Neil Hemings
PLAYING CHESS
0 In your last letter you asked me to tell you why I like playing
00 chess so much. Well, I nevertheless think it is because chess gives
me a feeling of the excitement. I am quite competitive and like
me challenge of playing one-to-one. It gets intense sometimes;
in a game you can get extremely nervous and excited and have all
sorts of emotions. If I have played such a good player, put up
a good fight and lost, then that is too satisfying, but it is always
better than to win! There is also a good social side to chess. I
have made lots of friends at playing in competitions across
Europe. It is really interesting seeing cultures more different from
mine and trying to practise other languages! Now I play most of
weekends and holidays, but I do not know for certain if I will continue
to take part in competitions. During the last couple of years while I
have had more schoolwork, in which makes life more difficult. You
have got to be an extremely ,good player for chess to be so financially
worthwhile. However, I would like recommend it as a hobby to
anyone. If you are interested, you should to join a chess club at once.
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Her diligence and intelligence ______(弥补了)her lack of experience.
A. 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the job
B. determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuse
C. the 1920s until the 1960s
D. the 1960s until the 1970s
E. signals passing through the nervous system
Drugs that speed up ______.
&8226;You have decided to work at home tomorrow.
&8226;Write a note for your colleague, Susan:
Saying you won't be in the office tomorrow
Explaining why you are going to work at home
Giving your home telephone number.
&8226;Write 30 -40 words.
&8226;Write on your Answer Sheet.
A NEW CRUISE SHIP
One of the biggest passenger ships in history, the Island Princess, carries people on cruises around the Caribbean. More than double 【C1】__ weight of the Titanic (the large passenger ship which sank in 1912), it was 【C2】__ large to be built in 【C3】__ piece. Instead, forty-eight sections 【C4】__ total were made in different places. The ship was then put together 【C5】__ these sections at a shipbuilding yard in Italy.
The huge weight of the Island Princess is partly due to her enormous height, 【C6】__ is an incredible forty-one metres. When compared with the Titanic, she is also a much broader ship. As 【C7】__ as length is concerned, there's 【C8】__ a great difference, each ship 【C9】__ over two hundred and fifty metres long.
The Island Princess can carry 【C10】__ to 2,600 passengers and has 1,321 cabins, including twenty-five specially designed 【C11】__ use by disabled passengers. There is entertainment on board to suit 【C12】__ age and interest, from dancing to good drama. The Island Princess seems very likely to be a popular holiday choice for many years to 【C13】__ even though most people will 【C14】__ to save up in order to be 【C15】__ to afford the trip.
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