[单项选择]The young man ______ forgot that his girl friend's birthday was drawing ______.
A. nearly; nearly
B. near; nearly
C. nearly; near
D. near; near

[单项选择]The young man asked his parents not to worry because he was full of optimism about his career.
A. motivation
B. confidence
C. imagination
D. resolution

[单项选择]The chief （） of that young man are his generosity and energy.
A. traits
B. tempers
C. trends
D. traces

[单项选择]Ten days ago the young man informed his boss of his intention to ______.
A. resign
B. reject
C. retreat
D. replace

[单项选择]The young man lost his job last month, but it wasn't long ______ he found a new position in this company.
A. after
B. while
C. as
D. before

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Passage Five
A young girl and a man were recently found murdered in a parked car in a Boston suburb. The police found no clue (线索) in the car. Then they found a witness who had seen a car pass by the murdered couple’s car. He said it was a 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet (雪佛莱牌汽车).
Ordinarily, searching through the files for owners of elderly Chevies would have been an impossibly difficult task because there were two and a half million such cars. In this case, however, the police had a powerful tool--the computer.
The Boston Registry of Motor Vehicles programmed its computer to screen all 1950 and 1951 Chevrolets within a fifteen-mile radius (半径) of the suburb--the area in which the police believed the murderer was most likely to be found. Within minutes, the computer uncovered one thousand of the wanted cars. A few hours of careful hand screening turned up a 1950 Chevrolet owner who lived close to the scene of the crime and who had received many
A. the murdered couple
B. elderly owners of cars
C. computers
D. Chevrolets