单选题Thackeray has been born into a comfortably secure upper-middle-class family, and reared to expect the leisured life of a gentleman. However, partly through bad luck and bad financial advice, partly through his own profligacy in early youth-he was at Cambridge and for some years afterwards a compulsive gambler —he had been left with nothing to rely on but his brains and energy. He dreamed of writing a great novel; but he was well aware that while he dreamed and dawdled, writers whom he despised, such as Bulwer-Lytton, were writing best-sellers. Writing had not been his first choice of profession. To please his mother he spent some tedious months studying law, but his earliest ambition was to be a painter. He studied art in London and Paris before deciding that his talent was too small for him to be anything but an amateur painter, though he continued to draw professionally, and illustrated most of his own novels. He then turned to journalism. In 1836, while he was still struggling to make his way, he married a penniless girl of eighteen, in the face of her mother's fierce opposition. With considerable courage, Thackeray began to make a living for his growing family from miscellaneous contributions to any newspapers and periodicals that would take his work. Often he did not know where the next five pounds was coming from. Isabella Thackeray gave birth to three daughters, the second of whom died in infancy, but after the birth of the third, in 1840, she became incurably insane, and had to be cared for away from her family for the rest of her long life—she outlived her husband by over thirty years. This tragedy deeply affected Thackeray. It was, too, an additional financial burden, and for some years he was forced to part with his daughters, who were brought up by his mother in France, while he struggled to make a living in London, still chiefly by journalism. His chances as a novelist seemed poor: his short novel Barry Lyndon, published serially in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, made so little impression on the public that it was not published in book form until twelve years later.

单选题Who says honesty is dead? Last Tuesday morning Alan Reed, a student at Claremont College here, was getting (41) money out of the bank. He wanted to have 50 dollars and the teller (银行出纳员) (42) him five twenties instead of five tens. For a few seconds, as Alan tells it, he wondered (43) to do. Should he give the extra money back? Keep it? (44) he kept it, he could buy several new CDs, or he could take his friend Simon to a big dinner. (45) no one would ever notice (注意). But then he (46) the teller. She was a middle-aged woman with a sweet face, and she reminded him of his mother. She had been nice to him. Then he thought that there were probably exact (精确的) (47) kept of how much money was paid out, and the (48) would probably get in trouble. (49) of all, Alan felt he would probably feel (50) about keeping the extra money. Alan gave back the money.

单选题 {{I}} Questions 11～13 are based on the following dialogue about post service.{{/I}}

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单选题 Questions 22～25 are based on a conversation at the airport.

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单选题Questions 14--17 are based on the following dialogue.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn't easy getting hired. I had to fight my way into a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found, you were in. Globe jobs were for life—guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I stuck with it. Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss's office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous temper. "Matt, we have to have a talk," I began awkwardly. "I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I'm forty. There's a lot I want to do in life. I'm resigning." "To another paper?" he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn't say anything, not trusting myself just then. I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe had taught me in a thousand ways. That we were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change. "I'm glad for you," he said, quite out of my expectation. "I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can't," he went on. "I wish you all the luck in the world," he concluded. "And if it doesn't work out, remember, your star is always high here." Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody—even though I'd be risking all on an unfamiliar venture: all the financial security I had carefully built up. Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property. "I'm resigning, Bill," I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn't looking angr or dismayed either. After a pause, he said, "Golly, {{U}}I wish I were in your shoes.{{/U}}"

单选题The human nose has given to the language of the world many interesting expressions. Of course, this is not surprising. Without the nose, obviously, we could not breathe or smell. It is the part of the face that gives a person special character. Cyrano de Bergerac said a large nose showed a great man — courageous, courteous, manly and intellectual. A famous woman poet wished that she had two noses to smell a rose! Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, made an interesting comment about Cleopatra's nose. If it had been shorter, he said, it would have changed the whole face of the world! Historically, man's nose has had a principal role in his imagination. Man has referred to the nose in many ways to express his emotions. Expressions concerning the nose refer to human weakness: anger, jealousy and revenge. In English there are a number of phrases about the nose. For example, to hold up one's nose expresses a basic human feeling — pride. People can hold up their noses at people, things, and places. The phrase, to be led around by the nose, shows man's weakness. A person who is led around by the nose lets other people control him. On the other hand, a person who follows his nose lets his instinct guide him. For the human emotion of rejection, the phrase to have one's nose put out of joint is very descriptive. The expression applies to persons who have been turned aside because of a competitor. Their pride is hurt and they feel rejected. This expression is not new. It was used by Erasmus in 1542. This is only a sampling of expressions in English dealing with the nose. There are a number of others. However, it should be as plain as the nose on your face that the nose is more than an organ for breathing and smelling!

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单选题AccordingtoJanet,whatwouldmostaffectnegotiations?A.Englishlanguageproficiency．B.Differentculturalpractices．C.Differentnegotiationtasks．D.TheinternationalAmericanizedstyle

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