----Why don’t you ______ to a more sensible method?

   ----Well, I’m thinking about it.

A. switch on               B. switch off

C. switch over             D. switch through

 

A: Hello. Gerry speaking.

B: Hello, Gerry. It’s me John here.   1.  

A: Well, I’m terribly sorry, but I’m not feeling very well.

B: Is that all?   2. 

A: No, I’m sorry. I was sick all night. I think it must be the fish I ate last night.

B: Well, I think you should have at least phoned Kate and told her you weren’t coming to the meeting.

A:   3.  I’m sorry about that. Anyway, I think I’ll be able to get in to work tomorrow.

B:   4. 

A: I won’t. Thanks for calling.

B:   5. 

A．That’s all right.

B．Please eat more vegetables.

C．I’ll be glad to see you again.

D．Yes, I suppose I should have done so.

E. Why weren’t you here at the meeting?

F. OK. Take care and don’t eat any more fish.

G. We thought you might have had an accident on the way to work.

 

五：补全对话（共5小题，每题1分，共5分）。

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A: Good morning. Marketing Department.

B: Well, I’m phoning about a job you advertised in the local newspaper.

A: I’m the marketing manager.     61   

B: Yes, it’s Johnson.

A: Good.     62  And you are still in college?

B: Twenty-four years old.    63  

A: And what’s your major at college?

B:     64 Besides, I studied English, law, accounting, computer and ten more courses.

A:    65   

B: Yes, I worked in the marketing department during the summer holidays.

A: Um, I see. Could you come for an interview at 2: 15 p.m. on Wednesday, young man?

B: Yes, madam.

A: Good. See you then.

A．I graduated one year ago.

B．Could I have your name, please?

C．How old are you?

D．Who is it speaking?

E.Are you good at English?

F.Have you any experience as salesman?

G.Business administration(管理).

 

I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.
【小题1】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．I was waiting for good fortune.

B．I was trying to find an admirable job.

C．I was being aimless about a suitable job.

D．I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.

【小题2】The author decided to write a novel ______ .

A．to finish the writing course

B．to realize her own dream

C．to satisfy readers’ wish

D．to earn more money

【小题3】How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

A．Disturbed.

B．Ashamed.

C．Confident.

D．Uncertain.

【小题4】What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?

A．It pays to stick to one’s goal.

B．Hard work can lead to success.

C．She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.

D．There is no end in sight when starting to do something.