单选题{{B}}Task 1{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} {{I}}After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.{{/I}} Working at home in your nightclothes while saving hundreds of dollars may sound too good to be true, but it isn't. More and more employees are telecommuting, doing their job at home or another remote site. "It's a trend that's here now and you're going to see a lot more telecommuting because people don't have to put up with {{I}}commuting{{/I}} (来回上下班). They want more work / life balance, they want less stress in their lives and companies want to drive costs after their bottom lines," says John Edwards, President of the International Telework Association and Council. However, Edwards says, "The biggest problem at the moment is dealing with middle management who is uncomfortable with management style focusing on results. They are used to the line of sight management style. But they have to change to more results-oriented management style which can often be slightly opposite, so they feel uncomfortable with that." Edwards says telecommuting kills distance—and a lot of face to face meetings are replaced by tele-conferences. "Distance does not exist anymore. It's the death of distance, if you like. So now it's possible to have more invisible teams so that the necessity to have the old bricks and walls existing is beginning to disappear."

单选题It"s true that e-mail is a fast, simple, and effective way to communicate. But when the authors of e-mail messages are not aware of the basic rules of good manners, e-mail can be annoying. Writing good e-mail, as with writing a good letter can be an art. In fact, remembering some basic rules of form can result in better e-mail—especially for business correspondence.

单选题There are some steps you can take yourself to avoid catching a cold. Contrary to popular belief, colds are not caused by exposure to severe weather. Colds are caused by viruses (病毒) harbored in the body, and you're better off out on the ski slopes or even waiting for the bus on a snowy day than you are in a warm room, surrounded by friends, co-workers, or fellow students, who just may be passing the viruses around. If you feel a chill when you're coming down with a cold, you're already sick. A chill is an early symptom: it's the cold that caused the chill, not the other way around. While the virus can spread through droplets (飞沫) propelled into the air when a cold-sufferer coughs or sneezes. Surprisingly, this is not the most common route of transmission, Numerous studies have now shown that the overwhelming majority of colds are "caught" by hand contact, A cold sufferer rubs her nose, thereby transferring the virus to her hand. Then a friend comes to visit. "Don't kiss me," she cautions, so the friend steps back and presses her hand. The friend then wipes her own nose or eye, and several days later is stricken with a cold. Or parents pick up their child's discarded (丢弃的) tissues and carefully throw them away, but fail to wash their hands afterward. Cold viruses also can be transferred to objects—telephones, towels, plates and remain infectious for up to three hours. Frequent hand-washing—on the part of the cold sufferer as well as other members of the house- hold—will minimize the spread of viruses in this way.

单选题Will you need an experienced desk clerk for your hotel next summer? A．来年夏季您是否有经验为您旅馆设一名办公室经理? B．您旅馆下一个夏季想找一名有经历的前台领班吗? C．来年夏季你旅馆是否有经验想招收一名前台服务员? D．不知贵旅馆明年夏天是否需要一名有经验的前台服务员?

单选题As soon as the children were ______ , their mother got them out of bed and into the sitting room. A. woke B. waken C. wake D. awake

单选题There is nobody who has never made any friends in his life．Simply he has not made any intimate ones．

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单选题What kind of information do the firefighters want to know first when a fire breaks out?

单选题Television is another major instrument of communication, permitting us to see as well as to hear the performer. A. 电视是另一个主要的交流设备，与听相比，我们能更好地看到表演者。 B. 电视是另一个主要的通讯设备，它使我们不仅能听到表演者的声音，而且能看到他。 C. 电视是另一个主要的通讯设备，它使我们既能看到又能听到表演者。 D. 电视是另一个主要的交流设备，它使我们在看到表演者的同时也能听到表演者说话。

单选题It is a change in habits making us worry about the change of tradition—but in reality it is a natural response to the increasing media. A．这是一种习惯的变化，使人担忧传统的改变，但实际上这是对媒体日益增多的自然反应。 B．这是一种使人忧虑的传统习惯的改变，但实际上这是人们对媒体日益增多的自然反应。 C．这是一种使人忧虑的传统习惯的改变，但实际上这是日益增多的媒体做出的自然反应。 D．这是一种习惯性改变，使人担忧传统的改变，但实际上这是对媒体日益增多的自然反应。 E．这是一种使人忧虑的传统习惯的改变，但实际上这是媒体增多后人们应对自然的方式。

单选题______ , he didn't go to school.

单选题He gave his listeners a vivid ______ of what he had experienced in the country. A. condition B. occupation C. description D. situation

单选题This agreement is made out in four copies, two copies to be held by each party.

单选题He told me that nothing but toys ______ sold in this shop.A. areB. wasC. isD. to be

单选题Some people have remarkable chances which lead to fame and success without this long and hard training. An ordinary girl working in a bike factory became a world famous movie star totally by accident. Of course, chances like this happen in a blue moon.

单选题My pain ______ apparent the moment I walked into the room, for the first man I met asked sympathetically "Are you feeling all right?" A. must be B. had been C. must have been D. had to be

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单选题A man escaped from the prison last night. It is a long time ______ the guards discovered what had happened. A. before B. until C. since D. when

单选题After one migration (迁移) the next comes more easily. New arrivals in America usually want to settle down and work as quickly as they can, but they may well move again sooner or later. American life has always had its element of change, of movement, some say of restlessness, and this is still so now. In some states only one house in five has people living in it who have been there for more than five years. In this story of constant movement we think at first of the early pioneers journeying westwards, taking a step further the adventure that had brought them or their parents across the Atlantic. Now there is movement, short or long, in every direction. Some leave their homes because changing economic conditions have put them out of work; others (more commonly now) go to better jobs, or move because they have been promoted. Even now some go without security and full of anxiety; but others, more fortunate, can move in comfort, with a good job and a new home ready for them. Most college graduates, the new meritocracy, have studied away from home, and see movement as a condition and as one of the symbols of success in life to which they almost automatically aspire (渴望).

单选题Should there be any trouble with the machine, the automatic controlling unit would cut off the electricity.