A man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner.

He was tested by the manager there on sweeping and cleaning. After the ______ , the manager says, "You will get the job, $5.5 an hour. Let me have your ______ address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day." However, the man says he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means you can ______ expect to get the job."

Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his ______ , he decides to buy 8.5 kilos of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes at 100% profit (利润). ______ the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And he realized that he could quite easily make a living ______ selling tomatoes.

Getting up early every day and going to bed ______ , his profits increases quickly. By the end of the second year, he is the ______ of a group of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred people, all selling tomatoes.

Planning for the ______ of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance (保险). Talking with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to ______ his new conditions. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the ______ documents electronically.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser ______ loudly, "What? You don't have an e-mail? How have you had such wealth ______ the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce (电子商务)? Just imagine where you would be now, ______ you had been connected to the internet from the very start!"

After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of course! I would be a floor ______ at Microsoft."

1.A.test B.party C.report D.Rest

2.A.home B.school C.e-mail D.Internet

3.A.clearly B.quickly C.easily D.hardly

4.A.study B.wallet C.mind D.office

5.A.Repeating B.Starting C.Guiding D.Controlling

6.A.for B.by C.at D.in

7.A.early B.late C.fast D.slowly

8.A.driver B.inventor C.maker D.owner

9.A.travel B.health C.future D.past

10.A.change B.improve C.fit D.create

11.A.final B.first C.public D.private

12.A.laughs B.sings C.talks D.shouts

13.A.among B.through C.without D.with

14.A.so B.if C.unless D.But

15.A.seller B.manager C.designer D.cleaner

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The idea that red means stop and green means go has influenced our lives in more ways than just traffic signals (信号). We have been taught from a young age that the color red means danger and green means it’s okay to move forward. But why were those colors chosen for traffic lights in the first place? For something we have to look at every day, why couldn’t they have been prettier colors?

Well, it’s important to know that before traffic lights for cars, there were traffic signals for trains. At first, railway companies used red to mean stop, white to mean go, and green to mean warn. As you could imagine, trains ran into a few problems with white meaning go. For example, one train mistook a bright star for a white light and something unexpected happened. Because of that, railway companies finally moved green meaning go and used yellow to mean warn. And it’s been that way ever since.

Red has always been a color that mean danger, long before cars were even around. This most likely started because it’s the color with the longest wavelength (波长) so it can be seen somewhere farther than other colors.

But, believe it or not, yellow was once used to mean stop. Back in the 1900s, some stop signs were yellow because it was too hard to see a red sign in a poorly lit area. Finally, highly reflective materials (高反射材料) were developed and red stop signs were born. Since yellow can be seen well at all times of the day, school zones, some traffic signs, and school buses continue to be printed yellow.

So next time you are impatiently waiting at a traffic light, don’t get so mad at them, they’ve certainly come a long way.

Answer the following question with no more than 8 words.

1.How many colours have been used for traffic signals since the very beginning?

2.What did one train mistake for a white light?

3.Did the colour yellow mean go at first?

4.Why does red mean danger?

5.When were stop signs yellow?

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