Question

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项。

It was Monday morning. Cathy left home early that day because she was going to     1     a new job in Manhattan. She was only 18 and this was her first     2      . When she got to the bus stop, she saw so many people waiting there that she almost     3     a passing taxi. Later she was     4     that she had waited for the bus because the traffic was so heavy that even a taxi would not have      5     much earlier. As it was, she was only few minutes late!          She took the elevator (电梯) to the eighth     6     and went to the office where she had been interview (会见) by Mr Samson two weeks     7     . This was the man she was going to work for. She knocked on the door lightly and waited, but there was no     8      ! Just then she heard the sound of a     9     voice coming from the next office. She opened the door and looked   10     . There was Mr Samson, speaking    11      to all the other people in the office. He suddenly     12      around and left the room.          Later in the day, Cathy found out    13      had happened. Because Mr Samson lived forty miles away in Westchester, he had to take the train to work and would usually arrive at the office     14      nine thirty. This morning, however, he happened to catch an earlier train, and when he arrived at     15     , not a single person was working

(     )1. A. hunt        (     )2. A. job        (     )3. A. asked      (     )4. A. glad        (     )5. A. returned    (     )6. A. ground      (     )7. A. ago        (     )8. A. sound      (     )9. A. boy's      (     )10. A. in        (     )11. A. warmly    (     )12. A. got        (     )13. A. what      (     )14. A. in        (     )15. A. the station

B. start     B. chance     B. missed   B. sorry       B. left     B. storey   B. before   B. help     B. girl's   B. out       B. excitedly  B. looked   B. that     B. around   B. the office

C. finish      C. try        C. got      C. surprised  C. stopped    C. floor      C. later    C. answer    C. woman's    C. back        C. angrily    C. turned      C. which      C. until    C. Westchester

D. find         D. victory      D. called       D. disappointed D. arrived      D. office       D. earlier      D. noise          D. man's     D. up           D. sadly        D. walked       D. it             D. for           D. Manhattan

Answer 1

1-5 DADAD          6-10 CBCDA          11-15 CCABB