[单项选择]In my first year at the university I learnt the ______ of journalism.
A. basics
B. basic
C. elementary
D. elements

[单项选择]In my first year at the university I learned the ______ of journalism.
A. basics
B. basic
C. elementary
D. elements

[单项选择]First launched in April this year, Net My Singapore also includes efforts that ______ training, development, and the exploration of new technologies based on.
A. obliterate
B. sequester
C. encompass
D. terminate

[单项选择]The first few months of the year I had dreaded the ringing of the telephone, because I knew it meant another critical decision to be made.（）
A. faultfinding
B. accurate
C. major
D. crucial

[单项选择]The first year of the college life is a very complex ______ period, and the more fully the freshmen prepare for it, the better.
A. transmission
B. transposition
C. transformation
D. transition

[单项选择]Her first year at school away from home, she suffered {{U}}qualms{{/U}} of homesickness.
A. quakes
B. regrets
C. lapses
D. pangs

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Passage 2 In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales make sense because business people typically know what product they’re looking for. Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. "Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier," says senior analyst Blanc Erwin of Forrester Research. Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private intranet. Another major shift in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing. Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies to
A. has been striving to expand its market
B. intended to follow a fanciful fashion
C. tried but in vain to control the market
D. has been booming for one year or so

[单项选择]When I first arrived here to take up my new job, I stayed in a hotel, but I soon started looking for a permanent ______, a place to ______ my own.
A. residence; call
B. accommodation; refer
C. household ; be
D. habitation ; say

[单项选择]First of all，I appreciate your advice on my decision to go to work in the computer company．
A. 我首先感谢你们的决定，让我到这家电脑公司来工作。
B. 我首先感谢你的建议，我已经决定去一家电脑公司工作了。
C. 首先，很高兴到贵公司来听取你们在计算机方面的意见。
D. 首先，感谢你对我决定去那家电脑公司工作所给予的建议。

[单项选择]I bought a new house last year, but I ______ my old house yet, so at the moment I have two houses.
A. did not sell
B. have not sold
C. had not sold
D. do not sell

[单项选择]My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I______ at a garage sale.
A. trifled with
B. scraped through
C. stumbled upon
D. thirsted for