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阅读下列短文，从每题所给四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Two tramps were sleeping in the shade of a tree by a busy main road when a large expensive car pulled up and a man stepped out of the back, slamming the door and waking up the two tramps.

　　“Just look at you lying there!”the man began to say.“If you get up and look for a job, you could improve yourselves. You might even become a manager as I did. Why, by the time I was 40 I had become a director of the company and now that I am 60 I have become president of the firm(商行) and I am rich and can retire.”

　　One of the tramps looked at him over and answered,“And if we had done all those things, we could also retire and sit in the shade of a tree and watch rich men driving by in expensive cars.”

1．The two tramps were waken up by ________.

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2．How did the man feel about the tramps?

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3．The man wanted the tramps to ________.

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4．The two tramps ________.

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5．We can infer that ________.

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A．the two tramps would try their best to find a job and improve themselves

B．the man would give the two tramps a lot of money to spend

C．the too tramps would do as they used to

D．the man would do as the tramps did

　　 Computer programmer David Jones makes 35,000 pounds a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a credit card (信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

　　 The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David’s firm puts two new games on the home market each month.

　　 But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary, made by inventing new programs within a quite short period of time, the bonus payments and profit-sharing (奖金和分红), he cannot drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards.

　　 He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay ￡150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

　　 David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six 0-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,” he said.

“I suppose 35,000 pounds sounds a lot but actually that’s not good enough. I hope it will come to more than that this year.” He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 20 pounds a week. But most of his spare time is spent working.

　　 “Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school,” he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I know what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”

　　 David added, “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear.”

1. Why is David different from other young people of his age?

　 A. He earns a very high salary.

　 B. He has not a job.

　 C. He does not go out much.

　 D. He lives at home with his parents.

2. David’s greatest problem is ____________.

　 A. making the banks treat him as a grown-up

　 B. inventing computer games

　 C. spending his salary

　 D. learning to drive

3. He was hired by the firm because ____________.

　 A. he had worked in a computer shop

　 B. he had written some computer programs

　 C. he worked very hard

　 D. he had learned to use computers at school

4. He left school after taking six 0-levels because ____________.

　 A. he did not enjoy school

　 B. he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help him

　 C. he was afraid of getting too old to start computing

　 D. he wanted to earn a lot of money

5. Why does David think he might retire early?

　 A. One has to be young to write computer programs. www..com

　 B. He wants to stop working when he is a millionaire.

　 C. He thinks computer games might not always sell so well.

　 D. He thinks his firm might go bad.

When I worked as the general manager of the firm, I sometimes had _____ to visit London on business.

　　A. opportunity B. possibility  C. occasion D. chance

It gives me great pleasure today to say a few words in praise of a man we will all miss very much. To be honest, I can't imagine we will do without him when he's gone.
　　Bill Masters almost single-handed built up our sales force in the Houston area and developed the market position that we enjoy today. In only six years, he has brought the firm from a very low fifth position in the area sales to the point where we now outsell all but one of our competitors. Not only have we got 37 per cent of the market under Bill's leadership; we are increasing our share with each passing month.
　　As you know, the company has moved Bill to northern California to work his sales magic in one of this company's most competitive(竞争的) areas. But we know that if anyone can do it, Bill Masters can, and I know you all join me in wishing him the best of luck in his new work.
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