Ⅳ．重新组合段落 (10 points，2 points each)
19. Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
① They dressed in animal skins, lived in caves or rude wooden huts, and had their own languages.
② The English language we speak today went through three stages — Old English, Middle English and Modem English.
③ During the Stone Age, some Indo-European people lived on the islands of Britain.
④ The earliest known of these British Indo-Europeans split into two groups called the Scots and the Celts.
⑤ But ages before Old English came into being, many other languages had to arise and develop.
⑥ Together these three peoples are known as Britons.
⑦ There was another group, who were not Indo-Europeans, called Picts.
⑧ The oldest of these, as far as we know, was the Indo-European family of languages, which were beginning to be spoken during the Stone Age.
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V．标出与段落内容无关的句子 (10 points，5 points each)
20. Read the following paragraph and underline the TWO irrelevant sentences.
Since the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. The aim of the agreement was to prevent the improper use of the country’s bank secrecy laws. Over the years, they had successfully withstood (经受) every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, had been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs of certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind of mystique (神秘性) had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers’ reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Also, they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion (逃税) or from crime. Contributing to the mystique was the view that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking system would virtually collapse overnight.
Ⅵ．写信 (30 points)
21. Suppose you were William Jackson, completing your master’s degree in marketing in mid-May. You learnt from the website that ABC Company has a vacancy for Development Officer. Write a letter of application. In your letter, make sure you provide some necessary information such as qualifications, educational background, and your present working experience as a sales representative with Victory Furniture Firm. Mention that you are enclosing a resume, and a letter of recommendation, etc. ( 150 - 200 words)
