题目内容

You're ________ your time trying to persuade him；he'll never join us．


  1. A.
    spending
  2. B.
    wasting
  3. C.
    losing
  4. D.
    missing
B
该题应从trying着手考虑，其搭配应从A和B项中产生，spend time doing sth．是花费时间做某事，waste time doing sth．是浪费时间做某事，再由he'll never join us可知waster time doing sth．最佳。
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-I have failed. I really don't know why I did so badly.

-________ Just try to do it better next time.


  1. A.
    Don't lose heart!
  2. B.
    Look out!
  3. C.
    You're hopeless.
  4. D.
    Can't you be more careful?

---Paul, I'd like to have a talk with you at tea break.

---______ Have what with me?


  1. A.
    Yes, please.
  2. B.
    Sorry?
  3. C.
    Thanks.
  4. D.
    You're welcome.

---I'm sorry I made a mistake!
---     Nobody is perfect.


  1. A.
    Take your time
  2. B.
    You're right
  3. C.
    Whatever you say
  4. D.
    Take it easy

In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unusual way. The author was Agatha Christie, one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world.
In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was sent to Hammersmith Hospital in London. She was then only semi-conscious and on the "Dangerously Ill" list. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were confused by the very unusual symptoms (症状). While they were discussing the baby's case, a nurse asked to speak to them. "Excuse me," said Nurse Marsha Maitlan, "but I think the baby is suffering from thallium (铊) poisoning."
"What makes you think that?" Dr. Brown asked. "Thallium poisoning is extremely rare."
"A few days ago, I was reading a novel called A Pale Horse by Agatha Christie," Nurse Maitlan explained. "In the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. They're exactly the same as the baby's."
"You're very thoughtful and you may be right," another doctor said. "We'll carry out some tests and find out whether it's thallium or not."
Tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance used in making special glass. Once they knew the cause of the illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back to Qatar. Later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (杀虫剂) used in Qatar

  1. 1.

    The one who first suggested the correct cause of the baby's illness was ______.

    1. A.
      a doctor in Qatar
    2. B.
      Dr. Brown
    3. C.
      Nurse Maitlan
    4. D.
      Agatha Christie
  2. 2.

    As far as we can tell from the passage, Agatha Christie ______.

    1. A.
      had spent a long time studying the baby's case
    2. B.
      visited the baby in the hospital at Hammersmith
    3. C.
      had never met this baby
    4. D.
      gave Nurse Maitlan some advice on the phone
  3. 3.

    It seems likely from the passage that the baby's illness had something to do with______.

    1. A.
      a harmful substance used to kill insects
    2. B.
      a dangerous pair of glasses
    3. C.
      the water in Qatar
    4. D.
      a dead writer

It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor(光标) had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out.
Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a crucial（紧要关头） undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.
I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs. But no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company's Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don't know what continent they're standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we've been having when there was a monsoon(季风) at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point.
"My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don't have the Windows Setup CD."
"So you're having a problem with your Windows Setup CD." She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.
It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper. Her only duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.
To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows' creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don't know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn't have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and polite.
When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
"You don't have the Windows Setup CD, ma'am, because you don't need it," he explained cheerfully.
"Windows came preinstalled on your computer!"
"But I do need it."
"Yes, but you don't have it." We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. "Of course, you'd lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos." It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. "You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive." He sounded delighted. "And it's not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)!"  The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.
I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I'd heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn't be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his

  1. 1.

    Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?

    1. A.
      She had saved what she had written
    2. B.
      She couldn't move the cursor
    3. C.
      The computer refused to work
    4. D.
      The computer offered to repair itself
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is the author's opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?

    1. A.
      She sounded helpful and knowledgeable
    2. B.
      She was there to make callers frustrated
    3. C.
      She was able to solve her computer problem
    4. D.
      She was quick to pass her along to a technician
  3. 3.

    According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was_________________

    1. A.
      effective
    2. B.
      economical
    3. C.
      unpractical
    4. D.
      unsatisfied
  4. 4.

    "It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache" in the last but one paragraph means that_____________________

    1. A.
      the technician's proposal would make things even worse
    2. B.
      the technician's proposal could eventually solve the problem
    3. C.
      files stored on her computer were like a safe
    4. D.
      erasing the entire system was like curing a headache
  5. 5.

    It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the followings except ________________

    1. A.
      efficiency
    2. B.
      location
    3. C.
      setup CDs
    4. D.
      attitude

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