The Second World War, ______the earlier one in 1914, prompted public concern about the phy

ompany. You intend to apply for the position of sales representative. You write a letter to the companys human resources manager. Your letter should include the following: 1) inquiry about the information, 2) brief accounts of your qualifications, and 3) how you can be reached. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

Hallmark, its not so. The earliest Mothers Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece, honoring Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. The Romans called their version of the event the Hilaria, and celebrated on the Ides(古罗马历中的3月15日) of March by making offerings in the temple of Cybele, the mother of the Gods. Early Christians celebrated the festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ. In more recent times, relatively speaking—England in the 1600s—the celebration was expanded to include all mothers with "Mothering Sunday" being celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter). (46)Besides attending church services in honor of the Virgin Mary, children returned home from the cities with gifts, flowers, and special Mothering Day cakes that were important parts of the celebration. Mothers Day festivities in the United States date back to 1872 when Julia Ward Howe (her other claim to fame was writing the lyrics(歌词) for the "Battle Hymn of the Republic") suggested the day be dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mothers Day meetings in Boston, Massachusetts ever year. In 1907, Ana Jarvis, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania school teacher, furthered the cause by beginning a campaign to establish a national Mothers Day. (47)Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mothers church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mothers Day on the second anniversary of her mothers death, which happened to be on the 2nd Sunday of May that year. By the following year, Mothers Day was also being celebrated in Philadelphia. Not content to rest on her laurels(殊荣), Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessmen, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mothers Day and in 1912, the Mothers Day International Association was incorporated for the purpose of promoting the day and its observance. (48)In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made it official by proclaiming Mothers Day a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May. It is somewhat ironic that after all her efforts, Ana Jarvis ended up growing bitter over what she perceived as the corruption of the holiday she created. (49)She hated the commercialization of the holiday and grew so enraged by it that she filed a lawsuit to stop a 1923 Mothers Day festival and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a mothers gathering where women sold white carnations(康乃馨)—Jarvis symbol for mothers—to raise money. Ana Jarvis story is not a happy one. Things went from bad to worse and she eventually lost everything and everyone that was close to her and died alone in a sanatorium(疗养地) in 1948. Shortly before her death, Jarvis told a reporter she was sorry she had ever started Mothers Day. (50)Aha may be gone. but Mothers Day lives on, regardless of whether it meets her approval. Many countries throughout the world celebrate Mothers Day at various times throughout the year, but some such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium also celebrate Mothers Day on the second Sunday of May.

The pretrial conference, in theory, is supposed to do all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A．narrow the issues

B．cause early settlements

C．save judicial time

D．increase settlement costs

Which of the following is TRUE accoding to the text?

A．Scoble"s blog never gives people the false information.

B．Microsoft doesn"t agree with the opinion in Scoble"s biog.

C．Scoble will not write anything in his blog when he leaves Microsoft.

D．Scoble"s blog becomes the most popular corporate blog in the Internet.

The last paragraph implies that Blackburns final suggestion is______.

A．indirect

B．infeasible

C．insightful

D．illogical

Theodor Adornos attitude towards the idea of "writing for humanity" is one of______.

A．strong disapproval

B．reserved consent

C．slight contempt

D．enthusiastic support

Simon Blackburn holds that philosophy exceeds other sciences in______.

A．interestingness

B．technicality

C．accessibility

D．usefulness

The second paragraph suggests that Plato wrote for______.

A．the general reader

B．an elite audience

C．the rulers of his times

D．his ideal philosophers

By citing the journal Society of Authors , the author intends to .

A．analyze the adverse effect of academicising on philosophy

B．describe the degeneration of philosophical writing

C．discuss the approachability of philosophy to the ordinary

D．exemplify the writing principle of great philosophers

Whats Samaranchs attitude towards drug use in Olympic Games?

A．Indignant

B．Tolerate

C．Paradoxical

D．Neutral