When exporting goods, it is essential to arrange insurance cover in case the goods are lost or damaged in transit.

Welcome to the Franklin Business Institute E244 Conversational English class. The object of this course is to learn how to converse fluently and effectively in English. For the next 10 weeks we will finely tune your skills in the art of debating and role-playing. We will also practice speech rhythm and diction with an emphasis on enunciation (清晰的发音) and specific speech problems faced by those who are studying English as a foreign language. Numerous discussions on a wide variety of subjects will be held, including topics in business , fiction, travel, differences between Western and Chinese Culture, education and life experience. You will have many opportunities to give oral presentations and voice your opinions on the various topics that we plan to cover. It is very important that you talk as much as you can. Don' t wait for your instructor to ask you to speak. If you have a question, ask it. Additionally, if you have any questions about anything your fellow students say, please feel free to ask.

If you can't afford to pay rent in advance, there are two types of loan you may be able to get from the social fund.

One of Nature's most exciting mysteries is how pigeons find their way home over vast distances. Now German scientists believe they have discovered how the birds do it. Research has revealed that tiny iron structures in their beaky(鸟嘴)allow them to analyze the earth's magnetic field—much like a compass(罗盘). Through the signals picked up, the birds can work out where they are and set out on the best course home. As well as pigeons, many other birds display a remarkable ability to fly thousands of miles to return to a specific garden or tree year after year. Scientists are suggesting they may have similar iron-containing cells in their beaks. In the past, experts have suggested the birds use the sun and stars to navigate, although in 2004 researchers found that many follow roads rather than their internal compass to plan their route. However, scientists have long believed that they can in some way use the natural magnetism of the earth to navigate. The recent study by German scientists has revealed how this may be possible. The research used X-rays to examine the upper beaks of pigeons. They found that within the skin lining are tiny iron-containirg particles(微粒)in nerve branches which are arranged in a 3D pattern. The team, led by Gerta Fleissner, concluded that this allows the birds to react to the external magnetic field of the planet and work out their precise location. She pointed out that similar iron-containing cells had been found in the beaks of robins, warblers and chickens so it may well turn out to be the way that other species also navigate. Scientists are still discovering more about the incredible abilities of the pigeon. Questions:

This part is to test your ability to do practical writing. You are required to write an e-mail according to the following information given in Chinese. Remember to do your writing on the Translation/Composition Sheet. 假定你是李明，你的美籍教师Mr．Smith将长期在济南工作，于是打算买一套合适的住房，向你咨询有关情况。你碰巧在报纸上看到一则售楼广告，请将广告上的信息通过电子邮件发给Mr．Smith。广告如下： 世纪花园(Century Garden)1．位于济南市中心，距离泉城广场仅5千米。2．绿地充足，停车场、学校、医院、餐馆和购物中心一应俱全。3．厨房、浴室设备齐全，24小时供应热水。4．咨询电话：0531-88675555

Hello, everyone. It is a great pleasure to have you as assistants to help【B1】______the party. I am sending around a form for you to【B2】______some information on how we can get in touch with you. Also please write down the【B3】______you will be able to help with. However, you should also【B4】______that we will need much time, and we may end up staying quite late into the evening. What's more, if you have【B5】______skills, please write those down on the paper as well. Once you have finished the form, please return it to me.

When people say that Cambridge is a university town, they do not mean that it is a town with a university in it. A university town is a place where there is no clear separation between the university buildings and the rest of the city. The university is not just one part of the town, it is all over the town. The heart of Cambridge has its shops, restaurants, market places and so on, but most of it is university—colleges, libraries, clubs and other places for university staff and students. The town was there first. Cambridge became a center of learning in the thirteenth century. Many students were too poor to afford lodgings. Colleges were opened so that students could live cheaply. This was the beginning of the present day college system. Today there are nearly thirty colleges. Very few students can now live in college for the whole of their courses: the numbers are too great. Many of them live in lodgings at first and move into college for their final year. But every student is a member of his college from the beginning, he must eat a number of meals in the college hall each week. Students are not allowed to keep cars in Cambridge, so nearly all of them use bicycles. Don't try to drive through Cambridge during the five minutes between lectures, as you will find crowds of people on bicycles hurrying in all directions. If you are in Cambridge during the five minutes any morning of the term, you'll know that you are in a university town. Stop in some place, and wait.

She is the only one of those girls who______willing to do that voluntary job.

Smart phones are______the old ones in performance.

说明：假设你是Info外贸公司销售部经理John Green，请按照下面内容给Max玩具公司写一封信，希望可以和对方合作。时间：9月17日内容：1．从网上看到了Max公司的最新系列玩具，对其感兴趣；2．详细询问玩具的功能、用法、价格、注意事项等；3．想要做代理，询问具体要求；4．希望建立长期的合作关系，期待尽快回复。注意信函格式!Words for reference：外贸公司foreign trade corporation

If a child says he dreams of winning a Nobel Prize，you should encourage him instead of laughing at him．

The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than previously thought, and that melting is accelerating, according to a new report that verifies 18 years of melting via two independent techniques. Left unchecked, the extra water dumped into the oceans could push average global sea level six inches higher by 2050, the report finds. That would mark the ice sheets as the largest contributors to sea level rise, outstripping(超过)melting from Earth's two other huge, frozen reservoirs, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps. The new estimate of ice sheet melting—and the subsequent rise in sea level—outstrips more modest figures offered by the International Panel on Climate Change in 2007, the last time that international body published a comprehensive assessment of the ice sheets. "It's going to be a concern for people in coastal areas," said Isabella Velicogna of the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a co-author of the report online at Geophysical Research Letters. While six inches of additional sea height may sound small, the increase will distribute unevenly across the globe, Velicogna said, and disproportionately(不匀称地)impact low-lying countries like Bangladesh. The study used two techniques to measure the melting of the ice sheets. The most thorough data set, from 1992 through the present, employed satellite radar readings of ice movement, soundings of ice thickness, and other grown-based observations to build a complete picture of the size of the ice sheets from month to month. The second technique drew on unique twin satellites, together called Grace, which measure minute differences in gravity over the entire Earth. The Grace satellites, an acronym for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, were launched by NASA and the German Aerospace Center in 2002.

When______along the street in the evening, the young lawyer saw her former teacher.

Now, young people are grabbing their passports and travel around the world on their own, not because they have no one to travel with, but because they prefer to go solo. Kristina Wegscheider, from San Jose in California, US, first traveled unaccompanied when she was at college and believes that it is something everyone should do at least once in their life. "In high school I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing much of anything on my own, but as I have got older I've found that I love traveling on my own, especially in a country where I don't know the language. " Wegscheider has visited 46 countries spanning all seven continents. Foreign lands can be tricky to navigate at the best of times. But with no one to help you read a map, look after you if you get ill, or lend you money if your wallet is stolen, they are challenging. This is what drives young people to go solo It is seen as character building, since going solo is a chance to prove that they can make it on their own. Chris Richardson decided to leave his sales job in Australia to go backpacking last year. He set up a website, The Aussie Nomad, to document his adventures. He says he wished he had gone solo earlier. "Be it the people you meet, the places you visit, or the things you do, everything is off your own back and it forces you to grow as a person," said the 30-year-old. "To tackle university or a job with that kind of experience would have been a major bonus to me," he said. Richardson describes traveling alone as like "a shot in the arm," which "unleashed(释放)a better more confident person that was ready to tackle anything."

The key to a good interview is thorough preparation. If you have prepared yourself well, the interview will most likely run smoothly and you will present yourself confidently. As soon as you are invited to attend an interview—or, better still, before you are called—start researching facts about the company. Probably, you will have done some research before sending in your letter of application. Now you need to identify additional information, such as the number of persons the company employs, specific fields in which it is involved, work for which it is particularly well known, its major products and services, places of branch offices, and the company's involvement in community activities. You also need to prepare for different questions an interviewer may ask to test your readiness for the interview and the sincerity (诚意) of your application. You may be asked: Why do you want to join our organization? How do you think you can contribute to our company? Why do you want to leave your present employer? What salary do you expect? If you have not prepared for such questions, and so hesitate before answering, an interviewer may interpret your hesitation to mean you find a question difficult to answer or there are things you would rather hide. In either case, you may provide an entirely misleading impression of yourself. Preparation for an Interview Before you attend an interview, you should get the following information about the company: 1. the number of persons【R1】______ 2. its main【R2】______ 3. locations of its【R3】______ and so on. You also need to prepare to answer some【R4】______ given by the interviewer. The purpose of preparing for an interview is to provide【R5】______of yourself.

Jane is happy and excited. She is going to be married tomorrow and it is one of the【T1】______of her life. She and her families have already made good preparation for the wedding. She has had her【T2】______wedding dress designed and made by a leading fashion shop. Her father has painted his whole house. He has had the lawn cut in his garden and he has got his gardener to【T3】______the whole garden. Jane's mother is having the【T4】______wedding breakfast prepared by the Grand Hotel, but she has baked the wedding cake at home. After the wedding she will cut it into【T5】______and pack them into little boxes. Then she will send these boxes to friends of the family who cannot come to the ceremony.

Jack lost his job a year ago and he______another job yet.

The year 1978 saw the opening—up of China to the outside world．

这对孪生兄弟目前都能做技术性的工作。