If you frequently travel for business，Staybridge Suites offer you a range of home comforts．Four recent visitors to Staybridge Suites explain why they booked，what they enjoyed and what made them want to return．

Claire Metcalf

“The concept is great，but the staff are the ones who really make it．”she says．“It takes a lot of discipline to always be friendly，but the staff at Staybridge Suites do that．They genuinely care about you．”

Andrew Roberts

“One of the best things is having my own kitchen．I often end up working late and I don’t fancy(喜歡) eating in a restaurant on my own，so cooking for myself is a big drawcard．”

“The main thing for me is being able to cook and have my own little flat．The staff are amazing．It is great to be recognized by them，”he says．

Pauline Robinson

“What I love about it is the way that you are treated by the staff,”she says．“Some of the staff have been there all that time and they do look after you well．As a woman staying on my own，it is reassuring that they look out for you，and recently when I was poorly depressed they even brought things I needed to my room．”

Ryan Ruckledge

“The fully-equipped kitchen is great．I always have a one-bed apartment so I have a separate kitchen and dining room and I’m able to relax and cook some meals．Eating out can feel a bit much when you do it day in and day out—it makes you hate what you do—and I don’t want that．”

1.What attracts visitors to Staybridge Suites?

A. A separate dining room． B. A one—bed apartment．

C. A home from home． D. A lot of discipline．

2.Who think highly of the kitchen of Staybridge Suites?

A. Pauline Robinson and Ryan Ruckledge．

B. Ryan Ruckledge and Claire Metcalf．

C. Andrew Roberts and Ryan Ruckledge．

D. Pauline Robinson and Claire Metcalf．

3.What does the underlined word“drawcard”in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. barrier． B. attraction．

C. honour． D. difficulty．

4.Why does the author write the article?

A. To advertise Staybridge Suites．

B. To introduce four recent visitors．

C. To inform us of a new service．

D. To sing high praise for the staff．

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1. 表明寫作意圖；

2. 陳述應(yīng)征目的；

3. 說明應(yīng)征條件（性格，能力等）。

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1. 郵件詞數(shù)不少于100字；

2. 開頭和結(jié)尾部分已寫好，不計入總詞數(shù)；

3. 可根據(jù)情節(jié)增加細(xì)節(jié)，使行文連貫；

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Dear Ms Chen,

I’m Li Hua, a student from Class 3, Senior 2. ______________________________________________

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A study led by Karin James, a psychologist at Indiana University, gave support to that view. A group of children, who had not learned to read and write, were offered a letter or a shape on a card and asked to copy it in one of three ways: draw the image on a page but with a dotted outline(虛線), draw it on a piece of blank white paper, or type it on a computer. Then the researchers put the children in a brain scanner and showed them the image again.

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