B

Linda Abraham, co-founder of Scores, a leading digital analytic company, established her organization on a simple premise(前提): hire people you respect, not necessary people you like. Since starting the business in 1999, she has intentionally brought in people she didn’t like but thought they would be good for the team. "They’re almost like allergy shots for your organization," she says.

A few years back, she hired Dan against the wishes of other people on her team. Even during the interview process, he rubbed people the wrong way. But Linda thought he had the right skills and experience. He came from a large tech company and tended to talk a lot about scale, which many people regarded as advocating bureaucracy(官僚主义) — a no-no (不可接受的事) in the start-up culture.

For the first six months, he made regular observations about one of the company’s products and how it could work better. "When I really dug into what he was trying to say, I was impressed," Linda says. While he wasn’t very experienced in his comments (he often described things as "dumb"), he was insightful. "We ended up scrapping (废弃) the job we hired him for and had him take on the improvements he suggested," she says.

Even in the new role, he wasn’t likable. But Linda tried to focus on the content of what he was saying rather than the way he was saying it, and she coached others to do the same. She also invested time in helping Dan understand how he was coming across and what he could do to change his style. Eventually her attitude toward him changed. "I’ve come to like him quite a bit," she says. "He’s ruffled more than a few feathers along the way, but he’s been promoted and has really crushed it."

1. Linda probably hires people who .

A. are very popular with others B. can benefit her company

C. respect others very much D. have different personalities

2.The underlined sentence "he rubbed people the wrong way" means " ".

A. he misunderstood what people said

B. he blamed others for their mistakes

C. he got lost on the way to the interview

D. he didn’t get on well with people present

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that .

A. Linda accepted Dan’s style B. Dan changed his style completely

C. Linda fell in love with Dan deeply D. Dan had to practice speaking a lot

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. How to run a big company B. How to live with other people

C. How to change a person quickly D. How to manage someone you don’t like

There was a guy that was born with cancer.He could die at any moment.So he was always at home, under his mother's care.One day he decided to go out, even if it was just for once! He asked his mother for permission and she agreed. Walking down his block he saw many stores.Stopping at a music store he saw a very pretty girl of his own age.

He walked up to the counter.She smiled at him and asked, "Can I help you with anything?" The guy could only think that it was the most beautiful smile he had ever seen and stuttered (结结巴巴的说), "'Well, I'd like to buy a CD." He grabbed the first one he saw."Do you want me to wrap it?" the girl asked. The guy said yes and then took the wrapped CD home.

From that day on he visited the music store every day, and each day he bought a CD, and each day the girl wrapped it up and the guy stored it unopened in his closet.

He was too shy to find the nerve to ask the girl out.His mother noticed this and encouraged him.

The next day the guy set out for the store with a determined mind. He bought a CD and the girl wrapped it as usual.While she was busy , he left his telephone number on the counter and rushed out of the store.

The following day the guy didn't visit the store.When the girl called him, his mother answered the phone and started crying.The girl asked her what was the matter."He died yesterday," the mother said. There was a long silence.

Later that afternoon the guy' s mother entered his room and opened his closet.To her surprise, she saw a big pile of unopened CDs wrapped in festive paper.With curiosity she tore open the package and noticed a slip of paper "Hi! You're cute; I would love to meet you.Let's go out some time.Sophie."

The mother started crying as she opened another, and another.Every single CD contained a slip of paper that said the same.

That's the way life is.Don't wait to show those special people the way you feel.Tomorrow would be too late.

1.From the first two paragraphs we can infer that _____.

A. The boy wants to go out to see what the music store is

B. The boy would get permission from his mother no matter what he wants to.

C. this is the first time for the boy to go out since he was born

D. the boy wants to go out to date with the pretty girl

2.Why did the boy buy a CD every day from the music store?

A. Because he liked listening to music.

B. Because his mother asked him to do so.

C. Because he fell in love with the pretty girl.

D. Because he wanted to know what a CD is.

3.What may be the reason that the boy rushed out of the music store after he left his phone number at the counter?

A. Shame. B. Shyness.

C. Excitement. D. Fear.

4.From the eighth paragraph we know that _______.

A. the boy left the unopened CDs for the girl

B. the girt liked the boy and wanted to date with the boy

C. the boy's mother was sad to see so many CDs

D. the boy bought CDs for the girl and his mother

5.Which of the following statements is the writer's opinion of the story?

A. Don't wait to show your feelings.

B. Life always goes like that.

C. There is only one chance for everyone.

D. Show your feelings in a proper way.

B

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

"Hey, aren’t you from Mississippi?" the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. "I’m from Mississippi too."

Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.

"They began telling me all the news of Mississippi," Welty said. "I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking."

Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.

"My friends said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’" Welty added. "And I said: ‘Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.’"

Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation.

"I don’t make them up," she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. "I don’t have to."

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.

1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?

A. Two strangers joined her.

B. Her childhood friends came in.

C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner.

D. Some people held a party there.

2. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s.

A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories

3.What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?

A. They live in big cities.

B. They are mostly women.

C. They come from real life.

D. They are pleasure seekers.

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