单选题

A、 If we want to be on time and don"t let them, we must make a right turn.
B、 Though we went the wrong way and were late, they must have been waiting patiently for us.
C、 Since we"re not late, we must have come the right way.
D、 We"re late because we went the wrong way.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析]
You should have listened to me! If we hadn"t made the wrong turn, we"d have been on time. They must have waiting too long to be patient.

A、 We"re going to run out of stock of blue trousers, though we do have black trousers.
B、 Black cannot be used to replace the material for this order of trousers.
C、 In order to get this shade of trousers, we had to meet the stock-keeper, otherwise we had to use black as substitute.
D、 We had to exchange the black shade of cloth for blue one so as to meet the order.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析]
The order for 100 pairs of blue trousers is proving difficult to meet for we"re out of stock of that particular shade. We do have black.

A、 The store should compensate me for the suit.
B、 Even though the suit was of bad quality, I would take it due to its low prices.
C、 Soon after I bought the coat, I had it shortened to fit my size.
D、 The store refused to take my suit of inferior quality.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析]
I thought this suit was a good bargain but soon after I returned home, I washed it and found it shrunk so much that I would ask for a refund from the store.

A、 Christmas orders have given a boost to our sales by 6,000 units.
B、 Since Christmas orders stopped, our sales fell by a large margin.
C、 Sales dropped sharply to 6,000 units in November but they are expected to rise to 7,000 at the end of the year.
D、 It is not until November that our Christmas ordered will stop.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析]
Sales went down by 6,000 units in November when the Christmas orders stopped. They stayed at 7,000 until the end of the year.

A、 The government plans to expand the communication network into every part of society.
B、 Thanks to technology development, people have more access to low-cost communication than before.
C、 The proposal to extend low-cost communication seemed hard to be accepted because of the lack of advanced technology.
D、 Every school and business is in most urgent need of advanced technology.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析]
The possibilities of extending low-cost communications into every school, classroom, home and business seemed unparalleled because of advances in technology.