XUE Bai, a 21-year-old university student, hopes to volunteer for Beijing's 2008 Olympics. "I want to do something for the Olympics. It is also a kind of learning for me," said the fourth-year student at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Now it is time for Xue to act on her plan. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 2008 Olympiad  will start to recruit(招募)volunteers on August 28.

The Olympics will need around 70,000 volunteers and the Paralympic Games(残疾人奥运会) will need another 30,000. University students like Xue will make up the majority of the volunteers. But the Olympics also need other volunteers - ordinary citizens and foreigners, for example. Students in Beijing should apply through their universities. Other volunteers may apply online or submit a written application. The online application system and a hotline will be open next Monday. For applicants outside Beijing, the application process begins in December. There is plenty of work for volunteers to do. For example, there will be chances to help publicize the games over the next two years. During the games themselves, volunteers will clean, serve food, marshal(礼仪引导)or offer language help.

The Sydney Olympics in 2000 was the first that placed special emphasis on the role of volunteers. It used more than 45,000 volunteers in different roles. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, around 45,000 volunteers were used. More than 70,000 volunteers will be needed for the Olympic games and Paralympic Games in 2012, the London Olympic Organizing Committee has said.

1.Xue Bai is willing to be a volunteer for the Beijing Olympics for the purpose of_____.

A.watching live Olympic matches             B.learning more

C.meeting his favorite sports stars            D.making money

2.It is estimated that volunteers for Beijing's 2008 Olympics are mainly _____.

A.ordinary citizens                        B.foreigners

C.university students                      D.applicants outside Beijing

3.Volunteers have played an very important role in Olympics since_____.

A.the 1996 Atlanta Olympics                B.the 2000 Sydney Olympics

C.the 2004 Athens Olympics                D.the 2008 Beijing Olympics

4.The passage mainly tells us______.

A.the history of volunteers in Olympics.

B.hat volunteers will do in the 2008 Olympics.

C.who can apply to be volunteers for Beijing Olympics.

D.volunteers for the 2008 Olympics are wanted.

 

Successful people in international business understand the cultures of other countries and learn to change their practices in different cultures. They understand the importance of avoiding business decisions based on misconceptions—mistaken ideas.

One cause of misconceptions is ethnocentrism, the belief that one’s own culture’s way of doing things is better than the way of other cultures. It’s ethnocentrism that leads to failure in international business. To avoid ethnocentrism, it’s necessary to study the different elements(组成部分)of culture: language, values and attitudes, and customs and manners.

Language

A. knowledge of the local language can help international business people in four ways. First, people can communicate directly. Second, people are usually more open in their communication with someone who speaks their language. Third, an understanding of the language allows people to infer meanings that are not said directly. Finally, knowing the language helps people to understand the culture better.

Values are people’s basic beliefs about the difference between right and wrong, good and bad . An attitude is a way of thinking or acting. Values and attitudes influence international business. For example, many people in the United States believe that chocolate from Switzerland is better than chocolate from other countries, and they buy a lot of it.

Customs and manners

Customs are common social practices. Manners are ways of acting that the society believes are polite. For example, in the United States,  it is the custom to have salad before the main course at dinner, not after. It’s not acceptable to talk with food in mouth at table. Failure to understand the customs and manners of other countries will bring difficulty selling their products. Orange juice as a breakfast drink of an American company in France doesn’t sell well because the French don’t usually drink juice with breakfast.

1.A. knowledge of the local language allows international business people _________.

A. to be more open with their customers

B. to have a better idea of their own culture

C. to express their thoughts indirectly

D. to communicate without outside help

2.The act of many people buying chocolate of Switzerland shows the role of ________.

A.attitudes          B.values            C.manners          D.customs

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

A.Misconceptions in Business

B.Basic Beliefs in Business

C.International Business Culture

D.Successful International Business

4.The author’s purpose of writing this article is to tell people ___________

A.how to take a right attitude in business

B.how to avoid misunderstandings in business

C.how to use a local language in business

D.how to act politely and properly in business

 

Bringing Art into Hospitals

The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.

As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s.He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(观众).

A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out—patient’s waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist. Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.

The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colours, playful images(形象)and restful courtyards.

The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

1. Some best artists of Britain have been called in to__________.

A.set up new hospitals

B.make the corners of the hospital collect paintings

C.bring art into hospitals

D.help patients recover from serious illnesses

2.After the improvement of the hospital environment,__________.

A.patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains

B.patients don’t have to stay long in hospital

C.patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness

D.patients feel happy in hospital

3.It can inferred from the passage that__________.

A.the role of hospital environment is important.

B.hospital artists have done more than doctors

C.exhibitions attract more audience in hospitals than in museums

D.the hospital is a better place for people.

 

Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt. 

In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out. 

Though the belief in the merit (优点) of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War II. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea: clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far?

Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist (免疫学家), encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground.

1.The kings of France and England in the 16th century closed bath houses because ________.

A. they lived healthily in a dirty environment.

B. they thought bath houses were too dirty to stay in

C. they believed disease could be spread in public baths

D. they considered bathing as the cause of skin disease

2.Which of the following best describes Henry IV's attitude to bathing?

A. Afraid.       B. Curious.          C. Approving.          D. Uninterested.

3.How does the passage mainly develop?

A. By providing examples.                B. By making comparisons (比较).

C. By following the order of time.      D. By following the order of importance.

4.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A. To stress the role of dirt.                

B. To introduce the history of dirt.

C. To call attention to the danger of dirt.      

D. To present the change of views on dirt.

 

 

A

Hobbies: reading, listening to music and watching birds

Purpose: asking for spare copies of textbooks, teaching materials or journals

B

Hobbies: reading, singing and traveling

Purpose: learning about ideas of teaching professionals in the world

C

Hobbies: role-playing, listening to music and collecting nice things

Purpose: communicating with new friends among English teachers from the UK and the USA

D

Hobbies: reading and exchanging fancy gifts and ideas about local customs and conventions

Purpose: exchanging ideas on teaching methods

E

Hobbies: listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts and collecting things

Purpose: making friends with both fellow teachers and students of English around the world

F

Hobbies: swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs

Purpose: finding pen friends all over the world and communicating in English

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1.

Dear Editor,

I am a secondary school teacher of English.  I would like to have pen friends all over the world for my students.  They are aged 15-19 and good at swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs.  If students in your country are interested in corresponding with Turkish students in English, please tell them to write to my address, so that I can distribute their letters to my students who are willing to have friends and are in need of practice.

Ms.  Imbat

81030, Istanbul

Turkey

2.

Dear Editor,

I am interested in corresponding with other TEFL teachers and researchers about issues of professional development.  I would like to share ideas with fellow teachers from English-speaking countries throughout the world.  My hobbies are reading, listening to music and watching birds.  Since I live in a rather isolated area, I would appreciate any spare copies if text books, teaching materials or journals that other teachers would be able to send me.

Ms.  Juliana Sirait

21214,Kisaran

Indonesia

3.

Dear Editor

I am a 33-year-old secondary school teacher of English in Hungary.  I would like to make new friends among English teachers mainly from English, the USA, Switzerland, and Scandinavia.  I am interested in role-playing and team work, I would also like to correspond with colleagues all over the world with the same hobbies as mine: collecting nice things, listening to music, reading and traveling

Mariann Nyari

6724, Szeged , Tavasz1/B

Hungary

21214,Kisaran

Indonesia

4.

Dear Editor,

I am a 23-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer teaching secondary English in Equatorial Guinea.  This is my first experience teaching formally, so I would like to know some of the ideas of all you professionals out there in the world.  Letters do not have to be all business.  When the school day ends, I would enjoy hearing from you.  I enjoy reading.  Singing, traveling and so on.

Kury W. Cobham

AP Box 456

Equatorial Guinea

5.

Dear Editor,

I’m a 30-year-old teacher of English at a middle school.  I’d be happy to make friends with both fellow teachers and students of English around the world. I also wish to find penfriends for my students between 13 and 20 years old. My interests are letter writing,listening to western pop music,exchanging gifts,and collecting stamps,maps,picture postcards and coins.

Mr. S.  Thevachandra

47/1,Kalm Unai

Sri Lanka

 

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