Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.

A:people cannot sent visible information until 19^th century B:we cannot communicate without sound C:the ways of communication are similar in different countries D:in ancient time, enough people is necessary to send messages over distance

Last year, my classmate Jane and I graduated from an ordinary normal university. Like most of the students who had just stepped out of university, we had to (21) . The first tough test——job hunting to (22) a passport to society. And the most (23) part was the job interview. The (24) was very fierce. Dozens of my classmates, Jane (25) , sent our resumes(简历) to a key middle school for a teaching post, making the chance of success as low as 1 to 20.
Before the job interview, I (26) through preparations, including a formal suit, a new ly-done hair, a few (27) on job interviews, and even some ancient Chinese poems (28) I encountered a learned interviewer. On that day everything went off (29) . I answered all the questions fluently. I felt very (30) . Jane was still there waiting for her turn. I made a "V" (31) to her. She smiled at me, looking a little worried. I (32) she was not as eloquent(雄辩的) as, I a week later, all of us received letters of (33) . Another week later, guess what happened! She got the job! (34) congratulating her, I asked her how she got it. She said, "I did (35) , I just wrote them a note of thanks after receiving the letter of refusal." Only then (36) I realize why all the applicants(应有者) has received the same letters and that was also a part of the (37) .
Only a note of thanks, but that was what made all the difference. This experience (38) me a good lesson, that, is (39) excellent you are, you should never forget the (40) manners of saying "thank you".

A:believed B:sent C:gave D:taught

16, Woodman Road,
Two Bridges,
West Sussex.
Cosmo Books Ltd.,
Hertford Estate,
Rickmansworth,
Middx.
25th February
Ref. GBS/SW/4CJ Dear Sir,
Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Your company, Cosmo Books Ltd., (21) this set(eight books of plays and two books of poetry ) at what was claimed to be a "remarkable" (22) : fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for some time, and these books in red imitation leather, looked particularly (23) ; so I sent for them. Two weeks later, the books arrived, (24) with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which 1 had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a (25) for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six-book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use to me at all. (26) , I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and (27) all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further (28) .
You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for forty-two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two (29) : the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I (30) know what I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to (31) in the rain outside.
I have no (32) for any more books, and even if I read from now on (33) the Last Judgment, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.
Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters (34) payment. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, (35) me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.
Yours faithfully,
SIMON WALKER

A:along B:coming C:sent D:together

Wall Street is the name of a street in New York and very famous in the whole world. Ii is the financial center of the USA, exerting a significant influence upon the world’s economy. Hetty Green, who was born in 1835, was nicknamed the Wizard(奇才) of Wall Street. She became almost a legendary figure in Wall Street, because she made a lot of money buying and selling shares in companies.
Hetty Green began making money when her father died and she inherited all his money. By investing it wisely, she soon built up her fortune to over 100 million dollars. However, she hated spending money on herself or on her family. Actually, she hated spending money on everything except buying shares. She was so mean that when her son Edward broke his leg, she would not send for a doctor. She did not want to have to pay a doctor’s bill. She refused to send her son to a good hospital Instead, she took the boy to a free charity hospital. There he did not get very good treatment and, to save his life, he had to have his leg cut off. Still his mother would not pay for proper hospital treatment. She sent for a doctor who cut off the boy’s leg in her sitting room. It’s incredible, isn’t it

A:sent him to a large hospital . B:sent for a doctor C:didn't pay the bill for the doctor D:took him to, a charity hospital

The postcard is sent by（）

A:a friend of my sister B:a friend of my sister's C:my sister friend D:my sister friend's

Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.
We can infer from this passage that______.

A:people cannot sent visible information until 19th century B:we cannot communicate without sound C:the ways of communication are similar in different countries D:in ancient time, enough people is necessary to send messages over distance

16, Woodman Road,
Two Bridges,
West Sussex.
Cosmo Books Ltd.,
Hertford Estate,
Rickmansworth,
Middx.
25th February
Ref. GBS/SW/4CJ Dear Sir,
Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Your company, Cosmo Books Ltd., (21) this set(eight books of plays and two books of poetry ) at what was claimed to be a "remarkable" (22) : fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for some time, and these books in red imitation leather, looked particularly (23) ; so I sent for them. Two weeks later, the books arrived, (24) with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which 1 had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a (25) for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six-book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use to me at all. (26) , I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and (27) all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further (28) .
You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for forty-two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two (29) : the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I (30) know what I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to (31) in the rain outside.
I have no (32) for any more books, and even if I read from now on (33) the Last Judgment, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.
Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters (34) payment. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, (35) me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.
Yours faithfully,
SIMON WALKER

A:along B:coming C:sent D:together

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

A:believed B:sent C:gave D:taught