单选题 It was a quarter 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 "King Enterprises", she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no answer. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no reply. 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 had the interview with Mr.King, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. At the far end 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 Marie. 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. King, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realised that the day's work in the office began just before Mr．King 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 Marie felt nervous when she knocked at the door because______．
A. it was her first day in a new job
B. she was a little bit late for work
C. she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong place
D. there was no answer from inside the office

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 该题考查考生分析推断的能力。第二段的第二句和第三句写道：When she finally reached the office marked“King Enterprises，”she knocked at the door nervously and waited．There was no answer．意为：当她最终来到标着“King公司”的办公室，她紧张地敲了敲门，没有得到应答。可以看出：她敲门在前，屋里没有回应在后，所以令她紧张的原因并不是办公室里没有回应，排除[D]，同时，从第二句的前半句看，她能通过公司的招牌确认自己没有走错地方，且第三段的第一句话：Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in…也证实了[C]为错误项。再看第一段第二句的后半句话：Her bus…，making her a few minutes late for her very first iob．可以知道，她紧张的原因是她在第一分工作的第一天上班时迟到了。选项[A]的错误在于，Marie以前没有工作过，这是她的第一份工作，而不能称为她的新工作，所以[B]为正确项。

单选题 Marie could hardly recognise the office she went into as______．
A. she had been there only once
B. Mr King was not in the office
C. nobody was doing any work
D. the office had a new appearance

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 该题考查考生获取特定信息的能力。第三段的第二句：In fact，it hardly looked like an once at all意思是“事实上，它看上去似乎根本就不像一间办公室”。随后，第三段的后半段又描述了职员们聊天、抽烟、说笑的场景。可见，Marie觉得这间办公室看起来很不一样的原因是职员们都不在工作，而不是办公室本身有了变化或是新的外观。选项[C]为正确项。

单选题 The people in the office suddenly started working because______．
A. they saw a stranger in the office
B. they had finished their morning break
C. no one wanted to talk to Marie
D. the boss was about to arrive

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 该题考查考生分析推断的能力。第四段中提到：Then Marie realised that the day's work in the once began just before Mr．King arrived。意思是Marie意识到一天的工作就在Mr Kinffl~U的时候开始。再回顾第四段的前半段，描述的是职员们开始工作场景：一人看看表，拍拍手，说了些什么，然后大家立刻回到了自己的座位，开始工作。又，在另一人对Marie说的话中提到，Mr．King would arrive at any moment (Mr King随时都可能会到)。可见，职员们突然开始工作的原因是 Mr．King快要到办公室了。

单选题 We can infer from the text that the employees of the enterprise______．
A. would start their work by ristening to a joke
B. were cold to newcomers
C. were always punctual for work
D. lacked devotion to the company

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 该题与上一题紧密相联，考查考生分析推断的能力。如果上一题能够正确作答，这里就能推出正确项[D]lacked devotion to the compaoy。从文中可以得知，职员每天上班先是聊天、说笑，一直等到9:35老板快要到的时候才开始干活，这只能说明他们缺少敬业精神。[A]would start their work by listening to a joke(以听一个笑话作为一天工作的开始)，显然不符合上下文；[B]were cold to new comers(对新来的人冷淡)，在文中没有明显的体现；[C]were always punctual for work(工作准时)，与正确答案[D]是相反的，与文章内容不符。

单选题 The best title for this text would be______．
A. PunCtual Like A Clock
B. A ColdWelcome
C. An Unpunctual Hanager
D. Better Late Than Never

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 该题考查考生理解主旨要义的能力。文章大部分篇幅都在描述Marie第一天工作所见到的职员工作情况，很少涉及Marie如何被接待、被欢迎等内容，也很少说到那位尚未露面Mr King。所以[B]项A Cold Welcome(一个冷冷的欢迎)和 [C]项An Unpunctual Manager(一位不准时的经理)作为这篇短文的题目是不合适的。[D]项Better Late Than Never(迟了总比不做好)显然是不符合文意的。比较而言，[A]项Punctual Like A Clock(像钟一样准时)是最恰当的题目，这里其实是在讽刺那些职员们每天早上都在经理快到的时候准时开始工作。