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Passage one
It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffi, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the n ext day.
Once in side the lobby she had to sta nd at the elevators and wait several minu tes before she could get on one
going to the sixth floor. Whe n she fin ally reached the office marked n ervously , she k'nSrckfedErtterpidkear ” and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door ,agajtistill there was no
an swer. From in side the next office she could hear the sound of voiqesso she opened the door and went in.
Although she was sure it was the same office she had bee n in two weeks before when she had the in terview Mr. Smith it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just sta nding around chatt ing and smok ing. In the front of the roqmsomebody must have just told a good jokeshe thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laugh ing at her.
Then one of the men looked at his watclclapped his hands and said someth ing to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and in a matter of sec ond, every one was hard at work. No one paid any atte ntio n to Marie. Fin ally she went up to the man who was sitti ng at the desk n earest to the door and expla ined 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. Smithwho would arrive at any mome nt. The n Marie realized that the day Mr. S
she found out that he lived in Conn ecticut and came into Man hatta n on the same train every marriivirgg in the office at 9: 35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.
‘ s work in the office bega n just before
46. Marie felt n ervous whe n she kno cked at the door because ____ .
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[A] it was her first day in a new job [B] she was a little bit late for work
[C] she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong place [D] there was no an swer from in side the office
47. Marie could hardly recog nize the office she went into as ____ .
[A] she had been there only once [B] Mr. Smith was not in the office [C] no body was doing any work [D] the office had a new appearanee
48. The people in the office sudde nly started worki ng because ____ .
[A] they saw a stranger in the office [C] no one wan ted to talk to Marie [D] the boss was about to arrive
49. 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 newcomers [C] were always punctual for work
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[D] lacked devotion to the company 50. 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 Passage two
Packagi ng is a very importa nt form of advertis ing. A package can sometimesmotivate people to buy product s. For example, a small child might ask for a breakfast food contained in a box with a picture of a TV char acter. The child is more in terested in the picture tha n in breakfast food. Pictures for childre n to color or cut out, gamespri
nted on a package or a small gift in side a box also motivate many childre n to buy product s— or to ask their pare nts to buy for them.
Somepackagessuggestthat a buyer will get someth in gfor no thi ng. Food products sold in reusable cont ainers are examplesof this. Although a similar product in a plain container might cost less people often pr efer to
buy the product in a reusable glass or dish, becausethey believe the contain er is free. Howeve , th e cost of the contain er is added to the cost of the product.
The size of a package also motivates a buyer. Maybethe package has\EconomSize” or “FamiZe” prin ted on it. This suggeststhat the larger size has the most product for the least mon ey. But that is not always true. To find it out, a buyer has to know how the product is sold and the price of the basic unit.
The in formati on on the package should provide some an swers.But the importa nt thing for any buyer to product in side can do that.
51. “ /buyer will get someth in gfor nothing ” paragraph 2 most probably meansthat ____ .
remember is that a package is often an advertisement.The words and pictures do not tell the whole story. Only the
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a buyer will not get what he pays for a buyer will get more tha n what he pays for a buyer will get [A] someth ing useful free of charge a buyer will get more but pay less
[B] 52. _____________________________________________ From the passagewe know the buyer
pays more atte nti on to ____________________________ . [C]
[A] the size of a container [D]
[B] a container with attractive picture [C] a well designedcontainer [D] a plain container with low cost
53. What suggesti on does the author give in the passage
[A] It not good to buy the product which is sold in a glass or dish.
[B] The quality of a container has nothing to do with the quality of the product. [C] The best choice for a buyer is to buy a product in a plain package.
[D] A buyer should buy what he needsmost rather than a well designedpackage.
54. Which of the followi ng senten ce§s NOTtrue accord ing to the passage
[A] In fact glassesor dishesused for packaging do not cost money at all. [B] “ FamiiySize ” printedn the package means that it is rather economic. [C] To a child, even to an adult, the form is far more important than the content. [D] Words and pictures written on the package are thought to be an advertisement.
55. What is the best title for the passage
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[A] How to Packagea Product. [B] How to Make an Advertisement. [C] How to Sell Product. [D] How to Attract More Buyers.
Passage three
There was one thought that air polluti on affected on ly the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the
problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has cover the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scie ntists con sider that the in creas ing concen trati on of carb on dioxide in the air result ing from the bur ning o' fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creati ng a the
world ' s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world
“ greteehongdieaeceflectec—Yom the earth and raisi ng
' s temperature is raised or
of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Bost on, Miami, and New Orlea ns will be in water.
Ano ther view, less widely held, is that in creas ing particular matter in the atmosphere is block ing sun light and lowering the earth ' s temperaiuiesult t—at would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would mane agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these con diti on swill happe n (though one rece nt gover nment report drafted by experts in the field con cluded that the gree nhouse effect is very possible) Perhaps, i we are lucky eno ugh, the two tenden cies will offset each other and the world
' s temperature
as it is now. Driven by economic profits, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the civilization
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