单选题Where does the first passage likely appear?A In a corporate promotional newsletterB In a letter to the company's managementC In a company's annual financial reportD In the business section of a newspaper

Practice 3　　● Your company has put an advertisement on a local newspaper to recruit a manager for an overseas subsidiary, an applicant has written to show interest in it.　　● Write a letter to the applicant:　　● introducing your corporate culture to him,　　● defining the job responsibilities,　　● terms and conditions of employment, etc.

What does the letter say about Ms. Brancato?

What does the graph show?

The purpose of this letter is to ______.

Practice 6　　● In your company twenty employees receive, at the company’s expense, a personal copy of a daily financial newspaper, which they collect from reception each day. There have been disputes with the newspaper deliveryman about the correct number that should be delivered.　　● Your manager has asked you to investigate and you have discovered:　　● Employees who are not entitled to newspapers take them from reception.　　● The newspapers are delivered. And taken, before the receptionist arrives for work.　　● There are spare copies when employees are absent or away on business trips.　　● Write a short report of 200—250 words to your manager suggesting how to make sure that the correct number of newspapers is delivered each day and that the right person receive them.

In those early days, the boy company's（）business was model railways and cars.

Passage 14Questions 8—12　　● Read the article below about GE.　　● Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.　　● For each gap (8—12), mark one letter (A—G) on your Answer Sheet.　　● Do not use any letter more than once.　　● There is an example at the beginning, (0).A slipping crown　　For decades America’s General Electric (GE) has worn its AAA credit rating as a badge of pride. The company has also used it to mint money in its financial-services business, GE Capital. No longer (0)______. That added insult to the injury that GE has already suffered.　　Last year the outfit generated a profit of $8.6 billion or almost 48％ of GE’s total earnings. By exploiting its AAA rating, GE Capital was able to raise capital cheaply and then deploy it to fund everything from commercial-property and home loans to credit-card lending and insurance. (8)______. Announcing its decision to downgrade the business, S&P predicted rising credit losses in coming months in several areas of GE Capital’s portfolio.　　Although GE’s demotion from AAA was bad news, it triggered a rise in the firm’s shares, which had recently been trading at about the same price as one of the light bulbs that the company makes. (9)______. They may also have taken comfort from the agency’s conclusion that GE’s industrial businesses should continue to pump oodles of cash, in spite of the global downturn.　　Yet some financial analysts are still fretting that GE Capital’s portfolio may contain more nasty surprises. (10)______. They also wonder out loud whether Moody’s, another rating agency, will take a more pessimistic view of GE’s prospects when it finishes a review of the AAA rating that it still assigns to the firm.　　Next week GE plans to hold an in-depth briefing on the state of the assets in GE Capital’s portfolio, which will help to dispel the cloud still hanging over the business. It has also been telling anyone who will listen that it doesn’t expect this week’s downgrade to have a significant impact on its business, though it does plan to keep shrinking GE Capital’s activities so that the unit represents no more than 30％ of total profit. (11)______. GE is sitting on $48 billion of cash and has already raised over 90％ of its long-term debt needs for this year—no mean feat in a dire credit market.　　The company also plans to slash its dividend from the second half of 2009, which it reckons to conserve an additional $9 billion a year on an ongoing basis. (12)______.. In his annual letter to shareholders published recently, Mr. Immelt admitted that GE’S reputation had been “tarnished”.　　A. This has made some of the company’s small investors apoplectic; they have grown used to juicy dividend payments.　　B. Jeff Immelt, GE’s CEO, has said that the overall company will continue to manage itself like a AAA-rated firm, notably by keeping plenty of liquidity to hand.　　C. Resolving lingering doubts over GE Capital quickly will be essential if one of America’s most iconic companies is to regain its shine.　　D. They point out that the business does not mark many of its assets to their market price—a practice that has blown huge holes in the finances of many big banks.　　E. No doubt investors were relieved that S&P didn’t make an even deeper cut in the company’s rating.　　F. But the chaos triggered by the credit crunch has taken the shine off GE’s cash machine, which has seen some of its property and other loans turn sour.　　G. S&P stripped the company and its financial arm of their top-notch ratings, downgrading them to AA-plus.

According to Aleem Walji, the company’s first project is to _____.

Practice 13　　● Miss Peters has placed an order with Mr. Frederic. This is the first order his company has ever got from her company. Mr. Frederic decides to keep this new customer and is thinking of increasing his company’s sales to her.　　● Suppose you are a secretary of Mr. Frederic, he asks you to write this letter.　　● Please write the letter.　　● Write 60-80 words.

Task I (10 marks)　　Write a letter to a company declining a job offer. In the letter, you:　　● Express your gratitude to the company for the job offer　　● Explain the reason(s) why you have to decline the offer　　● Apologise and extend your good wishes to the company　　Write a letter of between 100 and 120 words in an appropriate style on the answer sheet. Do not write your name or address.

You need to recommend a virtualization solution for Business_App that supports the planned changes for the corporate users. The solution must meet the company’s corporate requirements. Which technology should you include in the recommendation？（）

What is the main purpose of the letter?

A:Here is the company structure of Bibury Systems. B:I see. Where does Kate fit（）the company structure?

Which should be the key driver for a company security policy’s creation， implementation and enforcement？（）

A complete copy of this year’s annual company report will be provided ______ the marketing directors.