[单项选择]I was twenty-five years old, and I'd just been (laid down) from my job as (division) manager (at) a (mortgage banking) firm.
A. laid down
B. division
C. at
D. mortgage banking

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For years and years people have been saying that the railways are dead. "We can do without railways," people say, as if motorcars and planes have made the railways unnecessary. We all keep heating that trains are slow, that they lose money, and that they are dying. But this is far from the troth. In those days of expensive oil, the railways have become highly competitive with motorcars and planes. If you want to carry people or goods from place to place, they are cheaper than planes. And they have much in common with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and so does a railway. ,What is more, it takes from the heart of a city into the heart of another. It doesn’t leave you as a plane does, miles and miles from the city center. It doesn’t hold you up as a car . does, in endless traffic jams. And a single train can carry goods which a plane or motorcar could never do.
Far from being dead, the railways are very much alive. Modem railway lines give you
A. planes and motorcars have taken the place of trains
B. oil is expensive today
C. trains are superfast
D. railways gain a large amount of money

[单项选择]Man: Have you heard it John has just been promoted again!
Woman. He's the boss's blue-eyed boy at the present.
Question: What does the woman mean

[单项选择]I had just been brought ______ something I had either forgotten or completely ignored for more than six years.


A. face to face with
B. to face with
C. to face to
D. in the face to

[单选题]We’ve just been struck by _______ during climb out and we’re returning.
A.UFO
B.a big bird
C.gravel
D.windshear

[单选题]We've just been struck by _______ and we'll have to go back the apron to check our electrics.
A.lightning
B.hail
C.birds
D.gravel

[单项选择]Though he was almost ninety years old, he was still alive and ______.
A. alert
B. grave
C. elegant
D. persistent

[单项选择]By the time he was ten years old, Beniamin Oliver Davis Jr. had already decided his career would be in the air force.


A. uniform
B. vocation
C. education
D. rank

[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

[单项选择]Even when the twins were two years old, the only time the writer could find for herself was______.


A. when her babies were asleep
B. when the feeding was over
C. when her friends left
D. when evening began

[单项选择]Mike ______ seventeen years old tomorrow.


A. will be
B. shall be
C. is going to be

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Text 3
In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70% of the total ton-miles moved by rails. Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90% of all the freight moved by major rail carders.
Supporters of the new super systems argue that these mergers will allow for substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of monopoly, they argue, is removed by fierce competition from trucks. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat.
The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are served by only one Rail Company/Railroads typically charge such "capti
A. cost reduction is based on competition
B. services call for cross-trade coordination
C. outside competitors will continue to exist
D. shippers will have the railway by the throat