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Part 3

The flying fox is not a fox at all. It is an extra large bat that has got a fox's head, and that feeds on fruit instead of insects.Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when at rest,and travel in great crowds when out flying. A group will live in one spot for years. Sometimes several hundred of them occupy.a single tree.As they return to the tree toward sunrise,they quarrel among themselves and fight for the best places until long after daylight.Flying foxes have babies once a year, giving birth to only one at a time. At first the mother has to carry the baby on her breast wherever she goes. Later she leaves it hanging up,and brings back food for it to eat.Sometimes a baby bat falls down to the ground and squeaks, for help. Then the older ones swoop down and try to pick it up. If they fail to do so, it wvill die.Often hundreds of dead baby bats can be found lying on the ground at the foot of a tree.

Part 4

It is essential to understand that writing for a business context or audience can be distinctly different than writing in the humanities,social sciences, or other academic disciplines. Writing for business should be crisp and succinct. It should be to the point,specific and accurate. If you have not read many memos before, seek out some examples. In most cases, the business letter will be the first impression that you make on someone. For this reason it is important that you are diligent in your task of writing an effective business document. Even though business writing is possibly less formal than it once was,your writing must still adhere to the conventions of Standard English by using conventional spelling and standard grammatical forms. Business writing varies from the chatty,conversational style often found in email messages to a familiar co-worker, to the more formal, legalistic style found in contracts.In the majority of memos,email messages,and letters,a style between these two extremes is appropriate. Always remember,writing that is too formal can alienate readers, and an overly obvious attempt to be causal and informal may strike the reader as insincere or unprofessional. In business writing,as in all writing,knowing your audience is critical

Part 5

This new social hotel booking site is well worth a look. It was launched just a few months ago and offers a new way to search for hotel deals.Competitive pricing is the order of the day here and rates can be anything between 10%-70%below those of the major travel sites.Have a look for yourself and see if you can find a bargain. The concept is quite simple,but effective at the same time. Users access the site via their Facebook login and the deals with over 2,000 top hotel partners are competitive thanks to users' willingness to share a post on their Facebook or Twitter social media channels. The process of booking is equally straightforward but here it is in 4 easy-to-follow steps: Step 1 Go to the website and search for your destination city. Step 2 Login to the site in order to view the prices.The simplest way to do this is via your Facebook ID. Step 3 Look at the hotels that interest you.There's detailed information on each hotel and you can even see the saving that you'll make by booking via our site versus using another site. Step 4 Book and share. Once you've booked your hotel,the honorable thing to do-in order to keep in the spirit of the site and to help it work-is to share the deal you've just taken advantage of via Facebook and/or Twitter. Although this is not a requirement, it does help drive the site. Give it a try and let us know in the comments if you find any great deals..

Part 6

How Billionaires Are Made Every year FORBES crunches the numbers to find out which Americans rank the richest-and each year it gets harder to join the Forbes list. But you don't have to inherit a fortune to become a Forbes billionaire. In fact, the majority of the Forbes members scrapped their way onto our list through their own efforts.Researchers created a table to show how billionaires are made. As we can see, self-made billionaires take the largest share while those who inherited their wealth take the smallest.

Part 7

ON JANUARY 6th a vast conference center in Las Vegas will be holding a big party for the start of the International Consumer Electronics Show. Tech firms will show off their latest and greatest inventions, from smart cars to smart phones and fancy TVs.The gadgets will provoke plenty of emotions among the 160,000 or so visitors. But the devices themselves won't be able to tell what those people are feeling. Beyond Verbal would like to change that. The Israeli startup is one of several firms working in the field of "emotions analytics".Its software is designed to deduce someone's emotional state from a brief sample of his voice captured by microphone.Rather than focusing on the words used, the software analyses such things as the loudness and pitch of the speech, and then runs the results through a program to match them with patterns from its database. Beyond Verbal has gathered thousands of voice samples in more than 40 languages and has developed a smart phone app, Moodies,that lets people try its technology.But for now,the companies in the field have focused their commercial efforts on narrow areas such as market research and security rather than mass-market consumer electronics.

Part 8

The hotel sectors has had to adapt to the changing needs of business travellers, with the best balance between cost, convenience and comfort constantly being sought by the corporate customer.Wishing-or needing-to be more industrious and productive while travelling on company business, many business guests in hotels require much more than a quiet room.They increasingly want hotels to be not so much home from home but offices away from the office; in response, major hotel chains and independent hotels have introduced a range of in-room facilities, such as computers, modems and fax machines.Translation and photocopying services are among the additional services that may be made available in hotels' business centers,which offer guests the full range of secretarial and support services during their stay. Brand loyalty is something that most chains recognize as a highly desirable quality in their business guests; chains are increasingly creating their own loyalty clubs are said to be substantial savings of both time and money for members. For example, the late check-out or early check-in facilities offered to certain hotel loyalty cardholders can mean avoiding the expense of paying for an extra night's accommodation,while express check-in/check-out facilities make for valuable time savings.

Part 9

High-profile or very elaborate meeting events, such as product launches, if they are to be of a professional standard, require specialist input from agencies with the skills and knowledge to, for example, design and build a conference set and backdrop（背景）， and provide audiovisual support and special effects.This is where conference production companies play an essential role. They are most often employed in connection with events that are highly theatrical in nature and that have to be visually strikcing and memorable in content in order to achieve their objectives. In addition to the functions mentioned above,conference production companies can also raise the presentation standards of the event by, for example, preparing computer graphics and videos or even writing the scripts and training speakers in delivery techniques and autocue（提词器）use. Alternatively,conference production companies can also be used to stage an event when an organization wishes to take over a unique venue（会场），such as a museum，for a conference and requires expertise to be brought in that thevenue itself might not normally possess.

Part 10

ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Facilities Division

Date:April 26,2012 To:Principals and Assistant Principals From:Richard Navarro,Associate Superintendent, Facilities Division Subject:2012 SUMMER ENERGY SAVINGS PROGRAM Thank you for your terrific support of our Summer Energy Savings Program last year.Your efforts helped us achieve a yearly savings in electrical cost avoidance of $10,293.833.We look forward to this summer's results when many of our schools will again be shut down.We also appreciate your efforts in consolidating and minimizing the footprint of our summer operations through coordination with the various entities that use our schools each summer. With schools remaining on a nine month schedule for this summer,our greatest opportunity for savings is during the summer months.The success of the program hinges on how many schools and sections we can shut down.We will save an estimated