[单项选择]______ she joined the company only a year ago, she’s already been promoted twice.
A. Although B. Because
C. If D. When

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Debra is a student at Oxford. A year ago, she was extremely thin, got headaches, couldn’t concentrate, forgot things. Her face was spotty; her stomach was always upset; she couldn’t sleep. For a long time, no one could help her. Her doctor used to give her sleeping pills, but each new kind only worked for a short while. Then, after talking to a friend with similar problems, Debra began to think she might be sensitive to foods and chemicals. So she went to see a specialist. The specialist tested her and found out that she was sensitive to things she ate, breathed and touched. Now, Debra is much better. She takes medicine, but she also has to avoid some of the things that make her ill. Things like fumes from cars and chemicals in food all hurt her. So she has to use a special air filter, and avoid tinned or packaged food. Fortunately she shares a house with other women who understand her problem, and they share the cooking and shopping for her diet. Debra will finish he
A. She had headaches.
B. She forgot things.
C. She couldn’t sleep.
D. All of the abov

[单项选择]A year ago, the only steel assets Tom White Jr. owned were a Chrysler Cherokee and a Mercedes-Benz. Today thanks to his enormous effort with United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard, the New York financier is emerging as one of the most important steel executives in decades.
White made a fortune investing in bankrupt companies such as Texaco and Fruit of the Loom, but didn’t buy his first steel property until last April, when he bought the mills of bankrupt ATM Corp. no longer in use, for $262 million. At the time the industry was in retreat. Destroyed by extremely cheap imports, nearly half the nation’s mills had gone bankrupt, including three of the top five. When assessing White’s chances, those in the industry were not optimistic.
Yet within a month, White and his partners were rehiring the old workers of what had been the No. 4 steel producer in the U. S. , the International Steel Group. Now, the 1SG chairman is close to finalizing his biggest deal yet—a $1.5 billion bid
A. By buying steel mills and selling the products.
B. By limiting steel production to an absolute minimum.
C. By investing in companies who could no longer afford to run themselves.

[单项选择]I ______ the news on the radio only a moment ago.
A. saw
B. heard
C. read

[单项选择]By the end of the next year she ______ here for eight years.
A. is to work
B. will work
C. will have been working
D. is working

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