One in 20 people have been reprimanded (训斥) at work for sending an ill-advised email, according to a survey.

Inappropriate jokes, angry messages sent in the heat of the moment, and scathing email replies forwarded to the wrong people are among some of the email gaffes that have landed office workers in hot water with their employers or clients.

One in five of those questioned said they had sent an inappropriate email in the heat of the moment, while almost a third said they had accidentally hit “reply all” instead of “reply”.

More than one in 10 of the 2,000 people surveyed admitted they had mistakenly sent an email criticizing a colleague to the person they were insulting.

According to the research, carried out to mark the DVD release of Going Postal, the television adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel, men were more likely to make an email gaffe than women, with 28 per cent admitting to sending an ill-judged message, compared to 17 per cent of women.

There have been a number of well-documented email gaffes. Last year, a worker at Deloitte had to resign after emailing colleagues asking them to name the best-looking man in the office, while in 2000, nine members of the Financial Services Authority were suspended after forwarding copies of explicit emails.

1.Which takes up the highest percentage of the mistaken-sending?

A. Sending an unwise email.

B. Sending to a wrong person.

C. Sending an unsuitable email.

D. Sending to all instead of a particular one.

2.Compared with women, men, in dealing with emails, are .

A. more careless B. more conscious

C. more unreasonable D. more critical

3.The underlined word “well-documented” in the last paragraph probably means “ ”.

A. causing preventable problems

B. being copied without exception

C. having been frequently recorded

D. existing unexpectedly in people’s daily life

4.What may be the best title for the text?

A. Think before you send

B. Reduce email mistakes

C. Be aware of the result of a survey

D. Make good use of modern technology

The famous composer, Albert Roussel, didn’t have a good start in this career. However, he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a ______.

Roussel’s parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his ______. As a little boy, he fell in love with music and ______ himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept, _____ which there were a lot of related books. Three years later, Roussel’s grandfather died, and his mother’s sister decided to _____ him. Her husband was a kind man and______for young Roussel’s music lessons. One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second ______to his life—the sea. Then he studied to be a naval cadet(海军学员), but still took time to study _____.

In the French Navy, he and two friends found the time to _____a band, playing the works of Beethoven and other ____. Roussel also began composing. On Christmas day 1892, he had his first chance to _____as a composer, which turned out to be a success.

That success ______ Roussel to write a wedding march(婚礼进行曲), and one of his navy friends _____to show it to a famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend _____with the manuscript(手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to _____his naval career and devote his life to music.

Not long, ______, at the age of 25, Roussel decided to ______Edouard Colonne’s advice. He gave his heart and soul to his composing and ______ a major force in twentieth century French music. Because of Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring _____, Roussel devoted his life to music, but Rousssel’s _____friend later admitted that he had made it up. He said he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the famous conductor.

1.A. lie B. guess C. hope D. joke

2.A. aunt B. teacher C. grandfather D. neighbor

3.A. consulted B. reminded C. asked D. taught

4.A. between B. within C. before D. among

5.A. catch B. raise C. leave D. miss

6.A. paid B. looked C. waited D. applied

7.A. love B. wish C. job D. page

8.A. opera B. biology C. music D. art

9.A. make for B. deal with C. take away D. set up

10.A. professors B. teachers C. singers D. composers

11.A. produce B. study C. publish D. perform

12.A. inspired B. forbade C. wanted D. required

13.A. brought B. refused C. offered D. came

14.A. returned B. left C. ran D. went

15.A. keep to B. give up C. focus on D. begin with

16.A. therefore B. afterwards C. then D. however

17.A. change B. correct C. follow D. repeat

18.A. replaced B. improved C. grasped D. became

19.A. request B. order C. advice D. will

20.A. navy B. music C. work D. school

I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one _____was the most important.

It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence .I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be ___

The speaker walked into the room But he didn’t start talking like a teacher. Instead, he held up a twenty yuan note!

“Who wants this?” he asked. Unsurprisingly, ____ of us in the class held up our hands. The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but ___ nothing. Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same question a third time. I didn’t ___ what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn’t know what to do. I wanted the note, ____ I put my hand up again. After a while, he____ the note and started to laugh. ’You have all just told me how to become successful,” he said to us with the note in his hand.

“The note is worth twenty yuan. It is __ worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter what happens to you, you still have your teeth.’ When I heard those words, I ____ I was worth a lot. I may have done in an exam, but it doesn’t___ I can’t do well in the future. If I believe in myself, I will be successful!

1.A. classroom B. subject C. class D. school

2.A. comfortable B. successful C. famous D. rich

3.A. both B. neither C. all D. none

4.A. said B. bought C. saw D. wanted

5.A. remember B. understand C. notice D. find

6.A. so B. though C. if D. or

7.A. took out B. threw away C. picked up D. put down

8.A. never B. sometimes C. hardly D. always

9.A. realized B. forgot C. dreamed D. decided

10.A. know B. mean C. think D. complain

Most buildings are built to stand up straight, but these look as if they might fall over!

The church tower of Suurhusen

Built in 1450, the 27-meter-high church tower lies in Suurhusen, Germany. It was built in wet land on foundations of oak tree trunks (树干). When the land was drained (排水) later, the wood broke down, causing one side of the tower to be a little lower than the other. In 1975, the tower became a real hazard and people were not allowed to enter until the foundations were made strong again. The lean (倾斜) of the tower is now about five degrees.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The work of building the tower began in 1173, and was finally completed in 1372. In fact, it began to lean after just a couple of floors were built. And this condition continued in the centuries after its completion. The tower was finally closed to the public in 1990 after people failed to stabilize (使稳固) its foundations. In 2001, it was reopened after engineers removed soil from underneath its raised side. Now it leans just an angle of 3.97 degrees.

Capital Gate of Abu Dhabi

Completed in 2011, the Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi was designed to lean eighteen degrees. The building stands next to the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and contains, among other things, a fine hotel with wonderful views of the harbour. Also known as the leaning tower of Abu Dhabi, the tower is one of the tallest buildings in the city.

Big Ben of London

The building leans 0.26 degrees to the northwest. This is mainly caused by the engineering projects that have been carried out in the ground below it since the late 1800s. The tower, which has been continuously open since it was completed in 1858, has nowhere near the lean of the Tower of Pisa and is still completely safe to enter.

1.The underlined word “hazard” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_____”.

A. danger B. church C. castle D. treasure

2.What can we learn about the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

A. It didn’t lean until ten years after its completion.

B. It took almost two hundred years to complete.

C. It was built on foundations of oak tree trunks.

D. It has been open since it was completed.

3.Which of the following towers leans the most according to the text?

A. The church tower of Suurhusen.

B. The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

C. Capital Gate of Abu Dhabi.

D. Big Ben of London.

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. The history of towers

B. The art of building a tower

C. The leaning towers of the world

D. Top four tallest towers in Europe

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