Tom is as good as his ______—if he promised to help you move, then he'll be here.

听力原文：F：Good evening and welcome to Milonan. I'm your Training Manager Penelope Taylor. We're fortunate to have you as the new blood of our company, but I'd like to emphasize to all of you the importance of training in your career development.

You may all be aware of the fact that today's workplace is largely unstable—people get laid off and job hop constantly, and in general, staying anywhere more than five years is a career liability. Your learning curve flattens out so much that you're not gaining skills fast enough to stay competitive in the field.

In this environment, training is worth more than a promotion or a raise, and in fact, you'd do well to make a trade if someone offers you either. Training is the new currency of the workplace. Here are four reasons why.

First, believe it or not, the promotions you have desired for are stressful.

When you get offered a promotion, it's supposed to be a reward for good work. But in fact, most promotions distract you. Think about it：You're creating a career path that's customized to your skills, strengths, and personal goals. How could anyone else create a path that's right for you?Unfortunately, most companies structure a single corporate ladder and promote people upward whether it's good for them or not.

In fact, most people do good work and then get promoted into a position they've shown no aptitude for. This is most pronounced when, say, a creative person or technical person gets promoted into management. In fact, most promotions are so misguided they're more stressful than divorce.

My second point is about pay rise．Surprisingly, it can be neglected.

What do you get in exchange for taking the huge risk of leaving something you're good at to do something you're unproven at?What do you get in exchange for distracting your personal plans to follow someone else's path?A 3 percent raise(on average), or 10 percent if you're lucky?

Let's say you get a 10 percent raise. If you're earning $50,000, that's $5,000. After taxes it's around $3,500—if you even stay in the job for another year. That amount of money won't change your life, and even if you think it will, consider all the extra hours you'll be working because you got promo

Third, mentors make a real difference.

What will change your life?Mentoring. People who have a mentor are more successful than people who don't, across the board. For example, people with a mentor are 25 percent more likely to reach their next career goal than people who don't have mentors.

So one thing you could do is spend less time gunning for that promotion and more time focusing on what you need to do to get a mentor. For example, ask good questions of the people you admire, and spend extra time getting to know people outside of your core group of coworkers.

It would be great if you go to those advisory centers, which is a good choice as you can expect professional advice there. And you could always take the money and hire a career coach.

Let's come to our last point, training creates stability.

You can trade money for training, though, and that's what you should do. There's no job stability in the workplace today, so you have to count on yourself by being very desirable to employers. You do this by getting lots of training, and mentors to guide you on how to use that training.

There's a huge range of training available today—you can get trained in how to deal with your email, how to connect better to people you speak to, and how to transit from college to adulthood. Have your company pay for this sort of training — it's the kind that changes your life.

While a promotion actually makes your life more unstable, training creates more stability in your life. And that, rather than more money or a promotion, should be the real reward for performing well in your job.

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A．emphasize the importance of training in career development.

B．state the fact that today's workplace is unstable.

C．tell the trainees that they are fortunate to join the company.

Thomas Nast' s pictures are the sources for the Santa Claus American children still believe in today.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

As you are students of English, it's very possible that you'll be interested in England. That's where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names England, Britain of Great Britain. Let's see what each of these names means.

If you look at a map of Europe, you'll see a group of islands--one larger island off the northwest coats, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles (不列填群岛). The largest island of the British Isles in Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland (爱尔兰)。

Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word " England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so?

In anceient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different counntries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England in the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.

There's another thing that confuses people; sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "That is the official name of the country. Northern Irelnd is only one sixth of the island of Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain"," Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means?

English was first spoken in ______.

A．Britain

B．England

C．Great Britain

D．Ireland

As you are students of English, it's very possible that you'll be interested in England. That's where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names England, Britain of Great Britain. Let's see what each of these names means.

If you look at a map of Europe, you'll see a group of islands--one larger island off the northwest coats, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles (不列填群岛). The largest island of the British Isles in Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland (爱尔兰)。

Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word " England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so?

In anceient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different counntries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England in the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.

There's another thing that confuses people; sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "That is the official name of the country. Northern Irelnd is only one sixth of the island of Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain"," Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means?

English was first spoken in ______.

A．Britain

B．England

C．Great Britain

D．Ireland

听力原文： Good morning, I'm Michael, housing director here at the university. I'm visiting all the dormitories this week to inform. students about check-out procedures. I know you have a lot on your mind with finals coming up, but there are a few things you need to notice as you prepare to leave for vacation. This dormitory will be closed during the summer months and reopen on September 1st. You must vacate your room by June 3rd. Even if you are registered for classes during the summer, you must leave by June 3rd. If this poses a problem for you, you should contact me as soon as possible. You should remember to mm in your room key before you leave. Failure to return your key can result in a dollar fine. You must also make sure that all of your personal property has been cleared out of your room. I will give out a form. for you to fill out concerning the condition of your room. You should report on the form. of any damage to your room which has occurred over the last year, such as holes in the room's walls, doors or windows. Thus our maintenance crew will know where to make repairs before the next school year.

If you have any questions during the next few days, please ask your resident advisers or call me. Now, please take one of the forms as they are passed around.

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A．Resident advice.

B．Summer vacation.

C．The housing office.

D．Check-out procedures.

听力原文： As you prepare to become elementary school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of discussions about the relevance of teaching penmanship. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and arithmetic were the basics of elementary school education. It went without saying that writing meant first and foremost penmanship. That is, the neatness of a child's handwriting. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even awarded for the best handwriting. But when we move ahead a few decades into the 1980s, we see teachers and administrators and even parents telling us that teaching penmanship is a waste of time. With computers, they said, children can successfully manipulate the keyboard or mouse of their home computers before they can even hold a pencil.

This change in attitude had an impact on the classroom. In your homework for this week you'll be looking at what statewide curricular standards in the US say about penmanship. You'll see that in many states penmanship has been deemphasized in a required curriculum, especially in the later years of elementary school. In California, for example, the curriculum calls for fourth-grade students to... and I quote, "write fluently and legibly in cursive or grades." But after this, the curriculum makes no further mention of penmanship in Grades Five, Six or beyond. Any higher level of quality or neatness is simply not among the curricular objectives. Your assignment is to look at what the curricular standards for all fifty states say about penmanship.

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A．It's now taught with the aid of computers.

B．It isn't considered as important today as it was in the past.

C．Children today learn it earlier than those did in the past.

D．A lot of time is spent teaching it.