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Look out you’ll break your neck.
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She said so to warn her husband of the danger in the street.
15. In True Love, Joe’s task is to search for the ideal woman for himself.
16. In Jane Eyre, Mrs. Reed didn’t allow Jane to join the company of her son and daughters.
17. According to The Merchant of Venice, many noble and princely suitors wished to marry Portia because she inherited a large sum of money from her father who had died recently.
18. In The canterbury Tales, the three young men forgot their attempt to find out and kill Death when they caught a glance of great number of gold pieces on the ground.
19. In The Necklace, the heroine was pretty and charming, but she was unfortunately born into a family of a factory worker.
20. According to How Gorge, Once upon a Time, Got up Early in the Morning, Gorge’s watch went wrong one evening and stopped at a quarter past eight because he hung it up over his pillow without ever looking at it.
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. Reading Comprehension. (50%)
Section A: Reading Comprehension
In this part there are 4 reading passages followed by 20 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 options marked A,B,C, and D, you should decide on the best one and write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (40%)
Passage 1
Telecommuting
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substituting the computer for the trip to the job
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has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work.
For workers it promises freedom from the office, less time wasted in traffic, and help with child-care conflicts. For management, telecommuting helps keep high performers on board, minimizes tardiness and absenteeism by eliminating commutes, allows periods of solitude for high-concentration tasks, and provides scheduling flexibility, in some areas, such as Southern California and Seattle, Washington, local governments are encouraging companies-to start telecommuting programs in order to reduce rush-hour congestion and improve air quality.
But these benefits do not come easily. Making a telecommuting program work requires careful planning and an understanding of the differences between telecommuting realities and popular images.
Many workers are seduced by rosy illusions of life as a telecommuter. A computer programmer from New York City moves to the tranquil Adirondack Mountains and stays in contact with her office via computer. A manager comes into his office three days a week and works at home the other two. An accountant stays at home to care for her sick child; she hooks up her telephone modem connections and does office work between calls to the doctor.
These are powerful images, but they are a limited reflection of reality. Telecommuting workers soon learn that it is almost impossible to concentrate on work and care for a young child at the same time. Before a certain age, young children cannot recognize, much less respect, the necessary boundaries between work and family. Additional child support is necessary if the parent is to get any work done. Management, too, must separate the myth from the reality. Although the media has paid a great deal of attention to telecommuting, in most cases it is the employee’s situation, not the availability of technology, that precipitates a telecommuting arrangement.
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