The 10-Chinese-characte resignation letter(辞职信) of a middle school teacher in Zhengzhou of Henan province has spread widely on the Internet. Her letter simply says, “The world is big, and I want to see it.” But it has inspired many young and senior employees to imitate(模仿)interesting resignation letters. What these resignation letters all have in common is that they express the writers’ dissatisfaction with their daily routines, and their eagerness to explore something new. The resigned teacher belongs to the post-1980 generation, members of which were influenced by individualism(个人主义), different from collectivism rooted in China’s traditional culture. They became the first group in the country to seek individual growth and self-fulfillment. To go after individualism, however, people have to find the answers to questions such as “Who am I?” and “How do I fit into this world?” during their adolescence. But the post-1980 generation began to think about these questions only after reaching adulthood, when they also meet with the questions of how to seek creativity and self-development. The struggle between those thoughts has caused some young people to quit their jobs to pursue their goals. The post-1980 generation’s late self-discovery could be due to monetary and educational limitation during their adolescence. The gap year, a period between high school graduation and college, is quite popular among youngsters in the West. It helps youths understand themselves and the world better. But the different education system and severe academic competition in China do not allow the post-1980 generation to experience the word in any gap year. After they mature, they find that the possibilities in life and the world are more than they could imagine. So when they meet with inertia(惰性)in their adulthood, when their flat office job becomes boring, they are eager to explore the world and make up for their absent dreams during their adolescence. 32. The middle school teacher’s resignation letter______. A. catches little attention on the Internet. B. tells her dissatisfaction with her boss. C. explains her resignation in detail D. shows her willingness to explore 33. Which of the following is true about the post-1980 generation? A. They ignore traditional culture. B. They fail to develop creativity C. They understand themselves late. D. They receive the worst education 34. It can be inferred that the gap year helps the young______. A. perform better in academic competition B. prepare for further education or career C. gain international working experience. D. fulfill their adolescent dreams. 35. What is the writer’s attitude towards the resignation letter? A. Supportive B. Defensive. C. Critical D. Neutral.

What does the author suggest managers do to neutralize the retention risk?A. Give promotions to employees for their accomplishments.B. Create opportunities for employees to share success stories.C. Acknowledge employees’ achievements through social media.D. Encourage employees to increase their visibility on social media.

Mr Harley is going to his wife to Paris on Wednesday.A. companyB. accomplishC. marryD. accompany

The teacher asked us ____ to each other in class.A. don't talkB. never talkC. not to talkD. not talking

A Mess on the Ladder of Success A) Throughout American history there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere. For the first 300 or so years of European settlement, the story was about moving outward: getting immigrants to the continent and then to the frontier to clear the prairies(大草原), drain the wetlands and build new cities. B) By the end of the 19th century, as the frontier vanished, the US had a mild panic attack. What would this energetic, enterprising country be without new lands to conquer Some people, such as Teddy Roosevelt, decided to keep on conquering (Cuba, the Philippines, etc.), but eventually, in industrialization, the US found a new narrative of economic mobility at home. From the 1890s to the 1960s, people moved from farm to city, first in the North and then in the South. In fact, by the 1950s, there was enough prosperity and white-collar work that many began to move to the suburbs. As the population aged, there was also a shift from the cold Rust Belt to the comforts of the Sun Belt. We think of this as an old person’s migration, but it created many jobs for the young in construction and health care, not to mention tourism, retail and restaurants. C) For the last 20 years from the end of the cold war through two burst bubbles in a single decade-the US has been casting about for its next economic narrative. And now it is experiencing another period of panic, which is bad news for much of the workforce but particularly for its youngest members. D) The US has always been a remarkably mobile country, but new data from the Census Bureau indicate that mobility has reached its lowest level in recorded history. Sure, some people are stuck in homes valued at less than their mortgages(抵押贷款), but many young people-who don’t own homes and don’t yet have families-are staying put, too. This suggests, among other things, that people aren’t packing up for new economic opportunities the way they used to. Rather than dividing the country into the 1 percenters versus(与......相对) everyone else, the split in our economy is really between two other classes: the mobile and immobile. E) Part of the problem is that the country’s largest industries are in decline. In the past, it was perfectly clear where young people should go for work (Chicago in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1910s, Houston in the 1970s) and, more or less, what they’d be doing when they got there (killing cattle, building cars, selling oil). And these industries were large enough to offer jobs to each class of worker, from unskilled laborer to manager or engineer. Today, the few bright spots in our economy are relatively small (though some promise future growth) and decentralized. There are great jobs in Silicon Valley, in the biotech research capitals of Boston and Raleigh-Durham and in advanced manufacturing plants along the southern z-85 corridor. These companies recruit all over the country and the globe for workers with specific abilities. (You don’t need to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. to get a job in one of the microhubs(微中心), by the way. But you will almost certainly need at least a B. A. in computer science or a year or two at a technical school.) This newer, select job market is national, and it offers members of the mobile class competitive salaries and higher bargaining power. F) Many members of the immobile class, on the other hand, live in the America of the gloomy headlines. If you have no specialized skills, there’s little reason to uproot to another state and be the last in line for a low-paying job at a new auto plant or a green-energy startup. The surprise in the census(普查) data, however, is that the immobile workforce is not limited to unskilled workers. In fact, many have a college degree. G) Until now, a B. A. in any subject was a near-guarantee of at least middle-class wages. But today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor’s degree. David Autor, a prominent labor economist at M.I.T., recently told me that a college degree alone is no longer a guarantor of a good job. While graduates from top universities are still likely to get a good job no matter what their major is, he said, graduates from less-famous schools are going to be judged on what they know. To compete for jobs on a national level, they should be armed with the skills that emerging industries need, whether technical or not. H) Those without such specialized skills-like poetry, or even history, majors-are already competing with their neighbors for the same sorts of second-rate, poorer-paying local jobs like low-level management or big-box retail sales. And with the low-skilled labor market atomized into thousands of microeconomics, immobile workers are less able to demand better wages or conditions or to acquire valuable skills. I) So what, exactly, should the ambitious young worker of today be learning Unfortunately, it’s hard to say, since the US doesn’t have one clear national project. There are plenty of emerging, smaller industries, but which ones are the most promising (Nanotechnology’s(纳米技术) moment of remarkable growth seems to have been 5 years into the future for something like 20 years now.) It’s not clear exactly what skills are most needed or if they will even be valuable in a decade. J) What is clear is that all sorts of government issues--education. health-insurance portability, worker retraining-are no longer just bonuses to already prosperous lives but existential requirements. It’s in all of our interests to make sure that as many people as possible are able to move toward opportunity, and America’s ability to invest people and money in exciting new ideas is still greater than that of most other wealthy countries. (As recently as five years ago, US migration was twice the rate of European Union states.) That, at least, is some comfort at a time when our national economy seems to be searching for its next story line.When the frontier vanished about a century ago, America found new economic mobility in industrialization.

. The school’s music group will be giving a big show tomorrow night and two __________ on the weekend.A. moreB. otherC. elseD. another

____ up the stairs,he immediately found the lost wallet.A. RushesB. RushingC. To rushD. Rush

Please watch the video and fill in the blanks.This is the photo of Sara Imas and her father. Just like many other Jews living in Europe, Imas’ father endured a lot of cruelty during World War II. To escape the Nazi regime, he had to leave his homeland. Worse still, the Évian Conference, which was convened in France in 1938 to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, had little impact on the plight of the refugees.During this unprecedented tragedy, some six million Jews were killed just because of who they were. While other countries shut their doors to the refugees, China welcomed them.At least 500 Jewish babies were born in Shanghai. Eighty-year-old Sonja Mühlberger was among them, too.“My mother was1) with me. And they came from Germany to Shanghai in April 1939.”“And then they would travel all the way here to Shanghai. This trip will take about 29 to 30 days. And it’s about a month.”About 20,000 Jewish 2)fled to Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. At that time, Japanese 3) _____ occupied parts of Shanghai. After the 4) _______ of the Pacific War, the Japanese invaders set up a ghetto. They forced tens of thousands of Jews to live in a stateless refugee-restricted 5) ________, which is where today’s Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is located.“The Chinese were also in that designated area in this overcrowded place in that surrounding. So we had no problems with them.”The fate of the Jewish refugees later became closely intertwined with that of their Chinese counterparts in Shanghai. In 1945, when the world won its war against Fascism, the Jewish refugees in Shanghai started to seek information about their families back in Europe. But with only sad news coming, the Jews in Shanghai soon realized that leaving their homeland, although heartrending, might have been the best decision they had ever made.To help 6)______ their history, the Hongkou District Government opened the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in 2007 in a renovated Moshe Synagogue inside a former Jewish residential complex.In September 2014, a 7) ______ wall with the names of 13,732 Jewish refugees was erected at the museum. Mühlberger helped collect a 8) _______ amount of them.“There are so many people. They’re trying to find their 9____. I really like to find out that how many people really have been or arrived in Shanghai as refugees, so this is still in my mind.”As an offspring of the 10_______ history between China and the Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai, Imas donated a statue titled “Standing Together” and penned a poem describing how grateful she is to the Chinese people and nation.

If she _____________ one more chance, I’m sure she will succeed.A. will giveB. is givingC. is givenD. gives

For this part, you will write a short passageentitled Protecting Privacy on the Internet. You shouldwrite at least 180 words following the outline given below.1.互联网为信息传播提供了便利2.同时也很容易侵犯他人隐私3.我的看法