全国公共英语三级作文

全国公共英语三级作文

2017年全国英语等级考试三级作文专项训练(1) 第1页：专项训练

You have been entertained by your friend Gao Jie when you stayed in Beijing on vaca- tion. Write a letter to him. Your letter should include:

1 ) thank him for entertaining you

2) describe your feeling

3) invite him to visit your hometown

You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your name at the end of your letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.

第2页：范文

Dear Gao Jie

First of all，please allow me to say

“thank you”to you.It is very kind of you to spare your valuable time accompanying and entertaining me during the period of my vacation in Beijin9.

That Was my first time to visit Beijin9，and l was unfamiliar with the city.When I called you.you were SO kind to promise tO be my tour guide and entertain me them.We went to visit the Tiananmen Square.1 will never forget we stood on the Tiananmen Square，watching the flag raising cere- mony.Such experiences will be kept in my mind forever.Besides。you invited me to dinner at your house where your parents cooked a fantastic meal for US.I really enjoyed it that day.

Now.I aln back at my hometown.I sincerely hope you can visit it someday.You could taste local food and visit many beautiful places here.Again，special thanks

go to all of you.

Sincerely yours

Li Ming

Directions:

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words.

You might think that good-looking men have every advantage in life.

But new study suggests being handsome may not always work in a man' s favour—at least when it comes to his career.

The research claims that attractive men are less likely to be given a job in a competitive work- place because they intimidate bosses. "It' s not always an advantage to be pretty," says Marko Pite- sa, an assistant professor at the University of

Maryland. "It can backfire if you are perceived as a threat. "

Interestingly, in Pitesa' s study, it was male attractiveness in particular, rather than female beauty, that made the most difference. If the interviewer expected to work with the candidate as part of a team, then he preferred goodlooking men. However, if the interviewer saw the candidate as a potential competitor, the interviewer discriminated in favour of unattractive men.

"l——he results suggest that interviewers were not blinded by beauty, and instead calculated which candidate would further their own career.

"The dominant theoretical perspective in the social sciences for several decades has been that biases and discrimination are caused by irrational prejudice," Pitesa says.

"The way we explain it here, pretty men just