---- Look at these black clouds . It _______ soon

   ---- Sure. If only we ________ out.

   A .is raining, didn’t e                 B. is to rain, won’t start.. 

C. will rain, haven’t started               D. is going to rain, hadn’t e

A jobless man wanted very much to have the position of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test,” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the form to fill in and the date when you may start.” The man replied, “But I don’t have a computer, neither an e-mail.” “I’m sorry,” said the HR manager. “If you don’t have an e-mail, that means you are not living. And anyone who isn’t living cannot have the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do with only $10 in his pocket. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He repeated the operation three times, and started to go early every day, and returned home late. Shortly, he bought a cart , then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles(运货车队). Five years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers (零售商)  in the US.

One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven’t got one.” His friend couldn’t believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?” The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”

1.What did the man do for the test?

2. The man didn’t get the job because he_____________.

3.The man ______after he left Microsoft.

4.Why could the man become one of the biggest food retailers in the US?

5.What does the story want to tell us?

补全对话(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答案)

John: Oh, hi, Fred!     Why are you so late?

    Fred:    She always keeps us in class until ten past ten.

    John: Doesn't she know that you're supposed to get out at ten?

    Fred:  But she never looks at her watch. She just keeps talking.

    John: Don't the students complain about it?   

    Fred: No.

    John: Well, you could try and talk to her.

Fred: Maybe.

    A. They don't think so.

    B. I didn't know whether to save you a place or not.

    C. Everybody is too polite.

    D. I guess so.

    E. Mary had a talk with me.

    F. It's our maths teacher.

    G. I would say something.

E

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses.“I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,”she said. “Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”

57. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should not be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.www.

58. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

A. Being poor in life experience.     B. Being short of writing skills.

C. The weakness of description.          D. The absence of a story.

59. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

A. She didn't expect to become a writer.      B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

C. She didn't have any particular ambitions. D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

60. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

---Have you seen my e-mail about our TESL, project?

---Yes. Luckily, I checked my e-mails yesterday. Normally, I      my e-mail-box for days.

A．haven’t opened   B．didn’t open       C．hadn’t opened    D．don’t open