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Office Angels Employment Agency

14-16 Lockhart Road

Wan Chai

Hong Kong

Tel 532 4365

Fax 532 4111

Dear Client,

Office Angels is advising businesses at as far ahead as possible to ensure guaranteed staff cover during holiday periods. There is now a ( 1 ) shortage of skilled secretarial and administrative staff and this is (2) to get worse in .the next twelve months.考生如果怕自己錯過考試報名時間和考試時間的話，可以 免費預約短信提醒，屆時會以短信的方式提醒大家報名和考試時間。

Businesses which require staff with experience of specialist computer applications are the most at (3) . You are advised to (4) our agency well before the staff are actually needed to be certain of filling gaps with adequately (5) personnel. If you don't, it's almost (6) that you will be left without the skills needed to (7) your office running smoothly.

The ( 8 ) for the shortage of secretarial staff appears to be a combination of two ( 9) .

There has been an (10)in demand for secretarial services over the last few years, and at the same time there has been a (11) of students deciding to choose secretarial studies.

Office Angels Agency would (12) to emphasize that businesses should not underestimate the difficulty of (13) experienced temporary staff. It is also necessary to make the ( 14 ) that businesses should be prepared for the fact that they may have to pay more for this kind of (15) in the future.

第(1)處填寫A. hard

B. serious

C. sure

D. strong

參考答案:B 系統解析:題目意為“嚴重短缺”，應該選擇B，選項A意為“艱難的”，選項C意為“確定的”，選項D意為“強壯的”。

第(2)處填寫A. hoped

B. wanted

C. expected

D. prepared

參考答案:C 系統解析:be expected to do sth.…意為：“預期或計劃做某事”，題日意為“預期將會更加惡化”，而不是希望或者準備。

第(3)處填寫A. risk

B. chance

C. worry

D. difficulty

參考答案:A 系統解析:at risk是固定短語，“有危險”。

第(4)處填寫A. confirm

B. communicate

C. contact

D. command

參考答案:C 系統解析:contact意為“聯系”，選項A意為“確認”，選項B意為“交流”，選項D意為“命令”。

第(5)處填寫A. lectured

B. aided

C. formed

D. trained

參考答案:D 系統解析:trained意為“經過訓練的”，trained personnel表示受過訓練的員工。

第(6處填寫A. positive

B. correct

C. right

D. certain

參考答案:D 系統解析:it is certain that…意為：“幾乎是一定的”，選項A意為“積極的”，選項B，C意為“正確的”，均不合題意。

第(7)處填寫A. save

B. keep

C. ensure

D. continue

參考答案:B 系統解析:本句意為“保持辦公室正常運作”。選項A意為“挽救”，選項C意為“確保”，選項D意為“繼續”。

第(8)處填寫A. reason

B. purpose

C. result

D. problem

參考答案:A 系統解析:本句意為“出現人才短缺的原因”。The reason for…為固定搭配。

第(9)處填寫A. articles

B. matters

C. factors

D. subjects

參考答案:C 系統解析:本句意為“兩個因素”，選項A意為“文章”，選項B意為“事件”，選項D意為“對象”。

第(10)處填寫A. enlargement

B. increase

C. addition

D. upgrade

參考答案:B 系統解析:本句意為“需求的增加”，an increase in demand for…為常用搭配。

第(11)處填寫A. lack

B. need

C. requirement

D. few

參考答案:A 系統解析:lack意為“缺少”，a lack of…為固定用法。

第(12)處填寫A. request

B. desire

C. ask

D. like

參考答案:D 系統解析:would like to do sth.…固定句式“想要做某事”。

第(13)處填寫A. achieving

B. obtaining

C. realizing

D. earning

參考答案:B 系統解析:obtain意為“獲得，獲取”，選項A意為 “達到”，選項C意為“實現”，選項D意為“賺得”。

第(14)處填寫A. point

B. idea

C. position

D. subject

參考答案:A 系統解析:make the point that…為常用搭配意為“注意，確保”。

第(15)處填寫A. offer

B. delivery

C. product

D. sewice

參考答案:D 系統解析:service意為“服務”，選項A意為“提供”，選項B意為“傳送”，選項C意為“產品”。

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