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A．exercise
B．performance
C．practice
D．operation
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•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the opposite page.
•For each question 21-30, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
Language learning for the busy executive
If you've ever been told by your boss to improve your knowledge of a foreign language you'll know that success doesn't come quickly. It generally takes years to learn another language well and constant (21) to maintain the high standards required for frequent business use. Whether you study in a class, with audiocassettes, computers or on your (22) sooner or (23) every language course finishes and you must decide what to do next if you need a foreign language for your career.
Business Audio Magazines is a new product designed to help you continue language study in a way that fits easily into your busy schedule. Each audiocassette (24) of an hour-long programme packed with business news, features and interviews in the language of your choice. These cassettes won't teach you how to order meals or ask for directions. It is (25) that you can do that already. Instead, by giving you an opportunity to hear the language as it's really spoken, they help you to (26) your vocabulary and improve your ability to use real language relating to, for example, that all-important marketing trip.
The great advantage of using audio magazines is that they (27) you to perfect your language skills in ways that suit your lifestyle. For example, you can select a topic and listen in your car or hotel when away on business. No other business course is as (28) and the unique radio-magazine format is as instructive as it is entertaining. In addition to the audiocassette, this package includes a transcript. with a business glossary and a study (29) The components are structured so that intermediate and advanced students may use them separately or together (30) on their ability.
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A．exercise
B．performance
C．practice
D．operation
Fill up the gaps with the appropriate words given. perform, impose, subject, breach, notify, remedy, revoke, litigation, entitled, terminate 1. He was arrested for a __________ of the peace. 2. The two parties of a contract should _________ their obligations. 3. Banks ________ very strict conditions for the repayment of loans. 4. The law provides no __________ for this injustice. 5. Specifications are __________ to change without notice. 6. He didn’t __________ the police of the loss of his car. 7. If you __________ the contract unilaterally, you have to perform your obligations stated in the contract. 8. After the car crash, his driving license was ___________ . 9. The bank is in _____________ with this state-owned enterprise over the repayment of the loan. 10. You are not ____________ to unemployment benefit if you have never worked.
From: Paul Richardson To: Samuel Johnson Date: Feb. 2 Subject: Work update Dear Mr. Johnson, We, at Business World Monthly, thank you very much for your review. It is such a pleasure to have people like you review articles quickly and precisely. We thought this would have taken a few days, but after just one day we already got your review. Your work was excellent as usual. Our editors have noted your critique is always comprehensive yet concise in delivering the message, providing considerable amounts of insights to maintain a position as desired originally by the article writer. Your payment is being processed and will be sent to you within 3 business days. We would like to offer you a next assignment which is a review of Future Markets in China by Michael Wu. We are planning to add a few pages for the reviewers columns, so the review may now be up to 1,000 words. However, since we need to more time to revise submissions, we will be instituting strict deadlines. Please, accept this work only if you are able to meet the deadline. If you agree to write this review, a copy of the book and the recently updated copy of the guidelines for reviewers will be sent to you immediately. Please notify us of your availability within 5 business days. Thank you. Yours Sincerely, Paul From: Samuel Johnson To: Paul Richardson Subject: Re: Work update Date: Feb. 7 Dear Mr. Richardson, Thank you for your kind comments. I am happy to be working with your company as well. Yes, Id like to officially accept your offer. Besides, I personally know Mr. Wu very well. We even attended the book fair in Seoul last year. As far as I know, he is a very knowledgeable scholar in the field of International Marketing. I am excited, and I cant wait to read his book. In addition, thank you for sending me the payment. I received it on February 4th as you promised. Thank you. Sincerely, Samuel Johnson
What is the purpose of the first e-mail？
A．To ask Mr. Johnson to attend a book fair
B．To explain a proposed project
C．To notify Mr. Johnson of a changed deadline
D．To confirm receipt of a payment
An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction.
"Don't quit your day job!" is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fame's imperial glory is not easily resisted.
Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain idle, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and it becomes difficult to sustain the attention of the public. After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the audience's favor. The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous.
Famous authors' styles—a Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot—are easily recognizable. The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Dali and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune. However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms.
Fame's spotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle—a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the politician, must often please his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe.
One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a man's soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. You would be hard-pressed to underline many names of those who have not compromised and still succeeded in the fame game. An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself. The mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused him at a banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son. Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young man's mother, asserting that she had damaged his "good" name. He should have hired a better attorney, though. The judge did not second Wilde's call to have the woman pay for damaging his name, and instead fined Wilde. He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor. When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense. His price for remaining true to himself was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most.
Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom! They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans. Failed artists may find comfort in knowing that many great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out. They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences.
Single-minded artists who continue their quest for fame even after failure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous people to work even harder to succeed. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published. Beethoven overcame his father, who did not believe that he had any potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world. And Pestalozzi, the famous Swiss educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form of education. Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the fourth grade, because he seemed to his teacher to be quite dull. Unfortunately for most people, however, failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning.
I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune: good luck. But alas, you may find that it was not what you wanted. The dog who catches his tail discovers that it is only a tail. The person who achieves success often discovers that it does more harm than good. So instead of trying so hard to achieve success, try to be happy with who you are and what you do. Try to do work that you can be proud of. Maybe you won't be famous in your own lifetime, but you may create better art.
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