[单项选择]According to the passage, a good salesman is one who ______.
A. treats his customers sharply
B. always has just what you want
C. does not waste his time on difficult customers
D. tries to sell something a customer does not particularly want

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Passage Three
One of the industrial giants who changed American society was Henry Ford born on a farm in Michigan in 1863, and he grew up to bring forth some of the most revolutionary improvements in automotive technology in the early 20th century. His outstanding mechanical ability led him to become interested in the new automobiles in the early 1900s. Though he did not invent the automobile, he improved upon everyone else’s designs. He was a person who believed in inexpensive, efficient production, so he established standards for his plants and workers. He also standardized and produced many new auto parts for his Ford Motor Company cars. Then he studied the workers’ problems and thousands of automobiles per year. In fact, his plants had produced 15 million Model TS by 1927. Ford’s personality was not all thrift(节俭), efficiency and inventiveness, however. He was a man who was cold and who could not keep pace with the competition due to his own r
A. through great social revolution
B. through automotive technological revolution
C. through numerous mechanical inventions
D. through radical political reforms

[单项选择]According to the passage, one important reason why newspapers printed daily weather maps during the first half of the twentieth century was
A. ( the progress in printing technology
B. ( a growing interest in air transportation
C. ( a change in atmospheric conditions
D. ( the improvement of weather forecasting techniques

[单项选择]According to the passage, one important change in United States education by the 1920's was that ______.
A. most places required children to attend
B. the amount of time spent on formal education was limited
C. new regulations were imposed on nontraditional education
D. adults and children studied in the same classes

[单项选择]After reading the passage, one would refrain from concluding that ______.
A. Ph. D. s are not earning what they deserve in nonacademic positions
B. colleges and universities employ a substantial number of Ph. D. dropouts
C. a Ph. D. dropout, by and large, does not have what it takes to learn the degree
D. optimism reigns in regard to getting Ph. D. dropouts to return to their pursuit of the degree

[单项选择]According to the passage, one advantage of keeping a record of your spending is that ______.
A. you will remember how much you have already spent
B. you will know if you have spent more money than you planned
C. you will be able to tell your family what should not be bought
D. you will learn how to make a better budget next time

[单项选择]According to the passage, one similarity between the FTA and Europe 1992 is that they both ______.
A. overcame concerns about the role of politics in the shifting world economy
B. originated out of concern over unfair trade practices by other nations
C. exemplify a trend toward regionalization of commercial markets
D. place the economic needs of the trading bloc ahead of those of the member nations

[单项选择]According to the passage, one thing eusocial insects can do is rapidly switch from
A. (one type of food consumption to another
B. (one environment to another
C. (a solitary task to a group task
D. (a defensive to an offensive stance