| A railway and a highway run _____ in this city. |
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| A. similar B. equal C. comparable D. parallel |
| China is a wonderful land _____ minerals. |
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| A. is abundant in B. abundant in C. in abundant D. is in abundant |
| Britain was mandated to _____ the former colony of German East Africa. |
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| A. govern B. replace C. sell D. place |
| — I'm sure my elder sister _____ weight recently. — I can't agree more. She _____ too much. |
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| A. has gained; is eating B. lost; doesn't eat C. is gaining; is eating D. is gaining; eats |
| It is _____ that I will write to you. |
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| A. out of question B. out of the question C. out of problem D. out of the problem |
| The seller would sell the shirt for ten yuan, but the customer _____ eight yuan. |
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| A. sold B. offered C. charged D. asked |
| Many students signed up for the _____ race in the sports meet to be held next week. |
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| A. 800-metre-long B. 800-metres-long C. 800 metre length D. 800 metres length |
| We really _____ him for his courage to say that he was wrong. |
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| A. admired B. excused C. disagreed D. hated |
| After much _____ the shop owner agreed to cut down the price by 20% . |
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| A. debating B. talking C. discussing D. bargaining |
| Never keep _____ with dishonest persons. |
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| A. safety B. company C. house D. friend |
| It's getting dark. We'd better _____ in a hotel for the night. |
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| A. set up B. set out C. settle down D. settle up |
| 根据首字母提示或括号内的汉语意思拼写单词。 |
| 1. I made my assistant my a____ while I was abroad. 2. Those dead soldiers were buried in the t____. 3. We reached our ____ (目的地), tired and hungry. 4. Who really g____ this country? 5. The country is a____ in natural resources. 6. She and her friends have ____ (类似的 likes and dislikes. |
| 根据汉语提示完成句子。 |
| 1. 乔治叔叔一直到快50岁时才安顿下来。 Uncle George didn't ______ ______ until he was nearly fifty. 2. 安妮现在与罗杰形影不离，尽管他还没有同他的合法妻子离婚。 Anne now ______ ______ ______ Roger, although he is not yet divorced from his legal wife. 3. 你讲讲价，他们可能会把价钱降低。 If you ______ ______ them they might reduce the price. 4. 他的诚实是毫无疑问的。 His honesty is ______ ______ ______. 5. 美洲大陆的河流和森林里有大量的鱼类和兽禽。 The rivers and forests of America were ______ ______ fish and game. 6. 在这件事情上，我的经验和你的类似。 My experience in this matter is ______ ______ yours. |
| 根据要求完成句子。 |
| 用settle短语的适当形式填空。 1. I must ____ this morning and finish the term paper. 2. In these years, it is hard to ____ a good job. 3. He needed ten yuan, to ____ this bill. 用bargain短语的适当形式填空。 4. The salesman refused to ____ the price. 5. Dealers ____ growers over the price of coffee. 6. I didn't ____ your arriving so soon. |
| — What do you know about Darwin after he returned from the trip by sea? — Well, he got married and ____ down to live in Kent. |
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| A. got B. worked C. took D. settled |
| They sold their house for only 12,000 dollars, so the buyer got a wonderful ____. |
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| A. cost B. bargain C. amount D. value |
| They've _____ us 150,000 dollars for the house, shall we take it? |
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| A. provided B. supplied C. shown D. offered |
| The seas and rivers in Canada _____ fish. |
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| A. have abundance in B. are abundant with C. are abundant in D. are abundant for |
| 阅读理解。 |
| In recent years, Israeli consumers have grown more demanding as they've become wealthier and more worldly-wise. Foreign travel is a national passion; this summer alone, one in 10 citizens will go abroad. Exposed to higher standards of service elsewhere, Israelis are returning home expecting the same. American firms have also begun arriving in large numbers. Chains such as KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut are setting a new standard of customer service, using strict employee training and constant monitoring to ensure the friendliness of frontline staff. Even the American habit of telling departing customers to "Have a nice day" has caught on. "Let's be nicer", says Itsik Cohen, director of a consulting firm. "Nothing happens without competition." Privatization, or the threat of it, is a motivation as well. Monopolies that until recently have been free to take their customers for granted now fear what Michael Perry, a marketing professor, calls "the revengeful consumer". When the government opened up com- petition with Bezaq, the phone company, its international branch lost 40% of its market share, even while offering competitive rates. Says Perry, "People wanted revenge for all the years of bad service." The electric company, whose monopoly may be short-lived, has suddenly stopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman. Now, appointments are scheduled to the half hour. The graceless EIAI Airlines, which is already at auction, has retrained its employees to emphasize service and is boasting about the results in an ad campaign with the slogan, "you can feel the change in the air." For the first time, praise outnumbers complaints on customer survey sheets. |
| 1. It may be inferred from the passage that _____. |
| A. customer service in Israel is now improving B. wealthy Israeli customers are hard to please C. the tourist industry has brought chain stores to Israel D. Israeli customers prefer foreign produce to domestic ones |
| 2. In the author's views, higher service standards are impossible in Israel _____. |
| A. if customer complaints go unnoticed by the management B. unless foreign companies are introduced in greater numbers C. if there's no competition among companies D. without strict routine training of employees |
| 3. If someone in Israel today needs a repairman in case of a power failure, _____. |
| A. they can have it fixed in no time B. it's no longer necessary to make an appointment C. the appointment takes only half a day to make D. they only have to wait half an hour at most |
| 4. The example of E1Al Airlines shows that _____. |
| A. revengeful customers are a threat to the monopoly of enterprises B. an ad campaign is a way out for enterprises in financial difficulty C. a good slogan has great potential for improvement service D. staff retraining is essential for better service |