Directions: You are the president of a company. Write a memo to Percy Shelley, the vice-president on the employee’s training on computer, telling him the need to train the employees, detailed information, and ask him to write a plan.

Date：January 20, 2007

To：Percy Shelley, Vice President

From：Li Ming, President

Subject：Computer Training of the Staff

As we discussed earlier this week, I agree with you that our firm is faced up with problem ofthe high rate of computer illiteracy of the staff.We need to make up a plan fortraining our employees in the new field.

I would like you to design ourown in-house computer-trainingprogram.We had betterclassify the employees and put them through the program in turn.

Write up a brief proposal, describing what you think the program should cover.Assumethe class runs four hours a week for ten weeks.Also, assumepeople have no prior computer knowledge or any formal course work in computer science.

八、压力

Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay in which you should

1) describe thepicturebriefly;

2) interpret the social phenomenon reflected by it, and

3)give your point of view.

The cartoon vividly reveals thata young couple is carrying a house on their back. On the house, there are four of their parents, their baby, a car, a TV set, a computer and so on. These things are so heavy that the couple can hardly carry them on their back.

In the past few years, quite a number of men and women have chosen todo something less competitive.They are afraid thatthe stress and strains of work will rob them of joy and happiness and do them harm both physically and mentally.In fact, however,stressisn’t the bad thing it is often supposed to be. Above all, unless it gets out of control, a certain amount ofstressis vital toprovide motivation and challenge, and to give purpose and significance to an otherwise meaningless, idle life.Furthermore,people under stress tend to express their full range of potential and to actualize their own personal worth — the very aim of a human life.

Stressis a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. What we can do is todevelop our adaptive abilities to deal with it rather than to escape from it.