Question

In the company in which I work, each of us is afraid of at least one person. The lower your    21    is, the more people you are afraid of.   22    all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped    23    and build the company and now own and direct it.
    All these twelve men are elderly now and drained (耗尽) by time and success of energy and ambition. Many have spent their whole lives here. They seem friendly and    24    when I come across them in the halls and always modest when they ride with others in the public lifts. They    25    work hard. They hold meetings, make promotions, and allow their names to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else. Nobody is sure who really runs the company, but the company does run.

In the    26    course of a business day I am afraid of Jack Green because my department is part of his department and Jack Green is my boss; Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my department is done for the Sales Department, which is more important than his department.
    Green distrusts me sometimes. He makes    27    clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything    28    out of my department before it's shown to other departments. I know he doesn't really mean this. He is too busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all of mine, and I'll bypass (避开) him on most of our assignments rather than    29    his time and delay their    30    to people who have an immediate need for them.

21. A. position	B. pay	C. salary	D. office
22. A. And	B. But	C. So	D. Because
23. A. find	B. buy	C. set	D. found
24. A. strict	B. responsible	C. content	D. honest
25. A. no more	B. no longer	C. no less	D. no shorter
26. A. normal	B. familiar	C. easy	D. busy
27. A. that	B. him	C. this	D. it
28. A. coming	B. making	C. producing	D. inventing
29. A. use up	B. make up	C. take up	D. break up
30. A. production	B. delivery	C. value	D. time

Answer 1

  21-25 ABDCB  26-30 ADACB