单选题—Would you mind holding the door open for me, please?
单选题Quite a number of NBA players have the experience of ______ from one team to another.
单选题It"s no good ______. You just have to put up with all these.
单选题Do you think shopping online will ______ take the place of shopping in stores?
单选题Unlike their American or European counterparts, car salesmen in Japan work hard to get a buyer. Instead of walking around showrooms waiting for customers to drop by, many Japanese car salesmen still go out to get them. They walk wearily along the streets selling cars door-to-door. New customers are hunted with a determination and existing ones entertained with fruit and cakes on their birthdays. But life is getting tough—and not just because new-car sales are falling.
With more Japanese women (who often control the house-hold budget) going out to work, the salesmen increasingly find nobody at home when they call. That means another visit in the evening or at the weekend. Then they face an extra problem: more people, especially the young, prefer to choose a new car from a showroom where they can compare different models.
Even as late as the mid-1980s some 90% of new cars were sold door-to-door. In some rural areas most new cars are still sold this way. But in the big cities more than half the new cars now are sold from showrooms.
Although investing in showrooms is expensive because of the high cost of Japanese land, dealers have little choice. A labor shortage and higher expectations among Japan"s workforce are making it difficult to recruit door-to-door salesmen. Most of a Japanese car salesman"s working day is spent doing favours for customers, like arranging insurance or picking up vehicles for servicing, rather than actually selling.
Japan"s door-step car salesmen are not about to vanish. The personal service they provide is so deep-rooted in Japan that they are likely to operate alongside the glittery new showrooms. The two systems even complement each other. What increasingly happens is that the showroom attracts the interest of a potential buyer, giving the footsore salesmen a firm lead to follow up with a home visit.
单选题The soldier got seriously ______ in the battle.
单选题Never before ______ available for quick and easy access in so many different fields of study.
单选题My piano is magnificent, ______ since I was 18.
A. I got it
B. I've got it
C. I have it
D. I've had it
单选题We request the committee ______ our arrangements again.
单选题"Is Bob going to fix our TV for us?"
"Yes,______ he is here. "
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单选题Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth ______ of American Independence.
单选题Last year Mary earned ______ his brother, who has a better position.
单选题Poverty is remembering. It is remembering ________ school in junior high because “nice” children ________ so cruel about my clothes and my smell.
单选题I could have visited you in London, but I ______ your address.
单选题By the end of next Friday, my English teacher ______ in hospital for two months.
单选题Measures have been adopted by the government to reduce air pollution.
单选题When ______ a game of football?
A. had you last
B. did you have last
C. last had you
D. did you last have
单选题______ outside the room, wet clothes get dry very easily.
A. Hanged
B. Hung
C. Hang
D. Hanging
单选题It has never ______ to her that it was her son who committed such a silly mistake.
