[简答题]We learned from your advertisement in Globe Boston that you are an exporter of glass art works and we are taking the liberty to ask you to send us some samples of the advertised products. Our firm is a company engaged in import/export of arts and crafts. Recent years we have put more interest in glass art works. We are thinking of expanding our business to the US and hope we will establish business relations with you very shortly.

[单项选择]Fifteen years ago, I entered The Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn’t easy getting hired. I had to fight my way into a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found, you were in.
Globe jobs were for life--guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there-moving from all ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I stuck with it.
Instead, I had made a decision to leave.
I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage I wondered. He had a famous temper. "Matt, we have to have a talk. "I began awkwardly. "I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I’m forty. There’s a lot I want to do in life. I’m resigning."
"To another paper " he asked.
I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything, not trusting myself just then.
I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe h
A. temple
B. magazine
C. newspaper
D. church

[单项选择]Can we see (1) the earth is a globe Yes, we can, when we watch a ship that sails out to sea. If we watch closely, we see that the ship begins (2) . The bottom of the ship disappears first, and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower, (3) we can only see the top of the ship, and then we see nothing at all. What is hiding the ship from us It is the earth. Stick a pin most of the way into an orange, and (4) turn the orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear, (5) a ship does on the earth.

A. if
B. where
C. that
D. when

[单项选择]Where will the flight to Boston leave from
A. Gate 32.
B. Gate 34.
C. Gate 30.

[单项选择]From the advertisement in your website, we have （　） about your latest model of DVD machines.
A. known
B. considered
C. learned
D. realized

[简答题]We have learned from the letter that your company has produced and exposed a variety of textile machinery to us. According to the letter, it seems that there may be some negligence(疏忽)in the delivery time, we are arranging our representative in Paris to go to your company to check the material in the next week.

[单项选择]From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or finishing wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have dramatically altered appearances and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere—space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more tree than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art,
A. Museums’ functions are changing.
B. Museums’ collections have been enlarged.
C. Most museums need more space.
D. More new museums must be built.

[填空题]What can we get from library We can get all kinds of______.