They want to go quickly, and safely, across the country, across the sea, or right across the world -- and they know Bel Air will take them where they want to go, when they want to go. Bel air flies all the newest, and fastest aeroplanes, to more towns and cities, in more countries of the world, than any other airline.
Do you want to go to Paris, Washington, Tokyo? Bel Air will take you there, at all times of the day or night, right through the week. But Bel Air flies not only to the big cities, we fly two or three times a week to towns and cities in the very heart of Asia, Africa and South America.
People who travel a lot fly with Bel Air, because they know they will leave on time, and arrive on time. They know that the food they will receive, and the films they will watch, will be of the very best.
Bel Air is second to none.
People who fly with Bel Air______.
A. know they will travel a lot
B. get what they want quickly and safely
C. know that everything will be just right
D. always travel right across the world
He works for a small company in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are looking for jobs. Brendan's biggest headache is how to use his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards (信用卡).
Brendan got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels (普通考试科目) and working for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the company knew I had already written some programs." he said.
"I suppose 55,000 pounds sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 20 pounds a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working.
"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. ! knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."
Why is Brendan so different from other young people of his age?
A. He earns an extremely high payment.
B. He has got a job.
C. He lives at home with his parents.
D. He does not go out much.
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阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. —Thomas Macaulay
Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O'Neil gave an arithmetic【C1】______to our class. When the papers were【C2】______she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.
There is really nothing new about【C3】______in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O'Neill【C4】______even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to【C5】______after class. I was one of the twelve. Mrs. O'Neill asked【C6】______questions, and she didn't【C7】______us either. She wrote on the blackboard the【C8】______words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to【C9】______these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don't【C10】______about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single【C11】______of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay's words, they【C12】______seem to me the best yard-stick(准绳), because they give us a【C13】______to measure ourselves rather than others.
【C14】______of us are asked to make【C15】______decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called【C16】______daily to make a great many personal decisions.【C17】______the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the【C18】______change received at the store be forgotten or【C19】______? Nobody will know except【C20】______. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.
【C1】
A. test
B. problem
C. paper
D. lesson
______unemployment is high, crime is high too; it can be assumed that the latter is due to
A. Before
B. Where
C. Unless
D. Until