3.　 邀请Tom在春节期间来中国感受中国文化。

[写作要求]

2. 　询问Mr. Smith 的近况并索要其联系方式；

1.　　　 　感谢Tom对你英语学习的帮助；

50. From the passage we can infer that _______________.

　 A. the young people prefer to work in a small quiet city

　 B. the high pay is the main attraction to the young people

C. Pittsburgh has many advantages over Austin

D. Pittsburgh doesn’t have enough attractions to the young people

基础写作

假设你是李华，曾在美国学习半年，现已回国。你想联系你的美国老师Mr. Smith,但没有其联系方式。请根据以下要点给你的美国同学Tom 写一封信：

[内容要点]

49. Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude towards the young people?

　 A. Criticizing　　　 B. Disappointing 　C. Approving　　　 D. Disgusting

48. The underlined word “inked” in paragraph 2 probably means:

　 A. fulfilled　　　　 B. obtained　　　 C. settled　　　　 D. signed

47. Why were the young people on the university campus?

　 A. To get recruited in Pittsburgh.　　 B. To celebrate their successful recruitment.

　 C. To relax themselves away from work.　 D. To meet their old schoolmates.

46. What would be the best title for the passage?

　 A. The rise of the creative class　　　 　　 B. New ideas about recruitment

　 C. Changed working cultures　　　　 　 D. A tale of two cities

45. What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. greatly　　　 B. wonderfully　 　　 C. for ever　 D. at all

B

Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled with young people chatting and enjoying the fine weather. Several had identical blue T-shirts with “Trilogy @ CMU” written across them Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting (招聘) our top students. I walked over to the table. “Are you guys here to recruit?” I asked. “No, absolutely not,” they replied firmly. “We’re not recruiters. We’re just hanging’ out, playing a little Frisbee (飞盘) with our friends. “How interesting”, I thought. They’ve come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends.

As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their departments.

I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Texas. The company is excellent, he told me. There are also terrific people and the work is challenging. Though he had several good job offers from Pittsburgh’s high-tech firms and knew the city well, he said he felt the city lacked the lifestyle options, cultural diversity, and tolerant attitude that would make it attractive to him. As he summed it up: “ How would I fit in here?”

What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that the), could fit in with the company. Today, apparently. It’s the company trying to fit in with the students.

These young men and their lifestyle represent a lively new force in the economy and life of America. They are members of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid part of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend. They do not consciously think of themselves as a class. Yet they share a common belief that values creativity, individuality, difference, and advantage.

44. How did Dr. Vincent get the money for the operation?

A. He collected it in the hospital. 　B. He saved the money day by day

C. He got help from an organization. D. He borrowed the money from his friends