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第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

   One day, a young man was taking a walk with a professor.

  As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to ____36___ a poor man who was employed in a field close by.

  The student turned to the professor, saying, “Let us play the man a ____ 37___: we will hide his shoes, and hide____38 ___behind those bushes and wait to see his reaction ___ 39 ___ he cannot find them.”

    “My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never ___40 ___ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are ___ 41___and may give yourself a much greater pleasure ___42 ___ helping the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then watch how the discovery ___43 ___him.”

  The student did so.

  The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his ____44 ___. While he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something____45____. He bent down only to find the coin.

  ____46____ was seen upon his face. He gazed upon the coin, and then ____47____ him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He went on to put on the other shoe: but his surprise was ____48 ____ on finding the other coin.

  ___ 49 ___, he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered(说) aloud ___50___ , in which he spoke of his wife, sick and___ 51 ___, and his children without bread. Without the timely help, she would die.

  The student stood there deeply___52____,and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “are you not much more ___ 53___than if you had played your ___54___trick?”

  The youth replied,“You have taught me a ___55____I will never forget: ‘One is happier to give than to receive.’ ”

  36. A. come to         B. belong to         C. get to          D. refer to

  37. A. trick           B. part              C. match          D. record

  38. A. ourselves       B. themselves        C. himself         D. itself

  39. A. though         B. unless            C. before          D. when

  40. A. surprise        B. satisfy            C. amuse          D. disappoint

  41. A. rich           B. learned           C. poor            D. young

  42. A. in             B. by               C. with            D. through

  43. A. catches         B. judges            C. affects          D. improves

  44. A. coat            B. tools             C. shoes           D. food

  45. A. soft            B. real              C. hard            D. valuable  

  46. A. Excitement      B. Determination      C. Fear            D. Astonishment

  47. A. looked for       B. looked around      C. looked back     D. looked at  

  48. A. lost             B. doubled           C. discovered      D. followed

  49. A. Suddenly        B. Similarly          C. Silently         D. Naturally

  50. A. apologies        B. encouragement     C. thanks          D. sufferings

  51. A. useless          B. careless           C. helpless         D. hopeless

  52. A. moved          B. puzzled            C. relaxed         D. attracted

  53. A. proud           B. pleased            C. confident       D. worried

  54. A. preferred        B. demanded          C. promised       D. intended

55. A. lesson          B. game              C. way            D. joke

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If US software(软件) companies don’t pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top US quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.

   Already, of the world’s 12 software houses that have earned the highest position in the world, seven are in India. That’s largely because they have used new methods American software specialists refused to use.  For example, for years, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J.M. Juran had tried to persuade US software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the US--but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was taking its market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming’s and Juran’s ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In US factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.

     Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance(保证). But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing(评估) and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60 % of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10 %.

     Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India. Let’s hope that US lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.

64. Which country has the most first-class software companies in the world?

    A. Germany.      B. The USA.     C. Brazil.       D. India.

65. Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?

   A. He is now still an IBM employer.

   B. He has worked for IBM for 37 years.

   C. The US pays much attention to his quality advice.

   D. India honors him highly.

66. By what means did Japan take its large market share by the 1970s and the 1980s?

   A. Its products were cheaper in price and better in quality.

   B. Its advertising was most successful.

   C. The US hardware industry was falling behind.

   D. Japan hired a lot of Indian software specialists.

67. What is the writer worrying about?

   A. Many US software specialists are working for Japan.

   B. The quality problem has become a worldwide problem.

   C. The US will lose its lead in software in the world.

   D. India and Japan are joining hands to compete with the US.

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