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he did not 49 theusual , he had crews with supplies of coal waiting on floats along the river so that the boat would not have to put it to shore for race began on June 30, lighter than the Natchez, the Lee jumped into an early three days the race continued, 51 the boats travelling at full were 52each other the whole time, 53 short spaces when bends in the river hid one or the other from only a few hours from its goal, the Natchez 54 a rock and ran aground(擱淺).The Lee steamed proudly into in exactly three days, eighteen hours, and thirty minutes after she had left New rang, and people called 55 the boatnamed after the general 56as an army engineer had prevented the river from changing its course and 57 being an inland Lee 58a good recordone that brought honor to all , the great day of the river steamers was drawing to 60won the passenger andgoods business from the river are boats on the river they are not the white birds that attracted young Samuel adventure story experience creation make as to make the board board board the board D return sight of sight of sight sight of for a joy joy joy excitement made made done close pause rest (共 25小題,計 25 分)(A) Wanted(1)Clean driving license.(2)Must be of smart appearance.(3)Aged over to: Capes Taxis, 17 Palace Road, prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis? of beer and for speeding and wrong Hostesses for International Flights Wanted(1)Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.(2)Height to .(3)Education to GCSE standard.(4)Two be able to to: Recruitment office, Southern Airline, Heathrow Airport NeededFor private language experience to: The Director of Studies, Instant Language Ltd, 279 Canal Street, to speak a foreign having college , aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a job might be given to him? for Capes for Southern at Instant Language of the prevents Mary, aged 25, being an air hostess for international flights? once broke a traffic law and was can?t speak Japanese very has never worked as an air hostess doesn?t feel like working long hours flying of the following is NOT mentioned in the three advertisements? or experience.(B)A new period is it what you will: the service industry, the information age, the knowledge all translates to a great change in the way we we?re partly there, the percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen sharply in the Western the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan(two thirds or more are in many of these countries)are in the service industry, and the number is on the women are in the work force than ever are more parttime people are the breath of the great change can?t be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to new way of thinking about the nature of work opinions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between workers and employers—all these are being have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie onelooking ahead 20 years possibly could have seen the ways in which a single invention, the chip(芯片), would change our world thanks to its uses in personal puters, and factory ?s achievements in biotechnology or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of great one thing is certain:information and knowledge will bee even more important, and the people who own it, whether they work in factories or services, will have the advantage and produce the knowledge will bee as basic a requirement as the ability to read and ability to deal with problems by making use of information instead of performing regular tasks will be valued above all you look ahead 10 years, information service will be leading the will be the way you do your age means service industry is depending more and more on women workers industries are rapidly increasing find it harder and harder to earn a living by working in factories of the job chances can now be found in the service society brings about a great change that __________ difference between the workers and employers has bee smaller ?s old ideas about work no longer exist people have to take parttime jobs have to change their jobs from time to time future will probably belong to those who and know how to make use of information read and write well themselves to service industries ahead instead of looking back(C)Among various programmes, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one isdifferent in style(風(fēng)格).But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey Springer could easily be considered the king of “rubbish talk”.The contents on his show are as surprising as can example, the show takes the evermon talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different , the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people’s Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its top, but Oprah goes in the opposite show is mainly about the improvement of society and differentquality of are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being pouredinto ends every show with a “final word”.He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the , this is the part where most people will learn something very as it is, the Oprah show is not for show?s main viewers aremiddleclass of these people have the time, money, and ability to deal with life?s tougher Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of are 18to21yearolds whose main troubles in lif