单选题Why did the boss send Mr. Black to China on business?A Mr. Black had never been to China before.B Mr. Black was an able and hard-working man.C Mr. Black could buy something interesting for Tony.

Judging from this passage, people of the Middle Ages probably ______.

A. treated black cats with respect

B. treated black cats badly

C. were witches if they had black cats

D. thought black cats were beautiful

Dear Mr. Brown,

Thank you for your letter of 6 September regarding Mr. John Green who has been employed by this company for the past 10 years.

Mr. Green served his apprenticeship (学徒) with Vickers Tools Ltd. in Manchester, followed by a three-year course of engineering for Production Engineers. He is technically well—qualified and for the past five years has been our Assistant Works Manager responsible for production and related business in our Sheffield factory. In all his job duties he has shown himself to be hard-working, responsible and in every way a very dependable employee.

I can strongly recommend Mr. Green as I feel sure that if he were to be chosen to manage your factory in Nairobi he would bring to his work a true atmosphere of teamwork, which would be found necessary and helpful by all who would work with him.

Sincerely yours，

Tom Smith

1. How long has Mr. Green been employed by the writer's company?

For ().

2. What kind of course did Mr. Green take?

A three-year course in engineering for ().

3. What job position has Mr. Green held in the past five years?

4.What does the writer think of Mr. Green as an employee?

He is hard-working, () and dependable.

5.What is the purpose of this letter?

To () Mr. Green to manage a factory in Nairobi.

Client: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Black?

Secretary:_______

A: Speaking, please

B: I ’m sorry. He ’s at a meeting right now.

C: Hello. Who ’re you, please?

D: Hello. Thank you for calling.

_____has Mr. Clinton been a member of Greener China since he ____ to China?

A、How soon, comes

B、How often, got

C、How long, came

D、How far, arrived

Mr. Scrushy made donations to the black groups probably because ________.

A. he had close relations with Birmingham's African-American population

B. he wanted the church to set up more buildings

C. he was very benevolent

D. he wanted to get support from the blacks in his trial

People of ancient Egypt and Europeans of the Middle Ages ______.

A. both worshipped black cats

B. both feared black cats

C. thought black cats could bring good luck

D. felt very different about black cats

A: he knew

B: he didn't know

C: did he know

D: he couldn't know

The meeting _____when Mr. Wang _____to school.

A、has begun; get

B、has been on; get

C、had begun; got

D、had been on; got

Text 4A writer said yesterday that Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, paid her through a public relations firm to produce several favorable articles for an Alabama newspaper that he reviewed before publication during his fraud trial last year.

The articles appeared in The Birmingham Times, a black-owned weekly in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Scrushy was acquitted in June in a six-month trial there on all 36 counts against him, despite testimony from former HealthSouth executives who said he presided over a huge accounting fraud. "I sat in that courtroom for six months, and I did every thing possible to advocate for his cause," Audrey Lewis, the author of the articles, said in a telephone interview. She said she received $10,000 from Mr. Scrushy through the Lewis Group, a public relations firm, and another $1,000 to help buy a computer. "Scrushy promised me a lot more than what I got," she said.

Charles A. Russell, a spokesman for Mr. Scrushy, said he was not aware of an explicit agreement for the Lewis Group to pay Ms. Lewis. The payments to Ms. Lewis were first reported by The Associated Press yesterday. "There's nothing there I think Richard would have any part of," Mr. Russell said.

Mr. Russell said that Mr. Scrushy reviewed the articles before they were published. "Richard thought she was doing a little, 'F.Y.I., here's what I'm writing,' " Mr. Russell said. Ms. Lewis said that Mr. Russell, a prominent Denver-based crisis communications consultant, was also involved in providing her with financial compensation. She said Mr. Russell wrote her a $2,500 personal check at the end of May 2005; Mr. Russell said that was true. "She was looking for freelance community-relations work after the trial," Mr. Russell said.

Ms. Lewis came into Mr. Scrushy's sphere through Believers Temple Church; she attends services and works as an administrator there. She and Rev. Herman Henderson, the pastor, were part of a group that appeared in court with Mr. Scrushy and often prayed with him during breaks. Before and during the trial, in which 11 of the 18 jurors were black, Mr. Scrushy, who is white, forged ties with Birmingham's African-American population. He joined a predominantly black church, and his foundation donated to it and other black congregations.

Mr. Henderson also said he received payments from Mr. Scrushy in exchange for building support for him among blacks. Mr. Scrushy said in a statement yesterday that his foundation donated money to Mr. Henderson's church, but said the payments were unrelated to his case. "My foundation donated to his church building fund and to a Katrina relief effort that his church sponsored," Mr. Scrushy said. "That's it. Period."

Ms. Lewis, 31, said she was disclosing details about the financial arrangement because Mr. Scrushy still owes her and Mr. Henderson a significant amount of money. Ms. Lewis provided copies of a retainer agreement that Mr. Scrushy signed last April with the Lewis Group, a public relations firm controlled by Jesse J. Lewis Sr., 82 the founder of The Birmingham Times, and a check issued to her in May from the Lewis Group. (Ms Lewis and Mr. Lewis are not related.)

第36题：The word \\\"acquitted\\\" (Line 2, Para. 2) probably means ________.

A. discharged

B. arrested

C. quitted

D. punished