| 任务型读写 请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词. 注意:每个空格只填1 个单词. Almost every career requires such skills as listening, speaking, reading, writing, decision making, researching, reasoning, creativity, persuasion, leadership, interpersonal communication, and organization. In addition, a number of characteristics that may be important for specific jobs: achievement, aggressiveness, ambition, dependability, discipline, honesty, initiative, motivation, people orientation, persistence, responsibility, selfconfidence, selfstarting, sensitivity, sincerity, tenacity, and toughmindedness. The way you acquire these skills and behaviors is, to a great extent, up to you. Without them, no matter how bright and knowledgeable you may be, landing a top job is of extreme difficulty, if not impossible. The most likely way to obtain these skills and behaviors is through courses, reading, internships, parttime or fulltime employment, extracurricular activities, and participation in community functions. Knowing what an employer is looking for in a potential employee can help an applicant to prepare for an interview. An interviewer for a major corporation was asked these questions: What specific skills are you looking for in applicants? And how do you identify these skills? He responded : Most important for us in the way of skills is the ability to communicate-can people speak clearly? Can they articulate the kind of person they believe themselves to be? In what kind of work situations do they perform well? What are their strengths and weaknesses? We want to know about the personal qualities of the individual, so I try to ask questions to draw them out and attempt to find out if they have a sense of themselves. What I'm looking for is an ability to verbalize an idea in clear, simple, understandable language. I'm also looking for the ability to listen attentively and then to be able to respond to an idea or thought that has been presented to them. If they do have good communication skills, they will be able to do this logically and succinctly. I am looking for creativity -can they be spontaneous? I will ask some "offthewall" questions just to see if this throws them. How do they respond in these tough situations-can they be creative with their answers? This is very important when they are out in business situations with customers. They will have to respond to very sudden changes and problemsolving situations that they are not necessarily familiar with, and I want to know if they can handle them. What we look for the most are personal qualities-assertiveness, selfmotivation, drive, ambition, and a competitive instinct. They should be high achievers and want to work hard. I can usually tell about these qualities from the way the person presents himself or herself and some of the activities they have engaged in. I pick up things from the applications and resume-how they have written them and the kinds of things they say. How they present their experiences is often very informative. For example, an assertive person will say, "I can do these things" and "I decided on this course of action, " whereas a more passive person might say, "These are the experiences I have had." All of these things describe the person in some way. Qualities Employers Seek
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| Have you ever asked your customers and potential customers how they'd like to hear from you?Some of them might check email messages regularly throughout the day; some of them might check their messages only once or twice a day; and some of them might not use email at all. If you've been automatically using email to avoid lengthy phone conversations, first check to see if that's also your customers' preferred method of communication.Then consider the benefits of picking up the phone. I know, email is convenient.It gives you a record of what was said, and it lets you communicate without wasting any time on chitchat.But it also removes that little human bond of friendliness.It prevents you from finding a common ground-such as a shared interest in a hobby.The phone allows that. Using the telephone also aids in communication.A misunderstood question in an email can take several messages back and forth to clarify.On the phone you can say "No, I meant..."and then you can restate your question in a different way.Instead of being a timewaster, the phone can sometimes be a timesaver. Be sure to ask your customers if they'd prefer documents sent to them by email or fax -because some people really do prefer the fax.Remember that they're busy too.They might not want to sit at their computer opening files and printing pages of documents.For some, it's much more convenient to walk over to the fax machine and pick up the preprinted documents. There's an old saying:People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.Let your customers know that you care about communicating with them in their way.Asking is merely adding another level of customer service. Knowing how your people like to communicate can be even more important with prospective customers. Say you're sending a proposal for a project and competing with another vendor.If you assume that your prospective client reads his or her email regularly you might transmit your proposal as an attachment. If your assumption is wrong, and if your competitor has taken the time to learn that your prospective customer really wants to receive documents via fax, your prospective client might not even see your proposal until after the job is awarded. It only takes a minute to ask the question, and it might make a big difference in your income. Ways of__1__with your customers
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| You have waited 45 minutes for the valuable 10 minutes' break between classes.But when the bell for the next class rings, you can't __1__ how quickly time has passed. If you are familiar with this __2__, you'll know how time flies when you are having fun and__3__ when you are bored.Now scientists have __4__ a reason why this is the case. Scans have shown that patterns of activity in the brain __5__ according to how we focus on a task. When we are __6__, we concentrate more on how time is passing.And this makes our brains __7__ the clock is ticking more slowly. In an experiment __8__ by a French laboratory,12 volunteers watched an image __9__ researchers monitored their brain activity. The volunteers were told to __10__ concentrate on how long an image appeared for, then __11__ the color of the image, and thirdly, study both duration and color.The results showed that__12__ was more active when the volunteers paid attention to__13__ subjects. It is thought that if the brain is __14__ focusing on many aspects of a task, it has to__15__its resources, and pays less attention to the clock.__16__, time passes without us really __17__ it, and seems to go quickly.If the brain is not so active, it concentrates its __18__ energies on monitoring the passing of time.__19__, time seems to drag. Next time you feel bored __20__, perhaps you should pay more attention to what the teacher is saying! | ||||
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| A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.Conversation soon __1__ into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the __2__ and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of __3__-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some __4__ looking, some expensive, some delicate-telling them to __5__ themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in __6__, the professor said :" If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, __7__behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal for you to __8__only the best for yourselves, that is the __9__ of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself __10__ no quality to the coffee.In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.__11__ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you __12__ went for the best cups...And then you began __13__ each other's cups.Now consider this: Life is the __14__, the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not __15__, nor change the quality of life we__16__.Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we__17__to enjoy the coffee God has __18__ for us.God brews the coffee, not the cups… Enjoy the coffee!" The happiest people don't have the best of everything.They just __19__the best of everything. Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the __20__to God. | ||||
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| 任务型阅读 Florida, in the southeastern United States, is called the Sunshine State.It grows more oranges than any place except Brazil.But Arctic air has damaged some Florida oranges and strawberries in recent days, and killed fish at tropical fish farms. The unusually long period of cold weather has shown how even warm climates can sometimes freeze over.But protecting plants and trees in the garden may not be too difficult if you follow a few suggestions. Sudden cold can be the biggest threat, expecially after a warm period.Plants have not had a chance to harden their defenses.Those that are actively growing or flowering are at high risk. Try to choose plants that live best with cold weather, and make planting areas face west and south. Being near other growth may also provide warmth. Most frost damage takes place at night.Ice crystals form on the leaf surface.They pull moisture(水分) from the leaves and keep plant tissues from getting water. Cold weather is most likely to damage or kill plants that do not have enough moisture.So keep the garden watered.Moist soil absorbs more heat than loose, dry soil covered with mulch or vegetation. Experts of University of Arizona say covering plants and small trees with cloth or paper can help prevent frost damage.A onehundred watt light bulb designed for outdoor use can also provide warmth. Some people place Christmas lights on young trees for warmth.The bulbs should hang below the leaves to let the heat rise into the tree. Cold is especially dangerous to citrus trees.Agricultural specialists at the University of California suggest putting paper or cloth around the trunk and central branches of young Citrus trees. In Florida, as temperatures fell to record lows, citrus growers sprayed water on their trees to help prevent freeze damage. Jim Bottcher is a master gardener with the University of Florida extension.He explains that as the water freezes, it produces heat, and the ice forms a protective blanket around the tree.If you spray a tree, keep the water away from nearby power lines.Heavy ice can form and break them. You can also wrap a tree in palm tree frond leaves, corn stalks or fiberglass.Adding plastic film works well in rain and snow.But experts say plastic alone does not help much.
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| Some personal characteristics play an important role in the development of one's intelligence. But people fail to realize the importance of training these factors in young people. The socalled nonintelligence factors'(非智力因素)include __1__ feelings, will, motivation, interests and habits. After a 30year followup study of 8000 males, American psychologists __2__ that the main cause of disparities in intelligence is not intelligence __3__, but nonintelligence factors including the desire to learn, will power and selfconfidence. __ 4__ people all know that one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don't pay much attention to __5__ these factors. Some parents are greatly worried __6__ their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either genetic factors, malnutrition(营养不良)or laziness, but they never take __7__ consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachers don't inquire into these reasons __8__ students do poorly. They simply give them more courses and exercises, or __9__ criticize or laugh at them. After all, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and __10__ themselves up as hopeless. Others may go astray(迷途)because they are sick of learning. A __11__ of more than 1,000 middle school students in Shanghai showed that 46.5 per cent of them were __12__of learning because of examinations, 36.4 per cent lacked persistence, and consciousness and 10.3 per cent were sick of learning. It is clear __13__ the lack of improvement of nonintelligence factors has been a main obstacle(障碍) to __14__development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological and __15__ development among a few students. If we don't start now to __16__ the improvement of nonintelligence factors, it will not only affect the development of the intelligence of teenagers, but also affect the__17__ of a whole generation. Some experts have put forward __18__ about how to improve students' nonintelligence factors. First, parents and teachers should __19__ understand teenage psychology. On this basis, they can help them to achieve the objectives of learning, __20__ their interests and toughening their willpower. | ||||
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