Be punctual. No boss likes employees who are on time.

Passage Five

In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian (巴西的) university. The two-hour class was scheduled' to begin at 10 A. M. and end at 12. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after the scheduled time. Several arrived half an hour later. Few apologized for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students, behavior.

The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation: at a lunch with a friend and in a university class. He found that if they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student defined lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. However, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes.

In an American university, classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12: 00; many remained past 12: 30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.

51. The word "punctual' most probably means______.

A. leaving soon after class

B. coming early

C. arriving a few minutes late

D. being on time

The manager demanded that all employees______on time

A.be

B.are

C.to be

D.wouldbe

Unemployment insurance provides wages for a specific amount of time for employed people who are looking for jobs.()

听力原文： Our company's offices are filled with models and gadgets that employees have built to test their ideas. We encourage this kind of creativity. We believe the best way for an engineer to test an idea is to build it. If one can get a prototype of the product to work, one can usually figure out how to scale it up and this in turn helps one to anticipate any problems one might have. We also believe fixed meetings are a waste of time. We're engineers, so if we have ideas, we need to build them and test them. Building working models feeds our creativity, which in turn fuels innovation. It also gives the client a clear example of what the final product will look like.

According to the speaker, what special items could be found in their office?

A．Prototypes

B．Games

C．Paintings

D．Printed plans

From: MS, J. Gibbons

To: All employees

Date: July 17,20__

Subject: Required hours

All employees are reminded that the Smlthson Company observes a 35-hour workweek, normally from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday, with a one-hour lunch period. In addition, after careful consideration and planning, the Smithson Company has recently Implemented a flex-time policy. This means that Individual employees, with good reason, may establish different work schedules with their supervlsor's approval. The employee must explain the reasons for requesting flex-time as well as demonstrate that a variation of work hours will not be detrimental in any way to the work of the other people on that employee's team. Whatever changes may be made to an Individual's schedule, 35 hours per week is still expected of all full-time employees.

Flex-time does not mean that an employee can work any hours he or she chooses at any time. In order to make schedule changes under the flex-time policy, an approval form. must be submitted to your supervisor two weeks In advance of the proposed schedule change date. The form. must be signed and filed by your supervisor before you can start following a new schedule. Forms are available from the Human Resources Office. Employees who adjust their schedule without completing a form. and getting formal supervisor approval are subject to loss of pay, even If they work a full 35 hours In a week.

What is the topic of the e-mail?

A．Schedules

B．Hiring

C．Observations

D．Lunches

passage four：questions 26～30 are based on the following passage. It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross’s campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the World were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. “I knew the statistics,” she said. “But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like When I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.”

The Princess concluded, with a simple message: “We must stop landmines”. And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.

But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an, attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as “very ill-informed” and a “loose cannon （乱放炮的人）.”

The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms: “This is a distraction （干扰） we do not need. All I’m trying to do is help.”

Opposition parties, the media and the Public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess’s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government’s policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.

To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, claimed that the Princess’s views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was “working towards” a worldwide ban. The Defense Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was “a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.”

For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the Chance to get closer to people and their problems.

第26题：Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997 ________.

A．to voice her support for a total ban of landmines

B．to clarify the British government’s stand on landmines

C．to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims there

D．to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims