______ we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains.

A. Although B. So long as C. Even though D. Unless

Only when you try will you find how though the bottleneck may be ______ through.

A. to squeeze B. squeezed

C. squeezing D. being squeezed

He made great achievements in spite of his lowly _______.

A. resource B. belief C. origin D. source

His injuries were severe. Five minutes late, _______he would have died.

A. but B. or C. so D. and

--Do you still remember when we went to Australia?

--I can’t remember now but ______ sometime last winter?

A. might it be B. could it be

C. could it have been D. should it have been

Much time _____ siting at a desk, office clerks are generally troubled by various health problems.

A. being spent B. having spent

C. spending D. spent

My sister is quite _____ and plans to get a Ph.D degree within one year.

A. aggressive B. enthusiastic C. considerate D. ambitious

--It really annoys me when a person’s cell phone goes off during a movie!

-- Yeah, me too. It really _______.

A. costs me an arm and a leg B. gets on my nerves

C. beats my brains out D. pulls my legs

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閱讀下面的短文， 掌握其大意，從每題所給的A,B,C,D四個選項中， 選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

You and I agree to meet at four-thirty . I show up at 4:33 . I don’t say anything ,because that’s close enough to satisfy our social _____. Only after five minutes do you ______ me to say , “sorry I’ m late .”At ten minutes I owe you an _____ : “the free way exit was closed . I had to go four miles out of my way .”After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious ____ .After forty minutes I’d better not ______ at all .

That sort of thing ------so formally _____ and never explicitly stated----- drives people from other cultures ______ . Anthropologists (人類學(xué)家）list the _____ things to cope with in a foreign land . Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with _____.

Now psychologists look at our ____of time another way . They go into several countries and measure the ______ of life . They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city residents walk . They time transactions (交易)in banks and post offices . They see ______ people take to answer questions .

Japanese keep a ______of the fastest pace . Americans are a _______ second . Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the ______ . Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t _____ setting their bank clocks .

_____ American cities , Boston and Kansas City are fastest .New York is up there ,of course , but we keep a faster pace here in Houston , California’s “slow -pace ”reputation is ______ ,as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles .

In a technology-dense world , the tension of life has changed our view of time . ________ , if we are smart enough , we should not live by the clock only when we have to .

Now it’s 4:55 . I’m walking _______ ,towards our 4:30 meeting .

1.A. contract B. connection C. construction D. confidence

2.A. order B. intend C. require D. expect

3.A. action B. announcement C. explanation D. eruption

4.A. apology B. excuse C. option D. opinion

5.A. look up B. stay up C. keep up D. show up

6.A. observed B. introduced C. impressed D. imitated

7.A. immoral B. unaware C. crazy D. thrilled

8.A. fastest B. toughest C. strangest D. funniest

9.A. study B. time C. budget D. transport

10.A. view B. comment C. contact D. phenomenon

11.A. rhyme B.pace C. ratio D. session

12.A. how often B. how far C. how soon D. how long

13.A. tradition B. note C. record D. secret

14.A. narrow B. shallow C. close D. severe

15.A. mood B. address C. reference D. list

16.A. take over B. care about C. reply to D. answer for

17.A. Off B. Among C. Despite D. Besides

18.A. ruined B. accomplished C. erased D. deserved

19.A. However B. Therefore C. Thus D. Rather

20.A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly D. anxiously

Every year, countless nonprofit organizations want to double their donations. Many companies in the United States have a Matching Gift program, which offers certain amount of money to these organizations when its employee makes a personal donation. The following list includes information on four major companies matching gift programs.

1.When a company’s employee makes a donation to a nonprofit, the Matching Gift programs will _________.

A. compensate the employee

B. donate instead of the employee

C. give certain donations as well

D. organize some voluntary events

2.From the list ,we know that __________.

A. Coca-Cola offers three times donations of its employees’ to religious groups.

B. Coca-Cola handles its employees’ donations request quickly.

C.GE and Verizon will give the same amount, if an employee donates $20.

D. Google’s employees can claim matching gift in various forms.

3.The purpose of this passage is _______.

A. to inform B. to entertain

C.to explain D. to persuade