Directions: Write a letter based on the following situation. Suppose you are an undergraduate and want to land a job. Write an application letter in which you should include: 1) the job you are applying for; 2) your skills and experience fit for the job; and 3) your expectation of a favorable reply and an interview. You should write no less than 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not write the address. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Li Ming instead.

A survey was carried out on death rate of new-born babies in that region, ______ were surprising.

In the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand(木架)with a small notepad(记事本)and a hole for a pencil. I'm looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can't be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one. 'I'm just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.' I say to her, walking bank into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. 'You still use a pencil. Can't you afford a pen?' My mother replies a little sharply. 'It works perfectly well. I've always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.' Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, 'One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.' This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible(看不到的)exhibits at every meal.

She took this opportunity to repay her friends for their kindness. Otherwise, she ______ to entertain them in her small apartment.

She has always shown a ______ to audience needs and tastes.(sensitive)

Psychologists have been studying specifically the possible link between persistence and health. On the one hand, it seems that persistence increases the chance you'll succeed in the long term, and that personal success is closely linked to well-being. Think of successful people you know personally, and look back over their lives. Have they always been clear about where they're going in their lives, and now that they have arrived, are they happy and healthy? Some are, perhaps.

______ is reported that there will be a storm this afternoon.

They played the music of Mozart at a slow ______.

The waste of soil by washing is among the most dangerous of all wastes ______ progress in the United States.

The old man is only the ______ head of the business; his daughter makes all the decisions.

'May I stop work a little earlier tonight?' 'No, you ______.'

______ ，we decided to go fishing last Sunday.

'The moment ______ soon,' he thought to himself, waiting nervously.

Pandora ______ a lecture to her class at nine o'clock yesterday morning when you called.

After the flooding, people were suffering in that area, ______ urgently needed clean water, medicine and shelter to survive.

France used the guillotine(断头台)for ______.

Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion—a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society's economic underpinnings would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind. For as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them. In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an objects physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us—hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are 'good' and others are 'bad' and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life—from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society exploits our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achievements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal penal system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.

That is the only way we can imagine ______ the overuse of water in students' bathrooms.

We've just installed central heating, ______ should make a tremendous difference to the house next writer.

The two countries will restore full diplomatic relations now that they have ______ their long-standing border dispute.