广州市2015年高二水平测试英语试题(编辑).doc

广州市2015-2016学年高二学业水平测试 英语试题　 II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 At Star Electronics, we are making English our working language. Not only in business _____16_____ with our international partners, but also for daily communication among our own employees. We’re having great _____17_____ with our efforts. Even newspapers are writing about it. Introducing English as the working language is a challenge for a Chinese company like us, but it’s something we are _____18_____ to achieve. “Englishization” is, in my opinion, not just important for Star Electronics, but something that should be introduced throughout China, to improve our _____19_____ attractiveness. Other Chinese companies have the same idea and are _____20_____. This week, one of our local competitors announced that _____21_____ will become its business language too. Let’s look at a success story in Asia. I believe Singapore is so economically _____22_____ because English is one of its official languages. It is a policy that allows it to _____23_____ and employ the best workers from all over the world. At Star Electronics, we have already seen the _____24_____ of Englishization. In April, the average score in our company’s English test was 85%, which _____25_____ our employees have very high English levels. This is _____26_____ for our company’s communication as 10% of employees in our Guangzhou offices are foreign nationals. Within our engineering department, the numbers are even _____27_____; about 70% of our new employees come from outside China. And we are attracting graduates of the best foreign _____28_____ such as Harvard, Cambridge and Tokyo Universities. Englishization has not been an easy _____29_____ for Star Electronics but we are already seeing the positive effect—our ability to attract and keep talented people from around the world. This is a process any company, or country, can _____30_____ in order to have global business