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If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God.” Came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Officer or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice, so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up’’ or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.1. To make your humor work, you should（）.2. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurse, they are（）.3. It can be inferred from the text that public services（）.4. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered（）.

When Use Hadda sold her roomy, three bedroom house a year ago to move into a two-bedroom condo in Berkeley, California, she struggled to arrange her old furniture in her new space. Familiar pieces that had fit together so naturally before no longer connected in the same homey way. Nothing seemed to work. Her seven large wooden bookshelves, standing together in the living/dining room area, looked awkward and a little overwhelming. She couldn’t find space for her favorite leather chair and the other furniture grouped around the living room fireplace. In an alcove off the master bedroom, her desk felt out of place and got in the way of the in-wall ironing board. "I was frustrated because it looked awful, she says.Hadda turned to a surprising source for help the "home stager" she'd hired earlier to strip the personality from her old home so it would be more attractive to potential buyers.It's not as strange as it sounds. Real-estate agents often recommend that sellers hire a home stager (also known as real-estate enhancer) to whisk through their homes and "neutralize" them before they go on the market. When "staging to sell," a home stager, sometimes with the help of a team, stashes away personal items (your collection of antique dolls, for example, or the model boat on the mantel); repaints aggressively colored walls, and rearranges furniture and accessories to draw attention to a home's best features. "Staging to live," as it's called, is the logical next step. Having come to appreciate the clean, uncluttered look the stager achieved in their old homes, seller are rehiring stagers to work the same magic in their new home. But this time, instead of seeking to depersonalize your abode, the emphasis is on organizing, decluttering, and rearranging to "de-stress" the environment, says Barb Schwarz, who's been staging homes for more than 30 years and founded the International Association of Home Staging Professionals four years ago."It's visual therapy," says Schwarz. "It's about fine-tuning a space to improve its energy and the flow from room to room," she says. Schwarz estimates that about 40 percent of her staging-to-sell clients ask her to stage their new homes.Staging is also about getting rid of familiar objects that homeowners are overly attached to, says interior designer Pat McMillan, coauthor of Home Decorating for Dummies. A stager "can be brutally honest" about disposing of clutter and relegating tatty family heirlooms to the closet.Anyone can hang out a shingle in this rapidly growing field, through a three-day course at one of Schwarz's Staging University training programs which covers such topics as traffic patterns, furniture arrangement, and "family lifestyle”, earns graduates the right to call themselves Accredited Staging Professionals. Fees vary widely but typically run about $75 an hour. Depending on the number of rooms, the total fee to stage a home may range anywhere from $750 to $3,0000, says Schwarz .1. The sentence "Nothing seemed to wok" (Paragraph 1) probably means（）.2. Which of the following is true according to the third paragraph?3. We may infer from the third paragraph that（）.4. According to the passage, the stager field is the one in which?

Business travelers used to be the cash cows of the hotel business. Armed with corporate credit cards and expense accounts, they'd happily lay down hundreds of dollars per night for the privilege of a Godiva chocolate on their pillow and a sunken whirlpool tub in their bathroom. But just as prolonged corporate belt tightening has forced road warriors to use budget airlines, more and more of them are now eschewing five-star lodging in favor of cheaper accommodations. Indeed, earlier this year the U.S.-based National Business Travel Association released figures showing that 61 percent of corporate travel managers planned to book their people into lower-priced hotels in the coming year.Here's the good news: penny-pinching is translating into better deals at cheap and up-market hotels alike. Services at middle-market hotels are rising to accommodate a new wave of more demanding corporate customers. And luxury hotels are working harder to keep business travelers coming, offering lower rates, special packages and extra services. Even though business-travel volume is set to rise by more than 4 percent in 2004 after three dismal years, hotels will continue to be under pressure ----in large part because a weak dollar is forcing American business travelers to search for value.Some of the best deals are coming from the big chains. In January, Starwood Hotels announced it would upgrade it global middle-market brand. Four Points, by rolling out free high-speed wireless Internet access in all guest rooms. On the flip side, upscale brands like Inter Continental and Ritz Carlton are selling empty rooms at discount rates via online services. That has the effect of depressing luxury-room prices, because corporate travel managers can now demand that hotels match their own discount prices all the time. Inter Continental hotels in France and Germany have been hit so hard that they are actually repricing their rooms to reflect rates before the dollar began falling. Upscale hotels like Waldorf-Astoria, Sofitel are also trying to offer extra services.But beware of new, hidden fees. In an effort to make up some of their lost revenue, hotels are starting to charge corporate travelers for things that used to be free ——including breakfast, banquet or meeting rooms.Aside from saving companies money, the trend in frugal business travel may give rise to a whole new market segment: the buy-to-let hotel room. Last week in London, British property developer Johnny Sandelson launched Guestlnvest, a hotel in Notting Hill where users can purchase a room for £235,000, use it for a maximum of 52 nights a year themselves, then rent it out the rest of the time to make extra money. It seems an idea whose time has come: Guestlnvest says it has already fielded hundreds of calls from business people interested in making a cheaper hotel their second home.1. According to the passage, business travelers used to（）.2. How do hotels react to the penny-pinching policy?3. Travelers can now demand hotels to match their own prices because（）.4. Compared with traditional hotels, the buy-to let hotel（）.

During the famine of 1943, millions of Chinese peasants（）to the cities because they could not survive in the rural areas.

The design of the gymnasium shows a great deal of（）. We have never seen a building of such a type before.

It is very strange but I had an（）that the Malaysian plane had gone off course and had been caught in a suicidal hijack.

Every president must（）the presidential oath before he delivers the inaugural address.

If we do not adopt urgent measures, many species will be（）in the near future.

He could not（）his late arrival at the conference.

According to some psychologists, we must recognize that perception of the external world does not always remain independent（）motivation.

Could you possibly（）me at the next committee meeting?

The wealth of a country should be measured（）the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.

He failed to carry out some of the provisions of the contract, and now he has to（）the consequences.

Directions: Recent media have launched a heated discussion on whether the pedestrians should be punished when they break the traffic rules. What is your opinion? Write on the ASNWER SHEET a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:My View On Pedestrians’ Violation of Traffic RulesYou are to write in three parts:In the first part of your article, you should clearly present your view.In the second part, you should support your opinion with appropriate details.In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summary.

Directions: The May Day holidays are coming, and you want to write a letter inviting your friend, Mr./Ms. Wang, for gathering.Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. Start your letter with “Dear Mr./Ms. Wang”； Do NOT sign your own name at the end of the letter; use “Chen Ling” instead. You do not need to write the address.

Translate the following part into English. 建设生态文明，是关系人民福祉、关于民族未来的长远大计。面对生态系统退化的严峻形势，我们必须树立尊重自然、保护自然的生态文明理念，把生态文明建设放在突出地位，融入经济建设、文化建设、社会建设各个方面和全过程，努力建设美丽中国，实现中华民族的永续发展。

Translate the following part into Chinese.What makes a home? Love and comfort. It is a place where kindly affections exist among all the members of the family.A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man. Your home may be poor and humble, but it is the place you have the duty to try to make it cheerful and comfortable. A home is more than a family dwelling. It is also a school in which people are trained for citizenship. It is the basis and origin of civilization.

Inflation is an economic condition in（1）prices for consumer goods（2）and the（3）of money or purchasing power decreases.There are three important causes of inflation. The first and most important cause may be excessive government spending. For example, in order to（4）a war or carry（5）social programs, the government may spend more money than it has received through taxes and other revenue, thus creating a deficit. In order to（6）this deficit, the Treasury Department can simply（7）the money supply by issuing more paper money to（8）the debts of government. This increase in the money supply will cause the value of the dollar to（9）decrease. The second cause of inflation occurs when the money supply increases faster than the supply of goods. （10）people have more money, they will run out to buy popular goods （11）television and computers, for example, and a shortage will result.Industry will then produce more, at higher prices, to（12）demand. （13），if peoplethink that the prices of popular goods are going up, they will buy and even borrow money at high .（14）rates to pay for them. Finally, if labor unions demand that works wages（15）to（16）the high cost of living, industry will meet his demand and add other cost of production on to the（17）. （18）summary, all of these causes can（19）inflationary problems that can affect the welfare of a nation. However, of these three causes,（20）government spending may be the most important.

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike. Progress in both areas is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong. We are fortunate that is it because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations. The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radically higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States. Not long ago, with the country entering a recessing and Japan at its pre-bubble peak, the U.S. workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of the primary cause of the poor U.S. economic performance. Japan was, and remains, the global leader in automotive assembly productivity. Yet the research revealed that the U.S. factories of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese counter parts —a result of the training that U.S. workers received on the job.More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry's work.What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have begun to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it. After all, that’s how education got started. When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food. Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.As education improved, humanity’s productivity potential increased as well. When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education. This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance. Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education. A lack of formal education however, doesn’t constrain the ability of the developing world’s workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future. On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.1. The author holds in paragraph 1 that the importance of education in poor countries（）.2. A major difference between the Japanese and U.S. workforces is that（）.3. The author quotes the example of our ancestor to show that education emerged（）.4. According to the last paragraph, development of education（）.

China today is home to 1.3 billion people ——nearly one quarter of the world’s population. The growth of China's population is largely the result of modernization, which has brought with it more food, better medical care, less disease, and fewer epidemics and famines. The death rate in China has decreased, and more children survive. The higher survival rate in China means that more people are entering childbearing age. This population growth was threatening to destroy China’s chances to become a richer country: just providing food and basic necessities for everyone would consume all of its economic gains.To tame the explosive population growth, the Chinese government launched a drastic policy of allowing one child per family. To enforce this policy, the government has a variety of incentives for those who comply and punishment for those who do not. For example, couples who have only one child get a monthly pay until the child is fourteen, special consideration for scarce housing, free medical care, and extra pension benefits. The pressure to conform is powerful. Couples who ignore the state’s directive suffer social disgrace and economic penalties.The family-planning policy, instituted in China in 1979, has been remarkably effective (though considerably more so in cities than in the countryside). Births to woman of childbearing age have fallen dramatically ----to about 2.5 children for every woman.China may eventually succeed in balancing its population growth, but in doing so, it is creating a new problem. The irony is that because of the very success of China’s population policy, the Chinese population is aging rapidly. In 1982, 5% of the population was over age 64. In 2010, about 9% will be over 64 and in 2050, 25% will be. At the family level, children without brothers or sisters will each have to care for two aging parents. At the national level, the great numbers of aging people will tax the society’s resources. China stares this problem ----a rapidly aging population without a large enough following generation to support it ——with many of the developed nations of the world.1. According to the passage, China is in a population dilemma in the sense that（）.2. To punish those who violate the family planning policy the Chinese government does which of the following?3. According to the passage, all of the following are the causes for the population explosion in China except（）.4. The primary purpose of this passage is to（）.

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