商务英语复习2

1、 Too often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing what lies in the way of opportunity for promotion, happiness and security. As a result, they are employed doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction. Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom

2、 care that they do as long as they can earn a living. Some stay long at a job and learn to like it； others quit form one to another looking for something to suit them. The young graduates who leave the university look for jobs that offer a salary up to their expectation. Very few go out into the wor

3、ld knowing exactly what they want and realizing their own abilities. The reason behind all this confusion is that there never has been a proper vocational guidance in our educational institution. Nearly all grope （摸索） in the dark and their chief concern when they look for a job is to ask what salary

4、 is like. They never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them. Having a job is more than merely providing yourself and your dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment. It sets a pattern of life and, in many

5、ways, determines social status in life, selection of friends, leisure and interest.In choosing a career you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interest. Nothing is more pathetic than taking on a job in which you have no interest, for it will not only discourage your desire t

6、o succeed in life but also ruin your talents and ultimately make you an emotional wreck （受到严重伤害的人） and a bitter person.11. The reason why some people are unlikely to succeed in life is that they .A. have ruined their talents B. have taken on an unsuitable jobC. think of nothing but their salary D. a

7、re not aware of their own potential12. The difficulty in choosing a suitable job lies mainly in that .A. much competition has to be facedB. many employees have no working experienceC. the young people only care about how much they can earnD. schools fail to offer students appropriate vocational guid

8、ance13. Which of the following statements is most important according to the passage？A. Your job must suit your interest.B. Your job must set a pattern of life.C. Your job must offer you a high salary.D. Your job must not ruin your talents.14. The best title for this passage would be .A. What Can A

9、Good Job Offer. B. Earning A LivingC. Correct Attitude On Job-hunting D. How To Choose A Job15. The word pathetic in Paragraph 2 most probably means .A. splendid B. miserable C. disgusted D. touching1.work hard and you will gain your end.努力工作，你就能达到目的2.In my opinion,it should be a very sound investme

10、nt.我认为这是一项很合理的投资。3.She hit me right between the eyes the moment i saw her.我第一眼看到她时，她就给我留下了深刻的印象。4.高成本、无收益的产业迟早会消失。 Sooner or later, the high-cost and unproductive industries will disappear.5.应该从消费者的角度来考虑产品设计。The design of products should be considered on the part of consumers.1.enticing2.dominant3.e

11、xecute4.enhance5.isolatea. put into effect ,carry out a taskb. highly attractivec. increase,bring into existenced. to set apart from others.e. more powerful or noticeable than other things周五(即二月二十七号)下午两点半到四点半，在学校会议室举办一个讲座，特地邀请北京大学张教授来讲解学习英语的重要性。请学生会所有同学准时到场。讲座结束后，每个同学回班级进行讨论并做汇报以及更好学习英语的计划。 NOTICE T

12、here will be an English lecture on the importance of English learning by Professor Zhang from Beijing University. It will be given in the school meeting-room from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30p.m., on Friday, February 27. All the students are expected to attend it on time. After the lecture, please go back to y

13、our classrooms and have a discussion on the report. Every student is asked to make a plan for learning English well. Students union February 24, 2009About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness in some way; women are luckier only about one in two hundred is affected in this manner. Th

14、ere are different forms of colour blindness. A man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of greena strange worl

15、d indeed.In certain occupations colour blindness can be dangerous and candidates are tested most carefully. For example, when fighting at night, soldiers use lights of flares to signal to each other. A green light may mean “Advance” and a red light may mean “Danger! Keep back!”, You can see what wil

16、l happen if somebody thinks that red is green! Colour blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”, These help to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colours. There are also millions of “rods” but

17、 these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not colour. Wait until it is dark tonight, then go outside. Look round you and try to see what colors you can recognize. Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see

18、colours. As far as we know, bats and adult owls cannot see colours at all only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot see colours as well as we can. Insects can see ultraviolet rays which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see Xrays. The wings of a moth may seem grey and dull to us, but to insects they may appear beau