[单项选择]If a person is late for business meeting, he may ______.
A. be fired
B. be criticized by his boss
C. be required to apologize
D. be made to pay

[单项选择]If a person is late for business meeting, he may ______.
A. be fired
B. be criticized by his boss
C. be required to apologize
D. be made to pay

[单项选择]John was late for the business meeting because his flight had been ______ by a heavy storm.
A. kept
B. stopped
C. slowed
D. delayed

[单项选择]Arabs will（）in a business meeting.
A. spend some time being polite and offering refreshments first
B. ask you to wait for several minutes first
C. introduce you to some strangers first
D. start talking business immediately

[单项选择]John was later for the business meeting because his flight had been ______ by a heavy storm.
A. kept
B. stopped
C. slowed
D. delayed

[单项选择]The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without______his notes.
A. bringing up
B. referring to
C. looking for
D. trying on

[单项选择]When Mr. Brown comes home late, he usually wakes his wife up.

[单项选择]It was in Jonson's hotel（）the business meeting was held last year.
A. this
B. that
C. what
D. which

[单项选择]An important business meeting demanded his ______.
A. presence
B. attendant
C. attending
D. presentation

[单项选择]You're ______ late. He has already gone.


A. terrible
B. nearly
C. terribly

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Passage 3
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also ex plain that there’ s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ ye got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When ! left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer (自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’ t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still had
A. who think too much of the dark side of life
B. who regret giving up their career halfway
C. who think a lot without making a decision
D. who are full of imagination even upon death