【正文】 p? A. Men are equally serious about courtship. B. Each man makes passes at many women. C. The woman39。s. (2) A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to reallocate domestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier Gee Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields: Practically never ... in a workingclass home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as myexperience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if, merely because he was out of work, he developed in a 39。a lot of time39。s most advanced manufacturer, has adapted its workstations to older workers. The shortage of skilled labour available to the automotive industry has made it unusually keen to recruit older workers. BMW recently set up a factory in Leipzig that expressly set out to employ people over the age of 45. Needs must when the devil drives. Other firms are polishing their alumni works. IBM uses its work to recruit retired people for particular projects. Ernst amp。s latest list es Deere amp。 palace. No guides were available so it was doityourself, using our guidebook, which cheated us of a lot of interesting history and anecdotes that a professional guide could provide. Next time, we resolved to make such arrangements in advance. On this trip, we wandered through the magnificent plex, with its imperial treasures, its courtyards and its harem. The last required a bit of explanation that we would have happily lef~to a learned third party. 11. The couple chose Istanbul as their holiday destination mainly because A. the city is not too far away from where they lived. B. the city is not on the list of the . State Department. C. the city is between the familiar and the exotic. D. the city is more familiar than exotic. 12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. The family found the city was exactly what they had expected. B. Their friends were opposed to their holiday plan. C. They could have been more cautious about bringing kids along. D. They were a bit cautious about the quality of water in the city. 13. We learn from the couple39。 it would be easy to get lost. For our two, whose buying experience consisted of department stores and shopping mall boutiques, it was amazing to discover that you could bargain over price and perhaps end up with two of something for the price of one. They also learned to figure out the relative value of the Turkish lira, not a small matter with its many zeros. Being exposed to Islam was an important part of our trip. Visiting the mosques, especially the enormous Blue Mosque, was our first glimpse into how this major religion is practiced. Our children39。t see a lot of children among the foreign visitors during our sixday stay in Istanbul, but we found the tourist areas quite safe, very interesting and varied enough even to suit our son, whose oftrepeated request is that we not see every single church and museum in a given city. Vaccinations weren39。d been exposed to during our travels in Europe and the United States. In thinking about what was possible from Geneva, where we are based, we decided on a trip to Istanbul, a twohour plane ride from Zurich. We envisioned the trip as a prelude to more exotic ones, perhaps to New Delhi or Bangkok later this year, but thought our 11 and 13yearolds needed a first step away from manicured boulevards and pristine monuments. What we didn39。s format later stage: ____9____ on researchnsignificance things to avoid in writing INTRODUCTION: inadequatenmaterial ____10____ of research justification for the studyn SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? A. Toastmasters was originally set up to train speaking skills. B. Toastmasters only accepts prospective professional speakers. C. Toastmasters accepts members from the general public. D. Toastmasters is an exclusive club for professional speakers. 2. The following are job benefits by joining Toastmasters EXCEPT A. being familiar with various means of munication. B. learning how to deliver messages in an anized way. C. being aware of audience expectations. D. learning how to get along with friends. 3. Toastmasters39。 why you did it METHOD how you did it RESULT what you found out ____5____ what you think it shows IV. Sense of readership ____6____: reader is the marker ____7____: reader is an idealized, hypothetical, intelligent person with little knowledge of your study tasks to fulfill in an experimental report: nintroduction to relevant area necessary background informationn ndevelopment of clear arguments definition of technical termsn precisendescription of data ____8____ V. Demands and expectations in report writing early stage: nunderstanding of study subject/area and its implications basic grasp of thenreport39。s horizons by taking them to a place that was unlike anything we39。s list of troublespots. We didn39。s view, Istanbul street life is fascinating since almost everything can be bought outdoors. They were at a good age to spend time wandering the labyrinth of the Spice Baza