[单项选择]The two old women ______ each other since 1980.

[单项选择]The two old women ______ each other since 1980.

[单项选择]The expression "men and women picking each other up" in paragraph 2 can be paraphrased as ______.
A. a couple of young people falling in love
B. men and women loving each other
C. a couple introducing themselves to some strangers
D. men and women making friends with each other

[单项选择]The two old debates are significant because ______.

[单项选择]Since the two countries couldn't ________ their differences, they decided to stop their negotiations.


A. rectify
B. oblige
C. reconcile
D. obscure

[单项选择]Since the two countries couldn't________ their differences, they decided to stop their negotiations.
A. rectify
B. oblige
C. reconcile
D. obscure

[单项选择]Since two speakers are now unable to attend，we shall require only 2 Seminar Rooms instead of the 4 booked．
A. Now two seminar rooms are enough．
B. More seminar rooms will be needed．
C. Six seminar rooms have been reserved．

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Passage Two
In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something so shocking as to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men.
Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man’s secretary became his personal servant, in charge of remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep away people he did not wish to speak to; and, of course, typing and filing and taking short hand.
Now all this may be changing again. The microchip (芯片) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical (文书的) work that secretaries did.
"Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve the high-tech work--and then men will want to do it again."
That was said by one of the executives (ma
A. be her boss's memory
B. do everything her boss asks her to do
C. clean her boss's clothes
D. telephone the boss's wife

[单项选择]When Midori was two years old, she was not allowed to touch her mother's violin because ______.


A. she was too young to play the violin
B. the violin was too expensive
C. the violin was too big for her
D. her mother wanted her to play the piano