[单项选择]This company is closing up, so lots of workers will be laid （）
A. down
B. out
C. off
D. aside

[单项选择]This company is closing up, so lots of workers will be laid ______.
A. down
B. out
C. off
D. aside

[单项选择]It is impossible for so _______ workers to do so _______ work in a single day.
A. few… much
B. few… many
C. little… much
D. little… many

[单项选择]Nothing enables a young person to grow up so effectively as being put into a responsible position in which what he or she does clearly count．
A. 没有什么做法比这种做法更能使一个年轻人成长为一个有用之人，这就是把他放在一个使他明显显示工作价值和有一定责任的位置上。
B. 应该把一个人放在一个使他能明显显示出他的工作价值、担负某种责任的位置上，没有什么比这更能有效地使一个年轻人成长为一个有用之才的了。
C. 把一个人放在一个使他能明显显示出他的工作价值并且负有一种责任的位置上，这比任何一种做法都能使一个人更能有效地成长为有用之才。
D. 没有什么事能如此有效地使一个年轻人成长，例如他被放在一个能使他表现其价值并在其中清楚地计数的位置上。

[单项选择]After being livened up, Intel Corp. desktop PC will _________.
A. be advertised worldwide.
B. be much cheaper.
C. become an all-purpose multimedia device.
D. be more straightforward.

[单项选择]While ______ in Paris, the old artist picked up some French.
A. staying
B. stay
C. stayed
D. to stay

[单项选择]All the hotels in the town were full up, so we stayed in a ______ village.

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Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labor through your work, you may say that you’re "hot". That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic (精力充沛) is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes before noon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar sayings as: “Get up, John! You’re late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening, Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your
A. he is a lazy person
B. he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
C. he is not sure when his energy is low
D. he is at his energy peak in the afternoon or evening

[多项选择]You are asked to free up disk space so you can update your version of the Junos OS.Which two commands display the files that will be removed?（）
A. user@router> request system storage cleanup
B. user@router> show system storage
C. user@router> request system storage cleanup dry-run
D. user@router> show system storage detail

[单项选择]Satellite communications are so up-to-date that even when ________ in the middle of the Pacific, businessmen can contact their offices as if they were next door.
A. gliding
B. cruising
C. piloting
D. patrolling

[单项选择]When setting up a new small office home office (SOHO) wireless network, which of the following is MOST likely to be the default wireless channel?（）
A. 2
B. 5
C. 6
D. 9

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Passage Two To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade against the sun! Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, as early as the eleventh century B. C. We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use: it became a symbol of honour and authority. In the Far East in ancient times the umbrella was allowed to be used only by royalty or by those in high office. In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshades. And the umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece. But it is believed that the first persons in Europe to use the umbrella as protection against the rain were the ancient Romans. During the Middle Ages, the use of the umbrella practical
A. protection against rain
B. a shade against the sun
C. a symbol of honour and power
D. a way of women’s decoration