【正文】 s work to fields other than portable electronics, including power transmission between circuit boards or puter chips, and providing mobile charging systems for electric cars.” 55. The writer’s purpose of writing the passage is . A. to analyze the current international situation B. to introduce a new technology applied to charging wirelessly C. to encourage customers to purchase the new charging devices D. to warn people against using disposable portable plugin batteryoperated devices 56. According to the new technology, electricity can be transmitted by . A. using batteries B. using the electronic devices C. using magic fields D. using disposable portable plugin batteryoperated devices 57. What is certain according to the passage is that . A. the charging system can serve one portable electronic device at a time B. all the convenience stores in Japan can provide the charging service now C. wireless charging works within a distance of up to several metres D. the new product doesn’t look promising C The story I would like to tell happened about a year ago. I accepted a position in a pany. John, an acquaintance of mine, told me much about the job and took my curriculum vitae (簡歷 ) to his supervisor. I did not refer to him as a friend because at the time we did not take part in activities together outside of work, nor did our wives. The first week was fine. Nothing was obviously strange with John at first until the second week, when our munication began to get a little strange. John began making ments like “ you would have had to pay an employment agency several hundred dollars for a job like this”. I soon fot his words till the next day when he made another similar ment. Right then I started to really pay attention to what he meant. He acted as if I owed him money for helping me to get the job. He began to get short with me and I had only been there for two weeks. He was supposed to train me in building our servers and setting up the entire standard monitor software. Instead, he went through the process so fast that even an experienced worker could hardly keep up. He would not slow down or check whether I was with him or not. If there was something wrong with a server, he would just buzz through the solution and not stop to say anything like “you might want to remember this.” I began to get very frustrated. By the third week I began to get tired of his condescension (傲慢 ). So I began to challenge him in a way that was only one to one. He would respond to a question of mine with a question or just make me repeat it, and then interrupt me. I began to hate him. Later I tried to avoid him as much as I could, so I wouldn’t run into him. He stopped me one day and asked me what had happened. I told him he was very condescending in his tone and manner. He asked me, “What can I do so that you will not feel like this way in the future?” I simply asked him to treat me with the same respect he would like to be treated with. He did it and we got along better gradually. I believed there was hope and eventually we would bee friends and now we are. 58. Why didn’t the autho r refer to John as a friend at first? A. They seldom spent free time together. B. They had only met for two weeks. C. Their wives didn’t know each other. D. They had many disagreements on work. 59. What did John most probably mean by saying the underlined sentence? A. The pany he and the author worked in was very good. B. The author was wise not to ask an employment agency for help. C. He had helped the author get a job without a penny. D. The author should have paid him several hundred dollars to express his gratitude. 60. Which of the following is TRUE according to the third and fourth paragraphs? A. John was an experienced and hardworking employee. B. The author was very slow in learning new things. C. John hardly lent an ear to what the author expressed. D. The author gradually got accustomed to his work. 61. What’s the author’s purpose of sharing his story? A. To express his dissatisfaction with John. B. To stress the importance of munication between colleagues. C. To remind us what problems can occur at work. D. To describe how to bee qualified for a job. D John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II. During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like. When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting 7:00 PM at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll recognize me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d never seen. I’ll let Mr. Blanchar d tell you what happened: A young woman was ing toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde