On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the Over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.
At six o’clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.
Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door—“a master key ”perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didn’t go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.
It was just after four o’clock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly toward the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.
1.Mrs. Clarke looked forward to Thursday because__________.
A. she worked at a club on the day
B. she lived alone
C. she visited a club on Thursdays
D. a special visitor came on Thursday Clarke
2. If someone had made a forced entry,________.
A. Mrs. Clarke would have found a broken door or window
B. he or she was still in the house
C. things would have been thrown about
D. he or she would have needed a master key
3.According to the passage, which of the following is right?
A. She is about more than 50 years old.
B. The next day after she found something unusual in her house, she stayed at home.
C. The man who tried to enter her house wore a pair of gloves.
D. Mrs. Clarke was in an attempt to trick the thief when she noticed something unusual.
4.The wire fell to the floor________.
A. because Mrs. Clarke refused to open the door
B. when the man’s glove dropped off
C. because it was too hot to hold
D. because the man just wanted to get away
"Efficiency is the by-product of comfort," says Dr. Erwin Tichauer of New York University. To prove this____, Dr. Tichauer uses his capability to find_____ways to do things. _____, he felt that the traditional kind of pliers(钳子)______a better design. The usual____limited hand movement and used unnecessary force because it bent the_____. So he designed a pair of pliers to allow the wrist to remain in a comfortable position.
To improve the design of______and then make work easier, Dr. Tichauer____the old tools. He asks such questions as: why ____a stepladder have four legs____three are more stable? Why dose a screwdriver (螺丝刀) have to be made with straight handles? After testing his____, he has invented a new tool that causes less muscle injury and is more efficient.
Tichauer is not interested in getting ____ from his inventions. In fact, he says, "We _____ people to steal from us. At New York University, we do not patent(注册专利)knowledge or invention."__ __companies have adopted some of his inventions.
As a biochemist, as well as inventor, Dr Techauer____the effect of stress on areas of the body. Even easy______work may put heavy stress on small areas of body and____causes a serious disease. Thus his studies of workers in factories who use the____tool all day long are extremely____in learning about the damage on human body? Dr. Techauer knows that he can not redesign the ____ so he redesigns the tool!
1.A. argument B. impression C. statement D. expectation
2.A. unusual B. easier C. new D. correct
3.A. Especially B. What's more C. Meanwhile D. For example
4.A. followed B. showed C. needed D. proved
5.A. design B. habits C. materials D. work
6.A. body B. finger C. hand D. wrist
7.A. pliers B. a tool C. a stepladder D. screwdrivers
8.A. tests B. uses C. fixes D. destroys
9.A. could B. will C. would D. must
10.A. if B. because C. when D. once
11.A. inventions B. theories C. tools D. questions
12.A. recognized B. famous C. excited D. rich
13.A. encourage B. prevent C. warn D. forgive
14.A. Modern B. Research C. Commercial D. Industrial
15.A. teaches B. studies C. produces D. discovers
16.A. physical B. daily C. office D. research
17.A. in time B. in addition C. immediately D. commonly
18.A. wrong B. old C. same D. heavy
19.A. suitable B. valuable C. logical D. practical
20.A. work B. study C. labor D. body
She will never forget here stay there__________ she found her son who had gone missing two years before.
A. that B. which C. where D. when
--- So what is the procedure of the application?
--- All the applicants __________ before a final decision is made by the authority.
A. interview B. are interviewing
C. are interviewed D. are being interviewed
He pretended not to care but that remark _________ his real opinion on the matter.
A. put away B. put out C. gave away D. gave out
__________, they couldn’t make their head teacher change her mind.
A. Whatever hard they try B. No matter how they tried hard
C. As they tried hard D. Hard as they tried