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Unit 2 Jobs and Careers

Summary: Since most students will choose to work after graduation, jo b-hunting is of great importance to them, they will write plenty of r esumes about their education and send them to the companies they want to work for. It takes both time and energy to do so. Now, thanks to the development of the Internet, job-hunting has become much easier. Job-hunting can find a job just by clicking a mouse on the computer. Many of them make their dream come true through the Internet.

This article describes the experiences of five people who used on line sources to look for new jobs. Theresa Smith used the Career Buil der website to find a marketing management position. Madeline Gragg u sed Yahoo! to find a job teaching English in Japan. Nedzad Dozlic use d a newspaper website to find a driver’s job with a car dealership. Wendy Mello used Career Builder to find a position in human resources for a media-information-services company. Mello also used another we bsite to calculate the cost of living in her new location and to deci de what salary to request. All these are typical examples of online j ob searches, since many different types of jobs can now be found this way.

1.The policemen are busy filling out forms about the accident.

2.I want to fill up the fuel tank before returning the car.

3.If you want to make a complaint, you’d better follow the corr

ect procedure.

4.We couldn’t have finished the experiment so soon without John’

s help.

5.After the storm , the people on the shore anxiously scanned th

e lake for any sign o

f the boat.

Unit 3 Advertising

Summary: The author once was a compulsive shopper, and might even be addicted to shopping. She tended to buy more clothes than she needed, and often looked for famous brands, and even discounts. Later in her life, when she became a marketing student, this helped her understan d how much her shopping was influenced by advertising. This influence began to be felt in middle school when she became concerned about he r appearance. As an adult she was more aware of her motives while sho pping, but was still influenced by advertising, consciously or subcon sciously. The conclusion drawn by the author is: nobody can escape th e influence of advertising. Advertising uses our weaknesses and insec urities against us, and inspires in us a wish to be more attractive, popular, or lovable. It makes us uncomfortable with who we are, and m akes us want to be like the models in the ads. Thus we may buy things that we think are “new, cool, or not.”

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1. We need to cut down our fuel consumption by having fewer cars on t he roads.

2. The rise in power costs has added to our burden.

3. You should judge by yourself, and not always follow your brother’s lead.

4. That hairstyle is in fashion this year,but I am afraid it will be out of fashion next year.

5. We are fated to suffer from many failures in our quest for truth.

Unit 5 Ways to Success

Summary: