[单项选择]Sharon had received a telegram from the Queen to congratulate her on reaching her 100th birthday. Sharon’s sisters,Marjorie and Norah, are seen in the front-page photo of the local newspaper looking at the telegram. The next day,Sharon noticed something unusual about the headline. Can you spot it out
A. The local newspaper headline was written by the author incorrectly.
B. The headline can be read backwards and forwards as the same thing.
C. The headline didn’t say it was the Queen who sent a telegram to Sharon.
D. The editor didn’t put Sharon’s sisters, Marjorie and Norah into the headline.

[单项选择]Sharon had received a telegram from the Queen to congratulate her on reaching her 100th birthday. Sharon’s sisters, Marjorie and Norah, are seen in the front-page photo of the local newspaper looking at the telegram. The next day, Sharon noticed something unusual about the headline. Can you spot it out
A. The local newspaper headline was written by the author incorrectly.
B. The headline can be read backwards and forwards as the same thing.
C. The headline didn’t say it was the Queen who sent a telegram to Sharon.
D. The editor didn’t put Sharon’s sisters, Marjorie and Norah into the headline

[单项选择]Sharon found out about the vacancy from
A. his colleague.
B. a newspaper.
C. an internal memo.

[单项选择]Theodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief solicitude had been to keep him screened from what she called the coarser realities of life. When she died she left Theodoric alone in a world that was as real as ever, and a good deal coarser than he considered it had any need to be. To a man of his temperament and upbringing even a simple railway journey was crammed with petty annoyances and minor discords, and as he settled himself down in a second- class compartment role September morning he was conscious of ruffled feelings and general mental discomposure.
He had been staying at a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly neither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervision of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order which invites disaster. The pony carriage that was to take him to tile station had never been properly ordered, and when the moment for his departure drew near, the handyman
A. Uneasy.
B. Fretful.
C. Irritated.
D. Slack.

[单项选择]Henry was from England and he had come to New York for a holiday.
One day, he was not feeling well, so he went to the clerk(职员)at the desk of his hotel and said, "I don’t feel well. I want to see a doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one "
The clerk looked in a book and then said, "Dr. Lardo, 61212. "
Henry said, "Thank you very much. Is he expensive "
"Well, "the clerk answered, "His patients have to pay ten dollars for their first visit to him, and six dollars for later visits. "
Henry wanted to save four dollars, so when he went to see the doctor, be said, "I’ve come again, doctor. "
For a few seconds the doctor looked at his face carefully without saying anything. Then he nodded(点头)and said, "Oh, yes. "He examined him and then said, "Everything is going fine. Just continue(继续)with the medicine I gave you last time. /

All the patients have to pay six dollars for their first visit to the doctor.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[多项选择]● Read this note which you have had from the Chairman of the company where you work.
Mireira Automotives
From Dr Mireira, Chairman Confidential
Dear Lee
I am pleased to tell you that we want to make you Manager of our branch in Sao Paolo.
The position carries the same duties as your present job, but, because the Sao Paolo branch is larger, we will give you a 15% increase in salary, and other benefits.
Your new job will start at the beginning of October.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
● Write a reply to Mr. Mireira.
· thanking him for the offer
· giving a reason why you cannot start until November
· asking for a bigger increase in salary
· requesting details about the other benefits.
● Write 60—80 words on your Answer sheet.
● Do not include postal addresses.

[单项选择]How long had Kathy been away from home（）
A. A whole day.
B. The whole afternoon.
C. The whole morning.
D. A whole night.

[填空题]The first electric lamp had two carbon rods from which vapor served to conduct the current across the gap.

• A. The first
• B. from which
• C. served
• D. across

[填空题]Henry had to walk home from work because he missed the bus． Henry didn’t______the bus SO he had to walk home from work．

[单项选择]He went back to work after he had recovered from his illness ______ that they had found another person to replace him.
A. had been told
B. being always told
C. only to be told
D. unfortunately told

[填空题]When she got back from the South, Susan had her car(wash)（）thoroughly.

[单项选择]Last year, Sean Martinovich, from Whitianga, had life-saving surgery when a golf-sized tumor was removed from his brain stem. But the operation left half his face paralysed. He talked with a slur, sometimes dribbled out of the side of his mouth and could. not close his eye properly. Although he could run around with the other boys in the playground, when they laughed he could not laugh with them. Without a smile, he would suffer psychologically and emotionally.
Last week, 6-year-old Sean had seven hours of microsurgery that should give him back his smile. Doctor Bartlett removed a nerve from the back of one of Sean’s legs and transplanted it into his face, On the normal side of his face the nerve divides into lots of little branches. "We’ll cut those nerve branches and then we’ll take a nerve graft from one leg and tunnel it across his face from one side to the other end join that on to the nerve that’s been cut on the good side of his face," Doctor Bartlett said, before the opera
A. slur dribbled
B. without feeling or control of body muscles
C. unable to open one’s mouth
D. psychologically and emotionally disabled