Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically, put the number in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
19. Those who did not become miners found work in railroad construction, farming and light industries, doing low-paid jobs.
20.As in California they formed small pockets of Chinese culture that were known as “Chinatowns”.
21. The government issued Exclusion Acts to stop the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States.
22. The Chinese called the new land “Mountain of Gold”.
23. Many workers fled the concentrated Chinese communities in the West and scattered to the Mid-west and the East.
24. He was accused of taking jobs away from the white man.
25. By the 1880’s, American industrialization brought changing economic realities, resulting in an explosion of resentment toward the Chinese laborer.
26. The first big wave of Chinese immigration to America came when gold was discovered in California in 1848.
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Ⅴ. 标出与段落内容无关的句子（10 points）
Read the following paragraph and underline irrelevant sentences (either one or two).
A diamond’s hardness makes it useful in ways you may not know about. If you have a record player in your house, it probably has a diamond-tipped needle. Your dentist uses a diamond tipped drill. Similar drills are used in industry to cut very hard materials. However, not all drills are made of diamonds. When a diamond is cut, the dust is gathered and saved. Manufacturers then use it in many grinding, polishing and sawing jobs. Recently, diamonds have been put to new uses. Eye surgeons use diamond knives for delicate operations. A spacecraft sent to Venus had a diamond window. A diamond was the only transparent material that could withstand the extremes of temperature and pressure on Venus. Scientists have developed ways to make man-made diamonds, which, if successful, might greatly reduce the cost of diamonds.
Ⅵ. 写信（20 points）
Suppose you were Claudia Spangle, a rug saleswoman selling rugs on the floor in the First Department Store in Shanghai for five years already. You want to have a change, so when told a rug salesperson to cover Beijing territory is required, you write a letter of job application. In your letter, make sure to provide some necessary information like your qualifications, working experience, the achievement(s) you have made in the work and your wish as well.( 150-200 words)
