【正文】 pace in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 1. A. The houses had not been sold until last January. B. The houses have been for sale for some time. C. They went to the market to but their house. D. They have marked down their house since last January. 2. A. Alice doesn39。s thought will show this is not so. If, for example, a solution to today39。s Sharp recently launched a similar machine, and Casio has been nibbling at the edges of the market for some time. Other panies are selling programs that enable Psion to do tasks ranging from plex financial calculations to rudimentary FrenchEnglish translation. A fledgling British firm has launched an electronic “ Agenda” with a new, faster way of entering “ lunch with Desdemona” . It uses the Microwriter keyboard, which was invented some years ago by Mr. Cy Endfield, a film director whose other works include “ Zulu” . His idea soon gained the support of Sir Mark Weinberg, chairman of an insurance group. Allied Dunbar. He is a 30% shareholder in Microwriter and has written its notably undaunting instruction book. In addition to the standard letter keys, the Microwriter has a second keyboard consisting of five unmarked keys, one for each finger. By pressing the keys in various binations, one can learn quickly to “ type” almost as fast as on a full keyboard. The Microwriter was first peddled as a sort of handheld wordprocessor, but only about 7,000 were sold. Now the firm is hoping that the boom in electronic anisers will revive its fortunes. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 9 頁 共 12 頁 16. According to the passage, which of the following is true about a personal aniser popular in the mid198039。s no thrusting executive was plete without his her personal aniser— a leather binder containing everything from addressbook and diary to a careerplanning chart. Then came the portable telephone, whispered into with ostentatious discretion. Now the electronic aniser has arrived. Psion, a British firm which created the first such digital diarycumcalculator, sells about 200,000 a year. Competitors are piling into the market. When Psion launched its handheld puter in 1982, it foresaw two markets. One was in the salerooms and warehouses of large panies. Here, stocktakers and salesmen needed a portable way to talk to the big puters back at head office. About half of Psion39。t like the dress code. B. Few of the board members voted for the dress code. C. The director was the only one who was against the dress code. D. The director as well as the board members voted for the dress code. 6. A. Cathy told the police about the burglary. B. Cathy telephoned to say that her office had a window pane broken. C. The police told Cathy that they had found the key to her office. D. The police was called in to check the security system of Cathy39。t want to disturb you, although we had your phone number. D. We didn39。s as often as not their own hard earned cash. More to the point, they learn at a tender age that while it may or may not be ture that money cannot buy happiness, at least happiness— in the form of satisfaction at a job well done, that is— can buy money. But don39。 the craft must be learned. There are two generally recognised apprenticeships. First, and universally preferred, is a long childhood spent in the pany of fractious siblings. After several years of rainy afternoons, brothers and sister develop a sure feel for the tactics of attrition and the niceties of strategy so necessary in firstrate quarrelling. The only child, or the child of peaceful or repressed households, is likely to grow up failing to understand that quarrels, unlike arguments, are not about anything, least of all the pursuit of truth. The apparent subject of a quarrel is a mere pretext。t had another job before you join the police, you tend to think nothing but police.” Crime in the country, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? The things which John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the surrounding forests. There are natural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a lookpost. 6. Why was John Pooley able to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary so easily? A. He had been given a full description of the criminal. B. He knew everything that happened in the area. C. There were few crime cases in his area. D. There was only one possible suspect. 7. From the passage it appears that nowadays a village policeman, like John Pooley, has to _______. A. live in a village police house B. put out forest fires C. go through a long period of training D. look after more people than policemen elsewhere 8. According to the passage, we learn that he________. A. is unpopular with the people in the villages B. objects when he is given work outside his own area C. prefers working in the villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton D. feels unhappy when he arrests anybody. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 7 頁 共 12 頁 9. John Pooley thinks he is well qualified for his job because_________. A. he had other jobs before he became a policeman B. has has been a policeman for fifteen years C. he has lived in Westleton all his life D. he is a countryman at heart 10. Crime in this area is different from crime in a big city because_________. A. it is hardly ever violent B. people here have more family problems C. t