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英语四级新试题3 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to the president of your university. You should write at least 120 words based on the outline given below in Chinese: (注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。） 假设你过生日收到了Lucy让人送来的鲜花，写信向他表示感谢。信的内容应括： 1，表达感谢之意 2，提出回抱对方 3，期待对方做客 PartⅡ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) 1.The Prince William Hospital has been trying to reduce absenteeism amongst nurses for many years. Absence from work is a costly and disruptive problem for any organization. The cost of absenteeism in Australia has been put at 1.8 million hours per day or $1400 million annually. The study reported here was conducted in the Prince William Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, where, prior to this time, few active steps had been taken to measure, understand or manage the occurrence of absenteeism. 2.Nurses in the Prince William Hospital study believed that there were benefits in taking as little sick leave as possible. Nursing Absenteeism A prevalent(暜遍的) attitude amongst many nurses in the group selected for study was that there was no reward or recognition {or not utilizing the paid sick leave entitlement allowed them in their employment conditions. Therefore, they believed they may as well take the days off-sick or otherwise. Similar attitudes have been noted by James(1989), who noted that sick leave is seen by many workers as a right, like annual holiday leave. 3.Just over half the nurses in the 1986 study believed that management understood the effects that shift work had on them. Miller and Norton(1986), in their survey of 865 nursing personnel, found that 73 percent felt they should be rewarded for not taking sick leave, because some employees always used their sick leave. Further, 67 per cent of nurses felt that administration was not sympathetic to the problems shift work causes to employees personal and social lives. Only 53 per cent of the respondents felt that every effort