题目内容
—I’m sorry for being so late. I should have called you earlier.
--_________. I’ve just arrived.
| A．That’s no trouble | B．You are welcome |
| C．That’s all right | D．You can never tell |
C
解析试题分析：考查交际用语。A不麻烦；B没关系（回答对方的感谢）；C没关系（回答对方的道歉）D你永远都搞不清楚。句意：—对不起我迟到了。我本应该早点打你电话的。—没关系；我也是刚刚到。故C正确。
考点：考查交际用语
点评：要注意You are welcome是用来回答对方的感谢；That’s all right用来回答对方的道歉；交际用语的考查要根据上下文的含义以及逻辑关系，也要注意中西方文化在表达上的差异，要有跨文化的意识。同时要特别注意西方的文明礼仪在交际用语中的体现。
—I’m sorry. I ________ at you the other day.
— Forget it. I was a bit out of control myself.
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A．shouldn’t shout |
B．shouldn’t have shouted |
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C．mustn’t shout |
D．mustn’t haven’t shouted |
The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
“That’s good, sir.”
“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
1.The best title for the article is _______.
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A．When the Computer Is Down |
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B．The Most Frightening Words |
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C．The Computer of the Airport |
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D．Asking the Computer |
2.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?
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A．She could sell a ticket. |
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B．She could write out a ticket. |
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C．She could answer the passengers’ questions. |
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D．She could do nothing. |
3.Why do you think they had not a backup computer?
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A．Because it was easy down |
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B．Because it was very expensive. |
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C．Because it was not advanced enough. |
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D．Because it was not as big as the main computer. |
4.The last paragraph suggests that _______.
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A．a modern computer won’t be down. |
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B．computers can take the place of humans |
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C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people |
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D．there will be great changes in computers |