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Odland remembers as it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can' t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman' s kind reaction (反应). She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told young Odland, "It' s OK. It wasn' t your fault. " When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO (总裁) with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn' t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It' s hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something hke, "I could cut this place and fire you," or "I know the owner and I could have you fired. " Those who say such things have shown more about their character(人品) than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management.

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person," Swanson says, "I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables. "

48. What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the woman' s dress?

A. He was fired.

B. He was blamed.

C. The woman comforted him.

D. The woman left the restaurant at once.

49. Odland learned one of his life lessons from _________.

A. his experience as a waiter

B. the advice given by the CEOs .

C. an article in Fortune

D. an interesting best-selling book

50. According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about _________.

A. Fortune 500 companies

B. the Management Rules

C. Swanson' s book

D. the Waiter Rule

51. From the text we can learn that _________.

A. one should be nicer to important people

B. CEOs often show their power before others

C. one should respect others no matter who they are

D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants

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As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: "I'm only a 1050. "The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1100 or 1550, has become the focus at this time of their life.

It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life' s doors will remain forever closed.

According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student' s future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators--like a student' s high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT can show a student' s academic proficiency, they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student' s potentialities (潜力). This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.

52. The purpose of the SAT is to test students'

A. strong will

B. academic ability

C. full potentialities

D. confidence in schoolwork

53. Students' self-respect is influenced by their _________.

A. scores in the SAT

B. achievements in mathematics

C. job opportunities

D. money spent on education

54. A "prestigious university" is most probably _________.

A. a famous university

B. a technical university

C. a traditional university

D. an expensive university

55. This passage is mainly about _________.

A. how to prepare for the SAT

B. the stress caused by the SAT

C. American higher education

D. the SAT and its effects

Ⅳ.短文改错/Proofreading and error correction(10分)

The other day my brother Tom was beginning his 56. _________

motorbike then our neighbor, Mary came out and asked 57. _________

him if he was going near the station. So he offered her a lift.

She got at the back of the motorbike and 58. _________

they drove away. Just before they reached to the station 59. _________

a policeman waved to them to stop. "Excuse me, sir," he said,

"You are not sitting on that motorbike properly. "

"What' s matter with the way !' m sitting?" my brother 60. _________

asked in surprise. "Not you,sir. It' s a young lady," said 61. _________

the policeman, "In this country side-saddle(偏座) is not 62. _________

permitted when one ride a motorbike. " Mary made an excuse 63. _________

that she was from Italy, where it isn' t considering to 64. _________

break the law when people take the side-saddle.

The policeman shook head and drove away. 65. _________

V.书面表达/Writing(15分)

假如你叫李华，本周六是中国的传统节日——元宵节(the Lantern Festival)，你邀请你的外国朋友Jimmy 6点钟到你家聚会并共进晚餐，之后8点左右你们去中山公园看灯展、猜灯谜、赏烟花等，从而领略中国的传统节日文化。内容要点如下：

1.元宵节作为中国的传统节日之一，对于中国人来说是非常重要的。元宵节及其传统的食品元宵是家庭团圆和幸福的象征。

2.时问和地点：本周六晚六点到李华家共进晚餐;Jk点左右去中山公园看灯展、猜灯谜、赏烟花。

3.这是一次难得的领略中国传统文化的机会，你特别希望对方光临参加。

参考词汇：团圆：reunion元宵：sweet dumplings 灯谜：lantern riddles 烟花：fireworks

花灯：lantern

词数：110左右。

注意：1.可适当补充情节，以使行文更流畅，逻辑更合理。

2.信首称呼和结尾的签名已经给出。

Dear Jimmy,

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Yours truly,

Li Hua

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