Your company has been invited to take part in a trade fair, which will take place during t

While proclaiming it a great day in Washington, Mayor Tony Williams 【S1】______

confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Major League Baseball is

returning to Washington.

Williams, who made the announcement during a news conference at

the City Museum, he received a phone call Wednesday from baseball 【S2】______

commissioner Bud Sileg who saying the Montreal Expos would move 【S3】______

in time for from opening day in April 2005. 【S4】______

Therefore the decision came almost 33 years to the day after the 【S5】______

Washington Senators played with their last game in D. C., on Sept. 30, 1971. 【S6】______

The District signed for formal papers agreeing to live up to its part of 【S7】______

the bargain, including the construction of a $ 440 million stadium

on the Anacostia River in time for the 2008 season. Between now and 【S8】______

then, when the Expos will play at RFK Stadium, where renovations 【S9】______

also will be paid by the city.

Major League Baseball will now auction off the Expos to the highest 【S10】______

bidder. Local business leaders that formed the Washington Baseball

Club and who lobbied hard to get the team are expected to be among the bidders. 【S11】______

Baseball's relocation committee chose the District over Northern

Virginia, they as well as bids from Norfolk, Las Vegas, Portland, Ore. , 【S12】______

and Monterrey, Mexico.

Montreal is last in the National League East this season, with a 65-93

record and four games remaining.

【S1】______

?Read the text below about opinions on local group business.

?In most of the lines 34--45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.

?If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.

?If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

Shop-local Group Offers Economic Impact Figures

Can If consumers in Hillsborough County can limited their spending on one Saturday

Correct to independent, locally owned businesses instead of chain stores, more than

34 ＄17 million would even remain in the local economy instead of being shipped to

35 outside corporations as overnight deposits. So it say representatives of the

36 Tampa Independent Business Alliance, who base their calculation on studies that

37 made by the American Independent Business Alliance. The national study found

38 that since locally owned businesses began to use goods and services of other

39 businesses in the community, a consumer's spending circulates 3 up to 31/2

40 times longer locally than if it is spent on at a chain. On Saturday, the local group

41 will be working with the national organization and more than all 25 other

42 communities across the country to broadcast the benefits coming of the

43 shop-local movement. The educational event, "American Unchained", will be

44 promoted at independent businesses such as Inkwood Books in Tampa. "We

45 want people to think about where their dollars actually end up to, " said Carla

Jimenez, co-owner of Inkwood and president of Tampa Independent Business Alliance.

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y on the opposite page.

&8226;Which section (A, B, G, or D) does each statement 1--7 refer to?

&8226;For each statement 1--7, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;You will need to use some of these letters more than once.

A

Where do you buy your clothes? Well, most of us shop at traditional retailers with increasingly frequent trios to discount stores and Internet. And most of the super-rich and trendy buy directly from designers like Gucci, Armani and Chanel. But lately their shopping habits and ours have been converging. Bonita Carol reports that many of the fashion elite are coming out of the closet and going straight to K Mart. Take a peek inside fashion editor Christy Ferrel's closet, and you'll find couture side by side with K Mart.

B

Fashion reporter Jerry Agins calls the trend "cheapskate chic": the regent fashionable wearing Sears shoes, Wal-Mart pants and Target sweaters, proudly pairing them with designer labels. The whole trend of "cheapskate chic" is a lot of affluent people are now shopping differently, and they're just like everybody, they're decorating their homes, they're spending a lot of time in stores like K Mart and Wal-Mart. And you're in there once or twice a week, so while you're in there picking up paper towels and toilet paper and toothpaste, you happen to kind of wander about the fashion aisles.

C

A watershed event occurred when Sharon Stone wore that Gap T-shirt at the Oscars. She looked terrific. Everybody wondered what she had on and later they found out that she had on that $ 22 Gap turtleneck and that really resonated with a lot of consumers. Stores like the Gap, Sears, K Mart and target are taking full advantage, offering fashion mavens that perfect denim jacket or pair of jeans, T-shirt or little black dress or top to make them match with high fashion.

D

Retail Watcher said mass merchants are benefiting greatly from this "cheapskate chic" trend. In 1998 mass retailers such as K Mart, Wal-Mart and Target accounted for 43% of all apparel sold. And that's up from 38% five years earlier. And these stores are stealing away customers from more upscale boutiques. In Target's case, or as the fashionably in crowd call it "Tarzhay", about 80% of its customers are college educated and have a medium household income of $ 47, 000. Maybe that's why Target's offering Kashmir sweaters for the first time.

When buying necessities, you may walk through the rows of shelves displaying fashionable articles.

Practise preparing short talks on the topics below and on the next page.

Task Sheet One

A WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?

Advertising a product or service

- Appropriate media

- Competition

B WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN... ?

Preparing to attend a conference

- Information about the speakers

- Planning the journey

C WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?

Setting targets

- Staff morale

- Planning

Task Sheet Two

A WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?

Managing staff

- Motivation

- Experience

B WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?

Attracting investment

- Strategic planning

- Public relations

C WHAT IS IMPORTANTWHEN...?

Preparing for a product launch

- People involved

- Costs