单选题
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It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked "Smith Enterprises", she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.
Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Made. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arrive at any moment. Then Made realized that the day's work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35,so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.
单选题 Made felt nervous when she knocked at the door because______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 第一天上班迟到,所以紧张。
单选题 Made could hardly recognize the office she went into as______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由第三段中“…it looked quite different now”可以看出,办公室和以前相比,变化很大,答案选D。
单选题 The people in the office suddenly started working because______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由末段中“Then Marie realized that the day's work in the office began just before Mr.Smith arrived”可知选D。
单选题 We can infer from the text that the employees of the enterprise______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 显而易见该公司职员对公司缺乏奉献精神。
单选题 The best title for this text would be______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 标题的选择应言简意赅,同时也可表达出作者的某种感情色彩,如本文中作者的讽刺意味比较浓。