单选题
Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax

Jennifer Porter is the managing (29) of Healthcare, a (30) of the American Pharmaceutical Association. (31) her private office in her Virginia home, she assigns (32) to ten articles for each issue of the magazine. The writers send her their stories on a computer disk, usually (33) means of an overnight delivery service. Porter checks them and then sends them (34) the designer's office in New York.
Porter's biggest problem (35) electronic publishing is training her writers. "One sent the story on a wrong-sized disk; (36) used a disk that my computer couldn't read; a third used software I couldn't decipher."
The disk problems should improve on the next issue (37) Porter has recently invested in a modem (38) writers can send their stories directly to her computer,
Porter says she is a skeptical technical consumer. I like a computer the same way I (39) a pencil. They are both tools that must work. (40) something goes wrong with my electronic equipment out here in the middle of Virginia, I have to put it in the car and take it someplace.

单选题 A. journalist B. author C. editor
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由后文可知Porter是一个编辑，她审阅稿件并将它们分发到各杂志社，所以A，B都不对。
单选题 A. newspaper B. publication C. company
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由Poner的工作可知她不是在公司工作，也不能确定其为报社。所以刊物更为合适，故选B出版物。
单选题 A. from B. To C. For
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由后半句可知，她从她的私人办公室里分发稿件，所以这里用介词From较合适，故选A。
单选题 A. x B. up C. down
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这里用的是up to短词意为“至多有”，她最多为每份报纸发十篇文章。
单选题 A. with B. as C. by
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】“by means of”为固定搭配，意为“借助……的手段。”
单选题 A. with B. to C. and
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】“Send sth to．”意为把……发送给(到)……。
单选题 A. with B. and C. or
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】关于……的问题用介词“with”，其余都不正确，故选A。
单选题 A. other B. one C. another
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由后文可知有多个作者，那么便不能用one．．． the other，两者以上用one．．．another，这里需要一个代词，故other也不正确，只有C正确。
单选题 A. So B. because C. therefore
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由句意可知Porter刚购买的调适解凋器是原因，因为这样，作者可以把他们的故事直接发送到她的电脑里，所以，磁盘问题才得以改善。
单选题 A. so that B. that C. then
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由37题可知作者把他们的故事直接发到 Porter的电脑里是一个结果，所以选“So that”，因此。
单选题 A. be fond B. like C. dislike
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由the same way得知她像喜欢铅笔一样喜欢电脑，所以选“like”，而A项语法错误，应是“be fond of…”。
单选题 A. Whether B. As C. If
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这里表示一种假设，而as置于句首时表示“当……时”，或表原因，“whether”表示两种可能中的一种选择，且不置于句首，只有C“if”合适。