When meeting people for the first time, we can call them by their first name to show our friendliness.（)

as absolutely______.

A．filled

B．packed

C．spilt

D．overloaded

ationship EXCEPT______.

A．discussing problems as they arise

B．greeting each other when meeting in the yard

C．calling on your neighbors frequently

D．helping each other in an emergency

听力原文：M Hi, Nell, are you coming to the seminar？ It starts in an hour.

W I thought you cancelled the seminar because a lot of people are on vacation and not enough people signed up.

M Well, I decided to have the meeting anyway since there is so much useful information that I want to share with the other employees that are there.

W Okay. I'll be in a meeting for the next hour and a half, but I'll come after I'm finished.

When will the seminar start？

A．In an hour and a half

B．After the meeting is finished

C．In an hour

D．After the vacation

听力原文：M: You know these people who want to visit the company？

W: Yes. You are meeting them next week, aren't you？

M: Hum. Where should I take them, the office perhaps？

W: I suppose you prefer this office because it is more comfortable.

M: Well. I did think here, yes. But maybe the factory somewhere.

W: I think they prefer to see where our products are made.

M: OK, I'll meet them there.

When will the man meet these people wanting to visit the company？

A．This week．

B．Next month．

C．Next week．

听力原文：W: You sneaked out of the room so quietly that we didn't realized you left.

M: I don't want to disturb the meeting.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation？

(17)

A．The man disturbed the people who attended the meeting.

B．The woman felt angry when the man left the meeting room.

C．The man left the meeting room quietly.

D．The woman felt sorry for the man's leave.

places like that, because she went to 82 countries when I was president, 82! And in my first term when I was preoccupied with getting the economy turned around with and in the Middle East, in Haiti, she was out there in places meeting with women and children talking about education and economic and power for people in poor countries and in human rights. In 1995 when Hillary represented our country at the Beijing International Women's Conference, she said human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights.

The topics Hillary usually talked about in Clinton's first term exclude:

A．Human rights

B．Education

C．Economy

D．Environment

&8226;Read the article below about meetings.

&8226;For each question 31-40 write one word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

How to make more of meetings

You should know what ends you want to achieve in a meeting before it starts and prepare for it by reading any papers circulated beforehand, and carefully thinking about (31) you want to say. This may sound rather boring, but solid preparation is the key to successful meetings. A great (32) of time and energy can be wasted through simple lack of planning.

The most important issues are not always given the most time in the general running of meetings. People are often unwilling (33) discuss important budgetary matters because they do not fully understand them, but (34) becomes an expert when it comes to discussing the colour of the new curtains, or what type of coffee to buy! The discussion of (35) trivial matters as these, therefore, should be saved until the end of the meeting.

During the meeting it is essential to stick to the agenda so (36) to avoid the common problem of repetition. At the same time you (37) to be sensitive to other people's ideas and feelings, and never lose your temper. Be prepared to accept (38) implement a suggestion that is contrary to (39) own ideas if it is an improvement on them; such honesty and flexibility are signs of good leadership and earn respect.

Finally, remember that when a decision is made it is important to act (40) it and to honour all the commitments you have made in the meeting.

(31)

I thought it was OK to use everyone's first name so as to seem friendly. So when I was meeting this Doctor Schneider, I just kept calling him“Heinrich”, later I discovered that he was so angry that he finished the meeting early. I should have used his titles when addressing him.

？You will hear five short recordings. Five people are talking about a problem that occurred.

？For each recording. decide what each speaker is talking about.

？Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.

？Do not use any letter more than once. There are some extra letters which you do not need to use.

？You will hear the five recordings twice.

A．A wrong hotel

B．A stolen wallet

C．A delayed flight

D．A computer crash

E．A missing luggage

F．A wrong credit card

G．A misplaced presentation

H．A cultural misunderstanding

y people. Everyone has experienced at same time that utter sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in an audience at a lecture. It suddenly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody is sure of himself？ everybody that is, except you.

The feeling pf loneliness which can overcome you when you are m a crowd is very difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their loneliness by joining a club or society, by going out and meeting people. Does it really help？

There are no easy solutions. Your first day at work, or at a new school or university, is atypical situation in which you are likely to feel lonely. You feel that everybody else is full of confidence and knows what to do, but you are adrift and helpless. The fact of the matter is that, in order to survive, we all put on a show of self-confidence to hide our uncertainties and doubts.

In a big city it is particularly easy to get the feeling that everybody except you is leading a full, rich and busy life. Everybody is going somewhere, and you tend to assume that they are going somewhere nice and interesting whereas your destination is less exciting and fulfdling.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING

BM#104

Monthly Meeting of the Advisory Committee

on Affirmative Action

Call to order: Ms. Karen Powers, President

Present: Susan Branch, Kathleen Goodwin, Karen Molzan, Margaret Murphy, Roger Wells & David Sallisbury

Apologies for absence; Luella Kraft, Mark Nolan & Marianna Valdez

Time: 3: 00 p. m. on Friday, August 15, 2009

Venue: Building B, Room 202

Minutes Keeper: Jane Stella, Secretary Page: 1\1

Contents:

1. The minutes of the July meeting were read and approved with the following correction; David Sallisnury was added to the list of members present and deleted from the list of members absent.

2. President Powers read the special Report of the Task Force on Affirmative Action. After Questions, the report was filed for future reference.

3. Ms. Branch, Treasurer, read the Treasurer's report. The balance for July, $5, 215. 67, included $5, 000 allocation for the new fiscal year. The report was accepted and placed on file.

4. After a lengthy discussion on the value of conducting workshops on sexual harassment, Branch moved and Powers seconded that the Committee recommend that the company provided a series of workshops on understanding and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace. Moton carried. Branch volunteered to write a draft of the proposal for management in time for the September meeting.

5. The meeting for September will be at 4: 00 p. m. on the 24th instead of 3: 00 p. m. to accommodate members who will be attending the luncheon with the CEO.

6. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4: 40 p. m.

How many people were present when the minutes of the July meeting began to be read？

A．9

B．8

C．5

D．3

New Foods and the New World

In the last 500 years, nothing about people — not their clothes, ideas, or languages — has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree (可可树) by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500's. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.

The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845 — 1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.

There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world's largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400's.

According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the "wide-awake" feeling that one-third of the world's population now starts the day with.

According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years？

A．Food

B．Clothing

C．Ideology

D．Language