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It was a quarter past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she would be working．Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job．She decided she would start out half an hour earlier the next day．Once inside the building, she had to stand at the lifts and wait several minutes before one arrived．When she finally reached the office marked“King Enterprises(公司),”she knocked at the door nervously and waited．There was no answer．She tapped on the door again, but still there was no reply．From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in．Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had had the interview with Mr．King, it looked quite different now．In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all．The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking．At the far end of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in．For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her．Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others．Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work．No one paid any mind to Marie．Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office．Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr．King, who would arrive at any moment．Then Marie realised that the day's work in the office began just before Mr．King arrived．Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9∶35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working．

(1)

Marie felt nervous when she knocked at the door because ________．
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A．	she had never met the boss once before
B．	she was a little bit late for work
C．	she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong place
D．	there was no answer from inside the office

(2)

The people in the office suddenly started working because ________．
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A．	they saw a stranger in the office
B．	they had finished their morning break
C．	no one wanted to talk to Marie
D．	the boss was about to arrive

(3)

We can infer from the passage that the employees of the enterprise ________．
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A．	would start their work day by listening to a joke
B．	were considerate to newcomers
C．	were always punctual(准时的)for work
D．	lacked devotion to the company

(4)

What is probably the best title for the passage？
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A．	Punctual Like a Clock
B．	A Cold Welcome
C．	An Unpunctual Manager
D．	Better Late Than Never

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　　Mrs Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

　　When Mrs Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs Matthews took it to be repaired.

　　The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly, have it repaired for her. “It'll last a long time once that's been done, ” he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Miss Matthews saying, “Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modern watch.”

　　But Mrs Matthews had a lot of things to think about after her father died. She had to arrange to deal with the various affairs after his father's death.

　　The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the tick et for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

　　Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

　　She thought back, suddenly she remembered. “My father's gold watch! Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?”She looked at the ticket.

　　“How old's this ticket?” she said to herself. It was five years old.

　　Mrs Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. “But the watch might still be there,” she thought. “I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.”

　　She took the ticket to the jeweller's and the shop keeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

　　“That's good,” Mrs Matthews thought. “He didn't seem to mind about the date.”

　　The man carne back after a few minutes and said, “It won't be ready until Friday.”

1．Who was the watch repairer according to the text?

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A．Mrs Matthews

B．One jeweller's shop

C．The hired expert watch repairer.

D．Some watch repairer in London.

2．In the sentence “She inherited his gold watch”, the underlined word “inherited” is closest in meaning to “________”.

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A．bought

B．received

C．discovered

D．broke

3．In the shop owner's opinion, if the watch has been repaired, what will happen to it?

[　　]

A．It can keep its time for long.

B．It is an old watch that can't go fast.

C．It can last five years.

D．The passage doesn't tell us.

4．Five years later, ________.

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A．the gold watch was sold

B．Mrs Matthews decided to find the ticket in the drawer.

C．the jeweller couldn't see the date on the ticket clearly.

D．the gold watch was not yet repaired.

5．Which title would best fit in with the present passage?

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A．Mrs matthews' Death Affairs

B．Such“Fast Work”

C．The Story of Mrs Matthews.

D．The History of the Gold Watch.