Tom: Mr. Clinton, I have been with this company for five years. And I’ve always been very loyal to the company. And I feel that I’ve worked quite hard here. And I’ve never been promoted. It’s getting to the point now in my life where, you know, I need more money, i would like to buy a car. I’d like to start a family, and maybe buy a house, all of which is impossible with the current salary you’ re paying me.Mr. Clinton: Tom, I know you’ve been with the company for a while, but raises here are based on merit, not on length of employment. Now, you do your job adequately, but you don’t do it well enough to deserve a raise at this time. I’ve told you before, to earn a raise you need to take more initiative and show more enthusiasm for the job. Uh, for instance, maybe find a way to make the office run more efficiently.Tom: All right. Maybe I could show a little more enthusiasm. I still think that I work hard here. But a company does have at least an obligation to pay its employees enough to live on. And the salary I’m getting here isn’t enough. I can barely cover my expenses.Mr. Clinton: Tom, again , I pay people what they’re worth to the company, not what they think theyneed to live on comfortably. If you did that the company would go out of business.Tom: Yes, but I have .I have been here for five years and I have been very loyal. And it’s absolutely necessary for me to have a raise or I cannot justify keeping this job any more.Mr. Clinton: Well, that’s a decision you’ll have to make for yourself, Tom. What does Tom threaten to do if he can’t get what he wants().
A. To shout out in front of the others.
B. Not to leave the boss’s office.
C. To accuse the company.
D. To quit his job.
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Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. Go out with the man for lunch.
B. Share her yogurt with the man.
C. Have a sandwich for lunch.
D. Eat what she brought with.
Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had (1) the most familiar objects (2) us, turned shaving kits into holsters and airplanes (3) missiles and soccer coaches and newlyweds into involuntary suicide bombers. So it was (4) the President and his generals to plot the response.That is because we are (5) one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale (6) to wreck the way we live our lives-make us flinch when a siren sounds, (7) when a door slams and think twice before deciding (8) we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, (9) they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness, what can I do I’ve already given blood-people started to realize that (10) they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, (11) they would have done if all this (12) .That was the spirit (13) in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the (14) , nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house (15) the evacuation of midtown office towers. After the Pentagon (16) , generals called their families and told them (17) the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The National Football League (18) its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City (19) . People wore sneakers with their suits (20) they had to fly fast down the stairs. Read the following text Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.3()
A. to
B. out
C. into
D. with
Passage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A. To provide readers with comfortable reading rooms.
B. To provide adults with opportunities of further education.
C. To collect and store books.
D. To serve the community’s cultural and recreational needs.
Passage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A. Service.
B. Function.
C. Readership.
D. Ownership.