第二节 完型填空
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。
My father believed that there were mysterious forces (神秘的力量) at work in the world. One day, he was lecturing me on these mysterious forces 【B1】suddenly the door opened, and a women entered,【B2】two geese. She smiled【B3】and looked frightened.
"Soseph, I have a very【B4】problem. These dead geese, they keep shrieking (尖声叫)in such a sad voice ..." 【B5】hearing this, my father turned pale."【B6】dead geese don't shriek," my mother cut in.
"You'll hear for yourself," replied the woman. It is impossible to【B7】what I heard. My hands grew【B8】and I wanted to run from the room.
Father was no less【B9】than I was. He jumped away from the table.
"Soseph, what shall I do?" the woman cried."【B10】? I'm a poor woman. Two geese!
They【B11】me a fortune!"
Father did not know what to answer. 【B12】face was growing sharper and more【B13】 "I want to hear it again, "she said. And so for the second and the third time, the shrieks were【B14】. Nobody said anything. The woman asked, "Well, I didn't 【B15】it, did I?"
Suddenly my mother laughed." Did you【B16】the windpipes (气管)? "my mother asked.
"The windpipes? No..."
"Let me 【B17】," said Mother. She took hold of one of the geese, and pulled out the wind-pipe. She did the same with the other one. I was surprised by my mother's【B18】 "Now, try it again." I was【B19】to hear the geese shriek, but they were dead silent.
"There is always【B20】Dead geese don't shriek," said my mother. "Now go home and cook them for the meal. They won't make a sound in your pot."
【B1】
A. when
B. while
C. then
D. later
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson again play their roles as Harry, Ron and Herminone, while British director David Yates is to guide the adventure. Rowling released (推出) the sixth book in the series (系列), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, last July, while the seventh and final book is expected by the end of the year.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is expected for a 2007 release, but there is no word yet whether it will be a summer or holiday movie.
How many books about Harry Potter had Rowling finished writing in this text?
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Six.
D. Seven.
下列关于危险废物填埋场入场要求的说法,正确的有()。A.根据《固体废物浸出毒性浸出方法》(GB 508下列关于危险废物填埋场入场要求的说法,正确的有()。
A. 根据《固体废物浸出毒性浸出方法》(GB 5086—1997)和《固体废物浸出毒性测定方法》(GB/T 15555—1995)测得的废物浸出液pH值小于8.0和大于11.0的废物需经预处理后方能入场填埋
B. 本身具有反应性、易燃性的废物需经预处理后方能入场填埋
C. 含水率高于85%.的废物需经预处理后方能入场填埋
D. 医疗废物可直接入场填埋
Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form. that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then, if it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors"; another refers to them as "special cases" one well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people."
To avoid outright lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University." The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue." As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C. college degrees can now be purchased easily
D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees