56 A worked B hoped C thought D expected

A.worked

B.hoped

C.thought

D.expected

Henry Ford was the first one to build cars which were fast, reliable(可靠的)and cheap. He was able to sell millions of them because he "mass-produced" them, that is, he made a great many cars of exactly the same type. Henry Ford's father had hoped his son would become a farmer, but the young man did not like the idea and went to Detroit where he worked as a mechanic.

By the time he was twenty-nine, in 1892, he had built his first car. The first "Massproduced" car in the world, The famous "Model T", appeared in 1908 five years after Henry had started his great Ford Motor's time, massproduction techniques have become common in industry and have reduced the price of a great many products which otherwise would be very expensive.

The passage mainly tells us ______.

A．how Henry Ford started his motor company

B．Henry Ford was a famous car producer

C．mass-production was introduced to the car-production industry by Henry Ford

D．Henry Ford was the first industrialist to build cars

International Films, Ltd.

124 West Houston St., New York, NY 10012

July 30, 20__

E. Denikos, Inc.

Earos 42

Aghia Paraskevi 15342

Athens, Greece

Dear Mr. Denikos:

I am writing to you at the request of Ms. Evangelia Makestos, who is applying for a position as an assistant in your company.

Ms. Makestos worked for me as an assistant during her summer vacations for the past three years. My colleagues and I found her to be a very competent and reliable employee. Her duties consisted of typing and copying documents, maintaining files, organizing appointment schedules, assisting visitors to the office, and other office tasks as they arose. She was able to handle multiple tasks and to work independently. She always assisted our clients in a knowledgeable, professional, and patient manner. In addition, she developed a high level of ability in the English language during the time she worked and studied in this country. We had hoped to rehire her at our company in a permanent position when she finished her business course here in New York. However, she has decided to go through with her original plan of returning to Greece.

We will miss Ms. Makestos here at International Films, but I am happy to recommend her as a valuable addition to your company staff. Please feel free to contact me at the above address if you have any questions or need further information.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Hogan

Elizabeth Hogan, Director

International Films, Ltd.

What is Ms. Makestos probably doing？

A．Job hunting

B．Quitting her job

C．Moving to New York

D．Applying to school

听力原文： As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers. Everyone arrived on time, and Alex's presentation went extremely well. He decided to end the meeting with the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company's plans. "I believe we are going to continue to increase our share of the market," he began, "because of the quality of the people in this room. The district manager is the key to the success of the sales representatives in his district. He sets the term for everyone else. If he has ambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow his example." When Alex was finished, he received polite applauses, but hardly the warm response he had hoped for. Later he spoke with one of the senior managers. "Things were going so well until the end", Alex said disappointedly. "Obviously, I said the wrong thing." "Yes", the district manager replied. "Half of our managers are women. Most have worked their way up from sales representatives, and they are very proud of the role they played in the company's growth. They don't care at all about political correctness. But they were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as 'he' in your speech. "

Who did Alex Gordon speak to at the first meeting？

A．District managers.

B．Regular customers.

C．Sales directors.

D．Senior clerks.

nction is depicted by the formula C = 5X + 6Y, where C = contribution, X = the number of product X to be produced and Y = the number of product Y to be produced. Each unit of X uses 2 kg of material Z and each unit of Y uses 3 kg of material Z. The standard cost of material Z is $2 per kg. The shadow price for material Z has been worked out and found to be $2·80 per kg. If an extra 20 kg of material Z becomes available at $2 per kg, what will the maximum increase in contribution be？

A.Increase of $96

B.Increase of $56

C.Increase of $16

D.No change

d get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to get him to take a vacation. At last she managed to persuade him to do so, and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacation without any disturbance, so before they left, Mrs. Young went to see her husband's secretary. She said to her, "My husband needs a vacation very much, so whatever happens, please don't bother him with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away. Just wait till we get back."

After Mr. and Mrs. Young had been away about a week, Mr. Young received a letter from his secretary which said, "Something terrible happened to your business, but I'm not going to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation."

1)、Mr. Young was the owner of a private business.

A.T

B.F

2)、Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business.

A.T

B.F

3)、Mrs. Young was afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt.

A.T

B.F

4)、The secretary didn't explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Young's business, because she didn't want to spoil Mr. Young's vacation.

A.T

B.F

5)、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary.

A.T

B.F

【56】to hunters,【57】have tried to kill it to prove their own skill and【58】. In India【59】the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large parties of【60】from around the world【61】go out on huge tiger hunts. Hundreds of tigers could be killed in a few weeks. As a【62】of this over-hunting,【63】with loss of habitat(栖息地), the population of tigers in India dropped from about 40,000【64】the turn of the twentieth century to about 2,000 by 1972.

With the help of India and other concerned countries, the World Wildlife Fund【65】Operation Tiger in 1972 to save the tiger【66】dying out. Since then, seventeen tiger preserves (保护区) have been【67】, and the tiger population in India has risen to【68】4,000 and 5,000.

But when people live on the【69】of the tiger preserves, tigers sometimes kill their farm animals and attack people--about 600 people in India have been killed by tigers in the last dozen years.【70】tigers do not eat humans. But "old, wounded and homeless" tigers can become habitual (习惯的) man-eaters. In one area in India, villagers have【71】a clever solution. They wire lifelike human dummies (假人) to electricity【72】the tigers get a(n)【73】shock when they attack. It is hoped that in this way tigers will learn to【74】people. But the conflict between human and tiger【75】. Only if people have enough food, shelter and fuel will the tiger survive in the long run. And only if the tiger and its forest survive will people have a natural world they can return to.

(56)

A．succession

B．challenge

C．guarantee

D．intelligence

第二节 短文理解1

阅读下面短文，从[A](Right)、[B](Wrong)、[C](Doesn't Say)三个判断中选择一个正确选项。

Sally was fourteen. She studied in a middle school. She liked dancing and singing and spent a lot of time on them, but she hated maths and even decided to give it up. Her father was anxious (焦虑) about it.

It was Sunday. Sally's father gave a call to his sister who taught maths in another school. He hoped she would come and tell his daughter how to learn maths. The woman came and said, " You are a clever girl, Sally. I'm sure you will soon learn maths well if you do your best. "

"I'm afraid I can't, Aunt, " said Sally. " Girls can't be good at maths. "

"I don't think so, " said the woman. "I was good at it when I was a girl. You must do more exercises and try different ways to practise doing maths problems until you work them out or at least understand them better. Here is a maths problem. Please think it over and see if you can work it out. "

"OK, " said the girl. "Let me try. "

About an hour later Sally took the exercise book to her aunt and said, "I've tried several times and worked out the problem at last!"

"Well done!" her aunt looked at her answer and said happily, "Now you see, maths is not as difficult as you thought. "

Sally tried her best to learn maths but could not learn it well.

A．Right.

B．Wrong.

C．Doesn't say.

ursing homes. They are left in the(51)of strangers for the rest of their lives. Their(52)children visit them only occasionally, but more often, they do not have any regular visitors. The truth is that this idea is an unfortunate myth-an(53)story. In fact, family members provide over 80 percent of the care(54)elderly people need. Samuel Prestoon, a sociologist, studied(55)the American family is changing. He reported that by the time the average American couple reaches 40 years of age, they have more parents than children(56), because people today live longer after an illness than people did years (57), family members must provide long term care. More psychologists have found that all caregivers(58)a common characteristic: All caregivers believe that they are the best people for the job. In other words, they all felt that they(59)do the job better than anyone else. Social workers(60)caregivers to find out why they took(61)the responsibility of caring for an elderly relative. Many caregivers believed they had obligation to help their relative. Some stated that helping others(62)them feel more useful. Others hoped that by helping(63)now, they would deserve care when they became old and(64). Caring for the elderly and being taken care of can be a mutually satisfying experience for everyone who might be(65)

A．hands

B．arms

C．bodies

D．homes

How to Be a Successful Businessperson

Have you ever wondered why some people are successful in business and others are not？ Here's astory about one successful businessperson. He started out washing dishes and today he owns 168 res-taurants.

Zubair Kazi was born in Bhatkal,a small town in southwest India. His dream was to be an airplanepilot,and when he was 16 years old,he learned to fly a small plane.

At the age of 23 and with just a little money in his pocket, Mr. Kazi moved to the United States.He hoped to get a job in the airplane industry in California. Instead, he ended up working for a compa-ny that rented cars.

While Mr. Kazi was working at the car rental(租赁的)company,he frequently ate at a nearby KFCrestaurant. To save money on food,he decided to get a job with KFC. For two months,he worked as acook's assistant. His job was to clean the kitchen and help the cook. "I didn't like it,"Mr,Kazi says,"but I always did the best I could. "

One day, Mr. Kazi's two co-workers failed to come to work. That day,Mr. Kazi did the work of allthree people in the kitchen. This really impressed the owners of the restaurant. A few months later,the owners needed a manager for a new restaurant. They gave the job to Mr. Kazi. He worked hard asthe manager and soon the restaurant was making a profit.

A few years later,Mr. Kazi heard about a restaurant that was losing money. The restaurant wasdirty inside and the food was terrible. Mr. Kazi borrowed money from a bank and bought the restau-rant. For the first six months,Mr. Kazi worked in the restaurant from 8 a. m. t0 10 p. m. ,seven days aweek. He and his wife cleaned up the restaurant,remodeled the front of the building,and improved thecooking. They also tried hard to please the customers. If someone had to wait more than ten minutesfor their food, Mrs. Kazi gave them a free soda. Before long the restaurant was making a profit.

A year later, Mr. Kazi sold his restaurant for a profit. With the money he earned, he bought threemore restaurants that were losing money. Again, he cleaned them up,improved the food,and retrainedthe employees. Before long these restaurants were making a profit,too.

Today Mr. Kazi owns 168 restaurants,but he isn't planning to stop there. He's looking for morepoorly managed restaurants to buy. "I love it when I go to buy a restaurant and find it's a mess, "Mr.Kazi says. "The only way it can go is up. "

When Mr. Kazi was young, his dream was to

A.sell cars

B.own a restaurant

C.become a good cook

D.be an airplane pilot