It was a quarter past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day 

Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked "King Enterprises", she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no answer. She tapped on the door again, but still, there was no reply. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in. Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had had the interview with Mr King, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. At the far end of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in.

For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her. Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Marie.

Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr King, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realised that the day's work in the office began just before Mr King arrived.

Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working. 

53．Marie could hardly recognize the office she went into as_______.

     A．she had been there only once            B．Mr King was not in the office 

    C．nobody was doing any work             D．the office had a new appearance 

54．The people in the office suddenly started working because______ 

       A．they saw a stranger in the office       B．they had finished their morning break 

    C．no one wanted to talk to Marie            D．the boss was about to arrive 

55．We can infer from the text that the employees of the enterprise______ 

    A．would start their work by listening to a joke 

    B．were cold to new comers 

    C．were always punctual for work 

    D．lacked devotion to the company 

56．The best title for this text would be ______ 

    A．Punctual Like a Clock                      B．A Cold Welcome 

    C．An Unpunctual Manager                  D．Better Late Than Never 

    Do you want to watch a hot movie while chatting with your friend on the phone, or shop with your mobile while on a train? The ongoing construction of a new telecommunication service will make these things reality, very soon.

It is reported that China is to issue its first license for the commercial use of third generation telecommunication technology(3G) early next year.

The so-called 3G technology will enable mobile phone users to enjoy high speed Internet based services. It will help increase mobility in many areas of our lives.

Nowadays, many mobile phones also allows you to send e-mails or read the latest stories on the Internet, but their services are limited by their transporting speed, which is only 10 kilobytes(KB) per second. But 3G will enable you to connect to the Internet with a speed of up to 2 megabytes(M) per second.

If recent mobile technology is like riding bike on a country road, then 3G will make you fly on the information highway. For example, a mobile phone with 3G technology will enable you to download a three minutes MP3 song within two minutes. But at the moment, it will take you up to an hour to do this with your mobile phone.

In the near future, we’ll expect high-speed access to the Internet, entertainment, information and electronic commerce services wherever we are not just at our computers or television sets.

In the UK and many other European countries where 3G services have around since 2003, 3G has already become a part of modern business life: Nowadays, employees are able to spend some of their working hours at home: The new technology allows the emergency services to provide a video link with a hospital or doctor for patients who need special care.

49．What can we use mobile phone to do nowadays?

       A．Download a three minute MP3 song with two minutes.

       B．Call our friends through video phones:

       C．Surfing the Internet.

       D．Do online shopping.

50．3G will enable mobile phones to connect to the Internet with a transporting speed    faster than before.

       A．10 times              B．20 times              C．100 times            D．200 times

51．From the passage we can know that         .

       A．we can’t enjoy Internet based services now

       B．it is impossible for us to listen to MP3 music with our current mobile phones

       C．thanks to 3G phones, many employees needn’t travel to work any more

       D．doctors can have a face to face talk with patients in emergency.

52．The best title for the passage is            .

       A．3G Mobile Phones                               B．3G Mobile Services

       C．3G Mobile Music                                 D．3G Movies

    Tomorrow was his girlfriend’s birthday and the young man was having a difficult time deciding on a present for her. She already had more clothes than she knew what to do with them, so he couldn’t get any kind of apparel. She never ate sweets, so candy was out of the question. What then? He had a very special reason for wanting to impress her with just the right gift: tomorrow he was going to make an offer of marriage to her.

He finally decided on perfume(香水). All girls liked perfume. That raised another problem, however. What kind did she prefer? He couldn’t ask her because that would ruin the surprise.

At last the young man hit upon a brilliant idea. That afternoon. pretending to take his girlfriend’s fox terrier, little dog for a walk, the young man and the dog went directly to the perfume counter of the town’s biggest apartment store. Good! There was a large well-ordered display of perfume. He beckoned(召唤)a clerk, instructing her to open a large number of bottles and wave the stoppers(瓶塞) under the dog’s nose.

Nestled in the young man’s arm, the terrier began to restless and bored as this seemingly pointless game went on. Then Fritz suddenly became lively, wiggling in the young man’s arms and barking excitedly, as the clerk waved one stopper under its nose.

“ I’ll take that one,” said the young man to the clerk. The price was high, but it was worth it, he thought.

“My favorite perfume!” said the girl the next evening as she unwrapped the package. “ How did you know?” she asked, dabbing(轻涂) perfume behind each ear.

“ Intuition(直觉)，I guess. ” said the young man ,deciding that it wasn’t exactly wrong to tell a lie under the circumstances. One day, after they were married, he would admit that his intuition had really been a little dog named Fritz.

45．The word “apparel” in Paragraph I can be best replaced by            .

       A．sweets                B．birthday present   C．perfume              D．clothes

46．How did the young man decide on the birthday present?

       A．By his intuition                                    B．By taking the advice of the clerk.

       C．By the dog Fritz.                                  D．By asking his girlfriend

47．What can you learn from the last paragraph?

       A．The young man’s intuition is very good.

       B．The young man told a white lie at first.

       C．The dog Fritz knew what the young man wanted well.

       D．His girlfriend was disappointed in him

48．What do you think of the young man in the story?

       A．He is creative                                      B．He is always curious.

       C．He is a kind man.                                 D．He is very serious.

    The old-fashioned general store is fast disappearing, This is, perhaps, a pity, because shopping today seems to lack that personal element which existed when the shopkeeper knew all his regular customers personally. He could, for instance, remember which brand of tea Mrs. Smith usually bought or what sort of washing-powder Mrs. Jones preferred. Not only was the shop a center of buying and selling, but also a social meeting place.

A prosperous general store might have employed four or five assistants, and so there were very few problems in management as far as the staff was concerned. But now that the supermarket has replaced the general store, the job of the manager has changed completely. The modern supermarket manager has to cope with a staff as many as a hundred, apart from all the other everyday problems of running a large business.

Every morning, the manager must, like the commander of an army division, carry out an inspection of his store to make sure that everything is ready for the business of the day. He must see that everything is running smoothly. He will have to give advice and make decisions as problems arise, and he must know how to get his huge staff to work efficiently with their respective responsibilities.

No matter what he has to do throughout the day, however, the supermarket manager must be ready for any emergency that may arise. People in the trade say that you are not really an experienced supermarket manager until you have dealt with a flood, a fire, a birth and a death in your store.

41．In the author's opinion, it is a pity that there are fewer old general stores now because ______.

       A．there is less trading business

       B．there used to be more social activities in the old days

       C．the supermarket manager has more problems than before

       D．there is less personal contact between manager and customer.

42．In what way has the job of the store manager changed?

       A．He doesn't sell tea and washing-powder any more.

       B．He has a much larger staff to take care of , to say nothing of all the other daily problems of running the store.

       C．He must try hard to remember the names of his regular customers.

       D．He has to give advice and make decisions when problems arise.

43．Who are Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones mentioned in the first paragraph?

       A．They are friends of the store manager’s

       B．They are shop assistants.

       C．They are both regular customers of the store.

       D．They represent any of the regular customers of the old general store.

44．The supermarket manager is compared to ______ by the author.

       A．an orchestra conductor                        B．a traffic supervisor

       C．a military leader                                  D．a school inspector

I was 15 when I walked into McCauley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at  21  on the shelves，the man behind the counter，the shop owner, asked if I'd like  22  .I needed to start preparing for college， 23   I said yes. I worked after school and during the summer for the lowest wages，and the job helped pay for my freshman year of   24  . I would work many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students Union during college; I was a hotel maid and   25  made maps for the U.S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most   26  .

       One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful . I showed her almost everything we had at that time   27  and found other books we could order. She left the store less 28       . I’ve always remembered the  29  I felt in having helped her.

       Years later，as a   30  in Los Angeles，I heard about an immigrant child who was  31   with his thumb attached, weblike, to the other fingers. His family could not afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in 32        ，hiding his hand in his pocket.

I      33    my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast，a doctor and a nurse called，offering to perform the  34   for free.

       I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his       35  hand and say; "Thank you." I felt a sense of   36          .

       In the past，37   I was at McCauley’s Bookstore, I always sensed I was working for the customers，not he store. Today it’s the   38   . NBC :News pays: my salary, and I   39  as if I work for the viewers, helping them make  40  of the world.

This kind of cloth       well and        long.

       A．is washed; lasts                                   B．washes; lasts

       C．washes; is lasted                                  D．is washed; lasted

        Chicago of     1920s was      extremely frightening place.

       A．/; the; the            B．The; the; the        C．The; the; an         D．The; /; an

    arriving at the spot, the police got down to      take photos.

       A．As; take              B．As; taking            C．On; take              D．On; taking

If Tom carries on working like this, he’ll         sooner or later

       A．break down         B．give out               C．get down             D．hold on

―Congratulations on winning the first prize in the tennis game!

―             .

       A．It’s nothing unusual                             B．The same as you

       C．I’m just very lucky                              D．Success belongs to me