[单项选择]Employees attending the writing seminar are expected to practice imaginative and ______ writing as well as develop their technical writing skills.
A. detective
B. negative
C. descriptive
D. cooperative

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Employees say one thing and do another, a recent UK-based report claims. (0) H Addressing these problems is especially important when there are skills shortages, and companies are trying hard to retain the workers they have. According to the report, there is a consistent discrepancy between what really attracts staff and keeps them, and what they say are priorities.
The report found that, although there are differences in preferences, depending on age, home country and gender, all age groups say they rate the work/life balance as an extremely important consideration for staying with their particular company. (9) This is followed by job security and financial rewards.
However, despite their proclamations about wanting a work/life balance, it was established that this does not have a positive effect on retention for any subgroup. Similarly, people profess to identify more clo

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WRITING SECTION DIRECTIONS
The Writing section measures your ability to use writing to communicate in an academic environment. There are two writing questions.
Question 1 is an integrated writing task. You will read a passage, listen to a lecture, and then answer a question based on what you have read and heard.You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response.
Question 2 is an independent writing task. You will answer a question based on your own knowledge and experience. You have 30 minutes to plan and write your response.
QUESTION 1
For this task, you will write a response to a question about a reading passage and a lecture. You may take notes, and you may use your notes to help you write your response. Your response will be scored on the quality of your writing and on how well you connect the points in the lecture with points in the reading. Typically, an effective response will have 150 to 225 words.
Some

[单项选择]Report writing: a growing demand
Writing reports is an essential business skill, one which is often thought to be quite distinct from those required for letter writing and speech making, for instance, yet in each case success comes from taking a common basic approach. Nowadays, the availability of computers makes it tempting to devote much of the planning stage of writing a report to experimenting with graphics and layout - which may well benefit the reader - but we risk focusing on presentation at the expense of substance. After all, the absence of visible corrections may not mean an absence of errors.
Skill at report writing is needed for anything from a short magazine article to a lengthy submission to a public enquiry. In business, it is nor only required for more and more jobs; it can also make a difference to your chances of promotion. When you speak, people know that you don’t have the time to organise your ideas, or choose the fight words. But when you writ
A. The degree of accuracy in reports is higher now than in the past.
B. Report writing and other forms of communication need similar skills.
C. Readers are likely to respond favourably to attractively presented reports.
D. The use of a computer can simplify the planning stage of a report.

[单项选择]What is mentioned about the seminar
A. It will run all day tomorrow.
B. Attendance is optional.
C. It begins in 60 minutes.
D. No one was notified about it.

[填空题]THE BUSINESS MASTER CALSS
SEMINAR NOTES
Arrangements for participants
1．The event will take place over______
2．Seminar organized by______
3．The title of the last session will be______
4．To use the New City Hotel car park, delegates must obtain a______
Dr Sangalli
5．Dr Sangalli has advised many______
6．The name of his consultancy is______
7．He is the author of______
8．In Europe, he is best-known______
The Business Master Class
Two problems for companies:
9．to become more______
10．to establish new______
Two outcomes of session:
11．design you own______
12．take away doucuments containing actual______