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M: Hello, International Friends Club. Can I help you?
W: Oh, hello. I read about your club in the n today. 1．
And I thought﹍I phone to find out a bit more.
M: Yes, certainly, Well we're a sort of social club for people
from different c . It's quite a new club. We have 2．
about fifty members at the moment but we're growing all the time.
W: That sounds i . I'm British actually, and I came 3．
to Washington about three months ago. I'm looking for
w to meet people. Err, 4．
what kind of events do you o ? 5．
M: Well, we have social g and sports events and 6．
we also have language evenings.
W: Could you tell me something about the language evenings?
M: Yes. every day except T we have a language 7．
evening. People can come and practise their languages
You know, over a drink or something. We have different
languages on different evenings. Monday, Spanish; Tuesday,
Italian; Wednesday, German; and Friday, French. On Thursday
we usually have a meal in a restaurant for anyone who wants to come.
W: Well, that sounds great. I really need to p my French. 8．
M: OK. Well, if you can just give me your name and a , 9．
I'll send you the form and some more information. If you j 10．
now, you can have the first month free.
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A. campaign B. noted C. focus D. careful E. released
F. fall G. trend H. dead I. major J. extended
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. unemployment rate probably rose in October as employers stepped up hiring only slightly, underscoring President Barack Obama’s vulnerability in next week’s presidential election.
Employers likely added 125,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, according to a Reuters survey of economists. That would be up from 114,000 in September, but would 41 short of what is needed to quickly cut the jobless rate.
Indeed, economists expect the unemployment rate — a key 42 in the neck-and-neck race for the White House ——to tick up by a tenth of a percentage point to 7.9 percent, reversing part of a surprise drop seen in September.
The Labor Department's closely watched report, which will be 43 at 8:30 a.m. (12:30 GMT) on Friday, will be the last 44 report card on the economy before Tuesday's presidential election, which pits (使競爭）President Obama against Republican Mitt Romney.
If economists are right, it will show the eighth straight month of dull job growth, a worrisome 45 that would likely reinforce the Federal Reserve's resolve to keep easy money policies in place until the economy shows more vigor.
"The weakness in overall economic growth momentum has 46 into the last quarter of the year," said Millan Mulraine, an economist at TD Securities in New York.
Romney has made the nation's feeble jobs market, which has caused Obama a lot of trouble since he took office in 2009, the centerpiece of his 47 . The last Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll showed Obama and Romney in a 48 heat.
Still, the report could provide fodder for both candidates. Some economists have 49 an increase in the jobless rate might have a silver lining if it is driven by Americans pouring into the labor market to restart job hunts.
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LONDON — The novelist Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for Bring Up the Bodies, the second book in her trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister.
Set over the course of the year 1535, it tells of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s ill-fated second wife — the time when she was the most powerful and her rapid demise. The story is told through the eyes of Cromwell, who plotted her downfall.
“You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize; two come along at once,” said Ms. Mantel upon accepting the award. She won the Booker in 2009, too, for the first book in the trilogy, Wolf Hall.
The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually to a novel written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, Ireland, or the Commonwealth. Much of literary London put on black ties and gathered for a formal dinner at the grand Guildhall to hear the winner announced; the BBC broadcast the announcement live.
The prize has been won in the past years by some of the biggest names in fiction, including Iris Murdoch, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kingsley Amis and Salman Rushdie.
Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of this year’s Booker panel, said the judges had based their choices on “novels, not novelists; texts, not reputations.”
He added, “It was the pure power of writing that settled most debates. We loved the shock of language shown in so many different ways and were excited by the vigor and vividly defined values in the books that we chose – and in the visible confidence of the novel’s place in forming our words and ideas.”
Other novels on the shortlist included The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twang Eng; Swimming Home by Deborah Levy; The Lighthouse by Alison Moore; Umbrella by Will Self; and Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil.
64. The underlined word “demise” (in Para 2) probably means _____ .
A. progress B. end C. success D. recovery
65. How many novels are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
66. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Peter Stothard thought the novels shaped people’s language in a way.
B. The judges attached importance to the language and the authors’ fame.
C. Hilary Mantel was the first to win the Man Booker Prize.
D. People were uninterested in the results of the prize.
67. The best title for the passage might be _____ .
A. Bring Up the Bodies .
B. The Man Booker Prize
C. Hilary Mantel’s Novels Earn Her Fame
D. Hilary Mantel Wins a Second Booker Prize
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