The customers should ______their orders by phone or email.
A. reform
B. confirm
C. affirm
D. inform
Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking (搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper, "Thank you dearie —I’’m just going to Brockbourne." Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous It was absurd. Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs. Thick black hairs Hairy arms Andrea’’s blood froze. This wasn’’t a woman. It was a man. At first, she didn’’t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid(刹车), and brought it to a halt. "My God!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child I think I hit her" The "old lady" was clearly shaken by the sudden skid. "I didn’’t see anything dearie," she said. "I don’’t think you hit anything. "I’’m sure it was a child!" insisted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look Just see if there’’s anything on the road" She held her breath. Would her plan work It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker. It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously. It contained only one item—a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe, and the inside of the bag, were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream. Andrea allowed the hitchhiker to take a ride in her car, mainly because______.
A. the hitchhiker was an old woman
B. she was curious about the old lady
C. the lady had a heavy bag
D. she knew the old lady
The energy problem is not merely a short-term crisis. Geologists 【1】 that 80 percent of all the oil 【2】 in the US will be used 【3】 before the year 2000. We might even come to the end of our coal reserves, abundant as they are, before another century is over. Americans have been 【4】 this situation suddenly. Many unprepared even to recognize 【5】 , and most of us are unprepared to meet it. We are unprepared 【6】 our habits and traditions, and our national life 【7】 based on a history of material abundance. With about 6 percent of the world’’s 【8】 ,we in the US 【9】 nearly 50 percent of the world’’s energy resources. Such resources within the us 【10】 are still ample by any standards except our own.
A. up
B. off
C. on
D. over
Not so long ago almost any student who successfully completed a university degree could find a good career quite easily. Companies toured the academic institutions, competing with each other to select graduates. However, those days are gone, even in Hong Kong, and nowadays graduates often face strong competition in the search for jobs. Most careers organizations highlight three stages for graduates to follow in the process of securing a suitable career: recognizing abilities, matching these to available jobs and presenting them well to possible employers. Job seekers have to make a careful assessment of their own abilities. One area of assessment should be of their academic qualifications, which would include special skills within their subject area. Graduates should also consider their own personal values and attitudes. An honest assessment of personal interests and abilities such as creative skills, or skills acquired from work experience, should also be given careful thought. The second stage is to study the opportunities available for employment and to think about how the general employment situation is likely to develop in the future. To do this, graduates can study job and position information in newspapers, or they can visit a careers office, write to possible employers for information or contact friends or relatives who may already be involved in a particular profession. After studying all the various options, they should be in a position to make informed comparisons between various careers. Good personal presentation is essential in the search for a good career. Job application forms and letters should, of course, be filled in carefully and correctly, without grammar or spelling errors. Where additional information is asked for, job seekers should describe their abilities and work experience in more depth, with examples if possible. They should try to balance their own abilities with the employer’’s needs, explain why they are interested in a career with the particular company and try to show that they already know something about the company and its activities. When graduates go to an interview, they should prepare properly by finding out all they can about the possible employer. Dressing suitably and arriving for the interview on time are also important. Interviewees should try to give positive and helpful answers and should not be afraid to ask questions about anything they are unsure about. This is much better than pretending to understand a question and giving an unsuitable answer. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true
A. Until recently it was quite easy for graduates to get good jobs in Hong Kong.
B. Job seekers should consider as many related factors as possible.
C. Businesses used to visit the universities in Hong Kong to select graduates.
D. Graduates used to compete with each other for a good job in Hong Kong.