During the flood of 1927, the Red Cross, operating out of emergency 5 headquarters in Mississippi, set up shelters for the homeless.
A. testing B. ready C. favorable D. temporary
The same thing, ____________ in war time, would amount to disaster. 6
7 8
A. happened B. happening C. has happened D. to happen
Some teenagers are so crazy about video games that they play them for as many hours as possible __________.
A. on end B. on purpose C. for good D. for long
In sales, shops may say ―1,000 items at half-price‖ when only a few are ____________ at such a drastic reduction.
A. ready B. handy C. affordable
D. available
Education is a lifelong experience that starts long ____________the start 9 of school.
A. after B. before C. past D. since
Finding out information on the latest scientific breakthroughs has 10 becoming easy for anyone with Internet __________.
A. path B. entry C. access D. admission
The ___________ was built in 1700 and rebuilt 20 years ago. 11
A. beautiful white stone bridge
B. white beautiful stone bridge
C. beautiful stone white bridge
D. white stone beautiful bridge
_____________ they are inexperienced, they have done a considerably good 12 job.
A. Now that B. Given that C. On condition that D. In case
13 After a sleepless night, he _____________a new proposal.
A. took up with B. broke up with C. put up with D. came up with
I’d like to take this opportunity to _____________a warm welcome to all those 14 present.
A. depress B. impress C. extend D. intend
_____________ years of enormous government support, few urban public 15 transportation systems run at a profit.
A. Based on B. Due to C. Because of D. In spite of
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Choose the best word to fill each blank from the choices A, B, C and D given after the passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 从A、B、C、D中选择最正确的答案，并填写在答题卷上。
Last December I bought myself a video cassette recorder described as ―simple to use‖. In the first week, I failed to program the machine to record from the TV, ____(1) even after months of practice I still made mistakes. I am not ____(2) it seems. According to a survey last year, more than one ____(3) four VCR owners never use the timer on their machines to record a program.
So why do producers keep on
designing and producing VCRs that are difficult to use if problems are so obvious? First, the problems are not
obvious to designers who have years of experience and who are ____(4) to
understand how these things work. Secondly, designers tend to add one or two features at a time to each model, whereas you or I face all a machine’s features ____(5). Thirdly, although finding problems in a ____(6) product is easy, it is too late by then to do anything about the design. Finally, if producers can ____(7) selling products that are difficult to use, it is not worth the
A. but B. that C.
since D. and
A. along B. lonely
C. alone D. lone A. to B. in
C. for
D. by
A. training
B.
trained
C. having trained
D. was trained
A. at once
B. at times
C. all in one
D. once
and for all A. fulfilled B. done
C. made D. finished
A. get away with
B.
get through with C. get
behind with D. get over
with
(5) (6) (3) (2) (1) (4) (7) effort of any of them to make improvements.
Some producers say they like to provide a wide ____(8) of features (8)
A. degree C. scope
B. range D. extent
B. do
(9)
A. doesn’t rather than making the machines easy to use. But that gives rise to the question, ―Why ____(9) you have features that are easy to use?‖ The answer is you can.
In an ideal world, there would be some ways of controlling quality ____(10) repeatedly redesigning the VCR until, say, 90 percent of users can work 90 percent of the features correctly 90 percent of the time.
C. can’t
D. can
A. for example
B.
much
like
C. such as
D.
that is
(10)
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