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单选题Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn"t easy getting hired. 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 is I struck 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. I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. 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 angry or dismayed either. After a pause, he said, "Golly, I wish I were in your shoes."

单选题"Hi there. How's it going?" "Oh, fine, fine. How about this weather, huh?" "Well, I guess we can always use the rain." What's that? This story? Oh, just a little look at small talk. You know, those seemingly meaningless conversations you have dozens of times a day. Maybe you're waiting for the elevator. Or in a line at the bank. It all seems pretty trivial. Idle chatter about traffic doesn't do much more than fill the air with empty words that are quickly forgotten. But you should know that small talk actually has a big place in our lives. Pat Oliver, assistant professor on arts, says that, "Left unchecked, small talk can be an invasion. It's so powerful. It does something to you." "Every morning after spending an hour and a half on the freeway I start the day with small talk with my secretary," Oliver says, "If I don't make small connection with another person, I can't work." What causes it? As a rule, you're either trying to force something into your life, or you're using conversation as an invisible force field to keep them out. You can be wanting to connect with another person, and small talk is your introduction to more meaningful conversation. The way people use small talk is usually determined by where they happen to be at the time. Take the elevator, for instance. Now there's prime territory. Nobody knows anyone and there's no reason to start a conversation, but invariably, someone does. Making conversation in such peaceful social settings, according to Oliver, "can confirm your territory. It's a way of feeling liked and accepted." The topics of small talk don't matter. In fact, you don't want anything more taxing than the weather or the traffic. It's non-threatening talk in a threatening situation. However, the rules change quickly when you're with lots of people doing lots of talking. Let's say you're at a party. Now it's time to use small talk as a way of making others feel more comfortable around you, so you don't look silly standing by the food table alone all night.

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单选题 Questions 14～17 are based on the following dialogue between a boss and a clerk.

单选题{{I}} Questions 11 ～ 13 are based on the dialogue about different ways of entertainment between cities and countryside{{/I}}

单选题Whatistheprobablerelationshipbetweenthetwospeakers?A.mother-son.B.Flatmates.C.Teacher-Student.D.Brothers.

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单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Americans are getting ready for the biggest soccer event in the world. For the first time the World Cup soccer competition will be held in the United States. While millions play the game around the world, soccer, or football has only recently become popular here. It is only in the last 30 years that large numbers of young Americans became interested in soccer, Now it is the fastest growing sport in the country. A recent study found that almost I8 million young boys and girls play soccer in the United States. The study also found that soccer is beginning to replace more traditional games like American football as the most popular sport among students. And so, when the World Cup begins next week, more than one million Americans are expected to go and see the teams' play. Organizers say this year' s World Cup will be the biggest ever. All the seats at most of the 52 games have already been sold. Soccer has been played in the United States for a little more than one hundred years. But how did the sport come to this country? And how long has it existed in other parts of the world? No one knows exactly where the idea for soccer came from, or when people began playing the game. Some scientists say there is evidence that ball games using the feet were played thousands of years ago. There is evidence that ancient Greeks and Romans and native American Indians all played games similar to soccer. Most experts agree that Britain is the birthplace of modern soccer. They also agree that the British spread the game around the world. Unlike the game today, which uses balls of man-made material or leather, early soccer balls were often made of animal stomachs. The rules of early soccer games also differed from those we have today.

单选题In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to ______.

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单选题Mrs. Read lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son named Jack. He is twenty-one. In the past, he worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mother, but then he found a better job in a far away town named Greensea and moved to live there. But Mrs. Read was unhappy about it. Last Sunday, Mrs. Read was very angry with Jack. She got on a train and went to her son's house in Greeasea. Then she said to him, "Jack, why do you never telephone me?" Jack laughed, "But, Mum, you haven't got a telephone." "No," she answered, "I haven't, but you have got one!/