Which of the following statement is true?
A. Most customers came to the mall early in the morning.
B. Shop assistants were most busy at noon.
C. There were more shoppers in the mall from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m.
D. Less people went shopping around midday.
From the passage we can infer that people would not admit to be a last-minute shopper because ______.
A. they wanted to use a gift certificate
B. Christmas would be celebrated on Jan. 7th
C. they did not want gifts recipients to know that they bought them gifts on the last day
D. they bought gifts during the shopping season lasting from December 15th to December 24th
•Read the article below about an Italian car company.
•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.
•For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet
Gianni Agnelli, Chairman of Fiat, Italy's largest private industrial corporation, is known in Italy as the lawyer, because he trained in law at Turin University. Though A he has never practiced, his training may be useful. On April 17th Mr. Agnelli admitted to a group of Italian industrialists in Venice (19) Fiat had been (20) in some corruptions in Italy. On April 21st, Fiat's lawyers and Cesare Romiti, its managing director, met Milan magistrates to (21) the firm's involvement in bribery to win business from state-owned companies.
Fiat is not the (22) Italian company caught up in Italy's increasing political corruption scandal. According to the latest figure, some 200 businessmen and politicians were sitting in prison (23) a result of judicial inquiries into kickbacks paid to politicians by firms. Hundreds more are still (24) influence of Fiat, (25) sales are equal to 4% of Italy's home product, the scandal at the company has (26) the industrial establishment.
Though neither Mr. Agnelli (27) Mr. Romiti has been (28) of wrong doing, several other senior Fiat managers have allegedly been involved in paying kickbacks to win state-owned contracts. (29) arrested include Francesco Mattiol, Fiat's finance director, and Antonio Moscon, the (30) head of its Toro insurance branch. (31) men have been (32) about their previous roles on the board of Cogefar-Impresit, Fiat's construction subsidiary. Last May, Enzo Papi admitted paying a 1.5 million-dollar bribe for a contract (33) to Milan's underground.
(19)
A. what
B. that
C. when
D. if