A man heard that a certain government wanted a clerk, so wrote and asked for the position. But while he was waiting for an answer, a friend of his introduced him to the head of the department, who gave him the job. Several months later, while the man was working in the department, he got a letter that had been sent to him from the place he used to live in. This letter said,

“Dear sir,

We are sorry to have to tell you that we cannot offer work in this department because we do not think that you would be able to do the work successfully.

Your faithfully.”

The man laughed, but when he looked at the letter more carefully, he saw that he had signed it himself.

1.At the beginning of the story the man wanted ____.

2. The first paragraph mainly tells us ____.

3.He got a letter that had been sent to him, which means ____.

4.What do you think of the man?

5.Choose the right order of the events given in the passage.

a. He got a letter one day   b. He got a job in the department.

c. The letter told him he was unfit for the job.

d. His friend introduced him to the head.

e. He found he signed the letter himself.

f. He wanted to get a job in the government department.

补全对话，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

---- What was the party like last night, Bruce?

---- Not bad at all, thanks, Betty. There are some interesting people there. 1.

---- Well. I couldn’t get away from work early. And when I got home I had a headache, so I had to go straight to bed. But I wasn’t able to sleep for hours.

---- __2._Why didn’t you take some sleeping pills?

---- I don’t like them. I used to take them when I wasn’t able to sleep, you know, but they did have side effect.

----__3._

---- Three every night.

---- _4..

---- Because I was under a lot of stress. Anyway, I used to feel terrible the next morning.

---- 5._

---- The doctor said I had to be careful.

---- He was quite right.

---- So I have decided to give up the habit of taking coffee late at night.

E. What do you have in mind? F. How many did you use to take?

G. Oh, why did you take so many?

根据中文注释及所给单词首字母，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式

1.France is a____________（　欧洲的  ） country。

2.The book provides ____________（有价值的） information on recent trends.

3.Though he was  old ， his mind ____________（仍然处于） active 。

4.After the explosion, the police  did a lot of work to find some clues from

the ____________（目击者）  Ks*5u

5.A ____________（溺水的）man will catch at straw.

6.He pushed against  the rock with all his____________（力量）

7.The headmaster’s ____________ (回应) to our plan was encouraging..

8.A serious ____________（缺少） of availabe cash forced the closure of the company

9.Your are ____________ （流血 ）at the noise 。

10.The Queen is on a _________(私下的) visit to Scotland.

此题要求改正所给短句中的错误. 对标有题号的每一行作出判断, 每行只有一个错误, 按下列情况改正:

此行缺一个词: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号 (^) , 在该行右边横线写出该加的词.

此行多一个词: 把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉．

　此行错一个词：在错的词下画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词．

Helen is a twenty-years-old girl. She never had a job   1._____

before. Now she wanted get a job. So she went to meet 2._______

Mr Black, the manager of the hotel. Mr Black told     3.___

her it was getting very busy in the hotel on the evenings. 4._______

He asked her if she was interesting in a part-time job.    5.________

The girl said that she did. Then Mr Black said she had    6._______

to work very faster and that she must be there at six       7.______

every afternoon and work from six to ten, Monday to      8._____

Friday. He offered her with 4.5 dollars an hour. Hellen      9._____

pleased with the offer and decided to start work the next day. 10._____

从A,B,C,D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1.polite  

2.houses  

3.piece  

4.social  

5.repair  

Is this the place ______ he used to live?

I told you _______ that car, and now look what’s happened.

He has made progress in his English, _______ makes his father very happy.

I was afraid Mr. Lu would not accept my advice at the beginning. _______, he was quite pleased with it.

What he had said about the incident and done with it _________ our trouble.