) that made him stand out. He has also worked hard to boost his qualifications, completing a part-time MBA program last year.
As director of sales and marketing, Leon will be responsible for a staff of more than 30 employees. He firmly believes his main goal (143) our market share both domestically and overseas will be realized in the near future.
I am also fully confident he will achieve this aim. I hope you will all join me in congratulating Leon on this achievement.

A. is appointing
B. is being appointed
C. has appointed
D. has been appointed

[单项选择]
Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few-for example, the average among students is about 6 per person.
Moreover, a great many relationships come under the blanket term "friendship". In all cases, two people like each other and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their mutual interest vary enormously.
Initially, much depends on how people meet, and on favourable first impressions. As we get to know people, we take into account things like age, race, physical attractiveness, economic and social status, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to relate to people when there is a marked difference in age and
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[填空题] ADVERTISING
Advertising is part of our daily lives. To find proof, you have only to leaf through a magazine or newspaper or count the radio or television commercials that you hear in one evening. Most people see and hear a mass of advertising messages every day. And people respond to the many devices that advertisers use to gain their attention. Advertising is a big business, and, to many people, a fascinating one, filled with attraction and excitement. It is part literature, part art, and part show business. Advertising is the difficult business of bringing information to great numbers of people. The purpose of an advertisement is to make people respond into make them react to an idea, (8) .
At the beginning of the 20th century, advertising was described as "salesmanship in print". If this definition were expanded to include radio and television, it would still stand today.
(9) It can be found as

[单项选择]Accused of neglecting this part of our education, my father instituted a summer school for my brother and me.（）
A. 因为人们指责父亲不重视我们这方面的教育，所以他为我和兄弟们开办了暑期班。
B. 因为被谴责忽略我们的教育，父亲为我和兄弟们报了暑期培训学校。
C. 指控不重视我们的教育，父亲为我和兄弟们报了暑期培训学校。
D. 谴责我们受到的教育，父亲给我们兄弟进行了暑期培训。
E. 父亲谴责我们的教育，于是给我们报了夏天的学校。