[单项选择]Will Quality Eat up the U. S. Lead in Software
If U. S. software companies don’t pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U. S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.
Already, of the world’s 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That’s largely because they have used new methodologies rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W · Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U. S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U. S—but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s. Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming’s and Juran’s ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little a
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]Will Quality Eat up the US Lead in Software
If US software companies don’t pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top US quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.What country has more highest-rating companies in the world than any other country has
A. India. B. The US. C. Brazil. D. Germany.

[单项选择]Will Quality Eat up the U. S. Lead in Software
If U. S. software companies don’t pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U. S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.
Already, of the world’s 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That’s largely because they have used new methodologies rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W · Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U. S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U. S—but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s. Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming’s and Juran’s ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little a
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]The girl wanted to eat up all the candies, but his mother told her __________ .
A. not to
B. not to do
C. not do it
D. do not do

[单项选择]Tom and his friends didn’t eat up all the food they ordered, ______ they took the rest away.
A. or
B. so
C. as

[单项选择]

Software quality assurance is now an (50) sub-discipline of software engineering. As Bucldy and Oston point out, (51) software quality assurance is likely to lead to an ultimate (52) of software costs. However, the major hurdle in the path of software management in this area is the lack of (53) software standards. The development of accepted and generally applicable standards should be one of the principal goals of (54) in software engineering.

50（）
A. emerging
B. emergent
C. engaging
D. evolve

[填空题]从供选择的答案中选出应填入英语文句中（　）的正确的答案。
Software quality assurance is now an

• (A) sub-discipline of software engineering. As Buckly and Oston point out,
• (B) software quality assurance is likely to lead to an ultimate
• (C) of software costs. However, the major hurdle in the path of software management in this area is the lack of
• (D) software standards. The development of accepted and generally applicable standards should be one of the principal goals of
• (E) in software engineering.
  A: ① emerging ② emergent ③ engaging ④ evolve
  B: ① effective ② effortless ③ light ④ week
  C: ① balance ② growth ③ production ④ reduction
  D: ① usable ② usage ③ useless ④ useness
  E: ① management ② planning ③ production ④ research